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Architecture Competition
Archive 2009
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competitions
- Italy: International
Prize for Sustainable Architecture 2010
- Applications by by 31st December
2009
- Ferrara Faculty of Architecture
is involved in international seminars, courses and activities
concerning sustainable architecture. This Prize arose from the
important international manifestation of the decennial of the
foundation of the School of Architecture of Ferrara, held in
2003. Conceived and promoted by the School itself, with the financial
support of the Fassa Bortolo company, its spirit is to contribute
to the research of a system of development in the building sector,
which represents one of the fields of human activity with the
greatest impact on the environment, that is more sustainable
than our current model, which has lead to a state of deterioration
and pollution, bringing us to the verge of a global crisis of
the Earth's entire ecological system.
Canada: REZ -Student Competition for the Design
of a University Residence Building in downtown Toronto
- Submissions due: December 28,
2009
- Ryerson University, Canada's
leader in innovative, career-focused education, and the Design
Exchange are pleased to announce an international competition
for the design of an exemplary, state-of-the-art university residence
building. Submissions are sought from students enrolled in schools
of architecture and the allied disciplines. The competition site
is located on the campus of Ryerson University in downtown Toronto.
The residence building is intended to provide housing and related
facilities for a representative cross section of the University's
population, including students, faculty, staff, and visiting
scholars. Entrants are encouraged to undertake the competition
in multidisciplinary teams and to seek faculty and professional
input; entrants may not, however, undertake it as part of a course
assignment. The competition commences in mid-September, 2009,
with an all-electronic submission due in December, 2009.
Australia: Design Barangaroo's Public
Domain
- Registration of interest closes
Friday 18 December 2009.
The search for pre-eminent landscape, architecture and urban
design teams to help shape a new Australian landmark has commenced.
This rare opportunity to design a new public domain on Sydney
Harbour includes the creation of a signature headland park.
USA: Four Mile Run Bridge Competition
Submission Deadline Monday 7th December 2009
For years, Northern Virginia's Four Mile Run has functioned as
a flood control channel and a border between the City of
Alexandria and Arlington County. Community interest
in revitalizing and celebrating the Run has resulted in
the Four Mile Run Restoration Master Plan. The plan outlines
a broad range of ambitious, feasible goals to restore the
ecology of the Run while re- establishing it as a cherished
park space and a means of stitching together communities.
The pedestrian and cyclist bridges planned to reach
across the run will be the defining elements in bringing
people to the shores of the stream and to each other.
As pieces of transit infrastructure, the bridges will also link neighborhoods,
streets, and pathways, thus providing a more accessible
and desirable means to walk or bike across the region.
The first of these bridges is to establish the design language
for the others to follow, and is the subject of this professional
competition. Taking inspiration from its surrounding
natural and industrial elements, the bridge is to be a modern,
sustainable, and sculptural piece, spanning clear across
the run with minimal impact to the streambed.
USA: Call For Entries: Retooling
Industrial Sites Exhibit
Submission deadline December 3, 2009
The competition provides an opportunity for architecture, planning
and engineering firms from the Mid-Atlantic region to highlight
their own best practices in industrial reuse. Submissions of
all project types and scales encouraged: large and small, built
and un-built, interior and exterior, new construction and preservation.
USA: Parkitecture
Design Competition
Closing date for the competition is November 20, 2009.
- As we motor toward the future,
it's time to rethink the structure that houses our automobiles-the
humble garage. Dwell's newest contest, sponsored by Lexus, is
a challenge to incorporate forward-thinking technology into a
freestanding building that can hold no more than three vehicles.
Using Google SketchUp, entrants are invited to submit at least
two renderings-one interior and one exterior-that illustrate
the technological possibilities and sustainable potential of
the garage of the future.
Lappset
International Design Competition "Change the way we
think about playgrounds"
Registration and submission Deadline 20th November 2009
Lappset Group, the well-known developer of playgrounds, is organising
an Open-For-All Design Competition. The aim of the competition
is to challenge traditional playground concepts. Lappset is looking
for new, inspiring, brave and out-of-the-box ideas for future
playgrounds. The core idea is to create a meeting point that
unites three different generations; children, teens and the elderly.
Participants are invited from a wide range of the design profession:
Landscape Architects, Architects, Urban Planners, Designers,
Graphic Designers, etc. - and naturally students and amateurs
in this field. It is very likely for the winning work to be made
or built into a real playground. Any participating work may well
end up as part of the Lappset Group's product range, for a separate
compensation.
Israel: Architecture
of Israel + the European Union Declare the annual International
competition - Project of the Year
- Registration by 20th November
2009
- Architects, interior designers,
landscape architects, researchers and students are invited to
submit works planned or written after the beginning of 2005.
PowerPoint presentations, not exceeding 5mb, should include a
short explanation text describing the project, its location,
purpose, circumstances of production, uniqueness and date of
completion. Special credit will be given to creative, climate
and environmental awareness .
USA:"Ideal
Theatre" Student Design Competition 2010
Intent to enter the competition
is due 20 November 2009
- For the Fourth year in a row
University Architectural and Theatre Students from around the
world are invited to take part in the United States Institute
for Theatre and Technology's (USITT) "Ideal Theatre"
Student Design Competition. This competition has established
it self as the only International Design Competition that brings
together the "client user' and the "designer"
to explore the possibilities of what a Theatre can be.
The competition runs from 4 September 2009 to 19 January 2010.
A Professional jury will select three Honor Awards in February
2010. All submissions will be on exhibit at the USITT Conference.
For additional information on the 2010 competition please visit
www.USITT.org architecture commission page.
USA: HB:BX Building Cultural
Infrastructure -The High Bridge International Ideas Competition
- Registration ends Nov 18th,
2009
- The Emerging New York Architects
Committee (ENYA), AIA NY Chapter announced its fourth biennial
international ideas competition, This competition is open to
all emerging professionals, including, but not limited to, architects,
artists, engineers, landscape architects, urban designers, and
planners who have completed their education at the undergraduate
or graduate level within 10 years of the competition announcement
(September 10, 2009). HB:BX is an open ideas competition to design
an arts center that culturally reinforces the physical connection
between the Manhattan and Bronx High Bridge communities of New
York City. Working in cooperation with the arts organizations
Artists Unite and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, ENYA means to
draw awareness to the current efforts to restore and reopen the
historic High Bridge. This competition is a forum to explore
the urban and community improvement opportunities that may come
with the achievement of such a momentous milestone.
Korea: 13th JAD International Student
Design Competition
- Application deadline: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
- Theme: Design saves us:
soft space. 'Soft Space' might be a flexible and extensible space
for various meanings and functions. It can be opposite to the
hard and fixed spaces but rather be in favor of the spaces for
floating concepts, changing functionalities and reacting to the
flow of the people. Conceiving the flexible thinking and creative
imaginations of the spaces, we might be able to make the various
alternatives, substitutions, and even supplements in the design
to endure the depression. Open to teams of students who are registered
in undergraduate and graduate school in Korea and other countries.
A team should be composed of three or less students and should
submit only one entry.
Call for entries: Re:VISION
Design Award
Deadline 17th November 2009
Modern Painters magazine and Louise Blouin Media are inviting
designers from around the world to participate in the inaugural
Re:VISION Design Award. The Re:VISION Design Award challenges
emerging designers to revisit, rethink and reimagine how we live
in our homes in these environmentally and economically challenging
times. Whether in the fields of furniture, lighting, product,
interior or environmental design (or some combination of these),
we seek to recognize innovative designs that thoughtfully explore
new ways to live, work, play and interact in the domestic environment.
How can design make the way we live in our homes more enjoyable
and beautiful? How can it make it more efficient? And most important,
sustainable? Show us an object or environment that you have conceived
that offers a new, more enlightened domestic lifestyle.
Peru: Green
360
- Registration Deadline: November
17th, 2009
- ARQUITECTUM, invites the architects
of the world to participate in an International Architectural
Competition "Green 360", The aim is to create an innovative
concept as an alternative to the typical apartment buildings,
at one of the most privileged sceneries in Lima, at the mountains
of the Camacho urbanization, by the Golf Course "Los Inkas",
in the district of Santiago de Surco. The project consists about
developing two tower models, one typical and another one at the
corner, on a sloping ground, considering an existent spatial,
urban and real estate proposal. The "Green 360" Project
consists in developing 4 "loft" apartments in each
building, designed to enjoy the exclusive view of the "Los
Inkas Golf Club", the city of Lima and the Pacific Ocean
on a clear day. The towers should project a contemporary image,
actual and front line, destined not only for the district in
which it is to be built, but also for the global village.
