Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch has won the international competition to design Lebanon’s new Arts and Culture House. Winning project for the new Arts and Culture House in Beirut by Alberto Catalano…

The West Cork Arts Centre recently announced the winner of the West Cork Arts Centre’s Architectural Design Competition: Dublin-based Donaghy + Dimond Architects. This highly prestigious international Design Competition attracted a remarkable 216 entries for the design of a new Arts Centre for Ireland’s West…

The new Randers Museum of Art in Denmark will be a building both extrovert and introvert in nature; with reinterpreted classic Danish roots The international competition was comprised of 5 teams, including Zaha Hadid, Behnish Architekten, Coop Himmelb(l)au and entasis. In itself…

As part of its first major grant announcement of fiscal year 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced that it will award $540,000 to fund 20 Access to Artistic Excellence Innovation Grants in Design. Grant amounts range from $10,000 to $40,000. “We often hear from our grantees that…

Via NYT: The architects Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith (MOS) have won the annual competition to transform the courtyard at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens. Their project, titled “afterparty,” is a mix of what could be described as cones,…

Artists in Design, Literary, Media, Performing, and Visual Arts From Across the Country Each Receive $50,000 Award United States Artists (USA), the national artists’ advocacy organization, yesterday announced the recipients of fifty USA Fellowships for 2008 totaling $2.5 million. This marks the third consecutive year of the USA Fellows program,…

The city of Wroclaw, Poland, recently announced the winning proposal of an international competition for the architectural design of a contemporary art museum building. The winning team is NIZIO Design International, represented by Miroslaw Nizio (Warsaw,…

BMO Financial Group’s 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition celebrates the creativity of art students from post-secondary institutions across Canada. Deans and instructors of undergraduate certificate, diploma, and degree programs in visual art were invited to select from their graduating classes three students, whose ability and imagination place them 1st…

The Jurors of AIP 23, hosted by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, have made their selections and the Members’ Choice voting is closed. The following is a selection of the sixty jury selected images for AIP 23… Hugh Ferriss Award: Frank M Costantino

Kyu Sung WooSEOUL, KOREA—Architect Kyu Sung Woo has been named the winner of the 2008 Ho-Am Prize in the Arts. The Ho-Am Prize in the Arts recognizes Koreans who have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of culture…