In the year of World Design Capital Seoul in 2010, Seoul was also designated as a City of Design by the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, a program initiated to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This designation marked the beginning of Seoul’s journey towards a sustainable future through collaborative design efforts among cities.
UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award @UN-Habitat 2024
UN-Habitat has launched a call for nominations for the 2024 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award. Initiated in 1989, the award recognizes individuals and institutions that have made outstanding contributions in the field of urban development, including improvement of the quality of urban life and provision of adequate, affordable, and accessible housing for all.
Students worldwide are invited to submit entries for Designaddvance 2024 featuring High-Rise Residential Buildings designed to be built using Industrialised Construction - particularly prefabricated components.
Welcome to Designaddvance 2024, with the theme Architecture of Assembly: Industrialised Construction for High-Rise Buildings.
The Italian cultural association dotART, based in Trieste is launching the 15th edition of URBAN Photo Awards. The contest is open to everybody worldwide and it is organized into 4 sections: Single Photos (divided in 4 themes: Streets, People, Spaces and Creative), Projects & Portfolios, URBAN Book & Zine Award and URBAN Photo Arena.
Alnis Stackle, winner of Archifoto 22 (Theme : Architecture and resources), Neither Horse nor Tiger, 2013-2017
La Chambre - exhibition and education space for photography in Strasbourg, France - has launched de 7th edition of Archifoto - european awards of architecture photography. The applications are open, each candidate is required to send 5 pictures and a small presentation text, answering the theme Architecture under construction.
Reimagine urban spaces through the lens of life - including human, plant and animal
Design the transformation of urban spaces into thriving ecosystems that respect and reflect the complex interdependencies of life through radical approaches towards the rethinking and designing of urban spaces.
Buildner has announced the results of its Museum of Emotions Competition, an annual international design competition that tasks participants with exploring the extent to which architecture can be used as a tool to evoke emotion.
The brief calls for the design of a conceptual museum with two exhibition halls: one designed to induce negative emotions; the other designed to induce positive emotions. Participants are free to choose any site of their liking, real or imaginary, as well as choose the scale of the project. The meaning of "positive" and "negative" is up for interpretation: What two emotions might a designer consider contrasting? How might an architect conceive spaces that elicits fear, anger, anxiety, love or happiness?
Beauty meets basic human needs—the architecture of Shigeru Ban
From Paper Tube Emergency Shelters and his Nomadic Museum built with containers to the Swatch/Omega Campus and the Centre Pompidou-Metz, discover the altruistic practice of the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban, who is lauded for his “curiosity, commitment, endless innovation, infallible eye, and acute sensibility.”
As a sequel to The Empty Room: Fragmented Thoughts on Space (Actar, 2020), this book by Canadian architect RZLBD (Reza Aliabadi) elaborates the same theme with one hundred iterations of a square room, each of which tells a different story of the emptiness between the walls.
Together with our partners Sveriges Arkitekter would like to invite you to the Second conference of the Creative Europe program UREHERIT in Stockholm. This year's theme: Reconstructing the culture of architecture in Ukraine. Register to learn more about Swedish approach to sustainable rebuilding of cities, recommendations on holistic renovation of housing in Ukraine, participatory approach in heritage reconstruction, capacity building with education and continued professional development in the practice and project ‘Future Images for Ukraine’.
Kwai Shing West Estate is a residential complex in Hong Kong that is home to 18,000 people. It attracted the attention of filmmaker and photographer Pascal Greco because of its architecture and its atypical hillside construction. This book presents the fruits of a ten-year harvest and captures this strange fascination through both photography and film, accessible via a QR code.
Ombú, Madrid, Spain / Foster + Partners. Image Courtesy of the Wood Design & Building Awards
The 2024 Wood Design and Building Awards program is now open for submissions, inviting entries from talented architects and designers across North America and around the globe who are setting new standards of excellence in wood architecture. The Wood Design & Building Awards program recognizes design teams that are passionate about celebrating wood as a sustainable, versatile, and sophisticated building material. The program offers the chance to showcase innovative work and be part of a prestigious celebration of wood design.
Courtesy of Feldman Architecture and Western Window Systems
When it came to designing a nature-embracing modern home in Palo Alto, California, USA, architect Tai Ikegami took his responsibility to protect and venerate the magnificent trees on the lot seriously.
“The house is designed around a series of trees on the site—an oak in the front, another oak on the side, a redwood in the back. These are dramatic trees with a large scale,” says Ikegami, a partner at Feldman Architecture, San Francisco.
Kingston University London by Grafton Architects, 2022 Daylight in Architecture Laureates. Image Courtesy of Dennis Gilbert
On May 16th at 18:00 (CEST), Juhani Pallasmaa, chairing the esteemed jury consisting of Dorte Mandrup, Russell Foster, Iwan Baan, Yvonne de Kort, Michael Balick, and Gerd Folkers, will present the jury's reasoning, and the 2024 laureates for Daylight Research and Daylight in Architecture will be announced. This event will be streamed live online.
The online event is open to the global community of architects, researchers, scientists, building professionals, educators, students, and members of the press. It welcomes everyone interested in daylight and its significance for life on Earth. Sign up here to receive event notifications and join the live announcement.
Eran Chen discusses ODA: Office of Design and Architecture, the first book to comprehensively consider the full range of ODA's projects, all grounded in a humanistic philosophy that informs and uplifts.
The "Conversations on Architecture and Art Without Boundaries" panel will be held on Friday, April 26, in partnership with The Istanbul Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy - AURA Istanbul and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Architecture.
