Architecture Competition
Archive 2011
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competitions
- USA: Silverman
Architectural Competition Series
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2011
First ever Silverman Architectural Competition Series; three
new urban projects representing a blank
canvas for architects to display their passion, creativity, quality,
and vision. The sites are located directly across the Hudson
River from NYC's World Trade Center in Jersey City,
New Jersey. The sites are walking distance to rapid
transit, in historic districts and ready to be built. We
invite the best, brightest, and most creative industry professionals
to participate in any or all of the competitions. The winners
will receive compensation and the opportunity to contract for
related architectural services.
Germany: Luminale
2012
Call for projects until September 30th, 2011
- Since ten years the Luminale
accompanies the Light+Building. Roundabout 140,000 guests visited
the Biennale Lighting Culture in 2010. The Luminale is also the
evening program for about 183,000 fair visitors of the Light+Building. The
combination of trade fair and city experience transforms FrankfurtRheinMain
into a unique meetingpoint all around the subject of lighting
and gathers the scene from the manufacturers up to the designers
and artists. The opportunity to see and to be seen. A chance
with high impact during the Light+Building and Luminale only
all two years. A shuttle service links fair and city.
Italy: Prize Le 5 Stagioni
Submissions until 15th September 2011
The ideas to design the future of pizzerias may also come from
very far away: the Prize "Le 5 Stagioni", the
first design contest dedicated to this sector, stimulates the
designers' interest in many countries around the world. It
is open to Italian and foreign professional architects, young
designers and educational institutions, and they can participate
until 15th September 2011 in the categories "Opening",
for existing premises, "Concept", for innovative concepts
and projects of pizzerias, plus there is a special prize for
Educational Institutions.
- : 2011
Andreu World International Design Contest
Deadline: September 11, 2011 (September 4, 2011 for entries from
the United States)
Contract furniture design and manufacturing company Andreu
World would like to invite designers of all ages, professionals
and students from all fields of design to participate in the 11th Annual
Andreu World International Design Contest. Open to professionals
and students, the challenge ids to design a chair and/or table.
nternational
Algae Competition 2011
Registration open to September 11, 2011
Algae Competition objectives are to create an open source collaboratory
that expands and shares a vision for algae in our future with
design ideas for algae production landscapes, sustainable and
affordable algae production systems (APS) for food, feed, energy,
nutrients, water remediation, carbon capture and fine medicines,
and superb new algae foods. The Competition is open to everyone,
anywhere in the world: algae enthusiasts, architects, builders,
designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, growers, food developers,
cooks, students and teams.
- USA: 2011
Ed Bacon Student Design Competition - INTERSECT
Pre-Register by September 08, 2011. Entries Due September 30,
2011
This international competition, organized by the Philadelphia
Center for Architecture, challenges university-level students
in all disciplines to focus on a real-world urban design problem in
the spirit of the competition's namesake, Edmund N. Bacon (head
of Philadelphia's City Planning Commission from 1949-1970). This
year's competition challenges the next generation of urban thinkers
to consider what happens when transit corridors intersect
with the urban fabric of cities, using the specific example of
Philadelphia's I-95 corridor on the eastern edge of its Center
City.
USA: Express
Yourself Texas Women in Architecture Competition
Registration and Submission Deadline: September 5th, 2011
Express Yourself is a Texas state competition featuring art and
architecture created by Women in Architecture. We got the
inspiration from the 13.3% exhibition (this is the number of
female architects according to the American Institute of Architects). The
aim of the exhibition is to shed light on the contribution of
Women in the field of architecture. Eligibility -any female
in Texas practicing in the field of architecture may enter. Participants
are invited to submit examples of their work (academically,
artistically in any form drawings, writing, sculptures, etc.).
The best entries will be selected to be displayed
onsite at the Dallas Center for Architecture and Texas Society
of Architects Convention in Dallas on October 27-29, 2011. One
winner will be announced at the Texas Society of Architects Convention.
USA: The 5th Annual Schooldesigner.com Collabetition
http://www.Schooldesigner.com
and http://Collegedesigner.com
Final registration deadline is September 1st, 2011, and the school
submission deadline is December 1st, 2011.
Enter particularly unique elements of your k-12 school in this
"Collabetition," a cross between collaboration and
competition, with the goal of elevating the quality of school
design around the world.
For college designs, enter the 3rd Annual Collegedesigner.com
Collabetition. Enter innovative features of your higher education
project in this collaborative competition that encourages excellence
in educational architecture.
- USA: Close
The Gap: New York East River Greenway Competition
Registration deadline: 1st September 2011. Submission by:
15th September 2011
Close the Gap, an international design competition sponsored
by Transportation Alternatives and d3, invites architects, landscape
architects, urban designers, engineers, and students worldwide
to broaden the dialogue of alternative solutions for sustainable
urban living. The competition focuses on the Midtown sector of
new York City's East River Greenway--a critical missing link
in Manhattan's alternative transportation infrastructure. Close
the Gap calls for proposals that fundamentally transform how
people move through Manhattan. The competition offers a platform
for exploring emerging ethics and aesthetics in urban design,
as well trans-disciplinary underpinnings that link ecology with
architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and urbanism.
USA: Solar
Design Competition
Competition registration will begin in August
Dow Solar, a leader in the development and commercialization
of next-generation solar technology, has announced its sponsorship
of an international student design competition to encourage
new discoveries that can lead to economical, sustainable energy
homes that are culturally adaptable to multiple regions. This
international competition for the design of near-zero energy
usage housing is open to students around the world studying architecture,
engineering, industrial design, and other relevant design disciplines.
The competition will serve as a global brain-storming exercise
in which competitors cooperate in on-going dialogue and inspire
innovation among one another.
Canada: 2011 Zerofootprint
Re-Skinning Awards
Deadline for submissions is August 31, 2011.
Zerofootprint, along with its partner the John H. Daniels Faculty
of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto,
welcomes nominations for the 2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards.
This annual competition celebrates the year's most successful,
holistic building retrofitting projects from around the world. The
Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards invites the best minds in architecture,
design, building, and engineering to submit green building projects
that demonstrate the innovative use of energy retrofitting technologies.
Retrofitting and re-skinning involve the use of design solutions
to dramatically reduce the environmental footprint of older,
energy-inefficient buildings. This competition seeks to recognize
the year's most progressive retrofitting projects that are making
our cities more sustainable.
UK: Drawing
competition
Deadline is 30th August 2011
Calling talented Architecture students...Zap have secured
the majestic Florence Hall at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London
for a 6 week exhibition kicking off in October. In the coming
weeks we will be calling for entries for the exhibition. The
RIBA have kindly donated this high profile exhibition space for
6 weeks to support architectural students. We want to use this
as an opportunity to really exhibit the worth of young architectural
talent (the type of talent that refuse to work for free). There
will be a prize for first, second and third placed entries at
the opening night as well as the sale of the work. ZAP
are looking for artwork rather than dry architectural drawings
but can be as abstract/ montagey / line weighty / Texty as you
want. The point being they're all created by architecture students
about how they feel about architectural education (can
be the design of a 'pavilion of protest' or someone 'drawing
at a drawing board' or else an oil painting of a very sad
/ happy face :( up to you).
India: The Skill 'Building'
Challenge
Date of Submission: 29th August, Monday, 2011
Current architecture trends emphasize aesthetics, design and
authorship. With the "Skill 'Building' Challenge" we
are attempting to overturn this trend and provide a rare opportunity
to build history with the design of an 'International Skill School'
with an overarching social and economic outlook. The open to
all competition challenge calls for the creation of a prototype
building of 25000 sq ft built up area which will be replicated
and contextualized to be built across several Indian cities.
The Skill Building must be a national landmark with an international
appeal fusing core principles, design and functioning and act
as a benchmark for future training institutions. The building
design must unite the various sectors it caters to either by
its aesthetic concepts and sensibilities, intelligent and judicious
use of materials and generate a sense of ownership and pride
in the trainees, enabling them to find a place in the future
of booming India.
- Fiji, Vietnam, China, Maui: Tree
House for a Tropical Island Resort
Regretably it has been pointed out that this competition is a
scam and not sponsored by National Geographic.
Canada: YUL-MTL : Moving
Landscapes
The deadline for registration is August 26, 2011.
The Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at University
of Montreal (CPEUM) is pleased to officially launch an international
ideas competition in urban design YUL-MTL : Moving Landscapes.
The international ideas competition aims to reinvent the landscapes
that highlight Montreal's international gateway corridor linking
Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to its downtown
area (MTL) along Autoroute 20. The International Ideas Competition
is anonymous, free and open to all planning and design professionals.
It is held as a single-stage.
Canada: Sukkahville:
The Design Competition
Deadline for submissions: August 25, 2011
Kehilla, UJA's official housing agency, is pleased to announce
the first annual Sukkahville: The Design Competition. Entrants
will be challenged to reimagine the "Sukkah," the temporary
shelter or dwelling that is traditionally built during the Jewish
festival of Sukkot. Inspired by New York City's Sukkah City 2010,
this competition reflects Kehilla's mission to champion new initiatives
which increase awareness of our greater community's housing needs.
Approximately 5 innovative designs from the competition phase
will be selected by a committee of distinguished judges to be
constructed in conjunction with Sukkot, and will be on display
Oct 11 and 12th, 2011 on UJA's Sherman Campus in Toronto.
UK: Competitive Interview:
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
Deadline for receipt of the Expression of Interest and the PQQ
is 2.00pm on 23 August 2011.
RIBA Competitions is delighted to announce the launch of a Competitive
Interview on behalf of the South West London and St George's
Mental Health NHS Trust. Expressions of Interest are sought
from architect-led multi-disciplinary design teams for the design
of the Trust's new inpatient and related accommodation. The
Trust is now preparing for the development of its new generation
of inpatient facilities to match the requirements of its innovative
clinical services, based on the Recovery Model. Under this
model, new facilities will support and empower service users,
providing an inpatient experience that will encourage them to
build on their strengths and return to a valued role in their
community as they recover from a period of mental ill-health. The
facilities must therefore demonstrate how the Trust values its
users, and so the buildings should provide a positive signal
about the importance of users and their place in the community.
Spain: International Architecture
Competition "Museum-School of Flamenco"
Deadline for submission of proposals: August 22, 2011
This is an Academic Competition of Ideas The aim is not
to be built, but to encourage reflection about role in the
history of flamenco and Spanish identity and architectural
exploration in the area flamenco. The project is
located in the historic center of Jerez de la
Frontera specifically on a site where it conducted an
international competition "La Ciudad del Flamenco" won by Herzog and
de Meuron inPlaza de Belén nº 5 "El Museo-Escuela
de Flamenco" does not lie on account that
project, so that lot is considered vacant.
UK: Three
Mills Green Playground Design Competition, London
Closing date for receipt of expressions of interest is the 15th
of August 2011.
The Architecture Foundation have launched a design competition
for a new playspace in Three Mills Green, just south of the Queen
Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. They are running
the competition on behalf of the Olympic Park Legacy Company,
the Legacy List (a new charity to support cultural and community
connections in and around the Olympic Park) and the Lee Valley
Regional Park Authority, who own the land. It will be a two stage
competition, the first stage being an open, international call
for expressions of interest, following which, a shortlist will
be invited to prepare proposals.
USA: 1st Annual Council on Tall Buildings
and Urban Habitat "International Student Design Competition:
Why Tall?"
Registration deadline: Friday, August 12, 2011
It aims to shed new light on the meaning and value of tall buildings
in modern society from the perspectives of green, safety, and
humanity. It is also an investigation on public and private
space and the role of the individual and the collective in the
creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community. There
are no restrictions on site, program or size, although the project
should be based on a "real" site(s) in a real location. The
competition is open to all University students, as individuals
or multi-disciplinary teams.
USA: d3:dialog>blur
Paper submission deadline: August 10th 2011
d3 journal invites scholarly submissions from professional
designers in academia and practice. This second volume of d3:dialog casts
its lens on the expanded parameters of design and calls for built
work and speculative research proposals that think big.
The journal will identify new topographies by fixing its gaze
on the processes, strategies, alliances, and production of today. d3:dialog>blur will
convey these new objects, new spaces, and new inquiries in a
provocative illustrated format that forecasts the richness and
potential of the 21st century built environment.
USA: The 2011 AECOM Student Competition,
Urban SOS: Water
Submission Deadline: July 29, 2011
In the third year of our open ideas student competition, AECOM
is exploring the world's most vital resource, water. The Urban
SOS: Water competition seeks creative design, planning and engineering
responses to urban sites facing water-based challenges. Water
is central to every aspect of city life: from basic human sustenance
and public health to environmental remediation and overall urban
renewal. The competition is open to teams of up to four
students each. In order to be eligible, all team members must
be enrolled in a certified undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate
program of study in the autumn term 2011. The competition is
geared towards those studying urban and regional planning, urban
design, landscape architecture, architecture, engineering and
related disciplines.
USA: Dedicated
Sketcher Contest
Submittal Deadline July 22nd, 2011
For the next installment of the continuing Designated Sketcher
contest series, we are asking entrants to showcase their transition
from a two dimensional sketch to a three dimensional model.
This process may take multiple forms, but the jury will be looking
for the project that best represents a sketch that transitions
into a form, while maintaining the original essence of the raw
idea. There will be an emphasis on both the graphic and
informative nature of the 2D sketch and how well it
translates into 3D. The 2D sketch may be current or prior
work, but if it is prior work, we challenge you to take that
idea, model it, and see if it still works.
USA: d3
Natural Systems 2011
Registration Deadline: July 15, 2011
The d3 Natural Systems competition for 2011 invites architects,
designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the
potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based
influences in architecture, interiors, and designed objects.
The competition calls for innovative proposals that advance sustainable
thought and performance through the study of intrinsic environmental
geometries, behaviors, and flows. By identifying, examining,
and applying their structural order on form and function- -bottom-up,
performance-based solutions for limitless building typologies,
functional programs, and material conditions may be realized. The
annual d3 Natural Systems competition allows designers freedom
to approach their creative process in a scale-appropriate manner-
-from large-scale master planning endeavors, to individual building
concepts, to notions of interior detail. Accordingly, there
are no restrictions on site, scale, program, or building typology.
USA: For the City / By the
City
Submissions due July 14th 2011
This spring, the Institute for Urban Design asked New Yorkers
how they thought the city's public realm could be improved, and
they responded with more than 500 ideas across the five boroughs. Now
it's your turn: we're asking architects, designers, artists,
and urbanists to respond to the challenge! From now through
July 14th, you can visit the By the City / For the City website,
define your site based on what you find most interesting from
New Yorkers' ideas, and then develop a brief proposal. Together,
all of these ideas will form a collective portrait of how we
imagine the future. The distinguished panel of jurors includes
Kate Ascher, the Milstein Professor of Urban Development
at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
(GSAPP); Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator
of Architecture and Design for the Museum of Modern Art; Learning
from Las Vegas co-author and urbanist Denise Scott
Brown; Architect magazine editor-in-chief Ned
Cramer; Morphosis principal and Pritzker Prize-winner Thom
Mayne; Urban planner and architect Toni Griffin; and WXY
Principal and AIA Design Award-winner Claire Weisz.
UK: Pylon Design Competition
The competition closes on 12 July.
Architects, designers, engineers and students of these disciplines
are being challenged to rethink one of the most crucial but controversial
features of modern Britain: the electricity pylon. There are
more than 88,000 pylons in the UK, including 22,000 on National
Grid's main transmission network in England and Wales. These
stand some 50 metres high, weigh around 30 tonnes and carry up
to 400,000 volts of electricity over thousands of kilometres
of some of the most exposed, weather-beaten parts of Britain. But
the familiar steel lattice tower has barely changed since the
1920s. As well as exploring the design of the pylon itself,
the competition aims to explore the relationship between energy
infrastructure and the environment within which it needs to be
located. The challenge is to design a pylon that has the
potential to deliver for future generations, whilst balancing
the needs of local communities and preserving the beauty of the
countryside.
Italy/Mediterranean: Nausicaa Pavilion
Submission of proposals by July 8th 2011
The Cultural Association "Il Tamarindo" announces the
first international competition of ideas to design a pavilion
for the info?point Nausicaa Festival Festival of the Mediterranean
Youth Culture an event sponsored by the Institute for the
Mediterranean Architecture (IsAM). The call for "Nausicaa
Pavilion" is aimed at university students of architecture,
design and fine arts in the Mediterranean countries.
USA: BOFFO Building Fashion Competition
Registration and submission deadline: July 4th 2011
Description: BOFFO Building Fashion pairs fashion designers
with architects in an installation series exploring the intersection
of architecture and fashion through integrated store and exhibition
design. With five installations, a storefront in Tribeca
will be reappropriated providing a unique glimpse into the work
of vibrant and acclaimed designers. The second annual installation
series of fashion and architecture aims to once again push the
limits of temporary architecture and the language of retail design. The
collaborations provide the platform for experimentation in the
synthesis of brand identity and the realization of a physical
space. Each installation reappropriates the project space
providing a unique glimpse into the vibrant work of the
next generation of fashion designers and architects. This
year's location is in the premiere shopping district of Tribeca,
New York.
