Architecture Competition
Archive 2009
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Peru: Poseidon 2009
- Registration by May 31st 2009
- Arquitectum invites architects
of the world to participate in the International Architectural
Competition "Poseidon 2009". The real estate developers'
interest in creating an International Architecture Competition
lies in the need to create an innovative concept as an alternative
to the typical beach community. Poseidon Investment S.A. would
like to see this new concept provide their clients with a new
experience in seasonal homes; different, creative and original
from conception, far from the typical gated community so common
of the coastal beach communities of southern Lima. Each architect
will establish their architectural position about oceanfront
living as a retreat, though his/her proposal may set precedent
as becoming a permanent year-round residence. The architect is
free to establish an intellectual theory in order to submit a
real innovative solution, different from anything existing in
the world. The program includes a Pier and a Yatch Club as well
as 198 Homes, 17 Villas and their amenities such as Pools, a
Club House, a Bar and the Boardwalk.
Call
for Submissions for Monu - magazine on urbanism #11 - Clean Urbanism
- Ideas and abstracts should be
sent by the end of May 2009.
- When it comes to Clean Urbanism,
a lot of proposals have been made recently for the building of
so-called "eco-cities" that produce their own energy
from the wind, the sun, bio-fuel, or recycled waste. But it has
often been denied that such sources of energy, being integrated
directly into cities, are highly inefficient, very expensive,
and in the case of wind energy, very noisy. Nevertheless, wind
turbines in an urban realm, for example, nowadays feature in
almost every urban competition entry that requires sustainable
energy concepts. Solar panels on rooftops have become state of
the art on innumerable new building designs, however inefficient
and expensive they are. The question is: how might we achieve
a Clean Urbanism that is socially, economically, and politically,
but also environmentally correct? This issue of MONU is meant
to initiate an advanced discussion and stimulate new and fresh
ideas to discover and increase our understanding of how Clean
Urbanism could actually work.
Netherlands:
Squat City
- Deadline for submissions extended
to May 31st 2009.
- The 4th IABR exposition [International
Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam] and the ETH switzerland launched
a competition about innovative though practicable low-tech solutions
on urban, building and tool scale to enable the slum dwellers
- 31.6% of the worlds urban population - to live in a sustainable
and dignified environment. The winners and all mantained projects
will be published on the 4th IABR exposition and on the upcoming
innovative network.
UK: Onedotzero
-call for submissions
The deadline to submit is 29 May
2009
- Onedotzero extends an open call
for submission to the 2009 festival programme to be premiered
at the BFI Southbank; the UK's flagship centre for moving image
located in London's most visited cultural quarter, before an
extensive UK and world tour. Onedotzero is seeking proposals
for installations, interactive works and live audiovisual performance
in addition to short film / animation works for the festival
and other projects.
Poland: International Design Competition
- An Architect -the Drawer of Dreams
Submit by 29th May
- A challenge to architects to
design a loft of their desire, using a wide category of products.
Creativity and innovative ideas are required using the FDH duet
high pivot windows and at least two other types. While creating
your vision integrate urban or landscape elements of your preference.
Sponsored by FAKRO Company and Stadslab European Urban Design
Laboratory
USA: d3 Natural
Systems International Architectural Design Competition
Registration Deadline: May 20th 2009
Exploration of natural systems from the microscopic to the universal
unearths vast design potential for overlaying cultural, ecological,
and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies.
The d3 Natural Systems Competition invites architects,
designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the
potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based
influences in architecture, interiors, and designed objects.
The competition calls for innovative proposals that advance
sustainable thought and performance through the study of intrinsic
environmental geometries, behaviors, and flows at various scales.
By identifying, examining, and applying their structural
order on form and function- -bottom-up, performance-based solutions
for limitless building typologies, functional programs, and material
conditions may be realized. The d3 Natural Systems Competition
allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in
a scale-appropriate manner- -from large-scale master planning
endeavors, to individual building concepts, to notions of interior
detail. Accordingly, there are no restrictions on site,
scale, program, or building typology.
Australia: Situate -an International
Sculpture Competition
- Closing date for Stage 1 entries:
20th May 2009
- The Western Australian Government
is undertaking an open competition for a major public art commission
for Forrest Place, Perth. The project has been designed to encourage
innovative partnerships between artists and other design professionals.
The competition process will identify a multidisciplinary team
that brings originality and design excellence to the project.
UK: Re-visioning Utopia...a charette
for artists, architects and academics
Application deadline: 18th May 2009
Charrette 4pm Wed the 15th July - 12 noon Sun 19th July (Inclusive).
The word charrette may refer to any collaborative session in
which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem.
While the structure of a charrette varies, depending on the design
problem and the individuals in the group, charrettes often take
place in multiple sessions in which the group divides into sub-groups.
Each sub-group then presents its work to the full group as material
for future dialogue. Such charrettes serve as a way of quickly
generating a design solution while integrating the aptitudes
and interests of a diverse group of people. Re-visioning
Utopia will bring together Artists, Architects and Academics
in small multi disciplinary teams and offer an intensive series
of research field-trips exploring the diversity of Barrow
and its Islands followed by good food, studio based discussion,
'model' making, drawing, mapping and text based exploration.
The charrette runs from 4pm, Wednesday 15th July at Art Gene,
Barrow in Furness, Cumbria. That evening we will eat together
at Stuart Bastik's off-grid, former fisherman's cabin on the
coast of Barrow. Over the following 3 days, multi-disciplinary
'research groups' will explore a range of challenging landscape/townscape
stimuli.
