Architecture Competition
Archive 2010
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- Space: Designs
beyond the Earth
Call for entries: Monday, May 31, 2010
Submission Deadline: Friday, September 3, 2010
SHIFTboston is calling on architects, space-architects, scientists,
engineers, urban designers, landscape designers, artists and
futurists to submit their most provocative ideas for the moon.
Think: WHAT IF this could happen on the moon? SHIFTboston seeks
to collect visions that will provoke thought on the moon as a
new destination. We want radical ideas for new lunar elements
such as rovers, growing pods, inflatable structures, and lunar
habitats. How about a new moon culture? Competitors are encouraged
to form teams in order to tackle multiple concepts.
Netherlands:
Shapeways
full color 3D print student contest
- Entry online by 31st May 2010
- Want to test your 3D modeling
skills? The 2010 Shapeways Full Color 3D Print Student Contest is
looking for the most creative and innovative model that can be
3D printed in full color. If you are an animation student
you could 3D print your lead character, if you are an industrial
design student you could 3D print your next prototype, if you
are a medical student you could 3D print a dissected toe, the
possibilities are open to you. Simply upload your full color
model to Shapeways with the tag "Student Contest".
The five best models will be printed for free by Shapeways and
sent to your door. The winning design will also receive
$100 worth of Shapeways 3D printing services.
USA: DINGBAT
2.0 Ideas Competition
Registration period ends: May 31st
2010
- The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture
and Urban Design proposes DINGBAT 2.0, an open, single-stage,
international design competition, reconsidering Los Angeles'
ubiquitous dingbat apartment building for the 21st century. All
designers, architects, artists, engineers, students, and other
interested parties are fully eligible for participation in this
competition. Dingbat 2.0 asks designers to re-envision the Dingbat,
and, in so doing, offer a revised vision for L.A. itself.
Netherlands:
Reclaiming the Street
Deadline: May 31, 2010
As part of its multimedia project 'Endless City', MAMA is launching
an open-submission competition: 'Reclaiming the Street'. 'Reclaiming
the Street' takes as a starting point skateboard culture as an
example of 'homo ludens' for building bridges between those who
make use of the public space.
'Reclaiming the Street' is an open-submission competition for
established and emerging artists, architects, skateboarders and
those who have an interest in skateboard culture. We are looking
for unpublished and unrealised concepts for skate objects, skateboard
furniture, and plug-ins. But also, a (re)organisation of an urban
public space, which creates a place to be used by a variety of
people, including skateboarders.
USA: TerreFarm Design+Grow
Summer 2010 Scholarships
Register/Submit: May 31, 2010
- Three Full Scholarships, $1,800
each for Summer Lab for students, architects, scientists, artists,
and individuals of all backgrounds to explore the larger framework
of urban agriculture and its effects on the architecture and
urban design of NYC. This summer approximately 35 researchers
will gather in New York City for 3 weeks of intense creative
exploration. The TerreFarm Lab provides a unique opportunity
for students to learn from established professionals in an experimental
design/grow urban farm. The Interaction of students, builders,
and architects is encouraged by the intense environment of The
Metropolitan Exchange (MEx), located in downtown Brooklyn.TerreFarm
Dates: July 12-30, 2010
Austria: best
private plots 10 Die besten Gärten 2010 International competition
Deadline for entries: May 31st, 2010
The award recognizes exemplary design of sustainable private
open spaces, highlighting the garden as a place of innovation,
as a space for creative expression and action, as contemporary
dialogue between architecture, ecology and landscape. The award
criteria include: idea, conceptual and artistic quality, ecological
quality, use of plants and materials, relationship between inside
and outside, delimitation of space and organisation of open space,
technical planning, sustainability. Special attention will also
be given to the individual diversity of use and functionality.
The open space must be clearly identifiable as intended for private
residence and use. The prize honours exceptional achievements
in the design of sustainable private outdoor space and gardens,
which were completed after January 1st, 2000. This is an open
competition. Landscape architects, architects, garden owners,
designers, florists, gardeners, artists, nurseries and landscaping
firms, as well as teams including a combination thereof are eligible.
Italy: Defining a
CREATIVE HUB competition
Competition deadline May 31st, 2010.
A Creative Hub can be defined as a space that induces Creative
Thinking, which is a combination of creativity, curiosity and
communication. A place, real or virtual, where designers meet
ordinary people to bring creative influences and creative acts.
Urban Vision and Architectural Design Department would like to
test tour talent and urban vision skills with an experimental
contemporary subject. Candidates are requested to submit a design
project for a Creative Hub that meets the need of the selected
area, explaining the reasons of their choice and the functional
programme identified. Prizes 2 scholarships covering 50% of the
total tuition fee for Domus Academy Master in Urban Vision and
Architectural Design for the Academic Year 2010-2011 (November
2010-October 2011).
USA: Flying Teeth
-Boutique Sustainable Hotel Design Competition
- Registration deadline: May 30th
2010
- Are you an architect with a
passion for design and a deep appreciation of a destination's
unique geographical character ? its "sense of place"?
In an effort to find "the architect," FlyingTeeth announces
its first ever Boutique Sustainable Hotel Design Competition,
and invites expressio9ns of interest from suitably experienced
architects.
USA: IDEO + DESIGN
21 Launch Living Climate Change Challenge
design21sdn.com/challenges/23
Deadline for submissions Tuesday May 25, 2010
Open to people of all ages, entrants are asked to create a video
(of no more than 2 minutes) that envisions how climate change
will impact our lives and shape the future over the next
20 to 30 years. Which behaviors will change and which will
be preserved? Entries will be judged by experts on design
and climate change and separated into two age categories:
under 18 and 18+. One winner in each category will receive
a grand prize of $3,000 plus a "Deep Dive" half-day
workshop with IDEO. Deadline for entries: Tuesday, May 25,
2010. Living Climate Change is an open invitation to designers
and non-designers alike.
Germany: HÄUSER-AWARD
2011
Submit by 24th May 2010
Gruner+Jahr, publishers of HÄUSER, is holding the annual competition
HÄUSER-AWARD. This year the Award themed: "Simply
the best". This is the tenth award, and is open to all types
of private houses without any restrictions whatsoever. They want
to examine the entire spectrum of current developments,
and are quite simply looking for the very best individual
single-family houses of outstanding architectural quality.
UK: Hereford
Buttermarket Regeneration Competition
Deadline for submissions: 20th May
2010
- Submissions are invited for
design ideas for the re-development and regeneration of a historic
market in Hereford. This competition is being organised by RIBA
Competitions on behalf of Herefordshire Council in partnership
with Advantage West Midlands. Hereford Buttermarket has been
trading since 1860, and is located at the heart of the city centre,
with access from the main pedestrianised High Street. Competitors
will be required to come up with ideas for how the market can
be used in a more flexible and multi-functional way that will
enhance the retail environment and provide a long-term sustainable
future for the Buttermarket building. The competition is open
to architects and collaboration with other disciplines such as
interior designers is encouraged. The deadline for submissions
is 20th May and anyone interested in entering the competition
may access the brief on www.ribabuttermarket-competition.com,
the dedicated website for this competition.
USA: Designing
the Parks Annual Awards Program.
- Entry extended to May 17th,
2010.
- Sponsorer by the National Park
Service, Denver Service Center
- Eligibility: Built and open
projects only; open to landscape architects, architects, planners,
designers and park managers. This will be a high visibility program
to elevate the prominence of parks by recognizing and publicizing
park design that best exemplifies the Designing the Parks principles.
Design Challenge: The goal of the program is to recognize, highlight
and publish planning and design solutions that best illustrate
reverence for place; engagement of all people; expansion beyond
traditional boundaries; advancement of sustainability; informed
decision making; an integrated research, planning, design, and
review process.
Singapore: Let's
not talk about Architecture
- Closing date for registration:
May 16th 2010
- mAAN*Y Singapore 2010 comprises
of an international competition, an interactive workshop, an
industry conference and a public forum and exhibition. The first
edition of mAAN*Y will be held in Singapore in 2010 with the
theme "Let's not talk about architecture" and is co-organized
by re:ACT and mAAN, The theme "Let's not talk about architecture"
seeks to explore this by encouraging active collaboration
among Asian architects, designers and stakeholders in the community.
The architectural ideas competition, which is the first component
of the series of events, runs from 8th March 2010 to 31 May 2010
and is open to participants, from any country or territory. To
be judged by internationally recognized theoreticians and practitioners
from across the world familiar with community-based built projects
such as Sou Fujimoto, George Kunihiro and Edward Ng, the competition
hopes to create new conversations that will contribute meaningfully
to the dialogue about the Asian City and its future.
Canada: The 2010 ResilientCity.org
Design Ideas Competition
Registration Deadline: May 14th, 2010
An opportunity for architects, city planners and urban designers,
engineers, and landscape architects, including students, graduate
students and interns of these disciplines around the world to
contribute ideas about creating more resilient cities. The
purpose of the ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition is
to stimulate thinking and discourse about how to increase the
resilience of our cities as we move into a century where our
cities will be subjected to the combined environmental and economic
impacts of peak oil and climate change. To this end, the
2010 competition's theme will be: "Building Urban Resilience
where you live with what you have." There will be a
prize for the jury's selection of the best planning and design
idea, and an additional prize for the best video mini-documentary.
USA/Haiti: Debris Design
Competition
- Registration deadline: May 13th
2010
- Not for Profit organisation,
Common Studio, and College of Architecture plus Planning, University
of Utah are hosting a design competition, whose aim is to design
a sustainable building or living component using only locally
available materials with the intention of reducing waste in Haiti.
The competition is open to individuals and teams of up to four
members. Winning designs will be developed further at the College
of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah, during summer
2010 and may be utilized in the design and construction of a
school in Haiti sponsored by Haitian Roots.
Taiwan: 2010 Student Wall Competition.
- Online Registration deadline:
May 12, 2010 5:00 PM Taipei Time
- Following the success of 2008
Bridge Design Competition, National Taipei University of Technology
(NTUT) School of Architecture is offering a second design competition
to foster idea dialogues among students. This competition
takes on an elemental perspective to architectural design and
sustainability. Entrants are to imagine and produce creative
proposals for an ecological "WALL". The evaluation
and definition of "WALL" are open to applicants' imaginations.
While the term "ecological" is subjected to many definitions:
social, economical, sustainable, its re-evaluations are open
to students' interpretations. Entrants are free to choose
or make site, real or virtual.
Indonesia: Bali 2010 Marine Research
Centre
- Early Registration to May 11th
2010
- After having been hit by a catastrophic
Tsunami, Indonesia has managed to recover from the devastation
and chaos. In the wake of the images which were broadcast around
the world just a few years ago, planning is needed for a prevention
and research center. In this competition, ARQUITECTUM, together
with the Pelita Harapan University, has proposed a proper Marine
Research Center which would fulfill this need.
USA: Game Changers
- Deadline for entries: May 11th,
2010.
- DESIGN 21's latest competition
offering aimed at promoting design for the greater good. The
Game Changers competition asks interested participants to design
a game that creates change by improving lives or inspiring new
behaviors - whether for an individual, group or community.
UK: 'Design
your own office' Nous 4M Competition
Submission by Monday 10 May 2010
Design a professional office space for 20 independent architects
and designers in Southwark, one of London's newest areas, directly
behind the Tate Modern. The multidisciplinary space will allow
people from design related backgrounds to give feedback to one
another, share ideas, and enhance creativity between industries.
The design approach should take these characteristics into consideration
and present possibilities for the space to change, merge, submerge,
morph, transform while maintaining the core characteristics of
the inno- vative environment. Integrating new technology into
the office space and the way we work, and ideas not included
in the brief are also welcome.
USA: 2010
COD/YAF Ideas Competition: Temporary/Permanent Relief Housing
- Submission Deadline: May 10,
2010 before 5pm Eastern Time
- 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 2010 YAF/COD Ideas Competition: Temporary/Permanent
Relief Housing. In this year's unique sketch competition, submitters
are asked to explore the issue of temporary relief housing that
could have a permanent function, through a concept design problem.
The challenge is to design temporary relief housing for refugees
from natural or other disasters using sustainable strategies
and following the Living Building Challenge. The proposed solutions
should provide housing for approximately 500 displaced families
as well as the necessary support services.
 Portugal/Angola:
International Competition:
a House in Luanda: Patio and Pavillion
Deadline for Registration: 03 May 2010
- The aim of this architecture
competition, launched by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, is
to design a single family dwelling that is radically cheap to
build for Luanda, a city undergoing an intense process of transformation,
and that is suited to the cultural, economic and social circumstances
of the area. This project, promoted in collaboration with the
Luanda Triennale, should include the possibility of dwellings
that allow for evolutionary solutions, and possibly self-construction,
which are adapted to the speed of transformation of the social
fabric of Angola and Luanda. The objective is to select the best
proposal for the design of a prototype of a family unit which
leads to a patio, with a low construction cost, aimed at severely
deprived families. The authors of the 30 finalist projects will
be contacted by the Triennale to develop a presentation model
of their proposal, which will appear at the exhibition at the
Museum of Electricity, to be held from 28 October 2010 to 16
January 2011.
