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Architecture Competition
Archive 2010
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competitions
- IItaly: International
Sustainable Architecture Prize 8th Edition
Student subscriptions by 31st Dec 2010
The Ferrara Faculty of Architecture, Italy, during these
years has been involved in international seminars, courses and
activities concerning the sustainable architecture such as the
International Award for Sustainable Architecture, now in
its eighth edition. The 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. Jurors include Thomas Herzog and Francine Houben. We
are looking for both recently graduated students (within
the past 2 years) and professionals with a built work (completed
within the past five years) to take part in the competition
and send the inscriptions by the end of December 2010 and
the project documents not over 31th January 2011.
- Italy: International
Award "Degree&Profession" for young graduates and
students
- Submit before 31st December
2010
- Degree & Profession has
launched its seventh annual Virtual Expo, an online database
in which graduates can upload their Master's theses or degree
projects to gain international visibility with employers and
companies. All projects submitted to the archive by December
31, 2010 will automatically be digitally exhibited in Florence,
Italy, during the Florence World Festival from February 16-18,
2011.
India: Spirete Competition
Registration by 25th Dec 2010
A Design Competetiton for a mixed use area that
is part of an IT office complex in NOIDA in the National capital
Region of New Delhi with a built
potential of 175,000 square meters. The site for the SPIRETEC
project lies adjacent to the flood plain of the river Yamuna.
USA: Design a Better Workplace Award
runs until December 19, 2010
A competition to design a better workplace award using the
principles of crowdsourcing. On the Say Thanks website,
people can submit designs for workplace awards to a gallery,
where others on the site will have a chance to review and
score them. This process of allowing people to submit and rate
designs in a competitive format follows the crowdsourcing model, a
problem solving and production method for generating creative
work in an online community.
UK: Expo West Belfast Competition
Deadline for application is Friday 17th December 2010
The Northern Ireland Department for Social Development Belfast
Regeneration Office working in partnership with West Belfast
Partnership Board (WBPB), PLACE the Architecture & Built
Environment Centre and the Royal Institute of British Architects
(RIBA) invites expressions of interest from architect-led design
teams for proposals to regenerate the former site of a
security facility in an area of Belfast that suffered greatly
from the effect of Northern Ireland's political conflict
over more than 30 years, a time that became simply known as 'the
Troubles'. Daniel Libeskind will chair the judging panel for
the competition.
USA: 2nd Annual BrickStainable
Design Competition.
Registration Deadline: extended to December 15, 2010
3-2-1-Net Zero! invite Architects, engineers, material scientists,
environmentalists, students and educators to enter this competition,
which is held in pursuit of design solutions that exploit the
unique properties of brick masonry construction to create sustainable
building concepts. The competition has two categories, Integrated
Building Design and Technical Design
USA: Call for Entries: Kickin'
Back: Design for Leisure
Deadline: December 10, 2010
Kickin' Back is a juried competition that invites designers and
architects from the Mid-Atlantic region to reflect on the
concept of leisure and submit objects, renderings or prototypes
that either complement and/or comment upon what constitutes
contemporary states of rest or play. From public spaces such
as retail environments and parks, to objects that provide
comfort or promote interaction in private environments, you are
asked for work that provokes questions about what surrounds us
in our daily lives, and elaborate on how design impacts
our downtime.
Spain International Museum of Vulcanoes
(IMoV) Lanzarote 2010 Academic Competition
Registration Deadline: 15th November
2010
- The best idea will be selected
by the Jury for the International Museum of the Volcanoes
(IMOV) Lanzarote 2010. The competition is open to all students
of architecture worldwide,
individually or in groups of up to three members.
- UK: Salford
House 4 Life Competition
- The deadline for submissions
is 10 November 2010
Submissions are invited for an open two stage competition to
design a visionary family housing scheme on a 1.45ha brown-field
site in the heart of the Greengate area of Salford across from
Manchester City Centre. The competition is being organised
and managed by RIBA Competitions on behalf of Central Salford
URC, Salford City Council, Centre for Construction Innovation
North West (CCINW), British Research Establishment, Salford University
and NHS Salford. The promoters are looking for a visionary
development that will combine innovation and sustainability and
respond to existing and anticipated lifestyle, health and educational
needs of the community. The aim is to develop new models
of family housing close to the city centre that will be capable
of accommodating changing housing needs over a lifetime. The
competition is open to architect-led design consortia.
USA: 5th annual Ed Bacon Student
Design Competition
Entries are due at the Center for Architecture by 6pm on
November 02, 2010
Over the past several years this competition has given students
the opportunity to focus on real-life urban design problems that
embody challenges facing cities across the developed world. This
year's competition, "Designing the Fair of the Future,"
is a chance for students to dream big and imagine an international
World's Fair style celebration in Philadelphia. Ed Bacon himself
proposed a 1976 World's Fair in Philadelphia as a way to lay
infrastructure for future urban development. While that project
fell apart for reasons both financial and political, it may yet
be possible to successfully pursue this model for urban development. Philadelphia's
southern tip is an under-planned section of the city that would
benefit from infrastructure and other investments. It already
includes stadiums, waterfront, industrial sites, oil refineries,
corporate headquarters, shipping terminals, residential neighborhoods,
and parks but has yet to be fully activated by a compelling and
cohesive design plan. How could a grand international celebration
of America's birth help spark better use of this land?
UK:
World habitat Awards
.
All entries must be received by 1st November 2010.
These Awards recognise 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 celebration of World Habitat Day. The competition
is open to all individuals and organisations, including central
and local governments, community-based groups, NGOs, research
organisations and the private sector from any country of the
world. Stage I of the submission process requires only a
concise summary of the project.
Russia: C:CA:10
- Registration Dedline 31st October
2010
- On January 24th 2011 Center
of Contemporary Architecture in Moscow celebrates its 10th anniversary.
In honor of the anniversary C:?A organizes the festival including
an architectural film festival, an architectural competition,
an exhibition and the publication of the Book of C:CA. The
architectural competition's subject will be "The Contemporary
Architecture Universe". Students as well as the
graduated architects under 35 are invited to take part in the
competition. Ten winners of the competition will participate
in the exhibition project of State Museum of Architecture introducing
the new generation of architects.
USA: Downtown Fargo:
an urban-infill competition
Deadline for competition registration Friday, 29th October
2010
Competition Challenge. In 1999, the Fargo Renaissance Zone
Plan was adopted to help revitalize the urban heart of the city.
Since then, Fargo's downtown has experienced positive and steady
growth. A development opportunity recently arose on the
US Bank block, located at the heart of Fargo's Renaissance Zone.
Since 1963, the 90,000 square feet surrounding the current US
Bank building has been used for parking and concrete plaza space.
In the fall of 2009, a dated parking garage occupying one-quarter
of the block was demolished. Rather than see the city-owned parking
structure simple be replaced, Kilbourne Group wishes to facilitate
a progressive urban solution through this competition. Competition
entries will be used to generate public and political interest
in urban ideas that are viable, livable, sustainable, and beautiful.
Austria: aspern Lakeside Park
Deadline for receipt of applications for participation: Monday,
25 October 2010, 12 o'clock noon
It is the object of the competition to obtain a design concept
for the modular open space system of the aspern Lakeside Park,
to be composed of a Central Park, WestPark and East Park as
well as a Lakeside Promenade for aspern Vienna's Urban Lakeside.
The Lakeside Park is to cover a total area of
approx. 9.7 hectares and will form the central element of the
newly emerging city quarter aspern Urban Lakeside in the north-eastern
part of Vienna. It is envisaged to implement the landscape
design project in two construction stages until 2020. The amount
of Euro 5 million has been set aside as net production costs
for the first construction stage. On the basis of the applications
for participation, the jury intends to select 16 landscape architects,
4 of which are to be classified as "young studios/offices".
- USA: 36th
Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition 2010
Submissions by Friday, October 22, 2010 5PM Central Standard
Time
The annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition ("KRob")
is the longest-running architectural illustration competition
in the United States. Organized 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. 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.) Those who wish to send
the physical original of their drawing by mail to AIA Dallas will
be considered for the Richard Ferrier Prize for Best Delineation
in a Physical Format.
- Serbia; Competition
announcement for the design of Centre for the Promotion of Science
- Deadline for reception of registrations:
21 Octobre 2010
- The Serbian Ministry of Science
and Technological Development launches a competition for the
design of a Centre for the Promotion of Science in one of the
districts of New Belgrade. This open international, anonymous,
single stage competition is organised in cooperation with the
Association of Serbian Architects, the Association of Belgrade
Architects and International Union of Architects. The subject
of the competition is the design of the Centre for Promotion
of Science - a complex incorporating all the main functions for
exhibitions, conferences and a planetarium. Located on a site
of 11, 66 ha, it will be constructed on an area of 20 915 m2.
Competitors are required also to make proposals for the planning
of the entire site as a science park, that will become part of
the Belgrade High tech Centre, university, scientific and commercial
district.
- Taiwan: Taiwan
Tower Conceptual Design International Competition
Registration Deadline 21st Oct 2010
To commemorate the centennial anniversary of the founding of
Taiwan, R.O.C. and celebrate the merger between Taichung County
and Taichung City, the government of Taiwan, R.O.C. will erect
"Taiwan Tower" as an important landmark in the new
special municipality. Here, visitors will be treated to a panorama
view of the park, the city and the natural surroundings. The
new landmark will also help visitors and residents orient themselves
as Taichung makes the leap to become a world-class metropolis. Taiwan
Tower should also answer its call for environment responsibility
and adopt the use of alternative energy. In implementing the
government's policies in energy conservation and carbon reduction,
Taiwan Tower will act as a model of green building for the 21st
century. An international competition will be held to seek a
forward-looking and innovative design and enliven the project
with a fresh look and multifunctional use. Outstanding design
teams from home and abroad are cordially invited to contribute
pioneering planning and design ideas. Spread your creative wings
and let the dream of a new-age landmark for Taichung take off.