Canada: Call
for Proposals / 11th International Garden Festival - Appel de
candidatures / 11e Festival international de jardins
Deadline: Friday November 6th 2009
- The International Garden Festival
is preparing its 11th edition and is issuing a call for proposals
to select designers to create contemporary gardens around the
theme of "Paradise". The Festival will be held from
June 26 to October 3, 2010 at Les Jardins de Métis / Reford
Gardens, in Grand-Métis, Québec, Canada. This international
call for proposals is open to all landscape architects, architects,
designers and artists, from Canada and abroad, who are encouraged
to form multidisciplinary teams.
Le Festival international de jardins prépare sa 11e édition
et lance un appel de candidatures afin de sélectionner
les concepteurs qui réaliseront les jardins contemporains
autour du thème du « Paradis »,
Le Festival sera présenté du 26 juin au 3 octobre
2010, sur le site des Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens,
à Grand-Métis, Québec, Canada. Cet appel
de candidatures international est ouvert aux architectes paysagistes,
architectes, designers et artistes, invités à former
des équipes pluridisciplinaires.
- Argentina: Buenos
Aires 2009. Vertical Zoo in Puerto madero - International Competition
- Registration deadline: November
2nd, 2009
- ARQUITECTUM is pleased to welcome
the world's architects to the International Architecture Competition
"BUENOS AIRES 2009". Ecological Reserve is located
to the east of Puerto Madero, the "Costanera Sur" .
This is a natural space of "artificial" origin situated
on a large area of land reclaimed from the river when it was
filled with the rubble from the demolition work undertaken during
the construction of the highway system in the 70s and 80s. While
the city was making a decision on what to do with this new area,
an ecosystem of grasslands, lakes and wooded areas began to develop
spontaneously, until finally the area was declared a Protected
Natural Reserve in 1986. That is why it has been decided that
for this competition the project under consideration should be
a "VERTICAL ZOO" in the middle of the reserve which
will seek to accentuate the natural character and the recreational
and leisure vocation of the zone as it has developed over the
years.
USA: Berkeley Prize
- Stage One Essay Competition
Entries Due November 1, 2009.
- The Berkeley Undergraduate Prize
for Design Excellence endowment was established in the Department
of Architecture at the University of California to promote architecture
as a social art through research, writing, and criticism. Each
year, the Prize Committee selects a topic important to the understanding
of the interaction of people and the built world that becomes
the focus of the Essay Competition. This years topic is Sustainable
Architecture/ Traditional Wisdom. The Committee poses a Question
related to the topic. Students enrolled in any undergraduate
architecture program throughout the world are invited to submit
a 500-word essay proposal responding to the Question.
USA: Peace Pentagon: A
Call to Action
- Registration Deadline: 1st November
2009
Submission Deadline: 7th December 2009
- We invite architects, designers,
artists, engineers and multi-disciplinary teams worldwide to
participate in a competition to re-imagine and rebuild the Peace
Pentagon, located at 339 Lafayette Street in New York City. A
hub of peace-promoting activism since the 1960s, the Peace Pentagon
unites under one roof a wide array of non-profit groups committed
to political and social change. We are seeking proposals that
will support and expand the work of the peace activists on several
scales: as a financially responsible and ecologically sustainable
building, as a means of engaging with a neighborhood that has
a rich history of activism and art, and as part of an influential
city that can impact thinking in far-away places.
Italy: Rome Prize 2010
Application deadline is November
1, 2009
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. Stipends
for six-month fellowships are $12,500 and stipends for eleven-month
fellowships are $25,000. Fellowships are awarded in the fields
of Architecture, Design, Landscape Architecture, Historic Preservation
and Conservation, Literature; Musical Composition; Visual Arts;
Ancient Studies; Medieval Studies; Renaissance and Early Modern
Studies; and Modern Italian Studies.
USA: What's
Your Problem
Applications Close October 31st 2009
- What's Your Problem is a "problems
competition" open to architects, students, designers, engineers
and other building professionals with problems to solve. The
key difference is that instead of competing for design, you are
competing for collaboration. We are looking for problems that
are: not too grand in ambition (the more focused, the quicker
we can help you), are design, fabrication or construction focused,
and can be applied to an ongoing project. Show us your problem
and the winners will win consulting time with our team of parametric
modeling specialists in the New York office as well as a temporary
license for Digital Project™. Working sessions will take
place at the New York office of Gehry Technologies. Demo licenses
of Digital Project™ will be provided for the duration of
the collaboration period. Winning submissions and runners-up
will be exhibited online.
USA: HLWSF
Low Impact Development Design Competition
Registration Deadline October 31st,
2009
Houston Land/Water Sustainability Forum have launched this 2-Stage,
open competition for integrated design teams which include an
architect, a landscape architect and a civil engineer. Each design
challenge represents an actual property for which the owner has
an interest in developing utilizing Low Impact Development methods.
In an effort to provide the opportunity for the broadest professional
participation and to demonstrate to local developers and political
influencers the benefits of LID, entries will be accepted in
the following three Challenge categories: Suburban Residential,
Urban Redevelopment and Green Roadway.
USA: 35th
Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition 2009
Submissions by Saturday, October 31, 2009 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, 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. New to this year's competition
is the addition of a Prize for Best Delineation in Physical
Format. This prize is open exclusively to all who send
the physical original of their drawing to AIA Dallas. Other
prizes include the Wiley Prize for Excellence in Hand Delineation,
the Laguarda.Low Prize for Excellence in Digital/Hybrid Media
and the International Prize for Excellence in Delineation (open
only to students and professionals outside the U.S.)
Canada: REZ Student
Competition for the Design of a University Residence Building
in downtown Toronto
Deadline for team registration: Friday October 30th
2009
Submissions due: December 28, 2009
Ryerson University, Canada's leader in innovative, career-focused
education, and the Design Exchange the foremost agency
promoting the importance of design to everyday life in Canada
have announced an international competition for the design
of an exemplary, state-of-the-art university residence building.
Submissions are sought from students enrolled in schools of architecture
and the allied disciplines. The competition site is
located on the campus of Ryerson University in downtown Toronto.
The residence building is intended to provide housing and related
facilities for a representative cross section of the University's
population, including students, faculty, staff, and visiting
scholars. The site and competition brief call for creative thinking
in terms of the conception of affordable, high-rise accommodation
for university campuses situated in dense and somewhat edgy inner-city
conditions. Among other considerations, the competition brief
asks students to reflect on and respond to the following questions:
As the idea of the university has changed over time, has the
idea of the university residence building changed along with
it? Can the design of a university residence building enhance
the student learning experience? Can it help to build community
more broadly? And can the design of a university residence building
act as a catalyst for positive change and renewal
of the urban environment? Entrants are encouraged to undertake
the competition in multidisciplinary teams and to seek faculty
and professional input; entrants may not, however, undertake
it as part of a course assignment.
USA: Call for Artists: Alexandria
Police Memorial
- Deadline for Submission: October
30, 2009, 4 pm
- The City of Alexandria, Virginia
seeks to commission public art for the Alexandria Police headquarters,
currently under construction. The process will be managed
by the Office of the Arts, a division of the Department
of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities, with the Alexandria
Commission for the Arts Public Art Committee. The City
will conduct the search for qualified applicants through a Request
for Qualifications (RFQ). The art will be paid for by private
donations and grants. The purpose of the project is to
recognize the service of Alexandria Police Officers to their
community. The artwork will focus on the honor, integrity
and sacrifice of Alexandria's fallen officers, past and future
and will convey a message of honor, appreciation and remembrance
rather than one of loss and sorrow. The Memorial will also
provide an appropriate site for ceremonial activities of the
Alexandria Police Department and the City. The Alexandria
Police Department has lost seventeen law enforcement officers
in the line of duty, the first in 1823 and the most recent in
1993.
- USA: Brick-Stainable
- Deadline for Entries: October
30, 2009
- Hoping to unearth innovative
ideas to showcase brick in sustainable design uses, Potomac Valley
Brick (PVB) announces a call for entries for a new international
architectural green design competition. In "Brick-stainable:
Re-thinking Brick," entrants will be asked to design a hypothetical
net-zero energy building using clay masonry as a primary material.
USA: Water
and Wind Competition
- Submissions will be accepted
to October 30th, 2009.
- DNA+ is posting is first invitation
to international designers in a new, exciting competition named
"WATER & WIND". The subject of this international
competition is a bath designing program to complement the antelope
collection on the DNA+ web site. Products have to be designed
for all, in other words have an easy access, be environmentally
safe, compliant for a use in a wet environment for a residential
use as well as for a commercial use. Material limitation; wood,
Corian, aluminum, stainless steel, glass, acrylic glass.
