Architecture awards prizes

Mies van der Rohe Awards – winner, architects, buildings, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – 40 shortlisted works, designs

Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award – awarded to Zaha Hadid Architect – Veuve Clicquot Award, created in 1972, Business Woman Prize

Benoy, the international firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, is today celebrating being named as winners of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise – the UK’s highest accolade for business success

The Rotterdam LOLA landscape architects is awarded with the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for young architects 2013. The prize goes to LOLA landscape architects because with their designs they shape in their own way a sublime experience in the city and landscape

The Design Museum announces the seven category winners for the annual Designs of the Year Awards. The awards celebrate the best of international design from the last 12 months. The overall winner for the Design of The Year 2013 will be announced on Wednesday 16 April at an awards evening held at The Angler, South Place Hotel, London.

Toyo Ito, a 71 year old architect whose architectural practice is based in Tokyo, Japan, will be the recipient of the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced today by Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation which sponsors the prize

The judging panel for this year includes RIAS President Elect Ian Connelly FRIAS, Dr Joyce Deans CBE PPRIAS, Lori McElroy MBE, Kathy Li of the Mackintosh School of Architecture and Roger Stephenson OBE, representing the Royal Institute of British Architects

Veronika Valk is a highly versatile architect whose range includes both the traditional work of an architect and the broader awareness-building of architecture – exhibitions, holding lectures, seminars and workshops, and writing articles.

The first ever Surface Design Award winners were presented with their striking recycled glass trophies at a vibrant ceremony today, the last day of Surface Design Show

Entries are now invited for the 2013 European Copper in Architecture Awards 16 – a showcase for architects designing with copper and its alloys to promote their work to an international audience

Among the distinguished architects to have received the award are the Portuguese architect, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Peter Zumthor from Switzerland and the Norwegian Sverre Fehn, all laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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Coffey Architects has scooped the coveted Young Architect of the Year Award after impressing a panel of judges including artist Pablo Bronstein, Kathryn Firth of the London Legacy Company and award-winning architects Graham Stirk and Clare Wright

The RIBA is pleased to announce that Rem Koolhaas is to receive the 2012 Jencks Award. The Jencks Award is given annually to an individual (or practice) that has recently made a major contribution internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture.