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Architecture Competition
Archive 2007
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competitions
Italy:
The Prize "Sustainable
Architecture" Fassa Bortolo
- Applications by by 31st December
2007.
- The Prize "Sustainable
Architecture", founded and promoted by Fassa Bortolo and
the Architecture Faculty of the University of Ferrara on the
occasion of the tenth anniversary of its foundation, aims at
spreading the concept of a new architecture perfectly adjusted
to the environment and able to satisfy the needs of these generations
without restricting those of the future ones through the indiscriminate
exploitation of the resources and the resulting pollution.
Mexico: Landscape
Competition CHICHEN ITZA 2008
- Registration by Dec 31st 2007.
- To mark the election of the
Maya city of Chichen Itzá as one of the New Seven Wonders
of the World ARQUITECTUM, is pleased to welcome the world's architects
to the 5th Landscape Architecture Competition "CHICHEN ITZA
2008", to be held from October 2007 to February 2008.
Israel: Just Jerusalem.
- Registration by December 31st
2007.
- The Jerusalem 2050 Project at
MIT is pleased to formally announce the launch of the Just Jerusalem
Competition. The goal of this competition, which is co-sponsored
by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Center
for International Studies at MIT, is to generate new approaches
to, and potential solutions for, the many complex, seemingly
intractable problems that the residents of Jerusalem face on
a daily basis. By looking at future possibilities for a pluralist,
just, and sustainable city shared by all its residents, we hope
to encourage new ways of thinking about the many difficult issues
and hardships faced by Jerusalemites, regardless of their faith
or ethnicity. Submissions will be considered in a number of disciplinary
categories, and from individuals or teams anywhere in the world.
USA: Best in
Green Building.
- Entries must be submitted on
or before December 31, 2007.
- New York House magazine is celebrating
homes that represent the best in design, energy efficiency, and
environmental sensitivity. Their Best in Green Building competition
aims to identify and showcase the outstanding and innovative
work of architects, builders, designers, and energy experts in
the region, as well as the homeowners who fund and support that
work. The goal is to cast a spotlight on exemplary home projects
in order to bring them the attention they deserve, educate and
inspire readers, and promote green building practices. All finalists
will be featured in New York House Magazine.
Switzerland:
Shrinkage Worldwide
Award 07 -Shahneshin Foundation
Registration: extended to 24th December 2007
Design a poster manifesto to promote and divulgate the shrinkage
culture. The Shrinkage Worldwide Award is Open to Anyone. It
is intended to promote designers who are thinking about a sustainable
future. We encourage submissions from all disciplines including
art, architecture, interior design, industrial design, experience
design, communication design, graphic design, digital design,
and urban planning, as well as decision-makers, thinkers, theoreticians
and industries. We are looking for evidence of a productive cross-
and inter- collaborative work between disciplines.
USA: Garage Venue : Student Rock Band Performance
Center, Tufts University
- Registration Deadline: 20th
Dec 2007
- This is a contest open to all
undergraduate students to design a "Garage Venue" for
student rock bands. This venue can take the form of a student
bar, coffee house or any other idea you might have for a performance
center. The location can be anywhere on your college's campus.
You may include as many rooms/spaces as you like, but the venue
may not exceed 3,000 square feet.
Europe: ULI
European Student Urban Design Competition.
Applications must be submitted by Monday, 17 December 2007
The Urban Land Institute European Student Urban Design Competition
is now accepting applications for the 2008 competition. This
competition is sponsored by ECE, Grosvenor, and Hines and managed
by ULI -the Urban Land Institute.
USA: La Reunion Architecture
contest
- Registration Deadline: December
17, 2007
- La Reunion TX announces the
most irresistible dream project ever in the form of a juried
architecture exhibit! We seek ideas for a sustainable live/work
space for up to 10 artists with a multifunctional space for intimate
performances, installations, and exhibits. It will be built in
and around an amazing site which is also the home of a startling
historic artifact -a trestle leftover from the Interurban Rail
Line.
USA: South Street Seaport:
Re-envisioning the Urban Edge
- Registration Deadline 16th December
2007
- The Emerging New York Architects
Committee, AIA NY Chapter in collaboration with the Seamen's
Church Institute is announcing the third biennial international
ideas competition. Emerging architects are invited to explore
issues of waterfront design and urban rejuvenation in developing
a community support center for the south street seaport area.
UK: Coop
Estates Mastereplan Manchester
- Expressions of interest by 14th
December
- The Co-operative Group has launched
an international master planning competition, designed to deliver
leading edge proposals for its 20-acre site within Manchester
city centre. The site, an integral part of Manchester's Northern
Gateway, borders Corporation Street and Miller Street and presents
a major opportunity for regeneration in this part of the city.
