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…

On October 7, a jury of nine esteemed design, engineering, and construction professionals met at AIANY/Center for Architecture to select the Stage I finalists of the urbanSHED International Design Competition. The competition challenges designers to conceptualize a cutting-edge sidewalk shed to protect pedestrians, improve the…

New York-based landscape and urban design firm Balmori Associates, along with British S333 Architecture + Urbanism has been selected as finalist to develop proposals for a new master plan that will regenerate the area surrounding the Bay of Pasaia, in the Basque…

WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture, an open design competition organized and sponsored by cityLAB, recently presented six shortlisted entries. WPA 2.0 is an open competition that seeks innovative, implementable proposals to place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding our cities during…

Our friends at Inhabitat just announced the Top 20 finalists of the Reburbia design competition to revitalize the suburbs. Reburbia invited architects, urban designers, renegade planners and imaginative engineers to design future-proof spaces and systems using the suburban structures of the present, from small-scale…

A pioneering health center in London, an imposing winery in Spain, an elegant museum in Denmark and a mixed-use scheme residential scheme contributing to the regeneration of Liverpool are among the six building projects which have made it onto this year’s shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2009 in association…

The Tacoma Art Museum in Washington state received 95 submissions in response to its recent call for design concepts to redesign the museum’s plaza and perimeter and create a landmark civic space that enlivens downtown Tacoma. Submissions were received by individuals and firms from Tacoma, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Richmond, VA,…

Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3 by Foster and Partners; The National Stadium, Beijing by Herzog and de Meuron; Watercube, National Swimming Centre, Beijing by PTW Architects; Museum Brandhorst, Munich by sauerbruch hutton; Sean O’Casey Community Centre, Dublin by O’Donnell and Tuomey; and The British High Commission, Colombo, Sri Lanka,…

Finalists have been announced for the re Growth pod competition. An international ideas competition for the design for a new family house for the residents of Kinglake who have lost their homes in the Bushfire.  This competition is open to architects and designers not just…

The Andes Sprouts Society competition, asking for proposals for sustainable studio/living units at ASsociety’s meadow farmland in New York’s Delaware county, has unveiled the official shortlist. The jury selected 23 entries to continue on for further juror discussion. After the final discussion, three finalists and honorable mentions will…