Old urban water tanks in ChiTown get new lease on life when Chairman Daley, Thom Mayne, CAC spring in to action with the Water Tank Competition. l SunTimes l View full entry
Domus is promoting a consultation of ideas for the completion and functional redefinition of the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang. View full entry
Urban Edge Developers Ltd of Dallas, Texas, has announced the winners of a June competition for the design of innovative, sustainable modernist houses for the new Dallas neighborhood Urban Reserve.Urban Reserve will be a community of 50 modernist, single-family houses individually custom designed... View full entry
The international design competition for a new performing arts building in Perth Western Australia, was launched by the State Government last week. Details and registration can be read here. View full entry
The AIA Chicago Young Architect's Forum is currently accepting entries for reThink/reDesign/reCycle, - a two-phase juried competition that seeks proposals for an ecologically intelligent, urban recycling receptacle. Better hurry, registration closes June 24th. View full entry
East Darling Harbour is located on the northwestern edge of the Sydney Central Business district in Australia. The site is bounded by Sydney Harbour foreshore to the west and north, the historic precincts of Millers Point, the Rocks, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge approach to the east, and Darling... View full entry
The Point Pleasant Park International Design Competition is an open, two-stage competition for a master plan for Point Pleasant Park. In late September 2003, Hurricane Juan, a category two hurricane, made landfall in Nova Scotia, not far from Point Pleasant Park. The maximum force winds from the... View full entry
VANCOUVER: A design of large white balloons by Satoshi Matsuoka and Yuki Tamura was awarded 1st prize in SPACEAGENCY's open international design competition to re-think Gastown's alleyways. The jury felt that the scheme with over-scaled balloons caught between the alley's buildings was the most... View full entry
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that 18 teams from the United States, Canada and Spain will travel to Washington, DC on October 7-16, 2005 to participate in the second Solar Decathlon competition to be held on the National Mall. The Solar Decathlon presents cutting edge... View full entry
NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese Mobile Communication Giant, has launched its 1st Architectural Design Competition on May 27, 2005. More hereTheme: Keitai City(Portable City or Ubiquitous City?) Few tools have become as widely accepted in everyday life in recent years as cell phones. Keitai ("portable")... View full entry
Awarding of 2005 Pritzker Prize for Architecture to Thom Mayne, founder of the firm Morphosis. The Pritzker Prize caps a three-decade career in which Mayne has received 54 AIA Awards, some 25 Progressive Architecture Awards, as well as numerous other honors around the world. The sixty-one year... View full entry
Designs from the University of Maryland and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were awarded top prizes in the 2004-05 ACSA/AISC Student Design Competition. The competition is sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and is administered by Association of... View full entry
Foster's Millau Viaduct takes Gold at the D&AD awards in the category of environmental design & architecture. Silver to Jan Leube, Klein Dytham, Eduard Cehovin, Gerd Haeussler and Andreas Uebele. | D&AD Awards list View full entry
Bored in the next week ... Why not make £8000 by entering the context competition? Winning project is built. Due May 31. View full entry
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) of Korea is planning to build an Asian Culture Complex in Gwangju. Its aim is to promote Asian values in the field of the arts and culture. The Ministry's Executive Agency for Culture Cities launched the single-stage international design competition... View full entry