Japan: Waseda
Architecture Centennial Design Competition
Deadline 20th October 2010
This is a proposal for a future dwelling, which can accommodate
two residents and two guests. There is no height limitation but
the maximum gross floor area is 15m?. This number is derived
from J.G. Ballard's science fiction novel, "Billenium."
In the novel, the population of the earth reaches 20 billion
and 95% of the population resides in cities. Residential floor
area per person is limited to 4m? in that world. Although the
total area should be 16m? if it is for 4 people, 15m? is determined
by a new area regulation - 3.5 m? in the novel. This theme is
inspired by the fact that a 4-seat super mini car from India's
Tata motors leaped into the market with the surprisingly low
price of US$200. The consideration of spatial strategies
like Japanese traditional Shitsurai, efficient space
use, multiple uses at different times of the day, etc., is desirable.
There are so many examples of efficient use of extremely small
spaces, such as Le Corbusier's cabin at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin,
Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower, Ger in Mongolia and space
stations. Additional ideas about possibilities of ecological
dwellings considering the use of light and wind, which minimize
environmental impact, would be appreciated. The site can be anywhere.
We are planning to build an actual building from the winning
design.
- UK: Hastings
Pier Regeneration Scheme
The deadline for expressions of interest is Thursday 14th October
2010
Hastings Pier and White Rock Trust (HPWRT) are seeking an architect
for the redevelopment of Hastings Pier. Opened in 1872,
the Pier is prominently positioned in the heart of the vibrant
seaside towns of Hastings and St Leonards. Over recent
years the condition of the pier has been left to deteriorate
and in June 2006 the pier was partially closed, completely closing
to the public in 2008. HPWRT was established with
the ultimate goal of reopening and revitalising the pier as a
community based asset. The view is that the pier will continue
to deteriorate unless vital restoration work takes place.
A compulsory purchase order of the pier has now been agreed by
Hastings Borough Council, with a back to back transfer to HPWRT.
The aim is now to select an architect design team to work with
the HPWRT to support them in their future funding and design
development strategy. Applications to Community Buildings
and Heritage Lottery Funds for the renovation and redevelopment
costs are underway. Selection of the successful design team
will be by competitive interview, and HPWRT is hoping to attract
interest from designers with exceptional design skills and experience
in engaging the local community. Experience in working
in historical setting is ideal but not essential.
Italy: Call for ideas for
the renovation of former Civil Hospital of Gorizia
Register before October 13, 2010
An open-ended and anonymous competition for the renovation
of former Civil Hospital of Gorizia in the framework of the project "Spazio
giovani alla frontiera". The competition foreseens
the d evelopment of an Urban Project referring to the
area currently owned by the Company for Health Services n. 2
Isontina, preparatory to a redesign and reorganization process
of the Gorizia's former Civil Hospital and recovery of the existing
park.
Chile: International Architecture
Competition "SANTIAGO DE CHILE 2010"
Registration until October 11th, 2010
- The challenge for this competition
is to design a Museum that has XX Century History of Wine exhibition
areas and also be a landmark for the city of Santiago. To this
end, the plot where this project will take place is located at
Cerro San Cristóbal, since this hill is the most natural
and, at the same time, urban backdrop to lay out a natural/artificial
product such as wine. This is an amazing opportunity for the
winning architect to become well known in a potentially growing
market such as design of wine cellars and vineyards of all South
America.
Germany: 1st International Acabion
Architecture Competiton
Registration by 9th October 2010
Your chance to design the first Acabion Hub or an intercontinental
vacuum tube. AACLB announces its first international competition
to enhance the knowledge of advanced architectural design towards
an architecture of bionics and integrated systems within an inevitable
complex context. If you are interested in an existing technology
that allows you to travel fast and effectively based on the principles
of nature and if you do want futuristic visions to become closer
to reality, you may want to submit your proposal. The competition
offers entries within a number of categories, such as architecture,
fashion, material technology or urban planning. Acabion
so far is a vehicle and transport system inspired by bionics
manifesting high-performance. Acabion stands for innovation,
sustainability, research and humanity. Acabion Architecture focuses
on highly performative design inspired by nature, technology
and the basics of living. We are looking at design proposals
which do not impose but value our basic human desires now and
In future.
new USA: ACADIANY -call
for student work
Deadline October 8th 2010
On the evening of October 23, ACADI@NY will provide a venue as
a student forum exploring and communicating new student-driven
innovation through processing and digital architecture research.
The Great Hall of Cooper Union will again provide an academic
venue where historically, contemporary questions have been raised,
debated, and challenged. ACADI@NY will select 20 student
submissions and invite those students, each in succession to
another, to present a 4-minute-interval narrated synopsis of
imagery and thought process towards innovative and avant garde
digital strategies where software is challenged. Students
are encouraged to present ideas, processes, and techniques of
transferring of information among different software, interfaces
different applications and abstract processes discussing their
conceptual implications within a student project or work-study.
Students are encouraged to present abstract architectural
explorations in parametric modeling, surface geometry,
and mathematical equations producing formal vocabulary.
Panama: Diseño Entre
Mares
Deadline is October 1st, 2010.
As a celebration of the school´s 10th anniversary
and in commemoration of the 200 years of the independence movement in
most Latin American countries, ISTHMUS (Escuela de Arquitectura
y Diseño de América Latina y el Caribe), is
sponsoring a competition to submit, through creative far-fetched
proposals, new images for the Panama Canal. This construction
is one of the modern wonders of the world and one of the most
important symbols of our continent. The crossing between the
oceans is an exceptional and unforgettable experience. How
can it be enhanced? What can be done to make it even more memorable?
The competition is open to all and has no inscription fees. Up
to three proposals of the intervened image of one of the Canal
Locks (Miraflores) can be submitted. The image should be accompanied
by a short explanatory text. There are no cash prizes, but
an effort is being done to include all the submissions in a final
publication, and to obtain funding for awards which will be announced
as available.
- UK: 2010
Zumtobel Photographic Competition
- Entries by Friday 1st October
2010
- Visit the website and register
for your free camera, then you batter get snappering away
to win a range of great prizes.
USA: The
United States Fallen Heroes Memorial Open Design Competition
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2010 (8:46 AM)
An American citizen will have the opportunity to design the Memorial
at Kennedale, TX. Those interested in participating should
register register online to receive login information and access
to 3-D renderings and animations of the site as well as photos
and plot maps.
Philippines:
Design Against
the Elements
- Register by Friday, September
24, 2010
- Design Against the Elements
is a global architectural design competition meant to find a
solution to the problems and threats presented by disasters caused
by climate change. The challenge is to develop a master plan
and detailed design for a socialized housing community
considering the effect of the development towards the community,
environment and its biodiversity, develop a high performance
structure with an extended life cycle and a design that is appropriate
to the changing climate to withstand the rigors of the Philippines'
typhoons and consequent flooding, made worse by the increasingly
alarming effects of climate change.
UK: New Drinking
Fountain, Royal Parks Foundation -Open International Design Competition
The deadline for submissions is 22nd September 2010
The RIBA is delighted to announce the launch of an international
open design competition on behalf of The Royal Parks Foundation
and Tiffany & Co. Foundation for the design of a new drinking
fountain which can then be installed throughout the Royal Parks
in London. Tiffany and Co. Foundation is celebrating its
10th anniversary with a $1.25 million gift to the Royal Parks
Foundation (USA), a charity established to enable America to
support the natural history and heritage of London's Royal Parks.
The programme, called Tiffany Across the Water, focuses
on ornamental and drinking fountains in the capital's eight Royal
Parks and will see the creation of a stunning new fountain in
St James's Park, restoration of the Italian Gardens in Kensington
Gardens, as well as improvements to drinking fountains to benefit
the Royal Parks' 37 million visitors each year. The competition
challenge will be to create a well-designed drinking fountain
to replace older Parks' fountains which cannot be restored.
The winning designer will see their work turned into reality
in the Parks, with the hope that the design will eventually be
adopted in other green spaces around the world.
Taiwan: Re-Announcement of Kaohsiung
Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center International Competition
Stage One Material Submission Deadline 16th Sept 2010
To create Kaohsiung as a maritime capital, Kaohsiung City Government
sincerely invites architects from all over the world to participate
in the international competition of Maritime Cultural & Popular
Music Center. The center will comprise of a large exhibit
& performance area, some small exhibit & performance
areas, an outdoor exhibit & performance area, a pop music
exhibit area, a maritime cultural exhibit center, a ferry terminal
& passenger service center, a pop music industry center (incubation
center), a music art & maritime technology commercial area,
scenic landmark, and administration area.
- Haiti: Kay e Sante nan Ayiti -Housing and Health in Haiti.
- Deadline for registration is
Monday September 20, 2010.
- A global architectural
competition calling for architects, designers, and health specialists
to submit their ideas to the building of "healthy homes"
for Haiti. Through this competition, ARCHIVE
Institute will be building five housing units in St. Marc,
Haiti a coastal town approximately 100 km north of the
Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. What makes the project truly
unique is that throughout the entire process - from design, construction
through to habitation - health is a key ingredient. The
design and construction of the housing units should make use
of common sense principles which seek to minimize the transmission
of Tuberculosis. ARCHIVE hopes that the competition will raise
awareness of housing's ability to change the way in which society
deals with global health.
