Paddington Place Alternative Design Competition

Paddington Place Alternative Competition winning design

JTP and AR Urbanism win design contest for the ‘Paddington Pole’ site. The low-level buildings contrast with the 72-storey skyscraper designed by Renzo Piano next door to Paddington rail station.

Moorside Open Design Competition, Cumbria

NuGen’s Moorside power station in West Cumbria

Architects shortlised for RIBA Moorside architecture competition – anonymous design contest asked designers to come up with architecture and landscape ideas for Europe’s largest new nuclear power station.

European Prize for Urban Public Space Finalists

Nørreport Station Copenhagen Building

25 finalists selected from 276 entries, 2 awarded joint First Prize with 4 Special Mentions. The European Prize for Urban Public Space – a biennial architectural competition – recognizes and encourages recovery projects and defense of public space in cities.

Drøbak Architecture Competition Frogn

Drøbak

Norwegian Architecture Competition – architects shortlist news: Snøhetta, Haptic, Niels Torp, Jarmund Vigsnæs and Stein Halvorsen. Run by Frogn kommune, the 11,000sqm project has to achieve Passivhaus levels of energy performance.

Dukla Sports Complex, Pardubice Building

Dukla Sports Complex Competition Czech Republic

The competition focuses on creating a new, contemporary conception for the Dukla sports complex, a sporting area with one of the greatest potentials in the Czech Republic, and its immediate surroundings.

London Science Museum Building, South Kensington

London Science Museum Building

London Science Museum New Events Spaces Architects Shortlist. Alison Brooks Architects ; Duggan Morris ; Originate ; RCKa ; Wright & Wright. The winning architecture studio will be named in July.

Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience

Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Competition winner: Atelier d’Architecture Michel Remon from France wins this Israeli architecture contest.

NYC Aquarium & Public Waterfront Competition

NYC Aquarium & Public Waterfront

Architecture contest winners news – New York City has seen rapid redevelopment that has capitalized on previously undesirable locations. Most ventures are private economic interests only addressing public value when profit is possible.

The Secret Life of Buildings, Austin, Texas

The Secret Life of Buildings

Deadline extended to May 20: a call for works of art or design – a selection of twenty ‘Objects’ to be exhibited around a symposium by the Center for American Architecture and Design (CAAD) at The University of Texas at Austin.

State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 Renewal

State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 Redevelopment

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Architectus selected from shortlist of four architectural design teams to design the $83.1 million State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 redevelopment in Melbourne, Australia.

Nyborg Castle Design Competition, Denmark

Nyborg Castle Design Competition

Design: Cubo and jaja, with VBM, Schul Landscape, Søren Jensen Engineers, and Professor Mogens Morgen of The Aarhus School of Architecture

International architecture competition to form a masterplan for Nyborg Castle on the island of Funen.

Sberbank Technopark Competition Skolkovo

Sberbank Technopark Competition Moscow design by Zaha Hadid Architects

Architecture Contest in Moscow – winning design by Zaha Hadid Architects. Five leading architecture firms were selected to participate in the competition.

St Mary Redcliffe Competition Shortlist, Bristol

St Mary Redcliffe Competition design by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Images of designs by the five finalist teams selected to develop concept designs in the second stage of this architecture competition: Carmody Groarke, dRMM, Eric Parry Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Purcell.