Brooklyn/Copenhagen-based HAO / Holm Architecture Office in collaboration with Archiland Beijing, Kragh & Berglund landscape architects, and engineering consultants Cowi Beijing, has won first prize in a competition to design the Samaranch Memorial Museum in Tianjin, China.

Patrick Lausell and Paola Marquez, students at Columbia University School of Architecture and First Prize-winners of the recent Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial competition, have sent us more material on their winning entry "Fractured Landscapes". The jury, comprising Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Michael Berenbaum, Clifford Chanin, Wendy Evans Joseph,…

Jerusalem-based architects SAYA have shared with us their proposal "Fields Of Memory" which has won the team the Second Prize in the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Competition.  …

Earlier this summer, the jury of the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial open design competition selected 13 finalists resulting from 715 stage one entries. The international competition seeks to stimulate fresh thinking about public memorials. The proposed memorial will be located at a prominent public site, an existing seaside…

Danish OP architecture in collaboration with Rambøll Engineering were among the five winners of the international competition for a memorial to Frankfurt’s more than 10,000 deported Jews. 135 entries from around the world participated in the first phase of the open competition,…

Portland Fire and Rescue in partnership with Portland State University’s School of Architecture announced the winner of a competition to design the Portland Firefighters Memorial.  After an eight month, two-stage competition with input from firefighters and the general public, the selection committee members unanimously selected the design by

Last Wednesday, Israel’s Wolf Foundation announced that British architect David Chipperfield is being recognized for overseeing the reconstruction of Berlin’s Neues Museum in a building that had been abandoned since World War II. His new building incorporated bricks, stairs and bullet holes from the original museum, which…

Thailand-based firm Fars Studio has been named the winner in a national design competition for the Chao Phraya River Memorial and Museum in Nakorn-Sawan, Thailand. The competition was held by the Nakorn-Sawan Municipality and the Association of Siamese Architects to create a…

Bustler and our sister site Archinect are teaming up to host a competition to design a monument to the epic that was Michael Jackson. Live Forever is an open ideas competition without limits. While the music…

The AIA Chicago Foundation announced Chicago-based firm David Woodhouse Architects as the winner of the international Burnham Memorial Competition. The architectural contest, launched in February 2009, seeks to build a lasting and notable memorial that will inspire and educate the public, and honor the memory and importance of Daniel Burnham…