Gonzalez Hinz Zabala and Young & Ayata Awarded First Place in Bauhaus Museum Design Competition
Sep 09, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the city of Dessau-Roßlau have announced a joint first-place winner for its Bauhau Museum design competition.
Interiors Awards Deadline Less Than Two Weeks Away
Aug 31, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsWinners of the 37th Annual Interiors Awards will be published in the January/February issue of Contract, and honored at the Interiors Awards Breakfast on January 29, 2016.
2016 Venice Biennale U.S. Pavilion Winning Architects Announced
Aug 31, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThis year’s theme and the exhibition will highlight the far-reaching effect architects can have across the world, with a specific emphasis on four possible projects in postindustrial Detroit.
World War I Memorial Design Competition Shortlist Announced
Aug 20, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsFounded by a U.S. Act of Congress in 2013, the competition aims to redesign a 1.8-acre site near the White House in Washington, D.C.
Herzog & de Meuron Win RIBA’s 2015 Jencks Award
Aug 19, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe firm will be honored with the Jencks Award, a grant worth approximately $1,560, and a certificate on October 29, 2015, at the RIBA in London.
Obama Foundation to Hold Architect Search for Presidential Center
Aug 17, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe university has proposed Washington Park and Jackson Park as potential location sites, but the exact location for the center has yet to be announced.
The Graham Foundation Awards $496,500 in Grants to 49 Winners
Aug 13, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsWinners were chosen for their ability to spark a public dialogue while exploring architecture’s role in society.
2015 CAE Education Facility Design Awards Winners Announced
Aug 10, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsHonoring both architects and firms for top-quality educational design work, the awards annually challenge designers to get creative with experimental work that seeks to advance the industry through innovative ideas and concepts.
2015 RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist Announced
Jul 16, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsOf the six contenders, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is the only one that has won before, having received the honor in 2009.
Two Winners Announced for the 2015 CTBUH Annual Awards
Jul 15, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsWhile the Performance Award was given to Chifley Tower, Holedeck received the Innovation Award.
ASID Names 2015 National Honors Recipients
Jul 13, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsHonors awarded include the ASID Chapter Community Service Award, ASID Medalist Award, Educator Medalist Award, Industry Partner Merit Award, and the Lifetime Award.
Healthcare Environment Awards Final Deadline is July 16
Jul 06, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe competition honors healthcare interior architecture and design in seven categories with winners featured in Contract magazine’s October issue and on contractdesign.com.
37th Annual Interiors Awards Jury Announced
Jun 29, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe Interiors Awards celebrate great design in projects across 14 categories of commercial interior architecture and design, as well as a student category.
Winners Announced for 2015 Inspirations Awards
Jun 24, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe awards celebrate leadership in socially responsible design among commercial interior designers and architects.
Moreau Kusunoki Architectes’s “Art in the City” Wins Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition
Jun 23, 2015 • ProjectsThe winning design will be an interactive experience that engages visitors with museum artwork and programs throughout linked pavilions and plazas positioned around an interior street.
AIA Launches Look Up Film Challenge
Jun 19, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsAs part of an ongoing public awareness campaign, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has launched the Look Up Film Challenge
2015 RIBA National Awards Winners Announced
Jun 18, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London has named 37 winners for the 2015 RIBA National Awards.
AIA Honors 2015 Small Project Award Recipients
Jun 16, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsNow in its 12th year, the program aims to raise public awareness of the value architects bring to projects, regardless of their size and scope, in three categories.
2015 Best of NeoCon Winners
Jun 15, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe winners of the 2015 Best of NeoCon Competition were announced on June 15. Here is a comprehensive list of all winning products, with links to gallery images of each.
Contract Magazine and IIDA Announce 2015 NeoCon Booth Design Winners
Jun 14, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe competition celebrates originality of design, visual impact, effective use of materials, and the use of space, color, texture, lighting, and graphics in showrooms and booths at NeoCon.
Best of NeoCon Entries Available for View
Jun 09, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe winners will be first announced at the Best of NeoCon Awards Breakfast, held at 7:30 a.m. Monday, June 15, at the Renaissance Hotel.
Call for Entries Now Open for the 37th Annual Interiors Awards
Jun 08, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsContract magazine’s 37th annual Interiors Awards, which celebrate great design in projects across 14 categories of commercial interior architecture and design, as well as a student category, is now accepting entries.
Gottlieb Paludan Architects Receives 2015 Nykredit Architecture Prize
Jun 04, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe $75,337 prize is known as Scandinavia’s most distinguished architectural award.
Hospitality Design Magazine Announces 2015 HD Awards Winners and Finalists
Jun 04, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThis year, over 560 project entries were submitted across 20 categories, and approximately 340 product entries were submitted in 10 categories.
