In April 2009, Bustler reported that Milan-based practice Teknoarch had won the international competition for the new House of Arts and Culture in Beirut, Lebanon. Representatives of Teknoarch are in Lebanon this week to meet with their local partners and to present the most recent…

The international contest for the James Dyson Award, celebrating, encouraging and inspiring the next generation of design engineers, invites the public to participate in the People’s Vote stage. Until Monday, July 20, the website is opened up to a public vote in…

In case you haven’t subscribed to our Bustler Events RSS Feed yet, check out some of the exciting events we recently added: New York: Conference on SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION IN THE INFORMATION AGE Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Nearly 60 million people are added to…

In case you haven’t subscribed to our Bustler Events RSS Feed yet, check out some of the exciting events we recently added: New York: What Is Green Architecture? Thursday, April 30, 2009 The Goethe-Institut New York presents the next event in their spring…

Julien De Smedt, of JDS Architects, gave a public lecture at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Design’s George Gund Hall on March 5, 2009. Topic: “Embracing Diversity”. Watch the video of the lecture here on Bustler:

The Royal Institute of British Architects is delighted to announce that a shortlist of seven designs for the River Douglas Crossing near Preston in Lancashire has been chosen by an expert judging panel. The international design competition attracted an outstanding response, with 110 designs received worldwide. Entries were received from…

Via Turkish Daily News: The Zorlu Group has begun the final stages of a competition among architecture firms for the building of the Zorlu Center, to be built on the Highway Field in Istanbul, which the group purchased for $800 million in a March 2007…

The Spark Awards International Design Competition just closed their early entry deadline, but will accept entries for Phase 1 until the late deadline, August 25. After reviewing the early submissions, the organizers counted at least 278 entries. Many of the ‘07 participants returned, and many new exciting firms signed up…

Tate Director, Nicholas Serota, and leading architect Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron, today revealed the revised plans for the new development of Tate Modern. In response to a revised brief and consultation with artists and curators, the architects have refined designs to create a dramatic new museum…