Canada: Canstruction
Toronto
Deadline for Entry Sept. 17
It starts with one can. To feed the hungry. To lift the spirit.
To change the world. Canstruction, an event committed to
ending hunger, is using 'one can' as a catalyst for change.
CanstructionR is the most unique food charity in the world! The
12th annual Toronto event hosted annually at the Toronto
Dominion Centre. So far, Toronto has raised almost
500,000 lbs of food for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Think you
have what it takes to design and build a structure made of nothing more
than canned food, ingenuity, and luck?
USA: AIA Utah YAF Competition
Registration by Sept 15, 2010
AIA Utah announces the 2010 design/build competition--Ballet
West: Fluid Adagio Installation (BWFAI), a first-time-ever joint
competition initiated by AIA Utah's Young Architects Forum.
We are calling on all young designers to step up to the challenge!
Local, national and international architects and designers are
invited to participate in this blind competition to create a
temporary installation (estimated to be 1 to 2 years) that will
occupy the future building site for Utah's premiere ballet company,
Ballet West. The project's site is adjacent to the historic Capitol
Theater in downtown Salt Lake City and is currently vacant, thus
providing a unique contextual setting in Salt Lake City's ever-changing
urban fabric.
- UK Royal
London Children's Hospital Internal Play Space and Exterior
Roof Garden
The deadline for submissions of Expressions of Interest is
15 September 2010.
The RIBA is has launched an invited design competition on behalf
of Vital Arts, the arts organisation for Barts and the London
NHS Trust for the design of an internal children's play space
and exterior roof garden within the new Royal London Hospital
set to open in 2012. The Royal London will be Britain's
biggest new hospital, providing general and specialist services
to the population of east London and beyond.The competition will
follow an invited design process with an open trawl of interest.
Architect-led multi-disciplinary teams are invited to send in
their Expression of Interest along with the accompanying PQQ
document.
UK: International
Open Design Competition: Whitehaven Harbour Central Site
Registrations will close on Monday
13 September 2010
RIBA Competitions announced the launch of a two-stage, International
Open Design Competition on behalf of Britain's Energy Coast West
Cumbria and Magnus Homes. The competition, to select an
architect-led team to design a circa GBP £10m mixed-use
development on a prominent site adjacent to Whitehaven Harbour,
is being organised with the support of Places Matter! the architecture
centre for the Northwest. The competition is open internationally
to architect-led design teams which (at Stage 2) will also need
to include the services of a structural engineer and M&E
consultant, as a minimum. Architectural students who have
successfully completed their RIBA Part 2 studies and are working
towards their Part 3 qualification are also welcome to enter
the competition. However, such applicants will need to
give due consideration to a proposed delivery strategy in the
event of them being short-listed and potentially being in a position
to go on and win the competition.
USA: Charleston's
'HuB Design Competition
Registration Deadline: September 13, 2010
Architecture for Humanity: Charleston is pleased to announce
The HuB Design Competition. The competition is open
to international professionals and students in the field of architecture,
urban design and landscape architecture. Entrants
to the competition are challenged to propose designs for a new
downtown transit hub and a prototypical suburban transit station
for Charleston, South Carolina. The HuB is an ideas competition
geared towards the generation of innovative thoughts and solutions
that will spark debate and help in the advancement of Charleston's
rich culture. The competition results will be exhibited
at the AIA South Carolina conference in October and will also
be shown at a Charleston exhibition to be announced.
- Mexico: CoARQ
competition for students
Registration closes 10th Sept 2010
Nowadays architecture students around the world are facing an
even greater and difficult challenge: designing human beings
habitat. It may be in an individual or urban scale, the private
and collective space now demands an even greater preparation
and experience from architects. The aim of the competition
is to collect all those projects with the best quality and relevance,
developed and elaborated by students around the world, in order
to put them under the evaluation of the jury members to grant
them a prize of recognition to their achievement and commitment
to the discipline of Architecture.
Netherlands: The Student Final-Project
Architectural Design Competition
Deadline is August 31st, 2010
Architectonisch.nl (Architectonic Architecture) is an international
competition, based on the final projects for a degree in Architecture.
Open to all students who are currently graduating or allready
have graduated recently with a proffessional degree in architecture.
It is free of charge for students who wish to have their
work published, both to help them fina a job as well as help
future architecture students get an idea of what a final project
is as well as help them consider weather or not Architecture
is their passion and which school fits best with their
design concepts.
Netherlands: The Student Final-Project
Architectural Design Competition
Deadline is August 31st, 2010
Architectonisch.nl (Architectonic Architecture) is an international
competition, based on the final projects for a degree in Architecture.
Open to all students who are currently graduating or allready
have graduated recently with a proffessional degree in architecture. The
general guidelines can be read on our website and is free of
charge for students who wish to have their work published, both
to help them fina a job as well as help future architecture students
get an idea of what a final project is as well as help them consider
weather or not Architecture is their passion and which school
fits best with their design concepts.
Spain: Opengap 1 -Open Ideas
Competition
Registration Deadline: August 31, 2010
The purpose of this competition is the collection of innovative
ideas in architectural design that not only rethink the
concept of "market" as a commercial space highlighting
the value of manual /craft work but also promote the direct
contact between the artist-craftsman and the customers.
The objective is to find proposals that provide a modern vision
of urban markets looking for their adaptation to the current
lifestyle, but without losing their value and social essence,
history and culture.
- Canada: Phyllis
Lambert Design Montréal Grant: Launch of the call for
applications to young design professionals
Deadline for applications: August 16, 2010
- The Phyllis Lambert Design Montréal
Grant will be awarded for a third consecutive year. Created for
young design professionals, this grant aims to acknowledge and
promote the talent of emerging Montréal designers and
foster their professional recognition. The winner will receive
a $10,000 award to fund a professional development project in
one of the cities of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, of which
Montréal is a member. A promotional campaign will also
be organized to raise awareness of the winner among his or her
industry peers as well as the general public.
Latvia: airBaltic New
Terminal Design Competition
Register by Monday 16th August 2010
airBaltic corporation have launched a competition for design
of an airport terminal. The competition's focus is on exploring
design concepts, both architectural and functional that
best capture the aspirations and brand identity of airBaltic.
It is an opportunity for designers to innovate and create
a unique identity for both the airline and the city of Riga.
airBaltic intends to develop the winning first stage design
and to engage with the winning team in a subsequent second
interested in receiving the detailed competition pack, please register
your interest by sending your name (or company name) and
full contact details to airbalticcompetition@arup.com.
- Critical Subjects: Architecture and Design Winter
School 2010
Competition closes 10
August 2010.
Calling architecture and design students -the competition to
win a FREE place at mantownhuman's Critical Subjects Winter
School is now open. 20 places will be made available to
UK undergraduate students currently (as of May 2010) in the 1st year
of their studies. This experimental event takes place at
The Kowalsky Gallery, London EC1 on 17-18 November 2010 and offers
a unique opportunity to engage in a series of intellectual architectural
design challenges facilitated by leading names in the field. Entry
is simple. Submit a one-minute video critique
for or against - one of four buildings. Judging is by the Critical
Subjects International Advisory Panel. Prizes include: authoring
an article in Blueprint; a European architectural visit; design
books to the value of £350; public exhibition of work;
-Mexico: Call
for Papers: d3:dialog>assemble
Deadline for Submissions: August 10, 2010
- d3:dialog is a hybrid publication
that combines the depth and format of a journal with the flexibility
of a magazine. Each issue will explore a focused aspect
of current architectural theory and production. It publishes
peer-reviewed essays, visual compositions, and observations that
merge research-based rigor with an avant-garde journalistic edge.
d3:dialog solicits the work of educators, practitioners, and
doctoral candidates in the design disciplines. We seek
provocative and original writing that critically examines contemporary
urbanism, architecture, landscape, interiors, and designed objects.
We request scholarship, studio/practice research, and projects
that ask bold questions while proposing innovative approaches.
Israel: THE Bat-Yam Biennale
of Landscape Urbanism | Timing 2010: 72 Hour Urban Action |
Open Call
Apply by August 8th, 2010
72 Hour Urban Action Project is an international rapid architecture
and design festival. It is defined by community needs, an extreme
deadline, a tight budget and limited space. We invite teams
of architects, students, designers, artists and craftspeople
to respond to community needs and wants in relation to its public
spaces. Selected teams will have three days and three nights
to plan and realize their projects in response to missions assigned
to them on takeoff day. Selected projects will remain on site
permanently.
- Scotland: Making
Space 2010
- Closing date: 8 August 2010
- An international award and conference
promoting innovation, creativity and sustainability in design
for children and young people aged 0-18. Making Space 2010 is
an international award supported by the Scottish Government and
OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments. Submissions
are invited from across the world for the most successful building
or space (indoor or outdoor) for children and young people aged
0-18 (inclusive), completed between January 2005 and December
2010. Entries are welcomed for any building or space that is
for children and young people from schools to street furnishings,
recreational or educational, rural or urban and should exemplify
innovation and creativity in design as well as demonstrating
a strong process of user participation and involvement. Entries
are encouraged from anyone involved in the creation and use of
a building or space, for example, architects, designers, structural
engineers, urban designers, landscape designers, teachers, educators,
users, children and young people, commercial developers, community
groups, design consultancies.