UK: Gateway
goes for Guild, Social Housing, Preston
- Online registrations close on
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Community Gateway Association is celebrating Preston Guild 2012
with a competition to design an exciting social housing scheme
in the city centre. Preston Guild dates back to the granting
of Preston's first Charter by King Henry in 1179. Linking the
city's glorious heritage and past with its ambitions for the
future, the Guild is Preston's most important and historic event
and is held every 20 years. The next Guild is in 2012 with the
theme of "Innovation and Creativity". Community Gateway
Association, working in partnership with Preston City Council,
is sponsoring this architectural competition with the aim to
have a winning scheme built and occupied by the time of the main
Guild events in mid-2012. Architects are invited to develop innovative
design proposals for a social housing development in the centre
of Preston, where people will aspire to live. The winning scheme,
with an emphasis on design quality and energy efficiency, will
be a project demonstrating that affordable does not equate to
ordinary, and should act as an exemplar for future social housing
developments in Preston and elsewhere.
- Taiwan: Taipei
Pop Music Center International Competition
- Stage One Material Submission
Deadline: 19th October 2009
Two-stage open competition. To encourage pop music creation,
patronage performing talents and teams, integrate relevant peripheral
industrial development, the R.O.C. plans to build a large pop
music performing center in Taipei with outdoor performing plaza
and relevant measures. With an area of approximately 7.65 hectares,
the center base is located in Nangang District, Taipei City,
nearby the MRT Kunyang Station. The principal space design comprises
of an indoor performing hall with 4500-6000 seats, an outdoor
performing space with 15000 standing seats, hall of fame, a digital
library, a medium and small indoor exhibition and performing
live house, industrial communities and incubation space, etc.
We cordially invite outstanding design teams at home and abroad
to custom design a unique performing space for Taiwan's pop music
operation and development by taking into consideration all music
types and the development trend of international pop music.
Italy: Sargeant
Fellowship -Three Month Residency in Rome
- Deadline for applications:
Wednesday 14 October 2009
- For 200910 the Sargant
Fellowship is exclusively for Architects. It provides a unique
opportunity for an established, mid-career practitioner/academic
to undertake a three-month studio residency in Rome, AprilJune
2010. Fine arts residencies at the BSR offer artists and architects
a superb opportunity to research and focus on their work away
from normal pressures, and to use the BSR as a base to explore
Rome and Italy.
USA: DawnTown 2009: Metromover!
- Registration deadline October
14th.
- The topic is a new station for
Downtown Miami's elevated public transportation system, Metromover,
on the north edge of Museum Park. he proposed station may be
completely new or adaptive reuse of the existing structure, but
must be a permanent structure consisting at minimum of platform,
track configuration, shelter, support, and vertical circulation.
The design should be innovative and express the spirit and civic
pride of Miami (as the entrant understands it) and the importance
of intransportation, resulting in an iconic structure, as well
as considering the climate of Miami, and green issues.
USA: Call for Artists
-Charles Hamilton Houston Memorial, Alexandria VA
- Deadline for Submission: October
1st, 2009, 4 pm (EDT)
The City of Alexandria, Virginia seeks to commission public art
for the new Charles Houston Recreation Center. The process
will be managed by the Office of the Arts, a division of the
Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities, with
the Alexandria Commission for the Arts Public Art Committee.
The City will conduct the search for qualified applicants
through a Request for Qualifications (RFQ). The purpose
of the project is to honor and memorialize Charles Houston and
to recognize the historical importance of the former Parker-Gray
High School, Alexandria's first African-American high school.
Open to all artists or design groups.
UK: Bath
Personal Rapid Transit Design Competition
- Final Entry Submission Date:
October 01, 2009
Can the world's newest transport technology fit into one of the
world's most historic cities? Advanced Transport Systems Ltd.
is offering designers around the world the chance to become involved
in the design of ULTra Personal Rapid Transit, as part of the
CIVITAS Renaissance Project investigating sustainable transport
options in historic cities. The competition entails the design
of vehicles, stations, guideway, and other infrastructure design
elements; participants can choose to address any or all of these
elements. Entries will be judged based on their feasibility,
aesthetics, and originality. Many of the submitted designs will
be presented as part of a public & stakeholder feedback process;
these designs -- and the responses to them -- will be incorporated
into our final report to the EU. A smaller number of winning
designs will be selected by a panel of judges; these will receive
international exposure in the media, the EU project dissemination
process, and the Advanced Transport Systems website.
USA: IDA09 International
Design Awards
Entry deadline: September 30, 2009
- IDA exists to recognize, celebrate
and promote legendary design visionaries and to uncover
emerging talent in architecture and interior, product, graphic,
and fashion design. IDA aspires to draw attention to the iconoclasm
of designers worldwide conceptualizing and producing smart solutions
to design problems. It is rare and multidisciplinary by design:
we align designers internationally with cross-disciplinary inspiration
and dialogue.
Italy: Degree
& Profession
final deadline September 30th 2009
- Degree & Profession is the
virtual and international competition that offers visibility
to ideas and degree projects from all over the world. It allows
graduates to get in contact with professionals searching for
young talents. The insertion of theses online is free until July
31st 2009 and offers the possibility of winning monetary prizes,
a stay in Florence and the participation to the Florence World
Festival that will take place in Florence from the 24th to the
27th of November 2009. This event, promoted by the Romualdo Del
Bianco Foundation, is an annual international event, that in
2009 will focus on human creativity in relation to the environment,
and themes such as architecture, the environment, art, fashion,
design, marketing, anthropology, communications.
USA: suckerPUNCH:
lavender lake art factory
- submission deadline 28th Septh
09
- open international competition
-this competition proposes a new artists factory for the "public
place" site. the proposal will be designed to both foster
creative production and attract visitors to the factory and neighborhood.
the factory will contain private/shared art studios, a storefront
gallery/bar, analog/digital shops, and live/work spaces for rotating
artists in residence.
Spain: 3rd Advanced
Architecture Contest - THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY
- Closing date for registration:
Monday September 28th 2009
- Envisioning the habitat of the
future -the aim of this international competition is to promote
online discussion and research through which to generate insights
and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the
city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like. The competition
is open to architects, planners, designers and artists who want
to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable
by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges
in areas such as ecology, information technology, socialization
and globalization, with a view to enhancing the connected self-sufficiency
of our cities.
USA: Next Stop Design
- Competition that closes September
25, 2009.
- A bus stop design contest in
cooperation with the Utah Transit Authority and funded by the
U.S. Federal Transit Administration. The project is the
basis for a larger research study being conducted by researchers
at the University of Utah to test public participation online
for democratic decision making. Register for free on the site,
submit your bus stop designs, and vote on the designs of your
peers. Designs with 25 or more votes by September 25, 2009, are
eligible - so encourage your friends to vote for your submission.
Top rated eligible designs will be considered for actual construction
as a bus stop in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Italy: Malpensa
Architecture Competion - La porta di Milano - the Gateway to
Milan
- Deadline for Entries: September
21, 2009
- SEA, (Società esercizi
Aeroportuali, the company that manages the airports of Linate
and Malpensa - Milan -Italy) is looking for creative ideas
and innovative proposals to give a new identity to the
Malpensa Airport and invites students and professional architects
and designers to take part in the Gateway to Milan competition.
La Porta di Milano/the Gateway to Milan will connect The
Malpensa Airport with the Malpensa Express Railway Station
and replaces the existing structure.
USA: urbanSHED International Design
Competition
- Registration by Sept 18th 2009.
- Competitors must enter their
submissions by 5 p.m. on Friday, October 2, 2009.
- The New York City Department
of Buildings (DOB) and the New York Chapter of the American Institute
of Architects (AIANY) have launched the urbanSHED International
Design Competition. The unique competition challenges the global
design community to create a new standard of sidewalk shed design
that improves the pedestrian experience while maintaining or
exceeding the required safety standards in New York City. The
urbanSHED International Design Competition is open to architects,
engineers, designers, and students from around the world, allowing
for the widest possible participation. Sidewalk sheds are typically
built over public space to protect pedestrians during construction
activity, and there are currently more than 6,000 sidewalk sheds
installed and in use today at New York City's buildings and construction
sites, spanning more than 1,000,000 linear feet.
USA: New Amsterdam Bike Slam
- September 10-13, 2009
Inspired by poetry slams, reality television competitions, and
celebrity death matches, the New Amsterdam Bike Slam is a unique
battle for the future of New York City transportation. Two teams
will compete to design the most creative, compelling vision to
increase bicycling in lower Manhattan and the New York Harbor
District. A symposium on Global Trends in Sustainability, the
final design battle, as well as an award ceremony presented by
Mayor of Amsterdam Job Cohen are all open to guests.