USA: MINING: NEW YORK exhibit -call
to architects/artists/designers for submissions
deadline: May 15, 2009
How does the particularity of New York and the influence of time,
space, mood, and memory impart specific ambient and formal qualities
on art, design, and architecture contemplated in and for the
City. How does the City's urban, cultural, social, and
demographic DNA bubble-up to inform a site-relevant visual, performative,
or audible voice? MINING:NEW YORK calls for work in art,
architecture, interior design, and designed objects that reflects
themes and generators specific to the City. d3 welcomes international
submissions. Selected submissions will be featured in a
forthcoming exhibit planned for June 2009 at d3 in Brooklyn.
UK: Urban
SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses Competition
Students must register and provide statements of intent by 15
May 2009.
- We are in an urban age. Most
of us today live in cities. Is there a place or a neighborhood
in your city that needs a good fix? Do you know of an unplanned
settlement, a displaced community, economic uncertainty that
has driven away business, environmental degradation that has
reduced quality of life, an area enduring the aftermath of natural
calamity, a derelict urban site? Have a plan that could turn
things around? The competition is open to submissions that solve
these common urban problems, on any site, within any city or
town, worldwide. If you're passionate about improving the quality
of the world's communities, then this competition is for you.
Today's built environment needs creative, thoughtful ideas. If
you have them, this is your chance to let them shine. The Urban
SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses competition
is open to individual students or teams of up to four undergraduate
and graduate students at all levels from all countries in the
design and planning fields including landscape architecture,
urban design, architecture, landscape urbanism, economics, planning,
geography, engineering, environmental studies and related fields.
USA: Delaware Valley Green Building Council
2009 Sustainable Design Competition (open student competition):
Deadline for Submission: 4 May 2009
With the mainstream media's ever growing focus on the benefits
of fresh food on physical well being and education, the DVGBC
2009 competition challenge involves the design of a sustainable
food co-operative market. The project should act as a stimulus
for the local neighborhood and economy in which it is sited.
It should serve as a community gathering place, uniting urban
areas with surrounding agricultural areas. Similar to the
Reading Terminal Market of Philadelphia, the food co-operative
must include individual vendors and retail spaces, incorporation
environmental and sustainable practices. The program integrates
both permanent indoor and seasonal outdoor retail and community
spaces. This project is well suited to the exploration of the
principles of integrated design, sustainability and innovation,
and the resulting impacts on human health and well being. Platinum
Prize Stipend to attend Greenbuild 2009 and compete in
the national U.S. Green Building Council Natural Talent Design
Competition
Australia: Architecture,
Building & Planning New Building Competition
Closing date for Expressions of Interest (EoI) is 1st May 2009.
- New Building Competition: Faculty
Architecture Building & Planning (ABP), University of Melbourne.
Expressions of Interest (EoI) are invited from architects and
architectural practices, individually or in collaboration, interested
in working with the Faculty and the University in the role of
architect for the new building. The project is seen as a "once-in-a-lifetime"
opportunity for the Faculty to achieve strategic objectives relating
to the positioning of ABP and the Melbourne School of Design
(MSD), with a commitment to innovation in relation to the design
and delivery of an outstanding campus building. The aspiration
of the faculty and the University is that the new building will
demonstrate an outstanding level of quality in both the processes
of design and development and in the finished product. The resulting
design will provide an excellent working environment to encourage
high quality research, teaching and learning. The Faculty's
new landmark building-and the research and teaching within it-
will be renowned for its global outlook, risk taking innovation
and for the incubation of tomorrow's industry leaders.
Netherlands:
international
architecture competition for the "World Sustainability Centre"
- The closing date of the competition
is the 1st of May 2009.
The Centre is to be located on the Afsluitdijk, an icon of the
Dutch struggle against the sea. The Centre will be a showcase
of new and innovative products and projects. Top level research
institutes will demonstrate their latest inventions on energy-
or water management. Inventors will discuss their ideas with
the public. Visitors can experience climate change, storms, rivers
flooding and melting ice, find new solutions to global problems
and try out the newest inventions. Naturally, this Centre needs
to be housed in a building that is itself an example of sustainability:
harnessing the forces of nature instead of keeping them at bay;
zero emission, zero waste, producing energy, cleverly making
use of the water that surrounds it.
USA: Grand
Concourse Design Competition
- Submissions will be accepted
until May 1st, 2009.
- The Design Trust for Public
Space and The Bronx Museum of the Arts are pleased to announce
"Intersections: Grand Concourse Beyond 100," an ideas
competition seeking bold visions from architects, planners, artists,
designers, students, residents and others for how the Bronx and
Grand Concourse can evolve in the coming decades and cope with
pressing needs for housing, green space, and transportation.
International:
International
Competition to Improve the Design Of Classrooms Around the World
- Registration Ends: May 1st,
2009
- Orient Global and Architecture
for Humanity challenge the global design community to partner
with teachers and students to design the classrooms of tomorrow.
Worldwide, 776 million people are illiterate. To address this
crisis by providing access to a quality education for all children,
there is an pressing need to upgrade the crumbling infrastructure
of tens of millions of existing classrooms, and build ten million
new classrooms, Orient Global, Architecture for Humanity and
a consortium of partners have launched the 2009 Open Architecture
Challenge: Classroom -an initiative to improve the design of
classrooms around the world.