Estonia: TAB Vision Competition Street 2020
Deadline for submissions July 1st 2011
Tallinn Architecture Biennale is a new architecture forum that
brings together theory and practice, young and experienced
architects in order to arouse rich discussion over architecture,
urban planning and landscape issues. First TAB concentrates on
the hybrid issue of Landscape Urbanism. TAB Vision
Competition is addressed to students and young architects, landscape
architects and planners who are welcome to shape future cities
and make room for fresh ideas. Our hope is to see landscape
urbanism as so-called 'third way', which can possibly solve urban
problems that have proved too difficult for traditional planning
because of rapid processes, constant change and instability.
Landscape urbanism could also provide answers how to guide urban
processes from inside, so that the system as a whole still maintains
a balance. The term 'landscape' is used primarily as the model
for consistency, responsiveness and scale.
Spain China: SC2011 International
Competition
Registration deadline June 30, 2011.
FUTURE has launched to to identify the best design
concepts with the challenge to develop visionary urban proposals
with the intention of stimulating contemporary cities, in this
case 4 different sites: Hangzhou, Nanjing, Madrid and Barcelona. The
competition is open to your students and architects under 31.
Croatia: Ecopolitical
Borders
Early registration until 14 June 2011. Late registration/submission
dealine 28 June 2011.
The Zagreb Society of Architects is launching the third
of four architectural competitions for this year's Think
Space cycle. For this year's annual cycle, the main theme
connecting all four competitions is Borders. The new
- third Ecological Borders competition calls for a
radical reimagination of the current relationship between humans
and the built environment through the establishment of new architectural
protocols of coexistence in the search of a new Partial-Total
Ecology: "YUmen[eco]tec-pharming". The juror
of the competition is François Roche, who together
with Stéphanie Lavaux runs R&Sie(n) architectural
practice based in Paris. His architectural work builds on research
as speculation - integrating nature as a protocol. It seeks to
articulate the real and/or fictional, the geographic situations
and narrative structures that can transform them, focusing on
development of technological experiments as forms of natural
distortion or environmental mutations.
France/Romania/Germany: Call
for Ideas: Project Space l Blind Date
The deadline for submissions is the 26th of June 2011.
React to new challenges for urban space design of PARIS (FR),
CLUJ (RO) and KAISERSLAUTERN (DE). In which ways can architects
and urban planners influence a equitable and social city? Which
practices can form answers for sustainable urban development?
How can new cross-border co-operations look like? Give us
an impression of YOUR vision using 200 words and one
image! A jury formed by wonderland board members and local
organisation partners will honour the most innovative, motivated
and interesting ideas and join 3 international teams for each
project space. The selected teams will be invited to
participate in the project space and will receive a travel
contribution for their expenses and receive the opportunity
to become a wonderland member for the next two years
for free and benefit from our services!
Italy: Second
Edition of the Piranesi Prix de Rome "Designing Archaelogy"
International Call for Built Projects.
Phase I Deadline 20th June 2011
The Accademia Adrianea for Architecture and Archeology, in partnership
with the Scuola di Architettura e Società del Politecnico
di Milano, and the Pantheon Institute, Rome, along with the Assessorato
alle Politiche Culturali e Centro Storico of the Municipality
of Rome, the Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali of the Municipality
of Tivoli, Order of Architects of Rome, have established an international
call for built projects on the issues of the requalification
of archaeological cultural heritage and in particular for the
architecture for archaeological sites and for communication (graphic)
design for its cultural heritage.
Estonia: Open Call for Ideas - Tab Vision Competition
-Street 2020
Deadline for submitting entries: 17th June 2011
Tallinn Architecture Biennale is a new architecture forum that
brings together theory and practice, young and experienced architects
in order to arouse rich discussion over architecture, urban planning
and landscape issues. First TAB concentrates on the hybrid issue
of Landscape Urbanism. TAB Vision Competition is addressed
to students and young architects, landscape architects and planners
who are welcome to shape future cities and make room for fresh
ideas. Our hope is to see landscape urbanism as so-called
'third way', which can possibly solve urban problems that have
proved too difficult for traditional planning because of rapid
processes, constant change and instability. Landscape urbanism
could also provide answers how to guide urban processes from
inside, so that the system as a whole still maintains a balance.
The term 'landscape' is used primarily as the model for consistency,
responsiveness and scale.
Australia: 12th annual Australian
Timber Design Awards
Entries close June 17, 2011.
Entry is open to architects, builders, designers, engineers,
interior designers and landscape architects. Categories cover
all major applications, small budget projects, sustainability,
a People's Choice Award and a Rising Star Award. Entries will
automatically be considered for the 2011 Trans-Tasman Timber
Design Awards and the 2012 International Timber Design Awards. National
winners will be announced in mid September at the Awards Presentation
Night in Melbourne.
- UK: Olympic
Games Information Pavilion
Late Competition Registration - by 15th June 2011
The Olympic Games sees the biggest and most prestigious
sporting event in the world being staged for an unprecedented third
time in London next year, thus making London the first city in
the world to host the modern summer games for a third
time. [AC-CA] sees its competitions as providing an opportunity
for architectural experimentation, discussion and speculation.
We are interested in motivating architects to provide their own
point of view. Very often, such a vision may lead to the
pushing of the boundaries and the rules defined by the competition.
In other words, entrants are free to explore how far they can
push the rules and guidelines set without breaking them
to avoid being disqualified from the competition. This is
an open international competition hosted by [AC-CA] to generate
progressive contemporary design ideas. There are no plans
for the Information Pavilion to be built for the Games and the
site is not owned by [AC-CA].
UK: Aberdeen
City Garden Project
Expressions of interest by 13th June 2011
The £140m City Garden Project will radically transform
a strategic central location, raising the nineteenth-century
Union Terrace Gardens and covering over the unattractive Denburn
dual carriageway and railway line. It will create a space
that draws on Aberdeen's heritage but is also an inspiration
for the future. A space which local people like, which they
use to meet up and pop through just for the pleasure of
it. A space which appeals to visitors as somewhere to take the
air, absorb different aspects of the local culture and enjoy
a fascinating skyline. The site, six hectares in area, will
provide a safe, all-year round, civic garden that reflects Aberdeen's
success and international status. It should integrate the Union
Street retail and business thoroughfare with the cultural attractions
of an existing theatre and art gallery whilst providing the context
for a new contemporary arts centre.
Denmark: The
Carlsberg Brewhouse Project
Deadline for pre-qualification entries: June 5th 2011
Carlsberg Group is running an international design competition
to transform the New Carlsberg Brewhouse into an exciting, must-see
Brand and Experience Centre, attracting 500,000 visitors each
year. The aim is to create a world-class attraction with
a broad appeal to visitors who wish to be challenged, engaged
and entertained by one of the world's strongest brands. The
main focus is on the transformation on the Brewhouse and the
Elephant Gate but should also describe how Carlsberg Group can
re-enforce, strengthen and further develop its presence in the
Carlsberg site.
Canada: ACADIA
2011 Design + Fabrication Competition
Closing date June 1st 2011
Contemporary parametric design models are being developed through
linkages between geometry and increasingly complex and informed
sets of data. These design methodologies are asking new questions
of designers who chose to embrace these modeling techniques for
the production of material assemblies. The ACADIA 2011 Annual
Conference with the support of FLATCUT_ seeks proposals for innovative
geometric forms that push the limits of design through the exploration
of integrative material strategies for digitally fabricated assemblies. Proposals
for inventive design will be accepted in the following categories: Lighting, Partitions
and Furniture.
- Portugal: NO
RULES, GREAT SPOT
Proposals until 31st of May
The sentence written/graffited on a wall of the demolished Praça
de Lisboa is the motto for this international ideas competition,
open to all architects, students and citizens, interested in
participating in the urgent debate about the urban rehabilitation
and the use of public spaces in the city of Porto. Focusing
in the paradigmatic case of Praça de Lisboa, this competition
pretends to affirm the importance of architecture competitions
as a means of participation by architects and citizens in the
political decisions and in the destiny of the collective project
that is the city. It pretends to make the urban rehabilitation
project more informed and shared, participated and discussed.
More than electing this or that project, this or that image,
NO RULES, GREAT SPOT! aims, above all, to convoke everyone, citizens
and architects, to discuss the future of their city and to reclaim
that fundamental right: the right to the city, the right to participate
in the city!