Key criteria for the masterplan include the environment, land
use, transportation and design.
Belgium: Concours d'Architecture
Museé la Neuve
- Deadline for entries 12th December
2007
- The Université Catholique
de Louvain (UCL) has undertaken the building of a new museum
facing the Louvain-la-Neuve lake.
USA: Call For Entries: CNU Charter Awards
2008
- Submissions deadline: Professional
entries must be shipped or postmarked by December 12, 2007. To
accommodate academic schedules, submissions for the academic
awards program may arrive in CNU's offices on or before January
2, 2008.
- The Congress for the New Urbanism
welcomes your submissions for the 2008 CNU Charter Awards. This
juried awards program recognizes today's best work in urban design,
architecture, landscape design, development, and placemaking
-work that fulfills and advances the principles of the Charter
of the New Urbanism.
UK: Fit
City competition!
- Competition closes on 11 December
2007
- How are urban environments affecting
our health? The Fit City competition, sponsored by the Oxford
Health Alliance, is an international competition for young people
designed to provoke thought and discussion about the impact that
urban environments have on our health. They are looking for young
people, aged 18-27, to submit their ideas or examples that demonstrate
aspects of healthy urban environments or healthy urban design.
Five winners will be awarded a trip to Sydney, Australia, in
February 2008, where they will be given the opportunity to showcase
their submissions, and the submissions of their peers, at the
annual global summit of the Oxford Health Alliance.
UK: Graphisoft
-Spend
a month in Mexico working for Michel Rojkind.
- All submissions must be received
by Graphisoft, by 18.00, Friday November 30th 2007.
- 1st prize is one month in Mexico,
working for Michel Rojkind, in the summer of 2008. The winner
will have his/ her flights and accommodation paid and, in addition,
will receive a living allowance. The winner will also receive
an Apple Intel PC, a commercial version of ArchiCAD, + upgrades
for one year. Entries are sought for a scheme for a building,
space or object and may either be an independent project or part
of your coursework.
Canada: call for
entries for the International Garden Festival
- The deadline for submission
of entries is Monday, November 30, 2007.
- Grand-Métis, October
31, 2007 The International Garden Festival is preparing
its ninth edition and is issuing a call for entries to select
designers who will be invited to create temporary gardens for
the 2008 Festival. This call for entries is open to all landscape
architects, architects, artists and designers from Canada and
abroad.
- Israel: Architecture
of Israel Quarterly: 2007 Project of the Year Competition.
- date of submission: 30th November
2007
- Architecture of Israel Quarterly
is announcing the 2007 Project of the Year Competition. As in
every year, the competition is open to all - architects, interior
designers, landscape architects, researchers and students, from
all over the world. Projects planned (or written) since 2004
can be submitted in Power-Point formats at maximum size of 2
Mb.
UK: The
Mersey Observatory -International Open Design Competition
- Registration deadline 26th November
2007
- The RIBA Competitions Office
is running an international open competition for the design of
The Mersey Observatory at the site of the disused Radar Tower
that stands between Crosby Beach and Liverpool Docks. The design
competition is being promoted by The Mersey Basin Campaign in
conjunction with the Northwest Regional Development Agency and
Mersey Waterfront Regional Park. The Brief calls for an architecturally
striking, international signature structure for the Liverpool
City Region, with a visitor facility that will showcase the importance
of the River Mersey and the dynamics of man and nature on the
coastal edge. .
- Italy: Astambéin Scenografie urbane per le Terre dell'Unione
- Enrolment deadline 26 November
2007
- The aim of the Competition is
the urban planning of a specific array of particular elements
which will be integrated into the development programme of the
Natural Shopping Centres of the Unione Terre di Castelli.
Mexico: endless (s)trips
- The deadline for handling over
the Projects is November 26, 2007 at 12:00 p.m. (GMT).
- Supersudaca has launched Sudapan
Endless(s)trips, an international competition about the
urban potentials of mass-tourism in the Caribbean. The competition
focuses on the 140km resorts-strip of Riviera Maya, on the Mexican
coast.
Spain: Antena Torre de Valencia
- Consultas hasta el 18 de Octubre
de 2007. presentacion de proprestas hasta el 15 de Noviembre
de 2007
- Concurso de ideas para diseño
de una envolente para la emisora de comunicaciones de Torre Valencia.
