British Ian Simpson Architects, in collaboration with American acoustics design firm Kirkegaard Associates, has won the international architectural competition for the redesign and transformation of the existing Queen Elisabeth Hall in Antwerp, Belgium. The new design will provide a world class concert hall…

Last week, Bustler reported that the Taipei Pop Music Center competition had announced three finalists and four honorable mentions. Here’s a first glimpse at the entry that won Danish office JDS Architects / Julien de Smedt an honorable mention…

The international competition for the Taipei Pop Music Center recently announced the three finalists and four honorable mentions. The competition aims to build a large pop music performing center in northern Taiwan that also includes an outdoor performing plaza. The center seeks to support…

The Cantos Music Foundation made the announcement that Allied Works Architecture and local partner BKDI have been selected to design Cantos’ new National Music Centre at the King Eddy site in Calgary’s East Village. After an extensive worldwide search and impressive public presentations from…

On July 27, Bustler reported about the big night at Calgary’s Grand Theatre where the five competition finalists presented their designs for the Cantos National Music Center competition. Presenting firms that night were Diller Scofidio and Renfro, New York, NY, Jean Nouvel Workshop, Paris, France, Allied…

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…

Music fans, architecture buffs and engaged citizens of Calgary, Canada filled the Grand Theatre to capacity on July 23, to watch five of the world’s leading architects compete to design a major project in Calgary – Cantos’ new national music center at the King Eddy site in the East Village.…

If you’re in Manchester, England this Summer, don’t miss the opportunity to experience an absolutely spectacular cultural highlight: the solo works of Johann Sebastian Bach performed in an extraordinary new chamber music hall designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. The chamber music hall has been installed within Manchester Art Gallery…

Artists in Design, Literary, Media, Performing, and Visual Arts From Across the Country Each Receive $50,000 Award United States Artists (USA), the national artists’ advocacy organization, yesterday announced the recipients of fifty USA Fellowships for 2008 totaling $2.5 million. This marks the third consecutive year of the USA Fellows program,…