Riyadh s KAFD Grand Mosque design wins global recognition
RIYADH, December 29, 2020 King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Grand Mosque, in Riyadh, has won the International Architecture Prize, in the Religious Buildings category for 2020. It is one of the most prestigious awards in the architecture design sector, given annually, by the Chicago Athenaeum of Architecture and the European Center for Architecture Art Design, reported
SPA. The awards programme was established in 2004 to recognise the best modern buildings in terms of planning and engineering designs, and honor innovative architects in the field of urban planning, globally. The jury chose KAFD mosque due to the engineering innovation in its column-free design and its desert flower-inspired shape, the report added.
Airport’s Culturally Inspired Landscape Garners Surfacedesign Honors
Airport’s Culturally Inspired Landscape Garners Surfacedesign Honors
Surfacedesign won a 2020 American Architecture Award for its work at Auckland International Airport (AKL). The honor in the Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture category was awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
“Because 75 percent of New Zealand’s visitors land in Auckland, airport management wanted to highlight the country’s historic land-use practices at and around the terminal,” says Surfacedesign Co-Founding Partner and Auckland project lead James A. Lord, FASLA. “Our ecological landscape design is culturally rooted, informed by New Zealand’s centuries-old agrarian traditions from its indigenous Maori settlers and European immigrants in the 1800s.”
Boise State News December 16, 2020
Over 130 buildings and urban plans from a shortlist of over 400 projects have won 2020 American Architecture Awards in a competition organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Boise State’s Center for the Visual Arts is among them.
The CVA is one of 11 winners in the Culture and Museums category. Its designer, HGA, submitted the building for consideration.
“This tremendous award confirms the Center for the Visual Arts project achieved two vital goals,” said Kathleen Keys, interim director of the School of the Arts. “The creation of a world class art research, teaching and learning facility, and simultaneously a brilliant work of architecture and design. The CVA mirrors Boise State’s commitment to the arts and significantly impacts the regional landscape with remarkable and dazzling contemporary architecture.”