# ArchiDiaries > Online Architecture, Interior & Design Magazine ## Posts - [Open for Registration: Grasshopper as Design Assistant | AUTUMN 2020](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-grasshopper-as-design-assistant-autumn-2020/): As the name suggests, this workshop aims to introduce Grasshopper as a design assistant. The workshop starts by learning various plugins like Lunchbox, Weaverbird, Ladybug, Etc. These plugins help in generating algorithms and evaluating them. In the second half of the workshop, participants will be working with Genetic algorithms using the plugin Octopus. - [Open for Registration: Grasshopper as a Tool | AUTUMN 2020](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-grasshopper-as-a-tool-autumn-2020/): This is an introductory workshop to Rhino and Grasshopper. This workshop aims to introduce participants to the world of computational design through Rhino and Grasshopper. Once the basics of Grasshopper (barebones) and Rhino are covered, few plugins like OpenNest, Kangaroo 2, and Ekl will be introduced. These plugins will increase the potential of what we can do with both the software. - [Open for Registration: AUTUMN 2020 Workshop @ArchiDiairies](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-autumn-2020-workshop-archidiairies/): The medium of online learning presents a huge opportunity for everyone willing to acquire new skills and knowledge. ArchiDiaries supports this learning beyond universities and classrooms and thus is taking up the role of a facilitator. For the second time this year, we bring to you exciting online workshops from tutors across Design and Architecture universities, fields and experiences. AUTUMN 2020 Workshops are now open for registration. - [SEDA Online Open House, Navrachana University](https://archidiaries.com/seda-online-open-house-navrachana-university/): School of Enviornment Design and Architecture (SEDA) is organizing an Online Open House for all prospective students. - [Introduction to Computational Design (Rhino + Grasshopper) | WORKSHOPS @archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/introduction-to-computational-design-rhino-grasshopper-workshops-archidiaries/): The aim of this course is to teach participants Contemporary Computational design tools such as Rhino and grasshopper. - [Digital Fabrication (Parametric Design) | WORKSHOPS @archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/digital-fabrication-parametric-design-workshops-archidiaries/): The workshop attempts to take the participants through the complexities of digital programming. - [WORKSHOPS @archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/workshops-archidiaries/): We bring to you exciting online workshops from tutors across Design and Architecture universities, fields and experiences. These workshops are a great convenience for co-learning from home, while battling through these uncertain times. - [We have social responsibilities as architects and builders, says Ratan Tata](https://archidiaries.com/we-have-social-responsibilities-as-architects-and-builders-says-ratan-tata/): “We are trying to remove slums by moving them to another location, high value housing is being put over there. Slums are the residue; we are building vertical slums,” Ratan Tata said. - [Iraqi Master Architect Rifat Chadirji dies at 93 due to COVID-19](https://archidiaries.com/iraqi-master-architect-rifat-chadirji-dies-at-93-due-to-covid-19/): Born in Baghdad, and famous for some of Iraq’s most famous buildings, master architect Rifat Chadirji passed away on 10th April due to coronavirus in London, aged 93. - [Michael Sorkin passes away due to COVID-19](https://archidiaries.com/michael-sorkin-passed-away-due-to-covid-19/): Famous architects, urbanist and author Michael D. Sorkin passes away due to complications resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic which has gripped the world. - [Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara](https://archidiaries.com/yvonne-farrell-and-shelley-mcnamara/): “The collaboration between Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara represents a veritable interconnectedness between equal counterparts,” states Pritzker - [Winners of Micro Housing Competition - 2019](https://archidiaries.com/winners-of-micro-housing-competition-2019/): Volume Zero, an international architecture and design magazine, has announced winners for its ‘Micro-Housing Architecture Competition 2019 - [Khmaladze Architects revealed as grand prize winner of ArchDaily & Strelka Award](https://archidiaries.com/khmaladze-architects-revealed-as-grand-prize-winner-of-archdaily-strelka-award/): The winner was announced by ArchDaily Editor-in-Chief David Basulto at the Future Architect conference at Strelka Institute. The Coffee Production Plant in Tbilisi by Khmaladze Architects was one of three winners selected by readers of ArchDaily and Strelka Mag - [ArchDaily & Strelka Award: Three winners announced ](https://archidiaries.com/archdaily-strelka-award-three-winners-announced/): The winners have been selected by readers of ArchDaily and Strelka Mag from a shortlist of 15 architectural projects which were decided in the first round of voting. The grand prize winner will be announced by ArchDaily - [Overlooking disaster warnings proves costly](https://archidiaries.com/overlooking-disaster-warnings-proves-costly/): Warnings and recommendations for action given by the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) and the district town and country planning Offices in Kozhikode, Malappuram, and Wayanad against the backdrop of the deluge that hit the districts last year, are still in cold storage. - [[News] ‘Affordable housing’ not so affordable for India’s urban middle class](https://archidiaries.com/news-affordable-housing-not-so-affordable-for-indias-urban-middle-class/): Rajeev Bhalla, an IT professional, was very happy when his bankers informed him that he would get a rebate of up to Rs 2 lakh on the purchase of an affordable house. However, when he went to scout for possible locations and apartments - [[News] Charles Correa Foundation says it was not consulted](https://archidiaries.com/news-charles-correa-foundation-says-it-was-not-consulted/): Panaji: The Charles Correa Foundation (CCF) expressed its displeasure over not being taken into confidence over the issue of demolishing of Kala Academy's open air auditorium. - [[News] How to Land Your First International Interior Design Project](https://archidiaries.com/news-how-to-land-your-first-international-interior-design-project/): You’ve completed a number of projects across your region, or perhaps across the country, and you’re ready to expand your horizons by taking on an international interior design project. But if you’re a small firm with just a single office, it can be a bit of a monumental task - [[News] Sydney-based author traces lesser-known chapels of Mumbai in her new book](https://archidiaries.com/news-sydney-based-author-traces-lesser-known-chapels-of-mumbai-in-her-new-book/): In her new book, The Churches of India, Sydney-based author Joanne Taylor takes a pilgrimage across the country, and unearths lesser-known chapels - [Moonception 2019 - Results Announced!](https://archidiaries.com/moonception-2019-results-announced/): Today, 20thJuly 2019, marks the 50thAnniversary of the Moon Landing, an event that changed the course of our world’s future. In honour of the Lunar Surface and humanity’s first steps in space, we are very excited to announce the winner of Moonception 2019. - [[News] Building Low-Cost Green Houses Since 1996: Architect Brings Back Mud Homes In India!](https://archidiaries.com/news-building-low-cost-green-houses-since-1996-architect-brings-back-mud-homes-in-india/): Baker, who is fondly referred to as ‘Gandhi of Architecture’, went on to inspire architects to opt for green materials in the Pre and Post Independence era. - [[News] AICTE directs new engineering colleges to shift temporary campus to permanent](https://archidiaries.com/news-aicte-directs-new-engineering-colleges-to-shift-temporary-campus-to-permanent/): Days after the HRD Ministry said it will adopt a zero-tolerance policy towards states that fail to allot land for IITs and IIITs, technical education regulator AICTE has made it mandatory for new engineering colleges operating out of temporary campus to shift to permanent premises within two years. - [Did You Know! Chandigarh’s Modern Architecture Owes Credit To India’s First Woman Architect](https://archidiaries.com/did-you-know-chandigarhs-modern-architecture-owes-credit-to-indias-first-woman-architect/): Chandigarh has been touted as the New Age urban planning and architectural marvel. And definitely the credit goes to Le Corbusier. But, we definitely cannot overlook the zealous and visionary team of world-class architects and planners - [[News] Water crisis in Chennai to impact construction activity; projects may be delayed by 6-9 months](https://archidiaries.com/news-water-crisis-in-chennai-to-impact-construction-activity-projects-may-be-delayed-by-6-9-months/): Poor water management, despite warnings by satellite images, is believed to be the main reason for this crisis. Water scarcity is bound to impact residents and economic activity, including real estate. - [[News] All Saints’ Church in Bengaluru is rich in symbolism, with innovative designs](https://archidiaries.com/news-all-saints-church-in-bengaluru-is-rich-in-symbolism-with-innovative-designs/): One of Bengaluru’s heritage buildings that is in the news now is All Saints’ Church. Bangalore Metro wishes to temporarily acquire a good bit of the garden in front of the church to build an underground station. - [[News] Australia dominates list of finalists at the World Architectural Festival](https://archidiaries.com/news-australia-dominates-list-of-finalists-at-the-world-architectural-festival/): If Australia’s world dominance in designing individual houses isn’t proven by the numbers it has marshalled in the finalists’ lists of this year’s World Architectural Festival, then little else could make the case that we are setting the style agendas in home design. - [[News] Becoming Geoffrey Bawa: Celebrating the Sri Lankan architect’s centenary](https://archidiaries.com/news-becoming-geoffrey-bawa-celebrating-the-sri-lankan-architects-centenary/): The legendary Sri Lankan architect’s centenary year is replete with tributes, exhibitions and more. Some of India’s top architects and interior designers weigh in on his genius - [[News] anagram architects constructs 'people's pavilion' for india's kochi-muziris biennale](https://archidiaries.com/news-anagram-architects-constructs-peoples-pavilion-for-indias-kochi-muziris-biennale/): the kochi-muziris biennale (KMB) is billed as ‘the largest contemporary art festival in asia’. every two years, a series of abandoned factories and warehouses in the indian state of kerala are repurposed as galleries and cafés that host a variety of activity. - [[News] Walk-to-work: Still a distant dream in India](https://archidiaries.com/news-walk-to-work-still-a-distant-dream-in-india/): Last week, Bhushan Joshi, a banking professional residing in Kalyan had to stay back home, all thanks to the rains. The city was brought to a standstill, Mumbai local train services on the central line beyond Thane to CSMT were defunct. - [[News] IIM Bodh Gaya to set up campus building inspired by Buddhist ideology](https://archidiaries.com/news-iim-bodh-gaya-to-set-up-campus-building-inspired-by-buddhist-ideology/): The new IIM campus, located in the sacred and historic and city of Bodhgaya, will be spread over 73 acres. The concept for the campus takes inspiration from Buddhist ideologies, evolving into a design which promotes a search for progression in the field of management studies, an official said on Saturday. - [[News] Wrong to blame us for site accidents, say architects](https://archidiaries.com/news-wrong-to-blame-us-for-site-accidents-say-architects/): PUNE: Architects’ associations have said that their members should not be held responsible for accidents, such as wall collapse, at construction sites. - [[News] Errum Manzil in Hyderabad structurally sound: INTACH](https://archidiaries.com/news-errum-manzil-in-hyderabad-structurally-sound-intach/): Dismissing the claim that Errum Manzil is dilapidated and in a bad condition, the Indian National Trust for Culture and Heritage (INTACH) found in an inspection that the palace was structurally sound, and that its foundation was strong. - [[News] Building dream houses with mud and lime](https://archidiaries.com/news-building-dream-houses-with-mud-and-lime/): This architect couple could have settled for a cushy job, with a six-figure salary, where sitting in an air-conditioned office they would have been fiddling with some design on the computer screen. - [[News] Jaipur named Unesco World Heritage Site, second Indian city in list](https://archidiaries.com/news-jaipur-named-unesco-world-heritage-site-second-indian-city-in-list/): Jaipur: 'Pink City' Jaipur on Saturday made an official entry in the list of the UNESCO World Heritage sites and leaders across the political spectrum welcomed the signal honour to the historical city. - [[News] New assembly can retain Errum Manzil: Architect Yeshwant Ramamurthy](https://archidiaries.com/news-new-assembly-can-retain-errum-manzil-architect-yeshwant-ramamurthy/): Hyderabad: Well known heritage architect Yeshwant Ramamurthy said in an open letter to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao that with conservation technologies and adaptive re-use, Errum Manzil can be revitalised and included in the master plan for a new Assembly complex. - [[News] MGNREGS survives here on housing schemes](https://archidiaries.com/news-mgnregs-survives-here-on-housing-schemes/): Amid allegations of irregularities in MGNREGS, there has been a mismatch of data officially available and those uploaded on websites about its implementation in Bhadrak, a report said. - [[News] Why sops for affordable housing have failed to enthuse realty stocks](https://archidiaries.com/news-why-sops-for-affordable-housing-have-failed-to-enthuse-realty-stocks/): Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s thrust for reviving home sales did little to enthuse investors on the Street. The Nifty Realty index turned out to be the biggest loser, falling as much as 7% in the last two trading sessions - [[News] Feeding Minds](https://archidiaries.com/news-feeding-minds/): It all began when architect Prasanna Desai shifted to Pune from New Delhi in the late 1990s. He felt that many architects, who visited the city, had experiences to share. “Learning in architecture is a continuous process. - [London Festival of Architecture Aims to Raise Awareness About the Industry](https://archidiaries.com/london-festival-of-architecture-aims-to-raise-awareness-about-the-industry/): Architecture is one of the most celebrated professions in the construction industry. Most likely because the field provides one of man's basic needs, which is shelter. In many countries, architecture is paid homage to by setting month-long celebrations. - [Advertising Pune wall collapse: Licences of two construction firms, architects suspended](https://archidiaries.com/advertising-pune-wall-collapse-licences-of-two-construction-firms-architects-suspended/): Two days after 15 persons were killed when a compound wall collapsed at a construction site in Kondhwa, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday suspended the licence of two construction companies, architects and a structural consultant. - [Is Architecture same as Urban Design](https://archidiaries.com/is-architecture-same-as-urban-design/): With college degrees getting highly specialised, students have become selective. They need to be aware of the fine differences between any two subjects of the same discipline. Many students often get confused when it comes to choosing between a Bachelor's in Architecture and a Bachelor's in Urban Design. - [[News] Chennai Water Crisis: 71-YO ‘Rain Man’ Helps Hundreds Recharge Their Groundwater!](https://archidiaries.com/news-chennai-water-crisis-71-yo-rain-man-helps-hundreds-recharge-their-groundwater/): The Chennai droughts have made not just national but international