USA: Life at the
Speed of Rail
Entries are due by May 21, 2011.
Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture announces
a design ideas competition that envisions the cultural, environ
mental, and economic impact of a new rail network in the United
States. Life at the Speed of Rail seeks the visions
of the architectural design community, planners, graphic designers,
artists-anyone who wants to contribute to the national discussion
surrounding high-speed rail. In this multimedia Call for
Design Ideas, entrants are asked to produce projects and scenarios
that picture the wide-ranging impacts that a new transportation
network will have on the nation's communities-whether urban or
rural, rail-riding or car-centric, heartland or borderland-and
propose creative solutions at every scale, from the café
car to the megaregion.
Russia: Changing the Face
Deadline for Project Submission: May 15th, 2011
An international "open ideas" competition aimed at
inspiring architects, designers, builders, students... across
borders to design a new face for an existing building, and think
creatively about possible applications of DuPont materials and
solutions in their projects. This year, the public eyes will
turn to the "Pushkinsky theatre", the well-known cinema
hall located at Pushkin Square, in the very centre of Moscow,
built in 1961 to host every year the Moscow International Film
Festival.
Australia: Ideas
on Edge competition
- competition closes on Wednesday
11 May 2011
- Parramatta City Council is officially
on the hunt for the boldest, most innovative and creative thinkers
to present their vision for an iconic site along the scenic Parramatta River foreshore
as part of an international ideas competition, 'Ideas on Edge'.
the are seeking a commercially viable idea for the site
located at a prime position on the edge of Parramatta River,
with the competition open to people of all ages and backgrounds
from around the world.
- Netherlands: Call
for Entries: Parallel Cases - Smart Cities
Project proposals may be submitted up to and including Sunday
8 May 2011.
All schools and universities in the fields of architecture, urban
design and landscape architecture as well as related study programmes
are invited to submit proposals for contributions to the exhibition
Parallel Cases Smart Cities. The exhibition is part
of the main programme of the 5th International Architecture Biennale
Rotterdam - Making City and will open at the Netherlands Architecture
Institute in April 2012. Proposals may include projects
which are connected to the theme of this Biennale and the exhibition
Parallel Cases Smart Cities. These can be projects which
are being worked on or will be worked on during the current and
upcoming study year, as well as projects carried out earlier.
Animal
Architecture Awards
Register By: May 15th 2011
Animal Architecture seeks exciting projects that engage the lives,
minds and behaviors of our alternate, sometimes familiar
companion species - insects, birds, mammals, fish and microorganisms
each one with unique ways of world-making. As our society
re-examines its place in the global ecology Animal Architecture
invites your critical and unpublished essays and projects to
address how architecture can mediate and encourage multiple new
ways of species learning and benefiting from each other
or as we say it here: to illustrate cospecies coshaping. Submissions
can include past work, current research and built or unbuilt
projects.* Winning entries will be announced mid summer
2011 and will be eligible for inclusion in a publication
and exhibition.
UK: Biological
Architecture Foundation -Futuristic Water and the bioreef diversity
theory - City design Competition
Submissions deadline: May 15th
Design challenge: The bio-mechanical futuristic water competition,
is the International call for serious ecological ideas for the
design of the biological mechanical village or urban quarter
of the city - For the city of London, The competition seeks
to apply a biological mechanical approach to the future environments
of the city, applying the values of bioreef diversity . ( the
bio mimicry of our great origin and ancestors the coral reefs
as the image and problem solver of our future city), the
city is limited in growth and marooned through the implementation
of the green belt. The areas for expansion are either through
the current high density processes, which begin to populate flood
plains, or to move eastwards denseifying east London breaking
through the green belt towards the Thames estuary, where
a new second generation London could rise from the waves. The
idea is not new, the Thames estuary has been the topic of intense
debate through the possibility of building a floating island
airport off the coast of Kent, and a nature reserve with a flood
gate connecting Essex and Kent in its core via a high speed monorail,
These radical approaches cannot be discarded without intense
exploration, Could the next east London generation be a floating
one?
Greece: Tourist
Accommodation Prototype (TAP) Santorini 2011
Registration period to May 1st, 2011
Arquideas has announced a competition for inviting contributions
with new ideas for a Tourist Accommodation Prototype (TAP), taking
as example of its location the singular setting of the Santorini's
coast line and the Nea Kameni and Palea Kameni islands. A
new model for tourist accommodation in which it resolves the
problems within its location, in accordance to contemporary bioclimatic
criteria and sustainability able to be adapted to other contexts
with similar landscapes around the world.
USA: One Prize 2011 Water as the Sixth
Borough
Registration Deadline: April 30, 2011
Open International Design Competition to Envision the Sixth Borough
of new York City. The ONE PRIZE committee invites the most
talented and imaginative architects, landscape architects, urban
designers, planners, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, economists,
artists,
students, and individuals to propose ideas for the NYC Blue Network
and The World's Largest Clean Tech Expo in 2014. These
propositions must include; expanding waterborne transportation,
linking the five boroughs with transit hubs, incorporating
ferries, water taxis, bike shares, electric car-shares, electric shuttle
buses, providing in-water recreation, educational events, cultural
activities, pavilion halls, and climate resilience.
Spain: V4J. Concurso internacional
de viviendas para jóvenes en Córdoba.
Entrega de propuestas 29 abril
Concurso de proyectos sobre la vivienda contemporánea
destinada a jóvenes relacionados con el ámbito
de la creación cultural. Se persigue el objetivo de reflexionar
sobre la normativa, la flexibilidad, la sostenibilidad, la accesibilidad
y la aplicación de las nuevas tecnologías en una
propuesta situada en el entorno del Guadalquivir, un marco paisajístico
inmejorable en Córdoba.
UK: Housing
Design Awards
The deadline for entries is 28th April 2011.
The Awards are open to housing schemes with 4 or more dwellings
in England for both Projects (with detailed planning permission)
and Completed schemes.The programme, which celebrates 50 years
since Harold Macmillan launched their current format, is a coalition
of professions, the RICS representing surveyors, RIBA architects
and RTPI planners. The trio are allied with the NHBC as the standards-setting
body protecting buyers and the Home Builders Federation representing
80% of the supply of new homes. This industry-led coalition is
fully endorsed by the Department for Communities and Local Government,
and the Housing Minister the Right Honourable Grant Shapps.
- : The
Designated Sketcher
Submittal Deadline: April 22th, 2011
To kick off the first installment of The Designated Sketcher
contest series, we are proposing something simple: A Process
Sketch. The contest will convey an award to the sketch
that best exemplifies work in process. While open to interpretation,
essentially any work that you have done for a design abstract
is an eligible entry. The sketch does not have to be current,
and can be something you worked on in prior years. The
sketch also does not need to be built or realized work.
The only requirement is that it shows a process of design.
- USA: Call
for Entries: MASterworks Awards
Entries will be accepted until April 20th 2011
Architects Rafael Pelli (Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects)
and Deborah Berke (Deborah Berke & Partners Architects),
landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh (Michael
Van Valkenburgh Associates) and Marc Kushner (HWKN,
Architizer.com) and real estate developer Charles Bendit (Taconic
Investment Partners) are among the jurors who will select
the winners of the Municipal Art Society of NY 11th annual
MASterworks Awards. Launched in 2001, the MASterworks Awards
celebrate new development in new York City by honoring
excellence in architecture and urban design and recognizing the
people behind the scenes who make significant contributions
to new York's built environment. The winners will be
announced at an awards ceremony later this year.
- Bosnia Herzegovina: Competition
for the Architectural Solution of Two Heritage Sites: "Vaso
Miskin Crni" and "Firuz-Beg Hamam"
Registration deadline 15th April 2011.
This competition encourages students to explore innovative ways
of creating an original design concerning two cultural heritage
sites in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina): "Vaso
Miskin Crni" and "Firuz-Beg Hamam". Participants
are allowed to choose one site, or to do both. The competition
is focused on the conceptual solution of the given problem, so
any type of graphical expression is allowed, as far as the main
idea is presented clearly. No functional program is being given,
so it is up to participants to choose the purpose of space which
they consider to be the best one.
- USA: Music
in Architecture
Contest registration is open until April 15, 2011.
Call for entries by composers and architects, working in collaboration,
to explore the deeper relationships between space and music.
