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The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies award over 60 new buildings, commercial and institutional developments, landscape architecture, and urban planning projects.

A primary school, a mountain bike visitor centre and a host of private dwellings including an ‘upside down’ house are among the buildings shortlisted for this year’s National Eisteddfod of Wales’ Gold Medal for Architecture, supported by the Design Commission for Wales.

“Poor old Northwich. It has waited more than 40 years for a new municipal building in the town centre and when one finally arrived it turned out to be the very model of an architectural carbuncle. Worse, it’s a turquoise-coloured carbuncle.”

Moshe Safdie, the noted architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, has been announced as the recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the LEAF Awards. The award recognizes Safdie’s enduring contribution to the built environment

AZ AWARDS Winners 2015 – contemporary design magazine. From an impressive 720 submissions arriving from 43 countries, 19 winners have been selected in the fifth annual AZ Awards – an international competition honouring excellence in design and architecture

RIAS Lifetime Achievement Award 2015, Scotland – Professor Robin Webster – Scottish Lifetime Achievement, RIAS Prize Award 2015: Robin Webster news

2015 RIBA National Award winners: Royal Institute of British Architects prize winners – Buildings + Architects – winning buildings: UK architecture projects

The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has announced 12 winners, representing the very best of current Scottish architecture, at its annual Awards Dinner held in Edinburgh last night

RIBA BuildaBetterCampaign, UK General Election 2015 Manifesto responses – RIBA Build a Better Campaign: General Election Manifesto Responses on architecture

The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed the winners of the 2014 RIBA National Awards, the most rigorously-judged awards for architectural excellence. Winning buildings set the standard for good architecture.

The project has a rich and powerful combination of spaces as sequence of event but also as time as a enriching factor. The inclusion of senses apart from only visual puts the project into a great bonanza of experiences. Well presented, comprehensive and clear in its objective

EAA Awards 2015 winners: Edinburgh Architectural Association results: new Southeast Scotland architecture, buildings designs & architects news

Best Architects 16 Award: European architecture award 2015 – 2016 – Germany building designers competition, European architectural prize, Call for Entries news

Bennetts Associates’ new headquarters for Camden Council – Five Pancras Square – has been handed the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award. The 14-storey building was recognised at the British Construction Industry Awards