At noon today the INDEX 2005 jury announced the 100 finalists for the INDEX Awards. Over the summer one winner will be chosen from EACH of the five catagories and win 100,000 Euros. My hugest congrats to Cameron and Javier, that's awesome! Finalists include -- Fab Tree Hab -- Home finalist... View full entry
The Van Alen Institutes Parachute Pavilion Competition drew 864 entries from around the globe. The winner will be released in the coming weeks. nyPOST View full entry
Studios principal Todd C. DeGarmo said the center would meet the District's goal of receiving a platinum rating -- the highest possible -- from the U.S. Green Building Council. Only a handful of buildings in the country have received the rating, and none is in Washington, he said. From the... View full entry
International urban ideas competition chooses plan to revitalize Beirut's central space but future remains uncertain. Vassiliki Agorastidou, Antonis Noukakis, Lito-Lemonia Ioannidou, and Bouki Babalou-Noukaki has been named the first-prize winner. In the student category, first and third place... View full entry
Rodney Leon, AARRIS Architects chosen to build Memorial where remains of hundreds of freed and enslaved African-Americans were unearthed. "Within minutes, they were heckled by people representing the descendants of the dead, who complained that the design was too big and intrusive." It was chosen... View full entry
“Situating:” Young Architects Forum, Exhibition and Lecture Series by Winners of Twenty-fourth Annual Young Architects Competition :: Greg Kochanowski, STUFF, Los Angeles; Stephen Roe & Chiafang Wu, ROEWUarchitecture, New York City; Mason White & Lola Sheppard, Lateral... View full entry
FHL is holding a T-shirt design contest. The winning design will be worn at an upcoming City Council hearing, and later available in local NYC stores. read about it at cool hunting View full entry
The Seoul Metropolitan City now has a chance to have its own Opera House in the middle of the Han River. The Organizing Committee for the Seoul Performing Arts Center has announced today the launching of the International Ideas Competition approved by UIA for multidisciplinary professionals as... View full entry
The purpose of this competition is to facilitate the involvement of younger architects, architectural interns and students in the design of one or more of the houses at Urban Reserve. In addition to monetary prizes, one or more of the winning entrants may be awarded a commission to further... View full entry
Arthur Erickson , Zaha Hadid, Will Alsop, and Randall Stout are announced as the four finalists among an impressive list of internationally reknown architecture teams bidding for the design of Edmonton's new Art Gallery. Gallery director Tony Luppino was quoted as saying, "This is probably the... View full entry
Stern beats out Libeskind and Kisho Kurokawa to design the Quilt Museum on the east campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Newsday View full entry
Lyceum has announce 2005 Winners and Merits to the "Smart Materials: Wearable Architecture" Student Competition. Congrats!! 1st Place: Wayne Jenski University of Arizona 2nd Place: Manuela Koelke University of Illinois at Chicago 3rd Place: Kazuko Anne Kimura California College of the Arts... View full entry
Competing architects include Jerde Partnership, Libeskind, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Arata Isozaki, and others. From Hotels Magazine. View full entry
Announced 1 April by the trib, includes WTC Finalist Brian Strawn & Karla Sierralta... Finalists named for sculpture at Tribune Tower museum By Charles Storch Tribune staff reporter Published April 1, 2005 The McCormick Tribune Foundation said Thursday it has selected 10 finalists in its... View full entry
From 119 competitors eleven firms have moved on to the second stage to draw up plans for the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews to be built in a former Warsaw ghetto. Among them Daniel Libeskind, Peter Eisenman and Zvi Hecker. ( Haaretz ) View full entry