Australia: Growth House Competition
- Submission date for entry: Friday
24th April 2009 (5pm)
- The February 2009 fires in Victoria
have re-written the rules about bushfires. Many of the fires
registered heat above 1,200 degrees Celsius and wind speeds of
more than 120 kph, leaving very little in their wake. This is
unprecedented. The HOUSE re-GROWTH Pod is a permanent and cost
effective housing unit which can assist in the rebuilding of
the fire devastated town-ships of Victoria. This competition
invites architects and designer to propose how this pod can form
part of their proposed design using a minimum of one per scheme.
An international ideas competition for the design for a new family
house for the residents of bushfire ravaged Victoria who have
lost their homes Open to architects and designers not just in
Victoria, Australia but to all those interested in the typology
required for the re-building of houses whilst the site is occupied
by the re-Growth Pod.
USA: Imagining Recovery
Registration Deadline: 19 April, 2009
On his 29th day in office, President Obama signed the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act and launched Recovery.gov, offering
a plan for recovery to be carried out with "full transparency
and accountability". This competition calls on designers
to imagine what this recovery might look like. This moment of
change offers an opportunity for designers to rethink how and
with whom they operate. Designers are asked to submit an image
of recovery to be consumed primarily by the public. This image
is to be supported by a design of any sort or scale -from physical
objects and interventions, to campaigns to change public behavior
or perception -which responds to the brief.
Canada: Artcity:
Call for Submissions: Festival of Art, Design & Architecture
in Calgary.
- Deadline for applications April
17th, 2009
- The Visual Arts Week Society
is seeking architecture-related proposals for the 18th incarnation
of Artcity Festival, September 4th to 13th, 2009. . The festival
showcases interactive, performative, and experimental works in
all media, with a mandate to show new and site-specific pieces
in dynamic, outdoor environments. One project will be selected
for execution as part of Artcity Festival 2009. The winner will
receive CARFAC artist and production fees to implement/construct
the idea. Proposals are sought for temporary architectural installations
that address:
- · a "township"
or multiple structure theme
- · the nomadic nature
of Artcity festival
- · the utopian nature
of outdoor rock music festivals
- · the need for a space/structure
where the public can congregate en masse, enjoy, and be challenged.
Bahamas: Custom Home Design Challenge
- Submission deadline for Stage
1: April 17th 2009
- The objective of the architectural
competition is the design of a 7,000-8,000 square foot multigenerational
home on the waterfront in the Bahamas. The architectural 'guideline' for
the home design should be one that stimulates and delights with
its unique ideas, exotic details and classic emphasis, and
harmonizes indoor and outdoor living spaces.
new USA: 2009
Natural Talent Design Competition
- Registration deadline is April
16.
- Hosted by the Cascadia USGBC
Emerging Green Builders. Every year, the NTDC challenges the
bright green young minds of Cascadia to tackle the design of
a Living Building while meeting the requirements of the national
NTDC. Open to students and young professionals -designers, engineers,
architects, urban planners or environmentalists.
USA: Re:Vision
DALLAS
- Registration Deadline: April
15, 2009
- The 6th competition in a series,
Re:Vision DALLAS is an opportunity to transform an existing
city block in Dallas into a model of cutting-edge sustainable
practices. Your are invited to be part of this ground-breaking
effort and help lay the foundation for sustainable urban
design, as well as the opportunity to collaborate on a highly
visible project for your firm.
USA: Call
for Submissions: New York Designs 2009 -Public
- Deadline: April 6, 2009
- The Architectural League created
the New York Designs juried lecture series in 2003 to provide
a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished work
built in New York City. This year's theme, Public, asks
how designers think about and define "public" today;
and how designers imagine buildings, landscapes, and urban places
that aspire to be for the public.
Italy: European
Design Competition -Citta' Dei Bambini / City of Kids > Frattamaggiore
Naples
Registration Deadline: April 3rd, 2009
- Competition Area: 10.000 sqm.
Urban Project Budget: up to 15 Million Euros. Free download of
all competition materials (brief, registration form, cad files,
jpg images) from the official website.
UK: New
Students' Centre Design Competition : London School of Economics
- Deadline for expressions of
interest is 31 March 2009.
Expressions of interest from architects with exceptional design
skills are invited for a competition to design a new Students'
Centre for the London School of Economics and Political Science
on its Aldwych campus. As the world's leading centre for social
sciences, the LSE is one of the largest colleges within the University
of London and has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence
nationally and internationally. The next step in the campus development
programme is to dramatically improve its facilities by creating
a new Students' Centre. The School's ambition is to procure an
exemplary piece of architecture which is innovative, sustainable
and inspirational, which will be at the forefront of 'Contemporary
Westminster'.
Canada: National Music Centre
Cantos Music Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
- Submission deadline: 1400 hours
MST on March 31, 2009
- Cantos Music Foundation seeks
Expressions of Interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced
architects for the creation of a new national music centre in
Calgary's East Village. This project will integrate Cantos' existing
operations of historic musical instrument collection and public
programs in an expanded new unique facility which will combine
the adaptive re-use of a portion of the existing King Edward
Hotel heritage space and transform it into a new iconic facility
for Calgary, Canada and the world. This EOI is the first
phase of a two-phase selection process. Four or more firms
will be short-listed following phase one and invited to submit
their proposals and concepts for phase two. Invited firms
for phase two will each receive a USD $50,000 honourarium for
their submission and the winning firm will be awarded the project.
