Fight about space for Columbia University
One of the most famous US university is fighting about united space in NY. Columbia University nowdays is alll around NY and student spend hours by travelling. So Uni presents new plan by Renzo Piano and SOM, which are rebuilding university areal on three lined streets in Manhattan. But is not so easy, lot of statesmans are againts. So fight started and only time will show us, who will be winner.
Urban research by MRGD
MRGD is young architecture office in GB with architects Melike Altinisik, Samer Chaumoun and Daniel Widrig. Not long time ago they revealed their research project of rebuilding of quite boring tower Centre Point in the centre of London. They used nice organic form of some kind of parasite. This parasite don´t suck energy from building, but spirit of town into the buidling.
Library in Utrecht
A good building is a good neighbour i.e. it does not keep to itself but contributes actively to its surroundings. Our competition proposal for library, cinema and apartments in Utrecht does just that. The location is more than just an important traffic junction, it is also a gateway to Utrechts city centre. With its distinctive, sculptural shape, it arouses curiosity and signals that this is where things happen! By allowing the building to slope towards the smaller scale of the Middle Age town, and similarly screen off the taller buildings on the railway side, it functions as a go-between, drawing people to it.
Wind dam
Not water dam, not wind power plant. Yes it is realy wind dam. We are talking about futuristic project of architect Chetwoods. He uses a giant spinnaker sail slung between mountains to funnel wind into a turbine. I know that this project seems to be unreal, but believe or not, they want to build this at Lake Lagoda in north-east Russia. -source
Emmenthal cheese by Torafu
Koichi Suzono and Shinya Kamuro should sort out problem to make a cafe, from waiting room with vending machine at the University of Tokyo. Architects put in this not very kindly space, light wooden structure. It´s made from wooden boards in horizontal and vertical directions. In this cube, holes in shape of levitating balls are cuts. source: Torafu
Tower Verre in New York by Jean Nouvel
Architect Jean Nouvel has revealed his design for a new 75-story tower. The building is situated in centre of NY, next to the Museum of Modern Art,MoMa. The tower contain a hotel, luxury apartments and three floors for use by MoMA. The most important part of the project is construction. It´s made from steel disordered structure. The building will be an interesting form against the orthogonal towers of NY.
OMA in Shenzhen
OMA won the competition to design China’s Shenzhen Stock Exchange building in December last year. Main conception is based on the essence of the stock market as speculation and the desire to create a building that is beyond symbolism for an almost virtual stock market.A few people are critical about the form, but at least building is multifunctional with public spaces also for festivals, on a ground floor.
CCTV tower join - last video
„Millenium Eye“ in Beijing
Chine want to be the top one in everything, so nobody will be surprise that they will have another the biggest. Yes there will be the biggist wheel, will be tall 208 metres, which is an extra 73 metres more than Millenium Eye in London. Name is The Great Wheel of China and it should be opend in year 2009. Question is if will people in the wheel see something more then smog in Beijing?
Burj Dubai actual photos
Burj Dubai is a skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure on Earth, despite being incomplete. Construction began on September 21, 2004, and it is expected to be completed and ready for occupation in September 2009.
How to Write like an Architect
Fluid pavilion by 3deluxe
Pavilion called Leonardo Glass Cube near Bad Driburg in Germany was built by 3deluxe studio. Concrete pathways between green grass are folding to facade, they are surrounded there with glass and going up to the roof, where this 2D concrete elements change themselves to three-dimensional structure that complete interior. (exterior & interior)
Virtual exhibition - ME100
You can find an exhibition on the website www.me100.cz. It is work of czech atelier DRNH. Antonin Novak and Petr Valenta are inviting us on exhibition about town, which is inspirated by books of czech writers Pavel Hnilicka and Vaclav Cilek. Architects are trying to warn us about situation in postcommunistic states, where the landscape is devastated by unsensitive housing. So they show us in couple of projects the way we should go.
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Tip on book: Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
The endearment from Sao Paolo
French-Brazilian architecture company Triptyque designed building for Loducca, a São Paulo advertising agency. It´s quite simple 3 floors office and is situated in suburb area. The most interesting think on whole project is front facade. It´s made from horizontal wood plank, which flows around the building. This organic mass is broken only in one spot. It is cut by concrete cube, which is used as entry.
Genious use of pre-fabricated materials
These days Dasparkhotel, created by designer Andreas Strauus as a new form of accommodation near Austrian city Linz, starts his third season. The hotel, opened from May till Octobre, is designed from unused increadible robust drain pipes, made from concrete. Simple look-like exterior covers entire 2 metres long room with a double-bed and storage. Other facillities are around, so the hotel integrate to the going of neighbourhood. Cells offers a temporary, comfortable and uncomplicated home. And the bonus: the night in this feature cost as much as you propose to pay.
Eco-hotel in a quarry
The Songjiang district, near the Chinese city Shangai, is a popular zone for recreation. Firm Atkins, famous for their grandiose projects, proposed a set of hotels called Songjiang. The key factor of the design is the water, that is all around the building. The hotel is created in the deep quarry and this point reflexes on a simple look. The building has also underwater parts. The roof is grassy and whole complex will use geothermal energy for an electrical supply and heating, so the interference with the nature will be smaller.
Small House Seems Large (video)
The manipulation of light and space makes the Penguin House in Tokyo seem much larger.
Green Building Research from autodesk (video)
Autodesk and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) are committed to a future where design process and technology are integrated in support of our common goal: a sustainable tomorrow.
Over the past year, the Project Chicago: Green Building Research team investigated how modeling, analysis, and sustainable validation could converge into an improved design process. See how an instant and interactive means to evaluate innovation, water, energy, indoor environmental quality, and carbon footprint elements could give designers an immediate sense of the results of different design scenarios.
Using scenarios from BNIM Architects’ Lewis and Clark State Office Building in Missouri, a research team of experts developed alternative concepts for sustainable design environments and studied their impact on the design process. This video showing the results of this research suggests a compelling future.
Key to this eco-friendly building effort is the integrated process known as building information modeling (BIM), an integrated process built on coordinated, reliable information about a project from design through construction, and into operations.
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Rucksack House - Parasite Perspective – New views on the city
Perched between art and architecture, form and function, the Rucksack House is a walk-in sculpture with its own spatial quality. A hovering illuminated space that looks like a cross between temporary scaffolding and minimal sculpture. As mobile as a rucksack, this mini-house is intended to be an additional room that can be suspended from the façade of any residential building.
The cube is a light and empty space, free from connotations and open to its user’s needs. While still being inside a private atmosphere, one has the impression of floating outside of the confines of the actual dwelling above the public space. Folddown furnishings and a multitude of built-in openings on the inside provide extra living space with direct daylight. Sections of the walls unfold, with the help of hidden magnets, into a desk, shelves, and a platform for reading or sleeping. The Rucksack box is suspended from steel cables that are anchored to the roof or to the facade of the existing building. The construction is a welded steel cage with a light birch veneered plywood interior cladding. The outside cladding is exterior grade plywood with an absorbent resin surface punctuated by plexiglas inserts.
