Munich's Department of Urban Planning and Construction recently announced that Rotterdam-based practice West 8 has won Part B (Housing and Neighborhood Center) of the urban and landscape planning competition for the first phase of Freiham North. Part A (Community Center, School and Sports Center) was won by…

This week, MVRDV, The Why Factory and the JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture opened the fourth edition of the exhibition series “Museum of Tomorrow” in Taiwan's capital Taipei. Under the title “The Vertical Village” the exhibition explores the rapid urban transformation in…

“Design with the Other 90%: Cities,” the second in a series of themed exhibitions by Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum that demonstrate how design can address the world’s most critical issues, opens October 15 at the United Nations and runs through January 9, 2012.

Earlier this August, the winning projects were announced in the TAB Vision Competition STREET 2020 which aims to drastically improve the situation for pedestrians and cyclists in Estonia's capitol Tallinn. Here is another competition entry we have received from Oli Mahmud Architects from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

If you're in the Los Angeles area these days, we highly recommend to visit the excellent exhibition Rethink LA: Perspectives on a Future City, currently displayed at the Architecture and Design Museum on Wilshire Boulevard. The exhibition runs until September 4. Created…

Somatic Collaborative, an architectural practice based out of New York City and Quito, Ecuador, has shared with us their proposal "Plaza República - a new fine grain open space" to a national competition for Quito's urban renewal. The design team included Felipe Correa, Anthony Acciavatti, Andrew S.…

The winning entries have been announced in the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) Vision Competition STREET 2020. Organized by the Estonian Architecture Centre and the City of Tallinn, this open international competition invited students, architects, landscape architects and planners to focus on the hybrid…

A list of 23 Finalists has been announced for the Build a Better Burb Competition. The jury selected their top entries from a field of 212 submissions and has now invited YOU to cast your vote for the Long Island Index People’s Choice Award!

Five finalists have been selected in Google’s Model Your Town Competition, and now the winner is to be selected by the public. Town: Barranco - Lima, Peru Team Member:…

New York-based landscape and urban design firm Balmori Associates, along with British S333 Architecture + Urbanism has been selected as finalist to develop proposals for a new master plan that will regenerate the area surrounding the Bay of Pasaia, in the Basque…