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 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has decided to give its Gold Medal to the Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, in recognition of the humanitarian work she has undertaken since her retirement in 2000, as the announcement states. Known as
Shortly after a Pritzker sans surprises and sans risks came the announcement of another of architecture’s leading accolades, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion, which for its part has opted to celebrate the ‘off-limits’ and hitherto ignored trajectory
La remodeling and expansion of the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City by Taller | Mauricio Rocha has won the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) for 2023, as announced today by MCHAP Director Dirk Denison and Jury Chair Sandra Barclay. Awarded by t
Demas Nwoko, Nigerian born artist, designer and architect, is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia entitled The Laboratory of the Future (Giardini and Ar
The Hyatt Foundation has declared the British architect David Chipperfield the winner of the Pritzker Prize, an accolade given annually since 1979 and coming with a sum of US$100,000. Jury Chair Alejandro Aravena has lauded how his work has stood the
Chipperfield, Pritzker Prize
An unofficial compass needle for the discipline, the Pritzker Prize has in recent editions swerved towards more diverse and peripheral narratives, reminding us that architecture need not be radical to improve people’s lives, nor sensationalist to dra
The organization of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has named the six finalists for the biennial award that recognizes outstanding works of architecture built on the American continent. Completed between 2018 and 2021, the projects were se
The Architectural Review and the AJ have named Kazuyo Sejima and Phyllis Lambert as winners respectively of the 2023 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable prizes Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2023.
Xu Tiantian, founder of the Chinese firm DnA_Design and Architecture, has won the eighth Swiss Architectural Award. The biennial prize, instituted in 2018 by the Fondazione Teatro dell’architettura de Mendrisio, gives recognition to emerging figures
The 14th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to the Grand Paris Express, a large-scale transit project currently being built in and around the Paris metropolitan area. With 68 new stations and 200 kilometers of additional trac
ASCER, the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association, announced the winners of this year’s Tile of Spain Awards for Architecture and Interior Design. The aim of this these accolades is to distinguish architectural works and interiors that have
Spain’s Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA) has named the architect Emilio Tuñón the winner of the 2022 National Award for Architecture. The National Award for Architecture, which comes with a money prize of 60,000 euros, is give
As one of Britain’s most acclaimed architects and founder of Peter Barber Architects, Peter’s practice focuses on social housing and urban planning. He has been widely celebrated for his inventive approach to design, delivering innovative housing whi
The Architecture Drawing prize was launched in 2017 by Make Architects , Sir John Soane’s Museum and the World Architecture Festival. The prize, sponsored by Iris Ceramica Group, was established to celebrate and showcase the art and skill of architec
Spain’s latest National Award for Architecture amounts to recognition of a career that began in the studio of Rafael Moneo, crystallized with overwhelming creativity in tandem with Luis Moreno Mansilla, and continues to bear fruit today with equal ri
The six works distinguished in the latest cycle of the triennial Aga Khan Award for Architecture have been announced. Their authors will share a monetary prize exceeding a million euros. Instituted in 1977 and given by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Every year since 1989 The Imperial Family of Japan and The Japan Art Association have given the Praemium Imperiale in five fields, acknowledging contributions to the development and promotion of the arts worldwide. Each of the laureates receives almo
We now know the winners of the 12th Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture (BIAU), held in Mexico City from 21 to 25 September as part of the Mextrópoli Architecture and City Festival. The 12th BIAU reflects on the livability of the city and the sea
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize has announced the four finalists for the 2022 edition of MCHAP.emerge, a biennial award given in recognition of works carried out by architecture practices less than 10 years in operation. Completed between 2018 and
Llàtzer Moix extracts parables and axioms from his readings of the lives of architects: their works, personalities, and contributions to the city and the larger environment. Books like La ciudad de los arquitectos or Queríamos un Calatrava abound wit
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize has announced its preselection of ten works for MCHAP.emerge 2022, a biennial recognition of projects carried out by architecture practices less than ten years old. Completed between 2018 and 2021, the shortlist was
Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD) is pleased to name Marina Otero the winner of the 2022 Wheelwright Prize, a grant to support investigative approaches to contemporary architecture, with an emphasis on globally minded researc
