Just last week, we published the outstanding winners of the 2011 Regional Holcim Awards for the Asia Pacific Region which celebrates smart, sustainable solutions in architecture and construction. Taking the top prize in the program's “Next Generation” category was MIT student August Liau for a project to increase…

The Architecture Foundation, on behalf of London's Better Bankside initiative, just announced the winner of a competition to design a modular, portable, secure cycle parking solution to serve the Bankside area of London.  Studio Meda’s design integrates a simple roof structure providing…

London's Better Bankside initiative and the Architecture Foundation have announced five shortlisted designs for the Bankside Bikeshed competition. The announcement also marked the launch of the Bankside Bikeshed exhibition showcasing a selection of entries. The five finalists were selected from over 50 entries, the jury…

Today we follow up with our story from September 2008 about BIG winning the commission to design the Danish Pavilion for 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. The Expo opened in Shanghai on Friday last week. Images and press release follows…

A team lead by Danish architects COBE and Public Architects, in collaboration with Grontmij Carl Bro and Bartenbach LichtLabor, have yesterday been awarded first place in the international competition to design the new Norreport Train Station in Copenhagen,…

New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Paul Warwick Thompson, Director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Paul White of Transportation Alternatives announced the winners of…

Winner, finalists, and honorable mentions have been announced for Redhook Design Competition, the design competition that challenged architects and planners to re-imagine Brooklyn neighborhood Red Hook as the most bicycle friendly neighborhood in New York City, hosted by the

Transportation Alternatives announced three winners this week for “Designing the 21st Century Street,” an open design competition that challenged New Yorkers to safely accommodate pedestrians, bicyclists, transit, trucks and cars on the same “complete street” – something that has long eluded New York City street design.…

CityRacks is a competition that seeks to find new solutions for NYC’s bike locking/parking fixtures.  The deadline for entries was June 9th. Competition Brief | Previously in the News Andrew Lang and Harry Dobbs