Entrants are invited, alternatively, to compose music and propose
design interventions for particular sites, or to write music
based on architectural/spatial logic(s). Winners of the first
stage will be asked to introduce and perform their pieces on
the campus of The University of Texas at Austin on October 19
& 20, 2011, as part of the Music in Architecture
- Architecture in Music Symposium, organized by the Sarah and
Ernest Butler School of Music and the Center for American Architecture
& Design at The University of Texas at Austin. Students
as well as professionals are invited to enter.
Wales: National Eisteddfod of Wales Architecture
Scholarship 2011
Closing date for receiving application forms: 14 April 2011
Entries from the fields of architecture, landscaping, design
and sculpture are welcome - architecture being interpreted
in the broadest sense of the word, more akin to 'design in space'. The
Architecture Scholarship of £1,500 will be awarded to the
most promising candidate to enable him/her to further his/her
understanding of creative architecture. The scholarship
is open to those under 25 years born in Wales or of Welsh parents,
or who have lived or worked in Wales for the three years prior
to 30 July 2011, or able to speak or write the Welsh language.
UK: The
Resourceful Architect
The closing date: Friday, 8th April 2011 at 5:00 pm
London time
An open call for ideas about the future uses of architecture
from the RSA and The Architecture Foundation. We are collecting examples
of the resourcefulness that architects are showing in this climate
of financial constraint and emphatic localism, and give them
a public platform. Your ideas can be entirely new and prompted
by this call, or they may be already in development; they may
also be completed but under-exposed: above all they should be
resourceful. Ideas can come from architects, students of architecture
or multidisciplinary teams. A shortlist of ideas will be presented
before an international panel of critics and an audience of potential
collaborators, patrons and clients at a public 'Day of Ideas'
in the RSA's historic Great Room auditorium in May 2011, with
mentoring and a cash prize for the best. For information on how
to submit an idea please go to www.theRSA.org/projects/design/theresourcefularchitect
- Ireland: Tullamore
Community Arts Centre Architectural Design Competition
Entries by 8 April 2011
The RIAI is administering an open, two-stage competition for
the architectural design of Tullamore Community Arts Centre for
the competition promoters, Offaly County Council. The vision
and intention of developing a multidisciplinary community arts
centre in the heart of Tullamore, stems from a much documented
need to converge and focus the creative potential of Tullamore;
its artists, its young people and the wider community. The activity
at the centre will harness and be a catalyst for this creative
potential by providing opportunities for participation in the
arts as well as presenting a dynamic programme of local, regional,
national and international arts events. Each entry will
consist of one A1 size sheet of information.
- Colombia: Bogotá
International Convention Center
Stage 1 submittals due April 4th 2001
The Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá (CCB) or
Bogota Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring an architectural design
competition for a new Bogotá International Convention
Center (CICB). This is an international, two (2)-stage
design competition, starting with Request for Qualifications
(RFQ) followed by no more than five firms being invited
to participate in Stage 2, a juried design competition with
an honorarium.
Serbia: Ghost Project International Design
Competition 2011
Applicants can register and submit their projects electronically
until 4 April 2011
Cultural organization Mikser is pleased to announce that in 2011,
the Ghost Project initiative is expanding beyond the Balkans
and is calling young industrial designers and architects from
all over the world to take part in the competition. Following
five years of continuous efforts in discovering and nurturing
fresh design talents, the annual exhibition Ghost Project has
become the central Talent platform within "Mikser Festival",
the biggest Southeast European Festival of creativity and innovation. The
Ghost Project competition is open to all persons 35 years of
age and younger from all over the world. Applicants can be individual
authors or groups of authors.
USA: 2011 Burnham
Prize Competition.
Submissions are due 4 April 2011
This year's competition is co-sponsored by the Chicago chapter of
the American Institute of Architects Chicago and Landmarks Illinois
and
is intended to examine the controversial legacy and questionable
future of the McCormick Place East Building, the 1971 modernist
convention hall designed by Gene Summers of C.F. Murphy
Associates. "McCormick Place REDUX" is an international
single-stage ideas competition open to students, designers,
architects, and landscape architects. Built on land meant
to be "forever open, clear, and free", considered obsolete
by its owners, and an eyesore by open space advocates, Summer's design
for McCormick Place East is nevertheless a powerfully elegant exploration
of some of modernism's deepest concerns. What alternate role might
the building play in Chicago should it be decommissioned as a convention
hall?
Israel: Emilio Ambasz Prize for Green Architecture
Registration deadline 30 March 2011
An International Award organised by the Architecture Israel Quarterly
(AIQ) magazine, in collaboration with the European Union, and
the Association of Engineers and Architects in Israel. Open
to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and
researchers are invited to submit works planned or written since
2007. Jury chaired by Siamak G. Shahneshin and Lui Levi
Galati, founders of the SHAGAL | iodaa studio, Zurich.
USA/Canada: Holcim Awards For Sustainable
Construction
Entries must be submitted online by March 23, 2011.
The 3rd International Holcim Awards competition is open
to: sustainable building and civil engineering works; landscape,
urban design and infrastructure projects; and materials,
products and construction technologies. The competition
celebrates innovative, future-oriented and tangible projects
and visions from around the globe and is open to anyone involved
with approaches that contribute towards a more sustainable built
environment. The 3rd International Holcim Awards competition
is comprised of five regional competitions in 2010/11 and
the global phase in 2012.
pain: Entrance Hall of the Ateneo de
Madrid
- Registration Deadline 22nd March
2011
- The Ateneo de Madrid and Opengap
invite to this ideas competition in search of proposals that
renovate the Hall of the building located at number 21 Calle
del Prado in Madrid. Currently, this space represents only the
access to the building's entity. However, this space should not
be only a prelude to access, such as today, but be a representative
"welcome", configured as an active presentation of
the many activities held within the ATENEO. The existence of
a grand staircase, the power of vertical space and the other
elements can be translated in multiple possibilities, but at
the same time this space is very sensitive due to the patrimonial
protection and other specifications, so this competition means
a complex and exciting challenge.
USA:Copa
Arquitectura
Registration + Submission Deadline: March 21, 2011
Football is one of the best vehicles for social change (not to
mention it's fun to play). As fans of social change AND fun,
Architecture for Humanity, Nike, and Fu.De (Football for Development)
have teamed up to host a design competition for a prototype football,
education, and health center for Liga FOS -- a project that promotes
social development through sport in vulnerable Buenos Aires suburbs. This
is an invitation process for architects and designers. At least
one member of your team must speak Spanish fluently. And, though
we're not picking favorites, at least one member from your team
must reside in one of the Copa America 2011 countries. They are:
Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Japan;
Mexico; Paraguay; Peru; Uruguay; Venezuela.
El fútbol puede ser uno de los mejores vehículos
para el cambio social (asimismo que un deporte sumamente divertido).
Como fans del cambio social y la diversión, Architecture
for Humanity, Nike, y Fu.De (Football for Development -Fútbol
para el Desarrollo) se han unido para organizar un concurso de
diseño que consiste en proponer un centro social prototipo
para la Liga FOS, que integre fútbol, educación
y salud este es un proyecto que busca promover el desarrollo
social a través del deporte, en zonas vulnerables del
conurbano bonaerense. La invitación es para arquitectos
y diseñadores. Al menos un miembro de su equipo debe hablar
español con fluidez. Y, sin escoger favoritos, por lo
menos un miembro de su equipo debe residir en uno de los países
que participan de la Copa America 2011. Ellos son: Argentina,
Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Japón, México,
Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay, Venezuela.
USA: Global Design
Competition of Seattle
Submissions must be received by March 15th, 2011.
Redesign the Globe Cafe in Seattle. This competition calls for
entries of integrated function, high efficiency, low carbon restaurant
designs toward the goal of creating a shareware reference resource
of design solutions and services directory for participating
design teams. The design objective is low carbon restaurants,
by any means possible, including but not limited to reduction
in the need for electricity, food menu and ingredient choices,
localized power generation and waste energy capture and reuse.
USA: 2011
AIA YAF/COD Ideas Competition
Entries by March 14th 2011
- The AIA Young Architects
Forum (YAF) and the AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites
architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit
sketches to the international 2011 YAF/COD Ideas Competition. In
this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore
the concept of Universal Design as well as their overlap with
values of social and environmental sustainability. Winners
will be announced and will have their work exhibited at the American
Institute of Architects (AIA) 2011 National Convention and Design
Exposition in new Orleans, Louisiana, May 2011.
- UK: Affinity
Sutton Student Design Ideas Competition 2011: A Capital
Idea
Registrations will close on 11 March 2011
Following the success of last year's Make Bethnal Green, Affinity
Sutton has again joined forces with RIBA Competitions to run
a Design Ideas Competition for Part 2 architectural students
enrolled on RIBA validated courses in the UK and the Republic
of Ireland. This year's competition - A Capital Idea -
is being organised with the support of the Mayor and HCA London.
