The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK has been named the 2011 RIBA Client of the Year supported by the Bloxham Charitable Trust.

In the past few days, we've received many exciting entries to the South Korean Busan Opera House competition. The entry "Filtration"  from graduates of Columbia University received the second prize in the competition's student category. The design team included Paul Tse, Sarah Chung, Steven Tsai, Xander Lu,…

Competition entries to the tremendously popular Busan Opera House competition keep pouring into our inbox these days. Here is another one of our favorites, the proposal "Anisotropia" designed by London-based studio Orproject. The design team included Ho-Ping Hsia, Christoph Klemmt, Rolando Rodriguez-Leal, Rajat Sodhi, Natalia Wrzask, and…

Kubota & Bachmann Architects from Zurich, Switzerland have sent us their entry "Harmony" for the Korean Busan Opera House ideas competition. The design team included Toshihiro Kubota and  Yves Bachmann.

Boston-based firm PRAUD has shared with us their entry to the Busan Opera House competition. The international ideas competition invited visions for a massive cultural center, comprising a 2,000-seat opera house and a 1,300-seat multi-purpose theater, that acts as a landmark building for this booming South Korean…

Barcelona-based Mateo Arquitectura have shared with us some fascinating material documenting the construction progress of a new building for the Cinematheque de Catalunya in the Raval, Barcelona. Designed by Josep Lluís Mateo, the project won the first prize in a restricted competition in 2004 and will house…

Winners have been announced for the suckerPUNCH-curated Williamsburg Waterfront Performance Venue competition. This open international ideas competition asked for an integrated design of an innovative music venue in the East River State Park located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The new park is the site of the ‘

Three Round 2 Finalists have been announced for The Hague’s new dance and music center on the Spuiplein: RAU, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten / Kirkegaard Associates, and Zaha Hadid Architects. The new building on the Spui Square will become the hot spot in The Hague for dance, opera, musicals, family shows,…

Three Round 2 Finalists have been announced for The Hague’s new dance and music center on the Spuiplein: RAU, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten / Kirkegaard Associates, and Zaha Hadid Architects. The new building on the Spui Square will become the hot spot in The Hague for dance, opera, musicals, family shows,…

Back in April, 16 Finalists had been announced for a new dance and music center on the Spuiplein in The Hague, The Netherlands. The new building on the Spui Square will become the hot spot in The Hague for dance, opera, musicals, family shows, theater, concerts, classical music…