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
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
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
SCAPE and founder Kate Orff receive the fifth OBEL AWARD architecture prize for the radical breakwaters design and community and ecosystems-driven approach to adaptation. Living Breakwaters, the 2023 OBEL AWARD winning project, is a half mile linear
Under the motto ‘Medium Term,’ the 16th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) delved into architecture’s capacity to anticipate the future through tools of the present, as reflected by the 55 works selected by the curators, María Gonzá
The Mexican architect Frida Escobeda has been given the Charlotte Perriand Award of the Créateurs Design Association. She is the third recipient of this accolade for trailblazers in architecture and design. In the words of Yuri Xavier, co-founder of
The Japanese Imperial House and the Japan Art Association have annually since 1989 awarded the Praemium Imperiale in five categories. The winners of this year’s 34th edition – each to receive the sum of 95,000 euros – have been announced in a ceremon
The New Library at Magdalene College Conferred every year by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Stirling Prize is a recognition of the best new buildings raised in the United Kingdom. The 2022 winner was the New Library at Magdalen
Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa Echoing contemporary sensibility for social and environmental issues, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) gave its Gold Medal to Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa for their commitment to “architecture that pro
The awardees are: María de la O Molina Pérez-Tomé (Madrid School of Architecture), for the project ‘Eden Archipelago’: Laura Hurley (School of Engineering and Architecture, SEFS of the University College Cork & Munster Technological University), for
The winners of the prizes organized by the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes (CSCAE), with the official sponsorship of COMPAC®, were announced. The awarding ceremony also saw César Portela receiving the Gold Medal for Architecture, an ac