news. Most residents of the Tamil Nadu capital, whether young or old, rich or poor have been brought to the mercy of a couple hours’ supply of tap water or purchased water tanks. - [[News] NATA admit card 2019 released: How to download](https://archidiaries.com/news-nata-admit-card-2019-released-how-to-download/): NATA admit card July 2019: The Council of Architecture (CoA) has released the admit card for the second National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) today on its official website, nata.in. The examination is scheduled to be conducted on July 7 (Sunday), 2019. - [[News] 10,000 flood-affected people benefit from UNDP shelter hubs](https://archidiaries.com/10000-flood-affected-people-benefit-from-undp-shelter-hubs/): THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Around 10,000 flood-affected people have benefited from shelter hubs set up with UNDP support in Kerala in the past eight months. These hubs were established in Wayanad, Pathanamthitta and Idukki districts - [[News] Affordable housing - myth or reality?](https://archidiaries.com/news-affordable-housing-myth-or-reality/): Even if you earn Rs 50,000 a month, you cannot own a home in Delhi NCR. DNA analysed the middle-income range of officially affordable categories and found housing prices are beyond affordable for most of the working population. - [[News] Heritage lovers fume as KCR’s Assembly complex puts 150-yr-old palace on demolition list](https://archidiaries.com/news-heritage-lovers-fume-as-kcrs-assembly-complex-puts-150-yr-old-palace-on-demolition-list/): Heritage lovers in Hyderabad are up in arms against the Telangana government’s plans to demolish the 150-year Errum Manzil palace in the heart of the city for the construction of a new legislative assembly building complex, for which the foundation was laid on June 27. - [[News] IIT Madras: Decoding the physical, chemical nature of ancient plasterwork](https://archidiaries.com/news-iit-madras-decoding-the-physical-chemical-nature-of-ancient-plasterwork/): Monuments built by the Mughals and the Lodhis from the 13th to the 16th century extensively follow a Persian style of architecture with plasterwork decorations. - [[News] Mumbai housing colony that Charles Correa designed as ‘a mirror of the nation’ is focus of new film](https://archidiaries.com/mumbai-housing-colony-that-charles-correa-designed-as-a-mirror-of-the-nation-is-focus-of-new-film/): The evocatively titled Lovely Villa is a documentary about the links between architecture and emotion, memories of childhood and adolescence – and two fathers. - [Germany: Pritzker Prize winner BV Doshi’s retrospective at Vitra Design Museum](https://archidiaries.com/germany-pritzker-prize-winner-bv-doshis-retrospective-at-vitra-design-museum/): The Vitra Design Museum in Germany is hosting the first ever retrospective of Balakrishna Doshi’s work to be held outside Asia. It is curated by Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, the granddaughter of Doshi. The colossal exhibition offers insight on how Doshi’s work has influenced a new outlook on architectural design. - [Lutyens’ Delhi: Dhruva N Chaudhuri on how the seat of administration got its architectural style](https://archidiaries.com/lutyens-delhi-dhruva-n-chaudhuri-on-how-the-seat-of-administration-got-its-architectural-style/): Two questions arose at the very beginning. First, who was to build the new city – the Public Works Department (PWD), a private firm in India, or a distinguished architect from abroad? The decision was in favour of an architect from overseas. - [Architects’ tribute to their ‘god’ Charles Correa](https://archidiaries.com/architects-tribute-to-their-god-charles-correa/): In the mid-1980s in India, there were two gods in architecture. When either of them landed in Bangalore, there would be a buzz in the architecture fraternity — “God has arrived”. Students and young practitioners would flock to hear them. - [Nearly 600-year-old Chand Minar with its unique architecture attracts tourists from across the world](https://archidiaries.com/nearly-600-year-old-chand-minar-with-its-unique-architecture-attracts-tourists-from-across-the-world/): The Chand Minar or the Tower of the Moon is a medieval tower in Daulatabad. The tower is located in the state of Maharashtra within the Daulatabad-Deogiri fort complex. It was erected in 1445 C.E by King Ala-ud-din Bahmani to commemorate his capture of the fort. - [Exploring the concept of vernacular architecture](https://archidiaries.com/exploring-the-concept-of-vernacular-architecture/): Vernacular Architecture is the use of local materials and traditional techniques for constructing low rise homes. As a principle, this form of architecture involves not using expensive and factory-made material but using old traditional ways of construction and material as much as possible - [NASA Funds Videos On Indian Architectural Marvels With Lesson Plans In Hindi](https://archidiaries.com/nasa-funds-videos-on-indian-architectural-marvels-with-lesson-plans-in-hindi/): A NASA-funded a programme in the US has produced a series of informational videos about famous archaeological sites and institutions in India. The programme has lesson plans in Hindi aimed at teaching the language internationally in context with science and technology. - [Understanding the wisdom of Indian residential architecture](https://archidiaries.com/understanding-the-wisdom-of-indian-residential-architecture/): Everywhere in the country, the design of the homes was built according to the climate of that region. Old houses, particularly in hot regions of India like Rajasthan’s havelis or the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu, would have a central courtyard or aangan and the rooms would be built around it. - [Is architect the agent of Pangaea 2.0?](https://archidiaries.com/is-architect-the-agent-of-pangaea-2-0/): It was my Eureka moment as I realised that the architect is a new age agent of Pangaea. He is travelling across the world, getting educated in great academies of the nations he is not born in. He learns his craft from distant lands with different climate, flora and fauna and then moves around the globe to practice his trade. - [Building Blocks: Whose Claim is it Anyway?](https://archidiaries.com/building-blocks-whose-claim-is-it-anyway/): Late last month, the Delhi High Court gave a judgment that an architect of a building, as the author of an artistic work of architecture, does not have the right to restrain the demolition of a building. - [Beat the heat with architecture](https://archidiaries.com/beat-the-heat-with-architecture/): AHMEDABAD: This year recorded the highest April temperatures in almost a decade, with mercury rising up to 43.7°C twice. Can citizens keep cool without air-conditioning? Architecture plays a major role in temperature reduction, as shown by two households — one in the western part of the city and one in a pol. - [SEDA - Final Year Studio - Project brief](https://archidiaries.com/seda-final-year-studio-project-brief/): The Indus Valley or Harappan civilization has been one of the most prominent in history. - [Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal announced as Pritzker Laureates 2021](https://archidiaries.com/anne-lacaton-and-jean-philippe-vassal-announced-as-pritzker-laureates-2021/): Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, of France, have been selected as the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates, as announced by Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation. - [Result Announced - Yoga House on Cliff](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-yoga-house-on-cliff/): The Yoga House on a Cliff competition, organized in partnership with the Vale de Moses retreat, called for designs for a new hillside yoga space that overlooks the valley. - [Result Announced - The Pavilion of Humanity](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-the-pavilion-of-humanity/): BeeBreeders reveals the result for competition “The Pavilion of Humanity” - [Result Announced - Sensory Architecture: Essay Writing Competition](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-sensory-architecturean-essay-competition/): Archiol reveals results for Sensory Architecture – An Essay is an international Architectural essay competition. - [Result Announced- “Winnenden productive urban neighbourhood”](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-winnenden-productive-urban-neighbourhood/): IBA'27 announced results for competition “Winnenden productive urban neighbourhood” - [Result Announced- Melbourne Affordable Housing](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-melbourne-affordable-housing/): The winners of the Melbourne Affordable Housing Challenge have been selected. This competition tasked participants with tackling Melbourne’s affordable housing crisis, and entries were both varied and inspired. - [Result Announced- Gaudi Architecture Prize-2020](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-gaudi-architecture-prize-2020/): Silk Matters announced the winners of Gaudi Architecture Prize 2020- International Design Awards. This award aims to provide a platform for students and recent graduates to showcase their un-built academic and idea projects. - [CLT Induction in India | WORKSHOP C - Understanding CLT Design and Engineering in India Context](https://archidiaries.com/clt-induction-in-india-workshop-c-understanding-clt-design-and-engineering-in-india-context/): CLT Induction in India has organized three workshops together with an exciting architecture competition with awards of upto Rs. 12,00,000. The workshop explores possibilities of using CLT as a primary construction material for low-rise housing and mid to high-rise buildings in India. - [A' Design Awards & Competition - Call for Entries](https://archidiaries.com/a-design-awards-competition-call-for-entries/): Nominate your Design Here. - [CLT Induction in India | WORKSHOP B - Innovation with Mass Timber, a house and a tower.](https://archidiaries.com/clt-induction-in-india-workshop-b-innovation-with-mass-timber-a-house-and-a-tower/): A presentation of student projects made out of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) as a part of "Mass Timber and the Scandinavian Effect" studio led by Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. - [CLT Induction in India | WORKSHOP A - Orientation to Cross Laminated Timber](https://archidiaries.com/clt-workshop-a-orientation-to-cross-laminated-timber/): The first CLT Workshop will attempt to orient cross laminated timber to participants. The workshop will discuss the merits of using CLT as the primary building product in the industry. - [Result Announced: Alternate Realities 2020 ](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-alternate-realities-2020/): The Charette has unveiled the results of the Alternate Realities 2020 competition. - [CLT Induction-In India](https://archidiaries.com/clt-induction-in-india/): Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) is a Mass Timber Construction technique that distinguishes itself from the present-day steel and concrete construction. It is a renewable resource and has a negligible carbon footprint compared to carbon or steel, since carbon is sequestered within the wood it is made from. - [Ronald Lu & Partners to Continue Sustainability Commitment to Raise Profile of Asian Design Capabilities in 2021](https://archidiaries.com/ronald-lu-partners-to-continue-sustainability-commitment-to-raise-profile-of-asian-design-capabilities-in-2021/): By putting sustainability first, RLP helped lift Asian architects to the top of the world architectural scene; with the firm’s capabilities and forward-thinking strategies allowing it to capture several important awards and embark on successful collaborative partnerships throughout 2020. - [Open for Registration: Grasshopper as Design Driver | Spring 2021 workshop](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-grasshopper-as-design-driver-spring-2021-workshop/): Online workshop “Grasshopper as Design Driver” is open for registration on ArchiDiaries. - [Open for Registration: Grasshopper as Design Assistant | Spring 2021 workshop](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-grasshopper-as-design-assistant-spring-2021-workshop/): Online workshop “Grasshopper as Design Assistant” is open for registration on ArchiDiaries. - [Open for Registration- Grasshopper as a Tool | Spring 2021 workshop](https://archidiaries.com/grasshopper-as-a-tool-spring-2021-workshop-archidiaries/): Online workshop “Grasshopper as a Tool” is open for registration on ArchiDiaries. - [Result Announcement- Future-Office](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-future-office/): ARCHUE announced the results for the competition “Future Office”. - [Result Announcement: The London Affordable Housing Challenge](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-the-london-affordable-housing-challenge/): The London Affordable Housing Challenge is part of Bee Breeders’ Affordable Housing Crisis design series, which has already introduced several great proposals to address the global demand for urban housing. - [Result Announcement_ Emotions, Architecture, Opioids _ 2020](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement_-emotions-architecture-opioids-_-2020/): The goal of Emotions, Architecture, Opioids is to design a methadone medication unit located in Venice, Los Angeles. Proposals should address the stigma surrounding opioid dependency: in addition to administering methadone, the medication unit and its setting should offer an environment that is appealing regardless if you struggle with OUD or not. - [Schedule of Technology in Architecture: Explorations and Innovations](https://archidiaries.com/technology-in-architecture-interview-series-with-experts/): Archidiaries is announcing another series named ‘Technology in Architecture’ launching on January 16th, 2021 via Facebook live at 11:00 AM (GMT + 5:30). - [Technology In Architecture: Detailing in Tensile Structures - Design, Engineering and Simulation: Interview with Shehzad Irani](https://archidiaries.com/detailing-in-tensile-structures-design-engineering-and-simulation-interview-with-shehzad-irani/): Archidiaries is announcing another series named ‘Technology in Architecture’ launching on January 16th, 2021 via Facebook live at 11:00 AM (GMT + 5:30). - [Result announced: 2020 Skyscraper](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-2020-skyscraper/): eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Skyscraper Competition. The Jury selected 3 winners and 22 honourable mentions from 473 projects received. The annual award established in 2006 recognizes visionary ideas that through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments. - [Fashion Pavilion Milan Result Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/fashion-pavilion-milan-result-announcement/): ARCHASM Competitions announces the winners of idea competition “Fashion Pavilion Milan”. - [Technology in Architecture: An Engineers Sketchbook an interview with Manjunath BL](https://archidiaries.com/technology-in-architecture-an-engineers-sketchbook-an-interview-with-manjunath-bl/): Archidiaries is announcing another series named ‘Technology in Architecture’ launching on January 16th, 2021 via Facebook live at 11:00 AM (GMT + 5:30). - [Authority of IIM-A Holds the Plan for Demolishing Dorms](https://archidiaries.com/authority-of-iim-a-holds-the-plan-for-demolishing-dorms/): The chairman and Board of Governors Indian institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad have withdrawn the plans for demolishing dorms designed by Louis Kahn after opposed by architectural fraternity and alumni over the globe. - [Technology in Architecture: Structures in Architecture, A PROCESS an interview with prof. Gurdev Singh](https://archidiaries.com/technology-in-architecture-structures-in-architecture-a-process-an-interview-with-prof-gurdev-singh/): Archidiaries is announcing another series named ‘Technology in Architecture’ launching on January 16th, 2021 via Facebook live at 11:00 AM (GMT + 5:30). - [A Second Open Letter to Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad by Prem