The winners of eVolo’s 2010 Skyscraper Competition were announced today. After several years of organizing, this annual competition has become a renowned architectural prize around the world. The main idea of the contest is to examine the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world,…

After years of accommodation in temporary premises, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, The Netherlands has revealed its design for new permanent headquarters by schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL).  The Danish office was selected in a prestigious architectural design competition with a…

The Design Museum in London today announced the seven category winners of the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2010. Collectively they celebrate everyday design, reflecting international trends, current themes of sustainability and social enablement. In the Architecture Category, Chilean studio

West 8 in collaboration with Snoeck en Partners, Bas Dirk Jaspaert, ERM and Tritel, has won the competition organized by the City of Leuven, for the revitalization of the former industrial site Vaartkom in Leuven, Belgium.

Winners have been announced for the Newark Visitor Center Competition. Chaired by Richard Meier, the international design competition seeks to enhance the progress of future endeavors in Newark, NJ while celebrating its fascinating past. Designers were asked to think of methods for way-finding or a…

The winner in the category “Built environment” is the Harmonia // 57 Office Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is designed by Triptyque Architects, Paris, France/Sao Paulo, Brazil and completed in 2008.

Co-Founders Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova awarded EUR 60,000 "Self-Sufficient City" (New York City Resource & Mobility) by Terrefuge/Terreform 1 At a meeting at Roden Crater, Arizona (USA) in February, an international jury selected this year's winners of the…

ELEV (Elevation Workshop) has recently won the third place in the design competition for Rizhao Urban Planning Museum. A first place winner was not selected. Click above image to enlarge…

Here’s a very cool event you should not miss if you’re in New York this March or April: Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present “Envelopes,” an exhibition that will explore new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and also as…

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…

Previously on Bustler, we featured the winning design of the annual PS1 Young Architects Program, curated by The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Among the finalists was also the fascinating entry ‘P.S.1 out of 7295’ by Danish