Kashef Chowdhury - URBANA   Bangladesh   The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh designed by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA will be awarded the RIBA International Prize 2021, the global accolade for design excellence and social impact. A project of the NGO Friendship, this hospital complex is locate

Sebastián Arquitectos   Spain   Winner of the 2021 Hispania Nostra Award in the Intervention on Territory or Landscape section, the operations carried out in the core of the locality of Ruesta have made it possible to retrace a stretch of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route tha

gmp Architekten   Germany   The German firm gmp (Architekten Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner) finished refurbishing and enlarging te Kulturpalast of Dresde in 2017. A result of a 2009 competition, the intervention respects the style of the original building, raised in 1969, while

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded its 2026 Gold Medal to Shigeru Ban, who becomes the fourth Japanese architect to receive this award, after Kenzo Tange, Fumihiko Maki, and Tadao Ando. The Gold Medal is the highest honour awarded

Iñaki Bergera   Architectural photography, especially of the kind that contextualizes architecture in the complexity and heterodoxy of its urban and territorial dimensions, wanted its own internal competition and external recognition. This is the idea that the Portu

Year 765. Since the time of the Prophet, there have been numerous disputes over his succession, eventually giving rise to the different branches of Islam. When the seventh Shiite Imam died, some of his followers, a minority, recognized his eldest son

The six finalists for the latest Stirling Prize, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), are located in England, four of them in London. These include the restoration of Elizabeth Tower by Purcell and the London College of Fashio

Seven works have been announced the winner of the2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and will share a total money prize of a million US dollars. Founded in 1977, this prestigious accolade given every three years by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (A

El País   In the opinion of Patricia Urquiola – or of the Ettore Sottsass she quoted at her induction into Spain’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts last year – design begins where rational processes end and magic begins. Working without ceasing to dream has led the

The Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named a new recipient of the Praemium Imperiale, a prestigious annual accolade given by the Japan Art Association in five artistic disciplines, Architecture included. It comes with a prize of 1

The organism formed by Spain’s regional associations of architects gave recognition to the best buildings completed in the country, in a celebration of the discipline that this year made sure to include the role of urbanism, with the already announce

The Vall d’Hebron Research Center by BAAS Arquitectura and Espinet / Ubach Arquitectes has won the 67th FAD Award for Architecture. The projects selected in the other categories are: La Nave in the Vía Trajano neighborhood of Barcelona, by Atienza Ma

The winners of the seventh European AHI Awards – a biennial competition organized by the Barcelona platform AHI (Architectural Heritage Intervention) in collaboration with the Catalonia Institute of Architects – have been announced. The works that to

Nineteen projects have been named finalists for the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The winners will share an endowment of a million dollars, one of the largest in the architecture sector. Selected from a pool of 369 works nominated, completed

After two years in operation, the Casa de la Arquitectura sets itself as a dissemination platform through prizes for helping to make society more equitable and sustainable, with sections focused on specific values. In the maiden edition, the accolade

Prior to now, in the list of recipients of the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, there was only one photographer, Sebastião Salgado, who earned it in a by now remote 1998 (Annie Leibovitz and James Nachtwey were awarded in the Communication an

It is not rare for the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes to bestow its Gold Medal on two bodies of work. Nevertheless, whereas on other occasions the jury sought to award dissimilar trajectories in an endeavor to reflect the diversity of

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   With last Saturday’s kick-off, the Venice Architecture Biennale unveiled the awardees of its nineteenth cycle, a selection of the best presented works, duly certified by a jury composed of the critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, the MoMA director of research

With the passion for design that only a Milanese can have, Italo Rota lived his life entirely devoted to creating whatever he was asked to, whether furniture pieces, books, pavilions, or museums. And with equal relish he put together an impressive Wu

The Venice Architecture Biennale’s Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement is going to the Italian architect and designer Italo Rota (1953-2024) – in memorian in this case – and the American philosopher Donna Haraway. The awarding ceremony and

Four winners of the MATCOAM Awards were announced in the course of a gala event that closed the second Construction Week organized by the Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM), from its building department, MATCOAM. The prize in the Refurbishment cat

Little-known today, Arnold William Brunner was a New York architect who was very active professionally, and especially institutionally, between the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties. To honor him, in 1955 the American Academy of Arts and Letters cr

Compared with musicians or painters, who can show their talent from a tender age, architects are altricial creatures that need time to mature before producing their first fruits. But, Manuel Bouzas is impressively precocious: barely in this thirties,

Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins Pritzker 2025 Born in 1956, Liu Jiakun lives and works in his native city, Chengdu, capital of the province of Sichuan in southwest China, where he opened his practice in 1999. He grew up in a family of physicians, b

The Japanese studio SANAA, led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, has been awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The annual prize is recognition for people who have significantly influenced and transforme

The Ecuadoran practice Al Borde, founded in Quito by David Barragán, Esteban Benavides, María Luisa Borja, and Pascual Gangotena, has won the 2024 BancaStato Swiss Architectural Award 2024. Promoted by Fondazione Teatro dell’architettura in collabora

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