Chandavarkar](https://archidiaries.com/a-second-open-letter-to-indian-institute-of-management-ahmedabad-by-prem-chandavarkar/): Prem Chandavarkar responded to letter written by Mr Errol D’Sauza, director of IIM- A. - [An Open Letter to Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad by Prem Chandavarkar](https://archidiaries.com/an-open-letter-to-indian-institute-of-management-ahmedabad-by-prem-chandavarkar/): This is the text of an open letter to the Director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, with copies to the Governing Council, written on hearing that the institution plans to demolish fourteen out of eighteen dormitories designed by Louis Kahn. - [International Design Competition for the Central City Square of Rahovec Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/international-design-competition-for-the-central-city-square-of-rahovec-2/): The aim of the project is to promote urban regeneration and the development of public spaces through inclusive, transparent and innovative methods of urban planning and design. - [Management of IIM-A decides to demolish Iconic dormitories](https://archidiaries.com/management-of-iim-a-decides-to-demolish-iconic-dormitories/): Authorities at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad announced on Christmas this year that it will be demolishing and replacing 14 dormitories and various other parts of IIM-A campus, designed by renowned American architect Louis I Kahn. - [Astrakhan Region awaits comprehensive changes](https://archidiaries.com/astrakhan-region-awaits-comprehensive-changes/): In December, by order of Astrakhan Region Governor Igor Babushkin, a large-scale project was launched. It should result in a comprehensive re-boot of the region’s capital, one of the centres of the Caspian Sea. It determines the priorities for the development of a territory, takes into account existing socio-economic factors as well as the tasks of spatial development and offers mechanisms to achieve the goals set. - [Tactical Urbanism Now! Competition Results](https://archidiaries.com/tactical-urbanism-now-competition-results/): Awarded projects were able to reinterpret the concept of Tactical Urbanism in unconventional ways, experimenting with original solutions capable of redefining the paradigm of contemporary public space. With a creative and unusual vision, the selected proposals conceived unique and innovative scenarios within the city. - [Call for Articles: PLAT](https://archidiaries.com/call-for-articles-plat/): To use architecture means to engage only with the physical existence of a work; to behold it considers a built work as the conveyor of ideas. If a project acknowledges and engages with this distinction, it can begin to resist its commodification. - [EDRA52 Detroit: Just Environments: Trans-disciplinary Border Crossing](https://archidiaries.com/edra52-detroit-just-environments-trans-disciplinary-border-crossing/): The world is in the middle of several global crises at once—of pandemic, over-policing, racism, environmental degradation, economic and gender inequality—all of which together demand us to interrogate how we imagine just environments. EDRA52 invites proposals that both describe and speculate on trans-disciplinary modes of inquiry using novel approaches in research, teaching, practice, and co-production to create “just environments.” - [Technology in Architecture: Explorations and Innovations](https://archidiaries.com/technology-in-architecture-explorations-and-innovations/): We are Thrilled to launch Live Interview series “Technology in Architecture” with some of the best practices, professionals, researchers, academicians and engineers, who have dedicated their efforts towards scientific and technical advancement in the field. - [Result Announcement: Urban Chair](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-urban-chair/): Street Furniture is an important tool for creating a sense of identity and place making. Effective and quality furniture in a public setup creates an intrinsic relationship between people and urbanscape. Industrial zeitgeist and its mass production methods have eliminated the ‘”design” from the process of creating new furniture. - [Monte D'Oiro: Wine Tasting Room – Result Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/monte-doiro-wine-tasting-room-result-announcement/): This competition is part of Bee Breeders’ Portugal design series and was organized in collaboration with Quinta Do Monte D’Oiro, a family vineyard located in the Lisbon region. Participants were tasked with designing a wine tasting room that could accommodate roughly 30 people and make full use of the vineyard’s exemplary vistas. - [Earth Architecture Competition – Result announced](https://archidiaries.com/earth-architecture-competition-result-announced/): C-re-aid is launching its first design + build competition in partnership with Jubilant Tanzania, a school and orphanage located in Northern Tanzania that has provided orphans in Moshi with a caring home and education since 2006. This competition gives you the opportunity to work on the design and construction of a nursery school for the orphans of Jubilant, ages 2 to 6 years old. - [Ronald Lu and Partners Wins “Architecture Firm Award 2020”](https://archidiaries.com/ronald-lu-and-partners-wins-architecture-firm-award-2020/): The 2020 Architecture Firm of the Year Jury was especially “impressed with the design quality of the firm’s work demonstrating an unparalleled depth and breadth of completed work and for designing many buildings that provide a sense of place and connection to the natural environment.” RLP’s collaborative spirit and commitment to research were also cited as considerations for the commendation. - [Open for Registration: LT3: Triads of Creativity | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-lt3-triads-of-creativity-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): The intent, however, is not to provide any template, but to offer processes to develop individuality and unique methods to become effective facilitators of care, curiosity & creativity. - [Cluj-Napoca Comprehensive Transplant Centre](https://archidiaries.com/cluj-napoca-comprehensive-transplant-centre/): The competition seeks to select the best design solution for a Comprehensive Transplant Centre, located in the central area of Cluj-Napoca Municipality, within the University Hospital Complex. The ambition behind the competition is to design and execute the first transplant centre in the country that accommodates all the necessary facilities for four types of transplant: heart transplant, lung transplant, liver transplant and kidney transplant. - [AGORA CAUMME: Online Conference](https://archidiaries.com/agora-caumme-online-conference/): AGORA CAUMME 2020 aims to discuss current cities’ structures validity, and to have a refreshing perspective on two main topics: Urban Transformation and Urban Informals, under the umbrella of four methodological perspectives: Landscape, History, Socio-Economic, and Geo-Politics. - [Open for Registration: Data Driven Design Module 3 (Advanced) | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-data-driven-design-module-3-advanced-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): During this workshop, participants will be explained how to dive into the world of genetic algorithms. By using python and various other algorithms, participants will be taught to generate human UI interface to control the system. - [Open for Registration: Data Driven Design Module 2 (Intermediate) | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-data-driven-design-module-2-intermediate-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): Workshop will focus to enable the knowledge about the software like rhino and grasshopper to generate the effective designs driven by different parameters. - [Open for Registration: Data Driven Design Module 1 (Beginners) | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-data-driven-design-module-1-beginners-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): Workshop will focus to enable the knowledge about the software like rhino and grasshopper to generate the effective designs driven by different parameters. - [Legendary Bird Home | Result announced](https://archidiaries.com/legendary-bird-home-result-announced/): The Legendary Bird Home competition saw Bee Breeders partner with Birdly for the first in their series of design competitions focusing on raising awareness of global environmental issues. Birdly, a socially-responsible start up that aims to support environmental activism worldwide through funds raised by selling bird homes, tasked architecture and design enthusiasts with creating a self-assembling bird home kit that would fund their efforts. - [SKYHIVE 2020 Skyscraper Challenge | Result announced](https://archidiaries.com/skyhive-2020-skyscraper-challenge-result-announced/): The SKYHIVE 2020 Skyscraper Challenge was the third annual architecture competition by Bee Breeders seeking innovative concepts and ideas for an iconic high rise tower set in the city of their choice. - [Iceland Thermal Springs Guest House | Results announced](https://archidiaries.com/iceland-thermal-springs-guest-house-result-announced/): The Iceland Thermal Springs Guest House competition was part of a series of design competitions based on sites around northern Iceland. Participants were tasked with creating an additional guest house for the traditional Vogafjós Farm Resort. - [MICROHOME2019 -Small Living, Huge Impact! | Result announced](https://archidiaries.com/microhome2019-small-living-huge-impact-result-announced/): MICROHOME 2019 design competition was the first of its kind, launched in the hopes of spearheading the Small Scale Architecture Appreciation Movement, which will highlight small projects with big ideas from around the world. - [Open for Registration: Responsive Envelope | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-responsive-envelope-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): This workshop concentrates on understanding thermal gain and losses in a building and resolving the issue of overheating of the built-form. - [Architecture Master Prize 2020 Winners announced](https://archidiaries.com/architecture-mater-prize-2020-winners-announced/): The Architecture MasterPrize honours designs in the different disciplines of designing fields with the goal of advancing the appreciation of architecture worldwide. - [Open for Registration with Deducted Fees: Theories of Deconstruction, Post Modernism and Minimalism | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-with-deducted-fees-theories-of-deconstruction-post-modernism-and-minimalism-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): The Workshop encourages participants to explore a spectrum of cross disciplinary inspirations in order to evolve a better understanding of these thought processes. - [Open for Registration with Deducted Fees: ARTITECTURE: Art + Architecture | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-with-deducted-fees-artitecture-art-architecture-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): Workshop will focus to enable theories enhance participants thought process to be able to conceive works of great originality and creativity. - [Open for Registration with Deducted Fees: Research Writing Workshop: For Architecture, Design and Planning | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-with-deducted-fees-research-writing-workshop-for-architecture-design-and-planning-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): Workshop will focus on how to express the results of your research and field work in writing, develop critical reading skills, and integrate sources to make more effective arguments. - [Open for Registration: Computational Design Thinking | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-computational-design-thinking-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): During this workshop, participants will come to know about developing an understanding of algorithm-based design that will help developing the thought process that enables one to approach the design intangibles with a logical mind-set. - [Open for Registration | Paradigm Shifts: Bauhaus (Advance Studio)](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-paradigm-shifts-bauhaus-advance-studio/): This Workshop gives an advanced and detailed insight towards the Principles and Curriculum of Bauhaus developed during the timeline when the institute transitioned both its location and ideology under the leadership of its renowned masters. - [Open for Registration | Paradigm Shifts: Bauhaus (Foundation Studio) | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-paradigm-shifts-bauhaus-foundation-studio-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): During this workshop, participants will come to know about taking forward from the original Bauhaus foundation courses, this workshop will act both as an initiator of foundational coursework for students as crash course on Bauhaus ideology, its pioneers and its pedagogy. - [Four female innovators announced as winners of C40 Women4Climate Tech Challenge 2020](https://archidiaries.com/four-female-innovators-announced-as-winners-of-c40-women4climate-tech-challenge-2020/): The Challenge aims to support and promote diversity and inclusion in technology, innovation, and the built environment sectors. All the projects judged in the competition were led by women; address urban sustainability, mobility, food, waste, water, building, urban farming, air quality solutions; deliver measurable impacts; and have the potential to be scalable in other cities. - [Better Together Competition Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/better-together-competition-results-announced/): The core idea of this project is the house as a place of community. The programme is very open and spaces are shared even with the neighbourhood. - [LIV[IN]G CORE competition Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/living-core-competition-results-announced/): “Living Core” is designed to erase boundaries of traditional programme by creating spaces that can accommodate multiple functions while meeting the primary and traditional characteristics of a shelter. - [Belfast Design Week welcomes you this November](https://archidiaries.com/belfast-design-week-welcomes-you-this-november/): Our 2020 theme is “Environment” which can be interpreted in many ways - from the built environment, to sustainability, to our digital surroundings and beyond. Our events and commissioned designers will explore this theme. - [The International VELUX Award 2020 announces Ten Regional Winners](https://archidiaries.com/the-international-velux-award-2020-announces-ten-regional-winners/): The projects signalled a multiplicity of directions and concerns that light plays an important spatial role as a common denominator and as an inspiration independent of latitudes and attitudes. - [Urbanising Asia and World Knowledge: CEPT Essay Prize](https://archidiaries.com/urbanising-asia-and-world-knowledge-cept-essay-prize/): The CEPT Essay Prize 2020 invites you to explore a particular urban condition from anywhere in Asia to understand the nature of networked knowledge production about habitats and cultures, people and world-views. Parallel and interconnected geographies are the important operative ideas as compared to the older imagination in banal binaries such as ‘East versus West’. - [The RE-Stock London Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/the-re-stock-london-results-announced/): This competition sought to reconsider the use of existing London sites as a means to jumpstarting the city of London once again as a hotbed of innovative affordable housing. - [San Francisco Affordable Housing Challenge Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/san-francisco-affordable-housing-challenge-2/): A continuation of the affordable housing design series, participants were tasked with somehow making one of the most expensive cities in the world more affordable. - [The Kurgi Observation Tower Competition Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/the-kurgi-observation-tower/): The Kurgi Observation Tower competition sought out designs