Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.‘s (ABI) Board of Directors has recently selected Perkins+Will and James Corner Field Operations to lead the design of the 22-mile BeltLine Corridor. Perkins+Will’s team is led by Leo Alvarez, John Threadgill and Ryan Gravel, the urban designer…

West 8 in collaboration with Snoeck en Partners, Bas Dirk Jaspaert, ERM and Tritel, has won the competition organized by the City of Leuven, for the revitalization of the former industrial site Vaartkom in Leuven, Belgium.

The Building Stone Institute announced yesterday that the prestigious Tucker Design Award was awarded to the Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. The award-winning Courtyard was designed by landscape architects Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, within an architectural…

Wandering Ecologies, Weiss/Manfredi‘s design proposal for Toronto’s Lower Don Lands, has won the American Architecture Award. The design renaturalizes the Lower Don River and establishes a new identity for Toronto, where recreational, cultural, and residential activities are free to wander and overlap, creating a…

The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), an international cultural and scientific center for conservation, recently held the ground breaking ceremony for its $48 million, 69,000-square-foot facility, which will be located adjacent to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.

In conjunction with the 27th International Architectural Conference “Piran Days of Architecture” that took place in Piran, Slovenia last weekend, the international jury for the Piranesi Award announced the winning project: Aloni House in Antiparos, Greece by Athens-based decaARCHITECTURE. The judges praised how…

The design for Papendorp Business Park in Utrecht, The Netherlands, West 8 designed together with Wissing Stedebouw en Ruimtelijke Vormgeving, has won the Rietveld Award 2009. For the first time, a landscape and urban design project has…

The winners of the 2009 Toronto Urban Design Awards, the 6th since amalgamation, were recently announced. The award program celebrates the best urban design in Toronto. Unlike other design awards programs that highlight individual projects, the Urban Design Awards honor the improvements to urban life made by designers who are…

As a member of the jury for the second edition of the International Urban Garden Competition “Bilbao Jardín 2009”, Diana Balmori of New York-based Balmori Associates was invited to create a garden. Dr. Balmori chose to sit the garden on the steps between…

New York-based landscape and urban design firm Balmori Associates, along with British S333 Architecture + Urbanism has been selected as finalist to develop proposals for a new master plan that will regenerate the area surrounding the Bay of Pasaia, in the Basque…