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3XN Wins Cultural Project in Aarhus
Danish firm 3XN Architects has won an architectural competition to transform the former freight train halls in Aarhus, Denmark into a new and dynamic cultural center. The winning design was part of an collaboration effort with Nord Arkitekter, Hans U...
Winners in International Competition for Commercial-Residential Complex in Mashhad, Iran
Mashhad—home to the shrine of the 8th Imam of Shiites—is one of the most significant religious sites in Iran. It attracts many more visitors than the holy city of Mecca; almost 10 times as many per year. Given the economic and political power of ...
RMJM Wins Islamic Architecture Award at Cityscape 2009
RMJM architects have recently been awarded a prestigious Cityscape Award in Dubai, UAE. Gordon Hood and Roger Klein of RMJM accepted the Islamic Architecture Award for their work on the Zliten Al-Asmariya University for Islamic Sciences in Libya. ...
Oslo’s Skyline Gets Three “Crystal Clear” Landmark Towers
Kristin Jarmund Architects in collaboration with C. F. Møller Architects, has recently won a major competition to design a spectacular new landmark project in the city of Oslo, for the client KLP Eiendom AS, one of Norway’s largest property invest...
Winners Announced for the Lavender Lake Art Factory Competition
The winning designs of the suckerPUNCH-curated Lavender Lake Art Factory competition have recently been announced. The international competition asked architects to submit concepts for an ‘art factory’ at the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York t...
OMA wins competition for Rotterdam’s Stadskantoor
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in collaboration with Werner Sobek and engineers ABT, has won the competition for Rotterdam's Stadskantoor, a new building for the city hall that will accommodate municipal services, offices, and residential ...
Team Germany Wins Solar Decathlon…Again
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that ‘Team Germany’ from the Technische Universität Darmstadt has won the 2009 Solar Decathlon with their project surPLUShome. This is the second time in a row that a team from TU Darmstadt wins this...
Winners of Toronto Urban Design Awards 2009
The winners of the 2009 Toronto Urban Design Awards, the 6th since amalgamation, were recently announced. The award program celebrates the best urban design in Toronto. Unlike other design awards programs that highlight individual projects, the Urban...
ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition Winners Announced
ResilientCity.org just announced the winners of their design ideas competition that hopes to stimulate new ideas about the way we plan cities and design buildings. The competition resulted in more than 50 inquiries and 22 formal entries received fro...
BIG to Design Shenzhen International Energy Mansion
Copenhagen-based BIG, in collaboration with ARUP and Transsolar, was awarded the first prize in the international competition to design Shenzhen International Energy Mansion, the regional headquarters for the Shenzhen Energy Company....
John Wardle Architects and Office dA to Design Melbourne’s New Architecture School Site
John Wardle Architects and Office dA have been named the winners of the competition to design the landmark new Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning site at the University of Melbourne....
BIG to Design Kazakhstan’s New National Library in Astana
Invited as one of five pre-selected architect led teams, Danish practice BIG was awarded first prize in the open international design competition for Kazakhstan’s New National Library which included 19 entrants, among others Lord Norman Foster and ...
Reburbia Competition Announces the Winners
The winners of Reburbia, the Suburban Design Competition, have just been announced. The competition, sponsored jointly by Dwell and Inhabitat.com, called for design solutions that would address the problems that plague present-day suburbia by envisio...
AIA Announces Winners of the 2009 CAE Educational Facility Design Awards
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) have selected 13 educational and cultural facilities for this year’s CAE Educational Facility Design Awards. The purpose of the design awards program is to ide...
REX Wins Kortrijk Central Library Competition in Belgium
REX and Principal in Charge Joshua Prince-Ramus have been named the winner of the BibLLLiotheek competition to build a “Library of the Future” for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. New York-based REX partnered with landscape architects Bureau Bas Sm...
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Win Major Education Project in Germany
Danish firm schmidt hammer lassen architects has won an international design competition for a new 13,500 m2 auditorium complex for the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen University) in Aachen, Germany. Twenty-one Germa...
RIBA Stirling Prize 2009 Shortlist Announced
A pioneering health center in London, an imposing winery in Spain, an elegant museum in Denmark and a mixed-use scheme residential scheme contributing to the regeneration of Liverpool are among the six building projects which have made it onto this y...
Herzog & de Meuron’s “Bird’s Nest” Wins RIBA Lubetkin Prize
The National Stadium in Beijing - nicknamed ‘the bird’s nest’ - by Herzog & de Meuron, with the China Architectural Design and research Group, Arup Sport and Ove Arup and Partners Hong Kong, and artist Ai Wei Wei, has scooped the Royal Ins...
