Organisers of the Architecture Plus Awards have announced that the Second Cycle of the popular international event will be held in Dubai, and have thrown open the competition to professionals and organisations, in 12 categories.
Intended to reward architects, landscapers, designers and planners, conservationists, and students, for their thematic contributions to ‘Design for a New World’, [...]
After studying landscape architecture at Cornell University in the 1930s, Ruth Shellhorn traveled home to South Pasadena on a mail boat through the Panama Canal. On her journey, she kept a meticulous diary of the exotic plants she encountered in Central and South America: bougainvillea, palm trees, birds of paradise.
With her rigorous training and new [...]
Arcade Game Superstore (http://www.arcadegamesuperstore.com/) announced today that it has won the Silver W3 Award for Excellence in Website Design and Web Marketing.
The W3 Awards honors outstanding websites, web marketing, and web advertising created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide.
The W3 Awards is sanctioned and judged by The International Academy [...]
Calgary born architect L. Frederick Valentine spent his life defining the cityscape of modern Calgary, and now the city will seek to define him through his body of work currently on display at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts. The downtown gallery is showcasing 40 years of the University of Toronto/Harvard graduate’s designs, ranging [...]
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Murphy/Jahn Architects
DISTINGUISHED BUILDING AWARDS
• • 111 S. Wacker, Chicago — Goettsch Partners
• • Passenger Terminal Complex, Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand — Murphy/Jahn Architects
• • Kresge Foundation headquarters, Troy, Mich. — Valerio Dewalt Train Associates
• • Sterling Ridge (architect’s home), Scottsdale, Ariz. — David C. Hovey
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AWARDS
• • Offices of David Woodhouse [...]
Navy Pier isn’t exactly Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, but for the 800 people scheduled to turn out for tonight’s annual Design Night ceremony honoring the year’s best projects by Chicago architecture firms, it’s even better than the Oscars.
Sponsored by the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the evening will honor Murphy/ Jahn Architects — [...]
In its 50-year history, the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization [JIDPO] has declared more than 32,000 products to be “good design,” bestowing on each what it calls the “G-Mark” of success. As with all design-award systems, the criteria for determining whether something is or isn’t “good design” are a little hazy, though to give credit [...]
Supported by United Kingdom Trade & Investment, the British European Design Group makes its debut at Index Dubai 2006.
Ever since the overwhelmingly enthusiastic reception of ‘Visions of Beauty’ the inaugural British design exhibition in Dubai in April 2005, Dubai has been firmly put on British European Design Group’s agenda of ‘The place to be’. ‘Visions [...]
CHICAGO.- The Chicago Architecture Foundation is hosting a new exhibition: Architecture in Perspective 21 — the 21st International Juried Exhibition of Architectural Illustration. The exhibit is free and on view daily from 9am-5:30pm through November 1st in the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s John Buck Company Lecture Hall Gallery at 224 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
Sponsored by [...]
Award winning designer Erik Ulfers announced today the launch of an innovative creative venture specializing in experiential design, Clickspring Design, Inc.
Approaching every design project with a unique perspective and a common process, and with a commitment to creativity as its defining differentiation, Clickspring Design is bringing together an outstanding team of designers, architects, strategists, project [...]
A serene bathroom that seems carved out of a rock wall, a girl’s bedroom that easily transitions to later stages of life, a teen media room retreat with an oh-so-practical rubber floor.
These are among the winning entries in the sixth annual Orange County Home Design Awards. The competition is sponsored by our sister publication, Orange [...]
In the late 18th century, Georg Jensen (1866-1935) took the world by storm with his namesake silverwares firm. This year, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 14th Annual Student Design Competition is inspired by the late Danish silversmith.
Sponsored by Collab: The Group for Modern and Contemporary Design, a collaboration of design professionals supporting the modern and [...]