The Cité de l’Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France, designed by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Solange Fabião, has received a 2011 Annual Design Review Award. About the museum, juror Joe Valerio stated, “The thing that is beautiful about this [Read More]
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors (BOD) voted today for VJAA to receive the 2012 AIA Architecture Firm Award. The Minneapolis based firm, noted for its consistently rigorous approach to research-driven form-making, will be honored at the 2012 AIA [Read More]
The Board of Directors of The American Institute of Architects to award the 2012 AIA Gold Medal to Steven Holl, FAIA. The AIA Gold Medal, voted on annually, is considered to be the profession’s highest honor that an individual can receive. The [Read More]
Architecture Creates Cities, Cities Create Architecture” is the title and theme of the 2011 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. Open December 11, 2011–February 18, 2012. The Biennale will portray the unending interaction between architecture and cities, while taking on [Read More]
The masterplan proposal for Harbour Island in Vejle has been developed in a collaboration between Studio Olafur Eliasson, Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter and Vogt Landscape Architects, based on plans conceived by Vejle Municipality to create an active connection between the city centre [Read More]
The RIBA has announcedthe Manser Medal 2011 winner as Hampstead Lane, London, by Duggan Morris Architects. Originally built in 1968 by an architect couple who lived and worked there until 1992, this Brutalist-style house had undergone unsympathetic renovation and faced demolition until [Read More]
The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art presents Yona Friedman Architecture Without Building , a retrospective exhibition of Yona Friedman, the architect and thinker of Hungarian origin, in an installation environment offering a special spatial experience. Open 29 October 2011–8 January 2012 . Yona Friedman, [Read More]
The Met in Bangkok, Thailand by WOHA has scooped the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) prestigious RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the most outstanding work of international architecture by a member of the RIBA. A residential skyscraper incorporating outdoor spaces, balconies and [Read More]
St. Patrick’s School Library and Music Room in London has won the RIBA’s 2011 Stephen Lawrence Prize. St Patrick’s School Library and Music Room, Architect: Coffey Architects, Client: St Patrick’s School The RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize is funded by the Marco Goldschmied [Read More]
The Evelyn Grace Academy, London by Zaha Hadid Architects has won the prestigious £20,000 RIBA Stirling Prize 2011. Evelyn Grace Academy Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects Client: ARK Schools Photographer: Hufton Crow This is the second year running that Zaha Hadid Architects have [Read More]
The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart presents the first major retrospective in Germany of the renowned British architect, teacher and Pritzker Prize laureate James Frazer Stirling (1924–1992). James Frazer Stirling, House for the Architect: model, probably late autumn 1948, © James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds, Canadian [Read More]
It has been named the sexiest building in the world, featured in TV ads and shows and Hollywood movies, and it has transformed the city of Milwaukee. In September, the Milwaukee Art Museum celebrates the 10th anniversary of its iconic building, the [Read More]
Zaha Hadid, one of the most innovative architects of the twenty-first century and the first woman to receive the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, has advanced the language of contemporary architecture and design, exploring complex fluid geometries and using cutting-edge digital [Read More]
Examples showcase the best of healthcare building design and health design-oriented research The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases [Read More]