Last Friday, June 19^th, took place in the Main Hall of the Theatre of Bolhão, Porto, the delivery of the PNAM 2015, the National Prize for Architecture in Wood, destined to Portuguese architects with wooden constructions, an award that aims to promote wood construction in the Portuguese architecture.

The CASA RV, located in Vila Nova de Gaia, in the North of Portugal, by architects Marta Rocha and Fabien Vacelet, was honored to receive the prize in this its third edition. 

Architecture? It's easy! A door, two windows and a roof. This is one of the earliest drawings of a child: a house.

“Who Built That? Modern Houses” is a modern architecture guide, adapted to younger readers, which calls for a discovery on a fun-filled tour through ten of the most important houses by the greatest architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 

Jumpthegap is an International Design Contest promoted by Roca with the collaboration of BCD Barcelona Design Centre that provides an international platform for young professionals and design or architecture students all over the world to show their ideas and talent.

For this reason, participants will create and suggest innovative solutions for the bathroom space and the products related to it.

Three Portuguese projects are among the winners of the International Prize Building of the Year 2015, by Archdaily that annually awards projects that stand out for innovation: spatial, social, material and technical.

Among the 9 Portuguese projects nominated from the 70 finalists chosen from a universe of 3,500 projects around the world, three of them were victorious.

The Alvar Aalto Medal for 2015 has been awarded to Spanish architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, founding partners of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.

Nieto and Sobejano became key figures in the new wave of Spanish architecture in the late 1970s.