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…

The first Re-Inventcities competition recently announced the three winning concepts. The competition is dedicated to (re) think the basics physical and social structures of the cities on the contemporary scenario. Re-Inventcities asked to be understood as an urban-theoretical project seeking to promote the discussion about contemporary landscape…

The new Randers Museum of Art in Denmark will be a building both extrovert and introvert in nature; with reinterpreted classic Danish roots The international competition was comprised of 5 teams, including Zaha Hadid, Behnish Architekten, Coop Himmelb(l)au and entasis. In itself…

The TED Prize, designed to leverage the TED community’s exceptional array of talent and resources, has recently announced its 2009 winners. It is awarded annually to three exceptional individuals who each receive $100,000 and, much more important, the granting of “One Wish to Change the World.”…

Gensler announced the winner of the Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship competition at Contract magazine’s 30th Annual Interiors Awards Breakfast in New York City. Danae Marie Ledgerwood, a senior at Woodbury University in Whittier, California, received the $7,500 academic scholarship and a post-graduation internship with Gensler. …

The Board of Trustees of The Speed Art Museum announced today the appointment of wHY Architecture led by principal Kulapat Yantrasast, working with his partners Yo Hakomori and Richard Stoner, to revitalize and expand its historic museum complex in Louisville, Kentucky. Charles L. Venable, Director of The Speed Art Museum,…

TEN Arquitectos’ design for Irvine, California’s Orange County Great Park was one of six projects selected to receive the AIA’s 2009 Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design. The 2009 Institute Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design Jury included: Jury Chair Jonathan J. Marvel, AIA, Rogers Marvel Architects…

Following the presentation of the Master Plan for the new Campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in May 2008, the WU and Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (BIG), together with Austria’s Federal Minister of Science and Research Johannes Hahn and City Councillor Rudolf Schicker (Department for Urban Development and Traffic),…

Rotterdam-based Studio Dumbar has been awarded a commission for the design of public space elements in the new city of Unjeong[1]. The new city of 200,000 inhabitants is located near the demilitarized zone on the border between North and South Korea. The project includes the design of 85 elements in…

The competition to regenerate a former industrial area in the North Italian city of Modena into a mixed-use public space has been won by a conglomerate of the firms Modostudio, CCDP, and Studio Cattinari. The site will host the new DAST, the city’s center for design, art, science and technology.…