Kashef Chowdhury - URBANA   Bangladesh   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

Sebastián Arquitectos   Spain   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

gmp Architekten   Germany   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 named 85 Social Housing in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona), an 85-unit timber-framed social housing development designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes, as the winner of the RIBA International Priz

A Sydney public school has been crowned the World Building of the Year, beating competition from towering skyscrapers, museums and major transport hubs to claim the title. Darlington public school in Chippendale won the major building design prize at

Winners of the 13th BIAU Ten projects have been announced the winners of the 12th Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU), themed ‘Climates: Actions for Good Living’ and to be held in Lima from 2 to 6 December . BIAU is organized

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda has distinguished Ángela García de Paredes and Ignacio García Pedrosa with the 2023 National Award for Architecture. This accolade comes with a prize of 60,000 euros. Both born in Madrid in 1958, they graduate

In its architecture section, Japan’s Praemium Imperiale has this year gone to a native, Shigeru Ban, who is thus again acclaimed for a firm social commitment, as when he won the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord in 2022, and for the material inn

The international jury, chaired by the architect, urban planner, and landscape designer Beth Galí, has given the 2024 European Prize for Urban Public Space, in the General Category, to ‘Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound,’ a work of the firms topoScap

The Elizabeth Line in London, designed by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation, and AtkinsRéalis, has been named the 2024 winner of the Stirling Prize, which the Royal Institute of British Architects gives for best building completed in the United Kingdom. Pr

Nobel Prize   The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 was awarded jointly to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity".. The book, Why Nations Fail

The 2024 Obel has been awarded to a body of 36 public works by Colectivo C733. All located in Mexico, they were carried out in just 36 months. This initiative of SEDATU (the country’s Secretariat for Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development), revitalize

The community center called Las Tejedoras (the weavers) in Chongón (Ecuador), a work of Natura Futura Arquitectura and Juan Carlos Bamba, has earned for them the Emerging Practice Award of 2024. Given by the Illinois Institute of Technoogy College of

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the founding partners of the Japanese firm SANAA, have been distinguished with the Charlotte Perriand Award, an accolade given by the Créateurs Design Association. This is the fourth edition of the accolade, previous

The Japanese Imperial Family and the Japan Art Association have announced the winners of the 35th Praemium Imperiale, an accolade given annually in five categories. This year the awards – each coming with a prize of 95,000 euros – go to the French ar

The fifteenth Alvar Aalto Medal has been awarded to Belgian architect Marie-José Van Hee. Her output covers a wide range of projects, from private houses to public spaces and cultural buildings. Van Hee’s works beautifully emphasise respect for archi

This year the Stirling Prize shortlist includes a London Underground line, national art gallery, council-led housing, an inclusive rural retreat and two major regeneration projects. As always, it’s been an incredibly difficult task to whittle the lis

The Frate Sole Foundation has awarded the Canarian architect Fernando Menis with the 2004 International Prize for Sacred Architecture for the Church of the Holy Redeemer of Las Chumberas in La Laguna (Tenerife), which was chosen from among 128 design

The Académie des Beaux-Arts (France) has awarded the Grand Prix d’Architecture 2024 to Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi. The Grand Prix d’Architecture de l’Académie des beaux-arts (Charles Abella Prize) is an international prize awarded to an

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

RIBA   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

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