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Architecture Competition
Archive 2008
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competitions
UK: Avenue
Campus Competition
- Closing date for first stage
submissions is 17 December 2008.
- The University of Northampton
is running a design competition for architects to plan future
developments at its Avenue Campus on St. George's Avenue in Northampton.
The aim is to enhance the site's leading role as a centre for
Arts and Applied Sciences education and research. Two stage competition
open to all professional architects registered with the Architects
Registration Board (ARB) or an equivalent EU registration authority.
USA: National Bus Shelter Design
Competition, Art Rocks!
- The deadline for submissions
is December 12, 2008.
- The Athens Area Arts Council
(AAAC), in partnership with Athens-Clarke County and Athens Transit,
announce YOU, ME AND THE BUS II; a national design competition
for bus shelters in Athens, Georgia. The project aims to enhance
the public transportation system and improve quality of life
in Athens by integrating utilitarian public services with artistic
ingenuity and inspiration.
USA: Greenworks,
Santa Fe
- Submissions Due: December 12,
2008
- The City of Santa Fe and Enterprise
Green Communities are sponsoring Greenworks, an open design
competition in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The objective of the competition
is to design a multi-unit, residential housing compound on a
1/4 acre city-owned vacant lot in downtown Santa Fe that will
provide a designated number of affordably-priced homes. Lessons
learned from Greenworks will contribute to the advancement
of land use policy, green building standards, and an effective
community input process for the City of Santa Fe, suitable for
replication in communities across the United States.
Canada: Architecture Competition
for the New Montréal Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium
Proposals for the first phase to be submitted by 3 p.m. on December
11th 2008.
- Request for Proposals in two
phases -architects from Montréal and around the world
are invited to submit anonymous, unremunerated architectural
concepts. A nine-member jury will examine the proposals and recommend
five of them, on the basis of pre-established criteria. In phase
2, the finalists will form multidisciplinary teams to develop
and fine tune their concepts and submit them to the same jury.
The new Planetarium, with a gross surface area of roughly 8,000
m?, will be built on the Olympic Park site, next to the Biodôme,
and will have to meet LEED platinum standards. The winning team
will be announced next spring.
- Anyone wishing to enter the
competition must register. Only submissions from parties who
have obtained the free RFP documents from the Direction de l'approvisionnement
will be considered (all documents are in French only). The Direction
is located at 9515, rue Saint-Hubert, Montréal, Quebec,
H2M 1Z4. Regular office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to noon and
1:00 to 4:30 p.m. Candidates may submit questions in writing
to the Professional Advisor for the competition, architect Louise
Amiot, by fax (418 692-5447) or e-mail: (lasbarch@qc.aira.com).
USA: Discarded
Dreams: Used Mattress Design Competition
Deadline for registration and submission:
December 5th 2008
- Architecture for Humanity and
Rubicon National Social Innovations invite entrants to create
innovative ways of converting used mattresses into useful products.
The competition aims to encourage entrants to form groups capable
of creating a consumer product, instructions detailing how to
make the product, and a plan for production on a larger scale.
Entrants must create designs that take into account the volume
of mattress waste generated each year. Groups are encouraged
to utilize local resources, including existing manufacturing
facilities and other waste products. The winner/winners will
be invited to collaborate with Rubicon to design and execute
a method of collecting and converting the mattresses into their
value-added product, and potentially distributed for commercial
use. This would be a unique opportunity to help an emerging social
enterprise develop a product line with 100 percent reclaimed
materials, create green-collar jobs, and support individuals
in moving out of poverty.
UK: Refurbishment
of Roof Terraces at the RIBA Headquarters Building, Portland
Place, London
- Deadline for receipt of Expressions
of Interest Thursday 4 December 2008
- Designers are invited to submit Expressions of Interest
for the redesign of three roof terraces at the RIBA Headquarters
building at 66 Portland Place, London. The objective is to design
and create simple sustainable architectural garden terraces that
will compliment and enhance 66 Portland Place. The aspiration
is to commission a work of quality and originality that will
create a signature project in the context of the fine Grade II*
listed 1930's building, designed by George Grey Wornum.
UK: River
Soar Foot and Cycle Bridge Competition
Deadline for receipt of expressions
of interest is Thursday 4th December 2008.
- Organised by the RIBA Competitions
Office, this new competition seeks suitable architect or engineering-led
teams for the design of a new foot and cycle bridge crossing
the River Soar in Leicester. The project vision is to stimulate
the regeneration of the Abbey Meadows area of the city and to
connect the proposed Leicester Science Park and the adjacent
National Space Centre, with the residential development to be
carried out at Wolsey Island on the opposite bank of the River
Soar.
USA: 2009 International Architecture
Awards
- Deadline for 2009 submissions
is 1st Dec 2008.
- The Chicago Athanaeum Museum
of Architecture and Design, in association with Metropolitan
Arts Press and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design
and Urban Studies, are organising the 2009 International Architecture
Awards to honor the most outstanding contemporary architecture
designed and built throuyghtout the world.
- UK: International
Urban Design Competition for the regeneration of Wellesley Road
and Park Lane in Croydon
- Submission of Expression of
Interest with pre-qualification questionnaire: 1st Dec 2008
- The London Borough of Croydon
invites designers to meet the challenge of transforming a one
kilometre length of the main route that punctures the heart of
Croydon from an urban motorway into an environmentally friendly
destination in its own right. Practices operating in fields of
urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning
and transportation are especially welcome. Two stage urban design
contest; jury members include Will Alsop, Joanna Averley, Ricky
Burdett and Jon Rouse.
- UK: Make
Me a Home -Northshore International Competition
- Competition Closes 1st December
2008.
- A 23 hectare site with over
a mile of south facing riverside frontage along the River Tees,
immediately adjacent to the eastern edge of Stockton-on-Tees
town centre. The Northshore Development Partnership Ltd (aka
Urban Splash and Muse Developments) is working closely with Tees
Valley Regeneration and English Partnerships to create homes,
offices, shops, hotels, bars, restaurants, cafés, leisure
facilities and a new extension of Durham University's Queens
Campus, all tied together with lots of lovely public space. We've
got the Masterplan, beautifully crafted by Ryder Architects and
Grant Associates, and now we need you to bring your own little
piece of magic to the plans. Make your mark. Make your own home
sweet home.
- USA: Sustainably Designed Structures in an Urban Woodland
Spring 2009
Deadline November 21, 2008
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education's Environmental
Art Program presents a Request for Proposals for a competition
in sustainable design and building on a small scale. Artists,
designers, architects, and students are invited to design and
build semi-permanent, functional woodland shelters on the grounds
of Philadelphia's Schuylkill Center, using sustainable design
and building techniques.The competition aims to encourage collaboration
between artists, designers and architects, to demonstrate and
promote sustainable building methods, and to present the visiting
public with a physical experience of the applied possibilities
of sustainability to our lives and in our connection to the natural
world.
