Tag Archives: New Architecture

Opening of the newest railway line in London entitled Elizabeth Line

Grimshaw has completed a new rail line in London, with zigzag roofs and flex-bending junctions in passenger tunnels. Design Features Officially opened on May 24, the project was completed as part of the London Underground network and became London’s newest rail line, The Elizabeth Line. Grimshaw worked with client Crossrail, Atkins engineering firm, Maynard graphics […]

2021 Richard J. Neutra Award for Professional Excellence awarded to Toyo Ito

Neutra Award

The Department of Architecture, California Polytechnic University, Pomona, is pleased to award Toyo Ito the 2021 Richard J. Neutra Award for Professional Excellence. The Neutra Award recognizes the contributions that Richard Neutra, an acclaimed modern architect, and former Cal Poly Pomona lecturer, made to the practice of architecture within the areas of research and style. The Neutra Award acknowledges individuals who […]

TerraViva Competitions launches THE LIVING MUSEUM Competition

TerraViva Competitions launches THE LIVING MUSEUM. A new architecture competition focused on designing micro-accommodation units immersed in the Sardinian landscape of the Nivola Museum. Prizes up to 7.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed by, among others, Stefano Boeri (Stefano Boeri Architetti), Arthur Chang (NADAAA), Nicolás Campodonico  (Nicolás Campodonico), Luis Gallego Pachón (Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos); Registration Deadline: Sunday, Aug 1st, 2021 – 11:59 pm […]

Almost Studio announced as 2021 Ragdale Ring Competition winners

The Ragdale Foundation is a national artist residency program located in Lake Forest, Illinois. In 2013, the inspiration launched a contest to “reinterpret the Ragdale Ring,” designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1912. Shaw’s ring design helped spring forward the thought to welcome and promoted contemporary, experimental, and functional design ideas for the competition. […]

New architecture and design competitions: Modernism in America, Race and Space, Graduation Projects, and Interior Design Awards

    2021 Modernism in America Awards Register/Submit Deadline: Wednesday, Jun 2, 2021 “Nominations are now being accepted for the 2021 Modernism in America Awards. Now in its eighth year, the Awards celebrate the documentation, preservation, and reuse of recent buildings, structures, and landscapes inbuilt in the US or on U.S. territory. The Awards recognize those building […]

Ten structures recognized with 2021 IDEAS² Awards for innovative ste

Architecture

One week after unveiling a 3D-printed pedestrian steel bridge concept as the 2021 Forge Prize winner, the American Institute of Steel Construction has announced this year’s recipients of the Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel Awards (or IDEAS² for short). The ten selected project designs from across the U.S. were honored for pushing the envelope […]

10 Design wins competition to design Taseco Landmark 55 in Hanoi

10 Design has won a competition to design Landmark 55 in the emerging Starlake Urban Area of Hanoi, Vietnam. The 178,888 sqm (1.926 million sqft) development includes two towers, containing a 55-story hotel and condominium hotel tower with a dramatic sky lobby and a 41-story office tower. A four-story retail pavilion is found between both towers within the middle […]

Five projects win in 2021 AIA Regional & Urban Design Awards

Five projects from across the United States have been announced as the AIA‘s 2021 Regional & Urban Design Award winners. The program aims to highlight the best in urban design, regional and city planning, and community development. Boston-based firm Payette managed to win two trophies this year for their Northeastern University Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex in Boston […]

Harvard GSD reveals four finalists for the 2021 Wheelwright Prize

Harvard GSD

Harvard GSD, A group of four early-career architects, has emerged as the finalists for the 2021 Wheelwright Prize. Organized by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design for the ninth time this year, the $100,000 traveling fellowship seeks to support innovative architectural research forms. Previous winning proposals included “Being Shellfish: The Architecture of Intertidal Cohabitation” by […]

New architecture and design competitions

New architecture

    Henning Larsen Foundation 2020/21 Competition: Architecture and Utopia Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Apr 9, 2021 “The Henning Larsen Foundation is proud to announce the newest edition of its competition series this year, an open international competition on the theme of Utopia in the new architecture. […] Ideas that, with artistic and poetic power, can inspire a […]