USA: DVGBC
2010 Sustainable Design Competition.
- Submissions by May 3rd 2010.
- Each year, the Delaware Valley
Green Building Council conducts a Sustainable Design Competition
to engage students from regional colleges and universities. Professors
are encouraged to incorporate the Design Competition with the
Spring 2010 college and university curriculum. This year the
DVGBC would also like to invite young professionals to enter
the competition. Integrated with the LEED Green Building Rating
System, the Design Competition unites students and young professionals
with individuals from the DVGBC and the local design community.
The goal is to incorporate sustainable design strategies into
the college curriculum and empower the students and young professionals
within the green building movement to become future leaders.
The competition will award a number of prizes as well as a grand
prize stipend to attend Greenbuild, the USGBC's annual Green
Building Conference and Expo.
USA: The SDC Iron Designer
Challenge
- Registration open until until
April 30th
- The Urban Assembly School of
Design and Construction (SDC) is proud to present the first Iron
Designer Challenge. Based on the popular television show "The
Iron Chef", the Iron Designer Challenge will raise funds
to support the design program of the SDC. A fund-raising goal
of $90,000 will cover the cost of this distinctive aspect of
the school including material supplies, field trips, portfolios
and collage visits for the school's inner-city students, who's
goals are to become tomorrow's Engineers, Construction Managers
and Architects. With a donation of $1,000.00, any firm (or group
of individuals) may enter a team of 4 professionals.
USA: Integrated: Design
School for the Socially-Aware Education, 2010 Programming
Competition
Registration deadline 30th April10
- Description: true social change
in architecture begins with insightful programming programming
that rethinks the purpose and social objective of individual
spaces, as well as their collective effect on users and the surrounding
community. Through programming alone, communicate your design
concept for a school that fosters a socially-aware education
for its students. How can a school inspire socially-aware design?
USA: Memorial
for the Unknown Soldier -May Vignette Competition
Registration deadline 30th April 2010
- Description: In any medium,
create a spatial response to the competition title. Can you distill
your ideas to a single vignette?
UK: Aesthetica
Short Film competition
Deadline for submissions is 30 April 2010.
Aesthetica Magazine is looking for filmmakers who are driving
the genre of short film forward through inspirational and innovative
works. Whether you are fresh out of film school or have been
making films for years, we want to hear from you. Accepting films
in all genres: drama, documentary, music video, satire, comedy
and artists' film.
- Germany: Schindler
Award 2010
- The closing date for registrations
is April 30, 2010.
- One of Europe's leading architectural
competitions, the Schindler Award, is accepting applications
for its 2010 edition. Students of architecture are invited to
put forward visionary design ideas for developing an area of
the grounds that were used for Berlin's 1936 Olympic Games. The
central theme of the competition is "Access for All",
a design philosophy characterized by inclusiveness and barrier-free
mobility for people of all ages and capabilities. The Schindler
Award is an excellent opportunity for graduating architects to
have their designs judged by a professional jury. It is open
to architecture students who are either in their last year on
a bachelor's course or attending a master's course at a European
university or school of architecture. Completed projects must
be submitted by July 30, 2010.
Canada: Exterior Lighting Grant -2009-2010 edition
-Theme: Street Furniture
Light
- Deadline for submission: April
30th, 2010
- The Lumec "Fondation Concept
Lumière Urbaine" (CLU) aims to encourage emerging
designers to develop innovative lighting concepts within the
context of an exterior public space. How can light enrich and
simplify the lifestyles of citizens? How to streamline urban
infrastructure and integrate in street furniture innovative lighting
solutions with improved performances? Open a window on the future
and reinterpret the present.
- Objective: To design an object
that qualifies as a street furniture while retaining its primary
purpose, lighting.
- Austria: Danube
University Krems awards architecture and design prize
- Deadline for submission 26th
of April, 2010
- The international architectural
and design competition "Daylight Spaces 2010" is announced
by Danube University Krems for the second time. Till the 26th
of April projects that show an innovative use of daylight and
highlight its influence on structures of architectural space,
can be submitted. The focus in research and teaching of the university
lies on light concepts and the use of natural light in the field
of sustainable building.
Italy: Rome City Vision
- Register by 26th April, 2010
- An ideas competition, which
challenges architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives
individuals to develop visionary urban proposals with the intention
of stimulating and supporting the contemporary city, in this
case Rome. The Planning Proposal can re-assess a significant
monument, road, district or better still the whole city. For
this reason there are no restrictions of site, program or dimension
of the project. The goal is to give maximum freedom, with the
intention of achieving the most innovative and provocative proposals.
Proposals should aim to augment and stimulate the urban inhabitance
and experience of the ordinary person.
UK: The
Heathrow Contest
- Deadline for submissions: Friday
23 April 2010
- Greenpeace are running a contest
for architects, landscape architects and architecture students.
Airplot is the piece of land in the middle of the proposed third
runway site at Heathrow airport, owned by Greenpeace, Emma Thompson,
Alistair McGowan, Zac Goldsmith and thousands of people from
around the world. It is a fundamental part of the campaign by
Greenpeace and other groups to block construction of a new runway.
So far, Airplot has provided a platform from which to fight the
moral and political campaign against the runway. Greenpeace is
now inviting professional designers and design teams to consider
how to fortify and enhance the airplot so that if necessary,
we can physically block construction of a third runway. For once,
this is a competition where the organisers hope that the winning
design will not have to be built!
Canada: ideas competition - Ville
de Montréal invites designers to envision the ideal taxi
stand
- Register online no later than
April 20, 2010.
- Designers in all disciplines
are invited to propose innovative solutions for enhancing taxi
customers' and drivers' experience of this public space they
share. The general objective of the competition is to spur debate
around, and interest in, the quality of public spaces in Montréal,
and to enable designers to offer their visions for development
of these spaces. The single stage ideas competition is anonymous
and open to all design professionals, students or consortiums
whose main place of business is in Québec.
