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…

On December 19, Australian Veterans’ Affairs Minister Alan Griffin unveiled the design for a memorial to honour Australians who have given their lives during peacekeeping operations around the world. The memorial, to be built on Canberra’s Anzac Parade, will also serve to symbolize the ongoing work of the hundreds of…

In February 2008, the City of Alexandria released the Call for Entries for the Contrabands and Freedmen’s Cemetery Memorial Design Competition. The City sought design submissions from architects, landscape architects, artists, students, and other interested individuals to memorialize and honor those who are buried at Contrabands and Freedmen’s Cemetery in…