Noticias Arq features one of the many entries for the Seoul Performing Arts Center, this one by Argentinian firm Dieguez Fridman. View View full entry
AsylumNYC is an opportunity for non-US artists to exhibit and live in New York City. In collaboration with White Box in New York, Wooloo Productions offers a creative asylum for artists working in all mediums. AsylumNYC will provide a talented artist with both a solo show at a recognized New York... View full entry
To celebrate the release of Lawrence Weschler's Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, McSweeney's is launching an extravagant new contest: A Convergence of Convergences. Submit your own convergence: an unlikely, striking pair of images. (It's kind of like Separated at Birth? -- except... View full entry
The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) is administering a design competition that encourages students and recent graduates to address the complex issues involved in designing housing for young people with limited resources... From the BSA: Student and recent graduates design competition The... View full entry
Sponsored by Architectural Record and McGraw-Hill Construction in partnership with Tulane University School of Architecture. The dual competitions (Students & Professionals) are: (1) New Orleans House Prototype, open to current architecture students; and (2) High-Density on the High-Ground... View full entry
A new architect has been selected for the Topography of Terror in Berlin. In 1992, the new Foundation resolved to build a visitor and documentation center on the site of the government district of the National Socialist SS and Police State between 1933 and 1945. AnArchitecture reports that the... View full entry
Starbucks Coffee and the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary have just announced a Coffeehouse Challenge, designed to stimulate thinking in urban design and community improvement. Rooftop gardens? More benches? Murals? Better pedestrian crossings? Fewer potholes? Good ideas will win $3000 from... View full entry
A panel has been selected to judge the international competition to redesign the College Avenue campus (...). 15 Teams handed in RFQ's, five were selected finalists, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners LLP, New York, a joint venture with Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Paris; Eisenman Architects... View full entry
You might want to check out [warning: may cause seizures or nausea, not recommended for pregnant women or people with a heart condition] a couple more plentyful galleries of the Taichung opera comp finalist show, along with all the boards. Previously: Toyo Ito Won, as you may recall. | thanks... View full entry
In the competition brief to honour Her Majesty the Late Queen Mother, it's clear the royal household has learned from its most memorial-mistakes. Times. View full entry
Years from now, the tsunami that struck the Andaman beaches will be remembered in the form of a multi-million-baht memorial to be built in Khao Lak Lamru National Park. The tsunami memorial committee said yesterday that it had shortlisted five of the 379 entries received from 43 countries since... View full entry
The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is pleased to announce "Inside:Out - Weaving Arts into the Urban Fabric,” a national open design competition that will transform the Tremont Street plaza and other public spaces surrounding the BCA, which occupies an entire city block from... View full entry
Beijing calls for international entries to design the Olympic torch for 2008 Games. l Xinhua l BOCOG l View full entry
This is an open one-stage international competition to select a design, and thereby a design team, for a self-sustainable and "off the grid" roadside GreenStop © the word coined to designate a green roadside rest area. View full entry
Mayor Richard M. Daley jump-starts a Chicago architectural competition that seeks to locate the city's soul in its historic water tanks. A new exhibition displays 167 of the entries and examines the water tank's history and future possibilities in a high-tech age. Read about it at lynnbecker.com View full entry
