Design Winner

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter to extend Norway's Polar Exploration Museum
Competition was won with proposal “Framtid”,propelling the museum towards the future with a simple idea that architecture can exemplify how we care for our environment

WIP Collaborative’s Restorative Ground proposal wins competition
WIP Collaborative’s design has won the Care for Hudson Square competition, a recovery initiative in partnership with Hudson Square Properties and Hudson Square Business Improvement District to reactivate the public realm with a placemaking installation

Clark County Government Center wins AIA Western Mountain Region’s 25 Year Award
The American Institute of Architects Western Mountain Region chapter has honoured the Clark County Government Center, designed by Fentress Architects, with its 2020 25 Year Award

Studiomauer and Cityförster win first prize in Hanover’s ecovillage competition
The design not only convinced the expert jury but also 70% of the future residents, the project, which is based on the basic cooperative values of equality, community, sustainability, and diversity

C P Kukreja Architects win the HUDCO Design Awards
The project HRRL Township, Barmer, won in the category New and Innovative Town Design Solutions/Eco Cities

American Surfacedesign honoured for Auckland’s Airport design
San Francisco based landscape architecture and urban planning firm Surfacedesign win 2020 American Architecture Award

Two awards for Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park
Designed by SWA/Balsley and Weiss/Manfredi, the development was awarded a ULI New York Award in the Excellence in Civic Development category and a Special Recognition Award for Excellence in Design

Competition winner Foster + Partners unveil design for Guangming Hub
The new Transport Oriented Development is situated on the high-speed rail link that connects Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou

London South Bank University students win RIBA Master of Architecture awards
Postgraduate students Michael Crook and Sarah Nottet-Madsen, both from School of Architecture and Built Environment, win RIBA Master of Architecture awards in two categories

ACQ5 Global Awards announce Fernanda Marques as winner
Fernanda Marques, of Arquitetos Associados Architecture, has also won Design & Build Awards for Best Architectural Firm of 2021 in Brazil, as well as the International Architecture Awards and Americas Property Awards

MVRDV joint first place in German competition for ‘castle in the sky’ masterplan
The masterplan of the Ettlinger Tor area in Karlsruhe, Germany, developed through intensive public participation from local residents and other stakeholders

January most read: competitions, scholarships and G8A’s Jungle Station
Five of the most read stories including C40 Cities student competition, Vectorworks design scholarship, Masters in Urban Design, Home of 2030 competition and G8A’s Jungle Station

Openstudio Architect and Igloo Regeneration announced as joint winners in the Home of 2030 competition
Connector Housing, by Openstudio with Hoare Lea, LDA Design, Gardiner & Theobald and EngineersHRW, has been announced as joint winners with Igloo Regeneration’s +Home in the Home of 2030 open Design Competition

Standout competition winners of 2020
A look back at some outstanding achievements from David Chipperfield Architects, MVRDV, Snøhetta and more

Assael Architecture wins Meridian Water Placemaking with Purpose Competition
Assael Architecture will create a retirement community and care hub for the second phase of Enfield’s major master plan of 10,000 new homes

Planning permission to repurpose Belfast’s warehouse into an aparthotel awarded
Todd Architects has won planning permission for Bedford Yard, an aparthotel and office development in the heart of Belfast City centre, opposite the BBC's HQ on Ormeau Avenue

Africa’s medical prototype receives AIA 2020 Healthcare Design Award
Mount Sinai Ambulatory Surgical Facility, by Kliment Halsband Architects, is a prototype for an independent, self-sustaining ambulatory surgical facility providing life saving treatments in underserved parts of the world

Oasys+System: Mask Architects’s winning competition project
Mask Architects has been selected as one of 10 winners of the Cool Abu Dhabi competition for their design proposal ‘the artificial breathing palm modular structure system’

White Arkitekter wins design competition for Norway’s new waterfront park
White Arkitekter’s design, True Blue, has won the design competition for a new beach park and sea bath in Bergen, Norway

Snøhetta wins Cooper Hewitt National Design Award
Snøhetta has been honoured as the recipient of the 2020 National Design Award for Architecture, bestowed by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Buro Happold’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures honoured twice
America’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, its 150 ft diameter orb shaped theatre and innovative seismic base isolation system, wins Project of the Year by the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California and an Award of Excellence

EcoResponsive Environments win competition for the ‘Vision of Future Living’
The Royal Institute of British Architects announce EcoResponsive Environments as the winner for their design at SOG’s The Heath Business and Technical Park in Runcorn

O’DonnellBrown win competition with post-pandemic housing for the young
O’DonnellBrown have won a competition by HUB and Euan Blair’s apprenticeships company WhiteHat to pitch ideas for post-pandemic housing that addresses the needs of young people

RMJM RED win competition for the Ningbo Yongjiang Innovation Centre
The studio have won a competition for a mixed use development design in China, responding to the unique setting that is at a threshold between the urban and the natural

