Competition entries to the tremendously popular Busan Opera House competition keep pouring into our inbox these days. Here is another one of our favorites, the proposal "Anisotropia" designed by London-based studio Orproject. The design team included Ho-Ping Hsia, Christoph Klemmt, Rolando Rodriguez-Leal, Rajat Sodhi, Natalia Wrzask, and…

Boston-based firm PRAUD has shared with us their entry to the Busan Opera House competition. The international ideas competition invited visions for a massive cultural center, comprising a 2,000-seat opera house and a 1,300-seat multi-purpose theater, that acts as a landmark building for this booming South Korean…

Winners have recently been announced of "Changing the Face – Moscow 2011," an international ideas competition aiming at redesigning the facade of the famous Pushkinsky movie theater in Moscow, Russia. The Pushkinsky is located at Pushkin Square, one of Moscow's most popular spots, and was built in 1961 to…

Three winners and four Honorable Mentions have been revealed for the suckerPUNCH-curated Long Island Cinema Center competition in Queens, New York. The international design ideas competition challenged entrants to create a large scale center to celebrate cinema and rescue the moviegoing experience from fading into obsolescence. …

Hangzhou urban planning bureau has announced Dutch firm MVRDV winner of the international design competition for the China Comic and Animation Museum (CCAM) in Hangzhou, China. MVRDV's winning design refers to the speech balloon: a series of eight balloon shaped volumes create an internally complex museum experience…

San Francisco State University unveiled designs for the Mashouf Performing Arts Center, a 242,150 square foot state-of-the-art facility that will transform creative arts education and performing arts at SF State and throughout the region. The new performing arts center will house SF State's programs in theatre, music, dance and…

Danish practice WE Architecture has sent us their entry for the Teatri Poslki competition, an extension project for the old theater in Szczecin, Poland.

Greek Point Supreme Architects were recently awarded an honorable mention for their proposal for the Theatre Square competition in Athens, Greece. The square is a small urban space, surrounded by buildings on all sides, in a problematic area of central Athens. 

Barcelona-based Mateo Arquitectura have shared with us some fascinating material documenting the construction progress of a new building for the Cinematheque de Catalunya in the Raval, Barcelona. Designed by Josep Lluís Mateo, the project won the first prize in a restricted competition in 2004 and will house…

C. F. Møller Architects has won the competition for the new Kristiansund Opera and Culture Centre in Norway. Earlier this summer, the Danish firm was awarded a shared first prize with Space Group (Norway) and Brisac Gonzalez (UK) in the competition, but now…