for an observation tower for Kurgi farm, one of the last remaining Latvian Ardennes breeding programs. - [The winner аannounced of the Vyzvolennia Square and the revitalization of the DASU building](https://archidiaries.com/the-winner-%d0%b0announced-of-the-vyzvolennia-square-and-the-revitalization-of-the-dasu-building/): The concept of the project is to initiate a path guiding the industrial society back to the regional roots. The Concept is inspired by the history, tradition and nature of Mariupol and its surroundings. The revitalized square is the place where diverse people coexist and influence each other. - [Green Product Award 2020](https://archidiaries.com/green-product-award-2020/): The Green Product Award &Green Concept format provides an insight of what is already possible today and will continue to move the green scene in the future. - [Opera Truck - Result announced](https://archidiaries.com/opera-truck-result-announced/): Art is the fundamental form of representation yet it is unnoticed, at the comfort of our screens there is a visual barrier that deprives us of its actual flavour. - [From Workplace to “Mindplace”: RLP Reimagines Tomorrow’s Workplace](https://archidiaries.com/from-workplace-to-mindplace-rlp-reimagines-tomorrows-workplace/): The global pandemic has forced many companies to embrace a new working style. At the same time, flaws revealed in traditional office designs have meant these offices are no longer-fit for all purposes: they do not meet the changing needs of employees or are unable to accommodate new work behaviours. - [Open for Registration: Research Writing Workshop: For Architecture, Design and Planning | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-research-writing-workshop-for-architecture-design-and-planning-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): Workshop will focus on how to express the results of your research and field work in writing, develop critical reading skills, and integrate sources to make more effective arguments. - [Open for Registration: Theories of Deconstruction, Post Modernism and Minimalism | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-theories-of-deconstruction-post-modernism-and-minimalism-winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): The Workshop encourages participants to explore a spectrum of cross disciplinary inspirations in order to evolve a better understanding of these thought processes. - [Open for Registration: ARTITECTURE: Art + Architecture | WINTER 2020 workshop @Archidiaries](https://archidiaries.com/winter-2020-workshop-archidiaries/): Workshop will focus to enable theories enhance participants thought process to be able to conceive works of great originality and creativity. - [Proximity Island - Result Story](https://archidiaries.com/proximity-island-result-story/): As offshore settlements, these kinds of structures, due to their strong visual and evocative impact, constitute an excellent example of industrial archaeology in any sense which, however, only in rare cases has been known to be converted into spaces of civil architecture as artificial islands. - [News: HOME: DESIGN YOUR DREAM Result Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/news-home-design-your-dream-result-announcement/): The aim of the competition was to manifest into reality the idea of your dreams, and create a house based on it. The competition aimed to create a pure and highly imaginative expression of a home that will have a degree of surrealism to it. - [Royal Gold Medal 2020 Recipient: Grafton Architects](https://archidiaries.com/royal-gold-medal-2020-recipient-grafton-architects/): Dublin-based practice Grafton Architects has been named the 2020 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal. The Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence "either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture". - [The life guard](https://archidiaries.com/the-life-guard/): In beaches, parks and squares, the Lifeguard Tower will add with its architectural figure to increase the aesthetic value of its surroundings. - [WFH2020 -orking from Home Competition Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/wfh2020-orking-from-home-competition-results-announced/): Working from home competition is the new international contest of ideas promoted by Archistart in order to experiment future visions on the coexistence between living and work. - [Re-use the Roman Ruin - Piscina Mirabilis- Result Announced](https://archidiaries.com/re-use-the-roman-ruin-piscina-mirabilis-result-announced/): The notion of reuse we promote is strictly related to the concept of life inside space. - [Find the best of Ukrainian Design Brands at Maison & Objet Digital Fair 2020](https://archidiaries.com/find-the-best-of-ukrainian-design-brands-at-maison-objet-digital-fair-2020/): Experience Maison&Objet's spirit online from September 4 to 18, 2020 through their Digital Fair. Staged snapshots invite you to delve directly into each brand’s latest collections. - [World University Rankings for 2021 released](https://archidiaries.com/world-university-rankings-for-2021-released/): Times Higher Education has released its latest World University Rankings for the year of 2021. It includes 1,500 Universities across 93 Countries and Regions, making it the largest to date. - [Ronald Lu & Partners Unveils ‘A Myriad of Twinkling Household Lights’ Design Concept for Tencent East China Headquarters](https://archidiaries.com/ronald-lu-partners-unveils-a-myriad-of-twinkling-household-lights-design-concept-for-tencent-east-china-headquarters/): Ronald Lu & Partners (RLP) is proud to unveil the design for Chinese tech giant Tencent’s 77,000 square metre East China Headquarters in Shanghai. This bespoke innovative architecture inspired by ‘A Myriad of Twinkling Household Lights’, which reflects Tencent’s vision, identity and culture, is set to become a new landmark for the Xuhui District upon its completion by the second half of 2021. - [Architecture competition Campus of Religions: Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/architecture-competition-campus-of-religions-results-announced/): With the Campus of Religions in aspern Seestadt, an interreligious center and a new location for the Church Educational University of Vienna / Krems is being created. The Viennese architecture firm Burtscher-Durig ZT GmbH emerged as the winner of the urban planning competition and was able to prevail with its architecture. All 42 submissions will now be presented in a one-week exhibition. - [Competition results Announced : Architecture Thesis of the Year | ATY 2020](https://archidiaries.com/competition-results-announced-architecture-thesis-of-the-year-aty-2020/): The ‘Architecture Thesis of the Year | ATY 2020’ is an international architecture thesis competition organized by theCharette. The aim of the competition is to extend appreciation to the tireless effort and exceptional creativity of student thesis in the fields of Architecture, Urban Design, Landscape and Restoration. The competition received over 1000 entries from 104 nations across the world. - [Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Phil Freelon Design Competition by Perkins and Will](https://archidiaries.com/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2020-phil-freelon-design-competition-by-perkins-and-will/): Winners of the 2020 Phil Freelon Design Competition by Perkins and Will have been announced. Winning projects imagine unique co-living strategies to combat housing crises in America through case studies in New York, Los Angeles, and Denver. - [World's Seventh-tallest Building Created by Ronald Lu & Partners Using “BIM” Digital Design Technology](https://archidiaries.com/worlds-seventh-tallest-building-created-by-ronald-lu-partners-using-bim-digital-design-technology/): The seventh-tallest building in the world and the third-tallest in China, this recently completed tower is a testament to RLP's extensive skills in using building information modelling (BIM) technology to design and execute world-class structures. In this case, BIM significantly reduced the time and cost of the tower’s construction, and played a vital role in optimising its striking, crystal-clear hyperboloid winding glass curtain wall. - [Collaborative Architecture has been invited to be a part of Humanitarian Design Series titled- DESIGNING PEACE in 2021](https://archidiaries.com/collaborative-architecture-has-been-invited-to-be-a-part-of-humanitarian-design-series-titled-designing-peace-in-2021/): Collaborative Architecture has been invited by Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum to be part of the ground-breaking, Humanitarian Design Series titled- DESIGNING PEACE, due in the second half of 2021. The curatorial team selected the Indian National War Museum, New Delhi - finalist in the 2 stage international competition for its flipping of the brief by focusing on ‘Peace’ as the centrality of the design. The entry was rightly named as ‘Indian National Peace Museum’. - [The Friendship Park of Gyumri aims at renovation through an Open International Competition for Designers](https://archidiaries.com/the-friendship-park-of-gyumri-aims-at-renovation-through-an-open-international-competition-for-designers/): The renovated park will not only become a new public venue for the Gyumri people and guests of the city but also a symbol of gratitude to the countries that have supported the city’s rehabilitation after the devastating earthquake in 1988. - [Architizer Announces 8th Annual A+Awards Winners](https://archidiaries.com/architizer-announces-8th-annual-aawards-winners/): Architizer, the world’s leading online platform for architecture and building-products, announces the winners of the 8th Annual Architizer A+Awards. Founded on the premise of democratizing architecture, the A+Awards is the industry’s largest and most international awards program and honors the best architecture, spaces, and products from across the globe. - [urbainable – stadthaltig. Positions on the European City for the 21st Century](https://archidiaries.com/urbainable-stadthaltig-positions-on-the-european-city-for-the-21st-century/): In its title urbainable – stadthaltig, the latest exhibition by the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, follows the hypothesis that sustainability and the city cannot be seen in isolation from one other. It addresses the role of the European city in the age of global warming, digitalisation, demographic change and the breakdown of traditional social networks. - [NEP & Architecture Education | Webinar with Dr. A Srivathsan](https://archidiaries.com/changing-for-the-better/): The new National Education policy is set to alter the landscape of higher education, radically. What does this mean for Architecture Education. Join the Webinar organized by SEED [APJ Abdul Kalam School of Environmental Design] wit Dr. A Srivathsan. - [Live Introduction Session | Grasshopper as a Tool](https://archidiaries.com/live-introduction-session-grasshopper-as-a-tool/): We spoke to the Tutor Adnan Makda regarding prerequisites, outcomes and what the participants will learn in the upcoming AUTUMN 2020 workshop. - [Shades of Green: Sustainable Building Approaches](https://archidiaries.com/shades-of-green-sustainable-building-approaches/): This Live Interview Series of Facebook bring about a conversation amongst the variety of approaches, to look at how they can feed into each other and enhance the idea of “sustainable design” even more. - [Conversation with Prof. V R Shah - Teaching Structure in Architecture](https://archidiaries.com/conversation-with-prof-v-r-shah-teaching-structure-in-architecture/): Join for a conversation on teaching of structure and construction based courses in Architecture - [Results declared for the “Radical Design Project” on ArcDeck.net](https://archidiaries.com/results-declared-for-the-radical-design-project-on-arcdeck-net/): The competition received an overwhelming response with registrations from 60+ countries from around the world with a mix of architects, planners, urban designers, students and creative professionals related to the real estate / building industry. The submissions were judged on 5 criteria’s to create a shortlist of Top 3 which are featured on their website - [Winners Announced: PORADA International Design Award 2019](https://archidiaries.com/winners-announced-porada-international-design-award-2019/): The winners are announced for the contest PORADA International Design Award 2019. There are six winners – three in the Professional category and three in the Student category – who were able to grasp the spirit of the competition by proposing a number of innovative and original projects based on the different types of sideboard and cupboard, able to represent the distinctive values of a key brand for Italian design such as Porada. - [Second Issue release: NESS.docs 2: Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas](https://archidiaries.com/second-issue-release-ness-docs-2-landscape-as-urbanism-in-the-americas/): NESS and Lots of Architecture – publishers are pleased to present the second issue of their monographic series NESS.docs 2: Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas. The issue will be launched online on July 30th 4pm EST with their first Webinar. - [Open for Registration: Grasshopper as Design Driver | AUTUMN 2020](https://archidiaries.com/open-for-registration-grasshopper-as-design-driver-autumn-2020/): This workshop aims to introduce Grasshopper as a Design Driver, where as a Designer you can set up a larger logic and let grasshopper design for you. This workshop will cover the full workflow for the same where the participant will start with the learning of python and then various other concepts of A.I. After which, they will create a script that uses A.I algorithms for automating various processes in design. - [Winners Announced: Cannes Temporary Cinema Design Competition](https://archidiaries.com/winners-announced-cannes-temporary-cinema-design-competition/): With 131 Registrations and an enthralling and spellbinding set of proposals, the winners of the Competition “CANNES TEMPORARY CINEMA" have been announced. - [The Drawing Board 2021 | Know the Site](https://archidiaries.com/the-drawing-board-2021-know-the-site/): This year’s design challenge for “The Drawing Board” is much more than an architecture contest. Immerse yourself in the study of Wari and discover the higher calling that pilgrims submit to each year. This challenge is to give young architects and design students an opportunity to explore, invent and be creative with challenging architectural problems. - [Picturing: Streets Competition Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/picturing-streets-competition-results-announced/): Picturing: Streets a photography award which aims to promote photography and photographers has announced its winners. - [Chair Challenge 2021 | Result Announced](https://archidiaries.com/chair-challenge-2021-result-announced/): The "Chair Challenge 2021" is to design a chair, choose its materials/colours/finishes, and represent them. The winners of the competition have been announced. - [Elementorize | Winner Announced](https://archidiaries.com/elementorize-winner-announced/): The design challenge for “Elementorize” is to use the element of a staircase – to devise an architectural scale building employing all its form characteristics and properties. - [International Competition Results Summed Up On Creating A Master Plan For The Astrakhan Agglomera-Tion](https://archidiaries.com/international-competition-results-summed-up-on-creating-a-master-plan-for-the-astrakhan-agglomera-tion/): Results of the Open International Competition for the creation of a master plan of the Astrakhan agglomeration have been summed up. A jury chaired by Governor Igor Babushkin selected the winner out of three finalists. - [Echo of Rubble | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/echo-of-rubble-winner-announcement/): The design challenge for “Echo of Rubble” was to conceive new product design interventions resulting in more like a speaking product reflecting the roughness of post-war materials and the echoes of its culture that delivers the society a message. - [Future