Awards

A wooden water tower, a nature reserve, and a microlibrary made from recycled ice cream tubs are some of the projects on the shortlist for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019. Twenty projects from 16 different countries have been shortlisted for the award, established in 1977 by the Aga Khan Foundation to “encourage building concepts

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Sheila O’Donnell of O’Donnell + Tuomey has been named Woman Architect of the Year 2019, with DnA founder Xu Tiantian winning the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture. The two architects have been recognised during the 2019 Women in Architecture Awards, an annual celebration held by the Architects’ Journal and The Architectural Review. O’Donnell, who is

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The five Mies van der Rohe Award 2019 finalists have been announced, with a public space created inside an abandoned psychiatric centre and a revamped 1960s housing block making the list. Awarded biannually, the Mies van der Rohe Award recognises the best piece of European architecture completed in the past two years. The projects in the

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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the winners of its 2019 Honor Awards, which include David Adjaye’s African American history museum, a preserved university building in Virginia, and BIG’s adaptive reuse of a second-world-war bunker. The 2019 AIA Institute Honor Awards recognises the top architecture projects by architects licensed in the USA. Eligible

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The four finalists of the inaugural Experimental Architecture Award have been announced, recognising projects that combine real locations with virtual-reality fiction and installations that explore the guts of architecture. Holly Hendry, Chris Hildrey, Lawrence Lek and Public Practice are the four experimental architects and artists that have been shortlisted for “pushing the boundaries of how we can explore, experience and create space in

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The four finalists of the inaugural Experimental Architecture Award have been announced, recognising projects that combine real locations with virtual-reality fiction and installations that explore the guts of architecture. Holly Hendry, Chris Hildrey, Lawrence Lek and Public Practice are the four experimental architects and artists that have been shortlisted for “pushing the boundaries of how we can explore, experience and create space in

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Buildings in Albania, Serbia and Slovakia have been shortlisted for the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award for the first time. The presence of buildings in new countries with the potential to win Europe’s most prestigious prize is proof of the “new agenda” of architecture in Europe said the jury. Re-centring discussion “keeps architecture alive” Awarded

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