GLOW: New Competition, Can You Make Copley One of the Greatest Squares in the World Using Light?

Can you make Copley one of the greatest squares in the world using light? This is the main challenge presented in SHIFTboston's new international competition called GLOW. Continue

New High-Speed Rail Station in Spain: To be Designed by Foster + Partners

Architecture and design studio, Foster + Partners, has won an international competition to design Ourense AVE Station in Spain. Here's their concept. Continue

Beppu Art Month 2011 Earthscape Exhibition: Researching the Vegetation of Beppu

Earthscape has rented an old wooden apartment in Beppu since 2010, and has used it as its lab to study the relationship between people and the environment through research on the vegetation, history, and origin of the 2.7 x 3.6 m space itself. Continue

International Design Contest: Do You have Ideas for an Iconic Pedestrian Bridge in Amsterdam?

The aim of this international competition held by [AC-CA] is to design an Iconic Pedestrian Bridge in central Amsterdam. The architecture of this new structure should reflect contemporary design tendencies. Continue

BIG Renovates Transitlager in Switzerland: Tailoring it for Creative Businesses & Workshops

The existing 18.000 m2 Transitlager built in the late 1960s is to be renovated and extended by up to 7.000 m2 for residential and arts related purposes. The architecture studio that will do the job is BIG. Continue

Follow the Landscape Design Development of the Sports Park Stozice

This is how architects SADAR + VUGA are planning and designing their hybrid urban project, the Sports Park Stozice. Continue

EASTERN Design Office’s New Creative Project: The Keyhole House

EASTERN design office has once again accomplished a creative architecture based on a simple concept. This time they have designed a house that symbolizes a key. Continue

How designLSM Puts Together a Sophisticated Interior Design that Fits Waldorf Hotel’s Image

designLSM were asked by their client Hilton to redevelop the reception within the Waldorf Hotel. The design team’s mission was in essence to add sophistication and glamour into the reception’s appearance as the Waldorf Hilton is internationally known for these two things. Continue

SHH’s Branding Process when Creating the Deluxe Airport Lounge for Rizon Jet

Architecture/interior practice and branding design consultancy, SHH, has finished the design of a £3m, 2-storey VIP passenger lounge at Biggin Hill airport, for client Rizon Jet. This is how they established a deluxe design with the company's brand in mind. Continue

3XN’s Museum of Liverpool will Launch July 19th: Showcasing Social History and Popular Culture

3XN's Museum of Liverpool will launch July 19th. It's the largest national museum to open in the United Kingdom for more than a hundred years. Continue

BIG Wins The Competition To Design a Major Cultural Center In Albania

BIG, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold , Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management are announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27.000 m2 cultural complex in Albania.
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SHH Combines Contemporary & Classic Design for Office Interiors Project

SHH has completed an office interiors project, set within a 5-storey early Georgian terrace in the West End of London, for an international shipping company. Continue

International Competition: Rehearsal Spaces for Musicians

This competition seeks proposals that define the distribution of a space within the industrial building that was acquired in Madrid to house rehearsal spaces. Continue

No Rules, Great Spot Competition: Got Ideas for the Praça de Lisboa?

No rules, great spot is a sentence written/graffiti in a wall of the demolished Praça de Lisboa and has become the motto for this international ideas competition to a paradigmatic space, in Oporto 's city centre. Continue

The Generative Space Award: Improve Health & Health Care with Design

The Generative Space Award recognizes break-through designs that improve health and healthcare. Your mission for the competition is to clearly demonstrate the integration of the physical and social environments to make your community "a Place to Flourish". Continue

BIG’s Design Solution for the Green Development of Wooden Multi-Story Buildings

BIG’s proposal PUU-BO is a prefabricated solution, designed to be both extremely flexible and materially efficient. Continue

How Blacksheep took Their Stylish Design Focus to Create the New Restaurant Galoupet’s Interior

To establish the new restaurant's gourmet design, Blacksheep studio adapted their design style into the making of Galoupet's interior. Below you can follow the design elements they used to accomplish this stylish look. Continue

Global Design Competition: Design Solutions for Sustainable Restaurants

A reminder for you creatives who haven't heard of the Global design competition! Its deadline is March April 15th, 2011, where you can compete for $10,000 in prizes. Continue

3XN’s Design Interpretation of Swedbank’s Core Values: Openness, Simplicity & Care

Swedbank's new international headquarters will be designed by Danish studio 3XN, with direct reference to the organization’s core values; openness, simplicity, care and durability. Continue

Find out How Architect Pascal Grasso Designed a Rhythmic Apartment Interior in Paris

Pascal Grasso Architectures took on a promising project that consisted of a private client, an apartment in the center of Paris on an about 280 m² area and a large terrace. He wanted to create a dynamic interior for the project and this is his final design. Continue

Here is MET Studio’s Exciting Design Approach for a Science Exploration Centre

Award-winning master planners and exhibition designers at MET Studio have been commissioned to create three galleries for China’s new Ningbo Science Exploration Centre, due to open in Spring 2012. Their colorful concept images are here! Continue

Stairscraper: Focusing on Individual Needs in a Collective Whole

Nabito’s ongoing project, the Stairscraper, will be built in Abu Dhabi, EAU, as it is the 2010 project winner of the Total Housing Competition. Below you will find the idea and description of their winning concept. Continue

Discover How Designer Ismini Karali Works with Projects

Ismini Karali, the founder of her own interior design studio, Ismini Karali Design, started her firm 18 years ago, after studies in business administration. Continue

This is How SHH ReBranded the Barbican Foodhall & Lounge

Architects and designers at SHH have brought together and led an all-star team that served both as interior and branding designers to create two new restaurant spaces within one of London’s greatest 20th century architectural landmarks, the Barbican Centre. Continue