Perkins and Will’s 2020 Phil Freelon Design Competition winners announced
The winning projects imagine unique coliving strategies to combat housing crises across the US, through case studies in NY, LA and Denver

Abu Dhabi Flamingo Visitor Center wins first place in Bee Breeders competition
Petr Janda / brainwork designed the United Arab Emirates building to blend into the landscape, working with the natural connection between the organic and inorganic components

10 Design win Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport redevelopment competition
Winning scheme unveiled for contemporary mixed use destination as part of the wider redevelopment of an old military airport in Nanjing, China

Aedas praised for Xi’an city's urban oasis
Xi’an Nan-Fei-Hong Phase 2 Development in China, by Aedas, has been commended for the RLI Future Project at Global RLI Awards 2020

Brooklyn Bridge Forest design wins international competition
Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge International Design Competition winner announced

Airport of the Future 2020 winners announced
Fentress Architects selected the winners from a shortlist of 22 entries for the Fentress Global Challenge

Bridge Heidelberg wins first prize
Schlaich Bergermann Partner, LAVA, and Latz + Partner, have won first prize for their pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Neckar River, Germany

CapitaLand’s top win with Green Mark Platinum Champion recognition
CapitaLand is the top winner at the Building Construction Authority of Singapore Green Mark Awards in 2020

Buro Happold win AIA Team Award for Living Building in Santa Monica
Santa Monica City Hall East stands as one of the greenest structures globally, winning the 2020 Building Team of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects

Brink Tower: Mecanoo wins with sustainable and vertical neighbourhood in Amsterdam
The tower with 28 floors, approximately 90 m high, will accommodate approximately 400 new residents after completion

Housing for a Better World: Jas Bhalla Architects announced as design competition winner
Brick By Brick, in partnership with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, has announced the winner of its ‘Housing for a Better World’ design competition

Second North American project wins British Civic Trust Award
Diamond Schmitt Architects and KWC Architects have been honoured by the Civic Trust Award for the Senate of Canada Building in Manchester, UK

Three Stories North: an unorthodox family home’s layered history
Designed by project Splinter Society, the Australian project’s primary objective is to realise its existing potential rather than replace it with something entirely new

Competition shortlist for ancient mosaics protective shelters
The Department of Antiquities in Cyprus (DoA) and the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) has announced the shortlist for a competition to design protective shelters at the World Heritage site of Nea Pafos (alternately known as Nea Paphos) in Cyprus

Interval Architect win second place with Sky Villa
The winning team, led by Oscar KO and GU Yunduan, came second in the International Competition for Marissa Duplex Apartments, held by Alsalimi Co. Ltd., Saudi Arabia

Winner Chybik + Kristof to construct Czech Republic’s largest sports and leisure complex
The result of a public competition, Chybik + Kristof Architects & Urban Designers were selected to complete the construction of the Jihlava Multipurpose Arena

ZoHo’s creative district design sets new standard for urban life and work
The winning project of the ZoHo tender in Rotterdam's creative district is bound to set new standards for urban living and working, designed to be a strong socially inclusive neighbourhood

B+H win first place for new Shenzhen Children's Hospital and Science & Education Building design
B+H Architects, in joint venture with East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI), reveal design that awarded them first place

Ravine House receives Design Excellence Award
The Illinois project, by Wheeler Kearns Architects, has received an award in the Distinguished Building category from AIA Chicago

Hybrid City competition results showcase improved sustainability and efficiency solutions
Metsä Wood’s Hybrid City Challenge called for ways to make construction more sustainable, while maintaining efficiency using current building methods

Winner of National Railway Museum Central Hall Design Competition Revealed
Feilden Fowles wins National railway Museum Central Hall Design Competition

Korean National Football Centre’s winning master plan designed by UNStudio
UNStudio have teamed up with Amsterdam's Johan Cruijff ArenA for their winning masterplan for South Korea’s National Football Centre in Seoul

anySCALE and Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Limited win ABC Award 2020
The Automotive Brand Contest awarded Mercedes-Benz’s new HQ in Hong Kong for creatively fusing luxury and creativity in an open loft-style with stunning bay views

Winners Flores & Prats + Ouest Architecture to renovate the Ancien Théâtre des Variétés in Brussels
The competition winners will convert the live music venue in Belgium into an International Laboratory for Artistic Creation conceived as an open and inclusive public space

MASS lab shortlisted for Viinikanlahti Urban Ideas Competition
The proposal “Natural Alliance - From grey to green” releases the potential of Viinikanlahti’s environment enhancing the social and economic network while supporting Finland’s local assets; nature, location and history

Porsche HQ wins duo architect team the ABC awards
anySCALE and Porsche China (Motors) are the ABC award winners for their work on Porsche’s new China headquarters in Shanghai, China