- USA: Socio
Design
- Registration Deadline: 21 November
2008
- Socio Design is a foundation
that encourages social change through design-based dialog, a
dialog fostered through an international student architecture
competition. The competition asks students to question how
prisons are used throughout today's world: what are the
affects of prison design on employees, occupants and adjacent
societies. Students are required to design a philosophy
on what imprisonment should be, and express that philosophy architecturally.
India: School
campus for CONFIDENT-GEAR Creative Leadership School,Bangalore.
Last date for receiving entries 15th Nov 2008
Confident Group is a leading conglomerate with activities in
Construction, Hospitality, Aviation, Entertainment and Education
projects spread over South India, Dubai, Singapore
and London. The organizations strongly believe in the potential
and ideas of youth, and would like to
give an opportunity to young and enthusiastic
architects to design the new School Campus
located within one of Confident Group's townships.
UK: Royal Court Liverpool Trust - The Next Stage
Deadline for submission Friday 14 November 2008.
To give the Royal Court, a 1938 art deco theatre in the heart
of Liverpool, a new lease of life. To upgrade, conserve and restore
this valuable cultural asset in the heart of the city, following
its year as European Capital of Culture. Working with a wide
range of public sector agencies, the local community, actors,
audiences and staff of the building, the Trust seeks inspiration
to create a great new cultural resource in the heart of Liverpool.
The Trust is passionate about the building. The theatre has a
great history, warmth and vibrancy. We want to work with someone
who can embrace all of this and has a genuine empathy for the
city and its people. The building belongs to the local community.
If they don't love it, own it and enjoy it, it will fail.
Poland: Nowy
Teatr place in Warsaw
- Deadline for requests to participate:
14th Nov 2008
- Open architectural competition
in two stages for the conceptual design for modernising, adapting
and building a multi-functional cultural centre in Warsaw.
Australia: Barangaroo Public Domain -Expressions
of Interest
Expressions of Interest Close 13th November 2008.
Barangaroo is widely regarded as Sydney's most exciting and visionary
urban renewal project -it is the single largest addition to Sydney's
CBD and public foreshore. New South Wales Government is inviting
expressions of interest from pre-eminent landscape, architecture
and urban design teams to design a world class public domain
and new parklands adjoining Sydney Harbour.
USA: DawnTown '08: 'Waterworks'
- Register by Friday, November
07, 2008
DawnTown 2008: An architectural ideas competition for a new waterworks
building in downtown Miami. Waterworks invites designers, students,
architects, landscape architects, and artists worldwide to generate
innovative design proposals for a project that will contribute
to the 21st century vision for Downtown Miami. Entrants are directed
to redesign an existing infrastructure element at the edge of
waterfront Bicentennial Park and the renovated Biscayne Blvd.
in Downtown Miami, and transform it into a public icon of the
new Downtown. The results of the competition will be announced
during Art Basel '08 in Miami.
Italy: Design Competition: Liquid Landscapes
- Closing date: 4 November 2008
- The Province of Reggio Emilia,
in collaboration with the River Po Basin Authority (Autorità
di Bacino del Fiume Po), is holding a competition of ideas with
the title " Liquid landscapes. Landscape design ideas for
the emilian stretch of the river Po from Piacenza to Reggio Emilia".
USA/Italy: Rome Prize 2009
Deadline: 1st November 2008
- 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 following related fields of Architecture,
Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Landscape
Architecture
UK: Open
International Competition for Glyndwr University, Wrexham
Deadline for submission of stage one designs is Friday 31st October
2008
The RIBA is launching an International Open Design Competition
on behalf of Glyndwwr University, Wrexham. The competition
seeks designs for new student residences to accommodate 500 students
as part of a broader strategy to accommodate undergraduates and
graduates on campus and increase the provision for student services.
Ireland: Doolin
Cave
Regrettably this competition has been cancelled
Switzerland:
architectural
competition for the extension of the World Trade Organization
in Geneva.
Candidates must register with FIPOI, by registered mail before
24 October 2008.
The WTO is organizing an architectural competition for an extension
of the Centre William Rappard outside its current footprint and
is working in cooperation with FIPOI, the Swiss Property Foundation
for International Organizations. The competition is open to any
qualified architect from any WTO Member country.
International:
The Ken Roberts Memorial
Delineation Competition 2008
- Submissions by Friday, October
24, 2008 5PM Central Standard Time
- 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. This prize is open exclusively
to all sudents and professionals outside the U.S.
UK: Imperial
War Museum North - Competition to Develop External Spaces
- Deadline for expressions of
interest is Thursday 23rd October 2008.
The RIBA has announced the launch of a new two stage competition
which will seek design proposals for the external spaces to the
multi award-winning Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.
The competition is open to architects and landscape architects.
UK: Design
Competition: Onshore Facilities and bridge links in The Outer
Harbour, Scarborough
Response required by Wed 22 October 2008 at 12:00
- Scarborough Borough Council,
together with its Partners have, over the last three years developed
the Marina boat accommodation in the inner harbour and it is
now the intention to continue this work in the outer harbour.
The Council's objective is the development and construction of
new onshore facilities, to be constructed on a new platform over
the end of the harbour. The Council is seeking to appoint a full
design team under the leadership of a Lead Designer/Project Manager
to deliver the full project, and the appointment process will
be by way of an international two-stage design competition.
Taiwan: Taipei Performing
Arts Centre Competition
- Stage One Material Submission
Deadline: 21st Oct 2008
- Taipei City Government invites
international design teams, to make a world-class performance
venue. The project consists of three theaters, including a 1,500-seat
Grand Theater and two 800-seat Theaters.
UK: Design
Competition to create The Renaissance Pavilion for Yorkshire
Deadline for submission of designs: Thursday 16th October 2008.
- A new national open design competition
has been launched to find outstandingly talented designers for
the design of 'The Renaissance Pavilion', a mobile, demountable
structure designed to host a range of events throughout the Yorkshire
and Humber region. This competition is being run as a partnership
between Yorkshire Forward, RIBA Yorkshire and the RIBA Competitions
Office.
USA: Union Station
2020 : A Crossroads for the High-Speed Rail City
- Registration Deadline: Oct 15th
2008
- The Chicago Architectural Club
and the Chicago Humanities Festival announce UNION STATION 2020,
an open international design ideas competition for the conversion
of Chicago's Union Station into a high-speed rail hub, regional
market, and meeting place.
East Africa
Pediatric Health
Clinic Competition
Registration Deadline: Oct 15, 2008
- Design For The Children is an
open international design competition for students and professionals,
asking participants to explore the potential of future pediatric
and prenatal clinics for East Africa. Architecture For Humanity:
Seattle is proud to partner with Fight For The Children in the
development of this competition. Entry is free and our goal is
to use the winning design as the base for a pediatric and prenatal
health center in Rwanda. Visit the Design For The Children website
for additional information and registration.
Dubai: 2A International Architectural Students
and Young Architects Competition: Du(b)ailities: Supra_global_culture
/ micro_ethnic_localities
Registration by 1st October 2008
- In response to the current architectural,
urban and cultural developments in the Gulf, the 2A Architecture
+ Art magazine is organizing an Architectural Competition for
young designers. The competition offers its participants two
separate challenges: one for the larger city scale and the other
for a smaller urban area.
