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US launches social media building comparison site

3 May 2012 | A US innovator has released a new social media platform for building, a free web service allowing users to find and compare information, ratings and reviews for any commercial or residential building in the US.


Mission to Moscow: Melbourne architecture student’s curious educational journey

24 February 2012 | Lam Le Nguyen has been given an opportunity of a lifetime, to study architecture in Moscow under Rem Koolhaas, at a free university funded by Russian billionaires; a place he describes as 'a paradox wrapped in a mystery'. 1 comment


World's oldest architectural drawing competition: winners announced

21 November 2011 | The winners have been announced in the world’s longest running architectural drawing competition, the international Ken Roberts Architectural Delineation, Drawing and Illustration Competition. 1 comment


GRAFT Architects win European Prize for Architecture 2011

19 September 2011 | The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, together with The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, have named GRAFT Architects as the recipient of The European Prize for Architecture 2011.


Plans for $200 million test city released

19 September 2011 | International technology development firm, Pegasus Global Holdings, have released plans to develop and build what would be the world’s largest technology testing and evaluation center.


Boat people, floating cities: architects’ pacific solutions

16 September 2011 | As Australia grapples with a political refugee challenge, architects are devising radical plans to settle entire nations on floating cities and artificial islands - and leaders are taking note. 3 comments


Melbourne consortium wins design contract in China

16 September 2011 | Architects CK Designworks and Melbourne landscape planner ERM have won a contract to design the master plan for a world heritage site in China.


Rant on

5 September 2011 | This week: Britain's ugliest building? Man made monstrosities? We bring you the most opinionated and debate-fuelling quotes coughed-up by the world architecture press.


Global Wrap: scyscrapers, AECOM, Zaha Hadid

24 August 2011 | From around the world this month we have opinion on 2km high skyscrapers, AECOM taking out the top prize for their Rio Olympic Park design, Zaha Hadid Architects' Riverside museum in Glasgow is attracting plenty of attention and Chicago has appointing new members to its Landmark Committee - but without any architects.


Waste Landscape installation reuses 65,000 CDs

12 August 2011 | Conceptual artists Elise Morin and Clémence Eliard have created a thought-provoking structure by reusing thousands of discarded CDs.


Bicycles and sustainability in the city [Video]

29 July 2011 | A crowd-funded initiative called Genre De Vie has produced a documentary about the social effects and the place of the bicycle in the modern city.


Rant on

29 July 2011 | This week: Pritzker prize boring? Hummers made into houses? We bring you the most opinionated and debate-fuelling quotes coughed-up by the world architecture press.


Global Round Up

27 July 2011 | There were major stories out of the UK this week, with the announcement of Stirling Prize and RIBA Lubetkin Prize finalists, there were also impressive international awards wins for Australian firms, and some interesting news from Scotland and the Sub-continent.


Football for Hope: work kicks off on Rwanda centre [Video]

27 May 2011 | Architecture for Humanity has reported that work has commenced on Kimisagra Football for Hope Center in Kigali, Rwanda.


Hub of creativity in Belgrade

24 May 2011 | The innovative and intriguing Belgrade Design Week has officially kicked off and will run until Saturday 28 May.


Sydney architecture student to document post-earthquake reconstruction

20 May 2011 | Sydney architecture student Nora Niasari is using the website Kickstarter to gain funding for a documentary focused on life in Chile post-earthquake.


Xenakis explored at RMIT discussion

17 May 2011 | Mid-20th century electronic and instrumental music and its relationship with architecture will be explored in a talk at RMIT Gallery on Thursday, 19 May, from 12 to 1pm.


LAVA lamp lights up in Milan

29 April 2011 | An interesting product by Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) featured at the Milano Fair earlier this month.


AWR’s global student competition kicks off

13 April 2011 | AWR has opened the gates, inviting students around the world to take part in their latest competition for a graduate thesis on sustainable architecture and design innovation.


Eduardo Souto de Moura wins 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize

30 March 2011 | For the second time in history, a Portuguese architect will be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. 1 comment


Charter for New Urbanism announces 2010 award winners

14 March 2011 | The winners for the 11th annual Charter for New Urbanism (CNU) Awards have been announced in the US.


Are you an Architect? The Quiz

1 March 2011 | Are you REALLY an architect? Jody Brown from Coffee with an Architect created this great quiz to determine whether you cut the Architectural mustard.


Rant on...

16 February 2011 | Polemic? Outrageous? Justified? We bring you the most opinionated and debate-fuelling quotes coughed-up by the world architecture press.


Rant on...

11 February 2011 | Polemic? Outrageous? Justified? We bring you the most opinionated and debate-fuelling quotes coughed-up by the world architecture press.


Rant on

15 December 2010 | Polemic? Outrageous? Justified? We bring you the most opinionated and debate-fuelling quotes coughed-up by the world architecture press.


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