Rotterdam based design team win ZOHO tender
Design team involving Orange Architects, ECHO urban design, Moederscheim Moonen, More Architecture and Studio Nauta won the tender in Netherlands

Inviting vertical environment is high rise win for Narra Residences by 10 DESIGN
The 278 unit residential complex will be amongst the most prestigious addresses within the new Empire City in Thu Thiem New Urban Area (District 2) of HCMC

Design for the new Senezh Management Lab Campus Competition in Russia presented by CHYBIK + KRISTOF
The progressive design for the 82-hectare Senezh university campus places the interconnectedness of social and natural environments as a core element of the educational process

AIA California firm award for David Baker Architects
The American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIA CA), gives an award to a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for more than a decade

Piuarch wins Milan’s Human Technopole International Competition for a new building and campus
Piuarch wins for the design of Human Technopole's new building and campus in the former expo area

Competition win for MVRDV with a multi-level urban living room in China
MVRDV’s Shenzhen Terraces in Universiade New Town, Longgang District, Shenzhen was selected from 27 entries by international design firms

‘Metals in Construction’ Design Challenge 2020 win for Wilkinson Eyre, Eckersley O’Callaghan and Gartner
Project wins ideas competition for the sustainable retrofit and upgrade of a 1960s office block at 63 Madison Avenue, New York

New Affiliates wins The Architectural League of New York's 2020 League Prize Award
A jury of architects and design professionals selected the winners in a portfolio competition around the theme “value,” defined as a slippery construct in architecture, leading to thoughts of numbers, colors, measurement, worth, and ethics

Parking House and Konditaget Lüders by JAJA Architects wins prestigious Danish Design Award 2020 ‘Liveable Cities’
The roof of a car park has been turned into a living urban space with sports and play equipment in the neighbourhood of Nordhavn, Copenhagen

Mecanoo wins international competition for the Senezh Management LAB development in Russia
The winning masterplan in Solnechnogorsk is represented by three pronounced functional areas: Learning zone, Park zone and Waterfront

Wolf Reicht Architects wins The Best Luxury Architect and Interior Design Studio in Austria
Recent luxury global research conducted by Luxury Lifestyle Awards puts Wolf Reicht Architects top of the tree in the category of The Best Luxury Architect and Interior Design Studio in Austria

Boston’s Leers Weinzapfel Associates wins 2020 AIA COTE Top Ten Award
First cross-laminated timber (CLT) academic structure comes to University of Massachusetts with John W. Olver Design Building

Winner announced as Make Architects fund research to tackle loneliness
Make Architects challenged Sydney University students to produce design proposals to help combat loneliness and improve social connections in cities

Carbone Interior Design win Luxury Lifestyle award for architecture and interior design
Carbone's interior design specialists have given shape to elegant rooms in 5-star hotels, celebrities’ homes and villas worldwide

Brookes Jetty designs come in Waves
The proposal aims to unite recreational, cultural, economic and ecological functions to reinstate Brookes Jetty as a significant civic space and inject the site with new urban vitality

Casper Mork-Ulnes announced as one of the eight winners of Emerging Voices 2020
The Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices competition for 2020 announces Casper Mork-Ulnes as one of the eight winners

Three wins for Lemaymichaud at the 13th edition of the Grands Prix du Design gala
Lemaymichaud confirm their place in leading the Quebec design and architecture industry

France’s former convent turned hospital is set to become a multi-purpose project
Sergison Bates architects have won an international competition to transform part of a site in Paris’ 14th arrondissement into a new mixed-use development

Shenzhen residence combines individual exclusivity and community
Foster + Partners win design competition for Qianhai Talents’ Apartments, a unique residential project in China

David Chipperfield Architects win DAM PREIS 2020 for James-Simon-Galerie
The DAM PREIS 2020 goes to David Chipperfield Architects for their new building on the Museum Island in Berlin, Germany

Fernanda Marques of Arquitetos Associados wins two awards in less that two years
Fernanda Marques wins the title of Best Luxury Residential Interiors Architecture Firm in the context Latin American Business Awards 2019 and the title of Most Influential Woman in Architecture & Product Design 2020

Snøhetta wins design competition for Xingtai Grand Theatre
Situated in Xingtai, one of China’s oldest cities, the theatre will become a new landmark for the rapidly modernising city

Harvard GSD announces winners of 2020 Richard Rogers Fellowship
Six winners for Wimbledon House’s residency program for architectural and urban research

Winner confirmed for new Ambassador’s Residence for the British Embassy in Beijing
Eric Parry Architects win Beijing competition

Winners of the Powerhouse Parramatta International Design Competition announced
The creation of the Powerhouse Parramatta, designed by architects Moreau Kusunoki and Genton, will mark the largest investment in arts and culture in New South Wales since Sydney Opera House