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Competitions: December 2011
- Competitions are ordered by date of final registration -they are referenced by country of origin, but most are open to international entry.
new Australia: Flinders St Station design competition
The Victorian Coalition Government's international Flinders Street Station precinct design competition is a vital first step in the area's restoration and revival, Premier Ted Baillieu said today. "We are looking for the world's best ideas to restore and reinvigorate the Flinders Street Station precinct, including the station concourse, platforms and historic administration building and through to the Banana Alley Vaults and Queensbridge," This precinct calls for creative brilliance from across the globe so a Melbourne landmark site can be restored to its full potential -the competition will run in two stages: design concepts will be called for in mid-2012 followed by a review and short listing period. Short-listed entrants will then submit detailed proposals in 2013.
new USA: Pruitt Igoe Now Ideas Competition
Entries due Friday, March 16, 2012.
March 2012 will mark the 40th anniversary of the demolition of the first of the Pruitt-Igoe high-rises designed by architects Helmuth, Yamasaki and Leinweber. For forty years, the site of this complex has been largely untouched. As countless other social housing projects across the country are torn down and rebuilt in the idiom of new urbanism, the question remains: what is Pruitt-Igoe now? The subject is this competition the 57-acre site of the long-mythologized Pruitt and Igoe housing projects -- a site whose future is intertwined with emerging ideas about urban abandonment, the legacy of modernism, brownfield redevelopment and land use strategies for shrinking cities. This competition seeks the ideas of the creative community worldwide: we invite individuals and teams of professional, academic, and student architects, landscape architects, urban planners, designers, writers, historians, and artists of every discipline to re-imagine the site and the relationship between those acres and the rest of the city.
new USA: 2012 GLOW Competition
Deadline: Friday February 3, 2012
SHIFTBoston is asking artists, architects, urban planners, sculptors, lighting designers, and landscape architects around the world to envision a NEW approach to activating Copley Square with lighting or glowing installations. We are looking for proposals which will make Copley Square one of the greatest squares in the world to visit at night. Three teams will be selected as winners of the first round. The winning teams will present their proposals at the GLOW Forum event in March 2012 to members of the jury, fellow designers, lighting manufacturers, government, academic, community and business leaders. The three proposals will become part of a postcard series in the Boston Metropolitan area during March and April of 2012. Winning teams will be given two months to work with a professional from Boston Light Source to develop lighting specifications for their proposal. In April of 2012, the jury will review the three final proposals and select the one that is most technically feasible and suitable to the overall program goal. The winning proposal will be featured as part of the upcoming Copley Square Hotel Anniversary celebration and planned for installation in 2013.
new USA: eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition
Late registration deadline January 17, 2012
eVolo is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world's most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city. The competition is also an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community. It is also a response to the exploration and adaptation of new habitats and territories based on a dynamic equilibrium between man and nature a new kind of responsive and adaptive design capable of intelligent growth through the self-regulation of its own systems.
new USA: Shelters For All Competition
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2012
The University of Notre Dame's project Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure initiative invites you to submit a proposal to the Shelters For All Competition. This Competition seeks innovative solutions to the urban housing crisis in the developing world. Individuals or teams are invited to develop and submit conceptual designs for homes that address the needs and constraints of the over 1 billion people that live in urban slums worldwide. Today those who live in urban slums suffer from numerous vulnerabilities. Limited natural resources make it difficult to produce quality construction materials. Weak regulation, building codes and enforcement hinder community planning. Moreover, urban unstructured settlements often lie in some of the most hazard-prone parts of the world and are subject to hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones, earthquakes, and heavy rains/flooding. Meeting the challenge to create resilient, feasible, sustainable, viable and scalable housing solutions for the urban poor in developing countries will require considerable innovation. That is why we are soliciting the global community to develop creative solutions that are mindful of the environmental conditions, historical context and cultural preferences of communities where the housing will be built. While preference is given to innovative designs that may be applied broadly throughout the developing world, we also accept designs that target a specific country or region.
- new USA: ENYA
Competition 2011
Submissions due Jan 16th 2012
The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA NY Chapter, announces its fifth biennial design ideas competition. This year they are asking entrants to design a hybridized Transportation Hub and Community facility at the decommissioned Department of Sanitation marine transfer station located in the Hudson River at 135th Street. 
- Poster: Herzog and de Meuron -Barcelona Forum
- new Spain: Coworking
Building (COB) Madrid 2011 academic competition.