USA: Roanoke Urban Effect
2008 Design Competition
Registration deadline: September 30th, 2008
A design competition which focuses on three specific areas of
the city of Roanoke, VA and challenges design professionals and
students to create environments that will transform the current
urban landscape.
Israel: Project of the Year Competition
- Registration deadline: 30th
Sept 08
- Architects, interior designers,
landscape architects, city planners, students and researchers
are invited to submit projects that have been planned or written
since 2005. Chaired by architect Richard Meier, an international
jury includes well-known architects and academics. The aims of
the competition is to promote creative and climate aware architecture.
Bulgaria: Unex Trade Ltd: Competition
for designing an office building
- Registrations/Submissions:
September 30th, 2008
- Unex Trade LTD, an investment
company, based in Sofia, Bulgaria Inviting young enthusiastic
architects to help them design their office building.
- Italy: Virtual
Expo and International Awards, 5th Edition
Diploma/thesis to be sent by September 30, 2008.
Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation of Florence is calling for "Degree
& Profession" Virtual Expo and International Awards,
5th Edition (www.florence-expo.com). It is a contest
opened to graduates from all over the world (3,4,5 years and
doctorate) since the year 2000 of the Faculties of Architecture,
Civil Engineering, Environment, Town and Community Planning,
Conservation and Restoration, Design, Visual and Figurative Arts.
Lebanon: House
of Arts and Culture, Beirut - International Competition
Closure of submissions: 29 September, 2008
- The Ministry of Culture of the
Republic of Lebanon has invited architects to compete in an international
architectural competition organized under the auspices of the
International Union of Architects for the construction of the
House of Arts and Culture. The House of Arts and Culture will
be a space for cultural and artistic production, for exchange
and interaction between the largest number of Lebanese and especially
the youth. It will be an independent space with the aim to contribute
to social communication and cultural expansion and to promote
creativity in different fields of art and culture. Single stage,
anonymous project competition.
Ecuador: Parque del Lago -International
Ideas Competition
- Registration by September 26,
2008.
- The Metropolitan Municipality
of Quito, the Corporation for Environmental Health "Vida
para Quito", and the Architects' Association of Pichincha-Ecuador,
are implementing an Open International Competition for Ideas
in urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture for
the design of Quito´s Lake Park (Parque del Lago). The
Competition Site is currently the location of the Mariscal Sucre
International Airport, in the cities' north.
Italy: International
Art Award PREMIO ARTEINGENUA 2008
- deadline for present ation of
works is 26th September 2008.
- Arteingenua S.p.A. provides
a challenge to young artists around the world with an invitation
to participate in the second Arteingenua Prize 2008. The Second
Arteingenua Prize will give the three winning artists the opportunity
for a year long working partnership with Arteingenua without
making any exclusive commitment. This partnership will allow
three artists (or groups of artists) to work on artistic projects
and cultural events which will be decided on and organised together
with Arteingenua's Artistic Management. The proposed Second International
Arteingenua Prize 2008 Competition theme is: "PLAY THE GAME
- get into the game with art"
UK: Competition
to Design House of the Future in Flood-Risk Area
- Submission deadline: 19th September
- The RIBA, in conjunction with
Norwich Union, has launched an international design competition
which will challenge architects to come up with innovative and
interesting ideas for building housing in flood risk areas. As
climate change takes hold, scientists and meteorologists are
agreed that we are more likely to see milder, wetter weather,
and flooding will become a more regular occurrence. Running alongside
this, the Government has set out plans to build three million
new homes by 2020. Land in the UK is already limited, so there
is a potential threat that some of these properties will be built
on flood plains. The competition will ask entrants to respond
to these two factors by exploring new ideas that challenge current
building techniques, perhaps taking inspiration from overseas,
and come up with designs that could be developed into producing
houses that are flood proof, workable and insurable.
USA: Re:Construct Sustainable Materials and Building
Practices
- Register and submit your entry
by September 15th 2008
- Do you have what it takes to
make a difference? Are you willing and able to rebuild a sustainable
foundation for the future? It's time for a change in the way
we see things, in the way we do things. It's time for what we
build to reflect who we are and what we're made of. It's time
to Re:Construct the ideas and realities of sustainable building.
We're looking for your inventive ways to create types of structures
and techniques- or renovate old ones. From planning codes to
toilets, dry wall to moveable walls we want your help in re-imagining
the building industry. Change the parts of construction and you'll
reinvent the act of construction itself. You are what you build.
Re:Construct is your chance to reinvent yourself.
Germany:
Open international competition
for the realisation of Mobile Floating Architecture
- Handing over of competition
works: 15 September 2008
- Organiser: Internationale Bauausstellung
(IBA) Fürst-Pückler-Land GmbH. The topic of the competition
is the design of a mobile floating house to be used as a holiday
house or dwelling house in the Lusatian Lake District. The houses
should have a possibly high degree of autarky and mobility. The
design should typify the life on the water.
Italy: Nokia Nseries Design Award"
ART. 1
- Register by 15th September 2008.
- Nokia, in partnership with Gruppo
Sintesi (including several relevant design brands, such as Sintesi,
BBB, Montina, DMK, BUM), promotes a contest of ideas to project
furniture and furniture complements, inspired by the concept
of CONNECTING MOBILITY. Contemporary lifestyle is deeply affected
by mobility. People travel a lot, because of their work, for
personal interests, or simply to enjoy themselves. Strict boundaries
between workspace, home, social spaces, and entertainment venues
no longer exist. Mobile technology, can connect not only people,
but even spaces, which should consequently be redesigned according
to new, dynamic and multifunctional objectives, meeting people's
changed needs.
China: World Urban Forum Nanjing 2008
- Deadline for receipt of entries:
September 15, 2008
- International Architectural
Students Competition on the theme of Water-front Ecological Housing
Design organized by Organizing Committee of World Urban Forum
4 and School of Architecture at Southeast University (SEUARCH)
and Sponsored and co-organized by Yincheng Industrial Co.,Ltd,
in the framework of the FOURTH SESSION of WORLD URBAN FORUM (WUF4).
The aim is to generate positive action and discussion on ideal
habitat environment base on sustainable development conception.
Ireland: Masterplan & Offices for
Meath County Council & Navan Town Council Competition
Stage 1 Registration Deadline: 12 September 2008.
- An open, two-stage architectural
competition for the development of an indicative master plan
and for the design of a Headquarters Building for Meath County
Council and Navan Town Council. The competition is open to architects
holding a qualification listed in the EU Qualifications Directive
2005/36/EC.
Norway: Munch Museum
in Oslo - Restricted Plan and Design Competition
- RFQ submittals to be delivered
by September 12th 2008.
