Our friends at Australian architecture and design studio Super Colossal have just been named winners in the Gold Coast Cultural and Civic Precinct Master Plan Competition. Further commendations have been awarded to the entries by Gall & Medek Architects with the Queensland College of Art,…

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…

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…

German-Australian practice Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) recently won the first prize in the Masdar Eco City Center Competition for Masdar, United Arab Emirates. LAVA already succeeded in the first stage of the competition earlier this year, and collaborated with Kann Finch Group,…

On Thursday, July 16, the mayor of Korça, Albania and the international jury pronounced German architecture firm BOLLES+WILSON winner of the competition for the new Korça City Center Master Plan. The international two-stage competition was decided in favor of the Münster-based office for its concept of “Scenographic Urbanism”,…

In October 2008, Bustler reported on New York-based practice Weiss/Manfredi winning the international master plan competition for The Taekwondo Park in Muju, Korea. As Austin Tragni of Weiss/Manfredi told Bustler today, this subsequent work has been completed in early 2009. After the first part of this year,…

Click above image to enlarge Studio Daniel Libeskind Wins International Master…

The Secchi-Vigano project for the renewal of Rue De La Loi in Brussels, Belgium has recently been unveiled by JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects. This master plan is sought to create permeability among what is now two isolated communities on either side of Rue de la…

Master Plan to ensure the protection of waterfront parkland and dramatic Manhattan views for the pleasure of the community via passive lawns, kid’s play elements, interaction with water and nature combined with natural erosion protection and promotion of aquatic life. Last week, the Jersey City Waterfront Parks Conservancy held a…

Last week we reported on Plasma Studio’s winning entry to the Xi’an World Horticultural Expo.  Today we present the 2nd place entry by Serie Architects. Competition 2nd Prize Building…