The Rucksack house offers a way of improving housing quality on an individual basis.It is a direct visual sign and reactivates the idea of the self-built anarchistic tree house, but one that is more prominently placed and structurally engineered. New space gets slung onto an existing space by a simple,clear, and understandable method.
Extreme Housing 3rd International Architecture Competition
The Design Challenge
The 3rd International Architecture Competition presents architects with the task of creating energy efficient, single-family, detached housing that minimises climate change emissions and can withstand temperature extremes, yet is affordable to build and to buy. The winning architects will use the exceptional qualities of steel to construct their design in Cherepovet, Russian Federation, where temperatures can range from -49 C to +34 C. The homes constructed from the winning designs will be part of a community for use by employees of Russian steel maker, SeverStal JSC, headquartered in Cherepovets.
Prizes
Winning design Jury Award: €50,000
Architect’s Award: €20,000
Honorarium: €3,000 for each team
Expenses: Travel expenses for each team to Helsinki, Finland
Who Can Enter?
Architects entering an Expression of Interest must do so as a team of two architects to be eligible for short-list consideration. The competition is open to:
Qualified architects registered with the relevant professional body in the Russian Federation where the competition building is to be built,
Qualified architects registered with the relevant professional body in other jurisdictions, or
Students of architecture enrolled in a recognized programme of architectural studies on the provision the other member of the competition team meets admission criteria (1) or (2).
Full Competition Schedule
28 January 2008 Opening of call for expressions of interest
28 April 2008 Deadline for receipt of expressions of interest
6 May 2008 Meeting of the Selection Committee
16 May 2008 Notification of teams invited to participate in the competition
23 May 2008 Deadline for teams to confirm acceptance of the invitation
2 June 2008 Public announcement of competition teams. Provision of comments to the competition teams based on their expressions of interest to give guidance for preparation of their competition entry
13 June 2008 Deadline for submission of questions by the competition teams
25 June 2008 Welcome reception for the competition teams
26-27 June 2008 Presentations by each competition team to the Jury (5 presentations per day x 2 days). Each competition team may attend the presentation of the other teams
27-Jun-08 Competition dinner and presentation of the master planning issue to be addressed in the workshop
28 June 2008 Workshop with the workshop teams to address master planning for the Cherepovets development
29 June 2008 Workshop teams will continue their work in the morning. In the afternoon each team will present their master planning ideas
29 June 2008 Competition closing dinner with announcement of the competition results to the teams
2 July 2008 Public announcement of competition results (subject to change)
White House Redux - architectural competition
The White House.
Home of the world’s most powerful individual. Universally recognized symbol of political authority. One of America’s greatest tourist attractions. Nerve-center of the world’s most complex communications system. The ultimate architectural embodiment of power. What if, instead of in 1792, that competition were to be held today? What would a White House designed in 2008, year of election of the 44th President of the United States, look like?
Jury
Beatriz Colomina, Architectural historian, New York
Stefano Boeri, Editor-in-chief, Abitare magazine, Milan
Liz Diller, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York
John Maeda, MIT Media Lab, Boston
Geoff Manaugh, BLDGblog and Dwell magazine, San Francisco
Mark Wigley, Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University
Laetitia Wolff, Editorial director, Surface magazine, New York
Prizes
The best competition entries from around the world will be exhibited in Storefront Gallery (New York) in July 2008, and in a special page on the gallery’s website. They will also be published in Surface magazine. The authors of the three best projects, as chosen by the jury, will be flown to New York and given three day’s free accommodation in The White House Hotel on the Bowery.
First Prize $5,000
Second Prize $3,000
Third Prize $1,500
Timeline
January 15, 2008 Competition launched
March 1, 2008 Online submissions accepted
April 20, 2008 Registration and submissions deadline
May 2008 Jury selects winners
May 2008 Winners announced
July 2008 Exhibition and award giving ceremony at Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza - architectural competition
Grand Army Plaza is New York City’s greatest unrealized asset. Home to powerful architecture, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch, the elegant Bailey Fountain, the entrance to Frederick Law Olmsted’s greatest park, and a major transit hub, the sum of these parts is today emphatically less than the whole. Currently an underdeveloped public amenity, the redesign of Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza will invigorate surrounding communities, just as the re-conception of Manhattan’s High Line set off an explosion of activity in West Chelsea.
To catalyze Grand Army Plaza’s rebirth, the Design Trust for Public Space, in partnership with the Grand Army Plaza Coalition, is launching an international ideas competition, “Reinventing Grand Army Plaza,” to generate new visions for every aspect of the plaza’s design.
Competition Type: Open, international, ideas
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Timetable for 2008:
February: Competition Launches
April: Submission Deadline
May: Jury Deliberations
June: Winner Announced
Summer/Fall: Public Exhibition
Jury:
Jonathan Butler, Founder and Editor, Brownstoner.com
Elizabeth Meyer, Professor, Univ. of Virginia, Dept. Landscape Arch.
Milton Puryear, Founder, Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
Ellen Salpeter, Director, Heart of Brooklyn
Elizabeth Streb, Director, Streb Lab for Action Mechanics
Ken Smith, Ken Smith Landscape Architects
Alex Washburn, Chief of Design, NYC Dept. of City Planning
Jury Chair:
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Awards:
1st Place: $5,000
2nd Place: $2,000
3rd Place: $1,000
Eligibility: Open to all
Fee: $30
Contact: info@reinventingGAP.org
web: www.designtrust.org
Flip a strip - architectural competition
Overview
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA], Arizona, is organizing a design competition and public exhibition, Flip a Strip. This innovative project hopes to foster creative, yet pragmatic new visions for the renovation of the small-scale strip shopping plazas that line the streets of this metropolitan area—and virtually every suburban zone in the country. (Note: this is an idea-generating competition, not a design/build project.)
About the Competition
The competition is a hybrid, both open and invitational, with a nominal registration fee of $60.
Participants must be professional architects with at least five years professional experience. Teams of architects and developers may submit.
Participants can select one of three model sites (which have been submitted by city planners from the municipalities of Scottsdale, Tempe and Phoenix, Arizona) for their design proposal.
Submissions will first be reviewed by a Technical Jury of area experts and advisors, who will send its scoring on to the Design Jury.
Jury
Aaron Betsky, Director, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Julie Eizenberg, Principal, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Santa Monica, CA
Merrill Elam, Partner, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Atlanta, GA
Richard E. Eribes, former Dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Grady Gammage, Jr., partner, Gammage & Burnham, Phoenix, AZ
Prizes
First Prize $8,000
Second Prize $4,000
Third Prize $2,000
Timeline
Registration ends 03.17.2008
Question & answer period ends 03.17.2008
Submissions due 03.31.2008
Jury meets 04.13.2008
Finalists notified 05.01.2008
Exhibition opens; awards announced 10.04.2008
Contact
SMoCA contact:
Elizabeth Theisen
Flip a Strip Project Coordinator
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
7380 E Second Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
phone: 480.874.4682
fax: 480.874.4665
ElizabethLT@sccarts.org
www.flipastrip.org
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BIG LEGO Towers
145 inteligent prefab modules houses by Richard Rogers
It seems to be a paper folder what Sir Lord Richard Rogers has built in Oxley Park, in UK. The most significant innovation compared to similar projects is using „Ecohat“, the roofing system that is able to capture hot air forming in the house, which is then reused to provide passive solar water heating. This principle combined with clever floorplans and quickly rised modules house-building represents up to a 70% reduction in CO2 emissions.