- HAV Eiendom AS invites teams
to submit requests for qualification for The Munch Museum, which
will house the work of the artist and will be built in the Björvika
Bay, in Oslo, Norway. Competitors should deliver a master plan
for the area considering how the museum programmatic logistics
can be integrated within the city context; the ambition for the
Munch Museum building is that it should deliver a strong conceptual
and architectural solution, together with a clear and functional
organization. This invitation is open to international teams,
and the official competition language is Scandinavian and English.
Norway: Oslo Public
Library - Restricted Plan and Design Competition
- RFQ submittals by September
15 2008
- HAV Eiendom AS invites teams
to submit requests for qualification, for the Oslo Public library
Design Competition in Björvika, Oslo. Competitors will be
requested to propose urban design strategies that integrate the
library's organization and programmatic requirements with the
building immediate context; the overall objective is to establish
a unique set of relationships between the Library, the City and
the Fjord. This invitation is open to international teams and
the competition languages are Scandinavian and English.
- Ecuador: Worldwide
Competition of Social Habitat and Development
- Last date for submissions: 5th
Septiembre 2008
- The Colegio de Arquitectos of
Ecuador invites to every architectural design professionals of
the world to participate in the Worldwide Competition of Social
Habitat and Development in the present edition of XVI Quito Pan-American
Architecture Biennale to be held from 17 to 21 of November 2008.
In attention to the increase of poverty in all the world, caused
by urban sprawl as a spontaneous answer to the deficit housing,
the BAQ/2008, in partnership with the Department of Housing Development
and Management (HDM) of the University of Lund, Sweden and under
the Program PROMESHA (Programa de Capacitación para el
Mejoramiento Socio Habitacional para Latinoamérica), financed
by Swedish Agency for International Development (ASDI) and the,
within the context of the BAQ 2008, have decided to include an
international award oriented to visualize and acknowledge efforts
made in the region to improve the lives of most vulnerable urban
populations, within a sustainable framework, which grants them
better living standards and an improved quality of life.
Taiwan: Spatial Native Language
ArchiDesign Award 2008
Submission deadline: September 1, 2008
- Taiwan's 1st culture-oriented
architecture award. The 1ST Spatial Native Language ArchiDesign
Award 2008 is the leading culture-oriented architecture award
for architects and designers in Taiwan and gives TWD1,500,000
(appr. US$50,000) in prize money. Inaugurated in 2008, it is
sponsored by Spatial Native Language Foundation of Arts and Culture.
Intended to bring wider introspection of Taiwan's real architecture
asethetics to a talented generation of architects and designers
by looking into the connection between traditional culture and
modern art, the Award welcomes the acute design works from all
over the world. Awards are for either built/manufactured works
or paper designs.
Dubai: ThyssenKrupp
Elevator Architecture Award Dubai '2008
- Registration deadline: 31 August
2008
Dubai Municipality and ThyssenKrupp Elevator announce the launch
of a International, open, single stage, public, anonymous, preliminary
design competition for the conception of a tall emblem structure,
to promote the face of Dubai. The competition has been approved
by the UIA. Located within the Za'abeel Park, the structure should
promote tourism, have a unique state of the art design, include
cultural and leisure activities, conference and theatre facilities.
Local climatic conditions should be taken into account, as well
as urban and landscape aspects, passive construction principles
should be applied and the structure should respond to the seismic
constraints of the region.
Peru: Golf's Tower
- Last day for registration: August
30th, 2008
- International competition sponsored
by the International Real Estate Investmet Company "ESPARQ".
The architecture of this tower should distinguish itself from
its context, standing out by virtue of its singular architectural
design and at the same time integrating itself to the magnificent
Lima Golf Club, in front of it. It should be a prototype model
for the most important residential areas in Lima. Open to all
architects.
Ireland: West Cork Arts Centre
Architectural Design Competition
- Stage 1 Registration Deadline:
29 August 2008
- An open, two stage competition
by RIAI for the architectural design of a high-quality, purpose-built
facility that will enable the people of West Cork to have access
to and to engage with local and global arts practice of excellence.
Spain: International
Competition for the Development Proposals for the Olympic Village
as Part of the Planning for Candidate City Madrid 2016
- The closing date for presenting
the proposals for this tender is August 29, 2008.
- The object of this tender is
the selection of the best architectural proposal for the development
of the future Olympic Village. This tender of ideas, announced
by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo de Madrid, will
be developed as an open single-phase competition on a draft level.
The winning ideas will be ceded to the EMVS and may be used for
the presentation of Madrid's candidature for the Olympic Games
2016. If Madrid succeeds in becoming the venue for the Olympic
Games 2016, the EMVS undertakes to entrust the winner with the
complete construction of one of the buildings contained in the
proposal.
USA: Red Bull Short Film Competition
- Submissions are due by August
26th
- Red Bull is starting another
round in its x13 series of provocative shorts. This round's theme
is VIBRATIONS. Make a film that's narrative, documentary,
non-linear, experimental, or any combination of the above. Use
any visual style - animated, grainy film, crisp video, drawn,
photographed, painted-onto-the-celluloid - anything goes! Just
remember 3 important things - it must be 2 to 3 minutes long,
in 16:9 aspect ratio (wide screen) and submitted in High Definition
Video. This is because your film may be played on Red Bull TV
or distributed in other ways.
UK: Open
Design Competition for the regeneration of Redcar's Seafront
Zone
- Registrations close on 20 August
2008
- Redcar & Cleveland Borough
Council, working in partnership with the Environment Agency,
invites design professionals to generate ideas for the public
realm improvements associated with a new coastal defence scheme
at Redcar. The competition offers a rare opportunity to shape
the future form of approximately 1.5kms of sea frontage at a
UK coastal resort. The anonymous first stage seeks design ideas
and approaches for the public realm aspects of the sea wall scheme,
as well as a coherent set of associated proposals for the public
highway, building facades and sites in the seafront's immediate
'backdrop zone'. Up to five schemes will be short-listed to go
through to the second stage of the competition, when anonymity
will be lifted and the authors invited to present their design
proposals to the Jury Panel at a final interview.
Taiwan: Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Complex International Competition
Stage One Material Submission Deadline:
August 18th, 2008
The government of the R.O.C. (Taiwan) cordially invites innovative
architects from all over the world to participate in an international
competition to design the Taiwan Center for Disease Control Complex
located in the Hsinchu Biomedical Science Park in Hsinchu County.
The complex will include: an Administration Center, a National
Health Command Center, and a Laboratory & Research Center.
In order to keep up with global health trends better and to provide
optimal facilities for disease control research, we aim to create
a world-class architectural landmark.
- USA: Round
Building Reuse: 360 -Open Ideas Competition
- Submission and registration
8th August 2008
- Downtown Orlando is changing.