Ireland: Call for nominations 2010
European Architecture Prize
- Nominations for this first Prize
are invited through August 1, 2010.
In 2010, The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and
Urban Studies together with The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum
of Architecture and Design will inaugurate the first European
Architecture Prize. The European Architecture Prize will
be given annually to any living architect whose built work exemplifies
the highest ideals of European civilization and embodies
vision, commitment, and a profound respect for humanity and
for the social and physical environment. Nominations are
encouraged from all nations inside the European Union, as well
as non EU member states including Norway, Switzerland, Russia,
Turkey, Liechtenstein, Albania, Monaco, Andorra, Serbia, Montenegro, Georgia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldavia, Belarus, Azerbaijan,
Canary Islands, Faeroe Islands, San Marino, and Iceland.
USA: Urban SOS Design Competition
Submission deadline is July 31, 2010.
Urban SOS: Transformations calls for responses to sites
in one of seven cities that are undergoing transformations. The
open student ideas competition for 2010 seeks to engage students
in the design, planning, architecture, landscape architecture,
urban design, engineering, environmental and related fields,
with the urban conditions that are now facing the majority of
the world's population. Entrants must submit a site redevelopment
plan that addresses specific issues in one of the following seven
cities:
· Beijing,
China
· Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia
· Johannesburg,
South Africa
· Istanbul,
Turkey
· Phoenix,
USA
· Port
au Prince, Haïti
· São
Paulo, Brazil
Poland : Concert
Hall Sinfonia Varsovia
- Registration of the Competition
Participants online by Friday 30th July 2010
- The Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra
announces a two-stage architectural competition for a conceptual
design of the main municipal concert hall for 1800 seats
as well as the adaptation of the ex-Veterinary Institute's historical
buildings located at Grochowska Street in Warsaw.
UK: What's
Occurin'? Sandcastle Competition 2010
- Barry Island Beach, 24 July,
1 - 5.00pm
- RIBA Bristol & Bath branch,
Design Circle (RSAW South), RSAW and RIBA South West bring you
the inaugural Sandcastle Competition for budding young designers
and those with a little more experience to engage in some light-hearted
competition on the sands of South Wales. Sandcastles will be
judged in four categories with a prize for the Best Overall structure.
Haiti: Building
Back Better Communities project
Deadline for Stage 1 submissions extended to July 19, 2010.
Initiated by the Government of Haiti to investigate alternative
forms of permanent housing for displaced citizens. A prototype
housing Expo will take place in Port-au-Prince from early October
2010. The development of an exemplar housing settlement will
follow shortly after. The Government of Haiti wishes to attract
as wide a response as possible from across the world. Designers,
architects, contractors, consultants and suppliers are all warmly
invited to participate.
Italy: Solar
Park South
- Online free registrations are
open to 15 July 2010
- Regione Calabria - Town Planning
and Territorial Governance Department - announces the first "Zero
Emission" international competition, Solar Park South. Participants
are requested to provide economically, energetically and culturally
sustainable projects and innovative ideas for the reuse of an
imposing 10-km highway stretch, between the municipalities of
Scilla and Bagnara, soon to be decommissioned. Participation
is open to architects, landscape architects, engineers, designers,
artists, scientists, researchers and students worldwide.
USA: A House for Anton Chekov
- The deadline of this competition
is July 15th, 2010.
- We could call this house The
House of Subtext. Strangely, this is supposed to be a house for
a man whose pseudonym at one time, in translation, meant: Man
without a Spleen. But was he really a "man without a spleen...?"
We ask you, then, to design a "house of mood, " a house
whose life is "submerged in the text," as his own work
is. A house that refuses the heroics, or, to be more exact, the
explicit, self-advertising forms of heroism, since there is with
certainty a form of heroism in a doctor, like Chekhov, who treated
the poor without charging them and who built public buildings
for them, with his own money... and who refused to complain,
despite the fact that he was seriously ill, of an illness that
actually shortened his life significantly.
Russia: A101
Block City Masterplan Competition
- Portfolios to be submitted
by July 14th
- Masshtab Development Company
is announcing a competition for the design of the masterplan
for A101 Block City, a new town of around 150.000 people and
13 million sq m of housing located south of Moscow.The Masterplan
competition has two stages: the first stage is an open
selection procedure for architects and urban designers based
on portfolios, the second one an invited competition among four
selected participants. The competition is based on the Block
City concept that was developed by Bart Goldhoorn and Aleksander
Sverdlov in the context of the International Architecture Biennale
in Rotterdam in 2009. The client is looking for firms
that have experience in housing design and masterplanning.
Australia: UWA
Architecture Competition Designed to Aid International Crisis
Areas
Submission deadline is 14 July 2010
Graduate architects and designers are invited to create an innovative,
easily constructed shelter for remote communities affected by
natural disaster as part of The University of Western Australia's
2010 Pavilion Project Design Competition. The successful
designer will oversee the construction of their prototype pavilion
designed to provide economical shelter for remote communities
around the Indian Ocean. The winning entry is likely to
be constructed and displayed on Whitfeld Court in front of UWA's
Winthrop Hall during the Perth International Arts Festival celebrations
in 2011. Awarded annually and open to applicants anywhere
in the world, the Project will provide a graduate architect or
designer with the opportunity to present their work to a wide
audience by bringing the best of contemporary architecture to
Perth - as well as contribute solutions to one of the major problems
facing the disadvantaged in our region.
Italy: Open Design Italia
Deadline for participation is 13th July 2010.
From 19th to 21st November 2010 will take place in
the Foro Boario of Modena the first edition of
Open Design Italia, the event dedicated to self-production design
and to limited series production. We are looking for talents.
The cultural association La Pillola 400 notifies the
release of the competition announcement for Open Design Italia,
the event dedicated to the self-production design and the limited
series production. The competition is open to designers,
graphic designers, studios, groups, individual persons and creatives,
who have made self-production and limited series production
USA: d3 Natural Systems
2010: International Architectural Design Competition
Registration Deadline: July 5, 2010
The d3 Natural Systems Competition for 2010 invites architects,
designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the
potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based
influences in architecture, interiors, and designed objects.
The competition calls for innovative proposals that advance sustainable
thought and performance through the study of intrinsic environmental
geometries, behaviors, and flows. By identifying, examining,
and applying their structural order on form and function- -bottom-up,
performance-based solutions for limitless building typologies,
functional programs, and material conditions may be realized. The
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.
contractworld.award
2011
The application form should be send per Fax until 02 July
2010.
The contractworld.award 2011 is now regarded as the most important
European architecture award in the field of architecture and
interior design and is seen as a reliable indicator of the quality
of interior design. Entrants may submit design concepts
for interiors which have been realized after 31 December 2007,
and which stand out by virtue of their quality, functionality,
aesthetic value and their innovative treatment of space, materials,
colour and surface texture or finish. The entries will be
judged in four different categories: Offices/Administration buildings,
Hotels/Spas/Catering facilities, Shops/Showrooms/Exhibition stands
and Conversions.
UK: Architects
For Health: Student Design Award 2010
- Registration Deadline: 2nd July
2010
- Architects for Health invite
architectural students to submit projects to be considered for
the third annual Student Healthcare Design Award 2010. As in
previous years any project relating to the design of a healthcare
building can be submitted, however the 2010 competition introduces
a greater emphasis on the sample brief - Designing for Death:
Hell, Purgatory and Paradise and a specific prize will be awarded
for the most successful response to the sample brief.
The Student
Architecture + Design Initiative is a non-profit organization
that aims to collect, organize, and disseminate student architecture
and design thesis projects. We recently launched a website, www.student-showcase.org,
that is now accepting student thesis submissions. After
assessing, organizing, and curating these submissions over the
summer, SADi will publicly debut the Global Student Showcase
on September 1, 2010. Students, faculty, and other users
will then be able to freely enjoy this collection. Over
time, we hope to build the definitive repository for student
architecture and design thesis projects. The deadline
for submissions is July 1, 2010.
USA: Sukkah City: NYC
Register: 1st July 2010
Biblical in origin, the sukkah is an ephemeral, elemental shelter,
erected for one week each fall, in which it is customary to share
meals, entertain, sleep, and rejoice. Ostensibly the sukkah's
religious function is to commemorate the temporary structures
that the Israelites dwelled in during their exodus from Egypt.'Sukkah
City: New York City' will re-imagine this ancient phenomenon,
develop new methods of material practice and parametric design,
and propose radical possibilities for traditional design constraints
in a contemporary urban site. Twelve finalists will be selected
by a panel of celebrated architects, designers, and critics to
be constructed in a visionary village in Union Square Park from
September 19-21, 2010. One structure will be chosen by New
Yorkers to stand and delight throughout the week-long festival
of Sukkot as the Official Sukkah of New York City.
Italy: International
Planning Competition "Park in the new city fairground redevelopment
area - CityLife"
Applications for participation to be received by Wednesday,
30 June 2010
- The promoter, CityLife S.r.l.
announces a private, invitation-only International Planning Competition
for the new park and has asked the City of Milan to provide the
names of 5 architects/engineers who will be nominated for participation
along with the architects/engineers nominated directly by CityLife
S.r.l.