Belgium: Designing Absence
- Deadline 20th April 2010
- Designing absence aims
to create an international brainstorm generated by an absence,
and invites entrants to design a new tower for the Cathedral
of Antwerp. 'By playing with the idea of the absence, we
generate a focus.' Keeping this in mind, every participant comes
up with an idea for the unfinished tower. The competition can
be seen as an international brainstorm, which means everybody
can join. The result doesn't need to be functional, it can
be an inflatable tower or a high tech amusement park attraction. Your
entry can be a 3d render, a paper model, a collage, a black marker
drawing or anything else you think fits your concept the best. On
the website (http://designingabsence.com) u can find a picture
of the Cathedral with the missing tower. Your tower must be placed
on this picture, the way how is completely free. Together
with the picture of the Cathedral completed with your 'new
tower', you should write a short explanation about your
concept and submit it on the 'Submit entry' page.
USA: Suburbia
Transformed
Entries due April 16, 2009.
The James Rose Center is sponsoring a design competition, entitled: Suburbia
Transformed, One Garden at a Time: Exploring the Aesthetics of
Landscape Experience in the Age of Sustainability. Through
this competition, the aim is to seek to explore solutions to
the ubiquitous small-lot, detached single-family, residential
condition in the hope that of better understanding how to transform
suburbia. This competition is open to all. Finalists will
have their work exhibited at the James Rose Center and receive
publication in Garden Design Magazine, among others.
USA: One Prize -International Design
Competition for Creating Productive Green Space in Cities
- Registration deadline: 15th April 2010.
- An Annual Design and Science
Award to Promote Green Design in Cities announces Mowing to Growing:
Reinventing the American Lawn -a Design Competition for Creating
Productive Green Space in Cities. How would you reinvent the
American lawn? What sort of design solutions can you come
up with to facilitate burb-grown food? Can green houses
be incorporated in skyscrapers? How could a vacant big
box store be retrofitted for agriculture? What is required
to remove foreclosure signs on lawns and convert them to gardens?
Can food grow on rooftops, parking lots, building facades? The
proposals can be for a real or speculative project, for one or
more real sites, and located either in the U.S. or applicable
to U.S. sites. Jurors include Cameron Sinclair + Kate Stohr.
Germany: A house for Bruno Taut
- The deadline for registration
for this competition is April 15th, 2010.
- It is hard to believe that a
modern (even "avant-garde") architect ever mentioned
the word "transcendental," let alone saying that we
must be subordinate to it (i.e. to the "transcendental")
... But this is exactly what the great German architect Bruno
Taut did. He was also the one who had the courage, at Weissenhof,
in Stuttgart, to build a house that refused to be white, as opposed
to most of the other architects, including Le Corbusier, who
was otherwise quite colorful in his paintings, but not really
in his architecture. ICARCH asks you to design A House for Bruno
Taut.
USA: FOG ANALOGIES Scholarship Competition
- Entries due by midnight April
15 2010 (EST).
- SEAMLab, a collaborative think-tank
dedicated to research and the dissemination of design-based knowledge
focused on materiality in the built environment, is launching
its inaugural Scholarship Competition entitled FOG ANALOGIES.
This competition invites graduate students attending (or committed
to attending) a US college or university to submit research,
speculations or design projects utilizing select characteristics
of fog to propose a responsive material, structure, or environment.
Competition winners will be awarded a monetary scholarship for
graduate study.
UK: RIBA
Competition : Re-Cladding Scheme for Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital
Deadline for application is 13th April 2010
Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is seeking expressions
of interest for the re-cladding of a 13-storey tower building
on the St Thomas' Hospital site in central London. The two stage
competition seeks a re-cladding design of exemplary quality befitting
its location, that will at the same time provide a long-term
solution to improved weatherproofing and energy efficiency. The
Trust has aspirations that the re-cladding scheme should be of
the highest architectural quality. A challenge to design teams
will be to achieve a solution that can be delivered with the
minimum of disruption and interference to the existing building,
without the need for decanting. The competition jury panel will
include architects David Henderson, co-director of Bennetts Associates,
and Jim Eyre OBE of Wilkinson Eyre Architects. In the first instance
the competition seeks expressions of interest from consortia
which must as a minimum include a contractor, architect, engineers,
and a cladding specialist.
USA: Green
Meadow Estates Competition
- Deadline April 12, 2010
- Design a green private resort
in NY. Green Meadows Estates will be a 65-unit private resort
community located on a 130 acre parcel at the foothills of the
Catskill Mountains. Usable for year round enjoyment, this unique
community will be designed with a comprehensive amenity package
to promote positive social interaction, learning, and fun for
both children and adults. Construction methods and materials
will conform to Green Meadow Estates' objectives of developing
a high quality, thoughtfully designed, green community. For more
information email: crosen@foxstoneadvisors.com
Slovenia: Call for entries for the 22nd Biennial
of Industrial Design, Architecture Museum of Ljubljana
Period for Entry Submissions to 12 April 2010
On 7 October 2010 the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana will open
the
22nd Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO 22). BIO is a comprehensive international
exhibition that highlights current trends in contemporary design
through its selection of well-designed products with an emphasis on
quality, originality and innovation. The selection of the
best design achievements of the past two years will be presented
at BIO 22 in three groups: Products, Product Graphics, and Concepts. BIO
22 will direct special attention to an exhibition with powerful
content and an educational concept that clearly presents
the advantages and characteristics of design achievements
on display to visitors.
Serbia: Ghost Project
- Deadline for submissions: Monday
April 4th 2010
- After four years of our continuous
work to revive industrial design in Serbia, Ghost Project has
become the regional platform for the promotion of design."Balkan
Ghosts" is an initiative to connect Balkan designers and
multiply networks of progressive activities in the region, as
well as re-establishing broken connections between different
cultures, various creatives, design and business, man and nature.
The competition is open to individual designers in South East
European countries. Each candidate can submit several designs
in the fields of Industrial design: furniture, lighting, everyday
objects, interior elements.
USA: Young
Architects Forum, Atlanta: 10up
- Late Registration Deadline.
1st April 2010
- 2010 Young Architects Forum
partnership with MA and the developers of White Provisions announce
a competition to construct an installation during the MA10 Design
is Human week of events taking place in Atlanta, GA in June of
2010. This is the perfect initiative for young designers
nationally and locally, and is a great opportunity for YAF, MA
and architecture in Atlanta. The competition is open to
designers of all disciplines and will be an exciting exhibit
of our talents.
USA: Art in Architecture
Juried Competition
Registration deadline: April 1, 2010 -extended to May 3, 2010.
- The Center for Contemporary
Art is announcing a competition on the subject of "Art in
Architecture" to celebrate its inauguration as the new art
center in New Jersey., replacing the 40-year old Somerset Art
Association in its existing headquarters. Plans are in the works
to embark on a major public campaign for expanding the structure.
