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A Design Award & Competition announced its laureates for the A Architecture Awards which celebrate excellence in architectural design as well as other spatial design fields such as landscape architecture, interior design, infrastructure projects and urban design. Over five thousand architects from two hundred countries competed this year for the coveted A Design Prize in Architecture which is given to best architects, leading architectural offices and best building developers from all countries. Press members and architecture journalists worldwide are invited to browse designmag.org to check out award winning architectural projects to feature at their publications.

A Design Award & Competition also established press-kit.org website where editors could easily access high-resolution images of awarded projects, photographs of leading architects, interviews with architecture offices and other press-only content. Journalists are kindly invited to apply for press accreditation or contact A Design Awards for faster access.

The A Architectural Design Award is a juried design competition where all entries are peer reviewed and anonymously voted by an expert 50-person jury panel of established architects, academics, press members as well as design professionals following strict guidelines. A International Architecture Design Awards have a long tradition of recognizing the best architects, architecture offices and building developers who demonstrate excellence in their architectural design work, annually highlighting outstanding achievements in the fields of spatial design. Spatial Design Award winners could be browsed online at http://www.adesignaward.com/good-design.php?C=3.

Early deadline for the 2015 architectural design awards program is on June 30, 2014. Results of the 2014-2015 architectural design competition will be announced on April 15, 2015. Architects, building developers and architecture offices worldwide are invited to enter their best projects by submitting their entries through http://www.adesignaward.com for award consideration. A Architectural Design Award is open to both realized and concept stage architectural projects. Architects, designers, educators and architecture offices throughout the world are invited to submit their realized, under-construction or theoretical projects.

Laureates of the A Architectural Design Awards are given the A Design Prize which includes an exclusive PR Campaign consisting of services such as press kit preparation, press release distribution, communication to thousands of editors worldwide as well as translation of award winning projects to over thirty languages. A Architectural Design Award laureates also receive the award trophy, yearbook of best projects and the certificate of architectural design excellence.

About A Design Award & Competition The mission of the A Design Award & Competition is to highlight best architects and companies who contribute to society through their outstanding projects that improve the quality of life. A Design Award & Competition aims to create a global awareness for good design and therefore promotes good design practices and principles worldwide. The ultimate aim of the A Design Awards is to push designers and architects from all countries to come up with superior designs that are not only aesthetically appealing but also highly sustainable and efficient. The presentation of the A Design Award in 35 languages, as well as recent news from the accolades are available at http://www.designinternational.org.

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KUCHING: Landscape architects must do their bit and the education curriculum must contain elements of environmental care in order to help create highly-developed environmental systems for the benefit of future generations.

Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Adenan Satem noted that countries with such systems were also those with successful economies and high standard of living.

Environment and landscape are among subjects that are very close to our hearts. It is valued all over the world for its ability to preserve and conserve the environment, develop human potential and to contribute to economic growth, he said at the opening of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Asia Pacific Congress 2014 here yesterday.

His text of speech was read out by Local Government and Community Development Minister Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh.

Adenan said landscape architects, in particular, had to play the dual functions of preparing the best living condition for the citizens of tomorrow and to help the nation preserve its environmental capital.

We have to move from the traditional and static structure of our environmental policy and guidelines to accommodate changes that will bring more dynamism to economic and environmental growth.

What needs to be looked urgently apart from all the provided policies is to include transforming the educational perspectives and envisioning the curriculum of the future to include care and concern for our living environment and our beloved Mother Nature.

Questions such as what kind of citizens are we hoping to produce, what kind of future will there be, what kind of work structure and what kind of economy and what kind of environment need to be posed, considered and discussed so that the growth of environmental economic-based strategies that will be adopted in the future are apt with the changing times.

Adenan said the output from this three-day congress, themed `A Greener Tomorrow, would be useful for policy makers, practitioners, industry players, environmentalists, landscape architects, planners, engineers and educationists to face the challenging tasks that lie ahead of them.

Lets equip ourselves with a passion for excellence and quality in our natural and built environment so that our Mother Nature and greens will be prepared for a future that is more secure for them all.

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The American Institute of Architects has revealed its 2014 selection of top ten green buildings in the US. As was the case with last years list, the judges came up with an interesting list of buildings that includes some lesser-publicized green-building projects, such as a homeless shelter, a treehouse, and even a Net-Zero energy courthouse. Read on below as Gizmag briefly covers each of the selections.

