California College of the Arts (CCA) and Santa Clara University (SCU), competing as Team California, took the lead in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon this morning by winning the architecture contest with a…

The National Children’s Museum (NCM) yesterday unveiled plans for its new Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed building, slated to open in 2013 at National Harbor, as a physical demonstration of the Museum’s mission to inspire children to care about and improve the world. NCM’s new 150,000 square-foot, LEED-certified…

David Adjaye (Photo: Dominik Gigler)The architectural team Freelon Adjaye Bond in association with SmithGroup was selected and announced today to design the new black…

Exemplary work in public design took center stage these days as the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) honored 18 projects at its biennial Design Awards ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. “These projects represent the best of the best of GSA’s work for its federal agency customers…

As part of its first major grant announcement of fiscal year 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced that it will award $540,000 to fund 20 Access to Artistic Excellence Innovation Grants in Design. Grant amounts range from $10,000 to $40,000. “We often hear from our grantees that…

Washington’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has released the six finalists that will be competing to win the commission to design the the new National Museum of African American History and Culture.