Registration open: to December 16th, 2011
The purpose of this competition for students of architecture is to provide ideas for creating a coworking Building (COB), in the city of Madrid, Spain, focusing on collaborative approaches, flexibility, connectivity, accessibility, sustainability and energy efficiency.
USA: (re) stitch TAMPA competition
Registration ends on 12th December 2011 as does the first round of the competition.
The University of South Florida, in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts invite designers to participate in an international urban design competition: [re]stitch TAMPA welcomes entrants to envision a new interface between the city of Tampa, Florida and the Hillsborough River. Utilizing Landscape Urbanism as a lens, [re]stitch Tampa seeks to refocus the Hillsborough as a SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, and ECOLOGIC spine for Tampa. Currently, Portions of Tampa's River walk have been realized. Developments such as Curtis Hixon Park and the new Tampa History Center have provided new access to the Hillsborough. Similarly, the previous decade witnessed renewed interest in Downtown living. As the River walk is further developed, [re]stitch Tampa seeks design solutions that rekindle an intimate relationship between a city and its river. Beyond merely skirting or crossing the river, urban design schemes will treat infrastructure as a palimpsest fostering balance between built and natural environments. Issues of storm water management will transcend traditional methods of implementation to reveal productive landscapes promoting social and economic sustainability. Issues of ecology should transcend the river to promote green infrastructure throughout downtown and surrounding neighborhoods.
- Australia: The WSUD 2012 Design Competition
Closing date for submission & registration: 5th December 2011
The WSUD 2012 Committee in conjunction with Monash University's Centre for Water Sensitive Cities invite students to partner with members of the design
profession to submit urban design proposals that clearly articulate water sensitive initiatives within the Maribyrnong Defence Site.
USA: solidThinking Design Competition 2011
Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2011
The solidThinking Design Competition will award the best design concepts developed using solidThinking 8.5 and/or solidThinking 8.5 Inspired. Creativity, originality, efficiency, feasibility and presentation effectiveness are some of the key design qualities - facilitated by solidThinking and solidThinking Inspired - that the Competition intends to reward. The Competition has no category restriction. Design something that solves a problem. Any type of product design can be submitted, including but without being limited to the following categories: consumer goods, electronics, furniture, jewelry/fashion, medical, packaging, toys.
Spain: inNATUR competition Nature Interpretation Centre
Registration Deadline 11th November 2011
Open ideas competition seeking for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary, proposals, committed to a strategy of implementing architecture in a protected natural environment. Approaches should point to find synergies between nature and the building itself. Participants are invited to find spaces that promote a deep understanding and assimilation of nature. Projects must lead through their architecture to sensitivity, awareness, understanding, enthusiasm and commitment to the natural environment around them. Each participant or team will define the location of their Project; such as: natural parks, protected natural areas, forests, jungles, beaches, mountains, etc. However, the proposal must justify the choice of the location and the interaction reached between the project and the site's environment. Open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic. Competitors can subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people.
Canada: Vancouver Reconnect
Registration deadline: Nov.02/11
Design a new part of Vancouver's downtown - the Dunsmuir and Georgia viaducts were built for a freeway that never materialized in the 1960's. The City is looking for ideas in three categories: big, small, and a wildcard category, to explore urban possibilities for the future of this waterfront property, next to the city's newly renovated football and soccer stadium.
- UK: World
Habitat Awards 2012 - call for entries
Submission of projects until the 1st of November 2011
Individuals and organisations interested in participating in the 2012 World Habitat Awards for innovative and sustainable housing solutions have the chance to submit their projects. To enter the competition a concise summary of the key aspects of the project or initiative is sufficient. The Building and Social Housing Foundation then review the submissions and those shortlisted will proceed to the next stage of the competition.
- USA: "Call for Artists" for 2012-2014
City Gallery Program
Proposals (solo exhibition, consortium, or organization) to be received by Wednesday, November 1, 2011
The Alexandria Office of the Arts and Alexandria Commission for the Arts invite artists to submit proposals for two and three dimensional, original exhibits to be shown in one of fifteen gallery spaces during 2012-2014. Individual artists or consortia of artists, who work, study or live in the City of Alexandria are eligible. There is no entry fee to apply but a 10 percent commission will apply to all artwork sold. Each of the exhibitions will run for six months.
Competition details are generally left until the closing date for registration, when they are moved to the archive page
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City of Arts and Sciences, Spain -Santiago
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