However, the purpose of this competition is to take the relationship
between art and architecture to a higher level than that of the
renovation of a specific building. "Art in Architecture"
intends to generate ideas about the relationship and interaction
between the two. The thematic goal is to seek images about architecture
as a repository for art, revealing how art is expressed in architecture,
and how art and architecture affect and are affected by each
other. In focusing on the capacity of art and architecture to
be transcendent, this competition's resulting exhibit will add
special voice to the current debate between the "container"
and the "contents" that has been taking place across
the global art scene.
UK: student
photography competition, Architecture Naturally
Closing date for entries is 31 March 2010.
ADP's second annual student photography competition, Architecture
Naturally focuses on an important relationship - that which
exists between architecture, and the natural world. Often
seen as being in conflict, this relationship is high on the political
and social agenda, reflecting changing attitudes toward
sustainability, and our place in relation to the natural world. The
competition is open to students over the age of 16, studying
architecture or photography courses in the UK.The winner
will be awarded a one thousand pound commission to photograph
one of ADP's completed buildings, plus 750 pounds worth camera equipment
vouchers and a year subscription to Digital Photographer magazine.
Greece: Piraeus
Tower 2010 Changing the Face/Façades Reformation
Registration Deadline: March 31, 2010
- GreekArchitects.gr and DuPont
Hellas S.A have launched an open architectural ideas competition.
The initiative is the localization of urban issues at vital points
of Greek cities and the attempt to resolve them through Architecture.
The competition is focused on the reconstruction of the external
façade of the Piraeus Tower. The objective is to include
the building in the urban landscape through the design proposal
and to highlight it as the landmark for the wider area.
USA: SMIBE
short film competition "Personal Infrastructures"
- Submissions due March 31st 2010.
- This competition asks for 3
minute films on the subject "Personal Infrastructures."
There are both student and professional categories.Sponsored
by the Graham Foundation for the Fine Arts.
Poland: Museum
of the Second World War in Gdansk
- Submission of the Requests to
Participate: 26th March 2010
Open, international, one-stage competition concerning the development
of the architectural conceptual design of the building to house
the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, intended to become
a new identity landmark of the City of Gdansk, and the conceptual
site landscape design commensurate with the nature, status, and
location of the site. The Competition Entries shall be produced
in the Polish language, though their submission in the English
language shall be permissible.
USA: Leading Edge Student
Design Competition
- Registration Deadline: March
26th 2010
The Leading Edge Student Design Competition seeks to support
and enhance the study of sustainable and energy-efficient building
practices in Architectural Education. We invite students
and instructors of Architecture and Design to use the competition
as a framework to explore the use of new materials and strategies
for building and the integration of aesthetics and technology
for high-performing, cutting edge architecture. This year the
competition focuses on the coastal city of Long Beach, California.
Students entering Challenge 1 will design a zero-net energy Workforce
Training Center; students entering Challenge 2 will design a
zero-net energy Student Residence. A zero-net energy building
generates enough on-site renewable energy to equal or exceed
the amount of energy needed to operate the building.
UK: Cancer
Treatment Centre for Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital
Deadline for application is 25th
March 2010
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation
Trust wish to build a new £90m Integrated Cancer Treatment
Centre on its Guy's Hospital site, close to London Bridge in
central London. The Trust is committed to building a world class
facility that offers an outstanding working environment and patient
experience that will set new standards for cancer care. The Trust
wishes to ensure that the full design team is committed to both
the design and delivery of the new CTC and the competition seeks
expressions of interest from contractor/architect teams with
the capacity and imagination to deliver the project.
Canada: GREEN SHED: Pandora
Park Community Garden Design Competition
19 March 2010 - Standard Registration Deadline
- In dense urban settings, community
gardens are an invaluable public resource - they provide the
opportunity for city dwellers to grow their own food and also
educate the wider community about organics, food security, and
sustainability. Pandora Park Community Garden Society invites
student and professional architects, landscape architects, builders,
engineers, gardeners and designers of all kinds to take part
in Green Shed. The goal of this international competition is
to generate buildable designs for a storage shed and outdoor
common space for a new community garden that will showcase sustainable
building strategies and materials. The winning design will be
built by a team of volunteers over the summer of 2010. The primary
objective is to demonstrate that natural, hand built, recycled,
or otherwise sustainably produced building materials and technologies
can be used in a contemporary aesthetic and community garden
context. Entrants are therefore encouraged to use materials in
innovative ways in the tradition of Samuel Mockbee's Rural Studio.
Materials may include, but are not limited to: rammed earth,
cob, straw bale, reclaimed wood, offcut dimensional lumber, and
salvaged materials from any source.
USA: Safe
Trestles
- Registration Deadline: March
17, 2010
- Volunteer non-profit organization
Architecture for Humanity in association with San Onofre
Foundation and The Surfrider Foundation has launched "Safe
Trestles," an open design competition to create a safe pathway
to San Onofre State Beach in Southern California to serve the
community and day visitors to San Onofre State Beach.
UK: Wyre
Way -call for Artists, Designers and Architects
- Expressions of interest are
to be uploaded online by 10am 15th March 2010
- Wyre Borough Council is looking
for a multi-disciplinary design team to help realise an exciting
vision for its coastline, made possible by a substantial grant
from the CABE Sea Change programme.Design teams drawn from landscape
architects, architects and artists are invited to express their
interest in this design challenge. Examples of successfully completed
schemes should be uploaded to the dedicated website, along with
a written statement setting out what they could offer Wyre's
coastal community.
Haiti: International
Student Open Design Competition for Yele Music Studio, Haiti
- Deadline for receipt of Stage
1 design submissions is 2.00pm on Friday 12 March 2010.
- Yele Haiti and RIBA Competitions
announce the launch of an International Student Open Design Competition,
established by John McAslan + Partners and Allied London, for
a new music studio facility in Cité Soleil (Port-au-Prince),
Haiti. The new music studio will be built in Cité Soleil
and combine the recording of music and radio programming with
vocational training, micro-enterprise opportunities and job creation
for at-risk youth in that area. The studio is a joint venture
between Yéle Haiti and two for-profit companies - Sak
Pasé Records, Wyclef Jean's own record label, and Radio
Boukman, a popular community radio station in Cité Soleil.
The joint venture arrangement will ensure that the Yéle
Music Studio will be entirely self-financing within 18 months,
while at the same time remaining committed to using music and
radio to promote development and social issues.