UK: Urban
Exchange: The Souk RIBA Regional Student Ideas Competition
- Entries should arrive no later
than close of business on Tuesday 8th September 2009.
- The newly established RIBA Gulf
Chapter has launched a competition that seeks to restore or create
a meaningful spatial arrangement to encourage people to interact
in an area of a city where more contemporary town planning and
architecture have disrupted the way in which we use our streets.
The competition brief is to design a bazaar or souk and include
activities relevant to its urban role, such as shops, some accommodation
for short stay, workshops, public spaces, cafes, performance
spaces, places of gathering or worship/mosque and landscaping.
The site, to be chosen by the student, should be a minimum of
500m long and 100m wide within an existing urban context. It
could be an area in decline, in need of rejuvenation. Alternatively
the student might consider the removal of an existing group of
buildings, and their replacement with a new development that
restores lively street-space to the city or humanising a contemporary
urban district.
USA: POP.Park
- Submission deadline is September
1 2009
- In celebration of Park(ing)
Day 2009, Transportation Alternatives (T.A.) is hosting a new
park(ing) spot competition. We're bringing Park(ing) Day out
of the box by challenging creatives to design a portable and
affordable pre-fabricated POP.Park that people can use to reclaim
public space each and every day of the year. POP.Parks will be
public spaces produced from readily available, reclaimed or post-consumer
recycled materials that will emerge from a regular, cardboard
box. POP.Park competition finalists will be invited to construct
their prototype on Park(ing) Day 2009 and entries will be judged
by POPular text-message voting. The winners will be announced
at T.A.'s annual REDUX event and the winning POP.Park prototype
will be fabricated and sold on the T.A. website.
USA: Newark
Visitor Center Competition
- Registration Deadline: August
31, 2009
- The partnership of AIA Newark
& Suburban, Emerging Professionals and the Young Architects
Forum invites designers from all over the world to find innovative,
visionary and compelling proposals for Newark, New Jersey's Visitor's
Center. NVC is an international design competition focused on
enhancing the progress of future endeavors in Newark, NJ while
celebrating it's fascinating past. Currently, there is
no method for way-finding or a comprehensive historical center
for this revitalized city continuously on the rise. All
of the most significant cities in America include some sort of
visitor's hub that welcomes and funnels countless people through
to their restaurants, civic marvels, and cultural/community events.
This structure would surely facilitate further progress and highlight
all of Newark's hidden gems and main attractions alike. Moreover,
the space shall boast an eclectic, sustainable program, becoming
its very own destination spot.
Canada: ResilientCity.org
International design ideas competition.
amended Closing Date: August 31st 2009.
- The purpose of the competition
is to raise awareness in the Architecture, Planning and Engineering
communities of resiliency as a central strategy for dealing with
the future impacts on our cities of Peak Oil and Climate Change.
We hope that this ideas competition will generate many imaginative
and useful design and planning exemplars that effectively illustrate
ResilientCity.org planning and design principles and strategies.
Participants may submit one or more design ideas for the four
Building Design and Urban Design Scenarios. Each Scenario represents
an important opportunity to design for more resilient, post-carbon,
zero net energy buildings and urban fabric. Prizes include a
First Prize of $1,000 CN (any category); a building design Second
Prize of $500 CN; an urban design Prize of $500 CN; and
publication of winning and honourable mentions on the ResilientCity.org
website.
USA: Lifecycle Building Challenge
3
Submission deadline: August 30
- LBC3 is an international design
competition focused on facilitating future material reuse. Lifecycle
building includes design for deconstruction and adaptive reuse--principles
that support cost-effective disassembly and anticipate the future
reuse of building materials. Submit your innovative project,
design, or idea in Building and Product categories to conserve
building materials and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by preserving
embodied energy. This year LBC3 is open to US and international
student and professional participants, and is sponsored by the
American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the U. S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
Hong Kong: Open
Call for Submissions for the 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City
Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture
- Register by email by 26 August
2009
- Submission deadline: 5:00 pm
(Hong Kong Time) 9 September 2009
- The 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture is organized by The
Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA) in association with
The Hong Kong Institute of Planners (HKIP), The Hong Kong Designers
Association (HKDA), and the Shenzhen Planning Bureau, with support
from the Home Affairs Bureau of The Government of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region. The Curatorial team is now pleased
to announce three open calls for the submission of proposals
to the Hong Kong portion of the 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture that respond to the
theme of City Mobilization: BYOB (Bring Your Own Biennale).
- Bring Your Own Bench -an open
call for submissions focused on the design of contemporary alternatives
to the typical civic furniture of Hong Kong's public spaces.
- Bring Your Own Booth (**Professionals
only) -an open call for submissions focused on designing a contemporary
interpretation of the outdoor hawker stalls commonly found in
older street markets across Hong Kong.
- Bring Your Own Box (Urban Visions)
-an open call for the submission of "Urban Visions"
for a future Hong Kong-Shenzhen metropolis.
USA: Design
It: Shelter Competition
- Enter by August 23rd 2009
- The Guggenheim Museum and Google
SketchUp invite amateur and professional designers from around
the world to enter Design It: Shelter Competition. Submit a simple
3-D shelter for any location in the world using Google SketchUp,
Google Earth and Google 3D Warehouse. Judging is based on relationship
of shelter to the environment around it, innovative design, thoughtful
use of materials, adherence to project specs, and quality of
SketchUp model.
Canada: National Museum of fine Arts, Quebec
-International Architectural Competition
Deadline for the submission of candidacies
is 21 August 2009 at 3:00 p.m., local time
- The Musée national des
beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) wishes to build a new pavilion
on a site adjacent to its present complex on the Plains of Abraham
in the heart of Quebec City, and is organising an international
architectural competition under the aegis of the Ordre des architectes
du Québec (OAQ) and the government of Quebec. This competition
will observe the OAQ's Guide des concours d'architecture with
respect to both the manner in which it is held and its rules
for fairness. The firm chosen to carry out the mandate must in
addition conform to Quebec legislation, with respect in particular
to that concerning the exercise of the architectural profession.
The construction of a new pavilion for the Musée national
des beaux-arts du Québec promises to be decisive both
for its intrinsic novelty and for its opening onto the urban
space of the Grande Allée. The MNBAQ is looking for an
unhesitatingly contemporary gesture which will transcend the
heritage nature of its environment. The competition will be held
in French, the official language of Quebec.
USA/Canada:
The
Western Home
- Deadline for completed entry
packages: August 17, 2009.
The Western Home Awards, sponsored by Sunset and the American
Institute of Architects, have been celebrating great home design
for more than 50 years. Our search for entries in our 20092010
competition begins with some exciting new categories designed
to showcase distinctive Western design. Architects, designers,
and owners of new or newly remodeled homes (completed after January
2007), from the 13 Western states and western Canada, are invited
to submit completed designs in six categories: Custom Home, Residential
Remodel, Green Home, Urban Living Space, Indoor-Outdoor and Small
Space.
UK: Next
Wave : Shelter & Kiosk - New Open Design Competition
Deadline for stage one design submissions
is Wednesday 12th August 2009
- This new competition seeks designs
for a new series of seafront structures for the seaside resort
of Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex. The competition is being organised
by the RIBA Competitions Office on behalf of Rother District
Council. The new structures, with a total construction value
of £220,000, comprising 4 seafront shelters and a kiosk,
are a flagship element of the Council's Next Wave Seafront Improvement
Project. The project consists of a series of public realm improvements
and construction projects centred on a core area of Bexhill's
seafront, in the vicinity of the modernist icon that is the De
La Warr Pavilion. It is the expectation that a high quality design
solution for the new structures will help deliver the regenerative
and place-making objectives of the Next Wave Project, creating
architecture which will add to the experience of visiting Bexhill's
seafront. The Jury Panel, which will include architect Niall
McLaughlin will be looking for designs which combine innovation
and creativity with realism and functionality.
Korea:
sa2009 International
Design Competition
- Application Date: by 8.8.2009
- Entry Submission 10-14th August
2009
Subject COLLABORATION WITH NATURE:
-Climate Action by Architecture
-Eastern Methodology for Sustainable Design
- Organized by sa: seoul association
of architects and supported by Presidential Committee on Green
Growth (Korean Government), Seoul Metropolitan Government. The
built environment is globally responsible for about 40 per cent
of global CO2 emissions, 40 per cent of solid waste generation
and up to 40 per cent of global energy use. Compared with many
other industry sectors the opportunities to reduce emissions
are easier to achieve and more substantial. Small changes could
potentially create massive waste and energy savings. The competition
calls for architects' response on this social issue not only
by technologies but also by design.