It will be based on the London Housing Design Guide which sets
out the Mayor's aspiration to raise the quality of all new homes
built in the Capital as well as the quantity of new homes delivered.
The first phase of the competition will involve anonymous
submission and appraisal of schemes developed in response to
the brief, site context and the Mayor of London's Design Guide.
Up to six Finalists will be invited to spend a week with one
of Affinity Sutton's architect partners to finesse their design
proposals before presenting them to a Judging Panel at final
interview.
Russia: "Under the roof of home..." 2011.Competition
«Two things»
Deadline for applications is March, 11, 2010
Grand Prix Competition
One thing is an object, an element or even a master-piece. Two
things make an ensemble . Two things form interior space. The
stylish interior space where all elements play their own roles
like in the performance. Ensemble, talk, dialogue, or maybe
dispute, contradiction, conflict evoking contrast, unity
and battle, yin and yan of complex human world of objects. Competitors
of "Two things" should reveal this nice chattering
or a talk in an excited tone. They should not only
interpret the idea of interior design project to the visitors
but reveal its inner sense. «Two things»
is a simple model of the world of objects where a human being
lives, a model of the world of the world he is building himself.
Designer, Artist or Architect aims to study it, mark the
main idea and cut off minor elements, realize its principles,
trends and laws of development of this world. All your ideas
you may implement in any installations. Choice of elements,
materials, effects and colour is at your wish. We provide you
with space from 1sq.m up to 10 sq.m for installations.
USA: BARGE
2011 Design Competition
Submission Deadline: Friday, March 4, 2011
SHIFTboston is calling on architects, installation artists, designers and
landscape architects professionals and students to submit a concept
for an experience installation, to be installed on a barge in
Boston's Fort Point Channel. Competitors are asked to develop
a concept which might include one or all of the following components:
recycled/recyclable materials, water, plants and perhaps
digitally fabricated parts. We would like designers to create
a unique SENSORY EXPERIENCE for barge visitors by experimenting
with a variety of interesting materials and applications in
order to provide a TACTILE, OLFACTORY and VISUAL experience. We
expect elements such as: water (spray, steam, shallow pools,piping), swings,
comfortable lounging spaces, lighting, sound. We would like competitors
to explore a closed-loop system. We prefer design elements which
will NOT require grid-based energy. Competitors should seek alternative
energy sources, design systems which take advantage of the
basic laws of physics and environmental fluid mechanics.
USA: AIA National Photography
Competition
Entries must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2011
AIA St. Louis hosts the AIA National Photography
Competition - fourteen winning images will be exhibited at the AIA National
convention in new Orleans. The AIA National
Photography Competition is open to any and all architects actively
registered in the US; Associate members of theAIA and student
members of AIAS in good standing. Entries must be submitted
on a CD ROM and may be black and white or color images.
Israel: Emilio Ambasz Prize for Green Architecture
Registration deadline 30 March 2011
An International Award organised by the Architecture Israel Quarterly
(AIQ) magazine, in collaboration with the European Union, and
the Association of Engineers and Architects in Israel. Open
to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and
researchers are invited to submit works planned or written since
2007. Jury chaired by Siamak G. Shahneshin and Lui Levi
Galati, founders of the SHAGAL | iodaa studio, Zurich.
USA/Canada: Holcim Awards For Sustainable
Construction
Entries must be submitted online by March 23, 2011.
The 3rd International Holcim Awards competition is open
to: sustainable building and civil engineering works; landscape,
urban design and infrastructure projects; and materials,
products and construction technologies. The competition
celebrates innovative, future-oriented and tangible projects
and visions from around the globe and is open to anyone involved
with approaches that contribute towards a more sustainable built
environment. The 3rd International Holcim Awards competition
is comprised of five regional competitions in 2010/11 and
the global phase in 2012.
Spain: Entrance Hall of the Ateneo de
Madrid
- Registration Deadline 22nd March
2011
- The Ateneo de Madrid and Opengap
invite to this ideas competition in search of proposals that
renovate the Hall of the building located at number 21 Calle
del Prado in Madrid. Currently, this space represents only the
access to the building's entity. However, this space should not
be only a prelude to access, such as today, but be a representative
"welcome", configured as an active presentation of
the many activities held within the ATENEO. The existence of
a grand staircase, the power of vertical space and the other
elements can be translated in multiple possibilities, but at
the same time this space is very sensitive due to the patrimonial
protection and other specifications, so this competition means
a complex and exciting challenge.
USA:Copa
Arquitectura
Registration + Submission Deadline: March 21, 2011
Football is one of the best vehicles for social change (not to
mention it's fun to play). As fans of social change AND fun,
Architecture for Humanity, Nike, and Fu.De (Football for Development)
have teamed up to host a design competition for a prototype football,
education, and health center for Liga FOS -- a project that promotes
social development through sport in vulnerable Buenos Aires suburbs. This
is an invitation process for architects and designers. At least
one member of your team must speak Spanish fluently. And, though
we're not picking favorites, at least one member from your team
must reside in one of the Copa America 2011 countries. They are:
Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Japan;
Mexico; Paraguay; Peru; Uruguay; Venezuela.
El fútbol puede ser uno de los mejores vehículos
para el cambio social (asimismo que un deporte sumamente divertido).
Como fans del cambio social y la diversión, Architecture
for Humanity, Nike, y Fu.De (Football for Development -Fútbol
para el Desarrollo) se han unido para organizar un concurso de
diseño que consiste en proponer un centro social prototipo
para la Liga FOS, que integre fútbol, educación
y salud este es un proyecto que busca promover el desarrollo
social a través del deporte, en zonas vulnerables del
conurbano bonaerense. La invitación es para arquitectos
y diseñadores. Al menos un miembro de su equipo debe hablar
español con fluidez. Y, sin escoger favoritos, por lo
menos un miembro de su equipo debe residir en uno de los países
que participan de la Copa America 2011. Ellos son: Argentina,
Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Japón, México,
Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay, Venezuela.
USA: Global Design
Competition of Seattle
Submissions must be received by March 15th, 2011.
Redesign the Globe Cafe in Seattle. This competition calls for
entries of integrated function, high efficiency, low carbon restaurant
designs toward the goal of creating a shareware reference resource
of design solutions and services directory for participating
design teams. The design objective is low carbon restaurants,
by any means possible, including but not limited to reduction
in the need for electricity, food menu and ingredient choices,
localized power generation and waste energy capture and reuse.
USA: 2011
AIA YAF/COD Ideas Competition
Entries by March 14th 2011
- The AIA Young Architects
Forum (YAF) and the AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites
architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit
sketches to the international 2011 YAF/COD Ideas Competition. In
this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore
the concept of Universal Design as well as their overlap with
values of social and environmental sustainability. Winners
will be announced and will have their work exhibited at the American
Institute of Architects (AIA) 2011 National Convention and Design
Exposition in new Orleans, Louisiana, May 2011.
- UK: Affinity
Sutton Student Design Ideas Competition 2011: A Capital
Idea
Registrations will close on 11 March 2011
Following the success of last year's Make Bethnal Green, Affinity
Sutton has again joined forces with RIBA Competitions to run
a Design Ideas Competition for Part 2 architectural students
enrolled on RIBA validated courses in the UK and the Republic
of Ireland. This year's competition - A Capital Idea -
is being organised with the support of the Mayor and HCA London.
It will be based on the London Housing Design Guide which sets
out the Mayor's aspiration to raise the quality of all new homes
built in the Capital as well as the quantity of new homes delivered.
The first phase of the competition will involve anonymous
submission and appraisal of schemes developed in response to
the brief, site context and the Mayor of London's Design Guide.
Up to six Finalists will be invited to spend a week with one
of Affinity Sutton's architect partners to finesse their design
proposals before presenting them to a Judging Panel at final
interview.
Russia: "Under the roof of home..." 2011.Competition
«Two things»
Deadline for applications is March, 11, 2010
Grand Prix Competition
One thing is an object, an element or even a master-piece. Two
things make an ensemble . Two things form interior space. The
stylish interior space where all elements play their own roles
like in the performance. Ensemble, talk, dialogue, or maybe
dispute, contradiction, conflict evoking contrast, unity
and battle, yin and yan of complex human world of objects. Competitors
of "Two things" should reveal this nice chattering
or a talk in an excited tone. They should not only
interpret the idea of interior design project to the visitors
but reveal its inner sense. «Two things»
is a simple model of the world of objects where a human being
lives, a model of the world of the world he is building himself.
