Berlin-based Barkow Leibinger Architects have shared with us "Loom-Hyperbolic," the architects' installation at the 2012 Marrakech Biennale "Higher Atlas" in Morocco which commenced earlier this week (the installation however is still on view until June 3rd at the ruins of the Koutoubia Mosque).…

BIG, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold, Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management were today announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27,000 m2 cultural complex in…

We just published the winners of the 'The Building: Problem or Solution?' competition, sponsored by Faith in Place. Here is the winner in the category Freestanding Religious Structure, Green Mosque, which incorporates traditional architectural elements in a modern urban context, featuring several sustainable elements. The design…

Three winners and three honorable mentions have recently been announced for the international ideas competition The Building: Problem or Solution?, sponsored by Faith in Place, a Chicago nonprofit organization. The primary mission of the contest is the development of an array of ideas that will assist congregations…

The traffic design competition announced winners of its multi-discipline design competition. The winner of the Mosque category is RUX with their entry “The Vanishing Mosque”. Winners were picked by the competition’s four judges : Alexander von Vegesack, Vitra Design Museum Dr. Sami Angawi, Amar…

In the Traffic Design Competition Vol. 2 - Design as Reform, the design proposal MOSQUE IS MORE by Brusselssprout was selected as Finalist in the Mosque Category. The international competition, organized by Dubai-based art and design organization

In December 2009, the good folks at our sister site Archinect launched the open call for ideas ‘Switzerland, We Have A Problem’ to find adequate architectural solutions to Switzerland’s most recent political ban of an internationally very common building type—the minaret. Now,…