MONU magazine on urbanism is continuously looking for interesting contributions. The current open call for submissions for MONU “Most Valuable Urbanism” and closes by the end of May 2010.

Brazilian architects Bruno Conde, Filipe Gebrim Doria, Filipe Lima Romeiro, and Lucas Bittar were awarded with the first prize for the design of the Santa Catarina’s Public Library Refurbishment (National Architecture Competition).

More images and architect’s description after the break.

Driving timber design into the new decade, the inaugural Intergrain Timber Vision Awards launches on 19 April 2010, inviting architects, landscapers and designers nationwide to showcase their visionary use of timber in residential and commercial design projects.

Last year we featured the Shanghai Corporate Pavilion for World Expo 2010, designed by Atelier Feichang Jianzhu. Now, we bring you the latest update with pictures of the actual pavilion. Shanghai is around the corner and you check the latest updates on other pavilions right here.

More images after the break.

Luminaries of Northern California’s interior design community raised the roof of the Art Deco-era Fox Theater last Thursday for a scintillating double feature: the 2010 Honor Awards and Pioneers in Design celebration. The Northern California Chapter of the International Interior Design Association sponsored the event, honoring a select group of member firms, designers and students who have elevated the practice of interior design. The group also recognized Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr, the founders of Architecture for Humanity (AFH), as its 2010 Pioneers in Design.

Honor award winners–kept secret until the presentation–were chosen from a field of 74 projects submitted by designers from Northern California, Northern Nevada and Hawaii in six categories: Live, Work, Play, Shop, Serve, and Give. The “WOW!” Award was presented for the best-of-show design.

See all the winners after the break.

Pedro Dias, João Matos, and Hugo Santos Silva are the architects of one of the winners of the Europan 10 Architecture Competition. Their project, “P2P 39’27’45,29’’N 8º2830.03’’W” is located in Entroncamento, Portugal.

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Projects from South America and Europe in this third part of our educational architecture selection. Check them all after the break.

Gerardo Molina School / Giancarlo Mazzanti As the Project will be winding and turning it will be opening to the city, leaving space for small squares and exterior parks for public usage, leaving behind the bars and walls that stereotyped education institutions as closed spaces. The conformation of small squares and green spaces with trees direct on the surrounding streets, accompanied by the auction modules, will redefine direct accesses (read more…)

INABA, with Darien Williams, has developed a hypothetical proposal for the migratory distribution of the Hollywood sign across Los Angeles, titled “HLYWD”. The project will be on display as part of SUPERFRONT LA‘s upcoming show, UNPLANNED: Research and Experiments at the Urban Scale.

The proposal will be on display until July 2. More images and architect’s description after the break.

CEBRA is working on an extension to the School at Bülowsvej in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. The extension is a new, solitary building housing kids from 1st to 3rd grade.

More images and architect’s description after the break.

Last week the Pritzker Prize laureate was announced. That’s just one of many great posts you may have missed, so we chose the best for you to check them out. All of them after the break.

2010 Pritzker Prize: SANAA Today, the Pritzker Prize laureate has been announced: Japanese practice SANAA formed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. SANAA was following Steven Holl on the polls (my favorite for next year), a name that was very strong for the award since last year. The awarded duo will receive the prize at a formal ceremony May 17 at Ellis Island, New York (read more…)

The College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, is offering three summer programs that introduce the study of architecture, landscape architecture, and sustainable city planning. These Berkeley STITUTES in Environmental Design are designed for post-baccalaureate students or senior-level undergraduates with majors in other fields who are interested in testing their enthusiasm for the material and culture of environmental design. The curriculum emphasizes the preparation of materials for application to graduate study in one of its disciplines. The STITUTES give students the opportunity to:

The Rice Design Alliance, The Rice School of Architecture, The Houston Architecture Foundation, and the American Institute of Architects-Houston presents the 2010 Sally Walsh Lecture Program: Luis Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón.

Arhitektura d.o.o., in collaboration with PONTING (construction engineers) received second prize for their proposal for a competition sponsored by the city of Maribor in Slovenia within the European Capital of Culture. They managed to put the bridge in one leap across the 120 m wide river.

More images and architect’s description after the break.

Its clear in 2010 perhaps more than ever that significant shifts in economies and culture can occur extremely rapidly; climatic crisis can devastate enormous populations in seconds. Our architectural response is critical. The architectural recourse of one crisis needs to be more than a temporary fix as it is often the only opportunity to implement further preventative measures for a future occurrence.

Let’s finish this religious week as we start it, with a fantastic selection of religious architecture projects we’ve been featuring in AD. Check them all after the break.

Field Chapel in Boedigheim / Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology The Field Chapel is a project designed and executed by the students of an Advanced De-sign/Build Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture in Chicago for a ecumenical church co-operative in Boedigheim, Germany. Led by Professor Frank Flury, the project was assisted on a pro bono basis by the firm of Ecker Architekten (Buchen, Germany) with the craftsmen, volunteer workers and townspeople of the Odenwald/Bauland, a rural region in northern Baden-Württemberg (read more…)

Sublime Flesh brings together, for the first time, new designs for contemporary spiritual spaces developed by students at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. A collection of research projects located in international cities including Istanbul, Rome, Turin, Lisbon, Havana and Miami, each explores a unique sense of sacredness and the Sublime.

Many of you will be enjoying some delicious chocolate eggs this weekend. We didn’t want to be left behind so we want to see some egg architecture! What about this egg casino in Las Vegas, designed by Neutelings Riedijk Architects?

Harvard University Graduate School of Design hosts some great lectures featuring some of the world’s most important architects. We will be telling you about their events on a monthly basis, so here are the dates of their April events.