The $7.3 million purse will go toward the Design Museum's plans for the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, London.

Lutron, the latest member of the Empire State Building’s sustainable retrofit team, will improve tenant controls to reduce lighting energy consumption by 65 percent.

EFAP - FEPA: INVITATION to attend the official opening of the Architecture Biennale in Venice on 27 August 2012 and join the EFAP as an Ambassador for the EU City

EFAP - FEPA: Save the dates! / Réservez vos dates !

NLA - London's Centre for the Built Environment

24-27 May 2012 12-00 – 20-00, Free entry CardboardTown on the territory of Slovakia, Košice, Use The City Festival Lokalita: Aupark shopping center, centrum mesta, Námestie Osloboditeľo.

This prize aims to heighten the awareness and to associate the various actors in the territorial transformation process: planners, builders and customers, for the promotion of the quality of projects and construction, in both natural and urban contexts. The 2011 Prize will honour a realisation completed between 1st July 2008 and 30 June 2011. It shall express a vision for the future, based on respect for the past. >>

ThyssenKrupp Elevator launches the 12th edition of its biennial architecture award. It is organised in collaboration with the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and the support of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey. The prizes will be awarded to the winners of this single stage international competition for the design of a Disaster Prevention and Education Centre in Istanbul. Organised in conformity with the UNESCO UIA regulations, the competition has been approved by the International Union of Architects.

The president of the French National Federation of urban planning agencies and the mayor of L'Aquila in Italy joined forces alongside leading European architects in the debate today in the European Parliament to signal that there is urgency for the future of the European city.

On the evening of the Conference, the ceremony to mark ACE’s 20th anniversary was opened by Selma Harrington, President of the ACE. The ceremony was addressed by a number of international speakers, including Rosen Plevneliev, Minister of Regional Development and Public Works in Bulgaria; Louise Cox, President of the International Union of Architects; Andrey Bokov, President of the Union of Architects of Russia, and Tom Vonier on behalf of Georg Miller, President of the Architects Institute of America.