The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) National and International Awards for architectural excellence were presented on 27 June in London. The twenty six RIBA Award winners (16 in the UK and 10 in the EU) range from an Alpine cable railway to Wembley National Stadium, from a…

Victoria’s two-time winner of the nation’s top accolade for public architecture, John Wardle, strengthened his chances for a third, after taking out three of the state’s highest honours at the 2008 Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Architecture Awards. John Wardle Architect’s Nigel Peck Centre for Learning & Leadership…

The North American Copper in Architecture Awards recognizes and promotes North American building projects for their outstanding use of architectural copper and copper alloys. The 2008 program showcases a wide range of projects, all of which highlight craftsmanship, attention to detail, and architectural vision. Historically, copper has long been used…

Housing Shortages – The minimum subsistence level housing of today With the 5th Bauhaus Award, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation continues its research into “Updating Modernism”. In doing so, a central topic of the historical Bauhaus is taken up…

Ottawa, June 25, 2008 – The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Toronto landscape architect Pierre Bélanger is the winner of the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture for 2008, and that williamsonwilliamson of Toronto has won the Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement. These awards…

Today, the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) honored the region’s finest architecture design projects, including the new Los Angeles Green Building Award, at the 38th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards. The Awards Program, which recognizes entire project teams (architects, developers and contractors), spotlighted the abundance of world-class architecture and sustainable…

Montréal, 5 June 2008—The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), in collaboration with the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), announces the winner of the third international competition for the James Stirling Memorial Lectures on the City. The jury awarded the price to Robert Mangurian…

The winners of the 2008 RIBA International Awards: Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA Akron Art Museum Architect: COOP HIMMELB (L) AU Client: Akron Art Museum Copyright: Roland Halbe …

This international prize was created to highlight landscape projects to and promote the quality of urban green spaces and forests. It is open to architects and professionals of landscape planning registered in a professional body in their countries. Organised for the sixth time, this annual prize is run with the…

The 17th Concrete Architecture Awards, organized by the Federal Association of the German Cement Industry, raised to the highest level of excellence this year. The competition called for entries in cooperation with the Federation of German Architects (BDA). The Concrete Architecture Award was created in 1974 to honor…