The Buckminster Fuller Institute is proud to announce that thirty outstanding entries to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge have been advanced to the next stage of review. The distinguished jury will select a winner who will be presented with the OmniOculi sculpture and the $100,000 prize…

Portland Fire and Rescue in partnership with Portland State University’s School of Architecture announced the winner of a competition to design the Portland Firefighters Memorial.  After an eight month, two-stage competition with input from firefighters and the general public, the selection committee members unanimously selected the design by

Submissions from Canada, the UK, Ireland, the United States and Colombia have been selected as the winning entries in the “TownShift: Suburb Into City” design competition sponsored by the City of Surrey (Bustler previously published the competition shortlist). TownShift: Suburb Into…

Click above image to enlarge U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the…

The Cleveland Design Competition recently announced the winners of the third annual competition - Project 2009: Lakefront Station - Ideas for a 21st Century Multi-Modal Transportation Facility. Project 2009: Lakefront Station is an international, single-stage ideas competition for a new multi-modal transportation center in…

Occasionally we ask members of the architectural blogosphere to share some thoughts on competitions or events, be it a list of upcoming picks, or a review of a previous event or competition. If you’re a blogger and have something…

A Japanese team of star architects – Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop – is the winner of the architectural competition launched by the Zurich Airport for “The Circle”. The project involves an upscale complex for innovative services within walking distance of…

Steven Holl Architects has been awarded first prize in the design competition to redevelop the site of the oxygen and boiler plants in Hangzhou, China. Steven Holl Architects’ design won first place, Herzog & de Meuron won 2nd place, and David Chipperfield Architects was selected as…

After receiving over 35 qualified proposals for a Youth and Women’s Leadership Center in Santa Cruz, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the selection committee announced the following five RFP Finalists and five Honorable Mentions. With the Homeless Women’s World Cup arriving in…

Here we have another stunning design proposal for the annual PS1 Young Architects Program that made it among the round of finalists (previously on Bustler). The entry “LUX NOVA” by Brooklyn-based studio EASTON+COMBS was inspired by 12th century Gothic stained glass and its inherent…