Czech firm mjölk architekti has shared with us their fascinating proposal "POLAR HEN" which was - under the title "ICE PILLOWS" - just recently named one of the five winners in the internationally acclaimed Warming Huts v.2011, An Art +Architecture Competition on Ice (...with one…

Portuguese collective DOSE has sent us images and a fascinating time-lapse video of their project BLUETUBE BAR, a temporary bar to operate at the annual academic festival in Oporto, Portugal, Queima das Fitas. The project won the student competition sponsored by the School of Architecture at…

Peter Zumthor's first completed building in the UK opens this Friday, July 1: the 2011 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. The concept for this year’s Pavilion is the hortus conclusus, a contemplative room, a garden within a garden. One enters the building from the lawn and begins the transition into…

British practice NEX created a benchmark in integrated design at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London last week, working with Buro Happold and Chelsea Gold Medallist Marcus Barnett on the creation of a pavilion for The Times…

Last November, Living Architecture and Artangel, two of Britain's leading cultural organizations, held a contest open internationally to design a room in the roof of one of London's most prominent buildings for a visitor from the future Olympic Games in 2012. "A Room for London"…

Five winners have been announced in the 2010/11 edition of the River Trail at the Forks warming huts competition. Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Exposition on Ice was first launched last year to allow users of the Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail near Winnipeg, Canada to…

The architectural competition Griffintown Interrupted seeks to revive Montreal’s oldest industrial district through a collective design experiment. Griffintown Interrupted is an open platform for discourse and debate which uses the competition model to create a space for agency, debate and transformation. Architects and designers from 10 countries have come…

We just published the winning projects of Canada’s National Design Exchange Awards in categories Architecture and Interior Design, and here are now also the award winners in the categories Landscape Design and Urban Design. The nationwide Design Exchange (DX) competition is open to all types…

In the previous post, we just published the winners of Canada’s National Design Exchange Awards in the Architecture category. In this article, we present the winners in the category Interior Design Commercial / Temporary. The nationwide competition, organized by Design Exchange (DX), is open to all…

Don't forget to cast your vote for the People's Choice Winner in the Sukkah City 2010 competition! A professional jury already selected twelve finalists whose structures will be erected in New York City's Union Square Park on September 19 and 20 (previously on Bustler), and now…