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.…

Via NYT: The architects Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith (MOS) have won the annual competition to transform the courtyard at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens. Their project, titled “afterparty,” is a mix of what could be described as cones,…

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been awarded the first prize in the design competition to build the Taipei Performing Arts Centre. The design, led by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, was selected from over 135 entries from 24 countries by an international jury.

The future headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority will be designed by the London firm of Zaha Hadid Architects. The choice of architect was made at the Port Authority board meeting on January 13. The new Port House will occupy the site of the technical services building on quay 63.

The concept design “Pavilion of Infinity”, by Chan Wai Ching and Sze Ki Shan Ida, has been named winner in the competition for The Hong Kong Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010. “The Shanghai Expo will provide an opportunity for us to showcase Hong Kong’s city charms, quality city…

Last night, MIT presidential research fellow Neri Oxman was named the winner of the first annual The Earth Awards.  Presented the award by TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair and Datin Azrene Abdullah, Oxman was recognized for her groundbreaking project FAB.REcology, which combines the principals of biomimicking with the design and…