The winners of Australia’s most prestigious award for excellence and innovation in urban design were announced at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra on Tuesday, August 11. The Australia Award for Urban Design highlights the best of design in the built environment and acknowledges the critical role of good urban design…

Click above image to enlarge Following up on our recent article announcing the finalists of the Slussen urban redesign…

The first two winners have been announced in the Pennine Lancashire Squared architecture competition which aims to create six public ‘squares’. Inspirational concept designs from Manchester-based Landscape Projects and from Civic Architects and Colour: Urban Design Ltd, for high profile public spaces in Accrington and Burnley…

The winners of the first ever FormShift Vancouver have been selected. In the Vancouver Primary category, honors go to a submission from Calgary-based Sturgess Architecture. The Vancouver Secondary choice is Romses Architects (Scott Romses) – Vancouver. In the third and final category – Vancouver Wildcard – the…

The Secchi-Vigano project for the renewal of Rue De La Loi in Brussels, Belgium has recently been unveiled by JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects. This master plan is sought to create permeability among what is now two isolated communities on either side of Rue de la…

A plan drafted by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning to redevelop a site within the Denver Design District (DDD) has been selected as the winning scheme in the seventh annual ULI (Urban Land Institute) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. The…

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.…

Last week, Bustler featured 3LHD‘s design for a new waterfront in Split, Croatia’s biggest coastal city. The proposal by 3LHD and Drazen Pejkovic has won the joint 3rd prize along with two other teams. A first and second prize were not given in this competition.…

In the international competition for the urban development of the Duilovo area in Split, Croatia, architecture practices 3LHD and Drazen Pejkovic have won the joint 3rd prize along with two other teams. The City of Split, as an investor, and The Association of Architects Split (DAS), as…

A winner in Stockholm‘s ambitious Slussen urban redesign competition has yet to be announced, but Bustler has already some exciting images of the currently shortlisted five proposals by internationally acclaimed architects like Sir Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, and BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), as well as Swedish firms Nyréns Architects and…