The citizens of Orlando and Orange County have approved the much
needed and highly anticipated 3 Venues projects, Including the
Orlando Events Center, The Citrus Bowl expansion and modernization
and the Dr. P. Phillips Performing Arts Center (DPPAC). The American
Federal Building (The Round Building) occupies the southwest
corner of the site of the DPPAC and is scheduled for complete
demolition. The aim of Round Building Reuse : 360 is to promote
awareness and seek the preservation of Florida's mid-century
modern architecture. It is the competition objective to have
the competitors develop an innovative reuse of the Round Buildings
precast concrete brise soleil on another site or sites. Competition
entries will provide valuable creative material to support the
preservation effort of Central Florida Modern. Designs and Ideas
will be used to create excitement, support, funding and a purpose
to a vestige of Central Florida's Modern heritage.
Argentina: A
Landmark for Argentina
- Sign up by August 1st 2008.
The Architects Society, Sociedad Central de Arquitectos (SCA),
has entered into an agreement with IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones
S.A. for staging an international competition for ideas and images
named 'Argentina 2010 -Argentine Bicentenary.' Its purpose: to
look for a modern architectural symbol for Argentina in commemoration
of the Bicentenary of the May 1810 Revolution. The competition
will challenge competitors to conceive an architectural plan
for the Rio de la Plata riverfront area that stretches from the
Costanera Norte section to the La Boca neighborhood, passing
through Puerto Madero, Retiro (railway and bus terminal and fiscal
lands), the Plaza San Martin park, the Immigrants Hotel, and
the Navy, Catalinas and Puerto Madero buildings. The competition
will not set a specific program for contestants; rather, it will
give free room for architects and creators to bring up far-reaching
urban proposals that result in a image for the city.
UK: Kings
Cross, London, International Urban Design Competition
- Expression of interest submissions
by:12.00hrs GMT on August 1st 2008.
- Camden Council and Network Rail
are seeking expressions of interest from architects, landscape
architects and urban designers for the design of a brand new,
urban square at Kings Cross, London. King's Cross Square is destined
to become one of the great public places in London. Set against
the magnificent backdrop of the Grade 1 listed façade
of King's Cross railway station, it will be used daily by thousands
of commuters, visitors and residents - a unique addition to the
Capital's palette of memorable street scenes. To create this
public plaza, an international two-stage design competition has
been launched. This search for a world-class exemplar design
is jointly sponsored by Network Rail and the London Borough of
Camden - recognising not only the Square's role as a major travel
hub but also as a catalyst for wider urban regeneration.
UK: Architects
for Health: Second Student Health Design Awards.
- Submission by 1st August 2008.
- Following the success of last
years awards, Architects for Health is pleased to announce its
second Annual Student Health Design Awards which are to be held
at the RIBA London in August 2008. As with last year, entries
will be taken of all student healthcare related designs. This
year we will also be offering the option of using a brief as
provided by AfH. Additionally we are able to offer advice and
input to universities wishing to use a healthcare building type
on their curriculum. Interested Tutors and students should contact
AfH.
Japan: Muji Award 03
Entries must arrive by 31st July 2008
The third Muji Award International Design Competition is happening
in July, with the chance for both budding and established designers
to try their hand at applying the Muji way of life to their design
thinking. For the coming MUJI Award 3, they want you to find
"Found MUJI" from your viewpoint. Learn from the wisdom
accumulated by predecessors, find good points in such long-established
merchandise, and convert them into a design that fits our modern
life.
 Poster:
Umbracle City of Arts and Sciences, Spain -Santiago
Calatrava
USA:
Lifecycle Building
Challenge 2.
- Registration amended to July
31st, 2008
- LBC2 is a national competition
that challenges creative minds to develop lifecycle building
strategies to facilitate deconstruction and building material
reuse. Student and professional contestants can submit entries
in 2 categories: building and innovation. Lifecycle building
reduces construction waste and conserves the embodied energy
of buildings. Construction waste totals more than 100 million
tons per year, and the embodied energy of building materials
accounts for 12% or more of the total energy used in a building.
Outstanding achievement awards will be given to Best Greenhouse
Gas Reduction, Best Residential, and Best School entries.
Israel: Project of the Year Competition
- Last date of registration: 30th
July 2008.
- Registration for the Architecture
of Israel 2008/9 Project of the Year Competition will open at
the end of May. Architects, interior designers, landscape architects,
city planners, students and researchers are invited to submit
projects that have been planned or written since 2005. International
jury will include well-known architects and academics. All the
works reaching the second stage will be reviewed extensively
in Architecture of Israel Magazine.
Germany: Contractworld.award 2009 : 9. International architecture competition
for innovative interior design concepts :
- Closing date for submission
of entry documents is the 20th of July 2008.
- The prestigious European architecture
prize for interior design is now being offered for the ninth
successive year. Each year office buildings, creative concepts
for hotels and restaurants, shops and exhibition stands are evaluated
and awarded. This year's competition also invites entries in
the category "Change of use/Conversion". Here the focus
is on conversions of buildings originally constructed for religious,
cultural or public use. In addition, two special awards will
be presented. These will be awarded exclusively to "Generation"
entrants (architects/interior designers under the age of 40)
responsible for avant-garde projects.
UK: Scotswood
Expo Architectural Competition
- The deadline for receiving the
PQQ and expression of interest is Wednesday 16 July by 12 noon.
- A design contest open to architects
with exceptional design skills and fresh thinking in the design
of housing for the UK's first Neighbourhood Expo. The competition
is being organised by the RIBA Competitions Office in association
with Newcastle City Council. The competition site, the 'Expo
Link', is a central street of 60 homes in four terraces that
will be the centrepiece of an Expo Festival in the summer of
2011. From the first expression of interest stage, the intention
is select a shortlist of 12 to produce concept designs. The best
six will then be awarded contracts to develop their designs throughout
the terraces in a number of different combinations.
Belgium: Interieur 08 -International interior
design competition
Registration: deadline: 15 July 08
Interieur 08 is a biennial competition for creativity
in interior design, organised by the Interieur Foundation, located
in Kortrijk, Belgium. Centred on three thematic subjects,
it focuses on new, functional, creative and contemporary prototypes.
All entries will be on display during the 21st Interieur Biennale,
where they will be seen by potential manufacturers, professional
visitors and the general public.
Umbracle City
of Arts and Sciences, Spain -Santiago
Calatrava
USA/UK/Spain/Switzerland:
Diesel Wall
- Deadlines: York 12th May, Manchester
18th May, Barcelona 11th July.
- Diesel Wall is an international
art contest that aims to bring intriguing/inspiring/insightful/inciting
contemporary ideas to giant urban canvases in city centres around
the world.
USA: The Janet Becker Competition
for the Design of a Single Family Residence Incorporating the
Principles of Universal Design
Registration Deadline: July 10, 2008
Beyond Housing, St. Louis's nationally recognized provider
of housing and support services for low-income families and homeowners
announces an open competition for the design of a Single Family
Residence incorporating the principals of Universal Design. The
First Place design will be built in the City of Pagedale,
Mo, a close-in suburb of the City of St. Louis, MO. Selected
proposals will be exhibited at the Universal Design Summit III
to be held in St. Louis September 2008. The program will call
for a small, three bedroom house on a flat lot.
UK: Line
of Site competition 2008/9 -Brief 1: A Northern Lights Observatory
The first brief is now open and to be submitted by 4th July
Line of Site is back for 2008/9. The competition offers three
unique design briefs over the period June 2008 to February 2009.
This year's competition includes two exciting Geo based briefs
where competitors are able to select their own geographical locations
to design their buildings. The organisers are looking for the
initial ideas that capture the essense of creativity and mark
the point when those ideas take shape. Your submissions
can be either electronically generated or drawn by hand - sketch
designs, not fully developed designs. The site for the first
brief is located well north of Norway on islands
between the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Greenland
Sea, and Norwegian Sea a remote and inhospitable
place.
- Brief 2 1st August
9th September
The City Cycle Interchange
Brief 3 26th September 24th October
The Meeting Point
Italy: Everyville
Online Student Competition -La Biennale de Venezia
Deadline: Registration July 1, 2008 - Submission July 15, 2008
Community beyond Place, Civic Sense beyond Architecture The competition
calls for the preparation of an idea-project based on the theoretical-critical
text written by the curator of the 11th International Architecture
Exhibition, Aaron Betsky. However, this time the element of challenge
and stimulation lies in the fact that the works selected by a
prestigious Jury will become an integral part of the 11th Exhibition,
to be presented in a dedicated section. The competition thus
represents a unique opportunity and an unrepeatable occasion
to present your work, coupled with the satisfaction of presenting
it during what is now considered to be the most important architectural
exhibition in the world. Jury -Paolo Baratta, Aaron Betsky, Francesco
Delogu, Zaha Hadid, Thom Mayne, Luisa Hutton, Flavio Albanese,
Luigi Centola
Austria: International
Competition best private
plots 08 Die besten Gärten 2008
- Deadline for entries: extended
to July 1st, 2008
- The competition is being held
for the third consecutive year. The competition highlights the
garden as a place of innovation, as a space for creative expression
and action, as contemporary dialogue between architecture and
landscape. The award criteria include: idea, artistic and conceptual
quality, use of plants and materials, relationship between inside
and outside, delimitation of space and organisation of open space,
technical and ecological planning. 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 private outdoor space and gardens, which were
completed after January 1, 1998. This is an open competition
for Landscape architects, architects, garden owners, designers,
florists, gardeners, artists, nurseries and landscaping firms.
Italy: Toscana Design
Competition -Accessible Luxury Living
- Deadline 30th June 2008.
- For some years now we have been
experiencing a phenomenon that can only be defined as "accessible
luxury"; that is, a return to investment in tangible, traditional
goods, with furnishings and the home in general taking first
place. In line with this trend, the organizers are pleased to
invite "under-40" designers and architects to participate
in a conceptual competition addressing this interesting cultural
and market reality.
Japan: 3rd Nitori
One-House Total Coordination Competition 2008
Entries by June 30th 2008
Nitori develops products based on the concept of One-House Total
Coordination Merchandising (OTCM), in which all the spaces of
a house are totally coordinated. In this Competition, Nitori
invites the public to propose totally coordinated designs of
fabrics, furniture and interior accessories that match the idea
of OTCM. This competition aims to commercialize excellent
designs and sell them at Nitori stores as well as discover new
designers to work with Nitori. We hope many people will enter
the competition.
UK: ARQUITECTUM
presents its 8th International Contest "LONDON 2008".
Last day for registration: June 30th, 2008
Theme -a movable architecture gallery. , containing
and distributing design to the city; travels across the River
Thames to connect the various art spaces and collect visitors
along the river; especially in the South Bank. The exhibition
space should adapt to the movement of the river, to the different
requirements of an exhibition and the artist, and to the weather
in London; meaning summer and winter potentialities. Exhibition
hosted by the Architectural Association School
of London.
USA: Situated Technologies:
Toward the Sentient City
- Submission Deadline: June 27,
2008
- The Architectural League of
New York -Request for Qualifications. An exhibition critically
exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous/pervasive
computing and urban architecture. The Architectural League of
New York invites architects, artists, designers, technologists,
engineers, urbanists, or teams thereof, to submit qualifications
for an exhibition that will critically explore the evolving relationship
between ubiquitous/pervasive computing and urban architecture.
The League will commission five to seven teams to develop urban
interventionsto be installed in and around New York City
in spring 2009that will imagine alternative trajectories
for how various mobile, embedded, networked, and distributed
forms of media, information and communication systems might inform
the architecture of urban space and/or influence our behavior
within it.
Korea: The 8th Space Prize for International
Students of Interior Design
- Application deadline: June 27,
2008
- IT + ECOLOGY : In this competition, we hope to explore
how to apply and adapt architecture, an artificial ecosystem,
to the surrounding nature, and how to change and adjust the relationship
between nature and architecture in future space. We intend to
find a vision for future architecture from the interaction between
natural and artificial ecosystems, and present examples of ecosystems
of living between machine and human beings, representing information
ecology and interaction, in this computing technology age. We
hope that through this competition, architecture will grow into
an essential way of dialogue for the human civilization.
UK: Leaf
Awards 2008
- Closing date for entries is
27 June 2008
- Now in its fifth year, The Leaf
Awards continues to be recognised as one of the most sort after
international architectural awards. With previous winners
including the likes of David Chipperfield Architects and Skidmore,
Owings & Merill, the LEAF Awards honours the architects,
construction companies, engineers and suppliers who are designing
the buildings and solutions that are setting the benchmark for
the international architectural community. Prizes include Best
Structural Design of the Year, Best Sustainable Development
and International Interior Design Award.
: Ecohouse
Competition 2008
All Entries will be received by 24 June 2008
Students are invited to design an ecohouse (area 120 sq metres
approx for up to six persons on a site of your choice. The
design should be in a community context and should minimise the
use of the earth's resource water, fossil fuel energy, materials
and their maintenance for the life of the building, adopt slow
building principles and be full of delight. The scheme should
be designed to be extremely robust and resilient and
it should demonstrate all year round comfort.
Poland: Contemporary Museum,
Wroclaw
- Registration in the competition
is 20th June 2008.
- A competition has recently opened
for the architectural project of a major contemporary art museum
in Wroclaw, Poland. The Contemporary Museum building is to be
situated in a premium location within the city's historical old
town, in a vicinity of existing museums and monuments. The neighboring
landscape is strongly marked by gothic and modernist architecture
surrounded by parks. The Museum will house an exceptional collection
of acknowledged contemporary art, but its main goal is to create
a dynamic ecosystem of cultural exchange reaching beyond the
traditional idea of an art exhibition.
Spain: World
Architecture Festival Awards
- Deadline 20th June 2008.
- The largest architectural awards
programme in the world is open to buildings completed between
1 January 2007 and 20 June 2008. In concrete terms, the 256 best
creations, classified in 16 categories (16 creations per category),
shall be presented before the public and the WAF jury. The
latter will attribute one prize per category. The winners
of this first stage of the contest will thereafter be required
to defend their project in front of a «super jury»
in order to win the prize crowning the Festival, The Barcelona
Award. Chaired by Lord Norman Foster, the jury is composed
of internationally renowned architects, among which Richard Meier
and Zaha Hadid, of specialized critics, of clients and of associates
originating from the five continents. This contest will benefit
from an exceptional press coverage, thanks to the partnerships
developed with the specialized media from more than 23 countries.
