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

Check out recap #118 for the week of July 18-22, 2016.

Shortlist highlights of the 2016 INSIDE: World Festival of Interiors

Get a peek of which projects are currently leading the competition in this year's INSIDE contest. The just-as-popular sister event of the World Architecture Festival recognizes the best in the international interior design scene from the last year.

Four U.S. housing projects win in 2016 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards

Highlighting exemplary housing projects throughout the U.S., the AIA and the Office of the Secretary of the HUD awarded David Baker Architects, Landon Bone Baker, buildingcommunity WORKSHOP, and FabCab.

Reinventing post-war housing concepts for Syrian refugees

What types of housing should be built for refugees returning to their homeland? Matterbetter challenged young architects and students worldwide to envision post-war housing concepts for Syria in their latest competition.

Winners of Eleven's “Tenderloin System Update” envision new forms of urban revival

“Can the Tenderloin be transformed into a model district to inspire a new 21st-century inner-city regeneration model that steers away from Gentrification?” That was one of the major questions Eleven Magazine posed to participants in their “Tenderloin System Upgrade” competition, which focused on San Francisco's Tenderloin district.

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