Made In Architects‘ winning scheme, Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center, image via Bustler.

Two major competition announcements today, including one that exploits the popular hexagonal aggregation trope that seems systemic in architecture right now.  Click through.

Made In Architects‘ animation of their winning scheme for the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center.

Winner, Mocca Museum NYC competition, Volkan Alkanoglu, Los Angeles, California.

2nd Place, Mocca Museum NYC competition, MAST, Copenhagen, Denmark.

GOOD proposes that whiny mommy blogs aren’t just easy targets for internet mockery: they have legitimate complaints about accessibility and public space in cities. Are Mommies the new urban planners? [via GOOD]

suckerPUNCH recently judged a competition to design a brand-new space for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. The results are in, and the winner, as well as three honorable mentions, is just as graphic as you’d imagine. [via Bustler]

The economics of snow removal: what this horrifying winter means for city budgets and private businesses. [via NYT]

Made In Architects have won the bid for the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center. The Center will be big (100,000 meters squared), expensive (4.39 billion), and potentially completed as soon as 2014. [via Taiwan Today & Bustler]

The debate over private versus public funding for American infrastructural projects continues: this time, the topic is the Northeast Corridor and the lack of viable public transportation options (in other words, why a high-speed railway doesn’t exist). [via The Infrastructurist]

by Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

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