$250,000 Open Architecture Prize announced

Via Yahoo!: $250,000 Open Architecture Prize announced

"Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD - News) and Cameron Sinclair, winner of last year's TED Prize and founder of Architecture for Humanity, today announced the first ever Open Architecture Prize at the annual TED Conference. The $250,000 Open Architecture Prize is the largest prize in the field of architecture and is designed to be a multi-year program that will draw competition from design teams around the world.
Each year, a winning design will be selected from a field of low-cost, sustainable design projects and built in a selected community. The first project for the Open Architecture Prize will be an "e-community center," a centralized building equipped with internet connectivity solutions designed to enable an entire community to access the transformative power of the Internet."