The Southend-on-Sea Borough Council in Essex, England announced the winner of the Southend Pier Head design contest: renowned Swedish based landscape architecture firm White arkitekter. The company - which has also won awards for other maritime architecture projects throughout the world - clinched the top place with…

In April 2009, Bustler reported that Milan-based practice Teknoarch had won the international competition for the new House of Arts and Culture in Beirut, Lebanon. Representatives of Teknoarch are in Lebanon this week to meet with their local partners and to present the most recent…

The winners of the Paris 2009: Dance School for Moulin Rouge competition have recently been revealed. Competition organizer Arquitectum invited architects to design a reinterpretation of the ‘new Moulin Rouge’, the most famous cabaret in the world and a symbol of what is an important piece of Parisian…

Dublin City Council and Point Village Limited recently announced that the winner of Dublin’s Parlour Design Competition is LiD Architecture. The Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland (RIAI) ran the single stage competition on behalf of the competition promoters, Point Village Limited. The competition was open to…

UNStudio’s design has been selected in the competition for a 21,000 square meter dance theater in the historic center of St. Petersburg, Russia. The new complex houses The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, headed by the prolific choreographer Boris Eifman. From the four projects presented (Jean Nouvel (FR),…

The Knut Hamsun Center, located in Hamarøy, Norway and designed by Steven Holl Architects, will open to the public on August 4, 2009 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Knut Hamsun’s birth. Dedicated to Norway’s most inventive twentieth-century writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in…

Last Friday, Bustler posted the news of Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch winning the international competition to design Lebanon’s new Arts and Culture House. Here’s another competition proposal by Copenhagen-based firm JAJA Architects. The title of the concept is “Culture…

Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch has won the international competition to design Lebanon’s new Arts and Culture House. Winning project for the new Arts and Culture House in Beirut by Alberto Catalano…

In the competition to design a new Culture House and Library in Copenhagen, a collaborated design by Danish architects COBE and Transform has been awarded the first prize. This is how the architects describe their project: The Northwest…

The competition for Copenhagen’s “Music Square” recently unveiled its winning proposal. The goal of the competition is to make Music Square a new urban landmark which can accommodate everything from music to theater to new circus, as well as everyday lounging within a cozy café-like atmosphere.