IIDA Names Patricia Urquiola as the 2015 IIDA Titan Award Recipient
Jun 03, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsUrquiola founded her eponymous studio in Milan where she currently works on product design, architecture, interiors, installations, and concept creation.
Yves Béhar Honored with 2015 IIDA Star Award
Jun 03, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsBéhar is a proponent of holistic product, digital, and brand design and actively practices design as a means of social and environmental change.
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Winners Announced for AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Innovation Awards
May 29, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsMorphosis Architects’ Emerson College Los Angeles was honored with the Stellar Architecture award.
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Entries Now Being Accepted for Healthcare Environment Awards
May 21, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsCo-sponsored by Contract magazine, the competition honors healthcare interior architecture and design across a range of project types.
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Winners Announced for 2015 RIBA London Awards
May 21, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe city’s most prestigious design honor was awarded to 38 London projects, which will now be considered for the RIBA National Awards, announced in June.
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IIDA Announces 2015 HD Product Design Competition Winners
May 15, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe International Interior Design Association (IIDA) has named the winners of the 19th Annual IIDA/HD Product Design Competition, which is presented in partnership with Hospitality Design magazine and open to all exhibitors at HD Expo 2015.
Winners of 2015 Architectural League Prize Announced
May 14, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe Architectural League of New York and the Young Architects + Designers Committee have named six winners to be awarded with the Architectural League Prize, one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young designers and architects.
Jane Hallinan Named IIDA 2015 Member of the Year
May 13, 2015 • PeopleThe International Interior Design Association (IIDA) has named Jane Hallinan, Assoc. IIDA, as the 2015 Member of the Year award recipient.
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Henry N. Cobb Awarded 2015 President’s Medal by the Architectural League of New York
May 08, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsA contributor to architectural education, Cobb also served as chair of Harvard’s department of architecture in the 80s and is active in the Architectural League.
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Szczecin Philharmonic Hall Wins 2015 Mies van der Rohe Award
May 08, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe building was designed by Barcelona–based Barozzi Veiga who received a cash prize and the biennial award.
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Winners Announced for 2015 National Design Awards
May 05, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe National Design Awards promotes innovative design’s ability to shape the world and recognizes excellence, innovation, and public impact.
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Two James Beard Awards Winners Announced for Design
May 05, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsIn an effort to recognize the culinary and design accomplishments of other cities, the event was held in Chicago in contrast to New York where it has taken place since its inception in 1990.
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Docomomo US Names 2015 Modernism in America Awards Winners
Apr 29, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsSix award winners will receive awards of excellence, while five will receive citations of merit.
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Harvard GSD Announces 2015 Wheelwright Prize Winner
Apr 28, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsErik L’Heureux, AIA, won a $100,000 traveling fellowship for his winning proposal, Hot and Wet: The Equatorial City and the Architectures of Atmosphere.
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Rockwell Nominated for Two 2015 Tony Awards
Apr 28, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsRockwell was nominated in the Best Scenic Design of a Play and the Best Scenic Design of a Musical categories – his fourth and fifth nominations.
Winners Announced for 2015 Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition
Apr 24, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsIn addition to three winners, four firms were awarded with an honorable mention.
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AIA Announces COTE Top Ten Awards Winners
Apr 22, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsIn addition to the Top Ten Awards winners, COTE honors one previous winner with the Top Ten Plus award – a project with quantifiable metrics to demonstrate the impact of its sustainable design.
ASID Selects Five Fellows for 2015
Apr 17, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe fellowship is awarded to professionals who have made mentionable contributions to the interior design industry.
Finalists Named for Smart School Project
Apr 15, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe $58 million Smart School Educational Complex will house 1,000 students and be comprised of 37 buildings.
IIDA Extends Deadline for Best Interiors of Latin America & The Caribbean Competition
Apr 09, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe final deadline to submit entries has changed to Thursday, April 16, 2015.
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2015 Design Biennial Boston Winners Announced
Apr 09, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe four winners will show installations on the Rose Kennedy Greenway and an exhibition at the BSA Space.
Three Finalists Named for 2015 Wheelwright Prize
Apr 07, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe winner receives a $100,000 fellowship for travel-based research.
Winners Announced for the 2015 eVolo Magazine Skyscraper Competition
Apr 06, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe award recognizes innovative ideas in skyscraper design that blend new technology and creative materials.
ASID Names 2015 National Awards Recipients
Apr 06, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsRecipients are awarded based on their contributions toward the advancement of the profession, while demonstrating a commitment to enhancing quality of life through interior design.
Tony Chi Awarded 2015 Lawrence Israel Prize
Apr 03, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe award recognizes recipients with ideas beneficial to FIT Interior Design students.
