ARCHITECTS SELECT THE
2007 INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS
FOR THE BEST NEW GLOBAL DESIGN

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. announce new distinguished buildings and urban planning projects selected this year in the Museum's prestigious "International Architecture Awards®" program for 2007. The program was launched by the Museum in 2005 as a way in which to honor and celebrate the most outstanding architecture designed and built throughout the world.

The Chicago Athenaeum, established in the historic city where modern architecture was first realized by Louis H. Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe, is the only Museum of Architecture and Design in the United States and functions internationally as one of the foremost museums dedicated to both architecture and industrial design.

In addition to the annual "International Architecture Awards" program, the Museum also organizes the most prominent world-wide competition for industrial design. "GOOD DESIGN®" was founded in Chicago by Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen in 1950, and the Museum continues this historic awards program, which attracts the most prominent designers and manufacturers internationally from BMW, Apple Computers, IBM, Siemens, Philips, to global electronics, furniture, household products and medical equipment, awarding anything and everything from a "spoon to a new city."

For "International Architecture Awards" 2007, the Museum received hundreds of submissions from the best and most renowned design firms in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. The submissions ranged from new corporate headquarters, skyscrapers, institutions, sports and transportation facilities, airports, urban planning projects, sacred spaces, and private residences and multi-family housing designed by architects in their countries of origin or abroad for both built and unbuilt projects alike, as of January 1, 2003.

The Awards Program was open to all international architecture offices and U.S. firms with projects outside the United States. (U.S. submissions are judged annually for "The American Architecture
Award.")

JURY

UNION OF ARCHITECTS OF RUSSIA
Moscow, Russia
February 26, 2007

Yury Gnedowskiy, President, Union of Architects of Russia, People's Architect of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Yudintsev, Architect
Georgiy Solopov, Architect
Alexander Larin, Architect
Andrey Kaftanov, Architect, Council Member, Union of International Architects (UIA)
Dimitriy Serebryakov, Architect
Andrey Osokin, Architect
Maria Kiernan, Architect, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland

The "International Architecture Awards" is curated and organized by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine, Director/President, The Chicago Athenaeum and assisted by Lary L. Sommers, Director of Administration/Marketing, The Chicago Athenaeum, and Kieran Conlon of Ireland.

"The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. has organized this annual Museum program, "International Architecture Awards," as a way in which to draw significant world attention to new buildings and urban planning projects being built and designed globally by the best and most prestigious international architecture offices and design firms," states Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine.

"The wide geographic distribution of these awards attests to the importance of the program," Mr.
Narkiewicz-Laine adds. "There is no one, single program that brings together the latest cutting-edge international architecture today as one cohesive universal representation or platform for world design.
Our Museum is honored to provide a focus that allows an exploration and analysis for current stylistic directions and philosophical thinking that is apparent in contemporary design today."

"The program has a unique educational mission and public profile with the intent of promoting and celebrating the latest, most cutting-edge international design to a national and international audience," Mr. Narkiewicz-Laine continues.

Submission Details and Application Form

The 2008 deadline for submissions for "International Architecture Awards" is DECEMBER 1, 2007.