The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh designed by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA will be awarded the RIBA International Prize 2021, the global accolade for design excellence and social impact. A project of the NGO Friendship, this hospital complex is locate
Winner of the 2021 Hispania Nostra Award in the Intervention on Territory or Landscape section, the operations carried out in the core of the locality of Ruesta have made it possible to retrace a stretch of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route tha
The German firm gmp (Architekten Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner) finished refurbishing and enlarging te Kulturpalast of Dresde in 2017. A result of a 2009 competition, the intervention respects the style of the original building, raised in 1969, while
The winners of the awards given by the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes (CSCAE) were announced at a ceremony where Josep Llinàs accepted the Gold Medal for Architecture and the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation received the Architect Lluí
The Japanese Junya Ishigami has received the Frederick Kiesler Prize of Architecture and the Arts in Vienna. This accolade, which comes with a money award of 55,000 euros, has been given since 1998 and the list of previous winners includes Yona Fried
The RIBA International Awards for Excellence are given to projects worldwide that stretch the boundaries of architecture and standards of excellence. Irrespective of style, complexity and size of both scheme and budget, successful projects demonstrat
The DH Ecoenergías thermal power plant in Palencia by Fernando Rodríguez and Pablo Oriol (FRPO), and House 1736 in Barcelona by David Lorents, Josep Ricard, Xavier Ros, and Roger Tudó (Harquitectes), have on an equal standing been announced the winne
Many architects are hesitant to acknowledge the influence of mentors, but Josep Llinàs has always been explicit in this regard, in particular about his devotion to Jujol and Sota. Combining the former’s vital spark and the latter’s rational serenity
The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2024 have been announced in Brussels. The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), by Gustav Düsing and Max
‘Out & About. Discovering Architecture. EUmies Awards 2024’ will take place from April onwards in over 30 European places in which the shortlisted works of the prize are located. Organised by Creative Europe, Fundació Mies van der Rohe and t
Riken Yamamoto has been pronounced the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Hyatt Foundation has recognized the Japanese architect in the new edition of the accolade, which has been given yearly since 1979 and comes with a US$100,000
Luis Fernández-Galiano received the Award for Values of Spanish Architecture on 29 February at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. He upheld architecture and architects in an acceptance speech that can be viewed in the video of the ceremony, an
The finalists for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award – have been announced: five for the main Architecture accolade, and two for Emerging Architecture. The five shortlisted for the main Architecture
Luis Fernández-Galiano has been distinguished with the Award for Values of Spanish Architecture, one of a series of accolades which the association Foro España Cívica gives to individuals with proven excellence in their respective areas of knowledge
Polish-French architect Iwona Buczkowska has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2024, an award recognising an architectural designer who, through their work and commitment to design excellence, has raised the profile of women in archit
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded its Gold Medal of 2024 to David Lake and Ted Flato – who in 1984 founded Lake Flato Architects in San Antonio (Texas) – in recognition of their commitment to controversial environmental and socio
Professor Lesley Lokko, acclaimed Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, author and curator, will receive this year’s Royal Gold Medal 2024, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture. Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work and presented
The forty architectural works shortlisted for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Awards have been announced. The EUmies Awards for Architecture and Emerging are granted biennially to acknowledge projects c
The Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction announced the winners of the 2023 Holcim Awards, underscoring the breadth and diversity of innovative approaches to transforming the built environment. From the bustling streets of Madrid to heritag
The French studio led by Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal has been distinguished with the Soane Medal of this year. The annual award is given by Sir John Soane’s Museum in London in acknowledgement of professionals who “encourage a better unders
The winners of this year’s Tile of Spain Awards for Architecture and Interior Design, organized by the Spanish Association of Wall and Floor Tile Manufacturers (ASCER) with the purpose of highlighting works that make good use of Spanish ceramic tiles
. It is neither frequent nor rare for the FAD Award to be shared by two works on an equal footing. But whereas past ex aequo winners were very different in nature, this time the two awardees address similar concerns with a proactive audacity pointing
La Cultural Landscape Foundation has bestowed the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize (Oberlander Prize), which comes with a US$100,000 award, to the Chinese architect Kongjian Yu, founder of the firm Turenscape.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has awarded its Stirling Prize to the John Morden Centre in London, a work of Mae Architects. The accolade is recognition for the best works built in the United Kingdom. This senior daycare is part of
The Reggio School in Madrid by Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation) and the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona by SUMA Arquitectura have on an equal footing won the 65th FAD Award for Architecture. The winners in the other categori
At the recently renovated Richelieu site of the National Library of France (BnF), on 12 September, the Japanese Imperial House and the Japan Art Association named the winners of the Praemium Imperiale, an accolade awarded every year to five figures f