The 99K HOUSE COMPETITION
INTRODUCTION:
The 99K House Competition seeks to:
-Broaden awareness of green building strategies applicable to affordable housing
-Generate and pu blicize examples of sustainable, affordable houses that can be built and sold for $99,000 or less
-Produce a creative, innovative design that can be replicated throughout the Gulf Coast region
-Construct an exemplary sustainable, affordable house prototype on a specific site in Houston, Texas
This two-stage, international design competition calls for a single family house with up to 1,400 SF, including 3 bedrooms and 1 1/2 – 2 bathrooms, on a 50’ x 100’ site in Houston’s historic Fifth Ward. The winning design should be adaptable to a variety of sites in the area, including 33’ x 90’ lots and 40’ x 100’ lots. The construction budget must be under $99,000. Entry fee for each project is $99, payable by check, Visa, or Master Card at the time of registration.
SCHEDULE:
September 2007 Announcement of Competition
December 14, 2007 Deadline for Registration
December 31, 2007 Deadline for Questions
January 14, 2008 Deadline for Entries
February 1-2, 2008 Jury Deliberation
February 4, 2008 Announcement of three finalists
March 31, 2008 Deadline for Finalists’ documents
April 4, 2008 Winner chosen by Jury
June 2008 Begin construction
October – November 2008 Exhibition, Architecture Center Houston
JURY:
Michael Pyatok,
FAIA Principal, Pyatok Architects, Inc., Oakland, CA
www.pyatok.com
Bryan Bell, Jr.
Founder and Executive Director, Design Corps, Raleigh, NC
www.designcorps.org
David Lake,
FAIA Principal Lake| Flato Architects, San Antonio, TX
www.lakeflato.com
Rocio Romero
Owner and Principal, Rocio Romero, LLC., Perryville, MO
www.rocioromero.com
Richard Farias
Executive Director, Tejano Center, Houston, TX
www.tccc-ryss.org
CONTACT:
Rice Design Alliance
Rice University, MS 51
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
T. 713-348-4876
F. 713-348-5924
info@the99khouse.com
www.rda.rice.edu
AIA Houston
315 Capitol, Suite 120
Houston, TX 77002
T. 713-520-0155
F.713-520-5134
info@the99khouse.com
www.aiahouston.org
CHICHEN ITZA 2008 - architectural competition
Within the context of this concept, we have been organizing Landscaping Contests in important places such as MACHU PICCHU, NAZCA and CHAN CHAN. In our desire to offer each year new and exciting locations in which to design and speculate with architecture, we have chosed one of the most enigmatic and beautiful places in the world, the Citadel of CHICHEN ITZA, as the setting to collect the best ideas regarding the installation of objects in archaeological scenarios. Scenarios that because of their mystery and beauty, require a studied and careful intervention, of a profound ecological vision, and above all, of poetic architectural creativity.
Registration process:
The participants must register for the CHICHEN ITZA 2008 competition for their proposals to be accepted. To make their registration official the competitors must pay the competition’s tariff.
Tariff:
Early Registration: US $ 100 From October 1st to October 31st:
Late Registration: US $ 150 From November 2nd to December 31st
Schedule:
ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMPETITION September 1st, 2007
START OF COMPETITION: October 1st, 2007
ANSWERING OF QUERIES: Replies updated on the website during the competition
EARLY REGISTRATION: until October 31st, 2007
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: December 31st, 2007
PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: December 31st, 2007
JURY EVALUATIONS: January 1st to 31st, 2008
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: February 1st, 2008
ONLINE EXHIBITION: April 1st, 2008
Jury:
Bernardo Gómez‐Pimienta (México)
Julien Rouseau (United Kingdom)
Luca Battaglia (Italy)
Ulisse Gnesda (Italy)
Prizes:
1st PRIZE: US $ 5,000
2nd PRIZE:US $ 1,000
3rd PRIZE: 50 copies of the exclusive ARQUITECTUM publication entitled “2008–ACADEMIC COMPETITIONS”
Eligibility:
Architects from anywhere in the world may take part in the competition as long as they have completed their studies (including bachelors) as well as any “Architecture Workshop” of any Faculty, School or University which runs the “architecture career” which includes at least one professor with these attributes. Multidisciplinary teams may also take part in the competitions (engineers, artist, etc.) as long as they have an Architect as Team Leader.
Communication and technical queries:
chichenitza@arquitectum.com
Conflict of Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster
Rem Koolhaas & Norman Foster
Rem Koolhaas and Lord Norman Foster have realy quite same projects for two separate developments in Abu Dhabi. Rem demands an explanation from Foster. Similarity is realy big: shape of whole area(square), street conception or transport.
Zaha Hadid and conception of Glasgow Museum of Transport
Project for a New Glasgow Museum of Transport, Scotland, by Zaha Hadid was selected from 44 others architects and designers and the museum will be open to the public by 2009. The building is concipate as a tunnel-like shed, which is open at opposite ends, where the building diverts to create a journey away from the external context into the world of the exhibits. cross-sectional outline is a responsive gesture to encapsulating a wave or a ‘pleated’ movement, contrast to lenghtwise section.
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum - architectural competition
Cheltenham Borough Council is inviting architects, or architect-led multi-disciplinary design teams, to prepare proposals for the design of an extension to the existing Art Gallery and Museum.
As one of Cheltenham’s key cultural facilities and public buildings, the current Art Gallery & Museum is compromised by difficult access to its main collections and by limited exhibition, storage and other spaces essential to the provision of a quality public art gallery and museum service.
Eligibility
The competition is open internationally to architects and architect-led multi-disciplinary design teams. It should be noted that the competition promoters will be looking to select a team with the experience, capacity and resources to deliver the project and competitors should bear this in mind from the outset.
Jury Panel
Jane Lillystone, Museum & Arts Manager, Cheltenham Borough Council
Richard Brearley, John Miller and Partners with Sidell Gibson, RIBA Adviser
Cllr. Diggory Seacome, Cabinet Member Arts & Culture, Cheltenham Borough Council
Wilf Tomaney, Urban Design Manager, Cheltenham Borough Council
Karen Radford, Heritage & Conservation Manager, Cheltenham Borough Council
Sophia Wilson, Art Gallery & Museum Staff Representative
Joanne Wallis, RIBA Competitions Officer will be in attendance as observer.