USA: Miami 2009
Registration Deadline: March 31st, 2009
ARQUITECTUM, anounces the International Architecture Competition
"MIAMI 2009". For this competition the project is a
"Pier-Museum", located at the end of Fifth Avenue leading
to South Beach, which, pointing out to sea, will stand as a "horizontal
monument" to all the immigrants (particularly the Cuban
immigrants) who have arrived on these shores in search of a better
future. To this end, this 100 meter long structure will house
a museum in which the personal effects, souvenirs and photos
belonging to the new generation of immigrants will be exhibited
those who came to the city of Miami from the 1950s to the
1980s in search of their own personal American Dream.
USA: Temporary
Outdoor Gallery Space 2 (TOGS 2) Ideas Competition
- Deadline for Registration is
now March 30, 2009
- After a successful run with
their Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space (TOGS) competition in 2008,
Art Alliance Austin announces their second installment of the
ideas competition TOGS 2. The TOGS 2 program fuses art and architecture,
providing opportunities locally, nationally and globally. Partnerships
with AIA Austin, Austin Foundation for Architecture and AIA New
York Chapter further Art Alliance Austin's goals by enabling
the competition to reach new communities, increasing accessibility
and gaining greater exposure for emerging professionals within
the architecture community.
USA: Deborah
J Norden Fund
Application deadline: March 30th
2009
- The Fund was established in
1995 in memory of architect Deborah Norden and awards annually
a total of $5000 in travel/study grants to students and recent
graduates in the fields of architecture, architectural history
and urban studies.
UK: The
British School in Rome Architecture Residencies 2009-10
Rome Scholarship in Landscape
Architecture
Rome Scholarship in Architecture
Applications by 27 March 2009
- Applicants are invited from
the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning
and environmental design for a residency at the British School
at Rome (BSR). Two residencies are available for between three
and nine months to develop and research work within the context
of Rome. They include accommodation, full board and a research
grant. The Rome Scholarship in Architecture is an annual prize
awarded to exceptional architects or post-Part II students of
architecture to enable them to study under their own direction
at the BSR.
- Iran: Benetton
Group: Designing in Teheran" International architecture
contest
- All planning documents must
be delivered strictly by midday (C.E.T), 27.03.2009.
- An international contest open
to creatives, designers and architects, who are called upon to
develop a design for two multistorey buildings, hereafter A and
B, set in the Iranian city of Teheran. The aim of the contest
is to bring together ideas and identify solutions that will provide
the best and most coherent integration of the structures in the
local urban and commercial setting, with projects that take into
account cultural and technical aspects, in order to enhance the
buildings, making them recognisable, with a clear sense of identity.
The spaces in question will be used for commercial premises and
offices, and crucial in these designs will be the ability to
convey the sense that these spaces are interpreted with contemporary
sensitivity.
Korea: Incheon
International Urban Design Competition for Students 2009
Registration Deadline: March 27th, 2009
The 2009 Incheon International Urban Design Competition for Students
aims to contribute to the transformation of Incheon Metropolitan
City into a world-class city capable of carrying out functions
and roles commensurate to such status and at the same time resolve
current urban issues for the city by promulgating a worldwide
call for public submissions of urban design plans. The theme
of this Competition is A futuristic U-Eco Community where new
technologies, the environment, and people are in harmony. Designers
are requested to submit their ideas that combine new technologies,
the environment with the people to create the U-Eco Community
and maintain the proper functions for resident, commercial uses
and others.
USA/Russia:
The Bering Strait
Project Competition
- Deadline for Registration March
24th, 2009.
- The Foundation for Peace and
Unification has launched the International Ideas Competition
for the Bering Strait Project approved by International Union
of Architects. This is a large scale project aimed at linking
railroad systems and ocean driveways from around the world by
connecting the Bering Strait between the North American and Eurasian
Continents. Through this unprecedented project, the Bering Strait
intends to be a place of mutual cooperation where the east and
west hemisphere are linked, the discontinuity of nation, human
and culture disappear, and a long-pending hostility and conflict
can be cleared up. Through the competition, the Foundation for
Peace and Unification would like to let the world know about
this intention and to stimulate their interest and participation.
It is a single-phased competition and is open to architects in
cooperation with affiliated professionals as well as students
of architecture all over the world.
USA: Gimme
Shelter: A National Ideas Competition for Urban Shade Structures.
- Registration deadline is Wednesday,
March 18, 2009
- Organised by The City of
Phoenix Office of Arts & Culture. Phoenix, the nation's fifth largest city, has nearly
300 sunny or partly cloudy days a year. That makes it a great
place to be in the winter, but a tougher assignment in the summer.
With the mercury exceeding 100 degrees for weeks on end from
late May through September, there are plenty of reasons to cry
"gimme shelter" and invite the best talent in contemporary
art and design to invent new forms of beautiful and durable city
shade structures. The "Gimme Shelter" competition is
part of Phoenix's efforts to revive its urban core as a "Connected
Oasis" of shaded sidewalks, plazas, streets and open spaces.
This competition is open to all artists, architects, landscape
architects, engineers, industrial designers and other design
professionals based in the United States. International designers
can be included as part of American teams.
UK: New
Swimming Pool -Worthing Borough Council
Expression of Interest deadline
14.00 hours on Tuesday 17th March 2009.
- RIBA Competitions Office is
running an Invited Design Competition on behalf of Worthing Borough
Council, to seek suitable and innovative solutions for the design
of a new swimming facility to be built alongside and to replace
the town's existing ageing pool complex known locally as the
'Aquarena'.
USA: FUTURE.city.past.FORWARD.
- Deadline March 15th 2009
- Call to Arcitects/Artists/Designers.