Canada: Edmonton
City Centre Airport - The Master Plan RfQ
Closing Date for the RFQ is June 30, 2010
Edmonton City Council has mandated that the lands now occupied
by the Edmonton City Centre Airport be transformed into a world?class
sustainable community. The City of Edmonton seeks talented and
creative minds to prepare a master plan for this strategic property
in the core of the City. The revitalization of approximately
217 hectares of land in the heart of Edmonton represents an opportunity
for Edmonton to place itself at the forefront of global cities
that are seeking to establish the highest standards for sustainability
to foster a living, working, and learning environment of unparalleled
environmental and social quality. The mission is to undertake
a master planning exercise that will guide the long term development
of a new community for families, parks and open space, places
of work, cultural and educational institutions, and other amenities
connected with a new Light Rail Transit (LRT) line to downtown.
The mission is to provide Edmontonians with a range of lifestyle
choices that embody a sustainable live style through the incorporation
of design features, land uses, building practices, materials
and assemblies, and technologies that will minimize the ecological
footprint of this community.
Poland: 2nd International Design
Competition THE LOFT OF THE FUTURE
- Submissions by 30th June 2010
- The competition is organised
by FAKRO Company and Stadslab European Urban Laboratory, Fontys
University (Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism) from
Tillburg. The organisers are seeking unconventional concepts
transcending the bounds of imagination which present fully functional
spaces full of natural light. FAKRO proSky roof window type will
help to achieve the main aim of the competition. The main award
in the competition is the participation in Stadslab European
Urban Laboratory course Master Classes 2010, held this
year in Georgia.
España
Concurso
de Paisajismo
- Las personas o equipos que quieran
concurrir al concurso deberán cumplimentar y enviar antes
del 30 de junio de 2010
- Santa & Cole, la Asociación
Española de Paisajistas y la Bienal Europea del Paisaje
convocan la primera edición del Concurso de Paisajismo
Santa & Cole, un concurso de ideas de alcance europeo que
desea potenciar y premiar el buen ejercicio profesional del paisajismo
en España, como una nueva cultura que modifica y enriquece
el entorno. Con periodicidad bienal y en el marco de la Bienal
Europea del Paisaje, cada convocatoria planteará un ámbito
de actuación distinto.
Netherlands: International Design Competition
for a Center for Contemporary Art
Op zaterdag 24 april is de winnaar bekend gemaakt van de International
Design Competition for a Center for Contemporary Art, die het
Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen in december 2009 uitschreef. Na
de feestelijke prijsuitreiking is ook de tentoonstelling met
het winnende ontwerp en de overige inzendingen geopend. Deze
tentoonstelling is nog te zien in de Genieloods van het Kunstfort
tot en met 26 juni 2010.
españa:
Concurso de Ideas -gran vía
posible
entrega de propuestas: 20.06.2010
El objeto del concurso es la selección de ideas de naturaleza
urbanística y arquitectónica, que planteen un modelo
de espacio e intervenciones (físicas o no) en el que debe
concretarse el futuro del ámbito de la Gran Vía
y sus espacios adyacentes. Las soluciones son libres con la sola
limitación de responder a los objetivos fijados y de atender
a las condiciones de partida que este concurso establece.
USA: Call for Ideas/Venues - High-Speed
Rail for California
Deadline for submissions is July 13, 2010
The Call for Ideas, commencing June 1, 2010, will be an open,
international call to all interested parties to "think big"
on the broad topics of high-speed rail and its implementation
in Southern California. The Call is intended to create a
wealth of information about high-speed rail from around the world
to be exhibited at selected venues through a separate Call for
Venues. Entrants are encouraged to submit new and existing ideas,
concepts, designs, plans, papers, videos, models, and other studies. A
select group of submissions will be showcased at an opening exhibit
in Downtown Los Angeles later this summer, on the railLA website
(www.railLA.org), and in various publications. A $2500 prize
purse for the top five submissions will be announced at an opening
exhibit on July 29, 2010.
- Italy: PASS
Project for Social and Sustainable Housing Competition
- Registration and delivery of
documents: June 9th 2010
- The Territorial Agency for Residential
Housing (ATER) for the Commune of Rome invites tenders for the
international planning competition "PASS Project
for social and sustainable housing" for requalification
of the social housing complexes comprised within Area Plan No.
15-bis Tiburtino III, lots situated between via Grotta
di Gregna and via Mozart.in Rome.
Taiwan: Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural &
Popular Music Center International Competition
Stage One Material Submission Deadline 7th June 2010
- To create Kaohsiung as a maritime
capital, Kaohsiung City Government invites architects from all
over the world to participate in this international competition.
The site is located at No.11~15 wharf of Port of Kaohsiung. The
center will comprise of a large exhibit & performance area,
some small exhibit & performance areas, an outdoor exhibit
& performance area, a pop music exhibit area, a maritime
cultural exhibit center, a ferry terminal & passenger service
center, a pop music industry center (incubation center), a music
art & maritime technology commercial area, scenic landmark,
and administration area.
USA: High Line Fashion: Supima
Cotton Field Challenge
competition closes on June 6th
Part of High Line Fashion, the Supima Cotton Field Challenge
will be a two-month installation next to HL23, underneath the
High Line in NYC. The winner will design the Supima Cotton
Field that spans half of the distance between 23rd and 24th street
underneath the High Line. The design needs to create a flexible
outdoor space with a small pavilion to host a range of outdoor
parties and events. Supima will supply cotton materials for the
installation. The installation period is 9 days and it
will remain on site for the duration of the series. The winning
team will receive $5,000 to fabricate and install their design.
- USA High
Line Fashion: Simon Spurr Design Challenge.
competition closes on June 6th
Part of High Line Fashion, the Simon Spurr Design Challenge asks
you to create a design for a Simon Spurr pop-up store next to
HL23, underneath the High Line in NYC. The winner
will work closely with Mr. Spurr to design a branded pop-up environment
that showcases the his products and aesthetic vision. An existing
sales tin on the northern edge of the site will be the venue
and each design will remain for 10 days. The installation period
is 3 days and the work must be removed in one night. Each team
will receive $5,000 to fabricate and install their design.
Space: Designs beyond the Earth
Call for entries: Monday, May 31, 2010
Submission Deadline: Friday, September 3, 2010
SHIFTboston is calling on architects, space-architects, scientists,
engineers, urban designers, landscape designers, artists and
futurists to submit their most provocative ideas for the moon.
Think: WHAT IF this could happen on the moon? SHIFTboston seeks
to collect visions that will provoke thought on the moon as a
new destination. We want radical ideas for new lunar elements
such as rovers, growing pods, inflatable structures, and lunar
habitats. How about a new moon culture? Competitors are encouraged
to form teams in order to tackle multiple concepts.
Netherlands:
Shapeways
full color 3D print student contest
- Entry online by 31st May 2010
- Want to test your 3D modeling
skills? The 2010 Shapeways Full Color 3D Print Student Contest is
looking for the most creative and innovative model that can be
3D printed in full color. If you are an animation student
you could 3D print your lead character, if you are an industrial
design student you could 3D print your next prototype, if you
are a medical student you could 3D print a dissected toe, the
possibilities are open to you. Simply upload your full color
model to Shapeways with the tag "Student Contest".
The five best models will be printed for free by Shapeways and
sent to your door. The winning design will also receive
$100 worth of Shapeways 3D printing services.
USA: DINGBAT
2.0 Ideas Competition
Registration period ends: May 31st
2010
- The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture
and Urban Design proposes DINGBAT 2.0, an open, single-stage,
international design competition, reconsidering Los Angeles'
ubiquitous dingbat apartment building for the 21st century. All
designers, architects, artists, engineers, students, and other
interested parties are fully eligible for participation in this
competition. Dingbat 2.0 asks designers to re-envision the Dingbat,
and, in so doing, offer a revised vision for L.A. itself.
Netherlands:
Reclaiming the Street
Deadline: May 31, 2010
As part of its multimedia project 'Endless City', MAMA is launching
an open-submission competition: 'Reclaiming the Street'. 'Reclaiming
the Street' takes as a starting point skateboard culture as an
example of 'homo ludens' for building bridges between those who
make use of the public space.
'Reclaiming the Street' is an open-submission competition for
established and emerging artists, architects, skateboarders and
those who have an interest in skateboard culture. We are looking
for unpublished and unrealised concepts for skate objects, skateboard
furniture, and plug-ins. But also, a (re)organisation of an urban
public space, which creates a place to be used by a variety of
people, including skateboarders.
USA: TerreFarm Design+Grow
Summer 2010 Scholarships
Register/Submit: May 31, 2010
- Three Full Scholarships, $1,800
each for Summer Lab for students, architects, scientists, artists,
and individuals of all backgrounds to explore the larger framework
of urban agriculture and its effects on the architecture and
urban design of NYC. This summer approximately 35 researchers
will gather in New York City for 3 weeks of intense creative
exploration. The TerreFarm Lab provides a unique opportunity
for students to learn from established professionals in an experimental
design/grow urban farm. The Interaction of students, builders,
and architects is encouraged by the intense environment of The
Metropolitan Exchange (MEx), located in downtown Brooklyn.TerreFarm
Dates: July 12-30, 2010
Austria: best
private plots 10 Die besten Gärten 2010 International competition
Deadline for entries: May 31st, 2010
The award recognizes exemplary design of sustainable private
open spaces, highlighting the garden as a place of innovation,
as a space for creative expression and action, as contemporary
dialogue between architecture, ecology and landscape. The award
criteria include: idea, conceptual and artistic quality, ecological
quality, use of plants and materials, relationship between inside
and outside, delimitation of space and organisation of open space,
technical planning, sustainability. Special attention will also
be given to the individual diversity of use and functionality.
