Nathalie Weadick, RIBA Honorary Fellowship News

Nathalie Weadick IAF

Nathalie Weadick, architectural curator & director of the Irish Architecture Foundation to be conferred with an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in recognition of “the enormous contribution (she has) made to architecture.”

RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2016

UK’s First Amphibious House

Annual awards for the best research in the fields of architecture and the built environment. 75 submissions from 14 countries, including 22 from architecture practices. The 4 themes: Cities and Community ; Design and Technical ; History and Theory ; Learning from Projects

Jencks Award Winner: Níall McLaughlin

Bishop Edward King Chapel building interior

The Royal Institute of British Architects announce Níall McLaughlin as winner of the 2016 RIBA Charles Jencks Award. It is given to an individual or practice that has made a major contribution internationally to practice and theory of architecture.

Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate 2016

Cais das Artes Project, Brazil by Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha wins the Praemium Imperiale. The annual awards, in the categories of Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Music and Theatre/Film, cover fields of achievement not represented by the Nobel Prizes

Archifest 2016 Pavilion, Raffles Place Park

Archifest 2016

Singapore Institute of Architects news – Archifest Pavilion with the theme ‘Exhale’ opens 23 Sep. The building design is by a team from DP Architects. It is composed entirely of construction site materials.

Drawing of the Year 2016: Architectural Contest

Drawing of the Year entry by Mark Thomas Smith

Aarhus School of Architecture, schmidt hammer lassen architects, VOLA, and Danish Arts Foundation proudly announce the fourth joint venture competition Drawing of the Year 2016. This year’s theme is Habitation.

LEAF 2016, London

LEAF Awards 2016

LEAF 2016 is almost here with the final plans being put in place and finishing touches perfected, now is the time to make sure you’ve secured your place.

2016 Wood Design & Building Awards

Public Library of Constitución

The Wood Design & Building Awards is now open for entries. It is the only North American program to recognize excellence in wood architecture. Winners will be selected by an esteemed architectural jury.

International Architecture Awards 2016

Train Control Centre, Utrecht by de Jong Gortemaker Algra architects and engineers

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have awarded over 130 new buildings, commercial and institutional developments, landscape architecture, and urban planning projects from 43 nations for The International Architecture Awards for 2016.

Top 20 A’ Design Award Winners

One Main Office Boston

International A’ Design Award & Competition opens for best designs of 2016 – 2017 in all design disciplines for the World’s leading international annual juried competition for design.

Tile of Spain Awards 2016

Tile of Spain Awards 2016

The fifteenth edition of the Tile of Spain Awards is now open for entries, welcoming project submissions from international architects, interior designers and architecture students.

Eye Line 2016 Competition: Drawing Contest

Eye Line Competition 2016 Winner

Eye Line Competition 2016 Winners – ‘Tokyo Back-Up City’ by Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson, You+Pea, London. Annual celebration of the best drawings by architects and students from around the world.

Structural Awards 2016

The Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion 2015

The Structural Awards 2016 shortlist news: celebrating amazing engineering

These awards, which recognise outstanding achievement by structural engineers from all over the world, are organised each year by The Institution of Structural Engineers.

Keeping It Modern 2016 Architectural Grants

Casa de Vidro São Paulo

Getty Foundation Keeping It Modern 2016 Architectural Conservation Grants – the nine buildings in more detail…including Casa de Vidro (pictured) by Lina Bo Bardi, a leading practitioner of the modern movement, designing many of the country’s most iconic buildings.