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La quincuagésima séptima edición de los Premios FAD sigue su curso, con lo que la organización ArquinFAD ya ha dado a conocer los finalistas de las distintas categorías. FINALISTAS ARQUITECTURA - CASA 1014 por Harquitectes (Granollers, Barcelona, Cataluña) - CASA BASTIDA por Bosch.Capdeferro (Begur, Gerona, Cataluña) - CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN ICTA-ICP UAB por Harquitectes (Sardañola del Vallés, Barcelona, Cataluña) - OZADI TAVIRA HOTEL por Campos Costa Arquitectos (Tavira, Portugal) - “CASINHA NO PORTO” por Paulo Moreira (Oporto,... Read More

The 16th COAG Award’s ceremony took place the last Friday. At last, only 9 of the 26 finalists were awarded (including an ex aequo prize). AWARDS RESTORATION - COMPREHENSIVE RESTORATION OF A SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE by Emilio Rodríguez Blanco (Lugo) INTERIOR DESIGN AND INTERIOR RESTORATION - LOCAL’S ADJUSTMENT FOR NEW COFFEE SHOP USE by Villacé y Cominges Arquitectos (Vigo) EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE - ORDER OF FESTIVAL DO NORTE 2014 by Jorge García Anta, Fernando Eiroa Lorenzo, Francisco Xabier Barral Fernández y Rebeca Eiras Bohorque... Read More

The Pritzker Prize –considered as the Architecture’s Nobel and organized every year to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture-, has a winner. JURY - Lord Peter Palumbo - Alejandro Aravena - Stephen Breyer - Yung Ho Chang - Kristin Feireiss - Glenn Murcutt - Richard Rogers - Benedetta Tagliabue - Ratan N. Tata PRIZE The winner of... Read More

Los XVI Premios COAG, con carácter bianual y organizado por el Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia con el objetivo de premiar las mejores obras arquitectónicas realizadas en territorio gallego y/o por arquitectos gallegos, ya tienen finalistas. De las 127 candidaturas presentadas a las 10 distintas categorías, sólo 26 propuestas han sido seleccionadas como finalistas, de entre las cuales saldrán los premiados de esta decimosexta edición. La entrega de premios tendrá lugar este viernes 13 de marzo a las 20.00h en el Auditorio de la Sede de la Fundación de Vigo. JURADO... Read More

The Alvar Aalto Foundation reported the appointment of the winners of the Alvar Aalto Medal 2015. The Award, designed by the same architect in 1967, is awarded every three years to one architect or architectural firm whose professional work highlight architectural creativity. This distinction does not reward a career dedicated to architectural development activity, not a particular work. JURY - Rainer Mahlamäki (Finland) - Freese Simo (Finland) - Wessel de Jonge (Netherlands) - Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen (Denmark) Also on the committee include representatives of... Read More

The IS ARCH Awards, internationally and for students of architecture character, has opened registration for its 5th edition. Note that not only can occur architecture students also any young architect shall be entitled to enroll in the award, provided that finished their studies in the last three years. JURY - Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli OMA - Tomislav Dushanov associated with Herzog & de Meuron - Diego López Arahuetes, project manager at Kengo Kuma & Associates - William E. Butler associated with César Pelli - Emmanuel Blamont of Ateliers Jean Nouvel... Read More

The Premis Catalunya Construcció, organized by the Association of Surveyors, Technical Architects and Building Engineers of Barcelona (CAATEEB) in order to publicize the efforts of professionals and entrepreneurs and reward those who, through their work have contributed to improve the quality, management, sustainability, innovation and safety in construction in Catalonia, has opened registration for its twelfth edition. The deadline for nominations will end on March 27 at 14.00, giving way to the period of jury deliberation. As is tradition in the Awards, these will be awarded in... Read More

The 2nd edition of the European Prize for Intervention in the Architectural Heritage, organized by AADIPA (Association of Architects for the Defence and Intervention in the Architectural Heritage) and COAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia), has already opened its inscriptions, which will remain open until 15 abri l. The Prize, a biennial basis, allows the participation of completed jobs between January 2008 and December 2014, provided that the project is based on a heritage intervention. In order to disclose all the architectural works that contribute to the preservation... Read More

