Three winners and four Honorable Mentions have been revealed for the suckerPUNCH-curated Long Island Cinema Center competition in Queens, New York. The international design ideas competition challenged entrants to create a large scale center to celebrate cinema and rescue the moviegoing experience from fading into obsolescence. …

Ju-Hyun Kim, director at New York-based H Associates, has shared with us his vision of a Vertical Theme Park in the middle of Manhattan. The project tries to counteract suburb-located theme parks which, for decades, have been the by-product of automobile-centered society and a catalyst…

Two projects of Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat have been officially opened earlier this week in the Khanti-Mansiysk autonomous region of Siberia: the Chess Club building in Khanty-Mansiysk and the Vershina Trade & Entertainment Center in Surgut.

Yesterday, John McAslan + Partners and Allied London have announced the winner of an international student competition to design a music studio in Cité Soleil (Port-au-Prince), Haiti, on behalf of Wyclef Jean and his charity

British Ian Simpson Architects, in collaboration with American acoustics design firm Kirkegaard Associates, has won the international architectural competition for the redesign and transformation of the existing Queen Elisabeth Hall in Antwerp, Belgium. The new design will provide a world class concert hall…

Paris-based Mikou Design Studio has recently won the competition for the renovation of the Bateay Feu Theater in Dunkirk in the northernmost tip of France. The theater’s program foresees a big concert hall with seating for 500, a black box theater space, foyer, cafeteria, loges, practice…

A team led by planning, design and engineering firm AECOM has won an international competition for a concept design and feasibility study for Seoul Grand Park in Korea. The winning entry, Gaia: The Living World, envisions an integrated entertainment and educational experience that revitalizes the urban realm and…

LIVE FOREVER The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition just announced the winners! The open international competition, jointly hosted by Archinect and Bustler, challenged designers to envision a monument to the…

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…