AIA Names Recipients for 2015 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards
Apr 02, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe awards honor excellence in the architectural design of libraries.
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Video on 2015 Interiors Awards is Released
Apr 02, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsContract magazine has released a video about the 2015 Interiors Awards Breakfast, which was held January 30 in New York.
Page/Park Architects to Restore Glasgow School of Art
Mar 31, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsDesigned by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the landmark building was devastated by a fire last year.
James Beard Foundation Announces Six Restaurant Design Nominees
Mar 27, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe category recognizes two classes of nominees: spaces accommodating 75 or less guests and spaces for 76 or more.
iF Design Announces 2015 Award Winners
Mar 20, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsWinners were selected from five categories: product, packaging, communication, interior architecture, and professional concept.
Reesie Duncan Receives STEP Award
Mar 20, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe STEP Awards honor women in the manufacturing industry who have demonstrated excellence and leadership.
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Ibañez Kim Studio Wins Folly 2015 Competition
Mar 19, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsAn international competition, the Folly program challenges early-career designers to deeply examine the concept of folly.
Omer Arbel to Receive 2015 Allied Arts Medal
Mar 18, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsOmer Arbel, principal of Omer Arbel Office and co-founder and creative director of Bocci, is the recipient of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) 2015 Allied Arts Medal.
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Frei Otto Named 2015 Pritzker Laureate
Mar 10, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsGerman architect Frei Otto learned in recent weeks that he was going to be named the 2015 Pritzker Prize Laureate in the public announcement that was scheduled to be made on March 23.
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Entries Now Being Accepted for Inspirations Awards
Mar 09, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsContract magazine’s annual Inspirations Awards program, which celebrates leadership in socially responsible design among commercial interior designers and architects, is now accepting entries.
KANVA Wins 2015 RAIC Emerging Architectural Practice Award
Mar 09, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) has selected Montreal–based, multidisciplinary firm KANVA as the recipient of its 2015 Emerging Architectural Practice Award.
2015 RIBA London Awards Shortlist Announced
Mar 06, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has shortlisted 68 buildings for its 2015 RIBA London Regional Awards.
Winners of IIDA Interior Design Competition and Will Ching Design Competition Announced
Mar 04, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe International Interior Design Association (IIDA) has announced the winners of its 42nd Interior Design Competition and 23rd Will Ching Design Competition.
2015 Netherlands’ Sikkens Prize Awarded to David Chipperfield
Mar 02, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsBritish architect David Chipperfield is the 36th recipient of the Sikkens Prize, one of the oldest independent art prizes in the Netherlands.
Five Finalists Announced for the 2015 Mies van der Rohe Award
Feb 27, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsFive projects have been chosen as finalists for the 2015 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award—one of the most prestigious awards for European architecture.
Competition to Design New Bauhaus Museum Announced
Feb 27, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsA design competition has been announced to design a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, where the historic German art and design school founded by architect Walter Gropius was based from 1925 to 1932.
London’s Design Museum Names 2015 Designs of the Year Nominees
Feb 25, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe Design Museum in London has named the 2015 Designs of the Year nominees.
AIACC Announces Three Council Awards Program Recipients
Feb 25, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC), has named three Council Awards Program recipients.
2014 Boston Society of Architects Design Award Winners Announced
Feb 24, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe Boston Society of Architects (BSA) has named the 2014 winners of its Design Awards, which recognize design excellence in New England.
AIA Announces 2015 Recipients for the Thomas Jefferson Award and Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement
Feb 23, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced recipients for two of its annual awards.
RAIC Names 2015 Architectural Firm Award Winner
Feb 20, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsMontreal-based practice Provencher_Roy has been selected as the winner of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) 2015 Architectural Firm Award.
Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano Win 2015 Alvar Aalto Medal
Feb 13, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsSpanish architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, founders of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, have been awarded the 2015 Alvar Aalto Medal, Finnish architecture's most prestigious award.
Shortlist Announced for the 2015 Mies van der Rohe Award
Feb 13, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsForty projects from 17 European countries have made the shortlist for the 2015 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.
Chicago Architectural Club Announces Winners of the Chicago Prize Competition
Feb 12, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe Chicago Architectural Club (CAC) has announced the winners of its fourteenth annual Chicago Prize Competition.
The AIANY Interiors Committee to Host Speed Presentations
Feb 11, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe AIANY Interiors Committee will be hosting the sixth edition of Speed Presentations at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, at the Steelcase New York showroom.
Brian MacKay-Lyons Awarded 2015 RAIC Gold Medal
Feb 10, 2015 • PeopleBrian MacKay-Lyons, FRAIC has been awarded the 2015 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Gold Medal.
