In January 2008, White House Redux presented an international call for ideas. The mission statement was “What if the White House, the ultimate architectural symbol of political power, were to be designed today?” On occasion of the election of…

Published to coincide with the opening of an exhibition of the competition’s results at Storefront, White House Redux - The Book contains a compendium of documentation related to the competition and an overview of the results. It includes texts by…

Grand Army Plaza should be one of the world’s great urban spaces. Designed in 1867 by Olmsted and Vaux, this magnificent 11-acre plaza is home to powerful architecture, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch, the elegant Bailey Fountain, the Greenmarket, and the entrance to Prospect Park. Despite its identity as…

The Cooper Union Student Eco Initiative is looking for designers across the world who have an opinion on the current trend of green design.  They are collecting responses from professionals, students, and the population at large to incorporate into their first public work. The initiative hopes to use the…

Past Young Guns winners serve as jury for sixth biennial competition of young creative talent in visual media and design. NEW YORK, September 5, 2008 – The Art Directors Club, the premier organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its…

An Awareness Campaign for the Millennium Development Goals New York, NY - DESIGN 21: Social Design Network, a joint-venture project founded by Felissimo and UNESCO to inspire and promote design for the greater good, is proud to announce…

The National Building Museum will present the Tenth Vincent Scully Prize to Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture and founder and senior partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, at a gala celebration on November 12, 2008. David Schwarz, chairman of the Prize jury, said Stern was…

N.E.E.D., a young architecture office in New York and Seoul, has been awarded the First Place ENYA Prize in the 2008 ENYA Biennial Competition. The competition was sponsored by Emerging New York Architects, Center for Architecture, American Institute of…

To mark the closing of MoMA’s special exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind, our sister site Archinect presented a set of reviews that cover the show’s web space, individual pieces of interest, and the themes at play throughout. For those of you that were able to visit…