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Competitions: July 2010

Competitions are ordered by date of final registration -they are referenced by country of origin, but most are open to international entry.

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.



new USA: 2nd Annual BrickStainable Design Competition.
Registration Deadline: November 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 

new 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.

new 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.

new 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. 

new 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?

new 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.

new 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.

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.

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. 


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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.

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