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

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   With last Saturday’s kick-off, the Venice Architecture Biennale unveiled the awardees of its nineteenth cycle, a selection of the best presented works, duly certified by a jury composed of the critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, the MoMA director of research

The Venice Architecture Biennale’s Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement is going to the Italian architect and designer Italo Rota (1953-2024) – in memorian in this case – and the American philosopher Donna Haraway. The awarding ceremony and

Four winners of the MATCOAM Awards were announced in the course of a gala event that closed the second Construction Week organized by the Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM), from its building department, MATCOAM. The prize in the Refurbishment cat

Little-known today, Arnold William Brunner was a New York architect who was very active professionally, and especially institutionally, between the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties. To honor him, in 1955 the American Academy of Arts and Letters cr

Compared with musicians or painters, who can show their talent from a tender age, architects are altricial creatures that need time to mature before producing their first fruits. But, Manuel Bouzas is impressively precocious: barely in this thirties,

Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins Pritzker 2025 Born in 1956, Liu Jiakun lives and works in his native city, Chengdu, capital of the province of Sichuan in southwest China, where he opened his practice in 1999. He grew up in a family of physicians, b

The Japanese studio SANAA, led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, has been awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The annual prize is recognition for people who have significantly influenced and transforme

The Ecuadoran practice Al Borde, founded in Quito by David Barragán, Esteban Benavides, María Luisa Borja, and Pascual Gangotena, has won the 2024 BancaStato Swiss Architectural Award 2024. Promoted by Fondazione Teatro dell’architettura in collabora

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded its 2025 Gold Medal to Deborah Berke, in acknowledgment of a professional career of over four decades that “exemplifies innovation, inclusivity, and sustainability.” She opened Deborah Berke Part

The winners of the latest Tile of Spain Awards for Architecture and Interior Design, organized by ASCER, the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association, were announced. Chairing the jury was Rafael de La-Hoz, with José González Gallegos (Arangur

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

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