UK: 2009
Award for Religious Architecture
Deadline for applications is 6pm
on 31 July 2009.
Art and Christianity Enquiry (ACE) invites entries for the 2009
Award for Religious Architecture. ACE is presenting the
Award in association with the Royal Institute of British
Architects. All entries for a work of religious architecture
or landscape design from any faith tradition will be considered for
the award of £3,000. Entries must be in the United Kingdom
and completed between September 2004 and September 2009.
Italy: REFF/RomaEuropa
FakeFactory -a detourned competition
- Deadline for registration and
entries is 31 July 2009
- RomaeuropaFAKEfactory is an
international Videoart, Music, Literature, GIF-Art, Architecture,
Design, Landscape and Law Art competition, that revolves around
the "Freedom to Remix" theme, and is dedicated to young
creatives, new media artists, writers, musicians, architects,
designers, landscape artists, jurists and to intellectual property
enthusiasts and researchers.
- 100 Spaces / Call For Entries
-within the REFF series, the 100 Spaces contest is an international
design, architecture, landscape competition for students and
young architects/designers/landscape designers (under 40). The
subject of the competition is Freedom to remix where remixes
gain value as an opportunity to create an "in progress"
archive of design/architecture/landscape propositions, that are
project/methodological explorations models, capable of reacting
in the face of continuous transformations of contemporary social
needs and that, transcending all permanent and immobile characteristics,
may be created and recreated according to the needs of inhabitants/users/consumers
who become producers of different meanings within an aesthetic
vision of an infra-ordinary universe.
USA: rouse[D] competition + exhibition
Submission/Registration Deadline: July 31, 2009
rouse[D] is a two part open ideas competition and exhibition,
that will focus on re-inventing the city of Detroit through the
use of digital computation methodologies! It challenges people
to come up with designs that will rouse the city of Detroit and
encourage an evolution of our understanding of its unique urban
environment. Ranging from macro to micro, explore all options;
this project is not just about the large scheme, but also the
small details. They are looking for the most CREATIVE and thoughtful
designs that could help Detroit and make it better in some way. The
competition does have one condition; the site or sites must be
IN Detroit proper. Curated by Method Lab and Syzygy Studio.
Germany: 2010 contractworld.award
- closing date for entries is
17 July 2009.
- The contractworld.award is Europe's
most valuable prize for interior design. Prizes are awarded for
the best design concepts in three main categories: progressive
office work environments, creative hotel and restaurant interiors,
and innovative shops and exhibition stands. Entries are also
invited for this year's additional fourth category, which is
for attractive and unusual interior designs for buildings in
the education and healthcare sectors. The competition is open
as of now to architects, interior designers and design professionals
worldwide. Projects submitted must have been completed after
31 December 2006.
Korea: Seoul Design Competition: Interflow
and Consilience
- Stage 1 - Internet submission
by July 15th 2009
- The Seoul Design Foundation
is now calling for entries for the Seoul Design Competition on
the theme 'Interflow and Consilience.' The competition theme
is about merging different elements, breaking barriers, flowing
into each other, and evolving into a union. The old paradigm
of dividing and drawing boundaries alone shall not bring us a
sustainable future. That is why the Seoul Design Competition
takes on the theme 'Interflow and Consilience,' and sets no limitations
as to category.
UK: The
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
Deadline for receipt of expressions
of interest is 2.00pm on Wednesday 15 July 2009.
- This competition seeks an architect
for the design of a new gallery extension and alteration of internal
and external spaces within the Grade II listed Whitworth Art
Gallery in Manchester. The competition is being organised by
the RIBA Competitions Office with funding support from the Friends
of the Whitworth and is the first stage of a Heritage Lottery
Fund supported project. The project vision is to extend the South-west
facing side of the Gallery adjacent to Whitworth Park to expand
the space to display and study the collection, improve facilities
for visitors and improve the efficiency of the existing building.
Initial application will be by expression of interest. A shortlist
of 5 practices will be shortlisted to produce concept designs
and will each receive an honorarium of £5,000.
Middle East: Towards MidEastPan
- Design Ideas Competition
- Registration end: July 13
- With the launch of MidEastPan
and towards the Forum of Themes and Sites in the coming September
a Design Ideas Competition is being held. The competition is
an open invitation for ideas and projects within the Built Environment
in the Middle East. Projects can be of any scale (communal, local,
national, regional etc') and to address any location and context
(real or not). The competition is open to individuals and teams
from the Middle East and is held in two streams: General and
Students.
Italy: What's more alive than YOU
- Closes on July 3rd, 2009.
This is the first of two WHAT'S MORE ALIVE THAN YOU® creative
design competitions taking place twice a year and involving a
network of about 2,150 Universities, Associations, Foundations
and teams of art, design, fashion and architecture enthusiasts
in 82 countries worldwide.
UK: Architects for Health 2009 Student
Health Design Award
Submission by 3rd July 2009
Architects for Health invite architectural students to submit
projects to be considered for the third annual Student Healthcare
Design Award in 2009. Any project relating to the design of a
healthcare building can be submitted. For students without qualifying
projects AFH have a number of sample briefs available.
UK: Sandcastle
Competition for Architects and Architecture Students
- Registration Deadline: 1st July
2009
- The only chance you might get
to build at Sandbanks. Architects from far and wide will be converging
on Sandbanks Beach on the 4th of July, for their first
Sandcastle Design Awards! The event is being organised by KUBE
and the Solent Centre for Architecture and Design. Their
collaboration is part of the re-launch of The Study Gallery as
KUBE and coincides with the end of the South East Festival of
Architecture. The architect designed sandcastles will be judged
by a panel including Roger Zogolovitch.
Germany/Arctic:
Arctic Perspective
Initiative "Mobile Media-Centric Habitation and Work Unit
Deadline: July 1st, 2009
This open architecture design competition is open for the
submission of proposals for the design of a mobile media-centric
facility, life support habitation and work module with renewable
energy supply, waste recycling, and communications systems. Proposals
are invited from architects, designers, engineers, artists, students,
and engineering teams. The design should be an open source
mobile architecture/system/machine capable of functioning in
extreme as well as temperate climates and containing mass/industrial
and amateur production/manufacturing potential. The unit is to
serve as a model for mobile research within extreme cold environments,
with the ability to incorporate high tech solutions while utilizing
sustainable resources.
 
Poster: Herzog and de Meuron -Barcelona Forum
UK: international
competition to Design Out Waste
Deadline for submissions is 2.00pm on Tuesday 30 June 2009.
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) and the RIBA Competitions
Office announce an international open ideas competition to identify
ways that construction waste can be reduced through design. The
competition, 'Designing out Waste' seeks innovative and practical
ways of reducing construction waste through design.
Switzerland:
Shahneshin Foundation Web Design Award
- Submissions by 29th June 2009.
- The SF Design Awards is open
to graphic and web designers from around the world, and whoever
has a Micheleangelo-kind idea, is challenged to design an inspiring,
unique and creative design piece for a specific company, an interdisciplinary
collaborative.
UK: Accessible Beach Hut Design Competition
Deadline for submission of models to arrive by Friday 26th June
2009.
- Professional artists, architects
and designers are being invited to submit bold and dramatic concepts
to reinvent a row of beach huts specifically for disabled beach
users. The new huts will form a key part of Boscombe Sea
Change, a government funded scheme, which will deliver the UK's
only purpose-designed accessible beach facilities. Other
projects underway include a seasonal beach access trackway made
from recycled pier timbers, enabling visitors with mobility impairments
to access the beach down to the waterline. Improvements
to accessible parking in front of the new huts and a refurbishment
of the accessible public toilet will also take place in time
for summer 2009.
UK: New
RIBA Ideas Competition -London Bridge 800: Design an Inhabited
Bridge
- Deadline for submissions is
25th June.
- The RIBA announces the launch
of an ideas competition which is being organised to mark the
800th anniversary of the opening of the first London Bridge in
1209AD. Old London Bridge was an inhabited bridge and the competition
asks today's designers to imagine a new version of the inhabited
bridge, based on the present structure (which for the purpose
of the competition is to be deemed strong enough to carry buildings
on its deck). The competition is being organised on behalf of
The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects A Livery
Company of the City of London.The competition is open to architects
and students of architecture.
UK: International
Competition Seeks Designers for Southend Pier
- Closing date 15 June
- Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
has announced an international competition to appoint a landscape
architect to design a new landscape and buildings for the Pier
Head at Southend Pier. The competition is being run by The Landscape
Institute, with the support of the RIBA Competitions Office.
