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Discover the winning project from Buildner's first House of the Future competition: “Al Dara: Harnessing Heritage for a Sustainable Future” by Mohamed Al Mufti, Souaid Georges, and Natalie Elmir from Lebanon.The winning design was awarded €140,000 by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum in a special ceremony in Dubai.[ First House of the Future competition ]Read the full post on Bustler

Bjarke Ingels Group has been selected to design the new Hungarian Natural History Museum, set within the historic Great Forest of Debrecen. The 247,000-square-foot facility will replace the museum’s current home in Budapest, supporting a national strategy to position Debrecen as a cultural and educational hub by 2030.Read the full post on Bustler

The longlist for this year’s Davidson Prize has been announced for the competition’s fifth edition, which is organized around the theme of 'Streets Ahead.'This year’s brief asked designers to consider issues latent within the UK government’s five-year, 1.5 million new homes target. A mix of sites in different settings—from post-industrial Tyneside to the barren Isle of Wight—were considered by the select group of 16 multidisciplinary teams. In the end, their concepts preferred solutions that ranged from adding density to pursuing brownfield regeneration to high street infills and other "radical ideas" and "pattern-book approaches."Akil Scafe-Smith, Director of Reso

The 29 winners of the 2025 American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Design Awards have been named by an invited jury from the ASLA’s Florida chapter after receiving a record-setting number of submissions.  The select group includes the Field Operations-led comprehensive redevelopment of a former elevated highway into the Presidio Tunnel Tops in San Francisco as the only Award of Excellence winner. The jury said: "Rooted in a philosophy of renewal and resilience, Presidio Tunnel Tops exemplifies sustainability through its tho

As spring sets in with full force, now's the perfect time to look ahead towards the variety of architecture and design-centric events on show.From the roster of ongoing and upcoming events listed on Bustler, here is our curated selection of recommendations worth checking out.UPCOMING EVENTSRead the full post on Bustler

Marvel Architects and Garcés de Seta Bonet Arquitectes (GdSB) have won a competition in Spain to deliver a new media district at a former power plant called 'Tres Xemeneies' ("Three Chimneys") near the heart of Poble-sec in Barcelona.  The new development is to be named Catalunya Media City. Marvel and GdSB chose to title their presentation 'E la nave va' (or "As the ship goes on") in reference to Federico Fellini’s 1983 drama. It will begin work later this year with an expected 2027/29

The 2025 class of Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Honorary Fellows has been announced by Canada’s oldest and most visible professional architectural association. The five architects to receive the honor, which denotes their elevation to the RAIC College, all are Honorary Members of the RAIC and will remain on as Fellows for life in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the professional community both domestically and abroad. This year’s list of Honorary Fellows includes former American Institut

Buildner, in collaboration with the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and Dubai Government, has officially launched the Dubai Urban Elements Challenge, an international architecture and urban design competition featuring an impressive total prize fund of €500,000. The competition invites architects, designers, urban planners, and visionaries from around the world to propose innovative, human-scale urban elements that will help define Dubai’s evolving identity.The challenge focuses on impactful small-scale architectural interventions—such as 

This summer in London, the Design Museum will begin hosting More than Human, an exhibition featuring designs considerate of a multispecies environment from more than 50 participants whose work challenges the core tenants, presumptions, and pedagogies of contemporary Western design practice. This represents the first major exhibition to be curated jointly with the museum’s Future Observatory research operation. The dates for the exhibition are July 11th to October 6th, 2025. Rebecca Lewin, the Senior Curator of the Design Museum says, “We want people to leave the exhibition feeling inspired and informed but a

Seven new ‘Best in Class’ winners of the 35th Brick in Architecture Awards were selected recently by the Brick Industry Association (BIA). Each was chosen out of a group of 39 Gold, Silver, and Bronze, joined again by the team that won the overall Craftsmanship Award, which this year was given to a multifamily design in New York City by SLCE Architects and INC Architecture & Design.