Montenegro:
Velika Plaza: A
Sustainable Waterfront Community -An International Masterplanning
Competition
Competition entries will be selected on the basis of pre-qualification
materials demonstrating suitable capabilities and experience
to be submitted by the 20th June 2008.
- Velika Plaza ("Long Beach")
will be an exemplar sustainable seafront community to be developed
on 1450 hectares of prime land along 14km of one of the most
beautiful stretches of the Adriatic coastline. Velika Plaza
is one of Montenegro's paramount initiatives in developing the
country's tourism and resort industry. The Government is
seeking the contribution of the most skilled masterplanners around
the world to bring forward their best proposals for a new international
reference model in sustainable, tourism-based, coastal community
development. In parallel with this Competition, an international
tender process for the land development will be conducted by
the Government. The Velika Plaza Masterplanning Competition
winners will be invited to present their proposals to the Government's
preferred development partners.
Ireland: Ballsbridge-Dodder Pedestrian
Bridge Competition
Registration Deadline: 20 June 2008
- The competition is a restricted,
one stage architectural design contest for a simple, innovative
and elegant pedestrian bridge across the River Dodder where buildability
is also an important criterion Mountbrook Group is planning to
develop the site of the existing Jury's/Berkeley Court Hotels
in Ballsbridge. The proposed scheme will contain a broad mix
of uses including retail, residential, offices, an embassy complex,
a 232 bedroom luxury hotel, an ice rink, a crèche for
150 children and a cultural quarter which will incorporate an
art house cinema, a jazz club, art galleries, artists' studios,
music rooms, rehearsal studios and a European Centre for Culture.
The development will be notable for the high architectural quality
of the buildings and public realm that will be created between
them in the form of a network of internal streets. These new
pedestrian streets link into the existing street network opening
up the site to Pembroke Road, Shelbourne Road and Lansdowne Road
as well as providing links to the adjacent sites.
- Ireland: Bord
Gáis Networks National Distribution Control Building
Competition
Stage 1 Registration Deadline: 20 June 2008
- Royal Institute of the Architects
of Ireland are administering an open, two stage competition for
the architectural design of a new Bord Gáis Networks Distribution
Control Centre at Dubber Cross, Finglas, Dublin. It is the intention
of BGN to vacate existing leased premises and to move to a new,
well designed building at the Dubber Cross site to accommodate
all the principal functions carried out by the organisation.
The building should reflect BGN's commitment to environmental
protection, energy conservation and sustainable development.
Open to architects holding a qualification listed in the E.C.
Architects Directive 85/384/EEC or equivalent.
Ireland: No. 16 Henrietta Street, Dublin -
Open Design Ideas Competition Registration Deadline: 20 June 2008
- The RIAI design competition
for No. 16 Henrietta Street aims to establish a design framework
for the development of the site, which is informed by the Conservation
Plan and best architectural practice. It is also an aim of the
competition to generate debate and discussion on the challenge
of in-fill design in historic settings and ultimately to discuss
the future of this important street. The competition Brief, reports,
drawings, site photographs and regulations will only be available
in the competition section of the RIAI website www.riai.ie.
Korea: The
26th Space Prize for International Students of Architectual Design
- Application deadline: June 20,
2008
- Theme Where, how do you live? Program New dwellings
in a changing society. If the 20th Century was a period of change,
when the impact of the Industrial Revolution became apparent
in various sectors of the society, the 21st Century is already
witnessing another transformation; it is difficult to enumerate
the complexities of this new century, ranging from the movement
of huge amounts of capital with the expansion of globalization
and the intricacies of class differences, to lifestyle changes
due to new technologies. We hope that students will read the
signs of these changing patterns of the 21st Century society
in their respective surroundings, cities, and countries, and
propose new styles of dwellings reflecting the emergence of these
new lifestyles. The dwelling may be for a single person or new
types of families, and may even be collective dwellings. As modern
architects in the early 20th Century reflected changing new lifestyles
with proposals that transcended their era, rather than merely
reflecting their times, we hope that applicants will create new
alternatives for dwellings based on currently imaginable technological
advancements and predictions of future social changes.
Switzerland:
Andermatt
Tourist Resort -Architectural Project Competition: Residential
Typology for the Centre Zone
Registration Day: 12 June 2008; Time 0:00 24:00 Uhr MEZ
- The Andermatt Alpine Destination
Company (AADC) a subsidiary of the Orascom Development
Holding AG, has launched an Architectural Competition for the
residential development at the heart of the Andermatt Tourist
Resort. The competition aims to receive draft designs that encompasses
both innovative and environmentally compatible projects
that reflect the unique nature of the Alpine surroundings.
- UK: Workspace
Group URBANTINE PROJECT'
 Deadline
for applications 10th June 2008
- A competition which offers unrecognised
architects a chance to see their experimental work built - is
returning to Tent London in 2008. The winner of this 'Fast Architecture'
competition receives a £10K budget to realise their design
for a 6mx5mx4m structure which must be built in 48
hours and disassembled in 24 hours. Innovative material and creative
assembly concepts, such as modularity and pre-assembly, will
be valued. The competition brief focuses on the rapid changes
in the 21st century workplace. Applicants should evaluate the
impact that the phenomenal rise in the use of digital technology
has on the way we work and the office environment - our
communication, social interaction, mobility, productivity and
creativity. The 'Workspace Group URBANTINE PROJECT'® is the
architectural component of Tent London - the capital's most
diverse design event, which takes place at the Truman Brewery
on Brick Lane during the London Design Festival.
Germany: Contractworld
- Closing date: 6 June 2008.
- The ninth contractworld.award
competition has been announced for 2009. Prizes will be awarded
for the best design concepts in three main categories: progressive
work environments, creative hotel and restaurant interiors, and
innovative shops and exhibition stands. An additional entry category
this year covers conversion projects, where interiors originally
constructed for religious, cultural or public use have been successfully
redesigned to serve a new purpose.
Ireland: Metro West Liffey Bridge Design
Competition
Expression of Interest Submission Deadline: 4 June 2008
- The RIAI (Royal Institute of
the Architects of Ireland) is administering a competition on
behalf of the competition promoters, the Railway Procurement
Agency (RPA). This is a two stage competition for the architectural
and structural design of a bridge over the Liffey Valley to serve
the new Metro West line. Following an initial Expression of Interest
to confirm capacity, Competitors will prepare a design for a
new bridge, of outstanding design quality, crossing the Liffey
Valley. The new bridge will carry the proposed Metro West line.
RPA may subsequently proceed with the construction of a new bridge
based on the winning entry.
USA: RED HOOK: The Bicycle
Master Plan Design Competition
Registration Deadline: June 2, 2008
- Located in the southeast corner
of Brooklyn, Red Hook is the only neighborhood close to Manhattan
that is underserved by public transportation. The Forum for Urban
Design is launching a design competition to re-imagine Red Hook
as the most bicycle friendly neighborhood in all of New York.
