The submission deadline for World Architecture Festival, the world's largest, live, global architectural awards program, is approaching quickly. Anyone can enter and anyone can win.WAF sets the benchmark for architectural excellence, where talented architects from every country of the world... View full entry
Summer DLAB from London's AA School of Architecture is back again for its 2014 cycle. The summer-long workshop emphasizes the integration of algorithmic / generative design methodologies and large scale digital fabrication tools.Continuing its color-based agenda with White, this year's Summer DLAB... View full entry
AIA Chicago gave a big shoutout to some of the city's best small and emerging architectural firms in the annual 2014 Small Projects Awards. The awards program promotes upcoming small firms as a resource for design excellence and also the valuable contributions of architects in even the smallest works.
Out of 96 entries, 13 projects received awards -- including four Honor Awards and one Special Recognition.
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HONOR AWARDS(pictured above) dSPACE Studio - The Wave Paul Preissner Architects & Indie Architecture - Two Barns Johnson & Lee Architects and Planners - Ping Tom Park Boathouse Searl Lamaster Howe Architects - Harbert CottageSPECIAL RECOGNITIONIllinois Institute of Technology - ... View full entry
The two-stage Port of Kinmen Passenger Service Center International Competition in Taiwan has come to a close. Since our last update in January, five star-studded firms — who worked with local architects — were in the final round to become the master architect to design a new multi-functional terminal facility and expansion for the Port of Kinmen. — bustler.net
At the end of the competition, the jury awarded three prize winners and two honorable mentions:1ST PRIZE: Junya Ishigami + Associates / Junya Ishigami (Japan) with Bio Architecture Formosana Architecture / Ching-Hwa Chang (Taiwan)2ND PRIZE: Tom Wiscombe Architecture, Inc / Thomas Wiscombe (USA)... View full entry
Four projects -- which all happen to be built in California -- have won in the 2014 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards, as announced by the AIA Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community along with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The annual awards program recognizes what they deem as the best examples of the latest innovation and development in the housing design industry. — bustler.net
Awards were given to one project in four categories.Category One: Excellence in Affordable Housing Design Award - 28th Street Apartments (Los Angeles)By Koning Eizenberg Architects, Inc. Category Two: Creating Community Connection Award - Kelly Cullen Community (San Francisco)By Gelfand Partners... View full entry
![2014 New Zealand Architecture Medal - ASB North Wharf by BVN Donovan Hill in assoc. with Jasmax [photography: John Gollings]](https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c5/c5ubksre8fzskapk.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=514 "2014 New Zealand Architecture Medal - ASB North Wharf by BVN Donovan Hill in assoc. with Jasmax [photography: John Gollings]")
Winning at the New Zealand Architecture Awards -- the country's most prestigious architectural competition -- must feel like winning the lottery. This year's winners, who accepted their awards at a ceremony in Auckland, were recently announced.
This year's program included nine award categories; the 2014 recipient of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Gold Medal, and the winner of the New Zealand Architectural Medal -- the competition's highest honor.
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2014 recipient of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Gold Medal: Patrick Clifford of Architectus Bowes Clifford Thomson(Pictured above) Winner of the New Zealand Architectural Medal: ASB North Wharf by BVN Donovan Hill with Jasmax. Also awarded in: Commercial, Interior Architecture, and... View full entry
Every Monday, we highlight some of the most recent competition-winning projects, finalists, commissions, and awards on Bustler from the previous week that we think are worth checking out.Here's Recap #8 for the week of May 5-9, 2014:Winners of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2014 National... View full entry
Team Lord of Toronto was announced today as the winner to design the new Canadian National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Canada's capital.
The team's proposal, titled "Landscape of Loss, Memory and Survival", was selected out of six finalists who were invited to present their concepts to a jury of professionals and then to the public during the national design competition.