The competition seeks a design that will reinvigorate the Pier
and turn it once more into a major attraction for both tourists
and residents.
UK: Bishop Edward King Chapel
Design Competition
Deadline for expressions of interest is Thursday 11th June 2009.
Architects with outstanding design skills are being sought to
take part in a competition to design a new College Chapel in
Oxfordshire. Ripon College, Cuddesdon intends to
commission the new building as part of a major programme of expansion
and consolidation of its buildings in order to meet the needs
of ministerial formation and Christian education in the 21st
century. The overall objective for the chapel is that it
will be a place in which people will want to pray and feel attracted
to do so. The new building should be welcoming, flexible
and functional and of the highest architectural quality.
The proposed budget will be some £1.2 million, excluding
furnishing and fees. Selection will take the form of a two
stage process, which at stage one seeks expressions of interest.
A shortlist of up to five practices will be chosen and invited
to produce concept designs.
USA: McKinley House...There's
No Place Like Home
- Registration deadline: Monday,
June 8, 2009; 11:59 pm EST
- Buffalo Emerging Professionals
(BEP) and AIA Buffalo/WNY, a chapter of the American Institute
of Architects, present this competition for the architectural
design of the McKinley High School House for integration into
the Fall 2009 school curriculum. The competition is held in collaboration
with the Construction Industry Education Foundation, Buffalo
Public Schools and McKinley High School. The aim of the McKinley
House competition is to design a modular house using familiar
materials and systems while advancing the architecture and general
aesthetic appearance of the building. The competition builds
upon the success of the McKinley "There's No Place Like
Home" project and the support of the Construction Industry
Education Foundation. Architects and designers are challenged
to produce a design that encourages the students of McKinley
and the general public to consider residential architecture in
a new way. The competition is open to architects licensed 10
years or less, intern architects and students in the field of
architecture and design, as well as individuals and teams.
UK/World:
World Habitat
Awards 2009
Stage I entries must be received by 1st June 2009
The Building and Social Housing Foundation is currently seeking
entries for the World Habitat Awards 2009 competition.
The World Habitat Awards were initiated in 1985 and 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. The competition is open to all individuals and
organisations, including central and local governments, NGOs,
community-based groups, research organisations and the private
sector. An award of £10,000 is presented to the winners
at the annual United Nations global celebration of World Habitat
Day.
UK: AA|FAB
Awards 2009 "Designing Fabrication"
- Entries must be posted to the
Architectural Association and postmarked no later than 1st June
2009.
- The FAB Research Cluster at
the Architectural Association in London announces an open international
call for submissions to the 2009 AA|FAB Awards. This year's Award
theme is 'Designing Fabrication' and the Cluster is interested
in submissions documenting recently built projects that exemplify
the innovative integration of design and fabrication processes
through digitally driven design systems and protocols, and whose
completion contributes to an international discourse on the use
of emerging design and fabrication technologies. The jury is
interested in receiving submissions for projects that articulate
how the designer is increasingly approaching the material fabrication
and assembly of projects as an integral part of the design process
and how the acquisition of these new forms of knowledge is changing
the existing definitions of design professions.
Peru: Poseidon 2009
- Registration by May 31st 2009
- Arquitectum invites architects
of the world to participate in the International Architectural
Competition "Poseidon 2009". The real estate developers'
interest in creating an International Architecture Competition
lies in the need to create an innovative concept as an alternative
to the typical beach community. Poseidon Investment S.A. would
like to see this new concept provide their clients with a new
experience in seasonal homes; different, creative and original
from conception, far from the typical gated community so common
of the coastal beach communities of southern Lima. Each architect
will establish their architectural position about oceanfront
living as a retreat, though his/her proposal may set precedent
as becoming a permanent year-round residence. The architect is
free to establish an intellectual theory in order to submit a
real innovative solution, different from anything existing in
the world. The program includes a Pier and a Yatch Club as well
as 198 Homes, 17 Villas and their amenities such as Pools, a
Club House, a Bar and the Boardwalk.
Call
for Submissions for Monu - magazine on urbanism #11 - Clean Urbanism
- Ideas and abstracts should be
sent by the end of May 2009.
- When it comes to Clean Urbanism,
a lot of proposals have been made recently for the building of
so-called "eco-cities" that produce their own energy
from the wind, the sun, bio-fuel, or recycled waste. But it has
often been denied that such sources of energy, being integrated
directly into cities, are highly inefficient, very expensive,
and in the case of wind energy, very noisy. Nevertheless, wind
turbines in an urban realm, for example, nowadays feature in
almost every urban competition entry that requires sustainable
energy concepts. Solar panels on rooftops have become state of
the art on innumerable new building designs, however inefficient
and expensive they are. The question is: how might we achieve
a Clean Urbanism that is socially, economically, and politically,
but also environmentally correct? This issue of MONU is meant
to initiate an advanced discussion and stimulate new and fresh
ideas to discover and increase our understanding of how Clean
Urbanism could actually work.
Netherlands:
Squat City
- Deadline for submissions extended
to May 31st 2009.
- The 4th IABR exposition [International
Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam] and the ETH switzerland launched
a competition about innovative though practicable low-tech solutions
on urban, building and tool scale to enable the slum dwellers
- 31.6% of the worlds urban population - to live in a sustainable
and dignified environment. The winners and all mantained projects
will be published on the 4th IABR exposition and on the upcoming
innovative network.
UK: Onedotzero
-call for submissions
The deadline to submit is 29 May
2009
- Onedotzero extends an open call
for submission to the 2009 festival programme to be premiered
at the BFI Southbank; the UK's flagship centre for moving image
located in London's most visited cultural quarter, before an
extensive UK and world tour. Onedotzero is seeking proposals
for installations, interactive works and live audiovisual performance
in addition to short film / animation works for the festival
and other projects.
Poland: International Design Competition
- An Architect -the Drawer of Dreams
Submit by 29th May
- A challenge to architects to
design a loft of their desire, using a wide category of products.
Creativity and innovative ideas are required using the FDH duet
high pivot windows and at least two other types. While creating
your vision integrate urban or landscape elements of your preference.
Sponsored by FAKRO Company and Stadslab European Urban Design
Laboratory
USA: d3 Natural
Systems International Architectural Design Competition
Registration Deadline: May 20th 2009
Exploration of natural systems from the microscopic to the universal
unearths vast design potential for overlaying cultural, ecological,
and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies.
The d3 Natural Systems Competition invites architects,
designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the
potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based
influences in architecture, interiors, and designed objects.
The competition calls for innovative proposals that advance
sustainable thought and performance through the study of intrinsic
environmental geometries, behaviors, and flows at various scales.
By identifying, examining, and applying their structural
order on form and function- -bottom-up, performance-based solutions
for limitless building typologies, functional programs, and material
conditions may be realized. The d3 Natural Systems Competition
allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in
a scale-appropriate manner- -from large-scale master planning
endeavors, to individual building concepts, to notions of interior
detail. Accordingly, there are no restrictions on site,
scale, program, or building typology.
Australia: Situate -an International
Sculpture Competition
- Closing date for Stage 1 entries:
20th May 2009
- The Western Australian Government
is undertaking an open competition for a major public art commission
for Forrest Place, Perth. The project has been designed to encourage
innovative partnerships between artists and other design professionals.
The competition process will identify a multidisciplinary team
that brings originality and design excellence to the project.
UK: Re-visioning Utopia...a charette
for artists, architects and academics
Application deadline: 18th May 2009
Charrette 4pm Wed the 15th July - 12 noon Sun 19th July (Inclusive).
The word charrette may refer to any collaborative session in
which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem.
While the structure of a charrette varies, depending on the design
problem and the individuals in the group, charrettes often take
place in multiple sessions in which the group divides into sub-groups.
Each sub-group then presents its work to the full group as material
for future dialogue. Such charrettes serve as a way of quickly
generating a design solution while integrating the aptitudes
and interests of a diverse group of people. Re-visioning
Utopia will bring together Artists, Architects and Academics
in small multi disciplinary teams and offer an intensive series
of research field-trips exploring the diversity of Barrow
and its Islands followed by good food, studio based discussion,
'model' making, drawing, mapping and text based exploration.
The charrette runs from 4pm, Wednesday 15th July at Art Gene,
Barrow in Furness, Cumbria. That evening we will eat together
at Stuart Bastik's off-grid, former fisherman's cabin on the
coast of Barrow. Over the following 3 days, multi-disciplinary
'research groups' will explore a range of challenging landscape/townscape
stimuli.