Futurist utopian visions of urbanism in the 1960s proposed by
Japanese Metabolists and Archigram amounted to very few deployable
works, yet significantly influenced a generation of architects,
artists, cinematographers, and designers. These movements embraced
notions of social reform, popular culture, and high-tech innovation
in their provocative concepts for a future world where cities
floated and buildings walked. Recent work in fantastical form
across the disciplines revisits and transforms futurism through
a contemporary lens. This call to architects, artists, and designers
requests work in art, architecture, interior design, industrial
design, and graphics that expresses futurism at various scales
and from multiple perspectives.
- Send CV/resume, Statement of
Conceptual Intent, 3D sketches, orthographic drawings, and/or
images (jpeg) electronically to: d3 (RE: future) info@d3space.org
Indonesia: Gotong Royong City -Envisioning
the Future of Jakarta
- Registration closes 14th March
2009
- International Architectural
and Urban Design Competition -The International Architecture
Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) 2009 in collaboration with Ikatan Arsitek
Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Architects Jakarta Chapter)
is pleased to announce an idea competition on the theme of 'gotong
royong city' in the context of the extended metropolitan region
of Jakarta.
Canada: Trillium Public Art
Competition in Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Registration should be completed
by March 13, 2009
- The Planning & Design Centre,
in partnership with W. M. fares Group, want to redefine and enhance
public space in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. An international
two-stage competition has been launched to create a permanent
piece of public art to be located in front of the new live/work
development called the Trillium, currently under construction
in the heart of downtown Halifax. The competition is open
to everyone, and both individual and group submissions will be
accepted. Collaboration between disciplines is strongly encouraged.
new Brazil: Exploratory
Science Musem
- Registration: 6th Mar 2009
The State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil, has launched
an International Public Competition for an architecture project
for its Exploratory Science Museum. The competition is open to
any architect registered in its home country. The goal is to
build a building of 5,200 square meters in a 28,000 m2 terrain.
The terrain designated for its edification is a distinguished
location at the edge of the Campus and in its most elevated site
within the Campus, with a visible horizon of almost 360 degrees
that extends for more than 10 kilometers.
UK: Architects
Caring for Older People -International Student Design Competition
Deadline for submissions is 6 March
2009
- DWA Architects has launched
a design competition for architectural students worldwide with
support from one of the UK's largest care home operators, Bupa
Care Services. Students entering the competition will be asked
to take into consideration a number of issues including community
integration, improving visitor numbers, energy conservation and
the best layout for the patient; all of which helps improve quality
of life for residents.
UK: DWA Architects Caring for Older People -International Student Design Competition
- Entries to be submitted by 6
March 2009.
- DWA Architects are organizing
this ideas competition, open to all architectural students. The
competition is jointly sponsored by DWA Architects and BUPA Care
Homes. The theme of the competition is designing for older people
in 60 to 70 years time.
UK: Maidstone
high street public realm improvements.
Time-limit for receipt of projects or requests to participate: 5th
March 2009
Two stage open design competition for the re-design of Maidstone's
High Street, and improvements to the public realm within the
Town Centre. The competition is open to multi-disciplinary teams
which should be led by an architect or landscape architect. Inter-discipline
collaboration is actively encouraged and other team members might
include the services of a transport planner, highways engineer
etc. The realised scheme will also need to include a clear public
art focus. A key objective is the enhancement and distinctiveness
of Maidstone as Kent's County Town through creative and innovative
use of design and public art.
UK: The
Art Fund Pavilion Architectural Competition
Application Deadline 3rd March 2009
- Tent London and The Lightbox
have launched an open competition for The Art Fund Pavillion.
This is a unique opportunity to design a semi-permanent pavilion
that will sit alongside a RIBA award-winning building by Marks
Barfield Architects. The international panel, of judges includes
Wayne Hemingway and Kieran Long. The winning design will provide
additional exhibition space for Woking's new gallery and museum,
and will be built with funding by The Art Fund Prize, The UK's
largest single art prize of £100,000. The new pavilion
will be launched during the London Design Festival 2009.
Canada: Affordable
Seniors Housing Ideas Design Competition
Registration by 12 noon AST on March 2nd, 2009
To showcase ideas and/or concepts of innovative seniors housing
design at the ASHRA Seniors Housing Needs Conference, May 2009
in Halifax. This design competition will follow the guidelines
of the RAIC and is a Non-endorsed design competition of open
ideas.
- UK: Daiwa
Foundation Art Prize
- The deadline for applications
is Monday 2nd March 2009
- The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
is a UK charity, established in 1988 with the generous support
of Daiwa Securities Co Ltd. Its purpose is to support closer
links between Britain and Japan in all fields of activity, including
the visual arts. In its 20th anniversary year, the Foundation
is launching a visual arts prize, the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize.
The Foundation is seeking to offer artists a unique opportunity
to gain an insight into Japan's visual art sector. In the
Prize's inaugural year the Tokyo-based Tomio Koyama Gallery will
be their partner organisation.
- Italy: Metropolitan
T shirt competition
- Deadline 28th February 2009.
- The competition is born for
designs to be reproduced on T-shirts. The chosen theme for the
competition is "metropolitan design", everyday uniqueness.
The dominant aspect of the design, along with innovation, dedication,
attention to detail, is above all the expression of your own
story; all aspects that contribute to characterising the "metropolitan
luxury" concept responding to the theme of the competition.
Your T-shirt has to be (for someone) a symbol of uniqueness,
character and an expression of his or her own values. The organizers
invite designers, artists, students and architects under 40 to
participate in an ideas competition focused on this interesting
cultural market reality.
