New Zealand Architecture Awards 2018 winners announced

November 30, 2018 Lizzie Crook 0

A seaside retreat, a restaurant slotted between heritage buildings and a pair of replacements for earthquake-ruined buildings in Christchurch are among the best new architecture projects completed this year in New Zealand. The New Zealand Institute of Architects Incorporated (NZIA) has announced 17 winners of its annual awards, four of which have been awarded special prizes. It

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“Breathtaking” off-grid Lochside House wins RIBA House of the Year 2018

November 28, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

A humble cottage on the edge of a lake in the Scottish Highlands has been named as the UK’s best house of 2018. Lochside House, a cottage designed by Haysom Ward Millar Architects, was chosen from a shortlist of seven projects to win the RIBA House of the Year prize. The announcement was made during

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Christ & Gantenbein and Bureau Spectacular named best architecture studios at Dezeen Awards

November 27, 2018 Marcus Fairs 0

Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein has been named Architect of the Year while US office Bureau Spectacular has won Emerging Architect of the Year at Dezeen Awards. Christ & Gantenbein won the Architect of the Year award, which is given for “all-round design excellence over a body of work by an architect or architecture practice that has

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i29 and Spacon & X named interior designers of the year at Dezeen Awards

November 27, 2018 Marcus Fairs 0

Dutch interior architecture studio i29 has won Interior Designer of the Year while Danish office Spacon & X has been named Emerging Interior Designer of the Year at Dezeen Awards. Both prizes were awarded at the Dezeen Awards ceremony in London last night. The Interior Designer of the Year prize is awarded for “all-round design

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The Storefront Theater by Matthew Mazzotta wins Architecture Project of the Year at Dezeen Awards

November 27, 2018 Marcus Fairs 0

Eight winning architecture projects have been announced at the Dezeen Awards ceremony in London, with The Storefront Theater by Matthew Mazzotta taking the overall Architecture Project of the Year prize. Mazzotta’s modest project, which also won the Rebirth Project of the Year category, creates retractable theatre seating in a disused storefront in Lyons, a small

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Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art by Casson Mann named Interior Project of the Year at Dezeen Awards

November 27, 2018 Marcus Fairs 0

The eight winning Dezeen Awards interiors projects have been announced, with Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art by Casson Mann earning the top prize of Interior Project of the Year. The interiors master jury described the interpretation centre for the world-famous painted caves in France as “a clear winner”. “Beyond its technological perfection, this project also manages

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Foster + Partners wins award for best architect’s website

September 28, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Foster + Partners has won top prize at the Archiboo Web Awards 2018, which celebrate architects and architecture companies with outstanding websites. The London-based studio led by architect Norman Foster picked up the award for best overall website, described by judges as “a tour de force in making so much content accessible and easily navigable”.

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Call for entries to the Tile of Spain Awards 2018

September 4, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: architects, designers and students are invited to submit projects to this year’s Tile of Spain Awards, whose previous winners include a terracotta-hued winery. Now in its 17th edition, the Tile of Spain Awards – which are held annually by ASCER, the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer’s Association – celebrate projects from across the globe that

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Paulo Mendes da Rocha and David Adjaye on Mies Crown Hall Americas 2018 shortlist

July 30, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Washington DC’s African American history museum and a leisure centre designed by Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha are among the six finalists for this year’s Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. The museum designed for the US capital by a team including British architect David Adjaye, and Mendes da Rocha’s project in São Paulo, Brazil, are in the

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Alireza Taghaboni wins first Royal Academy Dorfman Award for promising architects

July 5, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

The Royal Academy of Arts has named Iranian architect Alireza Taghaboni as the winner of the inaugural Dorfman Award, set up to celebrate talent that “represents the future of architecture”. Taghaboni was selected by a jury including architects Richard Rogers and Louisa Hutton to win the £10,000 prize. The architect, founder of Tehran-based Next Office,

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