of Design | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/future-of-design-winner-announcement/): This edition Future of Design looks at the evolution of the architecture profession and its services standing at the brink of being automated by technology. While it’s true the architects are growing in number globally across all the countries; the catching pace of technology is mind-numbing if not less. - [Mind Matters | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/mind-matters-winner-announcement/): The Brief of “Mind Matters” challenge is to make a poster/artwork – that either promotes mental health awareness OR visualizes the effects of poor mental health on our daily lives through metaphorical/surreal illustrations. - [Picturing: Human and Nature | Winner Announced](https://archidiaries.com/picturing-human-and-nature-winner-announced/): Picturing Awards - aims to promote photography and photographers. Our idea is to create new opportunities to present valuable work to audiences all over the world. We aim to build a place where photographers can show different points of view and thrive through online exchanges - [The Drawing Board 2021 | Know more about the Wari](https://archidiaries.com/the-drawing-board-2021-know-more-about-the-wari/): This year’s design challenge for “The Drawing Board” is much more than an architecture contest. Immerse yourself in the study of Wari and discover the higher calling that pilgrims submit to each year. This challenge is to give young architects and design students an opportunity to explore, invent and be creative with challenging architectural problems. - [The Sleeping Pods on a Cliff | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/the-sleeping-pods-on-a-cliff-winner-announcement/): The Sleeping Pods on a Cliff competition is the third collaboration between Bee Breeders and the Vale de Moses Yoga Retreat - an international yoga retreat in the remote pine and eucalyptus forests of central Portugal. - [Supergartern | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/supergartern-winner-announcement/): The “Supergartern” design challenge is to conceive a Kindergarten for 75 children + 75 children in an expansion plan – based on the design theme above. The problem not only expands to the spatiality of the Kindergarten but explores new learning models/frameworks that help teachers to employ a different type of teachings in day to day life effortlessly. - [The bohemian design style | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/the-bohemian-design-style-winner-announcement/): The bohemian design style is a 2021 design and writing competition organized by artuminate. Lack of structure, carefree layering of patterns, colors, and textures are the principles composing this design style. It is a free-spirited design style with personal touches, suiting individual needs. - [The Gothic design style | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/the-gothic-design-style-winner-announcement/): The Gothic design style is a 2021 design and writing competition organized by Artuminate. Artuminate was looking for a conceptual design and write-up submission on the gothic design style. - [The Drawing Board 2021 | Design Challenge](https://archidiaries.com/the-drawing-board-2021-2/): This year’s design challenge for “The Drawing Board” is much more than an architecture contest. Immerse yourself in the study of Wari and discover the higher calling that pilgrims submit to each year. This challenge is to give young architects and design students an opportunity to explore, invent and be creative with challenging architectural problems. - [Skyhive 2021 Skyscraper Challenge | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/skyhive-2021-skyscraper-challenge-winner-announcement/): The SKYHIVE 2021 Skyscraper Challenge is the fourth annual competition in the series which challenges participants with envisioning an iconic high-rise tower in any location around the world. This year, there was a strong focus on green building techniques and materials related to achieving more sustainable, reduced-carbon solutions. - [Tiny Kiwi Meditation Cabin | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/tiny-kiwi-meditation-cabin-winner-announcement/): The Tiny Kiwi Meditation Cabin Competition is part of Bee Breeders’ Small Scale Architecture Appreciation Movement, showcasing small projects that contain big ideas. Designers were tasked with proposing an eco-friendly meditation cabin located alongside the Hauraki Plains in New Zealand for competition partners, Earth Energies Sanctuary. - [BAUHAUS Design Style | Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/bauhaus-design-style-results-announced/): The winners of the competition Bauhaus design style is a 2021 design and writing competition organized by Artuminate, on the design movement that began in 1919, geometric and abstract featuring little emotion with no inclination towards history. - [Brewed Bali | Result Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/brewed-bali-result-announcement/): The challenge for “Brewed Bali” was to design a Coffee House, a space that transcends the concept of cafes that we see today. - [Right-Live-Stock | Winner Announced](https://archidiaries.com/right-live-stock-winner-announced/): The design challenge for “Right-Live-Stock” looks at a dairy farm for cattle in a peri-urban condition. Consumption of dairy is global yet the farms they come from are always an afterthought. - [Toronto Affordable Housing Challenge | Winner Announced](https://archidiaries.com/toronto-affordable-housing-challenge-winner-announced/): The Toronto Affordable Housing Challenge is part of Bee Breeders’ Affordable Housing competition series, run in partnership with ARCHHIVE BOOKS. In this competition, we saw innovative solutions to the city’s housing crisis - from community co-living facilities to 3D-printed homes stackable modular homes and new forms of transit-oriented development. - [Spirala Community Home | Result Announced](https://archidiaries.com/spirala-community-home-result-announced/): The Spirala Community Home Competition was a chance for participants to create a structure within the Spirala Ecological Village in Northern Portugal that would be a shared space for the community to meet and run events. The winning entries were selected as they best served the community, while at the same time being great examples of sustainable design. - [Allcart | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/allcart-winner-announcement/): The design challenge for “Allcart” is to develop a handcart concept for vendors that help them reinvent their commerce methods considerably. The design should be lean and cost-effective for the investment they can make and open new means to utilize the inherent qualities of selling on the street and not being pinned to any location. - [Staydium 2.0 | Winner Announced](https://archidiaries.com/staydium-2-0-winner-announced/): The “Staydium 2.0”challenge is to design a concept stadium for national and international events in a small city, such that the setup could be used/reused for many purposes beyond sports. The sheer culmination of many facilities and building services makes a stadium an ideal box to serve many functions beyond sports. - [Kaira Looro 2021 -Women's House| Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/kaira-looro-2021-womens-house-winners-announced/): Kaira Looro Architecture Competition is a design contest open to students and young architects with aims to discover new talents and to adopt sustainable architecture models for the humanitarian purposes to improve living conditions in developing countries - [The Winning Projects Of The Fifth Edition Of The European Award For Architectural Heritage Intervention](https://archidiaries.com/the-fifth-edition-of-the-european-award-for-architectural-heritage-intervention/): The winners of the 5th European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention were announced by the jury yesterday in the courtyard of the Frederic Marès Museum, a historical site in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. The announcement of the 15 finalists, four winning works and two Special Mentions for Restoration was made during the 5th International Architectural Heritage Intervention Biennial. - [REMOTE WORK CABIN COMPETITION: Meet the Winner and Honorable Mentions](https://archidiaries.com/remote-work-cabin-competition-meet-the-winner-and-honorable-mentions/): Winners of the competition “Remote Work Cabin” are announced which aimed to develop one drawing to communicate an architectural design. - [Children's Hospital Cluj Napoca | Winner Announced](https://archidiaries.com/childrens-hospital-cluj-napoca-winner-announced/): Between the 13th and the 17th of June 2021, the competition jury debated in order to decide the results for the “Children’s Hospital Cluj-Napoca” International Design Competition. The Contracting Authority of the competition is the Cluj County Council. - [Tiny Library 2021 | Result Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/tiny-library-2021-result-announcement/): We are extremely excited to announce the winners of the Tiny Library 2021 Architecture Competition. The architectural design competition posed a challenge for the participants to rethink and re-imagine the idea of the Library as a 21st-century self-learning and educational incubation space that not only sheds light on conventional means of knowledge but also encourages its users to interact, share ideas and grow together. - [Omuli Museum of the Horse | Result Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/omuli-museum-of-the-horse-result-announcement/): The Omuli Museum of the Horse competition tasked participants with redesigning and reimagining the historic Omuli School building into a multipurpose space that would function as a museum for horses, located within the UNESCO-recognised North Latvia Biosphere Reserve. - [The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial | Winner Announced](https://archidiaries.com/winner-announcement-the-last-nuclear-bomb-memorial/): In support of the call to ban all nuclear weapons, "The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial" competition asked for designs of a conceptual memorial to be located on any known decommissioned nuclear weapon testing site. - [Result Announced | Ethiopian Satellite Preschools](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-ethiopian-satellite-preschools/): Archstorming, an architectural platform that organizes international humanitarian competitions, has released the results for the Ethiopian Satellite Preschools contest. In this competition, participants were challenged to design a school for the NGO Abay Ethiopia, a non-profit organization from Spain that operates in Walmara, Ethiopia, with the aim of fighting against poverty and promoting equal opportunities, mainly through the development of Education, Health and Community support projects in general. - [Result Announced | Home Futura](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-home-futura/): “Home Futura” design challenge is simple, show us what is home is to you? Use any mediums, video, images, drawings, sketches, models, paintings - and communicate what dwelling means to you and the client you designed it for. - [Inside the Box | Result Announced](https://archidiaries.com/inside-the-box-result-announced/): The problem statement for “Inside the Box” looks at a classroom upgrade kit that includes new furniture design, classroom layout methods, the inclusion of taught and DIY learning, with equipment that will help deliver a more robust and fun way of learning than today. - [Empowering the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Western Himalayas](https://archidiaries.com/empowering-the-intangible-cultural-heritage-of-the-western-himalayas/): Do join us for a live interview on July 13, at 04:00 PM with Rahul Bhushan, India for Reflections. - [Mobitecture- Habitat on Move | Result Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/mobitecture-habitat-on-move-result-announcement/): The competition was briefed To design a concept of Mobitecture - ‘Habitat on the move.’ It could be a device for living with no wheels, one or two wheels, three wheels, four wheels or more, could be water, ice, or airborne. It could be none of these, a combination of any or all of these. - [Villa Vernacular- Kerala | Result Announced](https://archidiaries.com/villa-vernacular-kerala-result-announced/): Villa Vernacular is a design challenge focussed on building a motion towards responsible leisure properties across the world. It is an idea that looks towards equalizing the balance between rural identities and urban demands. - [Winners | Live x Learn: Discovering a vertical university](https://archidiaries.com/winners-live-x-learn-discovering-a-vertical-university/): The fundamental aspects of learning in the coming decades - with more open learning technology, the idea of the competition Live x Learn engages with a skyscraper that serves as both - A University & Housing Tower that gives birth to a more hybrid future. - [INSPIRELI AWARDS 2021 Call for Entries](https://archidiaries.com/inspireli-awards-2021-call-for-entries/): The biggest architectural student competition Inspireli Awards is closing its registration for this year on July 14, 2021. Last call to register your project(s) now! - [Pura | Result Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-pura/): “Pura” was briefed for a permanent solution to balance nature and mankind that needs to be re-established without keeping a man as the design center. - [Result Announcement | Playground-E](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-playground-e/): Playground- E briefed to develop a model playground that has the ability for children to play in the times of today. The winning entry “Metatopia” is a modular system with interchangeable ply elements. These elements are categorized into playing, farming, resting, and connecting contents. - [Winner Announced | Millennial House Unit](https://archidiaries.com/winner-announced-millennial-house-unit/): “Millennial House Unit” challenge was to design a basic housing prototype, conceptualized for students of 1 to 3 people with private spaces and shared services. - [Result Announced | Floating House](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-floating-house/): A Floating House will be conceptualized as an individual element that can be combined in a set of 10 units, adding aesthetic value to the natural environment. - [Result Announced | Residence Rush](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-residence-rush/): The start and the finishing parts of the project however are indeed the most creative ones. “Residence Rush” design challenge looks at this specific part where we push to solve a design challenge in a limited timeframe. The competition focused on residence design only as a theme with fixed minimum deliverables in 5 days. - [Shades of Green; Poetry to Responsibility](https://archidiaries.com/poetry-to-responsibility/): Do join us for a live interview on July 07, at 11:00 AM with Rafiq Azam from Bangladesh, as part of our interview Series Shades of Green-2.0 - [Result Announced | Bauhaus Campus](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-bauhaus-campus/): Between November 2020 and May 2021 arkitekturo challenged architecture students from all around the world to imagine how the Bauhaus Campus would look like if the iconic school from early 1900 were to re-open its doors a century after it was first established. - [Result Announcement | Faith](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-faith/): The design challenge was to propose an intervention - A Centre for Faith Agnostics. The proposed center should be open to all regardless of their faith. - [FITT Future Headquarter | Winner Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/fitt-future-headquarter-winner-announcement/): The call for ideas FITT FUTURE HEADQUARTERS was launched in November 2020 by YAC – Young Architects Competitions – in collaboration with FITT Group for the design of the new, innovative headquarters of this leading Italian company. Designers from almost 100 