ArchDaily has announced the winners of the ArchDaily Building of the Year 2009 Competition. After more than a month and thousands of votes, architects and readers from all over the world chose the best building in each of the 13 categories in competition. The Mountain Dwellings have received the award for Best in Housing.

Congratulations Kasia Korczak and Boy Vereecken for their Fernand Baudin 2009 prizes and nominations:
-Objectifs of Vertu, Artist Instruments and Thingamajigs
-Trail house
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Fernand Baudin Prize is a Belgian award competition that reference books reflecting high quality design achievements: graphic and editorial, printing and finishing.
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As one of the nominees for the MARCUS PRIZE, JDS would like to congratulate this year’s winner, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena executive director of Elemental S.A..

More information about this year Marcus Prize can be found through bustler here, and more about Elemental here

Text source: The Rotterdam-Maaskant Foundation

The Belgian architect Julien De Smedt (b. 1975) of JDS Architects has been awarded the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for Young Architects 2009. The prize goes to De Smedt because he combines typological innovation and largeness of scale with an eye for detail and special attention for the user in a natural way. De Smedt’s work covers a remarkable range of programmes and scales: from interiors to large housing projects, from architecture to urban design. His qualities as an architect have been amply demonstrated in a considerable number of designs. This outcome, at this age, means that De Smedt clearly stands out from his peers in the view of the jury.

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning has nominated Julien De Smedt as a candidate for the 2009 Marcus Corporation Foundation Architectrual Prize—an important recognition for the practice of architecture.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning, through the vision and generosity of Milwaukee’s Marcus Corporation Foundation, has initiated a biyearly architectural prize to recognize the talent and achievements of young architects at the beginning of their greatness. The award brings international recognition to the subject of architecture and provides an opportunity for architects, at the early stages of their career, to be recognized for their outstanding work to date—and their promise of greatness in the future.

The Mountain Dwellings in Ørested, Denmark won the 2009 MIPIM Award in Cannes for the category of Residential Developments.   JDS and BIG share this award and several others including the Forum Aid Award and the 2008 World Architecture Festival Award for Best Housing in Barcelona.

The design of the Mountain Dwellings began under PLOT (JDS + BIG). The construction administration was later executed by BIG with respect to the PLOT design.