Projects showcase excellence in sustainable design principles and reduced energy consumption Washington, D.C., April 22, 2008 The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The projects…

Architect and Professor Eric Olsen Wins 2008 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize San Francisco, May 2, 2008 A Bay Area architect and professor at the California College of Arts has been chosen as this year's winner of the prestigious Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize.

Exhibition opening and announcement of award winners: October 4, 2008 “Flip a Strip,” a design competition organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA], generated 95 completed submissions, from architectural teams in 46 cities and six countries. This innovative project intends to inspire creative, new visions for the renovation…

The jury decided to award the 2008 Gold medal to the Mexican architect Teodoro González de León. He will receive the medal at a ceremony in Turin, on 2 July 2008, during the twenty third UIA Congress. CITATION Through this medal, the UIA honours and highlights a lifetime of work…

Microsoft XBOX Halo 3 Wins 5 Gold Cubes as ADC Reveals Awards for Advertising, ADC Hybrid, Design and ADC Sphere Winners of Corbis Creativity for Social Justice Award named New York, NY – May 1, 2008 – The Art Directors Club today announces the top winners in the categories of…

Third Annual National Design Week to be held Oct. 19–25 The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its ninth annual National Design Awards program. Today, Cooper-Hewitt director Paul Warwick Thompson announced…

GDS Architects Submits Winning Design for National Landmark Tower Infinity Pasadena, Calif., April 9, 2008 – GDS Architects recently was awarded first prize in an International Design Competition sponsored by Korea Land Company that attracted over…

OTTAWA, May 6 - The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts are pleased to announce the recipients of the Governor General's Medals in Architecture for 2008. Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto (Toronto, ON)architectsAlliance & Behnisch Architekten…

'Transformational' Fountain Sparked New Era of Water Feature Design WASHINGTON, April 29 The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced that the Tanner Fountain at Harvard University will receive the 2008 Landmark Award during the ASLA Annual Meeting on October 6 in…

This year's winners of the Rome Prize, for Architecture, include MATTHEW HURAL (Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize) and URSULA EMERY McCLURE & MICHAEL A. McCLURE (Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize)... Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize MATTHEW HURAL Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Virginia Designer, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects…