Here’s a very cool event you should not miss if you’re in New York this March or April: Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present “Envelopes,” an exhibition that will explore new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and also as…

The winning designs of the suckerPUNCH-curated Lavender Lake Art Factory competition have recently been announced. The international competition asked architects to submit concepts for an ‘art factory’ at the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York that will contain private/shared art studios, a storefront gallery/bar, analog/digital…

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 National Portrait Gallery by Johnson Pilton Walker was awarded the 2009 Canberra Medallion and the Romaldo Giurgola Award for Public Architecture. In a third win, it also received the coveted Light in Architecture Prize. In presenting the two awards, Jury Chair Bronwen Jones said the building was sited in…

Los Angeles gallery Fifth Floor will be exhibiting new furniture work by local architects that are seeking alternative design practices during the economic slowdown. Looking for Work Ali Jeevanjee, Aimee Less, Earl Parson June 20 - July 18, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday, June 20,…

Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA today released a first rendering of their design for the 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA SANAA:…