The winners of the 2009 Toronto Urban Design Awards, the 6th since amalgamation, were recently announced. The award program celebrates the best urban design in Toronto. Unlike other design awards programs that highlight individual projects, the Urban Design Awards honor the improvements to urban life made by designers who are…

The Cantos Music Foundation made the announcement that Allied Works Architecture and local partner BKDI have been selected to design Cantos’ new National Music Centre at the King Eddy site in Calgary’s East Village. After an extensive worldwide search and impressive public presentations from…

ResilientCity.org just announced the winners of their design ideas competition that hopes to stimulate new ideas about the way we plan cities and design buildings. The competition resulted in more than 50 inquiries and 22 formal entries received from around the globe, including proposals centered on…

Earlier this year, the Nature Museums of Montréal announced the winner of the international architectural competition for the new Montréal Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium. The design concept by Cardin Ramirez Julien in collaboration with Ædifica_Architecture + Design was selected ahead of four other entries by…

Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd. announced the winner of the Pamphlet Architecture 30 competition, an international competition that called for “proposals aimed at inventive new infrastructure for the United States.” The winning entry, entitled Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism, was submitted by InfraNet Lab /

On July 27, Bustler reported about the big night at Calgary’s Grand Theatre where the five competition finalists presented their designs for the Cantos National Music Center competition. Presenting firms that night were Diller Scofidio and Renfro, New York, NY, Jean Nouvel Workshop, Paris, France, Allied…

Music fans, architecture buffs and engaged citizens of Calgary, Canada filled the Grand Theatre to capacity on July 23, to watch five of the world’s leading architects compete to design a major project in Calgary – Cantos’ new national music center at the King Eddy site in the East Village.…

The Ordre des architectes du Québec (OAQ) and its major partner TD Assurance Meloche Monnex announced the winners of the 25th edition of the Awards of Excellence in Architecture (Bustler previously reported on the round of award finalists). A gala evening culminated months of anticipation during…

Montréal’s Nature Museums recently announced that Cardin + Ramirez & Associés architectes was chosen on May 21 by the selection jury in the architectural contest for the new Montréal Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium (previously on Bustler). The visual and…

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada just announced the recipients of the 2009 RAIC Awards of Excellence. Allied Arts Medal Paul Raff, MRAIC Paul Raff, MRAIC, Photo: Steven Tsai Innovation…