Just as every great city is unique, so too are the new Melbourne Design Awards, the first city of the City Design Awards project, created in partnership with the Design Institute of Australia: with cities New York, Paris, Stockholm and Beijing to follow. While entries to the Awards are open globally, each Awards event will celebrate and honour the unique design culture and identity of the city in which it is held – from the great cultural and design centres of the world to exciting, vibrant emerging hubs of technology and design.

We are one of the world's leading manufacturers of moulded wood. More than a mere material, moulded wood is a medium that has helped form the history of furniture design. Its robust flexibility, enormous tensile force, rigidity and its thermoformability in particular have all contributed to its importance.

The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city. The exponential increase of the world’s population and its unprecedented shift from rural to urban areas has prompted hundreds of new developments without adequate urban planning and poor architectural design. The aim of this competition is to redefine what we understand as a skyscraper and initiate a new architectural discourse of economic, environmental, intellectual, and perceptual responsibility that could ultimately modify our cities and improve our way of life.

Selected teams will have three days and three nights to plan and realize their projects in response to missions assigned to them on take off day. Selected projects will remain on site permanently.
A professional jury will select a team to win the first prize.

INDEX: calls for faculty, students, and recent graduates to participate in the upcoming INDEX: Design Challenge, developed in close collaboration with and endorsed by UNICEF.

The INDEX: Design Challenge continues the legacy of the INDEX:│AIGA Aspen Design Challenge, in which hundreds of students from six continents participated. The theme of this second contest is Designing for Education.

Letterpool London is a mass public art project, a celebration of the city's urban art and architecture, looked at through its typography - the brands, graffiti, instructions and ideology around us every day. London has a rich, diverse and exciting design heritage, reflected all around us. It's in the signs and signals we take for granted and the unseen art and graffiti of the back streets; the familiar, iconic brands and the unnoticed historical lettering we see if we just look up or down. They are the words that created our city's unique identity.

The Annual Design Review celebrates the best of American architecture, selecting winners from built projects completed over the last year. Judging will take place in August 2010. Winning entries will be notified in September 2010 and published in the November 2010 issue of ARCHITECT.

Language is not only a product of human life – it is a pre-requisite that humans require to form relationships. As a fundamental form of expression, language binds us together.
But not all languages are spoken. A language can be visual – made up of complex ideas of truth deeply rooted in symbols, custom and imagery. Mother Tongue is about the power of language – verbal and visual, formal and informal. First language. Native language. It honours languages at risk of being lost in our globalising society and those that have survived the forces of colonisation.

Founded in 1977 as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing, Pamphlet Architecture encourages architects and writers to put forth their ideas, theories and designs in modest, affordable booklets. Its success is legendary: Pamphlet Architecture helped launch the careers architects from Steven Holl and Lebbeus Woods to Zaha Hadid, and has had influence far exceeding the ad-hoc nature of these humble books.

"Spark celebrates the best in dazzling design - from architecture and products to the bravest digital work, and we've already received a great wave of summer submissions," explains Peter Kuchnicki, executive director of Spark Awards. "But we want more - things that blow existing solutions apart, by people who see problems with completely new eyes."