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…

The new Dublin Veterans Park (in Dublin, Ohio) was dedicated last week on Memorial Day. More than 800 people joined the ceremony as the grounds were inaugurated. Toronto-based PLANT Architects Inc. were the project’s architects after an invited international two-stage competition.

Via “Gana Torre, no Arco Bicentenario” on LA76: The team composed of graduates of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and headed by Cesar Perez Becerril, has been announced winner in a national competition for a memorial to commemorate the Bicentennial of Mexican Independence.…

Three conceptual designs for a new memorial planned for Grant Park have advanced to the second and final phase of a competition launched to celebrate Daniel Burnham’s extraordinary impact on Chicago. The Burnham Memorial Competition Committee, composed of architects and community partners, has proposed to build a lasting memorial that…

Gehry Partners, LLP, the Los Angeles-based architectural firm headed by Frank O. Gehry, has been selected as lead designer of the national memorial to Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower.  The Eisenhower Memorial will be the seventh national presidential memorial in the Nation’s Capital, and the first since…

The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial — popularly known as the St. Louis Gateway Arch — is the tallest monument in the United States and an icon of modern architecture, its great stainless steel arc embodying strength, elegance and simplicity. Yet creation of the Arch was anything but simple. Indeed, it…