A team lead by Danish architects COBE and Public Architects, in collaboration with Grontmij Carl Bro and Bartenbach LichtLabor, have yesterday been awarded first place in the international competition to design the new Norreport Train Station in Copenhagen,…

Gensler’s winning design, co-created with 4240 Architecture, transforms Chicago’s abandoned Bloomingdale rail line into a three mile long greenhouse and hydrogen generator that provides 10 acres of farm land year round, powers city schools, and creates a beacon for the city.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recently announced the winners of the London Bridge 800 Ideas Competition: 1st Prize – Laurie Chetwood, Chetwoods, London Laurie Chetwood, Chetwoods, London 2nd Prize – Lawrence Friesen, GenGeo, Ilona Hay, London

The Steering Committee for the A2 Maastricht project in Maastricht, Netherlands recently announced that the project will be carried out by the Avenue2 Consortium, which consists of Ballast Nedam and Strukton. The decision to award the contract to Avenue2 also signals the approval of the Groene Loper (Green Boulevard) plan.…

“Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility-on-Demand Systems (SPM/MoD)”, submitted by an interdisciplinary team of students at MIT has been selected as the winner of the prestigious 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The team will receive a $100,000 prize at…

Via SCI-Arc and Architects’ Newspaper: The passage in November 2008 of Measure R, a half cent sales tax in Los Angeles County, will provide as much as $40 billion for transit-related projects across the City of Los Angeles over the next 30 years. Meanwhile, U.S.…

The Irish Railway Procurement Agency is pleased to announce that the winners of the competition to design the Metro West–Liffey Valley Bridge are Buro Happold and Explorations Architecture. The RIAI (Royal Institute of the Architects of…

The Glenelg Tramline Extension has been awarded this year’s prestigious Adelaide Prize for the achievement of excellence and innovation in the city’s public realm. An extension of the existing tramline service from Victoria Square to the City West Campus of the University…