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In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary design projects on this international website.
Entries to the A’ Design Awards are peer-reviewed and anonymously judged by an influential jury panel of leading scholars, important press members and established professionals. The A’ Design Award promises fame, eminence, attention and international recognition to The A’ Design Award Laureates through the Coveted A’ Design Prize which is granted to the awarded designs.
Save Your Place – 12-13th October 2017 in Berlin
Since announcing the date for this year’s LEAF International 2017, interest has flooded in to take part in this fantastic architectural event.
Twelve buildings have been shortlisted for the 2017 RIBA Northwest (Royal Institute of British Architects) Awards; the winners will be announced at an Awards evening at the Manchester School of Art on 24 May 2017.
Shortlisted buildings include Leicester Cathedral’s Richard III Project ‘With Dignity and Honour’ and The GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratories for Sustainable Chemistry, Nottingham.
Thirteen buildings have been shortlisted for a 2017 RIBA Yorkshire Award by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). They include a visitor centre and museum, a theatre, a housing development, and a biomass power plant
Shortlisted architects include a crisply formed luxury house by New York’s Richard Meier & Partners Architects with UK architecture office Berman Guedes Stretton.
Nine buildings shortlisted for RIBA Northeast (Royal Institute of British Architects) 2017 Awards, including Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, Durham University by Studio Libeskind and The Malings, Newcastle upon Tyne by Ash Sakula Architects.
British Airways i360 features in UK Government stand at MIPIM this week, one of the latest feats of British design engineering and innovation, conceived and designed by Marks Barfield Architects.
The BD Architect of the Year Awards – Edinburgh practice Reiach and Hall wins. Now in its 13th year, the AYA’s are unique in rewarding architectural practices for the best body of work in 15 different categories.
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta, RCR Arquitectes, Catalunya, Spain, selected as 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates. The award is known internationally as architecture’s highest honor.
The United States of America takes the first place among 98 represented countries in 2017 with 557 Design Awards won globally. WDR ranks all the countries based on the number of designers that have been granted with the A’ Design Award. China came second with 520 Design Awards and surprisingly (as it isn’t a large country) Taiwan came third with 447.
The International A’ (A-Prime) Design Award is the world’s largest event for design, innovation and creativity: it brings together the very best architects, designers, innovators, design press and institutions from countries across the globe.
A’ Design Competition results are announced every year. Best products, projects and services worldwide that demonstrate superior design, technology and creativity are rewarded with the A’ Design Award; the symbol of excellence in design and innovation
We are pleased to share with you the list of 40 shortlisted works competing for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award announced by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
Paulo Mendes da Rocha receives the 2017 Royal Gold Medal for architecture
The Royal Institute of British Architects award Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazil’s most celebrated living architect, will receive the 2017 Royal Gold Medal.
RIBA Awards 2016. The Royal Institute of British Architects announce winners of the 2016 RIBA National Awards, the most rigorous and prestigious awards for new buildings in the UK, including RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards and RIAS Awards Shortlist.
Richard H. Driehaus Prize – Michael Graves wins for 2011 – presented by University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, promotes architectural excellence