Opening its doors to over 1,500 visitors is the biggest gathering of the global architectural community - the World Architecture Festival, just a few minutes outside Barcelona city centre at the Centre Convencions International Barcelona (CCIB), happened earlier in the week, from 4th to 6th November 2009. The festival, now in its second year, celebrates the work, concerns and aspirations of international architects. The curators have masterminded the exhibition and seminar programme to respond to the common festival umbrella theme - Less Does More, which in reflection of the current global economic climate will examine the challenges facing architects to produce more value for less cost.

Running alongside the main seminars is the world's largest architectural awards programme - the World Architecture Festival Awards. Unlike other award schemes the WAF Awards give access to something more often reserved for a select few - to see shortlisted architects present their schemes live to international judging panels, including the likes of Sir Peter Cook, Kengo Kuma, Renato Benedetti and Will Alsop and delegates, as they compete for the ultimate accolade of World Building of the Year 2009. Rafael Vinoly is chair of the super-jury which will choose the winner from 15 finalists announced at a glittering awards ceremony at the end of the festival on Friday 6th November.

We are posting thte list of winners announced during the festival, courtesy of the organizers. The list being quite long, we split it into two articles. The second part to be published tomorrow.

We continue the listing of the winners at the World Architecture Festival that happened earlier this week. If you haven't done so, check out the first article about these awards here.

Organized by the Faculty of Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design, the BLUE AWARD, an international student competition for sustainable architecture. Submissions will be accepted starting November 10 and is open to architecture students worldwide!

Sustainable development, with its economical, cultural and social dimensions in architecture and urbanism, should be given the same value and attention as the classical problems of technique and function. The language of contemporary architecture is to experience a fundamental change under this influence.

For nearly the past 25 years, Doug Mockett & Company has hosted an annual design competition for furniture parts, accessories, and hardware.

In previous years, they have even had multiple First Place winners, up to four at a time.

First Place consists of $ 1000, an engraved achievement award, and a royalty based on sales.

They send out six-figure royalties each year, so this is THE place to submit your design.

Back in May this year, the American Institute of Architecture Students and the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF) announced the top six winners of the fourth student design competition. Sponsored by the ICPF and administered by the AIAS, the program challenged students, working individually or in teams, to explore a variety of issues related to the use of corrugated board (a non-traditional building material) in design and construction and production. The competition was developed in part to introduce architecture and structural design students to green, structural design careers in the corrugated packaging and display industry. This spring's competition attracted architecture and package design students from 49 colleges and universities throughout North America.