Victoria Walsh and Hannah Purdy from Walsh & Purdy Architects, and Aurelie Paradiso from Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects, were awarded the 2008 Independent Projects grant from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Architecture, Planning, and Design Program for their proposal: FlyNY:…

Germany’s Behnisch, Baltimore’s Ayers/Saint/Gross Submit ‘Forward-Thinking’ Initial Concept The University of Baltimore has named Behnisch Architekten of Stuttgart, Germany, in partnership with Baltimore’s Ayers/Saint/Gross, Inc., as the winner of the international competition to design the new

New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Paul Warwick Thompson, Director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Paul White of Transportation Alternatives announced the winners of the CityRacks Design…

Winner, finalists, and honorable mentions have been announced for Redhook Design Competition, the design competition that challenged architects and planners to re-imagine Brooklyn neighborhood Red Hook as the most bicycle friendly neighborhood in New York City, hosted by the Forum for…

In April this year, a partnership of AIA Newark and Suburban and the Young Architects Forum invited international designers to find innovative, visionary and compelling proposals for container constructed multi-family mixed-use project. The selected site was adjacent to a…

It began with a competition. The New York City Department of Transportation and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, along with Google, wanted to encourage cycling as a convenient method of transportation. After a study revealed that lack of access to secure bike parking was the main deterrent, the…

Transportation Alternatives announced three winners this week for “Designing the 21st Century Street,” an open design competition that challenged New Yorkers to safely accommodate pedestrians, bicyclists, transit, trucks and cars on the same “complete street” – something that has long eluded New York City street design. The…

AIA Philadelphia celebrated the best in design by its member firms at Loews Philadelphia hotel Thursday, October 16, with the 2008 Awards for Design Excellence. Presented in Gold, Silver, Honor, and Recognition categories for both completed, unbuilt, preservation, and community design projects, the awards are given for projects in the…

New York, October 14, 2008 – The Art Directors Club today announced the latest group of inductees into the prestigious ADC Hall of Fame.  The seven illustrious honorees, representing the fields of advertising, design, architecture, filmmaking, illustration, academia and photography, will be inducted at a black-tie benefit gala dinner on…

Syracuse Architecture Announces Finalists for Affordable Green Housing Design Competition Syracuse University School of Architecture, in partnership with the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environment and Energy Systems and