The jury Mies Arch 2015 European Union Prize - consisting of a comprehensive international cast of professional field of architecture l'members Architects' Council of Europe, National Schools of Architecture and self Advisory Committee Award - given to know the 420 proposals that nominated sa prize, organized every two years and with intent to disseminate and recognize the European architectural activity. JURY To choose the selected works and finalists from all the nominations, has developed a panel of reduced format, consisting of: - Cino Zucchi as president of the Jury... Read More

The Architecture and Interior Design Awards, organized by Porcelanosa Group with the aim of spreading the new values ​​of both the architect and the interior, as well as to present all aspects of both fields of design, open enrollment for its eighth edition. For this edition of 2015 is proposed for one of the categories, the design and layout of the interior architecture of a model yacht Rodman Muse 74 '(plans and programs will be provided by the organizer). Following the founding tradition of the prize, participants must complete the project by using materials and products made... Read More

The awards d3 Natural Systems 2014: international architectural design competition, organized with the aim to promote the use and research of natural systems and processes in the fields of architecture, design and engineering, as a solution to architectural problems, urban and / or design. AWARDS - 1st PRIZE: RE-GENERATOR by Gabriel Muñoz Moreno (Spain) - 2nd PRIZE: FIELD OFFICE by Robert Alexander (USA) - 3rd PRIZE: ISLAND RETREAT by Chihoon Seong (South Korea) - MENTION VISIONARIA INFRASTRUCTURE: pyrosome TUNNEL by Shima Sahebnassagh, Ali Nasiri and... Read More

The FAD Awards, organized by Arquinfad with the aim of publicizing the best architectural works of the Iberian peninsula, open enrollment for its 57th edition. Following the steps initiated in the previous edition, will also announce the 10th edition of the FAD Awards for Thought and Criticism, focusing on the theoretical framework of the architectural world; and 2nd of International FAD Awards, providing worldwide coverage of the Awards. PRIZES AND CATEGORIES FAD AWARDS - Architecture - Interior - City and Landscape - Ephemeral spaces CRITICAL THINKING... Read More

WAN Awards Awards, organized by World Architecture News, have announced the winner in the category Transport, which aims to reward those architectural works related to any transport stations, unique way ... JURY - Jack Robbins of FXFOWLE architects - Anthony Leslie HOK - Jennifer Marmon archtiecture + Platform for Research - John Martin of AECOM PRIZE AND FINALISTS - PRIZE: THE BICYCLE SNAKE by Dissing + Weitling (Copenhagen, Denmark) - FINALIST: SEASON DO by ABAKO Arkitektkontor AB + JSA Architecture Ltd (Gothenburg, Sweden)... Read More

The Jury Prize ENOR Lifts VI, chaired by Eduardo Souto de Moura, awarded to the winners of the sixth edition of the awards ceremony held last night at Headquarters Group Lifts ENOR in Vigo. As is customary in the Award, it was announced the book catalog in its 512 pages collecting all the winning works, finalists or special architectural interest selected format. AWARDS GRAND PRIZE ENOR - PRIZE: PERIMETER OF BUILDING AND FITNESS ENVIRONMENT OF TEMPLE OF DIANA by José María Sánchez García (Merida, Badajoz, Spain) The jury praised "the work resolves the... Read More

The Jury of the IX Premis AJAC organized by the Agrupació of Young Architects of Catalonia, has announced the winners of this ninth edition at a ceremony held on Friday October 24th. AWARDS AREA A: PROJECTS A1. ARCHITECTURE - PRIZE: LIGHT HOUSE by Architecture-G - PRIZE: AIXA by Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol - PRIZE: GLOKAL by Andres Ivan Mata A2. PLANNING / LANDSCAPE - PRIZE: MITGERES by Pol Femenias - PRIZE: 7 DIES 7 NITS by Maria Botía, Marc Agustí and David Capellas A3. INTERIOR DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE MAYFLY / FURNITURE - PRIZE:... Read More