countries took part in this compelling challenge proposing their concept ideas. - [The Container City | Result Announced](https://archidiaries.com/the-container-city-result-announced/): The design brief for the competition The Container City was to design a student housing concept made of 15 shipping containers. Devise the spaces and the requirements based on how many people ideally can this shipping container setup can fit. Please note the housing concept has to be made out of shipping containers primarily. - [Result Announced | New Dencities](https://archidiaries.com/winners-new-dencities/): New Dencities challenged to develop a zero-commute, mixed-use residential neighborhood concept that is resilient to pandemic impacts and is built for a population that lives, works, and plays in the same place. - [Result Announcement | Deploy - Cyclones](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-deploy-cyclones/): Deploy embarks itself on technological and engineering innovations which are about to go big, and sets architecture free to innovate more in these uncharted and heavily testing directions. It is one of its kind platforms that promote the wayfinding during the crucial time between the catastrophe and its relief response. - [Timbrel Vaulting - Working with the Earth and Nature's Forces](https://archidiaries.com/timbrel-vaulting/): Peters seminal African Space Making research and its appropriate contribution to fulfilling contemporary African Architectures needs, has had him awarded the FAIA the IntFRIBA, the SAIA Gold Medallist, and a fellow of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge UK. His quest is to bring the genius of Africa, past, present and future to bear on enabling Africans to be proud of who they are. - [Result Announced | Project Runway](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-project-runway/): There exists a gap between academic and market education in college curriculums. Most of the graduates lack basic stitching-sewing skills that make job procurement out of question. Project Runway; the challenge was to design a pavilion to integrate academic knowledge with industrial experience amid fashion institutes. - [Result Announced | Linguatheque](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-linguatheque/): Linguatheque challenges to design a Language Center for the province that focuses on preserving and propagating the varied languages that existed historically and are now extinct or on the verge of getting extinct. - [Result Announcement | Our Neighborhood](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-our-neighborhood-2/): As members of the design community, how do we present theory? Do we communicate with words and gestures towards lifelike images of our proposals? Or do we sketch before our clients, letting our hands lead the conversation? “Our Neighborhood ” invites you to present social experiences that highlight the present locality in the surrounding. - [Result Announced | Dwell One](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-dwell-one/): Team UNI announced the winners of the competition “Dwell One” which aimed to design a single-person dwelling within the community. - [Shades of Green 2.0](https://archidiaries.com/shades-of-green-2-0-p-b-sajan/): Do join us for a live interview on June 21, at 04:00 PM with P B Sajan, Joint Director, COSTFORD, as part of our interview Series Shades of Green-2.0 - [The Tree House | Result Announcement](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-the-tree-house/): There is a personality test called "the house, the tree and the person" where representation techniques are studied in relation to the person (HTP test in English), although it is very interesting, what we want is to explore the relationships between these elements and innovate. - [Winners | Tiny House Design Competition](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-tiny-house-design-competition/): The Tiny House modules pertain to the relevance of today’s situation in the Kosovan culture. On a status-quo level, the house modules would be an efficient response - with houses being built within a 24-hour interval by 3D modeling printers - to the ever-increasing housing crisis in Kosovo because of the Covid-19 pandemic. - [Result Announced | Street- A- Float](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-street-a-float/): ARCH 8 announced the results of ‘STREET-A-FLOAT’. - [Cumulus Wins Tasmanian Architecture Awards](https://archidiaries.com/cumulus-celebrates-multiple-award-wins-at-2021-tasmanian-architecture-awards/): The Australian Institute of Architects Awards program offers an opportunity for public and peer recognition of the innovative work of Tasmanian Architects. The Cumulus team attended the event with hopeful anticipation, as Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre and Stony Rise Cellar Door had been shortlisted in respective categories. - [The Ethical Aspect versus the Business case of Sustainable Architecture](https://archidiaries.com/the-ethical-aspect-versus-the-business-case-of-sustainable-architecture/): The talk describes two typical projects, that while being sustainable and winning awards for these achievements, have given a great return to their investors and hopefully they can inspire these conversations to galvanize more developers to this movement - besides the obvious ethical and scientific reasons for it, besides the immense return for society, there is the selfish return for the developer. - [Result Announcement | Sync](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-sync/): UNI announced the winners of the competition “SYNC: Designing a Cultural Center for 21st-century Eco-cities” - [Result Announced | Architecture Render Challenge](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-architecture-render-challenge/): Team Archiol reveals the winners of the competition “Architecture Render Challenge” - [Result Announced | Postareal Böblingen](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-postareal-boblingen/): The winner of the international competition for the IBA’27 Project “Postareal Böblingen” (Böblingen Post Office Site) has been announced. - [Result Announced | “Backnang West Neighborhood” urban planning competition](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-backnang-west-neighborhood-urban-planning-competition/): IBA’27 revealed winners for an urban planning competition named “Backnang West Neighbourhood” - [Result Announced | Urbanscape Streetbeat](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-urbanscape-streetbeat/): UNI announced the winners for the competition “Urbanscape: Streetbeat”. - [Role of Transition Spaces in Buildings in Extreme Climates](https://archidiaries.com/role-of-transition-spaces-in-buildings-in-extreme-climates/): Over the years ZedLab has experimented with transition spaces in different kinds of projects ranging from residential to institutional. Contrary to the traditional courtyard within the building envelope, the approach is to introduce transition spaces at the periphery that creates a protected external environment for the users and the building itself. - [Honourable Mention and finalists of CLT Induction in India - Design Competition](https://archidiaries.com/honourable-mention-and-finalists-of-clt-induction-in-india-design-competition/): Aakar Design Private Ltd with the partnership of Mitsubishi announced the honourable mentions and finalists of the competition workshop “CLT Induction-in India”. - [Open-hearted documentary about Winy Maas, Under Tomorrow's Sky, premieres in early June](https://archidiaries.com/open-hearted-documentary-about-winy-maas-under-tomorrows-sky-premieres-in-early-june/): Under Tomorrow's Sky, is an Open-hearted documentary about MVRDV’s Winy Maas. The film shares an intimate look at a person who works passionately to create the city of the future – through buildings and urban plans all over the world, as well as through investigations with students and researchers. - [Brazillian Architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha passes away at 92](https://archidiaries.com/brazillian-architect-paulo-mendes-da-rocha-passes-away-at-92/): Architecture fraternity mourns the loss of Brazillian Architect and 2006 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Paulo Mendes da Rocha. - [CLT Induction : Online Award Ceremony and Panel Discussion](https://archidiaries.com/clt-induction-online-award-ceremony-and-panel-discussion/): The Results for the competition were announced through a online webinar with participants and jurors. It was followed by a small presentation by the winners and a panel discussion. - [Result Announcement: Design Daily Choice Awards 2020](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-design-daily-choice-awards-2020/): Team Design Daily announced winners for the “Design Daily Choice Award 2020”. Founded in 2010, Design Daily is dedicated to building the world’s leading online platform and community on architecture, landscape, urban, interior and sharing its discoveries with a worldwide audience. - [Sustainable built environment and the Developing World](https://archidiaries.com/sustainable-built-environment-and-the-developing-world/): Taking the example of India, the talk tries to identify the reality on the ground of the processes and trends that are determining the growth of towns and cities. From this ground of reality the talk attempts to develop a theory of sustainability as a developmental practice. - [Results Announced | Sunlight in Architecture](https://archidiaries.com/results-announced-sunlight-in-architecture/): Archiol announced the result for competition "Sunlight in Architecture" - [Student Prize Winner Announced for CLT Induction in India - Design Competition](https://archidiaries.com/student-prize-winner-announced-for-clt-induction-in-india-design-competition/): Aakar Design Private Ltd with the partnership of Mitsubishi announced the student prize winner and special mention of the competition workshop “CLT Induction-in India”. - [Result Announced | Metaphysics in Architecture Competition](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-metaphysics-in-architecture-competition/): Result announced for the competition "Metaphysics in Architecture" which was a 2021 Architecture Essay Competition, organized by Archiol. - [Result Announced | Sustainability in Architecture](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-sustainability-in-architecture/): Archiol announced winners of architecture writing competition “Sustainability in architecture” - [Winners Announced for CLT Induction in India - Design Competition](https://archidiaries.com/winners-announced-for-clt-induction-in-india-design-competition-2/): Aakar Design Private Ltd with the partnership of Mitsubishi announced the frst three winners of the competition workshop “CLT Induction-in India”. - [Shenzhen Terraces by MVRDV breaks grounds](https://archidiaries.com/shenzhen-terraces-by-mvrdv-breaks-grounds/): Designed with sustainability as a focus, the project’s green outdoor spaces mix together with a wide variety of activities – including a theatre, a library, a museum, a conference centre, and retail – to make the site a hub for meeting, learning, leisure, culture, and relaxation. - [Result Announced | History of Architecture-Architecture Writing Competition](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-history-of-architecture-architecture-writing-competition/): Result announced for the competition History of Architecture is a 2021 Presentation and Writing Competition, organized by Archiol. - [Result Announcement: Rethinking The Future Awards 2021 for excellence in Architecture & Design](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-rethinking-the-future-awards-2021-for-excellence-in-architecture-design/): Rethinking the Future Announced winners of the “Rethinking The Future Awards 2021 for excellence in Architecture & Design”. - [Result Announced | Design Educates Awards 2021](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-design-educates-awards-2021/): Winners of “Design Educates Awards has been announced by host “Laka Foundation” - [Shades of Green](https://archidiaries.com/shades-of-green/): This is an illustrated slide lecture that will point out that mainstream architecture, which stressed code compliance, safety, and value for money, became green, with a stress on efficiency and substitution of fossil resources with renewable ones. - [Result Announced: Origamitecture -Paper powered architecture ideas](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-origamitecture-paper-powered-architecture-ideas/): UNI announced winners for the competition “Origamitecture -Paper powered architecture ideas” - [Entrepreneurial Pathways to Sustainability](https://archidiaries.com/entrepreneurial-pathways-to-sustainability/): Live Interview on Facebook and Youtube About the talk. - [Pratt Institute: Research Open house 2021](https://archidiaries.com/pratt-institute-research-open-house-2021/): Green Infrastructure (GI) implementation is often prioritized based on a singular problem: stormwater runoff. GI, however, is argued to have multiple co-benefits, raising the question: why aren’t these co-benefits accounted for prior to implementation? - [Result Announcement | Art and Architecture- An Essay](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-art-and-architecture-an-essay/): Result announced for Architecture Writing Competition 2021, organized by ARCHIOL that explores the philosophy of “Art and Architecture.” - [Result Announced| Senegal Elementary School](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-senegal-elementary-school/): Archstorming, an architectural platform that organizes international humanitarian competitions, has released the results for the Senegal Elementary School contest. - [Intergrating the Opposites : Experiences at Dustudio. Auroville.](https://archidiaries.com/intergrating-the-opposites-experiences-at-dustudio-auroville/): Live Interview on Facebook and Youtube About the Talk Architectural Practices are going through a big rethink as the developmental issues are increasingly becoming challenging ; Interdisciplinary approaches, Networking & Collaborations are inevitable and the very nature of an architecture practice is going through transformational times; the role of an architect is being redefined by the value system, social engagement & caring for the environment at this crucial juncture. - [Reflections #4 | Praxis](https://archidiaries.com/reflections-4-praxis/): Live Interview on Facebook and Youtube Maneesh Kumar trained as a craftsman at his hometown Jaisalmer in his formative years and studied architecture at Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, before founding Studio Praxis at Ahmedabad in 2012. - [Result Announced: Tiny House 2020](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-tiny-house-2020/): The winners of competition "Tiny House" announced which aimed to celebrate individuality, redefine sustainability and exalt simple, resourceful living. - [Data Driven Design using Rhino and Grasshopper - Webinar](https://archidiaries.com/data-driven-design-using-rhino-and-grasshopper-webinar/): Adnan Makda in Collaboration with ArchiDiaries conducted a Live Webinar to Introduce the participants with the concept of Data Driven Design (DDD). It is a goal-oriented design approach that specifically addresses performance-related criteria, such as energy use, operating cost, occupant comfort, daylighting, FSI, views, and HVAC size, among others. - [Result Announcement: Europe 40 Under 40- 2020](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-europe-40-under-40-2020/): Winners announced for “Europe 40 under 40” the young architects and designers below the age of 40. - [Result Announced: Architecture Illustration Competition](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-architecture-illustration-competition/): The result announced for Architecture illustration competition held by DesignClass - [Result Announcement: Iceland Cave Tower](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-iceland-cave-tower/): The winners of the Iceland Cave Tower Competition have been selected. This was the fourth Bee