Prize Money
An equal honorarium of £4,000 will be paid to each stage 2 finalist. The winner’s honorarium represents an advance on their professional fee.
Timetable
Brief available: Friday 22 June 2007
Question deadline: Wednesday 8 August 2007
Replies to questions / clarifications: Friday 17 August 2007
Deadline for registration: Friday 24 August 2007
Stage 1 submission deadline: Wednesday 12 September 2007
Public consultation: 19 September to 12 October 2007
Assessment: w / c 15 October 2007
Invitation to stage 2: w / c 22 October 2007
Final Judging / interviews: w / c 10 December 2007
Enquiries
RIBA Competitions Office
6 Melbourne Street
Leeds
LS2 7PS
T: +44 (0) 113 2341335
F: +44 (0) 113 2460744
E: riba.competitions@inst.riba.org
Battor Country Club - architectural competition
Battor Country Club is a master plan golf and tennis resort community situated along the banks of Volta River in the village of Battor in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa .
The country club will sits on approximately 100 acres of land between the Volta River and a seasonal creek. The club is designed to provide exclusive recreational facilities for a growing segment of the population interested in resort facilities close to Ghana ’s Capital city of Accra .
This design competition will draw on the talents of interested landscape architecture and design students in major colleges and universities across the US .
Eligibility
Competition is open to students and student teams enrolled in architecture or landscape architecture programs including professionals.
Awards and Prizes
A jury will select one first prize and two honorable mentions.
The winner(s) will win:
-$5,000 cash prize
The owners maintain the right to continue with developing the design using the actual team members at their discretion.
The winning entry design will show:
- 18 hole Golf course at least 6,500 yards total course length
- Large Practice Green(s) close to the club house
- Driving Range
- 20 unit townhouse
- Tennis Courts
- Jet Ski and Boat docking station by the river
- Club House
- Bar
- Club House Store and offices
- Conference Center
- Spa
Packaging and delivery of Submission
Please send submissions by mail to:
Battor Country Club
Suite 1000
3505 Bridge Mill Court
Norcross , GA 30092
For answers to your questions please email:
BattorCountryClub@hotmail.com
BattorCountryClub@yahoo.com
SUBMISSION DEADLINE September 1st, 2007
The 2nd Advanced Architecture Contest -
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is issuing an international summons to architects, students and designers from around the world to invite proposals for the construction of self-sufficient dwellings, in which the emphasis will be on exploring people’s capacity to construct their own homes, especially through the use of digital technologies.
Eligibility
The competition is opened to students and professional. There is no age limit; the projects may be carried out be individually or in groups, with no restriction on the number of members of the team.
Registration
No fee or other payment will be required of those entering the competition.
3. Awards
1st Prize: 3,000 € + Master in Advanced Architecture IAAC (value 11.500,00 €)
2nd Prize: 2,000 € + Master in Advanced Architecture IAAC
3rd Prize: 1,000 € + Master in Advanced Architecture IAAC
Calendar
Launch date of the competition: Monday April 23th 2007
Closing date for registration: Monday September 17th 2007
Enquiries: August 15th 2007
Submission of Projects: September 17th 2007.
Selection: September-October 2007
Results: October-November 2007
International presentation of the results: November 2007
Jury
Vicente Guallart - Director
Willy Muller - Development Director
Lucas Cappelli - Director of Research
Marta Male-Alemany - Director of Technology
Jorge Godoy - Head of Studies
Ignasi Perez - Professor
Rodrigo Rubio - Winner 1st Advanced Architecture Contest
Daniel Ibañez - Winner 1st Advanced Architecture Contest
Contact Us
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou
08005 Barcelona, Spain.
fax 93 300 43 33
contact@advancedarchitecturecontest.org
www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org
Bat House - architectural competition
Architects, designers, bat enthusiasts an schoolchildren are invited to submit creative ideas for a Bat House for London – a building of aesthetic and environmental excellence, built with sustainable materials, that offers homes to bats and an educational visitor attraction for people.
The Bat House Project partners intend to build the winning proposal at the WWT London Wetland Centre, Barnes, West London.
JURY
Jeremy Deller - Artist and initiator of the Bat House Project
Rowan Moore - Director, the Architecture Foundation
Amanda Levete - Director, Future Systems
Mike Waite - GLA Senior Policy Adviser (Biodiversity) and trustee of the London Bat Group
Carol Williams - Bats & Built Environment Officer, Bat Conservation Trust
Kevin Peberdy - Director of Centre Developments, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Pascale Scheurer
KEY DATES
Brief available : 10th May 2007
Question deadline : 15th June
Replies to questions : 25th June
Registration Deadline: 3rd September
Submission deadline: 10th September
Selection of Winners : 26th September
Announcement of Winners: 11th October
ELIGIBILITY & PRIZES
The competition is open to professionals and the wider public, in distinct categories:
Category A - Architects and Design Professionals (multidisciplinary teams welcome)
First Prize Ł3000
Second Prize Ł1000
Third Prize Ł500
Category B - Students/General Public
First Prize Ł1000
Second Prize Ł500
Third Prize Ł250
Category C - Schoolchildren (aged 17 or under at 10th September 2007)
First Prize Ł500
Second Prize Ł250
Third Prize Ł100
Registration fees per entry (non-refundable):
Category A - Professional Ł35
Category B - Student/Non-Prof. Ł7.50
Category C - Schoolchildren Free
SUBMISSION
Bat House Competition
RIBA Competitions Office
6 Melbourne Street
Leeds LS2 7PS
Entries must arrive no later than 2pm on Monday 10th September 2007.
Ecological housing building COR Miami Florida
Ecological housing building COR in Miami, Floride, USA by architects from Oppenheim office will be built in 2010. Except using solar panels, own wind turbines is hyper-efficient also shell of the building, so all his structure. Tower is a complex with offices, fitnes studio or diverse residential apartments.
Machine for living by Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel describes his proposal for a tower with residential living on 110 11th street in NY, USA as „a vision machine“. The building is noted for rounded wall a using diverse colourless panels of glass, set together in different angles and turning. 1650 panels on a 23 story structure just confirm amazement from proposal. Cover of building is behaving every hour or day variable and this game means to unclose the house to the nature.
Sound in colourfull box - Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, Neutelings and Riedijk
The new built Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, designed by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk, wrapped in a luxurious skin of colorful cast-glass panels, it is their most gorgeous work to date. The building is conceived as a perfect cube, half of it buried underground. Interier is divided by materiallity for diferent worlds. Architects had played also with symbolic, which is clearly seen in a facade of multimedia hall where steel profile evokes the stained-glass windows of a medieval cathedral.
The tower that change a skyline in London
Rafaels Vinoly proposal for a new tower in a centre of London, UK, divided the architectural community into two highly charged camps. The tower will change a siluet of the town so considerably, that some architects have a thoughts that project may have crossed an invisible line of ‘acceptability’. The majority are in favour, which shows, that architect Vinoly designed a notable building.
