Chicago architecture firm Goettsch Partners has designed the signature building that will be the new home of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and provide additional space for the School of Communication on Northwestern’s Evanston campus. The university is planning to break ground and begin construction in…

United States Artists has honored the USA Fellows for 2011 at a festive event earlier this week in Santa Monica, CA. Fellowship grants of $50,000 each were awarded to fifty outstanding performing, visual, media, and literary artists or artist teams. USA Fellowships are presented annually in the…

An ingenious school library and music room for St Patrick's School in north-west London by Coffey Architects has been awarded the RIBA's 2011 Stephen Lawrence Prize.

The MVRDV and COBE scheme for the transformation of a former concrete factory into a multifunctional creative hub was chosen winner of an international design competition. The master plan proposes an informal transformation of the 45,000m2 site into a dense neighborhood, incl. 8,000m2 existing factory…

Two years after holding an international architectural competition that saw world renowned designers face off in a public presentation, Calgary's National Music Centre has just revealed the final design by competition winner Allied Works Architecture. National…

Toronto-based Ja Architecture Studio, in collaboration with Tadj-Farzin Studio, have sent us their proposal for the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center competition. The international competition aims to make Kaohsiung, Taiwan an incubator of the pop music industry in Southern Taiwan and throughout the Asian pop…

Martinez + Johnson Architecture from Washington, D.C. have shared with us their entry to the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center competition. The concept missed to reserve a place on the shortlist announced earlier this year in September, but we're delighted to present it to a…

The unveiling of the grand winners of the (re-announced) Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center competition in Taiwan isn't expected before mid-January of next year, so in the mean time, we're happy to publish this exciting design proposal by Vienna-based Iranian architect Rojiar Soleimani in collaboration with…

Yesterday, John McAslan + Partners and Allied London have announced the winner of an international student competition to design a music studio in Cité Soleil (Port-au-Prince), Haiti, on behalf of Wyclef Jean and his charity

Last Friday, Bustler published the results of the Taipei Pop Music Center International Competition and showcased Studio Gang’s second prize-winning proposal. Now we also received some very exciting images of the competition’s First Prize winner:…