Breeders competition set in the extraordinary landscape of northern Iceland. - [Announcing Shades of Green 2.0, Live Interview Series](https://archidiaries.com/announcing-shades-of-green-2-0-live-interview-series/): Shades of Green is back this year, with Nine Guest Speakers and Panelist and a inspiring and stimulating conversation on Sustainable building approaches. The Live Interview Series will host an interview every week this May & June, talking about various sustainable building processes. - [Result Announced: The Cambodia Remote Hideout Huts competition](https://archidiaries.com/result-announced-the-cambodia-remote-hideout-huts-competition/): The Cambodia Remote Hideout Huts competition is part of Bee Breeders’ small-scale competition series, run in partnership with ARCHHIVE BOOKS’ What is Small Scale Architecture? - [Result Announcement: East Park Cluj- Napoca](https://archidiaries.com/result-announcement-east-park-cluj-napoca/): Results for international design competition “East Park Cluj- Napoca” has announced. - [Bijoy Jain has been announced as the 14th winner of the Alvar Aalto Medal 2020](https://archidiaries.com/bijoy-jain-has-announced-as-the-14th-winner-of-the-alvar-aalto-medal-2020/): The India based architecture firm “Studio Mumbai” and his director Ar. Bijoy Jain has been selected as the winners of Alvar Aalto medal 2020. Studio Mumbai’s skill that fusions architecture and craftsmanship reflects in their works by understandings about geography, climatic and social characteristic, insightful considerations to the work became fascinating elements for the selection. - [Smiljan Radić Clarke Receives the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize](https://archidiaries.com/smiljan-radic-clarke-receives-the-2026-pritzker-architecture-prize/): Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke has been named the 2026 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, honoring a body of work that embraces fragility, experimentation, and emotional depth. Through projects that blur the line between permanence and transience, Radić continues to expand architecture’s capacity to create meaningful spatial experiences. - [Liu Jiakun Receives the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize](https://archidiaries.com/liu-jiakun-receives-the-2025-pritzker-architecture-prize/): The Pritzker Architecture Prize announces Liu Jiakun, of Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, as the 2025 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor. Throughout his works, Liu demonstrates a reverence for culture, history and nature, chronicling time and comforting users with familiarity through modern interpretations of classic Chinese architecture. - [A New Community for Berlin: Construction Begins on the MVRDV-designed LXK Office and Residential Campus](https://archidiaries.com/a-new-community-for-berlin-construction-begins-on-the-mvrdv-designed-lxk-office-and-residential-campus/): LXK Office and Residential Campus, an architectural project by MVRDV, features a sustainable mixed-use complex and serves as a city landmark. The 61,200 m2 development offers stunning views of the city centre and includes 51,850m2 of office and commercial space and 9,350m2 of residential space. The complex features two L-shaped volumes, consolidated into a single block, and a large green public square. - [Riken Yamamoto announced as Pritzker Architecture Laureate 2024](https://archidiaries.com/riken-yamamoto-announced-as-pritzker-architecture-laureate-2024/): The Pritzker Architecture Prize announces Riken Yamamoto, of Yokohama, Japan, as the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor. Yamamoto, architect and social advocate, establishes kinship between public and private realms, inspiring harmonious societies despite a diversity of identities, economies, politics, infrastructures, and housing systems. - [Pakistani Architect Yasmeen Lari named as the recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2023](https://archidiaries.com/pakistani-architect-yasmeen-lari-named-as-the-recipient-of-the-riba-royal-gold-medal-2023/): ArchiDiaries' news announces that RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) is pleased to nominate Ar. Yasmeen Lari as a recipient of the Royal Gold Medal 2023, one of the world’s highest honours for the architecture fraternity. The award - the first to be personally approved by His Majesty The King - acknowledges Yasmeen Lari’s work championing zero carbon self-build concepts for displaced populations. - [David Alan Chipperfield announced as Pritzker Architecture Laureate 2023](https://archidiaries.com/david-alan-chipperfield-announced-as-pritzker-architecture-laureate-2023/): Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH has been awarded as the 2023 Laureate of The Pritzker Architecture Prize. His commitment to architecture with transformative civic presence and the definition of the public realm is done always with austerity, avoiding unnecessary moves and steering clear of trends and fashions. Chipperfield’s architectural language balances consistency with the fundamental design principles and flexibility towards the local cultures unifying European classicism, the complex nature of Britain, and even the delicateness of Japan, acting as a fruition of cultural diversity. - [The Journey of ‘Doshi We Know Fellowship’ through the lenses of Past Fellows’ Work](https://archidiaries.com/the-journey-of-doshi-we-know-fellowship-through-the-lenses-of-past-fellows-work/): The Doshi We Know (DWK) fellowship was first announced in the year 2018 and three successful cycles have been completed so far. In this article, we talk about the inspiring journey of past three fellows: Kaushik Kumar (2018-2019), Purvi Tank (2019-2020), and Chandra Prakash Kumare (2020-2021); and invite applications for DWK Fellowship’s 2023-2024 cycle. - [Doshi We Know | Applications for 'Breaking the Barriers - The Fellowship 2023-2024' are invited](https://archidiaries.com/doshi-we-know-breaking-the-barriers-the-fellowship-2023-2024/): Doshi We Know trust has announced its annual fellowship program for the year 2023-2024, calling it 'Breaking the Barriers'. The Doshi Fellowship will support scholars primarily in the field of architecture and the built environment. Awardees will be provided a sum of Rs. 3,00,000/- as support for pursuing their interest. Please find all the details about the Doshi We Know group, fellowship, and the application procedure in this article. - [BV Doshi awarded Padma Vibhushan](https://archidiaries.com/bv-doshi-awarded-padma-vibhushan/): With so many golden feathers already to his crown, architect Balkrishna Doshi has been posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan-the second highest honor in the country, on the eve of India's 74th Republic Day. - [Architect B V Doshi](https://archidiaries.com/architect-b-v-doshi/): A teacher, educator, architect, urban planner, Pritzker Architecture Prize and RIBA Laureate Architect B V Doshi passed away on January 24, 2023. - [A green haven among skyscrapers: MVRDV wins competition to design nature-inspired Oasis Towers in Nanjing](https://archidiaries.com/a-green-haven-among-skyscrapers-mvrdv-wins-competition-to-design-nature-inspired-oasis-towers-in-nanjing/): The Chinese metropolis of Nanjing is growing rapidly. To enable this growth, in 2015 the government formed the Jiangbei New Area, expanding Nanjing to the west across the Yangtze River. MVRDV has now won a competition to design a mixed-use residential and commercial complex on the edge of the Jiangbei New Area’s Financial District. With a green landscape nestled between two 150-metre-tall towers, Oasis Towers will provide a haven for residents in a dense and rapidly developing part of the city. - [MVRDV to transform Herman Hertzberger’s Centraal Beheer building – an icon of structuralism – into a new residential district](https://archidiaries.com/mvrdv-to-transform-herman-hertzbergers-centraal-beheer-building-an-icon-of-structuralism-into-a-new-residential-district/): The Centraal Beheer building by Herman Hertzberger in Apeldoorn is a well-known project among architects worldwide. Designed for an insurance company, the office is widely seen as one of the high points of the structuralist movement. Now MVRDV, in consultation with Herman Hertzberger’s office AHH, is transforming the celebrated building, respectfully preserving its structure and making it the centrepiece of a sustainable, green residential neighbourhood that echoes the design principles of the existing building. Commissioned by Certitudo Capital, the transformation is part of a larger area vision for the three-hectare site near the city’s train station, with MVRDV’s design prioritising heritage preservation, greening, and innovation and introducing approximately 650-800 homes. - [New light on sustainable design – MVRDV turns Delta Light's luminaires inside out with new design presented at Milan Design Week](https://archidiaries.com/new-light-on-sustainable-design-mvrdv-turns-delta-lights-luminaires-inside-out-with-new-design-presented-at-milan-design-week/): On June 7 at Milan Design Week, MVRDV and Delta Light will present the High Profile series, a range of luminaires inspired by residual product: leftover aluminium profiles. The design looks critically at the manufacturing process, finding both opportunity and beauty in elements generally discarded as waste. - [Aga Khan Award for Architecture announces 2022 shortlist](https://archidiaries.com/aga-khan-award-for-architecture-announces-2022-shortlist/): The shortlisted entries for international Aga Khan Award for Architecture have been announced for the year 2022. - [Rotterdam Rooftop Walk was opened to visitors: Feel the city from the height of 30 Meters](https://archidiaries.com/rotterdam-rooftop-walk-was-opened-to-visitors-feel-the-city-from-the-height-of-30-meters/): Rotterdam Rooftop Walk, an orange carpet at a height of 30 metres allows the public a different experience of the city. - [Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) wins international architectural competition for the design of the Vltava Philharmonic Hall](https://archidiaries.com/bjarke-ingels-group-big-wins-international-architectural-competition-for-the-design-of-the-vltava-philharmonic-hall/): Prague has announced the winner of the international architectural competition for the design of the Vltava Philharmonic Hall, which is the team of the Danish studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). - [Royal Gold Medal 2022 recipient: Balkrishna Doshi](https://archidiaries.com/royal-gold-medal-2022-recipient-balkrishna-doshi/): Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi will receive the Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture. - [Waterfront 2.0](https://archidiaries.com/waterfront-2-0/): Waterfront 2.0 challenges designers, architects, landscape architects, urbanists, urban designers, planners, and design thinkers (professionals as well as students) to imagine the future of waterfronts. - [Doshi-We-Know Fellowship 2022 awarded to Chandraprakash Kumare](https://archidiaries.com/doshi-we-know-fellowship-2022-awarded-to-chandraprakash-kumare/): Chandraprakash Kumare, TA: Nagpur, Maharashtra is awarded the Doshi We Know 2022 fellowship. His application proposes the study of women workers in the construction industry as well as in rural areas through photography and paintings. Noted artist Mr. Murali Cheeroth has generously agreed to mentor Chandraprakash Kumare. It proposes to bring about a greater empathy and understanding of their lives through the medium of the visual arts. - [Francis Kéré announced as Pritzker Architecture Laureate 2022](https://archidiaries.com/francis-kere-announced-as-pritzer-architecture-laureate-2022/): Diébédo Francis Kéré, architect, educator and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation. Francis Kéré empowers and transforms communities through the process of architecture. Through his commitment to social justice and engagement, and intelligent use of local materials to connect and respond to the natural climate, he works in marginalized countries laden with constraints and adversity, where architecture and infrastructure are absent. - [Forum | Townhall Design | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/forum-townhall-design-winners-announced/): Forum, a challenge to design a public town hall that will not only be a workplace for civilians, but also an interface between them and the citizens of the city. It should offer a platform for people to participate in political events. The transition from private to public access spaces can be aided by open spaces. The aim of the design is to promote social interaction amongst citizens and the officials, providing a common ground. - [Culture Window | Airport Cultural Centre | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/culture-window-airport-cultural-centre-winners-announced/): Culture Window, a challenge to design a cultural center on airport grounds that offers a brief look into the various sociocultural aspects of the city. To attract visitors while representing the context appropriately, the form needs to go hand in hand with the local elements used in the design. The site is on airport grounds, so the facility must be independent and cause no obstruction to function around it. - [7TH ANNUAL INSPIRELI AWARDS | Call for Entries !!](https://archidiaries.com/7th-annual-inspireli-awards-call-for-entries/): 7th Annual Inspireli awards is here and the registration is open! INSPIRELI AWARDS is the world's largest global student contest, with participants from 142 countries and 630+ architects in the jury. The aim of the competition is to support young talents in architecture free of charge, regardless of their social, economic or ethnic conditions. - [TerraViva Competitions Announces Results of “Hangar Ticinum”](https://archidiaries.com/terraviva-competitions-announces-the-results-of-hangar-ticinum/): TerraViva Competitions has officially released the complete list of awarded projects of the design contest “Hangar Ticinum”. The unquestionable historical and artistic value of the “Idroscalo”, the uniqueness of its architectural typology and the worrying state of decay in which the building has been for decades, are just some of the reasons that motivated the idea of this competition. “Hangar Ticinum” challenged participants to imagine a full recovery of the hydroplane base with the ambition of restoring the importance and centrality it once had for the city of Pavia. - [Bookmark 2.0 | Modular Library | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/bookmark-2-0-modular-library-winners-announced/): Bookmark 2.0, a challenge is to design a modular reading and learning space that is safe, compact, and socially conscious, built for children in a rural area. The facility is supposed to have a design scheme that is easy to use and durable in the long run. The context of the rural site requires attention since its economic, socio-cultural, and environmental aspects must be responded to. - [MVRDV selected as Finalist in Civic Centre Design Competition](https://archidiaries.com/mvrdv-selected-as-finalist-in-civic-centre-design-competition/): MVRDV has been named as one of three finalists in the competition to design a civic centre complex for Pujiang, a planned new town near Chengdu in China. Comprising a civic centre, conference centre, hotel, and offices, Pujiang Peaks features a collection of timber structures with sweeping curved roofs, set in a natural park landscape that maximises biodiversity and walkability. - [Biomimetics | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/biomimetics-winners-announced/): Biomimetics is a theme that is part of the contest series ArchWeekly, a new brand of journal competitions inviting participants to engage in critical conversations on selected themes from several disciplines of architecture and design. The brief aims to open a dialogue to foster nature inspired solutions in architecture through stories, accounts or even observations. - [Baus Stop | Bauhaus Themed Bus Stop | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/baus-stop-bauhaus-themed-bus-stop-winners-announced/): Baus Stop, a Bauhaus