In a not too distant future, hordes of blood-drenched zombies are on the horizon, mindlessly roaming the deserted streets, trying to get into your house and eat your brains. Sucks if your house isn't fully zombie-proof by then, right? So head over to the 2011 Zombie Safe House Competition…

This week, MVRDV, The Why Factory and the JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture opened the fourth edition of the exhibition series “Museum of Tomorrow” in Taiwan's capital Taipei. Under the title “The Vertical Village” the exhibition explores the rapid urban transformation in…

If you're in the Los Angeles area these days, we highly recommend to visit the excellent exhibition Rethink LA: Perspectives on a Future City, currently displayed at the Architecture and Design Museum on Wilshire Boulevard. The exhibition runs until September 4. Created…

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,…

d3 just announced the winners of the Housing Tomorrow competition for 2011. The annual competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects. Developed by co-directors Gregory Marinic and Mary-Jo Schlachter, the…

The concept A.WAY by Berlin-based J. Mayer H. Architects has been announced the Winner at the Audi Urban Future Award - Building a Vision for 2030. The award aims to establish a dialogue on the synergy of mobility, architecture and urban development by means of a tangible…

If you’re in the New York area this summer, go and check out a new exhibition that opens tomorrow, June 24, at the AIA-NY’s Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place, NYC): Our Cities Ourselves: The…

GOOD magazine and their competition partner Beyond the Edge just announced the winners of the “Design the Gas Station of the Future” contest. Since March, the public was invited to cast their votes (previously on Bustler). First Prize Winner: Alex…

Guy Ailion of the University of Witwatersrand has scooped the prestigious Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Award for 2009 with his entry entitled ‘Everywhere is here - Architecture and a Developing Information Society’ which is an Open Information Campus in Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa. The project is dedicated to…

Our friends over at GOOD magazine invite you to cast your vote on their “Design the Gas Station of the Future” project. The submissions are in, and now it’s up to the public vote who will be the lucky winner. Cast your vote here through Tuesday,…