Awards architecture news

Students from Cardiff and Manchester think green to scoop £3,000 prizes. NBS announces the winners of the second Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards.

Kroon Hall at Yale University was named “Building of the Year” by the UK’s architecture sector, during the prestigious AJ100 Building of the Year Awards.

The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has presented the distinguished Shetland-based architect Richard Gibson with its Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest accolade within Scottish architecture

New Zealand Institute of Architects Gold Medal – information on winner, NZIA Gold Medal won by Marshall Cook – New Zealand architecture awards, NZIA news

This unique Awards programme highlights some of Europe’s best achievements, and showcases remarkable efforts made in safeguarding Europe’s rich architectural, landscape, archaeological and artistic heritage.

Pritzker Prize 2010 Winners – architects, major international architecture award won by SANAA, le by architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the architectural firm – architecture, architect winners information

For more than 15 years, architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have worked together in their collaborative partnership, SANAA, where it is virtually impossible to untangle which individual is responsible for what aspect of a particular project

The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has announced a Scottish shortlist of sixteen buildings for the 2010 RIBA Awards.

Homes for Scotland, which is intent on ensuring that the 35,000 new homes pledged by the Scottish Government will form part of high quality, integrated and sustainable communities, has launched a new award scheme to encourage best practice

BTA’s New Arena stage Project to open in Washington DC in October 2010 and New Monograph on the firm’s work to be published in the same month

Latin Builders Award, Miami, American Architecture Winners – Kobi Karp Architecture and Interior Design (KKAID) – LBA Results, Latin Builders Award Miami, US Buildings, Architects

An initiative of AI and the EU, the competition is open to architects, designers, landscape architects, researchers and students, who are invited to submit work designed or written since 2009

Civic Trust Awards 2010 Winners news – over 50 projects from the UK, Ireland and Spain have been recognised by the prestigious Civic Trust Awards at a ceremony held at St George’s Hall in Liverpool

Civic Trust Awards 2008 – best UK architecture, new buildings, deadline, design practices news, winners – applications now open, merged urban & rural rounds into a single annual award

British student, Min-Kyu Choi from London, has won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010, for his elegant reinterpretation of the humble plug, beating over 90 international nominees in the process