USA: MINING: NEW YORK exhibit -call
to architects/artists/designers for submissions
deadline: May 15, 2009
How does the particularity of New York and the influence of time,
space, mood, and memory impart specific ambient and formal qualities
on art, design, and architecture contemplated in and for the
City. How does the City's urban, cultural, social, and
demographic DNA bubble-up to inform a site-relevant visual, performative,
or audible voice? MINING:NEW YORK calls for work in art,
architecture, interior design, and designed objects that reflects
themes and generators specific to the City. d3 welcomes international
submissions. Selected submissions will be featured in a
forthcoming exhibit planned for June 2009 at d3 in Brooklyn.
UK: Urban
SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses Competition
Students must register and provide statements of intent by 15
May 2009.
- We are in an urban age. Most
of us today live in cities. Is there a place or a neighborhood
in your city that needs a good fix? Do you know of an unplanned
settlement, a displaced community, economic uncertainty that
has driven away business, environmental degradation that has
reduced quality of life, an area enduring the aftermath of natural
calamity, a derelict urban site? Have a plan that could turn
things around? The competition is open to submissions that solve
these common urban problems, on any site, within any city or
town, worldwide. If you're passionate about improving the quality
of the world's communities, then this competition is for you.
Today's built environment needs creative, thoughtful ideas. If
you have them, this is your chance to let them shine. The Urban
SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses competition
is open to individual students or teams of up to four undergraduate
and graduate students at all levels from all countries in the
design and planning fields including landscape architecture,
urban design, architecture, landscape urbanism, economics, planning,
geography, engineering, environmental studies and related fields.
USA: Delaware Valley Green Building Council
2009 Sustainable Design Competition (open student competition):
Deadline for Submission: 4 May 2009
With the mainstream media's ever growing focus on the benefits
of fresh food on physical well being and education, the DVGBC
2009 competition challenge involves the design of a sustainable
food co-operative market. The project should act as a stimulus
for the local neighborhood and economy in which it is sited.
It should serve as a community gathering place, uniting urban
areas with surrounding agricultural areas. Similar to the
Reading Terminal Market of Philadelphia, the food co-operative
must include individual vendors and retail spaces, incorporation
environmental and sustainable practices. The program integrates
both permanent indoor and seasonal outdoor retail and community
spaces. This project is well suited to the exploration of the
principles of integrated design, sustainability and innovation,
and the resulting impacts on human health and well being. Platinum
Prize Stipend to attend Greenbuild 2009 and compete in
the national U.S. Green Building Council Natural Talent Design
Competition
Australia: Architecture,
Building & Planning New Building Competition
Closing date for Expressions of Interest (EoI) is 1st May 2009.
- New Building Competition: Faculty
Architecture Building & Planning (ABP), University of Melbourne.
Expressions of Interest (EoI) are invited from architects and
architectural practices, individually or in collaboration, interested
in working with the Faculty and the University in the role of
architect for the new building. The project is seen as a "once-in-a-lifetime"
opportunity for the Faculty to achieve strategic objectives relating
to the positioning of ABP and the Melbourne School of Design
(MSD), with a commitment to innovation in relation to the design
and delivery of an outstanding campus building. The aspiration
of the faculty and the University is that the new building will
demonstrate an outstanding level of quality in both the processes
of design and development and in the finished product. The resulting
design will provide an excellent working environment to encourage
high quality research, teaching and learning. The Faculty's
new landmark building-and the research and teaching within it-
will be renowned for its global outlook, risk taking innovation
and for the incubation of tomorrow's industry leaders.
Netherlands:
international
architecture competition for the "World Sustainability Centre"
- The closing date of the competition
is the 1st of May 2009.
The Centre is to be located on the Afsluitdijk, an icon of the
Dutch struggle against the sea. The Centre will be a showcase
of new and innovative products and projects. Top level research
institutes will demonstrate their latest inventions on energy-
or water management. Inventors will discuss their ideas with
the public. Visitors can experience climate change, storms, rivers
flooding and melting ice, find new solutions to global problems
and try out the newest inventions. Naturally, this Centre needs
to be housed in a building that is itself an example of sustainability:
harnessing the forces of nature instead of keeping them at bay;
zero emission, zero waste, producing energy, cleverly making
use of the water that surrounds it.
USA: Grand
Concourse Design Competition
- Submissions will be accepted
until May 1st, 2009.
- The Design Trust for Public
Space and The Bronx Museum of the Arts are pleased to announce
"Intersections: Grand Concourse Beyond 100," an ideas
competition seeking bold visions from architects, planners, artists,
designers, students, residents and others for how the Bronx and
Grand Concourse can evolve in the coming decades and cope with
pressing needs for housing, green space, and transportation.
International:
International
Competition to Improve the Design Of Classrooms Around the World
- Registration Ends: May 1st,
2009
- Orient Global and Architecture
for Humanity challenge the global design community to partner
with teachers and students to design the classrooms of tomorrow.
Worldwide, 776 million people are illiterate. To address this
crisis by providing access to a quality education for all children,
there is an pressing need to upgrade the crumbling infrastructure
of tens of millions of existing classrooms, and build ten million
new classrooms, Orient Global, Architecture for Humanity and
a consortium of partners have launched the 2009 Open Architecture
Challenge: Classroom -an initiative to improve the design of
classrooms around the world.
Australia: Growth House Competition
- Submission date for entry: Friday
24th April 2009 (5pm)
- The February 2009 fires in Victoria
have re-written the rules about bushfires. Many of the fires
registered heat above 1,200 degrees Celsius and wind speeds of
more than 120 kph, leaving very little in their wake. This is
unprecedented. The HOUSE re-GROWTH Pod is a permanent and cost
effective housing unit which can assist in the rebuilding of
the fire devastated town-ships of Victoria. This competition
invites architects and designer to propose how this pod can form
part of their proposed design using a minimum of one per scheme.
An international ideas competition for the design for a new family
house for the residents of bushfire ravaged Victoria who have
lost their homes Open to architects and designers not just in
Victoria, Australia but to all those interested in the typology
required for the re-building of houses whilst the site is occupied
by the re-Growth Pod.
USA: Imagining Recovery
Registration Deadline: 19 April, 2009
On his 29th day in office, President Obama signed the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act and launched Recovery.gov, offering
a plan for recovery to be carried out with "full transparency
and accountability". This competition calls on designers
to imagine what this recovery might look like. This moment of
change offers an opportunity for designers to rethink how and
with whom they operate. Designers are asked to submit an image
of recovery to be consumed primarily by the public. This image
is to be supported by a design of any sort or scale -from physical
objects and interventions, to campaigns to change public behavior
or perception -which responds to the brief.
Canada: Artcity:
Call for Submissions: Festival of Art, Design & Architecture
in Calgary.
- Deadline for applications April
17th, 2009
- The Visual Arts Week Society
is seeking architecture-related proposals for the 18th incarnation
of Artcity Festival, September 4th to 13th, 2009. . The festival
showcases interactive, performative, and experimental works in
all media, with a mandate to show new and site-specific pieces
in dynamic, outdoor environments. One project will be selected
for execution as part of Artcity Festival 2009. The winner will
receive CARFAC artist and production fees to implement/construct
the idea. Proposals are sought for temporary architectural installations
that address:
- · a "township"
or multiple structure theme
- · the nomadic nature
of Artcity festival
- · the utopian nature
of outdoor rock music festivals
- · the need for a space/structure
where the public can congregate en masse, enjoy, and be challenged.
Bahamas: Custom Home Design Challenge
- Submission deadline for Stage
1: April 17th 2009
- The objective of the architectural
competition is the design of a 7,000-8,000 square foot multigenerational
home on the waterfront in the Bahamas. The architectural 'guideline' for
the home design should be one that stimulates and delights with
its unique ideas, exotic details and classic emphasis, and
harmonizes indoor and outdoor living spaces.
new USA: 2009
Natural Talent Design Competition
- Registration deadline is April
16.
- Hosted by the Cascadia USGBC
Emerging Green Builders. Every year, the NTDC challenges the
bright green young minds of Cascadia to tackle the design of
a Living Building while meeting the requirements of the national
NTDC. Open to students and young professionals -designers, engineers,
architects, urban planners or environmentalists.
USA: Re:Vision
DALLAS
- Registration Deadline: April
15, 2009
- The 6th competition in a series,
Re:Vision DALLAS is an opportunity to transform an existing
city block in Dallas into a model of cutting-edge sustainable
practices. Your are invited to be part of this ground-breaking
effort and help lay the foundation for sustainable urban
design, as well as the opportunity to collaborate on a highly
visible project for your firm.
