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Regional Lafarge Holcim Awards 2017 Middle East Africa Winners announced

The LafargeHolcim Awards is about more than just beautiful buildings and stands out as the world’s most significant competition in sustainable design. The competition acknowledges projects and not only finished work that go beyond current standards and deliver new, surprising, or truly visionary solutions to the way we build. The fifth cycle of the competition attracted 5,085 entries from autho...

Africa Architecture Awards Announces 20 Shortlists For the Inaugural 2017 Fete

The inaugural Africa Architecture Awards has just shared with us the 20 shortlisted projects out of an unprecedented 307 entered projects situated in 32 African countries.

Africa Architecture Awards 2017

The Africa Architecture Awards seek to celebrate design excellence and promote an increased awareness of the role and importance of architecture across Africa. Based on values rather than categories, the awards seek to honour established architects and encourage emerging and future voices. A ‘Critical Dialogue’ award promotes excellence in architectural writing, film and criticism and encourage...

AfriSam-SAIA Award 2016 announce record number of eligible submissions

AfriSam-SAIA Award 2016 is underway with a record number of submissions. The award culminates in the best sustainable and innovative work in South Africa’s building sector is acknowledged and celebrated. "With a record 47 entries in the four award categories, the overwhelming response signals a resounding endorsement of the increasing importance of sustainable and innovative design practice in ...

2016 13th Cycle Aga Khan Award for Architecture Winners Announced

Zaha Hadid Architects concrete beauty in the Beirut based , BIG’s “baby proofed park” Superkilen in Denmark and a comprehensive brick structure in Bangladesh’s Bait Ur Rouf Mosque were among the 6 winners of the Aga Khan awards announced earlier yesterday. The other winders were Cha'er Hutong Children's Library and Art Centre in Beijing, China by ZAO, standardarchitecture and Zhang Ke, A place ...

The Boogertman + Partners Architectural Design Scholarship Award Africa 2016 is Back

It is about that time of the year when Boogertman + Partners Launch their Partners Architectural Design Scholarship Award Africa. This Award is awarded to one individual over a period of two years, and is valued at R140 000. This award includes an individual mentorship programme for the duration of the recipient’s studies, as well as a two year work contract at Boogertman + Partners after recei...

How Alehandro Aravena Beat Them All in 2016 : The Sample Works Coverage

Alehandro Aravena is a man on a mission, one whose ecclectic ideas and immaculate sense of form, space and social engagement in his buildings and spaces has won him the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize. He is one of the five members of ELEMENTAL (Alejandro Aravena, Gonzalo Arteaga, Juan Cerda, Victor Oddó, Diego Torres), a Do Tank founded in 2001, focusing on projects of public interest and soc...

The Elemental Alehandro Aravena Scoops 2016 Pritzker Prize for Architecture

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, just 48 years of age has been named as the 2016 recipient of the Pritzker, architecture's equivalent to the Nobel prize, ahead of curating this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. Alejandro Aravena is leading a new generation of architects that has a holistic understanding of the built environment and has clearly demonstrated the ability to connect social r...

AfriSam-SAIA Award 4 Sustainable Architecture 2016 is Now in Session

Online entries for the 2015/2016 AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture + Innovation are now open and feature two new award categories. Alongside the two mainstays, Sustainable Architecture and Research in Sustainability, we now have additional categories for Sustainable Products and Technology and Sustainable Social Programmes - making the Award South Africa’s premier platform for rec...

Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2015: Finalists Announced

The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) has shortlisted six innovative proposals for the 2015 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The annual international design challenge, who crowned SCAPE as winner last year, awards $100,000 to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems.These six Finalists were selected among ov...

102 Rivonia Deloitte Head Office / Boogertman + Partners

It’s a project that Boogertman calls pulsating, and rightfully so. Debatably eclectic and somewhat ostentatious in its standing especially in a small city scape that is coming up in the Sandton area, the 102 Rivonia project does well to stand in its bustle opulence and maintain a steady poise. It is a building that taken away from its clichéd context would be too much to the eye, but Sandton is...

WAF 2015 African Projects Shortlist

The World Architecture Festival announced the shortlist for its 2015 awards. The awards program had more than 700 entires from architects and designers representing 47 countries. All the finalists will be invited to present their project live at the festival in November at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore to a "super jury" that will include Sou Fujimoto, Peter Cook, and David Basulto. A winne...