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The Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design and Real Estate Company ADM have announced five finalists in an open international design compeitition for a new museum of architecture and design that will be built in Helsinki’s South Harbour.
The nominees in the second DIVIA Award — the biennial award promoting diversity in architecture — have been announced: 25 women architects in more than 20 countries.
The recipients of the 35th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 23, 2024, during the 41st Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia.
The first conference organized by Diversity in Architecture (DIVIA) brought together international experts, researchers, practicing women architects, and students to “explore diversity and discuss the unique challenges and opportunities women face in architecture.” A recording of the November...
During a special event held at the Royal Academy of Arts on October 31, Livyj Bereh, the volunteer group that has been rebuilding roofs in Ukraine since May 2002, was awarded the 2024 Royal Academy Dorfman Prize, which aims “to celebrate new ideas and practices that highlight the future...
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2024, selecting the ten best architecture books from 170 submissions from 74 publishers.
Under the thematic focus “Architectures with,” the 2024 Obel Award has been awarded to Colectivo C733, a group comprised of multiple architecture studios and dozens of architects who came together to realize 36 projects across Mexico in the span of just 36 months.
During its annual international conference that took place in London and Paris last week, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Pan Pacific Orchard, a 23-story hotel in Singapore, as the 2024 Best Tall Building Worldwide. Designed by Singapore's WOHA, it is the second...
The American Hardwood Export Council's (AHEC) contribution to this year's London Design Festival is Vert, a timber structure designed by Diez Office with OMCºC as a cooling space for visitors and a means of increasing biodiversity in urban environments. Vert is installed at the Parade Ground...
The Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design and Real Estate Company ADM have revealed the 623 entries that were submitted in the first stage of an open international design competition for a new museum of architecture in Helsinki’s South Harbour. All 623 proposals are...
Back in May, on the UNESCO International Day of Light, the 2024 Daylight Awards were awarded to Alberto Camp Baeza and Till Roenneber, respectively in the architecture and research categories. The Daylight Award has released videos of their ten-minute award lectures.
As announced at the annual AIA Conference on Architecture that recently took place in Washington, DC, Rafael Viñoly's Tokyo International Forum, completed in 1996, is the 2024 recipient of the AIA's Twenty-five Year Award.
The Obel Award, the annual prize founded by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation in 2019 to honor architectural contributions to human development all over the world, has announced the focus of its sixth cycle: “Architectures WITH.”
Spanish architect and professor Alberto Campo Baeza and German professor of chronobiology Till Roenneberg have been named the 2024 laureates of The Daylight Award, respectively in the architecture and research categories.
The slanted walls of this eight-story office building in Tokyo appear anti-social, even aggressive at first glance, but they are a logical response to an adjacent elevated railway line, the need for acoustic privacy in the offices, and the desire for natural air and light. Makoto Yamaguchi...
Short films about resource extraction, Alison and Peter Smithson's Robin Hood Gardens, living conditions in Nepal, and a humorous take on the European housing crisis are the winners of the latest biennial TRANSFER Architecture Video Awards, announced on February 22.
The Helsinki City Council has approved funding to the Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design, which, with matching funds from the Finnish state, moves the project for a new museum in the city's South Harbour forward, with a design competition launching in April.
David Lake and Ted Flato, founder partners of San Antonio, Texas's Lake|Flato Architects, are winners of the 2024 AIA Gold Medal, the highest honor given by the American Institute of Architects.
Dogma, the Brussels-based practice of Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, is the 2023 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award, named for the influential architecture critic and landscape designer.
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) returned to Singapore last week, crowning the Huizhen High School in Ningbo, China, designed by Approach Design Studio and the Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group, as World Building of the Year 2023.
The recipients of the 34th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 25, 2023, during the 40th Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia.
During a special event held at the Royal Academy of Arts on the evening of November 2, Mexican architect Gabriela Carrillo was awarded the RA Dorfman Award, which “champions architecture from around the world that looks forward to the future of architecture and architectural practice.”
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of 2023 DAM Architectural Book Award, selecting the ten best architecture books from 245 submissions from 102 publishers.
The 2023 OBEL Award Teaching Fellowships are being given to four new university-level courses that "will amplify and enhance debate and learning around well-being and cities," in line with themes from previous OBEL Awards.
The recipient of the fifth Obel Award, created in 2019 to honor “outstanding architectural contributions to human development” around the world, is “a visionary green infrastructure project” off the shore of New York's Staten Island.
The European office of Oppenheim Architecture, based in Basel, has won the competition to turn the Toptani Residence in Tirna, the capital of Albania, into the Besa Museum.
A diminutive new studio for artist Richard Erdman is clad in corrugated Cor-ten steel, a reference to the older structures on the artist's working farm in Vermont. The material is also a pleasing contrast to the white Carrara marble pieces Erdman is known for. Birdseye answered a few questions...
Back in May, the winner of the inaugural divia award was announced in Berlin and then celebrated in Venice, the latter coinciding with the opening of this year's Architecture Biennale....
Madeline Beach Carey spoke with Martha Thorne recently in Barcelona. Their initial chat about cities continued by email with a discussion of education and architecture and some very interesting new opportunities for universities and teaching professionals, including a grant of up to €75,000...
As announced on Friday, June 9, when architects were gathering in San Francisco for the AIA Conference on Architecture, Frank Gehry's iconic, game-changing Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is the latest recipient of the AIA's Twenty-five Year Award.
With the Asociación Semillas, which she founded, Marta Maccaglia supports projects for educational buildings in the Peruvian Amazon region and builds schools in settlements near Lima, among other endeavors. For her great commitment, she has received the inaugural divia award — a prize that...
In a ceremony on the evening of April 23, the Ordre des Architectes du Québec (OAQ) unveiled the ten winners of its awards of excellence for 2023, including two Grand Prix d'Excellence.
Juha Leiviskä 2000–2022 is a new monograph on the Finnish architect best known for the creation of churches with jaw-dropping interiors. The new book, published by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, collects churches and other projects designed by Leiviskä this century.
The Jencks Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced that Forensic Architecture is the 2022 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award, named for the influential architecture critic and landscape designer.
The recipients of the 33rd annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 26, during the 39th Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia.
Ten winners have been announced in the 14th iteration of the International DAM Architectural Book Award, given jointly by the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM).