At the start of every week, we highlight some of the most recent news in competition-winning projects, commissions, awards, shortlists, and events on Bustler from the previous week that are worth checking out.

Here's recap #54 for March 30-April 3, 2015 below:

Winners of the 2015 eVolo Skyscraper Competition 

The sky is indeed the limit for eVolo's global Skyscraper Competition. Every year, participants are given complete freedom with their skyscraper designs, while also examining the definition of a skyscraper and the potential for vertical living in the 21st century. (Pictured: 1st prize: "Essence Skyscraper" by BOMP; 2nd prize: "Shanty-Scaper" by Suraksha Bhatla + Sharan Sundar; 3rd prize: "Cybertopia" by Egor Orlov)

Arid Lands Institute’s Drylands Resilience Initiative wins $100K 2015 Latrobe Prize 

Woodbury University's Arid Lands Institute won the $100K biennial Latrobe Prize to support their "Hazel" digital design tool, which intends to enable arid communities anywhere to design and build necessary infrastructure to capture, retain, and distribute stormwater runoff.

Winning projects of the inaugural Knight Cities Challenge 

The Knight Foundation organized the first Knight Cities Challenge driven by the belief that bolstering talent, opportunity, and engagement lead to successful, thriving American cities. Starting with some 7,000 idea submissions, the Foundation selected 32 projects to share the $5 million prize.

Warming Huts 2015 winner “The Hole Idea” wins an Ontario Association Of Architects Award 

Weiss Architecture + Urbanism's "The Hole Idea -- Now in Technicolor", which was a winner in Winnipeg's latest Warming Huts competition, continues to gain recognition with an Ontario Association Of Architects Award.

“Beyond Graffiti 2” at the A + D Museum embraces an ever-changing L.A.

The Architecture + Design Museum in L.A. opened their last exhibition, "Beyond Graffiti 2" in their current and soon-to-be-demolished Wilshire Blvd. building. Archinect's Justine Testado recaps the opening reception and chats with exhibition co-curator and Los Angeles Art Collective's Eder Cetina.

Perkins+Will’s Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability wins 2015 RAIC Green Building Award 

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada awarded the Green Building Award to the University of British Columbia's Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, designed by Peter Busby of Perkins + Will. The award recognizes building achievements considered to exhibit eco-responsible and user-health-conscious design features.

Wheelwright Prize 2015 finalists announced

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) — which has hosted the prestigious research-travel prize since 1935 — selected three finalists out of nearly 200 applicants this year. 

See previous recaps here.