Italy: 2G Competition -Venice Lagoon
Park
Submission: 12 November 2007
- The magazine 2G has organised
an ideas competition open to architects under 40 and to architecture
studios anywhere in the world. The competition proposes as a
theme the development of the Venice Lagoon Park project, in order
to reclaim the urban idea of the lagoon as a complex network
of communications and settlements, through a hypothetical re-colonisation
of the territory of the lagoon, the decentralisation and atomisation
of a programme of uses, and the reclaiming of the idea of the
lagoon as an urban constellation necessarily integrated in its
natural surroundings. Final date for registration 15th october
2007.
USA: The
City of the Future
Submission deadline: November 9 at 3 p.m. ET.
- Call for Entries -: A Design
and Engineering Challenge presented by the History Channel. How
would you like the chance to design the commission of a lifetime
- to look into the future, envision the changes that will take
place in American cities, design solutions to the problems they
pose, and make the world a better place? The History Channel,
with sponsors Infiniti and IBM, is proud to offer this extraordinary
opportunity to architects and designers nationwide to compete
in City of the Future challenges in the San Francisco, Atlanta,
and Washington, DC areas.
Germany: LUXFUTURA The Future of Light
- Entry deadline: November 9,
2007
- Competition for Students and
Graduates of Architecture, Interior Design and Design For the
second time Trilux GmbH, leading manufacturer of luminaires,
invites to the LUXFUTURA Award. A Europe-wide competition, which
is announced in collaboration with the architectural journal
AIT, aims at the promotion of young student, up-and-coming designers
and young architects and interior designers who deal with "the
future of light" theme. All students and graduates of architecture,
interior design and design (no more than two years have passed
since the final degree) at European universities are invited
to participate in the competition.
UK: Bentley
Community Library, Walsall
- The Expression of Interest deadline
is 14.00hrs on Tuesday 6 November 2007.
- The RIBA Competitions Office
is pleased to announce the launch of a new Invited Design Competition
on behalf of Walsall Council. Architect-led, multi-disciplinary
teams are invited to submit Expressions of Interest to design
a new circa GBP £2m community library facility in Bentley,
Walsall.
- USA/Italy: Rome
Prize 2008
Competition deadline: 1 November 2007
- The American Academy in Rome
invites applications for the Rome Prize competition. One
of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced
research in the arts and the humanities, the Academy offers up
to thirty fellowships for periods ranging from six months to
two years. Rome Prize winners reside at the Academy's eleven-acre
center in Rome and receive room and board, a study or studio,
and a stipend. Fellowships are awarded in the fields of
Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Landscape Architecture
Australia/New
Zealand: Build
Your Campus in 3D Competition
- Competition ends at 11:59 p.m.
EST on October 31, 2007
- How would your campus look in
3D? You and your (presumably equally artistic) friends can honor
your home turf and hone your 3D design skills by entering Google
SketchUp's Build Your Campus in 3D Competition (Australia &
New Zealand). Simply model your school's campus buildings in
Google SketchUp, geo-reference them in Google Earth and submit
them through this competition web site to earn lasting online
glory and, for the winners, an all-expense-paid visit to Google
Australia's office. open to higher education students in Australia
or New Zealand.
USA: Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation
Competition
- Submission by by October 31,
2007 at 5pm.
- The annual Ken Roberts Memorial
Delineation Competition is the longest-running architectural
illustration competition in the United States. Sponsored by the
Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the KROB
awards prizes to drawings that exhibit exceptional mastery in
the visual communication of architectural concepts. Both
students and professionals are encouraged to send submissions
via the competition's website.
Portugal: Contest
for Ideas within the Revialization of the Riverine front of Oporto
in the Zone of Priority Intervention.
- Porto Vivo, SRU- Sociedade de
Reabilitação Urbana da Baixa Portuense, within
its mission of Urban Rehabilitation and Revitalization, launches
an International Contest, open to multidisciplinary teams. The
Proposals must be delivered in hand or by registered mail in
the Premises of the Coordinating Entity, in Porto, Portugal,
by 06.00 p.m. of October 31st 2007.
Spain: International
Award for Architecture Diploma
The deadline for submission is midnight 30th October 2007.
- The aim of these awards is to
encourage architecture students to research and reflect on new
patterns and approaches within the current cultural context.
A prize will be awarded in each of the following areas: ·
BUILDING and NATURE. A necessary compromise? Limited energy resources,
the environment, ecological awareness, sustainability, architecture
and landscape. Community life, urban life. · NEW TOOLS
to represent and generate architecture. From paper to video.
Animation as a new format and method for technical and creative
expression. The multi-disciplinary process of teamwork, data
integration and management. · Techniques to materialise
and BUILD habitable PHYSICAL SPACES. The materiality of occupied
space. Habitat and technology, engineering and comfort. Globalization
and the need for intermediate technologies. Feasible, affordable
and buildable habitation.
