The YUL-MTL : Moving landscapes international ideas competition on the Autoroute 20 gateway corridor linking the Montreal-Trudeau Airport to downtown Montreal recently announced three equal winners. The competition, hosted by the Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at the University of Montreal (CPEUM), aimed to develop strategic…

Ben van Berkel / UNStudio's design for the new Transfer Terminal and Air Traffic Control Tower for Kutaisi Airport was officially presented last week by the President of the Republic of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. Amsterdam-based UNStudio has designed the new Kutaisi Airport which will serve domestic and…

d3 and Transportation Alternatives have announce the winners of the “Close The Gap” design competition, which invited architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers and students worldwide to envision the completion of New York City's East River Greenway. Submissions from pla.net Architects and the…

The winning projects for the Solar Park South international design competition in Calabria, Italy have recently been announced. The brief called for a 'Solar Highway' by re-using Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway sections between Scilla and Bagnara to be decommissioned by the Italian Highways Authority. The international jury selected three winning…

Last Sunday, the ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition announced that HNTB Engineering with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. (HNTB+MVVA) has won the first international wildlife crossing structure design competition. ARC was designed to solve the problem of ensuring the safe mobility of humans…

Exactly one year ago, Bustler reported that Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) and Bruce Mau Design (BMD) had won the competition to design the Big Blue Bus Shelter and Branding Package by the City of Santa Monica, California. Now, the Los Angeles chapter of the…

Today, the ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition unveiled its five finalist designs for a next generation wildlife crossing at West Vail Pass, Colorado. The competition is intended to solve the problem of ensuring safe travel for humans and wildlife. Collisions between vehicles and wildlife have increased by…

The architectural competition for the design of the new terminal for Latvian airline airBaltic at Riga International Airport in Latvia is going into its final round: 125 entries from more than seventy countries from around the world have been received and are currently being reviewed by an international jury.…

Today, the winners of the Build a Better Burb ideas competition for retrofitting Long Island downtowns were announced. The competition asked for ideas to help Long Island master several pressing challenges: to build affordable housing and greater housing choice, especially for rentals; to reduce car dependency…

Here's the fascinating entry "Slow Up-rising" by Canadian firm Ja Studio to Solar Park South, the international ideas competition in Calabria, Italy. The competition brief called for a 'Solar Highway' by re-using Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway sections between Scilla and Bagnara to be decommissioned by the Italian Highways Authority.…