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…

Exactly one year ago, Bustler reported that Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) and Bruce Mau Design (BMD) had won the competition to design the Big Blue Bus Shelter and Branding Package by the City of Santa Monica, California. Now, the Los Angeles chapter of the…

Today, the winners of the Build a Better Burb ideas competition for retrofitting Long Island downtowns were announced. The competition asked for ideas to help Long Island master several pressing challenges: to build affordable housing and greater housing choice, especially for rentals; to reduce car dependency…

A list of 23 Finalists has been announced for the Build a Better Burb Competition. The jury selected their top entries from a field of 212 submissions and has now invited YOU to cast your vote for the Long Island Index People’s Choice Award!

Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) and Bruce Mau Design (BMD) have won the competition to design the Big Blue Bus Shelter and Branding Package by the City of Santa Monica, California.

Langdon Reis Architects with Kelly Doran and Louis Hall have won EUROPAN 10 with a scheme for Vardø, Norway. The theme of the competition was “inventing urbanity: regeneration, revitalization, colonization”, and entrants were asked to produce a plan for sustainable development.

Within its 2009 edition and the theme “It’s About Time”, EXD and Portuguese Galp Energia Foundation invited architects, engineers and all respective firms to design a new infrastructure for Portugal’s capital Lisbon. The open international competition asked for ideas for a new cycling bridge…

Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd. announced the winner of the Pamphlet Architecture 30 competition, an international competition that called for “proposals aimed at inventive new infrastructure for the United States.” The winning entry, entitled Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism, was submitted by InfraNet Lab /

WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture, an open design competition organized and sponsored by cityLAB, recently presented six shortlisted entries. WPA 2.0 is an open competition that seeks innovative, implementable proposals to place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding our cities during…

President Obama’s stimulus package has the country thinking “infrastructure” with a focus on urban environments and mass transit. Although these projects are not shovel ready, some students graduating from New York’s School of Visual Arts have designed transportation centers that enhance travel coast to coast.…