USA: Benjamin Moore Huey Awards
- Submissions are due by Friday,
October 26, 2007
- As it has for the past two years,
Benjamin Moore once again is conducting a search among North
American architects and interior designers for those who have
brought color to their work in the most respectful, novel and
celebratory ways, and will honor the best of the best with its
prestigious HUE Awards.
USA: Portland
Courtyard Housing Competition
Submissions Due: October 24, 2007
Creating spaces for families, community and sustainability in
the city . This open competition will explore possibilities
provided by housing oriented to shared courtyards as an additional
infill housing type for Portland, Oregon (USA). Entrants are
invited to suggest compelling solutions to several key challenges.
UK: Environmental
Tectonics v2.0 : A Call for Projects Competition
- Registration Deadline: 24 October
2007
- The Architectural Association
and the Environments, Ecology and Sustainability Research Cluster
together with supporting organizations are again sponsoring an
open one-stage international competition in search of innovative
ideas, design projects, new techniques and research initiatives
that highlight insights into contemporary directions of architecture
and design relative to environments, ecology and sustainability.
UK: Bus
Shelter Competition
- Pre Qualification Questionnaire
to be returned by 22nd Oct 2007.
- London Bus Services are currently
finalising arrangements for the issue of details regarding the
design of innovative passenger shelters.
Europe: Sustainable
Energy Europe Awards Competition 2008
- Join as a Partner before 19
October 2007 and you will be automatically entered into the prestigious
annual awards competition.
- A European Campaign to raise
awareness and change the landscape of energy. The Sustainable
Energy Europe 2005-2008 Campaign of the European Commission DG
for Energy and Transport is a major initiative, promoting, showcasing
and rewarding outstanding projects and programmes in the field.
UK: 'The
Green Dragons' Den' sponsored by property developers Argent
This year's live pitch competition for small practices at the
RIBA Guerrilla Tactics conference. The challenge to small practices
is: How do you combat climate change and its effect in the city?
The Dragons will be looking for sustainable ideas that can be
developed to work in an urban context.
- Shortlisted practices will then
be asked to present their concept at The RIBA Small Practice
Conference on 18th October to the dragons (jury panel), in front
of the delegates.
UK: St
Leger Homes
- The Expression of Interest deadline
is 12.00 midday on Wednesday 17 October 2007.
- The RIBA Competitions Office
is launching an Invited Design Competition for architectural
practices / architect-led design teams on behalf of St Leger
Homes in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to seek suitable and innovative
solutions for the extension and adaptation of a number of one
bedroom bungalows scattered throughout the Doncaster area.
UK: Sheffield
Parkway Iconic Bridge
- Stage one submissions are due
on the 16th October.
- Entries from architects and
engineers are invited for a new footbridge to be built over a
major route close to Sheffield City Centre. The competition is
being organised by the RIBA Competitions Office on behalf of
Sheffield and Rotherham Councils, with support from Yorkshire
Forward.
- Austria: Invitation
to submit entries for the competition to design the ERSTE CAMPUS
in Vienna
- Qualified architects may submit
their complete presentation electronically on the IMMORENT website
(www.immorent.com) between 19.09.2007 and 15.10.2007.
- With its new headquarters, the
ERSTE BANK is pursuing the ambitious goal of constructing an
innovative and forwardlooking corporate headquarters which sets
new standards in Europe. As of 2010 offices, restaurants, retail
and commercial premises will rise from the ground on the site
of what is now the Vienna South Railway Station as part of a
flagship project to create a "city within a city" immediately
adjacent to the Belvedere Palace and the Schweizergarten. IMMORENT
Aktiengesellschaft will also be constructing the new corporate
headquarters of the ERSTE BANK at this attractive location.
- Portugal: Innovative
Ideas for Porto Water Tanks
- Registration Deadline 12/10/2007
- International Competition of
ideas -Águas do Porto, the city of Porto municipal water
company, intends to create innovative uses for its water towers
and surroundings of underground water tanks. Young architects
architects and students are invited to present ideas for any
of the seven sites.
Russia: Architecture and
Design Festival - «Summer A&D Pavilion».
- Deadline for both entries and
proposals: October, 7, 2007
Architecture and Design Festival is the new project of The Golden
Capital Foundation. Architects, designers and artists from all
countries are invited to design a project of the temporary pavilion
for the summer phase of the Regional Festival of Architecture
and Design in Novosibirsk (Siberia, Russia).
Italy: Concorso Internazionale
di Progettazione
Deadline to require the expedition of the documentation by mail
is extended to October 5, 2007
EUR S.p.A announces an International Design Contest in a double
phase for the "Città dell'acqua e del benessere"
in Rome EUR - Italy. The subject of this Contest the design of
a complex divided into two sections: a 38.000 sqm (gross) multipurpose
complex. The main functions will be sports and recreational activities
and fitness and health facilities and a 21.000 sqm (gross) non
residential building.
