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…

Our Australian friends at Super Colossal set up a very nice gallery with entries for the UTS Broadway Design Competition which asks to design a new 5 star Green Star building on the southern edge of the Sydney CBD. “The competition opened…

The list of Restaurant and Chef nominees for the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards, the nation’s most prestigious honors for culinary professionals, has been announced. Selected from thousands of online entries, the prestigious group of semifinalists in the 19 Restaurant and Chef categories represents a wide variety of culinary talent,…

As reported the other day, six visions of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will be on display from 2 p.m. Friday, March 27, through Friday, April 3, in the Smithsonian Institution Building (the Castle),…

Six visions of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will be on display from 2 p.m. Friday, March 27, through Friday, April 3, in the Smithsonian Institution Building (the Castle), Washington, DC. The exhibition features design…

March 16 marked the beginning of voting for the best student architectural project-solution that will energize Metelkova City in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana. Until April 6, visitors to the Trimo Urban Crash website can rate the 19 short-listed projects, selected from among all 147 submitted projects…

A winner in Stockholm‘s ambitious Slussen urban redesign competition has yet to be announced, but Bustler has already some exciting images of the currently shortlisted five proposals by internationally acclaimed architects like Sir Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, and BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), as well as Swedish firms Nyréns Architects and…