USA: National Green
Design Competition for Innovative Affordable Housing
- Deadline for receipt of stage
1 proposals: Monday 8th March
- The Housing Authority of the
City of El Paso (HACEP), announces a National Green Design Competition
for a $10+ million LEED Green Affordable Housing Project supported
by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. HACEP are looking
for architects to give amazing designs that are aesthetic, sustainable
and energy efficient to provide a model for the country and affordable
housing. Their goal is to create a spectacular international-quality
integrated affordable housing development showing the latest
and highest-quality sustainable design practices that minimize
the environmental impact of its operations.
- UK: Housing
Design Awards 2010
- The deadline for entry submissions is
5th March 2010.
- The Housing Design Awards 2010
has recently launched, and are open to housing schemes with 4
or more dwellings in England. Awards will be made both to schemes
which have received planning permission by 15 March 2010 but
which are not yet complete, as well as to developments which
are built out within the last two years and partly or wholly
occupied. Up to 20 winners will be unveiled by government ministers
and institutional presidents at the Banqueting House in Whitehall
at a lunchtime function on Thursday 8 July. For the first time
entrants will be able to both file their entry and pay the entry
fee online (from 2 February 2010).
USA: 2010 Chicago Prize Competition:
MINE THE GAP
Submit online up to May 3, 2010
The Chicago Architectural Club announces a single-stage international
design ideas competition dedicated to examining one of the most
visible scars left after the collapse of the real estate market
in Chicago: the massive hole along the Lake Michigan shore that
was to have been-and may yet be-the foundation for a singular
150-story condominium tower designed by an internationally-renowned
Spanish architect, a tower which was to have become a new icon
for the city and region.
USA: A House for Frederic Chopin
- Submit by March 1st 2010.
- Design a house for someone who,
in the words of George Sand, was more Polish than Poland itself!
But at his most nationalistic he became, paradoxically, universal!
Yes, he was so intensely Polish that he became ALL OF US!!! His
soul was and is, OURS! Please send your work, in ANY form, ANY size and
ANY format to this e-mail address by March 1st, 2010 (his birthday).
We will publish all the works received on our website and we
will also display them during an Architecture Festival that we
plan in the near future with the theme: Architecture and Music.
Serbia: Maketime -International
Competition for Students on the topic of urban furniture
- Deadline for sending applications
and projects is revised to 1st Mar 2010
- Changes in the living environment
are the consequence of impact and flow of time. Space for living
is inseparable from architecture, where architecture and time
are in constant mutual conjunction. We invite all the students
of architecture to think about the phenomenon and meaning of
time in a new and different way and to use that in design of
a concrete and impressionable solution urban furniture.
The challenge of the task is to offer an original concept that
would lead to the final product, which would be represented through
a certain category, material, and ratios. The competition is
open for all the students of basic, Bachelor and Master Studies
of architecture from Serbia and from abroad (Europe).
Canada: Zerofootprint
and Re-Skinning Award
- Re-Skinning Award entry date
has been extended to Feb 22nd 2010.
- Zerofootprint is offering the
ZEROprize to the design team who can take an older concrete high-rise
structure and, using re-skinning along with other retrofitting
technologies, reduce its carbon, water, and energy footprint
to net zero while also maintaining the highest architectural
design standards.
- In addition to the ZEROprize,
the supporting Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Award will be offered
every year. The Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Award is meant to attract
state-of-the-art retrofitted and re-skinned buildings that are
exceptional, but do not meet the performance standards of the
ZEROprize.
Portugal: Dédalo Magazine
- Contest
- Deadline: 18.02.2010
- Dédalo magazine is a
publishing project developed by a group of students of Oporto
University Faculty of Architecture established as a space for
critical intervention based on the encouragement of architectural
discussion and the issues that the current discipline raises,
never forgetting that the architecture is not an isolated manifestation
of the other arts or social sciences. Dédalo magazine
proposes a new open ideas competition, dedicated to proposals
for 2 entrance spaces to the Oporto University - Faculty
of Architecture that may reflect a multidisciplinary intervention
or exclusively dedicated to the fields of sculpture, painting,
performance and architecture. Inserted in the next issue of the
magazine, it's intended that the participants reflect on the
issues of Place and Site-specificity.
Germany: Output
Award
- Deadline: Feb 15th 2010
- Take part in the biggest competitition
for students in design an architecture and get your project published
in the yearbook :output - or even win the :output Grand Prix
with a scholarship worth 3.000 Euro. The :output award is the
biggest competition for students in design and architecture worldwide.
Every year more than 1.000 students from more than 30 different
countries submit their best projects to the competition. A jury
of international renowned designers and professors makes a selection
which is published in :output.
USA: Architizer
Competition Competition 2010
- Deadline: February 15, 2010
at 11.59pm EST
- Did you compete in a competition
in 2009 and not win? Architizer wants you to take those
losing concepts out of the wastebasket and recycle them. Upload
your unrewarded competition entries onto Architizer.com
and give them one more chance at victory. Projects will be judged
on general architectural merit and presentation, not on the criteria
of the original competition. We want to rescue these worthy
designs from the annals of flat files and off-site hard drives
everywhere. Re-submit your work and let it be re-judged on its
merits.
- USA: Atlantic
City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial
Registrationby February 15th 2010
- International open two-stage
design competition for the purpose of realizing an inspiring
Memorial to the Holocaust and genocide on a magnificent site
dedicated for that purpose by the city of Atlantic City, NJ.
First Stage anonymous online only; Second Stage models required.
Jury: Daniel Libeskind, Wendy Evans Joseph, Richard Meier, Michael
Berenbaum, Clifford Chanin, James Young, Dr. Paul Winkler.
UK: Make
Bethnal Green: Part 2 Student Open Ideas Competition
- Registrations close on 3 February
2010 and the deadline for the anonymous Stage 1 design submissions
is 2.00pm on 10 February 2010.
- With a portfolio of over 54,000
dwellings, Affinity Sutton is one of the largest providers of
affordable homes in the country. Designed by Victorian architects
Joseph & Smithem, Affinity Sutton's Bethnal Green Estate
was one of Europe's first charitable social housing developments,
offering an escape from London's East End slums and a decent
home for its inhabitants. The competition is open to Part 2 architectural
students who are enrolled on (or have recently completed) an
RIBA validated course at a UK based School of Architecture. Students
are challenged to generate design ideas which would make a positive
contribution to the environment and Make Bethnal Green.
What could be built on the same site today, taking into consideration
the 21st Century sustainability agenda, modern building techniques
and architectural approaches, together with the financial constraints
of the affordable housing sector?
China: HKBCF Design Ideas Competition
- Ddeadline for registration is 8th
February 2010.