Mecanoo inspire with a tree for a building in Taiwan
Netherlands architecture office Mecanoo architecten won the international competition for a New National Performing Arts Centre in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. An important source of inspiration for Mecanoo’s building design were the existing one of the world’s largest trees, the banyan trees on location. The building is really variable, with a lot of public space on the roof, where people can enjoy Tai Chi, meditate or just relax.
Recycled materials in Manhattan - Hearst Tower by Norman Foster
Hearst Tower in Manhattan, New York, USA designed by Pritzker Prize laureate Norman Foster was opened at the end of the last year. The 42 levels tower is characteristic by glass- and metal-skinned facade with huge diagonal grid, which make multistory corner triangles. The building was constructed using 85 percent recycled steel and designed to consume 26 percent less energy than its conventional neighbors.
TECTONICS: Making Meaning - architectural competition
General Information
The international student design competition will be held in association with the international conference TECTONICS: Making Meaning. The conference will take place at the Department of Architecture, Building and Planning at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Crucial to the success of the event is the engagement of both professionals and students. The goal is to celebrate the international and multidisciplinary character of the making of buildings.
In this design competition students from different disciplines are asked to give their view on tectonics by creating a design, and justifying their design in the spirit of TECTONICS: Making Meaning. The assignment tries to involve different design and engineering disciplines.
The purpose of the design competition is to encourage debate about tectonics. Students that enter the design competition will be judged by a jury consisting of influential professionals conversant with tectonics. The three best entrants will be awarded with a monetary prize, travelling allowance and accommodation for the conference, publication and exposure.
Timescale
The design competition will follow the timescale below:
June 1: Launch of the design competition
July 23: Closing question period
August 1: Publication of the FAQ and the complementary jury members of the
2nd round on the website
September 1: Deadline 1st round
September 14: Announcement of the entrants admitted for the 2nd round
November 1: Deadline 2nd round
November 14: Announcement of the winners for the 3rd round
December 10-12: TECTONICS 2007 Conference
December 10: Presentations 3rd round and opening exhibition
December 12: Prize-giving ceremony
Awards
1st prize: €1250
2nd prize: €750
3rd prize: €500
Jury
M. Gordon Brown, BS, MBA, MSc(Arch) (Lond), DTech, MRICS
Prof. Ir. Frans van Herwijnen
Arch.D.P.L.G. Sophie Rousseau
Prof. Ir. Paul Rutten
Dr. Jacob Voorthuis
Prof. Ir. René van Zuuk
Contact
info@tectonics2007.com
Market Value - architectural competition
A design competition for downtown Charlottesvilles’s Water Street
Over the past 15 years, downtown Charlottesville, Virginia has experienced an ongoing renaissance. New businesses, restaurants, theaters and residences abound in renovated buildings and new developments alike. However, two full city blocks lie underutilized just one block south of Charlottesville’s renowned pedestrian mall. This site, currently used for parking, hosts the popular Charlottesville City Market on spring and summer weekends and is widely regarded as the most important “underdeveloped” site in the city. Responding to a public call to craft a vision for the future of the site, the City of Charlottesville is sponsoring MARKET VALUE, a design competition that will help Charlottesville proactively investigate and establish the best alternatives for development. Directed by the City of Charlottesville in partnership with the Charlottesville Community Design Center and AIA Central Virginia, MARKET VALUE is seeking realistic, innovative models for mixed-use development — ones that not only yield financial returns for a future developer of the site, but also provide a “return on investment” to the public good by attending to issues of civic space, connectivity, affordable housing and green building.
Registration begins: June 21, 2007
Registration deadline: September 7, 2007
Submission deadline: September 14, 2007
Open to: All
Entry fee: US $100 (US $50 Students)
Competition Awards: $25,000 among 3 winners
Sponsor: City of Charlottesville
Columbus re-wired - architectural competition
Competition Brief
“Columbus Re-Wired” is an ideas competition seeking a wide array of creative design proposals in the realm of urban design and architecture in order to initiate a dialogue about the current and future state of Columbus’ public transportation network in the context of its overall infrastructure.
The City of Columbus continues to be one of the fastest growing urban places in the United States. While historically having had a more cohesive strategy for public transportation (having a heavily used streetcar system dismantled after World War II when the city’s compact development patterns rapidly transformed), Columbus currently is the largest city in the United States without significant forms of robust public transportation, a major factor in “SustainLane” assigning Columbus a #50 ranking (out for 50) for the most sustainable U.S. cities. However, studying only public transportation’s impact on a city’s livability and civic health limits the understanding of a city’s complex matrix of interconnected variables, both explicitly and implicitly manifested.
The competitors are being asked to think critically and respond to general conditions and potentials vis-à-vis a speculative reading of 1) Columbus’ transportation and infrastructural “networks” (board one) and then; 2) act on that speculation using one of three sites (board two.)
Schedule
Friday, August 17 2007: Registration Deadline.
Friday, August 31 2007: Submission Deadline. Entries must be received by 4:30pm to be juried.
Thursday, September 6 2007 Jury Deliberations.
Friday, September 7 2007 Public Announcement of Awards and Public Reception.
Jury
Mark Robbins
Borja Ferrater
Marilee Utter
Jerome Unterreiner
Robert Livesey, FAIA
Ashley Schafer
Bart Overly, - Jury Advisor
Mail Submission to:
AIA Columbus
ATTENTION: Columbus Re-Wired Competition
21 West Broad St., #200
Columbus, Ohio 43215
+1 614 469-1973
Awards
First Prize $8,000 US Dollars
Second Prize $4,000 US Dollars
Third Prize $2,000 US Dollars
Capital Garden, Abu Dhabi, UAE - architectural competition
SynopsisA new concept for the central located park named Capital Garden is to be found. Due to its core location, this project has the option to be a cultural and economic heart of one of the most important capitals of the Middle East.The designated mixture of an ultra compact built-up development and an extremely attractive open space for the population should transform the existing Capital Garden into a place of identification, vitality an not least a maximum creation of value of investment. ParticipantsInvited are students and graduates of the fields of architecture and landscape architecture. Entitled to take part are students starting from the fourth semester as well as graduates without permanent employment, who received their diploma in 2005/2006/2007.There is no restriction for the competitor’s nationality.JuryDipl. Ing. Landscape Architect Daniel Wolf (I-CON, Abu Dhabi)Dipl. Ing. Architect Klaus Kehrbaum (kehrbaumarchitektenBDA, Augsburg)Dr. Wolfgang Bachmann (Chief editor ‚baumeister’, Munich)The competition documents and questions can be requested immediately by email under: competition@capitalgarden.aeTimes & DatesPublication of competition papers / begin of competition: 01/05/2007Publication of questions and answers: 01/08/2007Submission of competition entries by email or upload: 30/08/2007Evaluation/ judgment: Sept. 2007Notification of Winners: 30/09/2007Notification of other participants, Publication of results: 15/10/2007Prices1. Price: 3000,- Euro+ flight to Abu Dhabi with overnight stay for 2-3 participating persons to the price awarding ceremony2. Price 2000,- Euro3. Price 1000,- EuroCompetition OrganizerI-CON Intelligent ConsultAl Salam Street 105, Fujairah Bank TowerP.O. Box 51581U.A.E - Abu DhabiTel. : 00971 (0)2 67 24 200info@i-con.aesource
EUROPE 40 UNDER 40 - architectural competition
PROGRAM PHILOSOPHY
Europe 40 Under 40® is an annual awards program that celebrates the next new talented generation of European architects. The program is directed to support new and emerging design talent that will influence the near future of European architectural design, thinking, and theory with the direct consequence of impacting future environments and future European and international cities. The key is to bring wider recognition to 40 of the most promising emerging architects working in the European Union and other countries inside Europe, fostering and encouraging new talent and new creative thinking at the forefront of tomorrow’s profession.
