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Ben Edwards, Kerstin Thompson and Jonas Pettersson are Dezeen Awards 2024 judges

Deezen

Architects Kerstin Thompson and Ben Edwards , designer Jonas Pettersson , sustainable developer Jonathan Smales and design entrepreneurs Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat have joined as Dezeen Awards 2024 judges. A former director and international trustee of Greenpeace , Smales sees development as a powerful pathway to a sustainable future.

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James Dyson Award 2024 opens for entries

Deezen

Promotion: the James Dyson Foundation is inviting design students and recent graduates who are "problem-solvers, not grandstanders" to enter its annual James Dyson Award. These national winners and runners-up will form the top 20, from which Dyson will select the International Winner and the Sustainability Winner.

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9 Sustainability Experts Inducted To the A+Awards’ Prestigious Jury

Architizer

These practitioners will find themselves in good company; the 11th Annual A+Awards highlights the program’s renewed commitment to sustainable design. Architizer’s new suite of A+Sustainability Awards were designed to serve as a platform to amplify the ideas of architects whose projects act as positive precedent for green building practices.

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News: Check out the winning projects of the 2022 International Architecture Awards

Bustler

The program dates to 2005 and is meant to honor the best new projects from anywhere in the world that "exemplify design excellence and architectural ambition and deliver meaningful social impact to the public for which they serve." 50 projects were named as Honorable Mentions as well.

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More dishing on Brad Pitt

Architecture Here and There

Experimental houses built by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation. Pitt formed a foundation called Make It Right to build 150 affordable, ecologically sustainable houses. The foundation could not create groovy new houses with shape-bending features and then sell them for a mere $150,000. Flicker/Commons).

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Francis Kéré announced as Pritzer Architecture Laureate 2022

ArchiDiaries

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. Kéré founded his practice, Kéré Architecture GmbH, in Berlin, and a Non-profit Organization, Kéré Foundation e.V.,

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Kunlé Adeyemi, Elizabeth Diller, Yves Béhar and Daniel Simon to judge Dezeen and Arrival's Future Mobility Competition

Deezen

Her cross-genre work has been distinguished with inclusion in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list and the first MacArthur Foundation fellowship awarded in the field of architecture. Wierzbicki is Arrival's climate action lead, focusing on delivering the company's ambitious sustainability goals.