Designer, Artist or Architect aims to study it, mark the
main idea and cut off minor elements, realize its principles,
trends and laws of development of this world. All your ideas
you may implement in any installations. Choice of elements,
materials, effects and colour is at your wish. We provide you
with space from 1sq.m up to 10 sq.m for installations.
USA: BARGE
2011 Design Competition
Submission Deadline: Friday, March 4, 2011
SHIFTboston is calling on architects, installation artists, designers and
landscape architects professionals and students to submit a concept
for an experience installation, to be installed on a barge in
Boston's Fort Point Channel. Competitors are asked to develop
a concept which might include one or all of the following components:
recycled/recyclable materials, water, plants and perhaps
digitally fabricated parts. We would like designers to create
a unique SENSORY EXPERIENCE for barge visitors by experimenting
with a variety of interesting materials and applications in
order to provide a TACTILE, OLFACTORY and VISUAL experience. We
expect elements such as: water (spray, steam, shallow pools,piping), swings,
comfortable lounging spaces, lighting, sound. We would like competitors
to explore a closed-loop system. We prefer design elements which
will NOT require grid-based energy. Competitors should seek alternative
energy sources, design systems which take advantage of the
basic laws of physics and environmental fluid mechanics.
USA: AIA National Photography
Competition
Entries must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2011
AIA St. Louis hosts the AIA National Photography
Competition - fourteen winning images will be exhibited at the AIA National
convention in new Orleans. The AIA National
Photography Competition is open to any and all architects actively
registered in the US; Associate members of theAIA and student
members of AIAS in good standing. Entries must be submitted
on a CD ROM and may be black and white or color images.
Mexico: Sketch : Call for Submissions
Submission deadline: February 28, 2011
Sketching is a fundamental and time-tested tool of design communication,
an intuitive practice that conveys ideas and assumptions rapidly
and directly. More recently, the conventional act
of sketching has been profoundly transformed by a proliferation
of diverse methodologies and emerging digital technologies. While
the perception and notion of what constitutes a sketch continues
to expand, many designers are reconsidering and expanding upon
the historical role of sketching. This emerging dialogue
reveals unparalleled synergies between 21st century innovation
and classical tradition. Sponsored by the Universidad de
Monterrey in association with New York-based curators d3, Sketch,
the opening exhibition for Tadao Ando's lecture to be held at
the Universidad de Monterrey in March 2011, seeks to investigate
this discourse by embracing the full range and potential of sketching
in conceptual design. Sketch will revisit the
use of classical approaches, while engaging with the new technologies
that have expanded the opportunities of sketching as a conceptual
generator. The exhibition offers a forum to reflect
upon the transformative forces impacting sketching in design. We
invite artists, architects, designers, and students from across
the disciplines to join this dialogue.
USA: 10UP
DESIGN BUILD COMPETITION
Late Registration deadline February 28th 2011.
The Young Architects Forum of Atlanta (YAF Atlanta) is pleased
to announce the Second Annual 2011 competition entitled 10Up.
We're calling on young designers to step up to the 10Up challenge! Each
year Modern Atlanta (MA) hosts a celebration of architecture
and design with a week of events in and around the city of Atlanta.
This year the executive directors and founders of MA have once
again asked YAF Atlanta to create a competition for a temporary
outdoor installation which will act as a beacon for this week
of events. The structure is to be installed and operational during
the MA 11 "Design is Human" events, currently planned
for June 6-12, 2011. The project is not only to accentuate
the series of events organized by MA, but will also be an event
of its own celebrating young talents exhibiting their work to
the public.
Spain: Lamp
Lighting Solutions Awards '11
- Registration for the awards
can be made on-line until 28 February 2011.
- Light is a fundamental element
of life and a key aspect of any architectural project. Prizes
will be awarded to projects that have successfully met the architectural
lighting needs of an interior or exterior space, having created
a positive synergy between architecture, interior design, landscaping
and lighting. The Lamp Lighting Solutions Awards value the creativity,
innovation and sustainability of lighting projects, regardless
of the manufacturer or the brand of lights used in the project.
- Competitions
Taiwan: Taichung Gateway
Park International Competition
Stage One Tender Submission Deadline 25th Feb 2011
Taichung City Government seeks a master landscape design
firm to envision an eco-park that'll inform Taichung's new urban
landscape. The goal is to create a visionary, innovative
and international urban environment while at the same time establishing
close links between Central Taiwan and the rest of the world.
Taichung Gateway City covers an approximately 254-hectare area
that includes the former Taichung (Shuinan) Airport and its vicinities.
According to Taichung's municipal urban plan, at the center of
Taichung Gateway City will be an expansive green space-Taichung
Gateway Park. Besides offering extensive and winding green
open space, Taichung Gateway Park will be developed as an eco-park.
Utilizing renewable energies and an intelligent park management
system, Taichung Gateway Park will play a pivotal role toward
a successful the overall development of Taichung Gateway City.
Spain: Capture:
Architecture Photography Competition
Registration Deadline 24th Feb 2011
First International Architecture Photography Competition organized
by OPENGAP. This is an anonymous competition, whose theme will
focus around contemporary architectural spaces. The submitted
digital images can be color or black and white format. We
encourage all architects, photographers, artists and people interested
in the subject, anywhere in the world to participate in the competition. Contestants
may submit up to three images per entry (all of them from same
author). Each of these images can separately be selected by the
jury.
Netherlands: :output Award 14
- Deadline for submissions: February
18th 2011
:output is an international competition for students in design
and architecture. The works selected by the jury will
be published in the :output publication. Works carried out
by students usually disappear into drawers after presentation
to a relatively small college audience. There the work remains
invisible. We want to change that.
- Mexico: Hotel
Centro 2010
Registration Deadline Feb 18th 2011
CoARQ invites all architects, designers and architecture students
to participate at the Hotel Centro 2010 International Ideas
Competition. This contest involves an estate located in
the downtown area in Guadalajara. This city was founded in 1542
by the Spanish conquers and the streets that surround the
estate were drawn up from those times. A couple of
years ago, the last building that was built during that era,
was demolished and has left an empty space in one of the
places with most historic relevance in this city. This
is why the Hotel Centro 2010 International Ideas Competition
challenges to design a hotel dedicated to the recreational
and cultural tourism that constitutes a building of architectonic
relevance that coexists with the immediate context, integrated by
buildings constructed between the 16th and 20th centuries.
UK: Ullswater
Yacht Clubhouse
The deadline for submission of designs is 15th February 2011.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Competitions
Office has been appointed to organise a design competition for
a new Clubhouse Building for a Yacht Club in Cumbria. Ullswater
Yacht club is located in the heart of the Lake District National
Park, on the north east shore of the beautiful lake Ullswater,
England's second largest lake. The Club is unrivalled in
its facilities both on and off the water, providing easy access
for dinghies and keelboats, and a sailing area. The Clubhouse
suffered extensive damage in the floods of November 2009 and
although structural repairs have enabled the club to continue
to function since, the long-term view is that a new Clubhouse
is needed. In addition to providing the club with a facility
capable of withstanding future flooding, a new building will
also provide increased and improved accommodation for an increasing
club membership. The competition will seek design concepts
for the new 500 sqm (approx) building, providing the club with
a functional, welcoming, practical and flexible facility that
through its architectural features will take into account associated
flood risk.
USA: Architectural
League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
Competition Deadline: February 11, 2011
Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to
the annual Architectural League Prize competition. Projects of
all types, either theoretical or real and executed in any medium,
are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in public
fora, an on-line installation, podcasts, and in an exhibition
in late spring 2011. The Architectural League Prize is an annual
competition, series of lectures, and exhibition organized by
the Architectural League and its Young Architects & Designers
Committee.
Theme: It's Different. Every generation thinks it is special,
new, and different-and ours is no exception. The Call for Entries
addresses the state of architecture as a reflection of our world:
it's different now. The committee seeks projects and design approaches
that provide new strategies to address existing or entrenched
problems, proactive definitions of practice, and a rethinking
of the design discipline in relation to new economic, political,
social, and cultural paradigms. Things are, after all, different
out there.
Ukraine: Urban Landscaping in
Kyiv within the Framework of Preparation for Euro-2012
Press-conference, registration deadline 10th Feb 2011.
Architecture and Urban Design are launching an open international
architectural Competition for the best urban landscape design
of the central area of Kyiv within the framework of preparation
for UEFA Football Championship Euro-2012 and for more distant
future.