ELIGIBILITY
Every year, architects under the age of 40 (as of August 1, 2007) are invited to submit projects (built or unbuilt) to be judged by a panel of distinguished architectural practitioners, developers, architectural journalists, educators, and critics. Participating architects under 40 can be either working as individual practitioners or collaborating inside an established firm as the principal lead designer of the projects submitted.
Projects include corporate architecture, skyscrapers, institutional projects, religious buildings, civic and political structures, planning projects, urban renewal, restoration/renovation, residential architecture for single family and multi-family dwellings, stores, residential or commercial interiors, sports and transportation centers, and public environments. Architects, Landscape Architects and Urban Planners can apply.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The European Centre for Architecture Design Art and Urban Studies invites young architects to submit for Europe 40 Under 40 either on line at www.europeanarch.eu or by posting the submission.
Each applicant can submit between 1-3 projects for consideration.
The Deadline for Submissions: AUGUST 1, 2007. Exhibition dates are through 2008.
PROGRAM RESULTS
The results of Europe 40 Under 40 are announced in Winter 2007-2008 and take the form of an exhibition opening in Europe and scheduled for travel. The exhibition is also presented in the United States by The Chicago Athenaeum. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition and documents the work of the 40 selected architects.
POST APPLICATIONS TO
Curatorial Office, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design,
601 South Prospect Street,
Galena, Illinois 61036 USA.
Tel: +1/815-777-4444 Fax: +/815-777-2471.
Email: info@chicagoathenaeum.org.
The Building of the National Library of the Czech Republic - architectural competition results
Winner from Future Systems (Jan Kaplicky)
Other projects
Prada store by OMA
A new, quite small project of Prada store in Beverly Hills, in California, USA, was designed by Rem Koolhaas /OMA/. The most inificiant part of project is absence of fasade, so the 50 metres long building naturally turns to the street. There are glass cones on the street floor which invite people to come in by monumentalistic wooden stairs. Inside the building you can find not only original interier, but also replic of the first Prada store from 1913, from Milane.
Curving bridge by Future Systems
Planned Royal Canal Linear Park in Dublin, which floats around the River Liffey, is going to be stepped by new dramatic bridge from Future Systems. The resulting structure is almost as wide as it is long to accommodate traffic lines, cyclists and pedestrians. Its soft and languid shape and colourful design is going to be visible from quite a distance along the canal in either direction, which unsure people of Dublins qualit urban plannig.
source
Google Maps Street View
Google Maps just released a new feature that lets you actually look around the street (Google Maps Street View). Seems to only be working in major cities for now.
Glassy Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron
Hamburg in Germany is plannig a project HafenCity,which counts with reusing of the industrial and underused waterfront on the River Elbe. Cultural impact will have the Elbe Philharmonic Hall (Elbphilharmonie) designed. H&M plann to rebuilt a pre-existing brick warehouse topped by a new crystalline tent-like structure where they create not only place for music, but also complex for sport, conferences, hotel, parking, shopping and residential living. The project is scheduled to open in 2010.
THE 2007 ‘LIVE’ ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
COMPETITION
This year’s project is theoretical with a practical cause. We are asking for a study of ametonymized object in the midst of ‘rupture’. For this we require 2 drawings/panels: The first is the ‘changed’: Design of the Center of Metaphysical Techniques. The second is the metonymized or ‘rupted’ object: The interrupted act of the manifestation of becoming the Center of Metaphysical Techniques in spacial objectivity.
PRIZE
The winning entry will receive a trip to Calgary (airfare, hotel) and $1500 CDN. Local winner(s) will recieve $3000 CDN. The winning submission and ‘LIVE’ architectural workshop will be published.
JUDGING
external judges:
LEBBEUS WOODS, (Cooper Union)
ALBERTO PÉREZ-GÓMEZ, (McGill)
Internal judges for the competition will be distinguished members of Calgary’s architectural community not yet revealed.
ENTRY FEE
Provide an entry fee in the form of a money order for $30 CDN or $30 U.S. Make the money order payable to Visual Arts Week Society.
TIME LINE
The competition deadline is Monday, July 23, 2007 at 24:00 hrs MST.
July 23rd Submission deadline
Aug 6th Winner(s) contacted and arrangements made
Sept 7th Winner(s) flown in, design charette, ArtCity’s opening night gala party
Sept 8-9th ‘Live’ architectural workshop, Special Guest lecture
Sept 9th Winner(s) flown out
Sept 16th End of ArtCity Festival
MAILING ADDRESS
Send your identified C.D. and identified insert to:
Matt Zess c/o
Richard Lindseth Architecture Inc.
1023 Cameron Ave. S.W.
Calgary, Alberta
T2T 0K2
Canada
peepshow@art-city.ca
MOTŁAWA APARTAMENTS - architectural competition
Invitation
Invest Komfort S.A., Polish real estate developer operating in the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Tri-City area, has the pleasure to cordially invite designers, planners, architects and architecture students to participate in the open urban and architectural competition for the best conceptual land development design of area located in the center of Gdańsk (Poland), encompassed by streets Stępkarska, Wałowa, Stara Stocznia and Wiosny Ludów.
Jury
Ryszard Jurkowski
Andrzej Kapuścik
Feliks Pankau
Konrad Pławiński
Mieczysław Ciomek
Wiesław Bielawski
Wojciech Koziorowski
Prizes for designer studios
The First Prize - EUR 100 000
The Second Prize - EUR 30 000
The Third Prize - EUR 15 000
Prizes for student projects
The First Prize - EUR 5 000
The Second Prize - EUR 3 000
The Third Prize - EUR 1 500
POTENTIAL CANDIDATES
The Competition is split in two formulas:the regular formula, and the student formula. The regular formula of the Competition is addressed to: architects, groups of architects, architectural firms, and groups of architectural firms, both from Poland and from abroad. The student formula is addressed to students and group of students from Polish and foreign architectural departments of university-level schools.
Contact
Invest Komfort S.A.
