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1 month ago | bustler.net | Josh Niland

The world is not enough for Foster + Partners, whose designs for a speculative lunar habitation were unveiled as part of the special EARTH to SPACE Festival taking place at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from March 30th through April 13th, 2025. The British firm's contribution, titled From Earth to Space and Back, speculates a four-person habitation built using lunar regolith soil and erected underneath the surface of the moon to protect against gamma radiation and meteorites.

1 month ago | bustler.net | Nathaniel Bahadursingh

If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Featured below are four briefs seeking those who have made significant efforts to preserve and reuse modern buildings in the United States, design proposals for the revitalization of the Daejeon Regional Government Complex in South Korea, the best pre-construction residential projects, and exceptional student-edited design journals.

1 month ago | bustler.net | Josh Niland

The grand prize winner of the $10,000 Forge Prize for 2025 has been announced as an underutilized space in dense urban neighborhoods into new communities in New York City by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).

1 month ago | bustler.net | Josh Niland

A new challenge from Buildner and SAR+ Architects that asked architects to solve Colorado’s complex housing crisis using a single-stair (aka Point Access Block) design strategyhas named five winners at the conclusion of the 18th competition in the former’s Affordable Housing Challenge series. Prizes ranging up to $10,000 were up for grabs for the contest’s 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Prize winners.

1 month ago | bustler.net | Josh Niland

Farshid Moussavi, Young & Ayata, Neri&Hu, Mark Wigley, and Andrés Jaque have been announced as the five headline Awards in Architecture honorees for 2025 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Leading the field was Moussavi, the winner of the $20,000 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize. The British architect follows SelgasCano (2024), University of Virginia professor W. G. Clark (2023), and Carme Pinós (2022) to win the Prize’s 69th edition.