Internationally Acclaimed Architect and Chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Hitoshi Abe, wins the SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia Hitoshi AbeHitoshi Abe, Chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture…

AIA Philadelphia celebrated the best in design by its member firms at Loews Philadelphia hotel Thursday, October 16, with the 2008 Awards for Design Excellence. Presented in Gold, Silver, Honor, and Recognition categories for both completed, unbuilt, preservation, and community design projects, the awards are given for projects in the…

The AIA/Los Angeles announced winners of the judges’ choice, as well as the people’s choice, in the 2008 Restaurant Design Awards, marking the fourth year of the AIA/LA’s much-anticipated awards program that recognizes the very best in restaurant, café, and lounge design. AIA/LA received over forty submissions in…

Designs focus on renovating abandoned children’s theater A team of six graduate architecture students — led by Ellen Leuenberger and including Denny Burke, Alexander Harner, Michael Heller, Rachel Kerr and June Kim — has won the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Community Service Competition. …

Montreal / Canada – October 16, 2008 – The winners of the second North American Holcim Awards competition for Sustainable Construction projects were announced at a ceremony in Montreal. Total prize money of USD 270,000 was presented to nine projects from Canada and the United States that…

In September, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of the 2008 Student Awards. Representing the top student honors in the profession, ASLA recently presented the awards to 20 projects from 11 colleges and universities at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. …

Strip malls define our streetscapes. Here, and in suburbs across the country, strip malls are a fact of life. They are the wallflowers of thousands of streetscapes that millions of people travel daily. To envision a new future for this lowly (yet overabundant) building stock, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary…

New York, October 14, 2008 – The Art Directors Club today announced the latest group of inductees into the prestigious ADC Hall of Fame.  The seven illustrious honorees, representing the fields of advertising, design, architecture, filmmaking, illustration, academia and photography, will be inducted at a black-tie benefit gala dinner on…

Syracuse Architecture Announces Finalists for Affordable Green Housing Design Competition Syracuse University School of Architecture, in partnership with the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environment and Energy Systems and

The Taekwondo Promotion Foundation is promoting to build The Taekwondo Park in Muju, Korea. 70 million athletes from 188 member nations are expected to come to Muju to train and be a representative of this Korean cultural brand. The Taekwondo Park Master Plan International Competition recently announced New…