Not only could bicycling become the predominant method of transportation
for neighborhood residents, it could become a destination for
urban cyclists and foster sustainable development. The design
competition has three components: one emphasizing architecture,
the second emphasizing urban planning and design, and the third
emphasizing feasibility (i.e. funding sources). 1. retrofitting
a bike garage (or "loft") at the Smith/9th Street Station,
and 2. connecting this elevated train stop to the rest of the
neighborhood via dedicated bike lanes and other bike amenities,
3. identifying funding sources such as the reauthorization of
federal surface transportation legislation, foundations, and
commercial sponsors.
USA: RE:CONNECT
- Registration Deadline June 2nd
2008.
- Reach out. Take hold. The character
of a neighborhood is a reflection of the people who live there.
When people feel connected to a place, they feel more connected
to one another. The community becomes an extended family and
life more meaningful. Thus, we're looking for urban planning
approaches where revamped environments bring current residents
together, particularly families. This is a chance to repair the
essential relationships between social work, nature and urban
infill with ideas that value humanistic thinking and imagination
over bulldozers. Ponder the kinds of structures and landscapes
that typically exist in run-down areas and transform them into
eco-wise spaces that make life better. How might you overcome
the inevitable resistance to change, and harness the community's
human resources? Introducing eldercare and childcare programs
or sustainable landscaping with useable harvests might be just
what's needed. The best plans, no matter their originality or
scale, will aim to positively affect neighboring blocks as well.
UK/International:
World Habitat
Awards 2008
Stage I entries must be received by 1st June 200.
- The Building and Social Housing
Foundation is currently seeking entries for the World Habitat
Awards 2008 competition, which we hope will be of interest to
you and your readers. Established in 1985, the World Habitat
Awards seek to identify practical, innovative and sustainable
solutions to current housing issues faced by countries of
the global South as well as the North, which are capable of being
transferred or adapted for use elsewhere. Entries are assessed
by a panel of international judges and an award of £10,000
is presented to the two winning projects at the annual
United Nations global celebration of World Habitat Day.
UK: Lex
Walsall
Entries by 30th May 2008
Working with partners Advantage West Midlands, Walsall Council
and Walsall Regeneration Company, Urban Splash are working on
Phase One of the Waterfront development just near The New Art
Gallery - a collection of buildings designed by SMC Alsop and
shedkm which are set within a public realm designed by Grant
Associates. Urban Splash has now been invited to come up with
plans for Phase Two, the Lex site, and are looking for a great
architect to work with them to deliver more award winning buildings.
It. Aspirations for this site are typically high -they are looking
for excitement, flair and imagination to be the defining piece
of architecture for Walsall.
USA: Call for Entries from Calgary
based artists: Artcity 2008 festival of Art, Architecture &
Design
Deadline: May 23rd, 2008
- The Visual Arts Week Society
is seeking proposals for graphic design of their promotional
material for their 17th annual Artcity Festival that will be
taking place from September 5th-14th, 2008, in Calgary, Alberta.
The reverse side of the poster shall include the artist's rendition
of the theme 'THAT'S IT.' The poster shall fold neatly into a
program with an appealing cover that includes 'THAT'S IT' - the
festival theme, the dates of the festival and the wording "Celebrate
the Best of Art, Architecture and Design."
- USA: Precast/Prestressed
Concrete Institute - Total-Precast Design Challenge 2008
Registration by 23rd May 2008
PCI's 2008 Architectural Student Design Competition involves
design of a new middle school to be located at the designated
site in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area. Successful entries
will be characterized by innovative use of precast/prestressed
concrete as an agent in sustainable design. A minimum potential
Silver LEED rating is required to be integrated into the design.
Italy: The Lomellini Contemporary
Art Palace Logo
All proposals must reach the Councillorship for Culture of the
City of Carmagnola no later than 12.00 a.m. on Tuesday 20 May
2008.
- The municipality of Carmagnola,
the Piemont Region Authority, the Turin Province Authority and
the Cultural Association "hakassociati artecontemporanea"
give notice of a competition for the development of a Logo for
the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Modern and Contemporary
Art Gallery) of the city of Carmagnola.
Vietnam: International
Design Competition: Thu Thiem New Urban Area: Ho Chi Minh City.
- Submissions: may 19th 2008.
- The Investment & Construction
Authority for the Thu Thiem New Urban Area (The Thu Thiem ICA)
of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam announces an open, international
Design Competition in two stages. The focus of this Competition
will be on the "Central Plaza, Crescent Park, and Saigon
River Pedestrian Bridge".
USA: The 2008 AIA National
Healthcare Design Awards
Submission/Registration Deadline:
5pm ET, May 19, 2008
- The American Institute of Architects
(AIA) and the Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) are proud
to initiate the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program.
Continuing the AIA's legacy of celebrating outstanding works
of contemporary architects, the new awards program showcases
the best of healthcare building design and health design-oriented
research. Projects should exhibit conceptual strength and solve
aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite
functional and sustainability concerns of a healthcare facility.
The AIA/AAH will recognize the firms for their contribution to
the healthcare environment.
- UK: University
of Warwick -Development of 400 Student Residence
- Expression of Interest deadline
is 19th May 2008.
- Ann Invited Design Competition
on behalf of the University of Warwick, to seek architect lead
teams to provide suitable and innovative solutions for the design
of new student residences to accommodate 1000 students as part
of a broader strategy to accommodate undergraduate and graduates
on the University campus.
USA: New
Practices New York 2008
- Registrations Due 16th May
- New Practices New York 2008
is the second juried portfolio competition and exhibition in
a new biennial tradition sponsored by the New Practices Committee
of the AIA New York Chapter. It serves as a platform to recognize
and promote new, innovative and emerging architecture firms within
New York City that have undertaken unique and commendable strategies
- both in the projects they undertake and the practices they
have established.
Syria: Sham Spiritual Oasis
Architecture Competition
Registration Deadline: May 15, 2008
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2008
If you are a young artist or architect from a European or an
Arab Mediterranean country, you may compete on developing a concept
of a place of hospitality for travelers and pilgrims through
Sham Region (Sham is the old name for Damascus), a place to be
called Sham Spiritual Oasis. It will serve as a visitor center,
a place of spiritual growth and an occasion of initiation to
accept the other, and will be located in the Visitors' Center
or Deir Mar Musa's Protected Area, near the town of Nebek, Syria.
This competition is mainly financed by the European Commission.
Denmark: Toftegard
Square South International Design Competition Copenhagen
Registration Deadline 14th May 2008
Toftegards Plads Syd (Toftegard Square South) has remained largely
unused for several years. In its current form it far from reflects
the fact that it is one of the most important and most distinctive
gateways to Copenhagen. The City of Copenhagen has decided to
launch a competition to obtain ideas for the creation of a lively,
human and vibrant urban space of high architectural quality.
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