The open space must be clearly identifiable as intended for private
residence and use. The prize honours exceptional achievements
in the design of sustainable private outdoor space and gardens,
which were completed after January 1st, 2000. This is an open
competition. Landscape architects, architects, garden owners,
designers, florists, gardeners, artists, nurseries and landscaping
firms, as well as teams including a combination thereof are eligible.
Italy: Defining a
CREATIVE HUB competition
Competition deadline May 31st, 2010.
A Creative Hub can be defined as a space that induces Creative
Thinking, which is a combination of creativity, curiosity and
communication. A place, real or virtual, where designers meet
ordinary people to bring creative influences and creative acts.
Urban Vision and Architectural Design Department would like to
test tour talent and urban vision skills with an experimental
contemporary subject. Candidates are requested to submit a design
project for a Creative Hub that meets the need of the selected
area, explaining the reasons of their choice and the functional
programme identified. Prizes 2 scholarships covering 50% of the
total tuition fee for Domus Academy Master in Urban Vision and
Architectural Design for the Academic Year 2010-2011 (November
2010-October 2011).
USA: Flying Teeth
-Boutique Sustainable Hotel Design Competition
- Registration deadline: May 30th
2010
- Are you an architect with a
passion for design and a deep appreciation of a destination's
unique geographical character ? its "sense of place"?
In an effort to find "the architect," FlyingTeeth announces
its first ever Boutique Sustainable Hotel Design Competition,
and invites expressio9ns of interest from suitably experienced
architects.
USA: IDEO + DESIGN
21 Launch Living Climate Change Challenge
design21sdn.com/challenges/23
Deadline for submissions Tuesday May 25, 2010
Open to people of all ages, entrants are asked to create a video
(of no more than 2 minutes) that envisions how climate change
will impact our lives and shape the future over the next
20 to 30 years. Which behaviors will change and which will
be preserved? Entries will be judged by experts on design
and climate change and separated into two age categories:
under 18 and 18+. One winner in each category will receive
a grand prize of $3,000 plus a "Deep Dive" half-day
workshop with IDEO. Deadline for entries: Tuesday, May 25,
2010. Living Climate Change is an open invitation to designers
and non-designers alike.
Germany: HÄUSER-AWARD
2011
Submit by 24th May 2010
Gruner+Jahr, publishers of HÄUSER, is holding the annual competition
HÄUSER-AWARD. This year the Award themed: "Simply
the best". This is the tenth award, and is open to all types
of private houses without any restrictions whatsoever. They want
to examine the entire spectrum of current developments,
and are quite simply looking for the very best individual
single-family houses of outstanding architectural quality.
UK: Hereford
Buttermarket Regeneration Competition
Deadline for submissions: 20th May
2010
- Submissions are invited for
design ideas for the re-development and regeneration of a historic
market in Hereford. This competition is being organised by RIBA
Competitions on behalf of Herefordshire Council in partnership
with Advantage West Midlands. Hereford Buttermarket has been
trading since 1860, and is located at the heart of the city centre,
with access from the main pedestrianised High Street. Competitors
will be required to come up with ideas for how the market can
be used in a more flexible and multi-functional way that will
enhance the retail environment and provide a long-term sustainable
future for the Buttermarket building. The competition is open
to architects and collaboration with other disciplines such as
interior designers is encouraged. The deadline for submissions
is 20th May and anyone interested in entering the competition
may access the brief on www.ribabuttermarket-competition.com,
the dedicated website for this competition.
USA: Designing
the Parks Annual Awards Program.
- Entry extended to May 17th,
2010.
- Sponsorer by the National Park
Service, Denver Service Center
- Eligibility: Built and open
projects only; open to landscape architects, architects, planners,
designers and park managers. This will be a high visibility program
to elevate the prominence of parks by recognizing and publicizing
park design that best exemplifies the Designing the Parks principles.
Design Challenge: The goal of the program is to recognize, highlight
and publish planning and design solutions that best illustrate
reverence for place; engagement of all people; expansion beyond
traditional boundaries; advancement of sustainability; informed
decision making; an integrated research, planning, design, and
review process.
Singapore: Let's
not talk about Architecture
- Closing date for registration:
May 16th 2010
- mAAN*Y Singapore 2010 comprises
of an international competition, an interactive workshop, an
industry conference and a public forum and exhibition. The first
edition of mAAN*Y will be held in Singapore in 2010 with the
theme "Let's not talk about architecture" and is co-organized
by re:ACT and mAAN, The theme "Let's not talk about architecture"
seeks to explore this by encouraging active collaboration
among Asian architects, designers and stakeholders in the community.
The architectural ideas competition, which is the first component
of the series of events, runs from 8th March 2010 to 31 May 2010
and is open to participants, from any country or territory. To
be judged by internationally recognized theoreticians and practitioners
from across the world familiar with community-based built projects
such as Sou Fujimoto, George Kunihiro and Edward Ng, the competition
hopes to create new conversations that will contribute meaningfully
to the dialogue about the Asian City and its future.
Canada: The 2010 ResilientCity.org
Design Ideas Competition
Registration Deadline: May 14th, 2010
An opportunity for architects, city planners and urban designers,
engineers, and landscape architects, including students, graduate
students and interns of these disciplines around the world to
contribute ideas about creating more resilient cities. The
purpose of the ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition is
to stimulate thinking and discourse about how to increase the
resilience of our cities as we move into a century where our
cities will be subjected to the combined environmental and economic
impacts of peak oil and climate change. To this end, the
2010 competition's theme will be: "Building Urban Resilience
where you live with what you have." There will be a
prize for the jury's selection of the best planning and design
idea, and an additional prize for the best video mini-documentary.
USA/Haiti: Debris Design
Competition
- Registration deadline: May 13th
2010
- Not for Profit organisation,
Common Studio, and College of Architecture plus Planning, University
of Utah are hosting a design competition, whose aim is to design
a sustainable building or living component using only locally
available materials with the intention of reducing waste in Haiti.
The competition is open to individuals and teams of up to four
members. Winning designs will be developed further at the College
of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah, during summer
2010 and may be utilized in the design and construction of a
school in Haiti sponsored by Haitian Roots.
Taiwan: 2010 Student Wall Competition.
- Online Registration deadline:
May 12, 2010 5:00 PM Taipei Time
- Following the success of 2008
Bridge Design Competition, National Taipei University of Technology
(NTUT) School of Architecture is offering a second design competition
to foster idea dialogues among students. This competition
takes on an elemental perspective to architectural design and
sustainability. Entrants are to imagine and produce creative
proposals for an ecological "WALL". The evaluation
and definition of "WALL" are open to applicants' imaginations.
While the term "ecological" is subjected to many definitions:
social, economical, sustainable, its re-evaluations are open
to students' interpretations. Entrants are free to choose
or make site, real or virtual.
Indonesia: Bali 2010 Marine Research
Centre
- Early Registration to May 11th
2010
- After having been hit by a catastrophic
Tsunami, Indonesia has managed to recover from the devastation
and chaos. In the wake of the images which were broadcast around
the world just a few years ago, planning is needed for a prevention
and research center. In this competition, ARQUITECTUM, together
with the Pelita Harapan University, has proposed a proper Marine
Research Center which would fulfill this need.
USA: Game Changers
- Deadline for entries: May 11th,
2010.
- DESIGN 21's latest competition
offering aimed at promoting design for the greater good. The
Game Changers competition asks interested participants to design
a game that creates change by improving lives or inspiring new
behaviors - whether for an individual, group or community.
UK: 'Design
your own office' Nous 4M Competition
Submission by Monday 10 May 2010
Design a professional office space for 20 independent architects
and designers in Southwark, one of London's newest areas, directly
behind the Tate Modern. The multidisciplinary space will allow
people from design related backgrounds to give feedback to one
another, share ideas, and enhance creativity between industries.
The design approach should take these characteristics into consideration
and present possibilities for the space to change, merge, submerge,
morph, transform while maintaining the core characteristics of
the inno- vative environment. Integrating new technology into
the office space and the way we work, and ideas not included
in the brief are also welcome.
USA: 2010
COD/YAF Ideas Competition: Temporary/Permanent Relief Housing
- Submission Deadline: May 10,
2010 before 5pm Eastern Time
- The AIA Young Architects Forum
(YAF) and the AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects,
students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches
to the international 2010 YAF/COD Ideas Competition: Temporary/Permanent
Relief Housing. In this year's unique sketch competition, submitters
are asked to explore the issue of temporary relief housing that
could have a permanent function, through a concept design problem.
The challenge is to design temporary relief housing for refugees
from natural or other disasters using sustainable strategies
and following the Living Building Challenge. The proposed solutions
should provide housing for approximately 500 displaced families
as well as the necessary support services.
 Portugal/Angola:
International Competition:
a House in Luanda: Patio and Pavillion
Deadline for Registration: 03 May 2010
- The aim of this architecture
competition, launched by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, is
to design a single family dwelling that is radically cheap to
build for Luanda, a city undergoing an intense process of transformation,
and that is suited to the cultural, economic and social circumstances
of the area. This project, promoted in collaboration with the
Luanda Triennale, should include the possibility of dwellings
that allow for evolutionary solutions, and possibly self-construction,
which are adapted to the speed of transformation of the social
fabric of Angola and Luanda. The objective is to select the best
proposal for the design of a prototype of a family unit which
leads to a patio, with a low construction cost, aimed at severely
deprived families. The authors of the 30 finalist projects will
be contacted by the Triennale to develop a presentation model
of their proposal, which will appear at the exhibition at the
Museum of Electricity, to be held from 28 October 2010 to 16
January 2011.