UK: Launch
of International Open Design Competition for the redesign of
Maidstone's High Street
- Registrations close on 26 February
2009
- Maidstone Borough Council in
association with RIBA Competitions Office. Through creative and
innovative use of design and public art, this competition is
seeking ideas and approaches for a circa GBP £4m public
realm improvement project for the High Street in Maidstone's
town centre. Stage 1 submissions are invited from multi-disciplinary
design teams, which must be led by a practising, registered architect
or landscape architect. The winning proposal will need to have
a clear public art focus that will revitalise the High Street
and its environs, enhance Maidstone's distinctiveness as the
County Town of Kent and improve the town centre's physical and
visual connectivity to the River Medway.
Singapore: Punggol Waterfront
Housing Desing Competition
- Registration for competition
closes on 23 Feb 2009
- Two stage Competition open to
all architectural firms. In the first stage, participants are
required to submit a local master plan / urban design proposals
for the Housing District in the West and the architectural concepts
for the first housing parcel within the housing district. In
stage two, the consultant teams will develop and submit a full
architectural solution and design for the first housing parcel
along the waterway. The outcome of this housing design competition
is expected to be announced and exhibited in November 2009. The
winning team will be appointed as the Consultant team to execute
the design thereafter.
USA: 2009 AIA Committee on Design
Ideas Competition
Registration Deadline: February
13, 2009
- Submission Deadline: March 12,
2009
The AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students,
and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international
2009 COD Ideas Competition. In this unique sketch competition,
submitters are asked to explore the legacy of modernist design,
through a concept design problem. Visit the competition Web site
(http://www.aia.org/cod_ideas) for more information or to submit
a project.
USA: 2009
Young Architects Forum: Foresight -Call for Entries
- Competition Deadline: Wednesday,
February 11, 2009
Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to
the annual Young Architects Competition. Projects of all types,
either theoretical or real and executed in any medium, are welcome.
The jury will select work for presentation in public forums,
an on-line installation, and an exhibition at the Architectural
League beginning in May 2009.. A poster of the winning entries
will be published and distributed nationally, as will a catalogue
of winning work published by the Architectural League and Princeton
Architectural Press. The Young Architects Forum is an annual
competition, series of lectures, and exhibition organized by
the Architectural League and its Young Architects Committee.
The Forum was established to recognize specific works of high
quality and to encourage the exchange of ideas among young people
who might otherwise not have a forum.
USA: Great
Places Awards 2009- Call for Entries
Deadline for entries is February
9, 2009.
- Celebrating excellent places
and how people inhabit them. Places: Forum of Design for the
Public Realm, EDRA, the Environmental Design Research Association,
in cooperation with Metropolis magazine announce the twelfth
annual Great Places Awards. Unique in the ever-expanding universe
of award programs, our concern is for good places and how people
inhabit them. We seek entries of exemplary work, inviting
participation from a range of design and research disciplines,
recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one
profession or field. Projects should emphasize a link between
research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of
human interaction with place can inspire design.
UK: Cutty
Sark Gardens
Tenders are to be returned by 12.00
noon on Friday 6th February 2009
- The Cutty Sark Gardens Brief
is currently being tendered by LB Greenwich through an open single
stage tender process. The project presents a very exciting
opportunity to be involved in the design and phased reconstruction
of one of London's highest profile public spaces. With it's prominent
riverfront location, the World Heritage Site currently serves
nine million visitors annually. The Cutty Sark will reopen in
2010, and in 2012 Greenwich will be hosting key Olympic
events - factors which will further increase visitor numbers.
The ambition of the project is to create a world class public
space, and as such a talented and innovative design team is being
sought to deliver this vision. The winning team will be
responsible for delivering the £2.4million project from
RIBA work stages C to E. Please note -this is an open
tender.
USA: Ceramic
Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2009
- Completed submissions to be
received no later than February 06, 2009.
- For the 2009 edition of this
annual competition, North American architects and interior designers
are invited to submit domestic and international new construction
and renovation projects completed between January 2004 and January
2009. A panel of design experts will judge the projects based
on their creativity, functionality and aesthetic appeal. The
official criterion for the jury includes: overall design of the
project, innovative use of tile, tile design, quality of installation
and degree that tile enhances the setting.
Mexico: 11th Arquine International Competition
"FARO of SATÉLITE"
Registration by 4th February 2009
- On the 50th anniversary of the
Satélite Towers (1958) designed by Luis Barragán
and Mathias Goertiz, now in the process of being catalogued as
National Artistic Heritage, ARQUINE announces its 11th International
Competition, proposing the design of a "FARO of Satélite"
in the plaza where the towers are located. At a moment when this
milestone of Mexican and international modernity runs the risk
of an assault by the government of the Estado de México,
in the form of a second level of the Periférico ring road,
this call for new ideas proposes to depress the lateral circulation
along the east of the towers and generate a pedestrian connection
with Ciudad Satélite, extending the plaza and installing
a parking area for 50 vehicles underneath the extension. The
competition calls for the design of a FARO which would redefine
the zone, giving programmatic content to a space that has been
rendered incommunicado and generating a new public space.
- USA: 2009
AIA Committee on Design Ideas Competition
Registration Deadline: February
13, 2009
- Submission Deadline: March 12,
2009
The AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students,
and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international
2009 COD Ideas Competition. In this unique sketch competition,
submitters are asked to explore the legacy of modernist design,
through a concept design problem. Visit the competition Web site
(http://www.aia.org/cod_ideas) for more information or to submit
a project.
