Des Moines Water Works, working in partnership with Iowa State University Department of Landscape Architecture, recently announced that Sasaki Associates, with RDG Planning & Design and Applied Ecological Services (AES), is the winning team of the Water Works Parkitecture Competition.

The San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects has recently honored Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Baietan Master Plan with a 2011 Merit Award for Urban Design.

Winners have been announced at this year's ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition. Of the twenty finalist entries, the concept "Living with the Water Paradox" by Nok Ratanavong, Sang Ok Kim, and James Kim was selected as the First-Place winner. Winner of the special prize for Best Insights was…

Foster + Partners has been selected for the design of the 40-hectare master plan for West Kowloon Cultural District. The winning proposal City Park will be a major cultural center for music, performing and visual arts, incorporating public spaces and spaces for Chinese culture, living, working, galleries…

The design for the park Ruggeveld – Botelaar-Silsburg, a joint effort by Maxwan, Karres & Brands, 1010 & Goudappel Coffeng, has won the prestigious biannual Flemish Spatial Planning Prize for the most innovative and exciting initiative on environmental quality and sustainable…

Three Conceptual Plan Options for the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) have been unveiled during the opening ceremony for the Stage 2 Public Engagement exercise. Following is the concept "Project for a New Dimension" – prepared by Office for Metropolitan Architecture, led by Rem Koolhaas. The…

Three Conceptual Plan Options for the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) have been unveiled during the opening ceremony for the Stage 2 Public Engagement exercise. Following is the concept "Cultural Connect: Key to Sustained Vitality" – prepared by Rocco Design Architects Limited, led by Rocco Yim.…

Three Conceptual Plan Options for the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) have been unveiled during the opening ceremony for the Stage 2 Public Engagement exercise. Following is the concept "City Park" – prepared by team Foster + Partners, led by Lord Norman Foster. The vision shown…

The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority has unveiled three Conceptual Plan Options for the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) during the opening ceremony for the Stage 2 Public Engagement exercise, held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.

Amsterdam-based studio FABRIC won the most important prize for Dutch young architects. The Prix the Rome is more than 200 years old and is awarded once each four years. Last Tuesday, June 8, the jury chaired by Aron Betsky, selected FABRIC as the winner.