USA: Call
for Submissions: New York Designs 2009 -Public
- Deadline: April 6, 2009
- The Architectural League created
the New York Designs juried lecture series in 2003 to provide
a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work
built in New York City. This year's theme, Public, asks
how designers think about and define "public" today;
and how designers imagine buildings, landscapes, and urban places
that aspire to be for the public.
Italy: European
Design Competition -Citta' Dei Bambini / City of Kids > Frattamaggiore
Naples
Registration Deadline: April 3rd, 2009
- Competition Area: 10.000 sqm.
Urban Project Budget: up to 15 Million Euros. Free download of
all competition materials (brief, registration form, cad files,
jpg images) from the official website.
UK: New
Students' Centre Design Competition : London School of Economics
- Deadline for expressions of
interest is 31 March 2009.
Expressions of interest from architects with exceptional design
skills are invited for a competition to design a new Students'
Centre for the London School of Economics and Political Science
on its Aldwych campus. As the world's leading centre for social
sciences, the LSE is one of the largest colleges within the University
of London and has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence
nationally and internationally. The next step in the campus development
programme is to dramatically improve its facilities by creating
a new Students' Centre. The School's ambition is to procure an
exemplary piece of architecture which is innovative, sustainable
and inspirational, which will be at the forefront of 'Contemporary
Westminster'.
Canada: National Music Centre
Cantos Music Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
- Submission deadline: 1400 hours
MST on March 31, 2009
- Cantos Music Foundation seeks
Expressions of Interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced
architects for the creation of a new national music centre in
Calgary's East Village. This project will integrate Cantos' existing
operations of historic musical instrument collection and public
programs in an expanded new unique facility which will combine
the adaptive re-use of a portion of the existing King Edward
Hotel heritage space and transform it into a new iconic facility
for Calgary, Canada and the world. This EOI is the first
phase of a two-phase selection process. Four or more firms
will be short-listed following phase one and invited to submit
their proposals and concepts for phase two. Invited firms
for phase two will each receive a USD $50,000 honourarium for
their submission and the winning firm will be awarded the project.
USA: Miami 2009
Registration Deadline: March 31st, 2009
ARQUITECTUM, anounces the International Architecture Competition
"MIAMI 2009". For this competition the project is a
"Pier-Museum", located at the end of Fifth Avenue leading
to South Beach, which, pointing out to sea, will stand as a "horizontal
monument" to all the immigrants (particularly the Cuban
immigrants) who have arrived on these shores in search of a better
future. To this end, this 100 meter long structure will house
a museum in which the personal effects, souvenirs and photos
belonging to the new generation of immigrants will be exhibited
those who came to the city of Miami from the 1950s to the
1980s in search of their own personal American Dream.
USA: Temporary
Outdoor Gallery Space 2 (TOGS 2) Ideas Competition
- Deadline for Registration is
now March 30, 2009
- After a successful run with
their Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space (TOGS) competition in 2008,
Art Alliance Austin announces their second installment of the
ideas competition TOGS 2. The TOGS 2 program fuses art and architecture,
providing opportunities locally, nationally and globally. Partnerships
with AIA Austin, Austin Foundation for Architecture and AIA New
York Chapter further Art Alliance Austin's goals by enabling
the competition to reach new communities, increasing accessibility
and gaining greater exposure for emerging professionals within
the architecture community.
USA: Deborah
J Norden Fund
Application deadline: March 30th
2009
- The Fund was established in
1995 in memory of architect Deborah Norden and awards annually
a total of $5000 in travel/study grants to students and recent
graduates in the fields of architecture, architectural history
and urban studies.
UK: The
British School in Rome Architecture Residencies 2009-10
Rome Scholarship in Landscape
Architecture
Rome Scholarship in Architecture
Applications by 27 March 2009
- Applicants are invited from
the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning
and environmental design for a residency at the British School
at Rome (BSR). Two residencies are available for between three
and nine months to develop and research work within the context
of Rome. They include accommodation, full board and a research
grant. The Rome Scholarship in Architecture is an annual prize
awarded to exceptional architects or post-Part II students of
architecture to enable them to study under their own direction
at the BSR.
- Iran: Benetton
Group: Designing in Teheran" International architecture
contest
- All planning documents must
be delivered strictly by midday (C.E.T), 27.03.2009.
- An international contest open
to creatives, designers and architects, who are called upon to
develop a design for two multistorey buildings, hereafter A and
B, set in the Iranian city of Teheran. The aim of the contest
is to bring together ideas and identify solutions that will provide
the best and most coherent integration of the structures in the
local urban and commercial setting, with projects that take into
account cultural and technical aspects, in order to enhance the
buildings, making them recognisable, with a clear sense of identity.
The spaces in question will be used for commercial premises and
offices, and crucial in these designs will be the ability to
convey the sense that these spaces are interpreted with contemporary
sensitivity.
Korea: Incheon
International Urban Design Competition for Students 2009
Registration Deadline: March 27th, 2009
The 2009 Incheon International Urban Design Competition for Students
aims to contribute to the transformation of Incheon Metropolitan
City into a world-class city capable of carrying out functions
and roles commensurate to such status and at the same time resolve
current urban issues for the city by promulgating a worldwide
call for public submissions of urban design plans. The theme
of this Competition is A futuristic U-Eco Community where new
technologies, the environment, and people are in harmony. Designers
are requested to submit their ideas that combine new technologies,
the environment with the people to create the U-Eco Community
and maintain the proper functions for resident, commercial uses
and others.
USA/Russia:
The Bering Strait
Project Competition
- Deadline for Registration March
24th, 2009.
- The Foundation for Peace and
Unification has launched the International Ideas Competition
for the Bering Strait Project approved by International Union
of Architects. This is a large scale project aimed at linking
railroad systems and ocean driveways from around the world by
connecting the Bering Strait between the North American and Eurasian
Continents. Through this unprecedented project, the Bering Strait
intends to be a place of mutual cooperation where the east and
west hemisphere are linked, the discontinuity of nation, human
and culture disappear, and a long-pending hostility and conflict
can be cleared up. Through the competition, the Foundation for
Peace and Unification would like to let the world know about
this intention and to stimulate their interest and participation.
It is a single-phased competition and is open to architects in
cooperation with affiliated professionals as well as students
of architecture all over the world.
USA: Gimme
Shelter: A National Ideas Competition for Urban Shade Structures.
- Registration deadline is Wednesday,
March 18, 2009
- Organised by The City of
Phoenix Office of Arts & Culture. Phoenix, the nation's fifth largest city, has nearly
300 sunny or partly cloudy days a year. That makes it a great
place to be in the winter, but a tougher assignment in the summer.
With the mercury exceeding 100 degrees for weeks on end from
late May through September, there are plenty of reasons to cry
"gimme shelter" and invite the best talent in contemporary
art and design to invent new forms of beautiful and durable city
shade structures. The "Gimme Shelter" competition is
part of Phoenix's efforts to revive its urban core as a "Connected
Oasis" of shaded sidewalks, plazas, streets and open spaces.
This competition is open to all artists, architects, landscape
architects, engineers, industrial designers and other design
professionals based in the United States. International designers
can be included as part of American teams.
UK: New
Swimming Pool -Worthing Borough Council
Expression of Interest deadline
14.00 hours on Tuesday 17th March 2009.
- RIBA Competitions Office is
running an Invited Design Competition on behalf of Worthing Borough
Council, to seek suitable and innovative solutions for the design
of a new swimming facility to be built alongside and to replace
the town's existing ageing pool complex known locally as the
'Aquarena'.
USA: FUTURE.city.past.FORWARD.
- Deadline March 15th 2009
- Call to Arcitects/Artists/Designers.
Futurist utopian visions of urbanism in the 1960s proposed by
Japanese Metabolists and Archigram amounted to very few deployable
works, yet significantly influenced a generation of architects,
artists, cinematographers, and designers. These movements embraced
notions of social reform, popular culture, and high-tech innovation
in their provocative concepts for a future world where cities
floated and buildings walked. Recent work in fantastical form
across the disciplines revisits and transforms futurism through
a contemporary lens. This call to architects, artists, and designers
requests work in art, architecture, interior design, industrial
design, and graphics that expresses futurism at various scales
and from multiple perspectives.
- Send CV/resume, Statement of
Conceptual Intent, 3D sketches, orthographic drawings, and/or
images (jpeg) electronically to: d3 (RE: future) info@d3space.org
Indonesia: Gotong Royong City -Envisioning
the Future of Jakarta
- Registration closes 14th March
2009
- International Architectural
and Urban Design Competition -The International Architecture
Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) 2009 in collaboration with Ikatan Arsitek
Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Architects Jakarta Chapter)
is pleased to announce an idea competition on the theme of 'gotong
royong city' in the context of the extended metropolitan region
of Jakarta.
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