USA: Topeka
Riverfront Design Competition
- Submissions to be received by
October 5th 2007.
- The AIA 150 is hosting a design
competition for students K-6, 7-12, and College aged. Multiple
prizes will be awarded for each age group.
Chile: Centro
Cultural Gabriela Mistral
- Respuestas y Aclaraciones: Las
respuestas a las consultas estarán disponibles en el sitio
web del concurso a partir del día 31 de Agosto 2007.
- Recepción de anteproyectos:
Se realizará el día 04 de Octubre de 2007.
- Concurso Público internacional
de Anteproyectos de Arquitectura Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral.
Italy: Laurea & Professione
- Closing date: September 30,
2008
- The Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation
of Firenze is calling for the international competition "Laurea
& Professione", which offers students having completed
their studies a first occasion of visibility for their work and
accreditation of their abilities on an international level.
Italy: Gau:di Competion
2007
- Registrations, to be submitted
online by the individual or by the team leader representing a
team before the 30th September 2007.
- concorsi di idee per studenti.
The theme for the 2007 competition will be "A Minimum House
for Leisure in the 21st century". The competition is open
to all European architecture students but its organisation relies
specifically on a network of architecture schools with a leadership
in teaching sustainable urbanism and architecture.
Austria: Europan -Society and Ecology.
Living Generations -International Pilot Competition for Future
Oriented Architecture of Living
- registration deadline: Sept.
24, 2007
Europan Austria, Artimage and others have announced an international
pilot competition. Purpose of the two-step competition is to
obtain a preliminary architectonic design for a model project
that innovatively organises an "extended living programme",
office and commercial surfaces as well as further facilities
(i.e. public facilities, catering, wellness) at the corner plot
(Rathausgasse/Alois Grogger-Gasse) in Gleisdorf.
UK: Woolwich
Squares International Design Competition - Expressions of Interest
- Deadline for submissions is
16.00 hours on 19th September 2007.
- Greenwich Council and its partners
are launching an international design competition to invite proposals
to redesign two squares in Woolwich Town Centre. The project
is part of a major regeneration programme for Woolwich that is
already transforming this historic part of the London Thames
Gateway. Expressions of interest are sought from registered architects
/landscape architects and architect/landscape architect led multidisciplinary
design teams for the redesign of General Gordon Square and Beresford
Square. This project will form part of the Mayor's 100 Public
Spaces Programme. The Council's partners are the Woolwich Regeneration
Agency, Design for London and Transport for London.
UK: Brockholes
Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve Centre
The submission deadline is Wednesday
19 September 2007.
- The RIBA announces the launch
of a new open competition to design new visitor facilities for
the Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve near Preston
in Lancashire. The competition is open to architects and architect-led
multi-disciplinary design teams.
Spain: The 2nd Advanced
Architecture Contest.
- Closing date for registration
and submission Monday September 17th 2007
- This is a SELF-FAB HOUSE competition
open for students and young professionals all over the world
that places the accent in the construction of self-sufficient
dwellings, in which the emphasis will be on exploring people's
capacity to construct their own homes, especially through the
use of digital technologies.
USA: 2007
etc.spaces Challenge, Moss Rock Festival, Hoover, AL USA
Proposal Deadline September 14, 2007
Open call for entries is issued to all architects, landscape
architects, designers and artists to create projects for temporary
installation/exhibition during the 2nd Annual Moss Rock Festival
in one or more of three categories: 1)Strictly Design, 2)Design/Build
& 3)Sculpture/Installation. 2007 Challenge: PLAY_GROUND participants
will create projects utilizing the concept of "Verb, not
Noun" "Active, not Passive." This juxtaposition
of the Verb, "Play" to the Noun, "Ground"
is meant to create conversation, exploration and enjoyment of
nature & outdoor spaces through creative interface.
UK: Building
for a New Future -A sustainable development for Cheltenham Art
Gallery & Museum
- Deadline for registrations is
Friday 24 August 2007; submissions by Wednesday 12 September
2007.
- Cheltenham Borough Council is
launching an international competition inviting proposals for
the design of an extension to the town's Art Gallery and Museum,
which is currently celebrating its centenary year. It will be
a flagship public 'green' scheme for Cheltenham, enhancing one
of the town's significant conservation areas, which also includes
Cheltenham's oldest building, 13th century St Mary's Church.
UK: Bat
House Competition
Entries close Monday 10th September.
