Exhibition opening and announcement of award winners: October 4, 2008 “Flip a Strip,” a design competition organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA], generated 95 completed submissions, from architectural teams in 46 cities and six countries. This innovative project intends to inspire creative, new visions for the renovation…

The jury decided to award the 2008 Gold medal to the Mexican architect Teodoro González de León. He will receive the medal at a ceremony in Turin, on 2 July 2008, during the twenty third UIA Congress. CITATION Through this medal, the UIA honours and highlights a lifetime of work…

Microsoft XBOX Halo 3 Wins 5 Gold Cubes as ADC Reveals Awards for Advertising, ADC Hybrid, Design and ADC Sphere Winners of Corbis Creativity for Social Justice Award named New York, NY – May 1, 2008 – The Art Directors Club today announces the top winners in the categories of…

National Endowment for the Arts Announces Stewardship Grants in Design Design Grants Part of NEA’s Second Major Round of Fiscal Year 2008 Funding As part of its second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2008, the National Endowment for…

Third Annual National Design Week to be held Oct. 19–25 The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its ninth annual National Design Awards program. Today, Cooper-Hewitt director Paul Warwick Thompson announced…

GDS Architects Submits Winning Design for National Landmark Tower Infinity Pasadena, Calif., April 9, 2008 – GDS Architects recently was awarded first prize in an International Design Competition sponsored by Korea Land Company that attracted over…

In September 2007, JDS Architects won the international competition for a new Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo (previously on Bustler) and have now been commissioned to build the new jump tower and arena for the World Championship in 2011.

London Festival of Architecture 2008 is looking for an army of skilled and enthusiastic individuals to become Festival Volunteers this summer. Roles will range from party stewarding and outdoor-event supervision to press hospitality, HQ assistants and market research. Donate anything from a day to a month of your time to…

JESSE REISER AND NANAKO UMEMOTO OF REISER + UMEMOTO / RUR ARCHITECTURE PC TO RECEIVE PRESIDENTIAL CITATION FROM THE COOPER UNION AT 149TH COMMENCEMENT. NEW YORK - On May 28th 2008, Jesse Reiser and his partner Nanako Umemoto will receive the Cooper Union Presidential Citation from President George Campbell for…

OTTAWA, May 6 - The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts are pleased to announce the recipients of the Governor General's Medals in Architecture for 2008. Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto (Toronto, ON)architectsAlliance & Behnisch Architekten…

May 5, 2008 –The Rockefeller Foundation announced today the two recipients of the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal. Peggy Shepard will be given the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal for Lifetime Leadership, and Alexie Torres-Fleming will be given the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism. Along with the Medal,…

Twenty-one Returning and Seven New Galleries Will Represent the Extraordinary Scope of Historic and Contemporary Design at Design Miami/ Basel - Basel, Switzerland / June 2 – 5, 2008 Miami, FL and Basel, Switzerland – Design Miami/ Basel, the premier global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating limited-edition design,…

'Transformational' Fountain Sparked New Era of Water Feature Design WASHINGTON, April 29 The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced that the Tanner Fountain at Harvard University will receive the 2008 Landmark Award during the ASLA Annual Meeting on October 6 in…

Projects showcase excellence in sustainable design principles and reduced energy consumption Washington, D.C., April 22, 2008 The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The projects…

Architect and Professor Eric Olsen Wins 2008 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize San Francisco, May 2, 2008 A Bay Area architect and professor at the California College of Arts has been chosen as this year's winner of the prestigious Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize.

Request for Qualifications Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous/pervasive computing and urban architecture SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 27, 2008 The Architectural League of New York invites architects, artists, designers, technologists,engineers, urbanists, or teams thereof,…

This year's winners of the Rome Prize, for Architecture, include MATTHEW HURAL (Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize) and URSULA EMERY McCLURE & MICHAEL A. McCLURE (Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize)... Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize MATTHEW HURAL Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Virginia Designer, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects…

ThyssenKrupp Elevator, one of the world's largest elevator manufacturing companies, announced the opening and registration for the 11th edition of the prestigious Architecture Award. Held in collaboration with Dubai Municipality, this unique competition aims to foster creative, yet pragmatic new visions, for developing a tall emblem structure, within a dedicated…

EUROPE'S MOST IMPORTANT AND EMERGING YOUNG ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS NAMED AS "EUROPE 40 UNDER 40" The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design are pleased to announce the selection of this year’s most promising and emerging design talent in…

San Francisco, CA (April 18, 2008) – The American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter (AIA San Francisco) announces the winners of the 2008 AIA San Francisco Design Awards program. The winners were revealed and celebrated last night at a special gala held at the Terra Gallery in San Francisco's…