The Competition is supported by CANactions international youth
architectural festival and National Union of Architects
of Ukraine
Architectural Club. The Competition aims to define the best
urban landscaping design and its authors, guided by the principles
of sustainability, and to provide necessary conditions for its
realization.
Croatia: Think
Space: Borders
- Submission deadline: 8 February
2011
- The Zagreb Society of Architects
launches the first in an international programme of series
of concept based architectural competitions, starting in December
2010. The programme Think Space serves as a platform
for spatial experimentation and exchange of conceptual ideas.
Each cycle lasts a calendar year and is constituted by four competitions
under the annual theme determined by a guest curator. Each competition
brief is formulated by a juror who is proposed by the guest curator
and the organizing committee. At the end of the cycle a conference
and exhibition will be held in Zagreb, along with the Award
ceremony.
Italy: Trimo Urban Crash student
competition
Submissions deadline: January 31 2011.
The third Trimo Urban Crash competition for students of architecture
and design, challenging undergraduate students from all around
the world -this year's task looks for a creative proposal of
an urban public installation for Fu?ine, Ljubljana's largest
residential neighbourhood. The installation should serve a concrete
purpose and answer, through its well thought-out design concept,
the contemporary problems of revitalising bedroom communities. Trimo
company, the competition organizer, will realise the winning
project on location in summer 2011 and the winning author will
also be awarded a paid summer session at the AA School of Architecture
in London.
UK: 'Meanwhile'
competition
Entries by the 24th of January 2011.
Newham Council and the London Development Agency (LDA), with
Property Week magazine, have launched the "Site Life"
competition to find 'meanwhile' uses for three high profile sites
in the Royal Docks and Canning Town. The aim is to help kick-start
one of the world's most exciting regeneration opportunities in
London. The "Site Life" competition can 'set the
tone' and show how interim uses can be an integral part of regeneration. The
competition is a fabulous opportunity for local people and community
groups, developers, investors, designers, artists, thinkers and
entrepreneurs to win the right to use the three sites for free
in the run up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond. The
sites are owned by the London Development Agency or the London
Borough of Newham and lie on or close to the route between the
Olympic site at Stratford and the ExCel Centre which will host
scores of events during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic
Games. The winning projects will reach a global audience. Newham
Council and the LDA are looking for exciting temporary projects
that attract people to Canning Town and the Royals, which animate
the sites, promote entrepreneurial activities, create jobs and
provide opportunities for Newham's young people and residents.
USA: Architizer
presents NYC's Worst Bathroom Design Challenge
Registration via PayPal is due January 21st, 2011.
Submissions are due on the 23rd of January, 2011 at 11:59PM.
Kenny has been so busy founding Rickshaw Dumplings, being the
subject of an MTV special, becoming one of Inc Magazine's 30
under 30, Crain's 40 under 40, and successfully operating
a fleet of dumpling trucks that he forgot to take care of the
little things, like his bathroom. That's why we need you and
your design expertise: help turn one of NYC's worst bathrooms
into a porcelain palace. Architizer and AF New York have
put together an amazing team to help you out. Brizo will
provide all the fittings. Duravit will provide all fixtures.
AFNY will offer accessories to be selected from the Cosmiic
and Frost collections, along with hardware from Valli & Valli. Create
a design for Kenny's bathroom that is efficient, attractive,
and suited to Kenny's needs. Specifically, Kenny's wish
list includes the ability to drink directly from the sink and to
hang wet clothes, although Kenny could do without a tub, shower
curtain, or even a glass partition.
- Italy: Housing
Contest
- Register by Jan 21st 2011
- Design directory for low cost,
high performance housing is running a call for entries to to
promote architectural quality, research and innovation in the
field of housing design, through practical examples. This will
create of a catalog of designs whose essential elements will
be available to all local administrations and financial players
who plan to build this type of housing. Run by the Department
of Local Development of the Municipality of Milan, Assimpredil
Ance, the Order of Architects of the Province of Milan, IN/ ARCH,
Lombardy Section and FederlegnoArredo.
Italy: Call for Entries for
the 2011 Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition.
Deadline for entries: January 17, 2011
Now in its 18th year, the contest is open to North American architects
and designers who feature Italian ceramic tiles in their residential,
institutional or commercial/hospitality spaces. Last year's top
selections included the work of Karim Rashid, Pentagram
Architects and Yabu Pushelberg. One winner in
each category will receive $4,000 and a trip to
Coverings (this year in Las Vegas!) as well as a 5-day
trip to Italy to attend Cersaie 2011.
USA: Call
for Proposals -2nd annual City of Dreams Pavilion Competition.
Registration deadline is January 15, 2011.
FIGMENT has teamed with the Emerging New York Architects Committee
(ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter
(AIANY) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York
(SEAoNY) to sponsor a competition to design and construct an
architectural pavilion for the 2011 summer season on the island,
called the City of Dreams Pavilion.
- India: 9th IAHH International Student Design
Competition 2011
Late Registration Up to January 15, 2011.
IAHH is pleased to announce its ninth International Student Design
Competition on the theme of planning and designing a hub for
a sustainable humane habitat. The competition is open to
students of architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture
and related disciplines of anthropology, sociology, economics,
geography, social work etc.
UK: Royal
Mint Student Competition London 2012
Register by 14th Jan 2011
Do you want to become a part of history? If you are a student
currently studying art and design at a Higher Education college
or University across UK the Royal Mint would like to invite you
to design two new legal tender United Kingdom coins to be issued
in 2012 to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This
is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and the chance to see your
own piece of art on a coin that will last for generations to
come. Van Alen Institute is a sponsor of the National Ideas Competition
for the Washington Monument Grounds. NOTE: The registration
deadline has been extended to November 30th.
2011 Charter
Awards 2011
Deadline January 12th 2011
CNU is seeking submissions for the 2011 Charter Awards, its premier
annual juried awards program, recognizing outstanding design,
development and policy achievements that embody the principles
of the Charter of the New Urbanism. The Charter Awards program
is unique in its emphasis on the entirety of the built and natural
environment -- from the function and sustainability of regions
to the fine-grain architectural details that strengthen people's
ties to a place over time. The Charter Awards look at how plans
and projects integrate with their contexts and, consequently,
how they improve both the human experience of place and the relationship
between the built and natural environments. Submissions are invited
across the Charter's three scales, from broad regions to individual
blocks and buildings. Chairing this year's jury will be CNU co-founder
Elizabeth Moule, Principal of Moule & Polyzoides, Architects
and Urbanists, Pasadena, California.
USA: eVolo 2011 Skyscraper Competition
January 11, 2011 Late registration deadline
eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects,
engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in
the 2011 Skyscraper Competition. The annual eVolo Skyscraper
Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion
of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the
relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the
skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city. There
are no restrictions in regards to site, program or size. The
objective is to provide maximum freedom to the participants to
engage the project without constraints in the most creative way.
What is a skyscraper in the 21st century? What are the historical,
contextual, social, urban, and environmental responsibilities
of these mega-structures?
USA: SFI 11 SEED Competition
Deadline for SEED Application : Part 1 + Part II: 10th January
2011
The first annual Structures For Inclusion Competition is
launched to showcase and promote design projects that:
· Advocate with those who have a limited voice in public
life.
· Build structures for inclusion that
engage stakeholders and allow communities to make decisions.
· Promote social equality through discourse that reflects
a range of values and social identities.
· Generate ideas that grow from place and build local
capacity.
· Design to help conserve resources and minimize waste.
Submit your own project and compete in this high-profile National Competition!
Winners will present at the Structures For Inclusion 11
Conference in Chicago, Illinois, March 25-27, 2011.
Mexico: d3 Housing Tomorrow
2011 international architectural design competition
registration deadline: January 10, 2011
xploration of contextual, cultural, and life cycle flows offers
a critical lens for visualizing new housing strategies for living
in the future. The d3 Housing Tomorrow competition invites
architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively
explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative
approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors,
and designed objects. The d3 Housing Tomorrow competition
allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in
a scale-appropriate manner, from large-scale master planning
endeavors, to individual building concepts, to notions of the
interior realm. Although there are no restrictions on site,
scale, program, or residential building typology, proposals should
carefully address their selected context.
USA: The Arizona Challenge
Application deadline is January 7th 2011
The Two Worlds Community Foundation recently announced it's first
Student design-based competition -through innovation and collaboration, The
Arizona Challenge is an ideas-based design competition for
achieving highly efficient, sustainable, livable and healthy
communities. The objective is to foster relationships that increase
our quality of life whilecreating beautiful environments for
now and the generations to follow.
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