BIG, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold, Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management were today announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27,000 m2 cultural complex in…

MAS Studio and the Chicago Architectural Club announced the results of NETWORK RESET, a single-stage international competition that seeks to provide ideas and actions that can reactivate the Boulevard System of Chicago and rethink its potential role in the city. The jury included

eVolo Magazine just announced the 2011 Winners of its annual Skyscraper Design Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability,…

Foster + Partners has been selected for the design of the 40-hectare master plan for West Kowloon Cultural District. The winning proposal City Park will be a major cultural center for music, performing and visual arts, incorporating public spaces and spaces for Chinese culture, living, working, galleries…

The practice of former SOM London Design Director Michel Mossessian, mossessian & partners, will receive two awards at MIPIM Architectural Review Future Awards this year for Al Barahat Square, a new civic space in Doha, Qatar and the centerpiece of Qatari developer Dohaland’s $5.5 billion…

Rotterdam-based office for urban design and landscape architecture West 8 have shared with us their entry for the Valencia Central Park competition. The design, a collaboration with Sener & Gestec, reached a place on the competition shortlist.

London-based landscape architects Gustafson Porter have won a high profile competition to design the Valencia Parque Central. The winning project “Aigua Plena de Seny” was developed by an international multi-disciplinary team which is a joint venture led by Gustafson Porter and includes Borgos Pieper architects…

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 2011 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, the profession’s highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. Following are the six winning projects in the category "Regional and Urban Design":

Rotterdam-based practice Maxwan has completed the master plan for the transformation of the Central Station and its adjoining quarter in the city of Leiden, the Netherlands, transforming a typical neglected station area into a vibrant new high-density neighborhood.

Two First Prizes have been given at the "Downtown Fargo: an urban-infill competition", an international, conceptual urban ideas competition for Fargo, North Dakota. The challenge, sponsored by Fargo-based developer Kilbourne Group, was open to architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects, and students and asked to envision an exceptional multi-use space…