Des Moines Water Works, working in partnership with Iowa State University Department of Landscape Architecture, recently announced that Sasaki Associates, with RDG Planning & Design and Applied Ecological Services (AES), is the winning team of the Water Works Parkitecture Competition.

Polish practice BudCud has sent us their EUROPAN 11 entry 'Central Lake' for the Kanaalzone site in Leeuwarden, Netherlands which won the team an Honorable Mention. For the EUROPAN Leeuwarden challenge, participants were confronted with questions that asked for a solution on all levels: landscape,…

One winning project and three Honorable Mentions have recently been announced in the ONE PRIZE: Water as the 6th Borough competition (previously on Bustler). The first prize in this international ideas competition went to the entry NY Parallel Networks by Ali Fard and Ghazal Jafari from Canada.…

Terreform ONE has announced the winners of ONE PRIZE: Water as the 6th Borough, the open international design competition to envision the sixth borough of New York City. ONE PRIZE is an annual design and science award to promote green design in cities. The 2011 edition…

AGER Group's Boston Office has shared with us their proposal "Domestic Laundry: Flush Basin Curtain Mattress Pillow" that won the team an Honorable Mention in the Gowanus Lowline: Connections competition (previously on Bustler). Team members included Jessica Leete, Albert Chung, Winnie Lai, Shan Shan Lu,…

Six winning designs have been announced in the Gowanus Lowline: Connections competition, hosted by Gowanus by Design. The jury reviewed 98 finalists to select the 1st and 2nd place winners as well as four honorable mentions.

Turin, Italy-based architects bam! have shared with us their entry for the Venice CityVision Competition (previously on Bustler) that was just recently awarded the First Prize. The team included Alberto Bottero, Simona Della Rocca, and Valeria Bruni.

Two winners, one special prize, and eleven honorable mentions have been announced in the Venice CityVision Competition. The international ideas competition routinely challenges architects, engineers, designers, students and creative individuals to develop visionary urban proposals with the intention of stimulating and supporting the contemporary city, in this case Venice.…

Blue Ventures, a conservation organization that simultaneously protects marine environments while improving the standard of living in some of the world's poorest coastal communities, has been named the winner of the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The London based non-profit, which validates the bio-economic viability of…

Winners have been announced at this year's ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition. Of the twenty finalist entries, the concept "Living with the Water Paradox" by Nok Ratanavong, Sang Ok Kim, and James Kim was selected as the First-Place winner. Winner of the special prize for Best Insights was…