Pl. Kaszubski 15/3
81-350 Gdynia, Poland
DEADLINES
10 May 2007 - beginning of registration of participants, publication of all competition documents
25 June 2007 - deadline for registration
9 July 2007 - deadline for submitting applications/works
Release of results no later than 10 August 2007
Central Glass 42nd Competition – Theme: Environmental Zoo
The notion of the zoo is undergoing changes. The first zoos were for the collection and display of the kinds of animals that exist on our planet, yet gradually they have become environments constructed for the viewing of ecologies. Furthermore, in recent times they have been searching for ways to communicate with animals. However, if they make a single misstep, they end up just putting on shows intended to attract crowds.
Judges
Toyo Ito Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects
Masaru Okamoto Kume Sekkei Co., Ltd.
Riken Yamamoto Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop
Kiyoshi Sakurai Nikken Sekkei Co., Ltd.
Taro Ashihara Taro Ashihara Architects
Kengo Kuma Kengo Kuma & Associates
Yutaka Suzurikawa Director, Executive Managing Officer. Central Glass Co., Ltd.
Prizes
First Place (one) ¥2,000,000 and a commemorative gift
Second Places (three) ¥300,000 and a commemorative gift, each
Honorable Mentions (six) ¥100,000 and a commemorative gift, each
(All prize money tax included)
Deadline
All entries must reach competition office no later than July 25 (Wednesday), 2007.
No registrations are necessary for this competition.
Address
Dept. of Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition 2007, Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd. 2-31-2 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8501, Japan
Just Jerusalem
As the culmination of the many activities of the Jerusalem 2050 Project at MIT, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Just Jerusalem Competition. The goal of this competition is to generate new approaches to, and potential solutions for, the many complex, seemingly intractable problems that the residents of Jerusalem face on a daily basis. By looking at future possibilities for a pluralist, just, and sustainable city shared by Palestinians and Israelis, we hope to encourage new ways of thinking about the many difficult issues and hardships faced by Jerusalemites, regardless of their faith or ethnicity.
Eligibility
Individuals or teams from any country are invited to enter. Multidisciplinary and multinational teams are encouraged
Jury
Ute Meta Bauer
Meron Benvenisti
Manuel Castells
Harvey Cox
Herman Hertzberger
William J. Mitchell
Sadako Ogata
Suha Ozkan
Salim Tamari
Prize
Prizewinners will be given the opportunity to spend up to an academic semester in residence at MIT as Visiting Fellows, with all expenses paid, including travel, housing, and stipend. In the case of team submissions, no more than three individuals per winning entry will be hosted as fellows. While at MIT, all fellows will participate in university seminars and workshops with faculty and invited dignitaries to work towards the implementation of their design ideas.
Calendar
Announcement of Competition March 2, 2007
Registration March 31, 2007 - December 31, 2007
Questions Deadline Round I March 31, 2007 – May 31, 2007
Answers June 15, 2007
Questions Deadline Round II June 30, 2007 – August 31, 2007
Answers September 15, 2007
Submission Deadline December 31, 2007
Results / Selection of Winning Entries April 2008
Public Exhibition, MIT September - December 2008
Digital Exhibition September 2008 onward
International Tour of Winning Entries October 2008 Public
Conference January 2009
Contact - Prof. Diane Davis
Jerusalem 2050
Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Building 9-637
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-452-2804
jjquestions@mit.edu
PERM MUSEUM X X I - architectural competition
The Centre of Contemporary Architecture in Russia announces a two-stage open architecture competition (with international participation) for the most innovative architectural concept for a museum centre in the city of Perm in the Russian Federation (PermMuseumXXI).
The PermMuseumXXI museum centre is a new building for Perm Art Gallery. This will be the first museum in Russia built to meet the needs of the 21st century. The building should be an outstanding work of contemporary architecture and Russia’s most modern art museum. Perm Region is one of Russia’s most powerful and ambitious regions. It occupies an extensive territory between Europe and Asia on the boundary between the Ural Mountains and the steppe lands. The city of Perm is the eastern frontier post of
European Russia. One of its cultural highlights is Perm State Art Gallery, which in 2007 celebrates its 85th anniversary.
Competition jury:
Ben van Berkel, architect (Netherlands);
Yury Gnedovsky, President of the Russian Union of Artists (Moscow);
Arata Isozaki, architect (Japan);
Aleksandr Kudryavtsev, President of the Russian Academy of Architecture and
Construction Science (Moscow);
Peter Noever, Director, MAK (Austria);
Oleg Oshchepkov, Minister for Culture for Perm Region (Perm);
Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg);
Sergey Shamarin, Chairman of the Perm Branch of the Union of Architects (Perm);
Mikhail Shvidkoy, Head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography;
Peter Zumthor, architect (Switzerland).
Eligibility
Qualified architects and creative teams and design organizations from Russia and abroad. Entries from architecture students will not be accepted.
Prize
1st prize: $100,000
2nd prize: $70,000
3rd prize: $50,000
Awards: 8 special prizes of $10,000 each
Calendar
First round:
Portfolios are to be submitted by July 10th, 2007. The Selection Committee for the competition will meet in Moscow on July 16th, 2007 to select 25 entrants to go through to the 2nd round.
Second round:
Selected participants are to be registered and the competition brief sent out by July 25th,
2007. Competition entries are to be submitted by November 10th, 2007. The competition jury will meet in Perm on December 6th, 2007. Portfolios should arrive by July 10th, 2007.
Contact:
Center of Contemporary Architecture in Russia/CCA
24 Bolshaya Dmitrovka.
Moscow.Russia. 107 031
+74956290340 T
Head manager, Varvara Melnikova, varvara@archcenter.org
PR manager,Sona Minosian, pr@archcenter.org
Participants manager, Ksenia Zamanskaya, portfolio.perm@mail.ru
MOCAPE: International Design Competition
The ‘East-wing buildings’ in the Civic Centre
Futian District is Shenzhen’s most important central region for administration, business and culture. Both its location and size make it not only a crucial functional core for the Pearl Delta but also an exchanging point between China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and regions beyond. In this district, our Museum Of Contemporary Art &. Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE) will be located on a site functions as part of Shenzhen’s civic centre, where the City Library, Opera House, Central Bookstore, Youth Activity Hall (YAH) and other civic building have been built. The building of MOCAPE will enhance the service of our civic centre. Architecturally speaking, if our civic centre as a whole can be taken as a traditional Chinese courtyard, MOCAPE and the YAH would be its East-wing Buildings, while the City Library and Opera House would be its West-wing Buildings.
Competition
This competition is an international design competition open to everyone. All individuals or institutions are welcome to participate. Six world-class design institutions will be invited to participate. All qualified entries will have equal opportunities during the jury assessments; go through the same assessment process with the same criteria.
Registration
Please visit the website to download the Registration Form and send back the completed form via fax, post or email.