themed bus stop design challenge looks at manifesting Bauhaus design principles in a bus stop. The goal is to design a bus stop that stands as an example of how Bauhaus can weigh in, in changing the public space design game. It should create a balance between its design goals and functional aspects, in a way that resonates with the movement’s ideas. The final outcome should stand as a memoir of the movement and its influences on today’s time. - [Ashore | Eco-Sensitive Pier Design | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/ashore-eco-sensitive-pier-design-winners-announced/): Ashore, an eco-sensitive pier design challenge is a competition to design an eco-sensitive pier that acts as a recreational spot and a viewpoint for the visitors. The construction is in an eco-sensitive area so the design must have no harmful effect on the site. The design of the viewing tower at the end of the pier will stand as a symbol to address the stake of humankind in the ocean’s ecological balance. - [Gorskaya Territory Development | Selected Participants](https://archidiaries.com/gorskaya-territory-development-selected-participants/): Gorskaya Territory in st. Petersburg, 76 companies from 16 countries will compete for the right to develop architectural and urban solutions. Acceptance of applications to participate in the International Competition for the Architectural and Urban Development Solutions for Gorskaya Territory has now ended. - [Place Making | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/place-making-winners-announced/): Place Making is a theme that is part of the contest series ArchWeekly, a new brand of journal competitions inviting participants to engage in critical conversations on selected themes from several disciplines of architecture and design. Place making is both a process and a philosophy. It inspires people to re-imagine and re-invent public spaces as the heart of every community. Place making is centered around mapping the activities and behavior of the people in a particular space. - [The Home of Man | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/the-home-of-man-winners/): The Home of Man, proposals could be facilities from our surroundings, ideal city plans, or may even be institutional. Proposals should be broad ideas that go far beyond what just a home is. Now it seems crucially important for us too, to seek positive and essential proposals beyond COVID19. Therefore, this time the theme became “The Home of Man”. The proposals could be facilities from our surroundings, ideal city plans, or may even be institutional. - [SHATOTTO | OPAL AWARDS WINNER 2021](https://archidiaries.com/shatotto-opal-awards-winner-2021/): Architect Rafiq Azam and his team SHATOTTO has won the prestigious Outstanding Property Award 2021 (Opal Award 2021) for the project -'Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque', Dhaka in the Platinum category. The design philosophy of the project was to create a threshold space between the terrestrial world, the busy road on the north and the celestial world, the graveyard on the south by embedding the traditional typologies with the contemporary typologies. - [Doshi We Know Foundation calls for Fellowship Entries](https://archidiaries.com/doshi-we-know-fellowship/): Doshi We Know Fellowship is meant to support young scholars and practitioners who wish to study a contemporary situation, involve themselves in ways of responding to its challenges, or carry out innovative experiments to research some aspect of the situation. - [Port of Beirut | Live Talk](https://archidiaries.com/port-of-beirut-live-talk/): Port of Beirut Renewal Competition organized by Inspireli Awards, has organized a live talk with the heads of the studios of the participating universities. - [Temporary Architecture | ArchWeekly Winners](https://archidiaries.com/temporary-architecture-archweekly-winners/): Temporary Architecture is a theme that is part of the contest series ArchWeekly, a new brand of journal competitions inviting participants to engage in critical conversations on selected themes from several disciplines of architecture and design. - [Night Architecture | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/night-architecture-winners/): Night Architecture is a theme that is part of the contest series ArchWeekly, a new brand of journal competitions inviting participants to engage in critical conversations on selected themes from several disciplines of architecture and design. - [Travel & Architecture | ArchWeekly Winners](https://archidiaries.com/travel-architecture-archweekly-winners/): Travel and Architecture’ is a theme that is part of the contest series ArchWeekly, a new brand of journal competitions inviting participants to engage in critical conversations on selected themes from several disciplines of architecture and design. - [ATA 2021 | Thesis Awards 2021 | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/architecture-thesis-awards-2021-winners/): Architectural Thesis Award, after a great success in ATA2020 with 350+ registrations from around the globe. The International Thesis Award, launched with the aim of promoting and giving a global platform to showcase the talents of Young Graduates and Post Graduates, acknowledging the projects amongst young and influential industry professionals. - [DI | Design and Innovation Competition 2021 | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/di-design-and-innovation-competition-2021-winners/): DI 2021 stands for Design and Innovation in 2021. The design competition is open to both concept projects, as well as realized projects by young design and tech professionals worldwide. - [Resilient Architecture | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/resilient-architecture-winners/): Resilient Architecture - Resilience is a strategy to enhance the ability of a building, facility, or community to both prevent damage and to recover from damage to the function that it is designed for. - [Pearls of Green | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/pearls-of-green-winners/): Pearls of Greens, a landscape design challenge is to design a park that is dedicated to the ‘Miegakure’ form of garden design. - [Reuse Architectural Illusion | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/reuse-architectural-illusion-winners/): Illusions are a trick of the eye, and this concept is used far and wide to understand the difference in perception of how we see the world and how it actually is. They are generated when the mind is contradicted between deciding two things that it knows, to be facts. In the late mid-20th century, abstract artists took interest in these illusions and created the genre of optical illusions art, which has blown up ever since. Illusions are used to create a sense of curiosity to attract people to it, and this is used to convey social messages and stimulate minds. - [Breaking Work 3.0 | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/breaking-work-3-0-winners/): Breaking Work 3.0 competition is to design a co-working space for offices/small enterprises to hire only for a few months in a year. The need of this office is different from a solo co-working and requires some extent of customization to make this a tailormade office environment while keeping the good parts of co-working intact. - [Recycled Architecture | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/recycled-architecture-winners/): Recycled Architecture and Adaptive Reuse is a theme that is part of the contest series ArchWeekly, a new brand of journal competitions inviting participants to engage in critical conversations on selected themes from several disciplines of architecture and design. - [Fantasia | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/fantasia-winners-announced/): Fantasia theme park competition evolved as a means of combining the three means of leisure that they had back then: traveling fairs, pleasure gardens, and exhibition fairs such as the famous Crystal Palace Exposition. These experiences were enhanced with industrialization, where rides such as carousels with horses galloping, and ferries wheels became a trademark of theme parks around the world. - [Jack and the giant hotel | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/jack-and-the-giant-hotel-winners/): Jack and the Beanstalk is a well-known fairytale, originated in Britain. It is a story of Jack, and how he discovers the land of a ‘Giant’ in the sky, that is reached by stalks from magic beans. Can you imagine a scenario where Jack climbs to the top of the giant beanstalk and finds a restaurant there, what would it look like to him? - [Plan B | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/plan-b-winners-announced/): Plan B, theme of space has been explored much, over the years. A space experience center that emulates a new planet to be colonized from scratch and tries to educate its visitors on how our daily life choices as a species, define the future. - [Architecture for Healing | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/architecture-for-healing-winners/): Architecture for Healing, competition aims for participants to explore the connection of elements of architecture and how it establishes a healing envelope in the healthcare setting. - [Respites | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/respites-winners-announced/): 'Respites' is an architecture competition that invites sensitive design ideas for hospices for children. - [Sakhalin | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/sakhalin-planning-winners-announced/): SAKHALIN URBAN PLANNING CONCEPT THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW CITY IN THE SAKHALIN REGION HAS CHOSEN ITS WINNER. - [Winners Announced | Solace](https://archidiaries.com/solace-winners-announced/): Solace a challenge to design a pod that can be used to create a silent and isolated environment for individuals to spend time in it by reading, working, or sleeping. - [Furniture Design | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/furniture-design-winners-announced/): Furniture design is influenced by history, structural forces, material properties, the surrounding environment, ergonomics, and aesthetics. - [Weave 2.0 | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/weave-2-0-winners-announced/): Weave 2.0, a challenge to design a fashion convention center to hold events and gatherings related to the fashion industry. - [ECOPOLIS | Council Meeting](https://archidiaries.com/ecopolis-expert-council/): Ecopolis competition organizes a meeting to determine the winner of international competition. - [Port of BEIRUT | DEADLINES EXTENDED](https://archidiaries.com/port-of-beirut-deadlines-extended/): The Port of Beirut Renew Competition has extended its duration - now the deadline is JULY 14th, 2022. - [Warming 2021 | Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/warming-2021-results/): WARMING Competition participants were challenged to propose new or adapted architecture that addresses issues of global warming. - [RIBA 2022 | B V Doshi](https://archidiaries.com/b-v-doshi-riba-2022/): RIBA is pleased to announce that Balkrishna Doshi will receive the Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture. - [Women in Architecture | Results Announced](https://archidiaries.com/women-in-architecture-results-announced/): Women in Architecture’ is competitions inviting participants to engage in conversations on selected themes from several disciplines of architecture and design. - [DESIGN DEVELOPMENT | Winners Announced!](https://archidiaries.com/design-development-winners-announced/): Design development the process of designing’ is a competition organized by archiol | artuminate. The competition received 82 entries from around the world. - [History of Architecture | Winner Announced](https://archidiaries.com/history-of-architecture-winner-announced/): History of Architecture is about as long as the history of humanity itself, and almost as complex. A story of change across many different landscapes over time. - [SPACECRAFT | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/spacecraft-winner-and-honorable-mentions/): “Spacecraft Design” competition was to develop one drawing to communicate a conceptual design. - [2A Continental Architectural Awards | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/2a-continental-architectural-awards-winners-announced/): The 2A Continental Architectural Awards (2ACAA) is a stage designed to appreciate the pioneering works of architecture, planning practices, and design. - [TURF | Winner Announced](https://archidiaries.com/turf-winner-announced/): 'Turf' is an architecture competition that invites thoughtful and effective design solutions to create healthy living environments for students in their accommodations. - [Decode | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/decode-winners-announced/): 'Decode' is an architecture competition that intends to encourage an authentic understanding of one of the '-isms' in the history of architectural styles. - [Eco-Ware | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/eco-ware-winners-announced/): 'Eco-ware' is a product design competition to improving our day-to-day modern lives while being sensitive towards the natural environment. - [THRONED | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/throned-winners-announced/): Throned is a public toilet designed competition. - [Orientation | NORILSK 2035](https://archidiaries.com/orientation-norilsk-2035/): Norilsk until 2035 an orientation seminar for the finalists of the Open International Competition for architectural-planning concept was held on November 20–23. - [Finalists | Kamal Theatre Competition](https://archidiaries.com/finalists-kamal-theatre-competition/): Kamal Theater , first national theater with a century-long history is high for both Kazan and its citizens, with maximalist approach to the execution of this project. - [The Dharavi Project | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/the-dharavi-project-winners-announced/): The Dharavi Project : Express | Participate | Learn was to develop a place making project that will act as a Centre for change and community empowerment. - [PHI | Shortlisted Candidates](https://archidiaries.com/phi-shortlisted-candidates/): PHI announces the selection of Architectural firms for Stage 1 of the PHI Contemporary International Architecture Competition for a new cultural institution. - [Tree House 2021 | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/tree-house-2021-winners-announced/): Tree House 2021 Architecture competition a way of living in the lap of nature, suspended amongst a magnificent tree and under the starry sky. - [Render Challenge 2 | Winners Announced](https://archidiaries.com/render-challenge-2-winners-announced/): Render Challenge 2 is a rendering competition organized by archiol in association with artuminate. The competition received 106 entries from around the world. - [DAGESTAN: NEW DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS](https://archidiaries.com/dagestan-new-development-scenarios/): Dagestan: New Development Scenarios - The 3rd International Urban Forum in Makhachkala has ended. On October 28 and 29, the city of Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia hosted the 3rd International Urban Forum “Dagestan: New Development Scenarios” at the “Russia, My History” Historical Park. - [Snow Art Pavilion | Winners](https://archidiaries.com/winners-snow-art-pavilion/): “SNOW ART PAVILION", a competition that welcomes all architects and architecture students from around the world to the International Architecture Competition. - [Backyard Laneway Housing | Result Announced](https://archidiaries.com/result-backyard-laneway-housing/): Backyard (Laneway) Housing, a new phenomenon in solving the lack of affordable housing and be more environmentally sustainable. - [Winners | 6th Annual Inspireli Awards](https://archidiaries.com/winners-6th-annual-inspireli-awards-2021/): Inspireli Awards is the largest international architecture competition enabling new talents to tell their stories and raise awareness about their own world view before they get their chance to build it. 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