AIA Elevates 147 Members to its College of Fellows
Feb 06, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) 2015 Jury of Fellows elevated 147 AIA members to its College of Fellows.
MoMA PS1 Announces Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation as Winner of the 2015 Young Architects Program
Feb 06, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsNew York– and Madrid-based Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation is the 2015 winner of the annual Young Architects Program.
Expanded Editorial Advisory Board, Guests Enjoy the 2014 Contract Design Forum
Feb 05, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsContract magazine’s annual Design Forum was held at Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado.
The Architectural League Announces 2015 Emerging Voices Awards Winners
Feb 03, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe awards recognize individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, or Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urbanism.
Photos from the 2015 Interiors Awards Breakfast
Feb 03, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe event brought together more than 600 industry professionals to celebrate innovative and creative design.
2015 Interiors Awards Winners Announced
Jan 30, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe 36th Annual Interiors Awards winners were announced this morning at the Interiors Awards Breakfast at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York.
2015 Legend: David Mourning
Jan 28, 2015 • ProfilesBy defining best business practices in the commercial design profession today, the founder of IA Interior Architects is a legend.
2015 Designer of the Year: Martin Lesjak
Jan 28, 2015 • ProfilesAn architect and his firm of Austrian design innovators craft beautiful interiors and products.
Shortlist Named for Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and Harbour Square Park Design Competition
Jan 27, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsOut of 33 design teams from 12 countries, five design teams have been shortlisted for a design competition that will revitalize Toronto’s Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and Harbour Square Park.
Winners of 2014 CIDA Award for Excellence Announced
Jan 21, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsA new award program from the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) recognizes and celebrates outstanding practices that advance the cause of excellence in interior design education.
David Schwarz Awarded University of Notre Dame's 2015 Richard Driehaus Prize
Jan 16, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe 2015 Richard H. Driehaus Prize, which honors classic architecture in modern society, will be awarded to David M. Schwarz, a Washington, D.C.–based architect.
BanG Studio and Izaskun Chinchilla Architects Win 2015 City of Dreams Competition
Jan 15, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsFIGMENT, the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY), and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) have announced two winning designs for the 2015 City of Dream Pavilion Competition.
Five Design Teams Reveal Renderings for New York’s Public Libraries
Jan 14, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsLast summer, five teams were chosen by The Architectural League of New York to propose library designs that follow the League’s themes.
Renderings Revealed for Boston’s 2024 Summer Olympics Bid
Jan 12, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsBoston has been selected as a possible bid by the U.S. Olympic Committee to host the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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2015 AIA Institute Honor Awards Winners Announced
Jan 09, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the winners of its 2015 AIA Institute Honor Awards.
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London’s Broadgate Exchange House Selected for 2015 AIA Twenty-five Year Award
Jan 09, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsDesigned by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), London’s Broadgate Exchange House has been honored with the 2015 AIA Twenty-five Year Award.
Eight Proposals have been Revealed for St. Petersburg Pier
Jan 06, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsEight design teams have submitted proposals to renovate the St. Petersburg Pier, marking the city’s second attempt to modernize its historic pier.
Teams Reveal Renderings for Obama Presidential Library in Hawaii
Jan 06, 2015 • Competitions & AwardsThe site selection process for the future Obama Presidential Library is well underway, with two hosts in Chicago, one in New York, and one in Hawaii under consideration.
ASID is Now Accepting Nominations for the 2015 National Awards
Dec 19, 2014 • Competitions & AwardsThe American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is now accepting nominations for the 2015 National Awards.
IIDA Names Winners of the 5th Annual Global Excellence Awards
Dec 18, 2014 • Competitions & AwardsIIDA Names Winners of the 5th Annual Global Excellence Awards
Built by Women New York City Winners Announced
Dec 17, 2014 • Competitions & AwardsThe Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) has announced the winners of the Built by Women New York City (BxW NYC) competition.
Entries are Now Being Accepted for 10th Annual ICFF Studio Competition
Dec 17, 2014 • Competitions & AwardsThe International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) Studio has teamed up with Bernhardt Design for a juried competition.
OMA Wins Competition to Design Lujiazui Exhibition Centre in Shanghai
Dec 15, 2014 • Competitions & AwardsOMA Wins Competition to Design Lujiazui Exhibition Centre in Shanghai.
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Moshe Safdie to Receive 2015 AIA Gold Medal
Dec 10, 2014 • Competitions & AwardsMoshe Safdie to Receive 2015 AIA Gold Medal.
Väven Cultural Centre Wins Sweden's Kasper Salin Prize
Dec 08, 2014 • Competitions & AwardsVäven Cultural Centre in Umeå, Sweden, has won the Kasper Salin Prize.