The Rudy Bruner Foundation has chosen the Inner-City Arts project, a downtown Los Angeles education facility which provides art instruction to a large population of at-risk children and youth in LA, as one of five finalists for the 2009 Rudy Bruner Awards. The project, designed by LA-based…

German architecture firm kadawittfeldarchitektur recently completed their competition-winning kindergarten building in Sighartstein, Austria. The kindergarten is integrated into the landscape like a chameleon (including a crèche) for 4 groups. Kadawittfeldarchitektur’s proposal for the building won the 1st prize in the public architecture competition in 2003. The project…

The National Children’s Museum (NCM) yesterday unveiled plans for its new Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed building, slated to open in 2013 at National Harbor, as a physical demonstration of the Museum’s mission to inspire children to care about and improve the world. NCM’s new 150,000 square-foot, LEED-certified…

On Wednesday, April 8, Amsterdam city planning councilman Maarten van Poelgeest announced Arons en Gelauff Architects as the winner of the adaptive reuse design competition for the two former sewage treatment silos in Amsterdam’s Zeeburg district: the Annie MG Schmidt House. Annie MG Schmidt (1911-1995)…

Martha Schwartz Partners Ltd has won an international design competition to provide the public realm and landscape design for Henning Larsen Architects-designed Massar Children’s Discovery Centre and public park in Damascus, Syria. Massar Children’s Discovery Centre and public park in Damascus, Syria…

Designs focus on renovating abandoned children’s theater A team of six graduate architecture students — led by Ellen Leuenberger and including Denny Burke, Alexander Harner, Michael Heller, Rachel Kerr and June Kim — has won the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Community Service Competition.