- The Bat House Partnership and
RIBA Competitions Office announce the launch of a new open competition,
to design a Bat House for London. Architects, designers, bat
enthusiasts and schoolchildren are invited to explore the relationship
between art, architecture and urban biodiversity in their designs.
The Bat House Partnership intend to realise the winning proposal
at the WWT London Wetland Centre, Barnes, West London, working
in close collaboration with the winning designer to deliver the
scheme.
USA: AIA
Tampa Bay Photo Competition
- Entries are due to AIA Tampa
Bay by September 7th, 2007.
- The Tampa Bay Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects recently announced an Architectural
Photography Competition open to amateur photographers. They are
seeking photographs of man-made structures within the chapter's
territory in west central Florida and are offering a $1,000 grand
prize and the chance to be in their 2008 architecture calendar.
- UK: Egremont
Castle Performance Structure, Cumbria International Open Design
Competition
- The submission deadline is 2.00pm
on Friday 7 September 2007.
- The RIBA Competitions Office
announces the launch of an international open design competition
for a new performance structure within the castle keep at Egremont
Castle in Cumbria. The aim of the competition is to find an innovative
new design for a removable structure which will allow the castle
to be used for concerts and public performances. Entries are
invited from architects, designers, engineers and students of
these disciplines to take part in the competition, which will
be judged anonymously in the first stage then the authors of
the three preferred schemes will be invited to develop their
initial concepts and present them to the jury panel.
USA: Market
Value
- Registration deadline: September
7, 2007
- Responding to a public call
to craft a vision for the future of the site, the City of Charlottesville
is sponsoring MARKET VALUE, a design competition that will help
Charlottesville proactively investigate and establish the best
alternatives for development. Directed by the City of Charlottesville
in partnership with the Charlottesville Community Design Center
and AIA Central Virginia, MARKET VALUE is seeking realistic,
innovative models for mixed-use development ones that not
only yield financial returns for a future developer of the site,
but also provide a "return on investment" to the public
good by attending to issues of civic space, connectivity, affordable
housing and green building.
Latvia: Riga City New Centre
- Submission deadline: September
3, 2007
- Registered architects and urban
planners worldwide are invited to submit for this competition,
the aim of which is the urban design of the new Riga city centre
in Latvia, and the architectural vision for the Riga City Council
and the Latvian State Administrative Complex in the territory
in Pardaugava on the left bank of the Daugava opposite the historic
centre of Riga.
USA: Connecting Market East.
- Entry submissions must be postmarked
by September 3, 2007.
- The Ed Bacon Foundation announces
the launch of its second annual design competition. Entrants
are challenged to create design solutions for one of Philadelphias
prime locations. Open to any college or university student in
North America, studying planning, architecture, urban design,
or any related field.
Ghana: Golf Course Design Competition
- Submission deadline September
1st, 2007.
- The EDA Group Ltd. is pleased
to announce the launch of a new international open design competition.
Students and student teams and professional Architects,
landscape architects, engineers, town planners and urban designers
(or teams thereof) are invited to submit imaginative, inspirational
ideas for the future Battor Country Club which sits on approximately
100 acres of land between the Volta River and a seasonal creek.
Netherlands:
Tectonics: Making
Meaning.
- Deadline for submission is September
1, 2007.
- In honor of the 40th anniversary
of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning of the
University of Technology at Eindhoven (The Netherlands) we are
organizing a large international, interdisciplinary conference
and student design competition. In this design competition, students
of different disciplines are asked to give their view on tectonics
by creating a design, and justifying their design in the spirit
of Tectonics Making Meaning.
Germany: First Annual Architecture and
Design Competition in Second Life.
- Deadline: September 1st, 2007.
- Seeking the coolest, most spatially
interesting and aesthetically independent pieces of architecture
from the inhabitants of Second Life. It can include all buildings:
from big to small, spaceships, underwater constructions, villas,
fully landscaped and designed islands, complex high rises. Decisive
are creativity, innovation, features, style, and spatial qualities.
China: Sinocities
Awards 2007
- This open idea competition will
run from April to August 2007.
After the 2005 FAR8 competition on urban density, FAR Architecture
Center Shanghai now holds its second competition, the Sinocities
Awards, an International Architecture Design Competition on awards
Public Space. Designers and students from all over the world
can freely choose a site on the Sinocity map and apply their
innovative designs.
UK: Something
to Sit On
- Closing date for entries: 31
August 2007
- Modus Furniture have got together
with the AJ for the second Something to Sit On competition. Modus
will produce a prototype of the winning seating design that could
become part of its product range. Your submission should conceptualise
a seating opportunity for informal working on a laptop.