- A competition co-organized by
4 government departments and 5 professional institutions in Hong
Kong to invite design ideas globally and encourage public participation
in development of a new boundary crossing facilities. The
aim is to construct one of the most innovative, attractive, efficient,
users and environmentally friendly boundary crossing facilities
with advanced technology and energy efficient design. The new
facilities will be located on a 130-hectares reclamation island
and will become a new landmark in Hong Kong, reflecting the city as
a vibrant international and metropolitan city.
Italy: Architecture
residencies in Rome 201011
Applications are invited for two residencies at the British School
at Rome
Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship -a three-month residency
tenable October-December 2010
Closing date for applications: Friday 29 January 2010
Rome Scholarship in Architecture -a six-month residency,
tenable October 2010-March 2011
Closing date for applications: Tuesday 2 February 2010
For further details and application procedures, please
visit www.bsr.ac.uk (and follow the quick link to Awards - Fine
Arts) or contact The Registrar, The British School at Rome, at
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH;
E bsr@britac.ac.uk
Austria: Blue
Award 09
Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2010
The Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design at the Vienna
University of Technology announces the Blue Award 09 for
the best student works in the topic of sustainable architecture
and building culture. The competition is open worldwide to students
of architecture, regional planning and urbanism. Works from
Bachelor, Master or Diploma studies can be submitted. The
award's main purpose is to encourage the topic of sustainability
in architecture, regional planning an urbanism. Concurrently,
it shall recognize and award students and teachers dedicated
in pursuing the topic in their studies.
Spain: International
Competition for Ideas for the head offices of the Fundación
Arquitectura Contemporánea and the San Pablo Block in
Cordoba.
- Deadline for submission of projects
1st Feb 2010 (phase I)
- The Fundación Arquitectura
Contemporánea is a nonprofit initiative launched in 2002
by a group of professionals with a keen interest in the development
of contemporary architecture. This competition is presented as
an opportunity for the Fundación to acquire their own
space capable of receive the activities it promotes, and propose
solutions to articulate the now unresolved articulations of urban
space of such a central part of the city. The Competition
must answer, from present, a series of objectives coming from
the open naturaly of the Fundación and from the willingness
to debating with an important heritage environment for the future
of the city. Respond to the known existence of the arqueological
rests will be an obligation, and to generate a new acces to the
space of opportunity that represent the Huerta de San Pablo,
opening a critical reflection on urban greater interaction between
cultural institutions present.
International Velux Award
2010 for Students of Architecture
Students must register their interest before1st February 2010.
- This award invites architecture
students to explore and challenge the current role of natural
light in the built environment under the theme: "The Light
of Tomorrow". The judges hope to encourage entrants to contribute
to sustainable building design by experimenting with the social,
psychological and environmental dimensions of daylight and sunlight.
The prestigious biennial award is open to individuals or teams
on a registered architectural course and will be judged by a
panel of award-winning architects from around the world, including
representatives from the International Union of Architects (UIA)
and the European association for Architectural Education (EAAE).
UK: Nationwide
Sustainable Housing Awards 'Suburban Urban secure
and green' www.architecture.com/competitions
Closing date for entries is 27th January 2010 (phase 1)
and 21st April 2010 (phase 2).
Following the success of its first student competition in 2008,
Nationwide Building Society is launching the 2009/2010 Nationwide
Sustainable Housing Awards. Working in partnership with the Royal
Institute of British Architects (RIBA), this is the second in
a series of annual competitions open to undergraduate architecture
and design students. For 2009-2010 the theme is "Suburban
Urban secure and green" and prizes will be awarded
for designs of an individual home, or group of homes, as well
as the wider community in either new build or refurbishment projects.
The aim of the competition is to stimulate and reward innovative
thinking about how people can live in a more sustainable way
in the future picking up key characteristics of what might
be recognised today as a 'suburban' lifestyle. Wayne Hemingway
will announce the winners of each category at an awards ceremony
in June 2010.*
France: Call for Interest -European
Space Agency Headquarters Renovation
Submissions must be returned no later than 20th January 2010
at 13:00
- The European Space Agency (www.esa.int)
has embarked on a study into the renovation of its Headquarters,
located in the 15th arrondissement in Paris, rue Mario Nikis,
in buildings it has occupied for more than thirty years. ESA
wishes to select a Design Team (Maitre d'Oeuvre) to be charged
with the architectural design and engineering of the renovation
project. The selection process starts with a Call for Interest,
accessible from :
ftp://ftp.estec.esa.int/
with Username = hq-moe Password = HQ-MOE@9
Submissions either by e-mail to info@esa.int
or by courier to:
- Agence Spatiale Européenne,
Procurement Department, 8-10 rue Mario Nikis, 75738
Paris cedex 15,
for the attention of Ms. Virginie Schmit
Brazil: 2010
Homeless World Cup Legacy Center - Request For Proposals
Concept Design - Youth and Women's Leadership Center in Santa
Cruz, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
- Registration Deadline: Jan 1,
2010
Submission deadline: Jan 16, 2010
- Architecture for Humanity, Homeless
World Cup, and Nike are teaming up with local partners Organização
Civil de Ação Social (OCAS), and Bola Pra Frente
(BPF) to establish multiple Legacy Centers to implement the Homeless
World Cup influence beyond the week-long Tournament and Leadership
Conference. This program will establish a legacy of the Homeless
World Cup with two pilot Legacy Centers, a football-based Youth
and Women's Leadership Center in Rio and the Women's Enterprise
Center in Sao Paulo. Defined by the success of the pilot project,
Architecture For Humanity and Homeless World Cup intend to expand
the influence of the Leadership and Enterprise Centers to a global
scale.
Australia: PlastiCity FantastiCity
Registration deadline extended to 18th of January 2010
The RMIT Landscape Architecture Journal, KERB18 is launching
its first ever international design competition; PlastiCity FantastiCity.
Where is the fun? Where is the future city?
The competition re-envisions city systems to explore fantastical
opportunities that enable groundbreaking and fun projects which
shake the design world. PlastiCity FantastiCity is
remodeling the constructed city at any chosen scale to become
a world of playful opportunity, where nothing that manifests
itself in today's cities is present. This ideas competition seeks
a multidisciplinary approach to discover new potentials and possibilities
within the world and in particular for the Landscape Architecture
profession.
Ghana: Open Source House Design Competition -Designing Sustainable Housing Together
Registration Deadline: 15th January
2010
Submission Deadline; 17th May 2010
Designing Sustainable Housing Together -lower middle class in
developing countries is rapidly growing and so is their demand
for housing. A lack of affordable building materials and the
use of inefficient construction methods are two of the reasons
why houses are built in an unaffordable and unsustainable way.
