Van Alen Institute has partnered with the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) and Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) to spark dialogue about the ways in which thriving cities and complex ecosystems can co-exist, and to... View full entry
Christian Kerez, assistant professor at the ETH and Christian Kerez in Zürich, was awarded the first prize at the Architecture competition for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland. Libeskind, a juror at that competition on the scheme: "...it's a wonderful and avantgarde building and it... View full entry
31 Winners Selected from Over 400 Submissions. Works Show Vitality of Design and Architecture in NYC -- and by NYC-Based Firms Working Around the Globe... (New York, NY) – February 14, 2007 – The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects announced the 2007 Design Award... View full entry
MVVA, New York, Weiss/Manfredi Architects, New York, Atelier Girot and Landscape Morphology, Paris, Hargreaves Associates, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Cambridge, Mass. Toronto Star View full entry
Recently the windy city had another CCA sponsored competition and our very own landscape guru Heather Ring got an honorable mention for her entry! Congratulations Heather! First Place: Richard Alomar Kenji Suzuki Yonghyun Yu (New York, NY) Second Place: Chris Cornecelli Kyle Reynolds (Princeton... View full entry
Melli Industrial Group , with about 50 years experience in commercial and trading affairs , oriented to excellence of architecture culture and responding to its needs , has decided to pass off a competition for designing its site located in the beginning of Fat'h High way in about 24,000 square... View full entry
Lifecycle building is the design of building materials, components, information systems, and management practices to create buildings that facilitate and anticipate future changes to and eventual adaptation or dismantling for recovery of all systems, components, and materials. The U.S. EPA and... View full entry
T/HERE - Journal of Design is now accepting submissions for issue 4: "design+freedom". T/HERE is a student-run publication from the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. The journal attempts to address current issues in architecture, landscape architecture and the broader design field... View full entry
Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition is at it again with their new premise for 2007 to reconsider that age old institution the public zoo. View full entry
The Dubai based 2A (Architecture & Art) magazine would like to invite submissions for its next issue on Architecture+Tourism. The magazine content is focused, but not restricted, to the architecture of the Gulf... "The modern tourist resort is by definition a constructed one. The... View full entry
Catalan architects Josep Fuses & Joan M. Viader won, on Nov 27th, the international competition for the new Palais de Justice in Paris with a sort of organic, worm-like, giant metal & glass tunnel | Competition official website View full entry
They were down for a while, but are back up -- the first stage entires to a pretty major international two stage design competion. But without thumbnails and like 1100 entries! there's lotsa dowloading required to sort the 'chaff from the seeds' and find the decent designs, but there are some in... View full entry
"It’s a problem that’s going to hang over new developments all over the United Kingdom, particularly in the South East – how can we build on flood plains without investing massively in the kind of flood protection common in the Netherlands?" The Corus Architectural Student... View full entry
Saw some amazing work as a juror for the Ken Roberts Delineation Awards in Dallas last week. The selected entries are now posted here. View full entry
"For the first edition of KCET's new interactive series, we invited artists, writers and commuters alike to explore the idea of Shelter with us." View full entry