USA: DVGBC
2010 Sustainable Design Competition.
- Submissions by May 3rd 2010.
- Each year, the Delaware Valley
Green Building Council conducts a Sustainable Design Competition
to engage students from regional colleges and universities. Professors
are encouraged to incorporate the Design Competition with the
Spring 2010 college and university curriculum. This year the
DVGBC would also like to invite young professionals to enter
the competition. Integrated with the LEED Green Building Rating
System, the Design Competition unites students and young professionals
with individuals from the DVGBC and the local design community.
The goal is to incorporate sustainable design strategies into
the college curriculum and empower the students and young professionals
within the green building movement to become future leaders.
The competition will award a number of prizes as well as a grand
prize stipend to attend Greenbuild, the USGBC's annual Green
Building Conference and Expo.
USA: The SDC Iron Designer
Challenge
- Registration open until until
April 30th
- The Urban Assembly School of
Design and Construction (SDC) is proud to present the first Iron
Designer Challenge. Based on the popular television show "The
Iron Chef", the Iron Designer Challenge will raise funds
to support the design program of the SDC. A fund-raising goal
of $90,000 will cover the cost of this distinctive aspect of
the school including material supplies, field trips, portfolios
and collage visits for the school's inner-city students, who's
goals are to become tomorrow's Engineers, Construction Managers
and Architects. With a donation of $1,000.00, any firm (or group
of individuals) may enter a team of 4 professionals.
USA: Integrated: Design
School for the Socially-Aware Education, 2010 Programming
Competition
Registration deadline 30th April10
- Description: true social change
in architecture begins with insightful programming programming
that rethinks the purpose and social objective of individual
spaces, as well as their collective effect on users and the surrounding
community. Through programming alone, communicate your design
concept for a school that fosters a socially-aware education
for its students. How can a school inspire socially-aware design?
USA: Memorial
for the Unknown Soldier -May Vignette Competition
Registration deadline 30th April 2010
- Description: In any medium,
create a spatial response to the competition title. Can you distill
your ideas to a single vignette?
UK: Aesthetica
Short Film competition
Deadline for submissions is 30 April 2010.
Aesthetica Magazine is looking for filmmakers who are driving
the genre of short film forward through inspirational and innovative
works. Whether you are fresh out of film school or have been
making films for years, we want to hear from you. Accepting films
in all genres: drama, documentary, music video, satire, comedy
and artists' film.
- Germany: Schindler
Award 2010
- The closing date for registrations
is April 30, 2010.
- One of Europe's leading architectural
competitions, the Schindler Award, is accepting applications
for its 2010 edition. Students of architecture are invited to
put forward visionary design ideas for developing an area of
the grounds that were used for Berlin's 1936 Olympic Games. The
central theme of the competition is "Access for All",
a design philosophy characterized by inclusiveness and barrier-free
mobility for people of all ages and capabilities. The Schindler
Award is an excellent opportunity for graduating architects to
have their designs judged by a professional jury. It is open
to architecture students who are either in their last year on
a bachelor's course or attending a master's course at a European
university or school of architecture. Completed projects must
be submitted by July 30, 2010.
Canada: Exterior Lighting Grant -2009-2010 edition
-Theme: Street Furniture
Light
- Deadline for submission: April
30th, 2010
- The Lumec "Fondation Concept
Lumière Urbaine" (CLU) aims to encourage emerging
designers to develop innovative lighting concepts within the
context of an exterior public space. How can light enrich and
simplify the lifestyles of citizens? How to streamline urban
infrastructure and integrate in street furniture innovative lighting
solutions with improved performances? Open a window on the future
and reinterpret the present.
- Objective: To design an object
that qualifies as a street furniture while retaining its primary
purpose, lighting.
- Austria: Danube
University Krems awards architecture and design prize
- Deadline for submission 26th
of April, 2010
- The international architectural
and design competition "Daylight Spaces 2010" is announced
by Danube University Krems for the second time. Till the 26th
of April projects that show an innovative use of daylight and
highlight its influence on structures of architectural space,
can be submitted. The focus in research and teaching of the university
lies on light concepts and the use of natural light in the field
of sustainable building.
Italy: Rome City Vision
- Register by 26th April, 2010
- An ideas competition, which
challenges architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives
individuals to develop visionary urban proposals with the intention
of stimulating and supporting the contemporary city, in this
case Rome. The Planning Proposal can re-assess a significant
monument, road, district or better still the whole city. For
this reason there are no restrictions of site, program or dimension
of the project. The goal is to give maximum freedom, with the
intention of achieving the most innovative and provocative proposals.
Proposals should aim to augment and stimulate the urban inhabitance
and experience of the ordinary person.
UK: The
Heathrow Contest
- Deadline for submissions: Friday
23 April 2010
- Greenpeace are running a contest
for architects, landscape architects and architecture students.
Airplot is the piece of land in the middle of the proposed third
runway site at Heathrow airport, owned by Greenpeace, Emma Thompson,
Alistair McGowan, Zac Goldsmith and thousands of people from
around the world. It is a fundamental part of the campaign by
Greenpeace and other groups to block construction of a new runway.
So far, Airplot has provided a platform from which to fight the
moral and political campaign against the runway. Greenpeace is
now inviting professional designers and design teams to consider
how to fortify and enhance the airplot so that if necessary,
we can physically block construction of a third runway. For once,
this is a competition where the organisers hope that the winning
design will not have to be built!
Canada: ideas competition - Ville
de Montréal invites designers to envision the ideal taxi
stand
- Register online no later than
April 20, 2010.
- Designers in all disciplines
are invited to propose innovative solutions for enhancing taxi
customers' and drivers' experience of this public space they
share. The general objective of the competition is to spur debate
around, and interest in, the quality of public spaces in Montréal,
and to enable designers to offer their visions for development
of these spaces. The single stage ideas competition is anonymous
and open to all design professionals, students or consortiums
whose main place of business is in Québec.
Belgium: Designing Absence
- Deadline 20th April 2010
- Designing absence aims
to create an international brainstorm generated by an absence,
and invites entrants to design a new tower for the Cathedral
of Antwerp. 'By playing with the idea of the absence, we
generate a focus.' Keeping this in mind, every participant comes
up with an idea for the unfinished tower. The competition can
be seen as an international brainstorm, which means everybody
can join. The result doesn't need to be functional, it can
be an inflatable tower or a high tech amusement park attraction. Your
entry can be a 3d render, a paper model, a collage, a black marker
drawing or anything else you think fits your concept the best. On
the website (http://designingabsence.com) u can find a picture
of the Cathedral with the missing tower. Your tower must be placed
on this picture, the way how is completely free. Together
with the picture of the Cathedral completed with your 'new
tower', you should write a short explanation about your
concept and submit it on the 'Submit entry' page.
USA: Suburbia
Transformed
Entries due April 16, 2009.
The James Rose Center is sponsoring a design competition, entitled: Suburbia
Transformed, One Garden at a Time: Exploring the Aesthetics of
Landscape Experience in the Age of Sustainability. Through
this competition, the aim is to seek to explore solutions to
the ubiquitous small-lot, detached single-family, residential
condition in the hope that of better understanding how to transform
suburbia. This competition is open to all. Finalists will
have their work exhibited at the James Rose Center and receive
publication in Garden Design Magazine, among others.
USA: One Prize -International Design
Competition for Creating Productive Green Space in Cities
- Registration deadline: 15th April 2010.
- An Annual Design and Science
Award to Promote Green Design in Cities announces Mowing to Growing:
Reinventing the American Lawn -a Design Competition for Creating
Productive Green Space in Cities. How would you reinvent the
American lawn? What sort of design solutions can you come
up with to facilitate burb-grown food? Can green houses
be incorporated in skyscrapers? How could a vacant big
box store be retrofitted for agriculture? What is required
to remove foreclosure signs on lawns and convert them to gardens?
Can food grow on rooftops, parking lots, building facades? The
proposals can be for a real or speculative project, for one or
more real sites, and located either in the U.S. or applicable
to U.S. sites. Jurors include Cameron Sinclair + Kate Stohr.
Germany: A house for Bruno Taut
- The deadline for registration
for this competition is April 15th, 2010.
- It is hard to believe that a
modern (even "avant-garde") architect ever mentioned
the word "transcendental," let alone saying that we
must be subordinate to it (i.e. to the "transcendental")
... But this is exactly what the great German architect Bruno
Taut did. He was also the one who had the courage, at Weissenhof,
in Stuttgart, to build a house that refused to be white, as opposed
to most of the other architects, including Le Corbusier, who
was otherwise quite colorful in his paintings, but not really
in his architecture. ICARCH asks you to design A House for Bruno
Taut.
USA: FOG ANALOGIES Scholarship Competition
- Entries due by midnight April
15 2010 (EST).
- SEAMLab, a collaborative think-tank
dedicated to research and the dissemination of design-based knowledge
focused on materiality in the built environment, is launching
its inaugural Scholarship Competition entitled FOG ANALOGIES.
This competition invites graduate students attending (or committed
to attending) a US college or university to submit research,
speculations or design projects utilizing select characteristics
of fog to propose a responsive material, structure, or environment.
Competition winners will be awarded a monetary scholarship for
graduate study.