As a key part of Portland, Oregon's decade-long effort to combat homelessness, the Bud Clark Commons building provides a safe place for vulnerable people to transition from sleeping on the streets to living in a stable home. The building features a walk-in day center, support services, 90 temporary shelter beds, and 130 furnished studio apartments which serve as permanent housing.

Green technology in the LEED Platinum project include greywater recycling, solar hot water, heat recovery ventilation, and natural daylight.

The Bushwick Inlet Park project represents the first phase of a plan to transform Brooklyn's Williamsburg waterfront from an industrial brownfield site into a public park. So far, the area has seen play fields, classrooms, public facilities, and park maintenance buildings added.

The park also received a large multi-use community center complete with green roof, in addition to a large solar trellis that produces half of the total electricity used in the building. Other green features include ground source heat pump wells, rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation.

The high-rise Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt (EGWW) Federal Building Project was originally constructed in 1975 by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The recent modernization by SERA Architects and Cutler Anderson Architects sought to update the aging building with modern energy-efficient technologies. Clearly this worked, as it's lauded by the AIA judges as being on its way to becoming one of the lowest energy-use buildings in the US.

EGWW sports a facade comprising novel sunshades that limit solar heat gain, along with a roof-based solar array and rainwater collection system.

The SUNY-ESF College of Environmental Science & Forestry Gateway Center is the oldest institution in the US to focus on the careful study of the environment. Its new LEED Platinum campus center fosters teaching and research, and makes up part of ESF's ambitious commitment to reach complete carbon neutrality by 2015.

The LEED Platinum campus was built using metal shingles and recycled concrete blocks, in addition to sustainably-sourced wood. A green roof, solar panels, solar hot water, and a very efficient rainwater-collection system were all installed during the build.

Originally constructed to serve as a US Post Office and Courthouse back in 1918, the Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse recently received a LEED Platinum renovation. Based in Grand Junction, Colorado, the building has duly been updated with enough sustainable technology and design to turn it into what's reportedly one of the most energy-efficient historic buildings in the country.

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The American Institute of Architects has revealed its 2014 selection of top ten green buildings in the US. As was the case with last years list, the judges came up with an interesting list of buildings that includes some lesser-publicized green-building projects, such as a homeless shelter, a treehouse, and even a Net-Zero energy courthouse. Read on below as Gizmag briefly covers each of the selections.

As a key part of Portland, Oregon's decade-long effort to combat homelessness, the Bud Clark Commons building provides a safe place for vulnerable people to transition from sleeping on the streets to living in a stable home. The building features a walk-in day center, support services, 90 temporary shelter beds, and 130 furnished studio apartments which serve as permanent housing.

Green technology in the LEED Platinum project include greywater recycling, solar hot water, heat recovery ventilation, and natural daylight.

The Bushwick Inlet Park project represents the first phase of a plan to transform Brooklyn's Williamsburg waterfront from an industrial brownfield site into a public park. So far, the area has seen play fields, classrooms, public facilities, and park maintenance buildings added.

The park also received a large multi-use community center complete with green roof, in addition to a large solar trellis that produces half of the total electricity used in the building. Other green features include ground source heat pump wells, rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation.

The high-rise Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt (EGWW) Federal Building Project was originally constructed in 1975 by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The recent modernization by SERA Architects and Cutler Anderson Architects sought to update the aging building with modern energy-efficient technologies. Clearly this worked, as it's lauded by the AIA judges as being on its way to becoming one of the lowest energy-use buildings in the US.

EGWW sports a facade comprising novel sunshades that limit solar heat gain, along with a roof-based solar array and rainwater collection system.

The SUNY-ESF College of Environmental Science & Forestry Gateway Center is the oldest institution in the US to focus on the careful study of the environment. Its new LEED Platinum campus center fosters teaching and research, and makes up part of ESF's ambitious commitment to reach complete carbon neutrality by 2015.

The LEED Platinum campus was built using metal shingles and recycled concrete blocks, in addition to sustainably-sourced wood. A green roof, solar panels, solar hot water, and a very efficient rainwater-collection system were all installed during the build.

Originally constructed to serve as a US Post Office and Courthouse back in 1918, the Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse recently received a LEED Platinum renovation. Based in Grand Junction, Colorado, the building has duly been updated with enough sustainable technology and design to turn it into what's reportedly one of the most energy-efficient historic buildings in the country.

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