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The AVS 2013 Awards, organized by the Spanish Association of Promoters Public Housing and Land, which aims to publicize and reward best practices in social housing in Spain, and have winners. These are intended to consolidate a space for knowledge sharing and dissemination of architectural proposals, territorial and services; rewarding those works that enable and / or facilitate access to housing by the public. JURY - D. FRANCISCO JAVIER MARTIN RAMIRO, Deputy Director General of Architecture and Building. Ministry of Development - D. JULIO WEAVER BIELSA, Professor of... Read More

Prizes A + Awards 2014, intended to publicize the best architectural projects of any field of architecture, and are winners. JURY More than 200 architects and those involved in the field of architecture, have formed the Jury. Among the hundred names can be found: Iwan Baan (Iwan Baan Photography), Denise Scott Brown (Venturi Scott Brown), Steven Holl (Steven Holl Architects), Bjarke Ingels (BIG), Lisa Iwamoto (IwamotoScottArchitecture), Dominique Perrault (Dominique Perrault Architecture ), Fernando Romero (FREE) and Jacob van Rijs (MVRDV). A + Award Winner Awards 2014... Read More

The 2013 Spanish Architecture Prize, designed to recognize the quality of those new works or rehabilitation of buildings made in Spain by Spanish or foreign architects who have finished in the 2011-2012 biennium, has already winners. For this edition, the jury made ​​up: D. Jordi Ludevid i Anglada (Chairman of CSCAE), D. Rafael Catala Polo (Secretary of State for Infrastructure Transport and Housing, Ministry of Development), D. Alfonso Muñoz Cosm (eArquitecto and Deputy Director General of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain's Ministry of Culture), Ms. Fuensanta Nieto de la... Read More

Has closed the registration deadline for the fourth edition of the Holcim Awards, organized by Holcim Foundation and seek to reward those architectural projects, civil engineering, urban design, materials, construction products and technology that contribute to the five points for the sustainable construction. Participants registered for the prize must edit and complete your registration before March 31. CATEGORIES - HOLCIM AWARDS (Principal): For projects started after July 1, 2013 and have reached an advanced stage of design with a high probability of execution, and the... Read More

Today March 24 has unveiled the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, one of the most important in the world of architecture awards. This award aims to honor annually to an architect / a (group of architects / as) whose work demonstrates a combination of qualities such as talent, vision and commitment; it has produced important and significant to humanity and architectural contributions. WINNER - Shigeru Ban (Tokyo, Japan 1957.) Curtain Wall House, Tokyo, Japan, 1995 Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, 2010 The jury (consisting of: The Lord Palumbo,... Read More

EVolo Magazine Magazine convened the 9th edition of the awards EVOLO sckyscraper COMPETITION, designed to recognize those outstanding ideas to life vertically through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations. Inside the Jury were: Wiel Arets (Wiel Arets Architects and dean at the Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture), John Beckmann (Axis Mundi), Michael Hensel (AKNW + NAL and professor at the Oslo School of Architecture), Lisa Iwamoto (IwamotoScoot Architecture and professor at the University of California Berkeley),... Read More

ADI-FAD (Association of Design Industrial) has launched the 37th edition of the Delta Tubes, intended to promote public recognition of products that stand out for their innovative character, for their conceptual demonstrating its inception, the social response that can have and their environmental impact, as well as its formal elaboration and manufacturing quality. These awards aim to highlight the value of design and its contribution to the economy and society to emphasize the important social role of design. Participation is open to any product designed and produced by designers... Read More

The IX Bienal Iberoamericana of Architecture and Urbanism, which aims to show the best projects in architecture and urban design capable of incorporating contexts, social demands, technological and climate on the scale of architecture, their inscriptions remain open until Friday March 21. This edition of the BIAU wants to introduce initiatives and territorial and urban strategies to help build new geographies that incorporate the requirements of infrastructure, tackle the economic tensions and appreciate the unique ecologies in Latin America and be able to add urban values,... Read More

The Elevator Enor Group has announced the sixth edition of the Prize of Architecture Elevators Enor, designed by architecture, for architects and architects, and from the firm belief that good architecture enriches our territories, our cities and, ultimately, our society. For this edition have introduced a number of changes in the structure of the Prize: the variation in periodicity of the Prize, to be held every three years instead of two, and the elimination of regional awards (Galicia, Portugal, Madrid and Castilla -Leon), consolidating the peninsular nature of the Prize.... Read More

The City to City Barcelona FAD Award, organized and awarded by the FAD (Foment de les Arts i of Design) since 2008, aims to recognize urban transformation processes that have lived a certain city. It is understood as a process of urban transformation the sum of actions of various natures: social, architectural, educational, urban, cultural, or global on the entire city. The scope of the prize is globally since the solutions that arise in response to conflicts and problems faced by cities around the world, do not depend on the geographic location and development of its grain. Nor... Read More

It has opened the call for the Landscape Award Rosa Barba, included in the framework of the 8th International Biennial of Landscape to be held in Barcelona from 25 to 27 September 2014 under the slogan "A Landscape for you." The novelty of this 8th edition is the internationalization of the Biennial and the Prize, a fact which entails the opening of a new call for project planning landscape and created worldwide between 2009 and 2014. The international jury, chaired by Michel van Gessel, landscape architect and professor at Berkeley, will award a single prize of € 15,000, not be... Read More

The IS ARCH, international awards aimed at students of Architecture Awards have announced the jury and the awards this year. The first registration period ends this Sunday 23, opening the second the following Monday February 24th. As before, the winners will compete for an internship in studies of Herzog & De Meuron and Zaha Hadid. JURY - PATRICK SCHUMACHER. Partner of Zaha Hadid Architects - Enric Ruiz Geli. Founder of office CLOUD 9 - ODILE DECQ. Founder of office STUDIO ODILE DECQ - TOMISLAV DUSHANOV. Member of Herzog & de Meuron - Benedetta... Read More

The eleventh edition of Premis Catalunya Construcció, convened by the Col • legi d'Aparelladors, i Enginyers d'Arquitectes Tècnics Edificació of Barcelona (CAATEEB), aims to publicize the efforts of professionals and entrepreneurs and reward people that their work has helped to improve the quality, management, sustainability, innovation and safety in construction in Catalonia. The deadline for registration is April 4, 2014 at 14 h. The works competing for the prize must have been built in Catalonia, except in category V, which may have been built anywhere in the world. This... Read More

The Steelcase company specializing in equipment and workspace optimization, announces its IV Competition for Students of Architecture with the theme "Wellness in the workplace". Candidates must create a workspace that promotes the physical, emotional and cognitive well-being of people. You can participate in the contest any university in any School of Architecture of Spain and Portugal enrolled in any course of this school year 2013-2014. The design of the proposal must be original and unpublished and will be evaluated by an independent jury of notable architects. Entries received... Read More

Is now open enrollment period of the third edition of the AVS 2013 Awards, presented by the Spanish Association of Promoters Public Housing and Land, which aims to publicize and reward best practices in social housing throughout Spain. The deadline for registration is December 20, 2013. The works competing for the prize must have been built between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2012. The aim of the awards is to consolidate a space for exchange of knowledge and dissemination of architectural proposals, territorial and services, and therefore reward those works that allow Spanish... Read More