USA: TCA/PCA
National Design Competition: Storm Housing 2007
- Registration Deadline: August
31, 2007. Entry Deadline: September 15, 2007.
- Sponsored by the Tilt-Up Concrete
Association and the Portland Cement Association. Students
in the field of architecture, currently in a graduate or undergraduate
program are invited to present conceptual designs for a storm-resistant
housing complex located along the Gulf Coast using site cast
concrete panels known as "Tilt-Up" for their shell
components. Storm Housing 2007 is an international, open, single-stage
ideas competition.
Korea: The 7th Space Prize for International
Students of Interior Design.
- Registration by August 31st.
- Organizer: SPACE GROUP. Theme:
3.6.9. Eligibility: Students (a team may consist of up to 3 students).
Korea: The
25th Space Prize for International Students of Architectural
Design. Registration by August 31st.
- Organized by SPACE GROUP. Theme:
Public Space, Public Force, Public Imagination. Eligibility:
Students. The Grand Prize winner will be given an opportunity
to be employed in the future by SPACE GROUP KOREA while other
winners will have an equal chance of preferential assessment
for employment by our group.
Denmark: The Futures of Cities
-Student Competition
- Deadline for submission 31 August
2007.
- The 2007 IFHP Ranko Radovic
Student Competition welcomes students at all levels and from
all disciplines related to Urban Planning, Urban Design, Architecture,
Landscape Architecture, Urban Geography, Sociology, Anthropology,
Urban Studies, Environmental Studies, Engineering, Traffic Planning
or related academic fields.
UAE: Capital Garden Competition
- Submission of competition entries
by email or upload: 30/08/2007
- The United Arab Emirates government
is promoting an ideas competition for its capital Abu Dhabi central
garden, open to Architecture and Landscape students and recent
graduates worldwide.
- Spain: Campus
de la Justicia Saca a Concurson Los Juzgados de lo Penal y la
Fisicalia
- inscripción: hasta el
23 de agosto de 2007.
- Selección de la mejor
propuesta arquitectónica para la redacción del
proyecto y la dirección de las obras del Edificio de los
Juzgados de lo Penal del Campus de la Justicia de Madrid.
UK: Tutti
Frutti: Build Your Own Home Sweet Home competition
- The registration deadline is
August 17, 2007
- Sponsored by Urban Splash, Tutti
Frutti is an open international competition to offer 26 canal-side
building plots in a sustainable community at New Islington, Manchesters
Millennium Community. Urban Splash got the idea for Tutti Frutti
after the company visited Borneo Sporenburg, a series of one-off
designed homes designed by West 8 in Amsterdam. Eligibility extends
to architects, budding property developers and builders who can
demonstrate their ability to finance the purchase of the plot
and build costs, and produce a scale model of their house.
USA: Columbus Rewired
- Registration Deadline: Friday,
August 17 2007
- "Columbus Re-Wired"
is an urban design ideas competition intended to seek out a wide
array of creative proposals and solutions that will initiate
a dialogue about the current and future state of Columbus ' overall
infrastructure network with specific emphasis on public transportation.
Belgium: Housing
and Urbanism -Brussels
- The closing date for Urban Planners
to submit their candidatures will be on 16 August 2007
- The Brussels Region has launched
an Urbanism Invitation to tender for a 10 Hectare site destined
to housing in the limits of the Bruxelles Region, bordering the
Soignes Forest in the Woluwé-Saint-Pierre Commune. The
site will be dedicated mainly for social and medium housing.
UK: London
Creative Competition for Artists
- Deadline August 15th 2007.
- LICC invites passionate visual
artists, regardless of experience or nationality, to submit their
innovative artwork for inclusion in the 2007 competition. The
artwork is judged by a board of internationally esteemed artists,
writers, curators, gallery owners and other luminaries of the
visual arts. Chosen entries will be exhibited in a show in March
of 2008 in London and published in the annual LICC book.
Canada: poto:type
- Deadline: August 15, 2007
- Potogroup and the Architectural
Foundation of British Columbia presents an open architectural
ideas competition: poto:type. This competition will question
the emerging typology originating in Vancouver's downtown area:
podium/tower typology. Potogroup makes an invitation to the participants
to explore, rethink, question and experiment with new ideas that
will challenge the concept of the podium/tower.
Korea: International
Ideas Competition for Daejeon Urban Renaissance (DJURe).
- The registration is online and
ends on Aug. 14, 2007.
- The single stage Competition
is being sponsored by Daejeon Metropolitan City in conjunction
with the Korea Land Corporation as part of the development of
the Daejeon Station area. The aim of the competition is to seek
an innovative ideas for a master plan of Daejeon Urban Renaissance
Development Area for the revitalization of the old central urban
district.