USA: 2009
Young Architects Forum: Foresight -Call for Entries
- Competition Deadline: Wednesday,
February 11, 2009
Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to
the annual Young Architects Competition. Projects of all types,
either theoretical or real and executed in any medium, are welcome.
The jury will select work for presentation in public forums,
an on-line installation, and an exhibition at the Architectural
League beginning in May 2009. A poster of the winning entries
will be published and distributed nationally, as will a catalogue
of winning work published by the Architectural League and Princeton
Architectural Press. The Young Architects Forum is an annual
competition, series of lectures, and exhibition organized by
the Architectural League and its Young Architects Committee.
USA: Great
Places Awards 2009- Call for Entries
Deadline for entries is February
9, 2009.
- Celebrating excellent places
and how people inhabit them. Places: Forum of Design for the
Public Realm, EDRA, the Environmental Design Research Association,
in cooperation with Metropolis magazine announce the twelfth
annual Great Places Awards. Unique in the ever-expanding universe
of award programs, our concern is for good places and how people
inhabit them. We seek entries of exemplary work, inviting
participation from a range of design and research disciplines,
recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one
profession or field. Projects should emphasize a link between
research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of
human interaction with place can inspire design.
UK: Cutty
Sark Gardens
Tenders are to be returned by 12.00
noon on Friday 6th February 2009
- The Cutty Sark Gardens Brief
is currently being tendered by LB Greenwich through an open single
stage tender process. The project presents a very exciting
opportunity to be involved in the design and phased reconstruction
of one of London's highest profile public spaces. The ambition
of the project is to create a world class public space,
and as such a talented and innovative design team is being sought
to deliver this vision. The winning team will be responsible
for delivering the £2.4million project from RIBA work
stages C to E. Please note -this is an open tender.
USA: Ceramic
Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2009
- Completed submissions to be
received no later than February 06, 2009.
- For the 2009 edition of this
annual competition, North American architects and interior designers
are invited to submit domestic and international new construction
and renovation projects completed between January 2004 and January
2009.
Mexico: 11th Arquine International Competition
"FARO of SATÉLITE"
Registration by 4th February 2009
- On the 50th anniversary of the
Satélite Towers (1958) designed by Luis Barragán
and Mathias Goertiz, now in the process of being catalogued as
National Artistic Heritage, ARQUINE announces its 11th International
Competition, proposing the design of a "FARO of Satélite"
in the plaza where the towers are located. At a moment when this
milestone of Mexican and international modernity runs the risk
of an assault by the government of the Estado de México,
in the form of a second level of the Periférico ring road,
this call for new ideas proposes to depress the lateral circulation
along the east of the towers and generate a pedestrian connection
with Ciudad Satélite, extending the plaza and installing
a parking area for 50 vehicles underneath the extension.
UK: Homes
for Urban Wildlife
Deadline: 2nd February 2009
Creative thinkers - designers, architects, artists and others
are invited to begin 2009 with a clearer conscience by entering
a competition to design new wildlife habitats. The Wildlife Design
Competition aims to encourage wildlife back into urban areas
with irresistible new homes for birds, bees, butterflies, bugs,
bats or otters, that are both practical and stylish. Organisers
in Leeds hope that the experience will also benefit young professionals,
looking to gain more experience, showcase their talents and attract
potential employers to their greener CV.
Croatia:
international
competition-SPLIT
Submission deadline: February 2nd
2009
- Public international, single
stage, open competition for making of an ideal town planning
solution of the city project no. 7 -Duilovo in Split.
USA: On Farming: [bracket] Call for Entries
- On Farming Submissions due:
February 2nd 2009
- [bracket] is a collaboration
of Archinect and InfraNet Lab, and is composed of a collection
of diverse editors and an open-source contributing membership.
The first edition of [bracket] is centered around the theme of
farming. Please submit unpublished work (images, text, sound,
video) addressing the theme of On Farming, including: urbanisms,
emergent architectures, landscape interventions, crop circle
mappings; irrefutable evidence; visionary manifestos for the
future; apocalyptic scare tactics; survival strategies and recipes.
- Slovenia: TRIMO
URBAN CRASH international competition for students of architecture
- The competition is running until
31 January 2009.
- Architecture students of 11
European countries are invited to participate in the second running
Trimo Urban Crash competition organised by Trimo, one of Europe's
leading suppliers of construction solutions. Students are invited
to design an object for a given location in the centre of the
Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. The winning project will be built
and taken into permanent use on location in June 2009. The winner
will also be awarded paid summer school attendance at an internationally
acclaimed architectural school. This year's task is designing
an urban meeting place, an information spot or an alternative
cultural stage made with Trimo products.
China: 2008 Shanghai Qingpu New City
West Region International Competition of Conceptual Urban Design
- Submission Jan 31st 2009
- Competition is endorsed
by the Government of Qingpu District and Shanghai Urban Planning
Administration Bureau, and organized by Shanghai Qingpu New Urban
Area Construction Development Co. Ltd., and di Magazine. The
aim is to collect creative ideas from all of the world for sustainable
construction and development in the west region of Qingpu District,
Shanghai, and to provide a basic reference for the detailed planning
later.
- Botswana: Architectural
Design of Botswana Innovation Hub
- Tenders must be delivered not
later than 12.00 hours on 30th January.
- Tenders are invited from reputable
Architectural Firms for "Prequalification" for inclusion
into a shortlist for Design Competition for the Architectural
Design of Botswana Innovation Hub. Tender documentation can be
downloaded from website www.bdc.bw (under the Tender Notices).
