Zaha Hadid Architects wins bid to masterplan Russia’s largest port
Zaha Hadid Architects has won the Admiral Serebryakov Embankment competition, an international masterplanning contest...
Winners of tiny house competition pack comfort and functionality into 269 square feet
Modular building company Ryterna modul recently announced the winners of their Architectural Challenge 2018 competition....
Stay in the world’s largest human birdhouse for free
Planning to attend SXSW but still searching for a place to stay? You may be in luck—HomeAway is opening up its...
Shed of the Year shortlist includes a crocodile home and Star Wars-inspired shed
There are four finalists in eight categories: Unexpected, Eco, Cabin/Summerhouse, Workshop/Studio, Pub/Entertainment,...
MVRDV and OVG win competition to build a vertical green village in Amsterdam
MVRDV and OVG Real Estate won a competition to design the new high-rise complex in Amsterdam's Zuidas Business...
Construction underway on Canada’s first Holocaust memorial designed by Libeskind
January 27th, 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation; a day commemorated by International...
Solar-Powered OnTop House Can be Added to the Top of Almost Any Urban Home
The team from University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main took a unique approach to this year’s Solar Decathlon...
Solar-Powered Adaptive House Rises Above the Floods in Thailand
Designed to be ideally adapted to its environment, the Adaptive House responds to Thailand's tropical climate through...
High School Students Build Amazing 849 MPG Car to Win AutoZone Challenge
Would you believe a few high school students from Indiana just built a car that’s more fuel efficient than anything...
Hassell + Herzog & de Meuron Win Competition to Design Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station
On the architectural design side of this winning design entry, Herzog & de Meuron and Hassell celebrated the...
Win a Sustainable Cassia Weekender Bag from Canopy Verde
Spring has sprung, which means it's time to dust off your sandals and emerge from your cave, but you'll need company....
Enter to Win an Earth Day Cuff from Wrecords by Monkey
There are many ways to celebrate Earth Day but next year you can do it in style with your very own cuff from Wrecords...
Building Trust International Announces Winners of Competition for Sustainable Low-Income Housing in Cambodia
Building Trust International’s competition called for entrants to design homes that could withstand flooding...
Parallax Landscape Re-Imagines a Low-Carbon Future for a Coal-Dominated Australian City
Parallax Landscape is a design collaborative consisting of Yu Ding, designer at Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates...
The Cultured Landscape Sets Out a Strategy for Sustainable Transformation of an Australian Brownfield
Rather than simply let the Latrobe Valley revert to a supposed “natural” state, NAAU proposes a new urban design...
You Can Now Apply to Become One of the Very First Humans to Colonize Mars
Do you enjoy dehydrated food, weightlessness and confined spaces? Then you might have what it takes to become one...
BOARD’s Recycled Apartment Playground is Made from Items Donated by Surrounding Apartments
BOARD began its design by first recognizing the competition organizers’ wish to involve the surrounding buildings...
WVTTK Architects’ Living Bus Shelter in Eindhoven is Overflowing with Plants
The innovative, living bus shelter is perfectly integrated within the existing city fabric, while providing a small...
Snøhetta Wins Busan Opera House Competition With Theater that Joins Sea and Sky in South Korea
The geometry of Snøhetta's Busan Opera House twists and bends in a way to open the flowing public entrances around...
Building Trust International Highlights Solutions for Affordable, Single-Occupant Housing
The winning design was produced by London-based Levitt Bernstein Associates. Their design, entitled Pop Up HAWSE...
Student Invents Doorless Refrigerator That Saves Energy and Reduces Food Spoilage
Ben de la Roche, an industrial design student at Massey University in New Zealand, has designed a doorless refrigeration...
Germany’s Hemp-insulated ECOLAR House Scoops the Solar Decathlon Engineering Prize!
ECOLAR's basic construction, comprised of beams and columns, essentially stays the same but can be configured differently...
UpLIFT Transforms Elevated Parking Spaces into a Hive of Prefabricated Tiny Homes!
New York City is undergoing a cultural shift away from the automobile, and designers Lawrence Zeroth, Jack Phillips,...
2012 George Matsumoto Prize Announces North Carolina’s Best In Modernist Design
The prize is named after George Matsumoto, one of the founding professors at the school, where he served from 1948...
Portrait of Steve Jobs Made With Over 3,500 Apples
The enormous 22' by 15' feat is made from over 3,500 apples. Lefebvre bought a few crates of deer apples, which...
A Better World by Design Expo Showcases Creative Innovation
The conference is collaboratively organized by Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design students and...
Oracle Beater: Bike-Powered Paper Mill Turns Invasive Plants Into Paper in Ghana
Mary Hark’s interest in Kumasi, Ghana began with a year-long Fulbright fellowship that allowed her to get to...
University of Maryland’s WaterShed Solar Decathlon House Takes First Place In Architecture!
Before one even enters the Watershed house the lush green native landscaping and natural siding stand out. The...
Announcing the Winners of the Bright Ideas Lighting Design Competition!
GRAND PRIZE WINNER - ED CHEW'S TETRA PAK LAMP! We guess hard work really does pay off because all those nights...
LAST CHANCE TO CAST YOUR VOTE: Bright Ideas Voting Closes Tonight!
Did you get a chance to cast your vote yet in the Bright Ideas Lighting Design Competition? Voting for the Bright...