These houses have a short lifecycle, leaving behind unusable
but costly materials and construction waste. The challenge is
to design an affordable, modular house according to eight eco-architectural
principles, which stimulate affordability, exchangeability and
sustainability. The platform is the place where architects, building
engineers, students professors etc. can come together to share
their ideas with each other. No Idea will be lost and every idea
is available for everyone to implement them in their own country
for free! The best design will be awarded and realized in a pilot
project in Ghana.
Canada: Ideas competition for
the redesigning of the area around Champ-de-Mars métro
station
- Entrants must register by January
15th 2010.
- Ville de Montréal has
announced a nationwide ideas competition for the redesigning
of the area around Champ-de-Mars métro station. The purpose
of the competition is to solicit explorations and illustrations
of a variety of development concepts made possible by the planned
covering of the Ville-Marie expressway and the potential reconfiguration
of its exit ramps. Champ-de-Mars station, with its magnificent
glassworks by renowned artist Marcelle Ferron, is one of the
few landmarks remaining from the time before the construction
of the Ville-Marie expressway. The immediate perimeter of the
station forms a link between downtown Montréal and Old
Montréal, and is one of the main pedestrian access routes
to the historic district. The concept competition is being held
on an anonymous-entry basis and is open to all design professionals,
students or consortiums whose main place of business is located
in Canada. It is a single-stage competition, with two submission
categories, one for professionals and the other for students.
The language of the competition is French. However, the conceptual
approach may include a text in English.
Austria: Design
Project Vienna A Design Strategy: International
Ideas Competition: How to React to a City?
Deadline for applications is January 15th, 2010
The MAK and departure announce a first-time-ever joint ideas
competition: under the heading of Project Vienna A Design
Strategy proposals are invited for innovative design strategies
and concepts. Design must go beyond mere object modelling and
surface cosmetics and be understood as an integral part of cultural
creation. Design informs our everyday life, our culture, and
our sense of aesthetics beyond fleeting fashions and styles
design is the mirror of our civilization. The call is for
projects, concepts, strategies, and visions that take up the
genius loci, that is, use and develop the potential of Vienna
serious or playful, experimental or functional, purpose-oriented
or utopian, subversive or factual. What should be in the foreground
is the resolution to think in a wider crossover context.
The issue is to intervene in the overlaid and interwoven layers
and levels, infra- and substructures of Vienna, to react to existing
processes, to redirect deadlocked energy flows, to break up self-perpetuating
systems and stagnant situations and thus to reorganize
life in the city.
USA: 2009
Smart Growth Design & Reuse Competition
Late Registration and Submission Deadline January 15th 2010
- An ideas competition for the
Pioneer Valley, Western Massachusetts by The Valley Development
Council, in collaboration with the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission.
Architects, designers, landscape architects, planners and students
are invited to prepare concept plans for the redevelopment of
three strategic sites in the Pioneer Valley, a region of Western
Massachusetts defined by the Connecticut River Valley. These
sites are located in Southampton, Palmer and Hadley. The goal
for this international design competition is to create a local
example of sustainable development and redevelopment, and to
provide a model of how communities in the region can grow smarter.
With the partnerships formed through this competition process,
there will be significant momentum for turning the winning concept
plan idea into reality.
USA: eVolo - 2010 SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION
Participants must register by January 12, 2010
eVolo to study, to develop, to evolve, to fly away
eVolo invites students and professional architects, engineers,
and designers to take part in the 2010 Skyscraper Competition.
The main idea of this contest is to examine the relationship
between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper
and the community and the skyscraper and urban living. In the
last few years we have seen hundreds of new skyscrapers been
developed around the world without careful consideration to the
context or environment. There is a constant lack of urban planning
and poor architectural design without intellectual or perceptual
enjoyment. The aim of the competition is to push our imagination
to redefine the term skyscraper through the use of new
materials, technology, aesthetics, programs, and spatial organizations.
Globalization, environmental warming, flexibility, adaptability,
and the digital revolution are just some of the multi-layered
elements that should be taken in consideration.
USA: The National Terrazzo & Mosaic
Association 2010 Honor Awards
- Deadline January 8, 2010
The National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association (NTMA) has announced
the Call for Entry for the 2010 Honor Awards. These awards
honor the best terrazzo installations completed within the 2009
calendar year and are judged on excellence in craftsmanship;
originality of ideas; intricacy of design; and artistic and faithful
reproduction of the architects' or designers' drawings.
Architects, designers, building owners and others are eligible
to submit entries, but an NTMA member contractor must have completed
the terrazzo floor.
Copenhagen:
Second
Call for Papers -International Conference
- Center for Management Studies
of the Building Process, Copenhagen Business School
- Submission Deadline 5 January
2010
- The Conference on Architectural
Competitions is a conference within the conference called Constructions
Matter: Managing Complexities, Decisions and Actions in the Building
Process. The Architectural Competitions Conference is organized
by the University of Fribourg, in co-operation with the conveners
of the general conference in Copenhagen. Papers are invited on
the following themes:
- · Two-stage
(especially prequalification) versus one-stage competitions:
relating procedures and outcomes
- · "The
perfect brief": How much and what kind of scope does it
provide? How does it achieve that?
- · Concepts
and theoretical approaches in interdisciplinary 'competitions
research'
- · Tracing
the political in planning competitions
- · Expertise
and judgment: Performing quality in design competitions
- · Historical
trajectories: places, cultures and ruptures in legislation (e.g.
impacts of WTO regulations/EU regulation from 1994)
- · Knowledge
creation and design competitions: from individual answers, experiences
and specific solutions to general, collective and theoretical
reflections.
Canada: Townshift -suburb into city.
- Registration Closes January
4, 2010
Submissions Due January 6, 2010
- An open an international ideas
competition seeking innovative ideas for five of Surrey's established
Town Centres: Guildford, Fleetwood, Cloverdale, Newton and Semiahmoo.
The aim of the competition is to "Shift" thinking and
opportunities for each of these "Town" hubs towards
more intense, public-minded and productive urban futures. Approved
by the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, this competition
is proposed in order to generate innovative new thinking about
suburbs transforming towards sustainability in an era of increasingly
expensive energy.
- USA: d3space:
Housing Tomorrow
- Registration deadline: Jan 4th
2010
- 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 competition calls for transformative
solutions that advance sustainable thought, building performance,
and social interaction through study of intrinsic environmental
geometries, social behaviors, urban implications, and programmatic
flows.
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