The American Society of Landscape Architects has bestowed their highest honors to a distinguished group of landscape architects, practices, and organizations in recognition of their influential contributions to the profession. This year's ASLA Award recipients include The Cultural Landscape... View full entry
For many artists, getting away from it all is necessary in the creative process. The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire offers this remote environment in their arts fellowship, which attracts hundreds of applications from artists working in architecture to non-fiction writing to music composition. Out of 706 applications for the summer fellowship, 69 artists representing seven disciplines — including five up-and-coming architects — were awarded. — Bustler
Edward MacDowell's Log Cabin Studio. Photo courtesy of The MacDowell Colony.This year's MacDowell Fellows in Architecture are: Ellie Abrons, David Eskenazi, Antonio Furgiuele, Rosalyne Shieh, and Mabel Wilson. See the rest of the 2017 list of fellows on Bustler. View full entry
The Knight Foundation held another successful Knight Cities Challenge for the third consecutive year...Starting with a staggering 4,500 design ideas in the open call, the jury narrowed down the competition pool to 144 finalists. Now, the 33 winners have been revealed and will share the $5 million cash prize that will help implement their projects in 19 Knight-invested communities. — Bustler
The winning ideas range from an urban beach along Detroit's Atwater Street to a new public space in Columbia, South Carolina that connects two isolated neighborhoods. See all the winning projects on Bustler. View full entry
Today, MAD Architects announced the 10 architecture students who won the 2017 MAD Travel Fellowship in its first global edition. Without a doubt, competition ran high. Out of 500 hopeful applicants, MAD selected the architecture research proposals of five international students who will get to... View full entry
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design awarded its coveted 2017 Wheelwright Prize to Chilean architect Samuel Bravo for his proposal “Projectless: Architecture of Informal Settlements”.
Bravo will travel to dozens of sites in South America, Asia, and Africa to ultimately develop strategies that integrate vernacular, collective practices with the modern architectural project.
— Bustler
In his Wheelwright proposal, Samuel Bravo focuses on traditional architectures and informal settlements, revisiting the topic of “architecture without architects”, as described by Bernard Rudofsky in the 1964 Museum of Modern Art exhibition.An alumnus of the Pontifical Catholic University of... View full entry
The American Institute of Architects just launched their third annual I Look Up Film Challenge with the theme “Blueprint for Better”. The competition invites U.S.-based architects to team up with filmmakers to tell the stories of projects that are making a positive impact on their communities... View full entry
The Curry Stone Design Prize just announced the latest group of designers to join the Social Design Circle. For June, the theme was “Can Design Reclaim Public Space?”. — Bustler
Here are a few of the June Social Design Circle honorees:Asiye eTafuleniPhoto courtesy of Curry Stone Social Design Circle.Ecosistema UrbanoEcoboulevard in Madrid, Spain. Photo: Emilio P. DoiztuaInterboroLentSpace, New York, 2009. Photograph by Michael Falco. Raumlabor BerlinPhoto... View full entry
Archinect UK is launching a nationwide portfolio competition for 2017. This award aims to celebrate and promote the exceptional talent, vision and innovation of UK Architects, Interior Architects, Landscape and Urban designers.The competition will be managed online via Archinect’s unique... View full entry
IF_DO, a ‘young and restless’ practice based in Peckham, have completed their rectilinear, temporary pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery. For the practice, which was formed only a few years ago in 2014, this is a breakthrough project; exposing their work to a whole new audience.Al Scott... View full entry
They are known as the ghost stations: 16 stops on the Paris Métro system barred and padlocked nearly 70 years ago.
In the past seven decades, many ideas for their reinvention have been floated, including turning one into a swimming pool and others into bars and nightclubs. None have come to anything, but their allure remains.
Now, Paris city hall has put three of the phantom stations into an international competition to develop unused subterranean space.
— The Guardian
Dubbed 'Reinvent Paris', the initiative aims to transform a total of thirty-four sites owned by regional authorities into economic, cultural or social spaces. The three unused metro stations are at the Champs de Mars in the 7th arrondissement, the Croix-Rouge in the 6th and Saint-Martin, between... View full entry
Back in June of 2016, Mia Lehrer + Associates won the competition, beating out Eric Owen Moss Architects, Brooks + Scarpa, and AECOM, to design the two-acre park at First Street and Broadway. After winning the competition, the firm has taken suggestions from the Downtown community, altering... View full entry
It's down to the final four for the 2017 Moriyama RAIC Prize. Established in 2014 by notable Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama along with the RAIC and the RAIC Foundation, the CAD$100,000 prize celebrates a single architectural project that is “transformative within its social context” and deemed exemplary of positively impactful and inclusive design. — Bustler
“The Prize is aimed at encouraging architects to be service-oriented rather than just focusing on producing something that looks good in magazines,” says Raymond Moriyama. “It’s to serve the community and humanity.” Back in 2014, Li Xiaodong won the inaugural prize. Here's a glimpse... View full entry
Twice a year, the Graham Foundation issues a series of significant grants, first to individuals and then to organizations. The Foundation has just released the list of recipients of the 2017 Grants to Individuals, totaling over $560,000 divided amongst 72 projects."Many of our grantees this year... View full entry
Robert A.M. Stern Architects announced last week that they granted their 2017 RAMSA Traveling Fellowship to Kyle Schumann, a master's candidate at the Princeton University School of Architecture, for his submission “Alpine Modernism: Sensitive Identities and Regional Placemaking”.The prize... View full entry
Foster + Partners announced today that University of Lincoln student Chloe Loader was awarded the 2017 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship, a yearly £7,000 student scholarship that gives the recipient an opportunity to travel internationally and “research the future survival of our cities... View full entry