Chile: Centro Matucana Museo
de la Memoria
- Recepción del Anteproyecto:
El día 9 de agosto de 2007
- Se invita a todos los arquitectos
nacionales y extranjeros a participar en el concurso de arquitectura
para anteproyecto preliminar del conjunto de oficinas, servicios
y museo de la memoria denominado "Centro Matacuna"
USA: Re:Route
- Registration Deadline: August
1st, 2007
- New thinking on urban transportation.
The second in a series of five architecture and design competitions
designed to inspire ideas for a sustainable city block. This
one is themed on the subject of how people move through a city.
Europe: Europe
40 Under 40.
- Deadline for Submissions: August
1st 2007.
- The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum
of Architecture and Design launch a new annual awards program
to find the next new talented generation of European architects.
The key is to bring wider recognition to 40 of the most promising
emerging architects working in the European Union and other countries
inside Europe, fostering and encouraging new talent and new creative
thinking at the forefront of tomorrow's profession.
USA: Montage Arclinea
Contemporary Design Scholarship Competition.
- Entries extended to July 31st.
- Montage and Arclinea Boston
have announced the second annual Montage/Arclinea Contemporary
Design Scholarship Competition. Entrants will be asked to design
a contemporary kitchen/living area within the traditional, historic
architecture of Boston and its suburbs.
Poland: Motlawa Apartments
International Open Competition.
- The competition will last to
end July 2007.
- Invest Komfort SA invite entries
for an open international competition for architects and students
in urban and architectural planning for the best conceptual land
development design of Old Town area near Motlawa river in Gdansk.
USA: New York 2007
- Submission of proposals July
31st 2007.
- This architectural competition
is being promoted by ARQUITECTUM to evaluate proposals for the
construction of a new monument to the urban, cosmopolitan and
"universal" character of New York City. To that end,
this project (a 100 metre tall tower), will house a museum which
will display the belongings, memories and photos of the new generation
of immigrants which headed for a city they saw as the paradigm
of the American Dream.
- Portugal: 2nd
Lisbon Ideas Challenge International Design Competition -Urban
Design with Photovoltaics.
- Submission Deadline: 31st of
July 2007.
- International design competition
based on the primary premise that the integration of solar photovoltaic
(PV) technology into the built environment must empower not only
the PV materials but also create an added value to that environment
in a synergic combination of form and function.
UK: The
Hadspen Parabola
- Initial, anonymous, submissions
will be requested for end July 2007.
- The Parabola project at Hadspen
represents a commitment to seeking out radical solutions to planting,
and to exploring the links that gardening can make to other fields
of creativity. Over the next twelve months this competition seeks
to find a gardener with a bold and untried approach to making
a garden, and the energy and determination to put this into practice.
Applicants are asked for a response to the new path layout, designed
by Foreign Office Architects, for the original parabola-shaped
walled vegetable garden at Hadspen.
South Africa:
OpenThinkBox.-TimePod.
- Registrations close: 30 July
2007:
- Capture your sense, your impressions,
your image of the year 2007 in a space bubble, a capsule to be
preserved for posterity. Your client, a major (fictional!) company,
is commissioning an architectural structure as part of its contribution
to a more socially and environmentally aware environment. Design
a structure that captures the essence of 2007 in South Africa,
and contains all significant contents within 500m3 of space.
UK: HOUSE
! .. new competition looking at exciting, stylish, practical,
affordable living .
The deadline for design submissions is 27th July 2007.
- The RIBA Competitions Office
is pleased to announce the launch of a new competition for the
inspirational modernisation of two Victorian housing typologies
in Manningham Bradford. The competition is being organised on
behalf of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and its partner
Accent. Entrants will be set the challenge of providing innovative
solutions to today's lifestyle requirements for two very different
houses : a back to back mid-terrace and a large end terrace.
japan: Central
Glass International Architectural Zoo Design Competition.
- Entries must reach the competition
office no later than July 25 (Wednesday), 2007.
- Central Glass Co. has launched
this competition on the theme of the environmental zoo. The idea
of the zoo has changed with the advent of sustainability, and
new zoos should adhere to this shift.
Canada: Peepshow International Presents:
The 2007 'Live' Architectural Competition: RUPTURE.
- The competition deadline is
July, 23, 2007.
- Site is in downtown Calgary.
The Competition asks for a study of a metonymized object in the
midst of 'rupture'. For this 2 drawings/panels are required;
The first is the 'changed': Design of the Center of Metaphysical
Techniques. The second is the metonymized or 'ruptued' object: The
interrupted act of the manifestation of becoming the Center of
Metaphysical Techniques in spatial objectivity.
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