On Aug 1st, the Chicago Architectural Club and the Chicago Humanities Festival launched UNION STATION 2020, an international design ideas competition for the conversion of Chicago’s Union Station into a high-speed rail hub, regional market, and meeting place. The three winners and seven honorable mentions of this competition…

Designs focus on renovating abandoned children’s theater A team of six graduate architecture students — led by Ellen Leuenberger and including Denny Burke, Alexander Harner, Michael Heller, Rachel Kerr and June Kim — has won the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Community Service Competition. …

This competition is first and foremost about the application of the principles of Universal Design to the cause of affordable housing. The sponsor of the competition, Beyond Housing, wishes to both honor and advance the work of one of its founding members, Janet Becker.  Mrs. Becker has been a steadfast…

Historic Hotel Wins 7th Annual CINTAS contest CINCINNATI, OH, August 27, 2008 – The finest restroom in America is in the five-star Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee - says the Internet public who cast online ballots in the 7th annual “America’s Best Restroom” contest presented by Cincinnati-based Cintas…

Lexington, KY, August 26, 2008—An architectural firm that builds homes from sandbags in the shantytowns of Cape Town, South Africa, the young inventor of the world’s first non-turbine wind-powered generator, and an Indiana-based university professor who builds shelters using…

Three architecture firms will begin their own road to Omaha after having been selected in June by Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey to design the new Omaha Baseball Stadium, the future home for the College World Series. Led by Omaha-based HDR, Inc. as architects and engineers of…

DENVER - Following two days of public presentations from six architectural candidates, the City and County of Denver’s Division of Theatres and Arenas and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO) announced today that the Boettcher Concert Hall Architect Selection Committee chose Diamond and Schmitt Architects and their local partner, Oz Architecture,…