Botswana´s first Science and Technology Park, Botswana
Innovation Hub, is going to be a world class platform for technology
oriented and knowledge intensive foreign and local businesses
as well as research and advanced training institutes.
USA: Call
for Entries -Art Directors Club Awards 88
- Deadline Jan 16th 2009; student
deadline Jan 30th 2009.
- The Art Directors Club is the
premier organization for integrated media and the first international
creative collective of its kind. Founded in New York in 1920,
ADC is a self-funding, not-for-profit membership organization
whose mission is to connect, provoke and elevate creative visual
communications professionals around the world. It focuses on
the highest standards of excellence and integrity in visual communications
for the industry, and encourages students and young professionals
entering the field. ADC provides a forum for creatives in Advertising,
Design, Interactive Media and Communications to explore the direction
of these rapidly converging industries.
- USA: 2009
Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition
- Entry Deadline: January 30th,
2009
- Metropolis magazine challenges young designers
to apply their innovative talents to our energy addiction and
rethink the broken models that represented 20th-century life
and work. The Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition,
which has been promoting activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship
in design since 2003, is supported this year by sponsors ASSA
ABLOY, Herman Miller, Inc., and Sherwin-Williams."We hope
to see intelligent and beautiful ideas, at all scales, that bring
out the humanist tendencies of young designers everywhere."
USA: HH Richardson
Library Expansion 'Ideas' Competition
Submission deadline: Jan. 23, 2009
This is an exciting architecture, urban design and planning sketch
problem. The challenge being how to add on to a historically
and architecturally significant building and what strategic
moves can be implemented to reinforce the library's role as the
"center" of town?
USA: CNU Charter Awards 2009
- Submissions by January 20, 2009
- Congress for New Urbanism Charter
Awards recognize the best of New Urbanism and Smart Growth -whether
the work is architectural, landscape, and urban designs or the
publications, policies, plans, and codes that structure them.
Awards are selected by a jury of distinguished urbanists, led
this year by Victor Dover, and judged on the extent to which
they fulfill and advance the principles of the Charter of the
New Urbanism. Entrants also have the opportunity to describe
how projects advance the operative principles in the Canons of
Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism.
UK: Nationwide
Sustainable Housing Awards
- The closing date for entries
is Friday 16 January 2009
- Nationwide Building Society
announces the launch of the Sustainable Housing Awards in partnership
with the Royal Institute of British Architects. The annual ideas
competition is open to all undergraduate architecture and design
students. The competition aims to stimulate and reward innovative
thinking about how people can live more sustainably in the future.
Students are invited to present sustainable design ideas for
one of three categories: existing housing, new build or community/neighbourhood.
- USA: Story
about a Place
Submission deadline is: January 15, 2009.
- With its first annual competition,
SMIBE brings together a growing body of moving image stories
about the built environment. We hope the competition will become
a forum for the exchange and discussion of persuasive issues
about the built environment. For this competition, SMIBE welcomes
moving image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain
our communities about social, environmental, political, technological,
and economic issues that designers of the built world should
be discussing.
USA: student
competition to design a campus performing arts center
Submission Deadline January 15, 2009
The Architectural Commission of the United States Institute for
Theatre & Technology (USITT) announced calls for entries
for its 3rd annual student Architectural Design Competition to
design an "Ideal Theatre" on an academic campus. The
competition is open to any U.S. or International architecture
and theater student at an accredited college or university.
Canada: Lighting
up the Gesù / Lumière sur le Gesù
- Entries must be received by
January 14, 2009, 5:00 PM
- As part of an ideas competition,
the Quartier des spectacles Partnership, the Gesù and
the City of Montreal's Design Montréal agency invites
designers and creators to submit lighting, architecture and scenographic
propositions that will reveal the unique personality of the Gesù.
USA: 09 Skyscraper Competition -
eVolo
Registration deadline: 12 January 2009:
- The 2009 competition calls for
innovative designs for the XXI Century which takes into consideration
the historical and social context, the existing urban fabric,
the human scale, and the environment. There is no restriction
on site, height or shape. The idea is to give the designers enough
freedom to address the challenge in the most creative and innovative
way. All students, architects, engineers and designers are invited
to participate. It is encouraged to have multidisciplined teams.
There is no limit on the number of participants in a team.
UK: Competition
to find perfect green space for Astley Village
- The submission deadline is January
7th 2009.
RIBA has launched a two stage competition to find a design team,
who will help deliver a landscaping/environmental improvements
scheme for Astley Village in Chorley, Lancashire. The competition
is being organised on behalf of Places for People, one the UK's
largest property maintenance and regeneration companies and is
open to all practising architects, landscape architects, town
planners and urban designers.
UK: National
Wildflower Centre International Open Design Competition
- The deadline for Stage One submissions
is 7 January 2009
- The RIBA Competitions Office
announces the launch of an international open competition for
the design of an innovative, architecturally striking educational,
conference and seed production complex at the National Wildflower
Centre in the Liverpool City Region. The client for the competition
is Landlife with funding for the competition provided by the
Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA). Entries are invited
from architects or architect-led teams, which will be judged
anonymously at the First Stage.
Egypt: International Competition
for Urban design of Ramses Square, Cairo
- Deadline for submission 1st
Jan 2009
- Ramses Square which is of important
historical and urban value needs to be redeveloped in order to
meet with the existing urban and traffic conflicts, therefore
the Egyptian Government decided to issue an international planning
& urban design competition in order to reach the best solution
of the Square in the light of a comprehensive planning vision
of Cairo City Center which is of great historical, urban and
cultural value.
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