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Led by co-president of Lord Cultural Resources Gail Dexter-Lord, the Toronto-based team also includes Daniel Libeskind (architect), Edward Burtynsky (artist–photographer), Claude Cormier (landscape architect), and Doris Bergen (subject-matter advisor).More info about the project on Bustler. View full entry
The competitive nature of the architecture and design world is inevitable, with exceptional projects getting more recognition than others that deserve just as much. The A' (A-Prime) Design Award & Competition not only wants to highlight great designs and products, but also to boost publicity opportunities for designers of all disciplines and experiences worldwide. Just recently, the annual program announced the winning projects for the 2013-2014 period. — bustler.net
Here's a few of our favorite winners from the architecture and interiors categories:(Pictured above): School of Technology Higher Education Institution by Nuno MontenegroThe Ring House & Atelier by MZ ArchitectsRising Moon Pavilion by Daydreamers DesignRanden Arashiyama Station Railway station... View full entry
![Photo by Wesley G. Deploy Yourself, Not Your Designs. The Coalition for the Improvement of Refugee Camps [Mary Monroe, Lee Dykxhoorn]](https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/g2/g2mn0rv3p3xohgi5.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=514 "Photo by Wesley G. Deploy Yourself, Not Your Designs. The Coalition for the Improvement of Refugee Camps [Mary Monroe, Lee Dykxhoorn]")
The winners were finally revealed for Storefront's Competition of Competitions, where entrants got to question the boundaries and shortcomings of competition brief formats by writing their very own. From the 18 finalists announced back in February, the jury picked 4 prize-winning projects, 7 honorable mentions, and a Storefront Special Prize. — bustler.net
All selected projects will be publicized and given support to reach the pertinent agents and authorities. The Storefront Special Prize winner will get to run their submitted competition as part of the 2014 Storefront for Art and Architecture program calendar.Below are the winning competition... View full entry
The Competition, which has its UK premiere at the Barbican tonight, follows the trials and tribulations of five stellar practices competing in a doomed bid to build a new national museum for Andorra, back in 2009. As the global financial crisis hit rock-bottom, no job was too small for architects whose dreams of dotting Middle Eastern deserts with their snazzy signatures had been revealed as a hopeless mirage. — theguardian.com
Twenty-one of what was deemed as the most bold and creative ideas were listed as finalists in the first European edition of the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge Competition. European cities with populations of at least 100,000 residents were invited to submit ideas that address a variety of some of the most common and complex urban issues throughout the continent. — bustler.net
In the fall, one winner will get the grand prize of €5 million (approx. US$6.9 million) for the most original and transferable idea, and four more cities will receive €1 million (approx. US$1.4 million).Below are the finalist cities and a glimpse into the type of issues their ideas... View full entry
The 2014 European Prize for Urban Public Space adds a dose of reality to often romanticized European cities, showing that every city no matter where has its own set of pressing issues. The annual prize recognizes exemplary projects that have transformed and improved public spaces throughout the continent.
Starting with a total of 274 projects from 30 European countries, the international jury selected 25 finalists, and finally two joint winners and four special mentions.
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(Pictured above) JOINT WINNER: The Braided Valley, Elx, Spain - 2013AUTHORS: Francisco Leiva Ivorra, Marta García Chico, Prócoro del Real BaezaJOINT WINNER: Renovation of the Old Port, Marseille, France - 2013AUTHORS: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste MDP, Foster + Partners, TANGRAM, INGEROP, AIK... View full entry
Renowned architect Frank Gehry is the 2014 recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, as announced today by the Prince of Asturias Foundation in Oviedo, Spain.
Every year, the Foundation honors the international influence and significant cultural contribution in the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out by individuals, institutions, or groups of either one.
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Gehry will receive the first of the eight awards, which will soon be announced and given in the fields including Social Sciences, Communications, and Technical Scientific Research, to name a few.Since its establishment in 1981, the Prince of Asturias Awards are endowed with 50,000 Euros each, a... View full entry
Six teams of architects and landscape architects are still in the running for the 11th Street Bridge Park competition in Washington D.C. The nationwide competition is hunting for the best design to transform an old freeway bridge into D.C.'s first elevated park: the 11th Street Bridge Park. — bustler.net
Out of more than 40 teams and 80 firms that responded to an open call for submissions this past March, the jury selected the phase-one finalists -- who have all formed into the following interdisciplinary teams below:Balmori Associates / Cooper, Robertson & PartnersPiet Oudolf with Glenn LaRue... View full entry