UK: RIBA
Competition : Re-Cladding Scheme for Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital
Deadline for application is 13th April 2010
Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is seeking expressions
of interest for the re-cladding of a 13-storey tower building
on the St Thomas' Hospital site in central London. The two stage
competition seeks a re-cladding design of exemplary quality befitting
its location, that will at the same time provide a long-term
solution to improved weatherproofing and energy efficiency. The
Trust has aspirations that the re-cladding scheme should be of
the highest architectural quality. A challenge to design teams
will be to achieve a solution that can be delivered with the
minimum of disruption and interference to the existing building,
without the need for decanting. The competition jury panel will
include architects David Henderson, co-director of Bennetts Associates,
and Jim Eyre OBE of Wilkinson Eyre Architects. In the first instance
the competition seeks expressions of interest from consortia
which must as a minimum include a contractor, architect, engineers,
and a cladding specialist.
USA: Green
Meadow Estates Competition
- Deadline April 12, 2010
- Design a green private resort
in NY. Green Meadows Estates will be a 65-unit private resort
community located on a 130 acre parcel at the foothills of the
Catskill Mountains. Usable for year round enjoyment, this unique
community will be designed with a comprehensive amenity package
to promote positive social interaction, learning, and fun for
both children and adults. Construction methods and materials
will conform to Green Meadow Estates' objectives of developing
a high quality, thoughtfully designed, green community. For more
information email: crosen@foxstoneadvisors.com
Slovenia: Call for entries for the 22nd Biennial
of Industrial Design, Architecture Museum of Ljubljana
Period for Entry Submissions to 12 April 2010
On 7 October 2010 the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana will open
the
22nd Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO 22). BIO is a comprehensive international
exhibition that highlights current trends in contemporary design
through its selection of well-designed products with an emphasis on
quality, originality and innovation. The selection of the
best design achievements of the past two years will be presented
at BIO 22 in three groups: Products, Product Graphics, and Concepts. BIO
22 will direct special attention to an exhibition with powerful
content and an educational concept that clearly presents
the advantages and characteristics of design achievements
on display to visitors.
Serbia: Ghost Project
- Deadline for submissions: Monday
April 4th 2010
- After four years of our continuous
work to revive industrial design in Serbia, Ghost Project has
become the regional platform for the promotion of design."Balkan
Ghosts" is an initiative to connect Balkan designers and
multiply networks of progressive activities in the region, as
well as re-establishing broken connections between different
cultures, various creatives, design and business, man and nature.
The competition is open to individual designers in South East
European countries. Each candidate can submit several designs
in the fields of Industrial design: furniture, lighting, everyday
objects, interior elements.
USA: Young
Architects Forum, Atlanta: 10up
- Late Registration Deadline.
1st April 2010
- 2010 Young Architects Forum
partnership with MA and the developers of White Provisions announce
a competition to construct an installation during the MA10 Design
is Human week of events taking place in Atlanta, GA in June of
2010. This is the perfect initiative for young designers
nationally and locally, and is a great opportunity for YAF, MA
and architecture in Atlanta. The competition is open to
designers of all disciplines and will be an exciting exhibit
of our talents.
USA: Art in Architecture
Juried Competition
Registration deadline: April 1, 2010 -extended to May 3, 2010.
- The Center for Contemporary
Art is announcing a competition on the subject of "Art in
Architecture" to celebrate its inauguration as the new art
center in New Jersey., replacing the 40-year old Somerset Art
Association in its existing headquarters. Plans are in the works
to embark on a major public campaign for expanding the structure.
However, the purpose of this competition is to take the relationship
between art and architecture to a higher level than that of the
renovation of a specific building. "Art in Architecture"
intends to generate ideas about the relationship and interaction
between the two. The thematic goal is to seek images about architecture
as a repository for art, revealing how art is expressed in architecture,
and how art and architecture affect and are affected by each
other. In focusing on the capacity of art and architecture to
be transcendent, this competition's resulting exhibit will add
special voice to the current debate between the "container"
and the "contents" that has been taking place across
the global art scene.
UK: student
photography competition, Architecture Naturally
Closing date for entries is 31 March 2010.
ADP's second annual student photography competition, Architecture
Naturally focuses on an important relationship - that which
exists between architecture, and the natural world. Often
seen as being in conflict, this relationship is high on the political
and social agenda, reflecting changing attitudes toward
sustainability, and our place in relation to the natural world. The
competition is open to students over the age of 16, studying
architecture or photography courses in the UK.The winner
will be awarded a one thousand pound commission to photograph
one of ADP's completed buildings, plus 750 pounds worth camera equipment
vouchers and a year subscription to Digital Photographer magazine.
Greece: Piraeus
Tower 2010 Changing the Face/Façades Reformation
Registration Deadline: March 31, 2010
- GreekArchitects.gr and DuPont
Hellas S.A have launched an open architectural ideas competition.
The initiative is the localization of urban issues at vital points
of Greek cities and the attempt to resolve them through Architecture.
The competition is focused on the reconstruction of the external
façade of the Piraeus Tower. The objective is to include
the building in the urban landscape through the design proposal
and to highlight it as the landmark for the wider area.
USA: SMIBE
short film competition "Personal Infrastructures"
- Submissions due March 31st 2010.
- This competition asks for 3
minute films on the subject "Personal Infrastructures."
There are both student and professional categories.Sponsored
by the Graham Foundation for the Fine Arts.
Poland: Museum
of the Second World War in Gdansk
- Submission of the Requests to
Participate: 26th March 2010
Open, international, one-stage competition concerning the development
of the architectural conceptual design of the building to house
the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, intended to become
a new identity landmark of the City of Gdansk, and the conceptual
site landscape design commensurate with the nature, status, and
location of the site. The Competition Entries shall be produced
in the Polish language, though their submission in the English
language shall be permissible.
USA: Leading Edge Student
Design Competition
- Registration Deadline: March
26th 2010
The Leading Edge Student Design Competition seeks to support
and enhance the study of sustainable and energy-efficient building
practices in Architectural Education. We invite students
and instructors of Architecture and Design to use the competition
as a framework to explore the use of new materials and strategies
for building and the integration of aesthetics and technology
for high-performing, cutting edge architecture. This year the
competition focuses on the coastal city of Long Beach, California.
Students entering Challenge 1 will design a zero-net energy Workforce
Training Center; students entering Challenge 2 will design a
zero-net energy Student Residence. A zero-net energy building
generates enough on-site renewable energy to equal or exceed
the amount of energy needed to operate the building.
UK: Cancer
Treatment Centre for Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital
Deadline for application is 25th
March 2010
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation
Trust wish to build a new £90m Integrated Cancer Treatment
Centre on its Guy's Hospital site, close to London Bridge in
central London. The Trust is committed to building a world class
facility that offers an outstanding working environment and patient
experience that will set new standards for cancer care. The Trust
wishes to ensure that the full design team is committed to both
the design and delivery of the new CTC and the competition seeks
expressions of interest from contractor/architect teams with
the capacity and imagination to deliver the project.
Canada: GREEN SHED: Pandora
Park Community Garden Design Competition
19 March 2010 - Standard Registration Deadline
- In dense urban settings, community
gardens are an invaluable public resource - they provide the
opportunity for city dwellers to grow their own food and also
educate the wider community about organics, food security, and
sustainability. Pandora Park Community Garden Society invites
student and professional architects, landscape architects, builders,
engineers, gardeners and designers of all kinds to take part
in Green Shed. The goal of this international competition is
to generate buildable designs for a storage shed and outdoor
common space for a new community garden that will showcase sustainable
building strategies and materials. The winning design will be
built by a team of volunteers over the summer of 2010. The primary
objective is to demonstrate that natural, hand built, recycled,
or otherwise sustainably produced building materials and technologies
can be used in a contemporary aesthetic and community garden
context. Entrants are therefore encouraged to use materials in
innovative ways in the tradition of Samuel Mockbee's Rural Studio.
Materials may include, but are not limited to: rammed earth,
cob, straw bale, reclaimed wood, offcut dimensional lumber, and
salvaged materials from any source.
USA: Safe
Trestles
- Registration Deadline: March
17, 2010
- Volunteer non-profit organization
Architecture for Humanity in association with San Onofre
Foundation and The Surfrider Foundation has launched "Safe
Trestles," an open design competition to create a safe pathway
to San Onofre State Beach in Southern California to serve the
community and day visitors to San Onofre State Beach.
UK: Wyre
Way -call for Artists, Designers and Architects
- Expressions of interest are
to be uploaded online by 10am 15th March 2010
- Wyre Borough Council is looking
for a multi-disciplinary design team to help realise an exciting
vision for its coastline, made possible by a substantial grant
from the CABE Sea Change programme.Design teams drawn from landscape
architects, architects and artists are invited to express their
interest in this design challenge. Examples of successfully completed
schemes should be uploaded to the dedicated website, along with
a written statement setting out what they could offer Wyre's
coastal community.
Haiti: International
Student Open Design Competition for Yele Music Studio, Haiti
- Deadline for receipt of Stage
1 design submissions is 2.00pm on Friday 12 March 2010.
- Yele Haiti and RIBA Competitions
announce the launch of an International Student Open Design Competition,
established by John McAslan + Partners and Allied London, for
a new music studio facility in Cité Soleil (Port-au-Prince),
Haiti. The new music studio will be built in Cité Soleil
and combine the recording of music and radio programming with
vocational training, micro-enterprise opportunities and job creation
for at-risk youth in that area. The studio is a joint venture
between Yéle Haiti and two for-profit companies - Sak
Pasé Records, Wyclef Jean's own record label, and Radio
Boukman, a popular community radio station in Cité Soleil.
The joint venture arrangement will ensure that the Yéle
Music Studio will be entirely self-financing within 18 months,
while at the same time remaining committed to using music and
radio to promote development and social issues.
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