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 #57 for April 20-24, 2015 below:

Colombia, Sri Lanka, and U.S. projects win big in 2015 Holcim Awards 

Projects in Colombia, Sri Lanka, and New York won the Gold, Silver, and Bronze prizes and shared $350,000 in the global 2015 Holcim Awards. The competitive triennial awards seek architectural interventions that best address sustainable building and construction issues around the world.

Winners of the BANGKOK: IAM Fashion Hub 

HMMD's BANGKOK IAM Fashion Hub competition let participants propose outstanding architectural designs of a regional ASEAN Fashion Hub that offers educational and collaborative workspace for fashion students and upcoming designers in Bangkok. (Pictured: 1ST PRIZE: Ilya Pugachenko, Andrey Sayko, Alla Aniskova | Russia)

The eight Next Helsinki shortlisted entries 

Is a new Guggenheim Museum really what Helsinki needs? In response to the controversy behind the project, Checkpoint Helsinki, Terreform and G.U.L.F. (Global Ultra Luxury Faction) co-organized The Next Helsinki ideas counter-competition. Entrants worldwide submitted their alternative proposals for the competition site.

“The Pool” to be Australia’s 2016 Venice Biennale pavilion concept

"The Pool" by Aileen Sage Architects and urban strategist Michelle Tabet was the winning concept for the 2016 Venice Biennale pavilion. The proposal profiles a series of Australia’s most remarkable pools -- from the natural to manmade, the necessary to the excessive.

The American Academy in Rome’s 2015-2016 Rome Prize winners 

Now in its 119th year, the prestigious Rome Prize fellowship is granted to around 30 arts and humanities candidates. Recipients are then invited to Rome where they can pursue their work for a period spanning from six months up to two years.

AIA selects the 2015 COTE Top Ten Green Projects 

The AIA and the Committee on the Environment (COTE) announced the 2015 Top Ten Green Projects, which include buildings by SOM, The Miller Hull Partnership, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, and more. Also, the Federal Center South Building 1202 by
ZGF Architects won the coveted Top Ten Plus Award for 2015.

“Pathmakers” at MAD celebrates lasting legacy of women in postwar design, art, and craft 

Opening tomorrow at New York's Museum of Arts and Design, the "Pathmakers" exhibition highlights creative women and their contributions to modernism in midcentury visual culture -- and whose legacy fights on in today's cultural fabric.

“Treatise: Why Write Alone?” West Coast book launch at the Neutra VDL, May 2!

Join Bustler and Archinect at the Neutra VDL House in Los Angeles for the "Treatise: Why Write Alone?" West Coast book launch. Organized by Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular, "Treatise" is a publication project featuring the collective works of 14 young design offices and their individual treatises. RSVP now!

See previous recaps here.