AWARD AND PRIZE
1 The First Prize (x1), Be granted a privilege to the contract of the project
2 The Second Prize (x1), US$ 50,000
3 The Third Prize (x1), US$ 50,000
4 The Finalists (up to 5), US$ 20,000
SCHEDULE* YEAR / MONTH / DAY
1 Deadline for Registration: 2007/06/22 (data received by the organizer)
2 Deadline for Submission: 2007/06/30 (data received by the organizer)
3 Entry Validation: 2007/07/01 – 2007/07/03
4 Jury Assessments: 2007/07/04-2007/07/05
5 Result Announcement: 2007/07/16
The Jury
Arata Isozaki (chairman, Japan)
Kenneth Frampton (USA)
Di’an Fan (China)
Ralph Lerner (USA)
Pao-The Han (Taiwan)
Rocco Yim (Hongkong)
Address
Room 607, Municipal Planning Building,
No. 8009 Hongli West Road,
Shenzhen 518034 (Post Code)
P. R. China
Tel: +86 (0)755 8394 9067
Fax: +86 (0)755 83949400
Email: info@mocapesz.org
Correspondent: Xin WU BEng MArch PhD
Tel: +86 (0)10 65240181 ext 607(Please dial after the message, 10:00-18:00 GMT+8)
Fax: +86 (0)10 85110107
Fly to America’s Favorite Architecture !!!
Fly to America’s Favorite Architecture, a layer featuring the American public’s favorite architecture (as selected though a national poll announced earlier this year). View all 150 structures, including many with just created 3-D models of the buildings, ballparks, bridges, and memorials that characterize architecture in the eyes of Americans. And then explore the second layer, Blueprint for America. Blueprint is a community service effort funded by the AIA, in which AIA members donating their time and expertise are collaborating with community leaders and local citizens to enhance the quality of life in their community. You’ll be able to track the progress of these projects on Google Earth as they unfold over the next year and, we hope, become inspired to take action where you live.
Vatnsmýri - architectural competition
A Call for Ideas
Vatnsmýri is a large (150 ha) area near the centre of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland and the northernmost capital in the world. In this Call for Ideas, the goal is to maximize the opportunity offered by Vatnsmýri to strengthen and consolidate the city for the 21st century, providing quality and a strong sense of community. By creating a contemporary and robust urban fabric with the flexibility required for research, technology and knowledge based enterprises mixed with significant housing, services and new residential forms, Reykjavík will strengthen its international role and competitive edge.
Schedule
Phase 1:
- 29 March 2007 The competition brief is made public on the project website, www.vatnsmyri.is. Access is also given to a registration form. Detailed competition material is only available to registered entrants.
- 07 May 2007 Last day for submission of inquiries to the jury.
- 14 May 2007 The jury publishes its answers to inquiries on the web and the Competition Registrar sends the same to registered entrants by email.
- 15 May 2007 Last day for registration,
- 15 June 2007 Submission deadline for phase 1 entries,
- 16 July 2007 Entrants informed of phase 1 results.
Phase 2:
- 20 July 2007 An addendum to the competition brief issued to phase 2 entrants.
- 04 Sept 2007 Last day to submit inquiries to the jury in phase 2.
- 09 Sept 2007 The jury’s answers to inquiries submitted to entrants.
- 05 Oct 2007 Submission deadline for phase 2 entries.
- Nov 2007 Results announced and prizes awarded for both phases.
Eligibility
The Competition is intended for professionals in the fields of urban design, urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture. Individuals or teams submitting an entry must designate a single person as team representative, who has acknowledged university training and accredited professional qualifications in his home country in one or more of the aforementioned fields. Students and people with other qualifications can not play the role of team representative but they can be members of the team. Membership in a professional organization or registration with such an organization is not a requirement unless it is a requirement for receiving accredited professional qualifications in the entrant’s home country.
Jury
· Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir, Reykjavik City Councillor, Chairman of the jury
· Gísli Marteinn Baldursson, Reykjavik City Councillor
· Dagur B. Eggertsson, Reykjavik City Councillor
· Joan Busquets, Urban Planner, Barcelona / Boston
· Steve Christer, Architect, Reykjavik
· Kees Kaan, Architect, Rotterdam
· Hildebrand Machleidt, Urban Planner, Berlin
Mailing address for delivery of entries:
Hvassaleiti 74
103 Reykjavík
Iceland
First Annual Architecture and Design Competition in Second Life
Topic of the Competition:
Seeking the coolest, most spatially interesting and aesthetically independent pieces of architecture from the inhabitants of Second Life. It can include all buildings: from big to small, spaceships, underwater constructions, villas, fully landscaped and designed islands, complex high rises. Decisive are creativity, innovation, features, style, and spatial qualities.
Goal of the Competition:
The competition should create a large public forum in the real world for all architects and designers who have made exceptionally innovative and artistic creations in Second Life.
Participation Limits:
There are no limits for participation
Jury:
A highly qualified, independent jury of designers and architects will award prizes to pieces of architecture from residents in Second Life. A detailed list of jury members will follow in the course of the project.
Deadline:
September 1st, 2007
Background:
Computer games have stopped copying the world, and instead the world seems now to function more and more like a computer game. The aesthetic and cultural consequences seem to put the old question of the utopia in architecture in a new light. This light consists of pixels, yearning and fantasy. While in the real world architectural utopias play only a small role, the digital worlds of computer games, including Second Life, have become the actual venue for this (and other) utopias. Freed from practical necessities and economic and technical obligations, a new architecture has established itself that will not remain inconsequential for the real world.
What matters in Second Life is the architectural function of the building. Even if one cannot enter them, like the CAD renderings, in a physical way, the communication happens on many levels: aesthetic, linguistic, musical, and finally with virtual buildings, which one could also call walk-in plastic sculptures. This alone is something that real architecture sometimes can’t achieve any more. Here, “architecture happens” and creates in this way, as contradictory as it may seem, “real places.” Only through the “beyond human” ph ysicality in Second Life – one can even fly as an avatar or teleport oneself – are new spatial connections made. The exciting question is:
Which relation does the real architecture (-culture) have to this development and vice versa – on all levels?
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Future Towns
Media Might is looking for architect’s to produce master plans for the town of the future. Applicants will be given a list of specifics design features and then must design a master plan to the brief (brief and rules). Once entries have been judged a few things will happen for the winner
The Task
The Future Towns project sets out to design a small town, with several specific design features and structures, designed to handle natural disasters. You will need to set out its design features to provide a safe and functional environment for its inhabitants.
The design should be taken to Stage D Planning, along with blue-prints, visuals and if you like, animations, which will be published on the internet once completed. The design features, will maximise day-lighting, be environmentally sustainable and aesthetically pleasing. The town will hold a population of roughly twenty thousand people, and will contain this population in an enclosed superstructure, with an integrated transportation system and plenty of recreational facilities.
The technical features of the town, should be designed around a set of definitions, which set out what design problems need to be overcome, what structural constraints need to be planned for, and also, what ‘type’ of disaster the building have to be built to guard against. It is this set of definitions which should guide and lead the design process.
The winner will receive 15 percent of the revenue of the competition entry fees.
They will win a royalty at ten percent of the revenue from any published material resulting from the competition, to which they have contributed. This is estimated to be between three and five years time.
entry fee of £10
The entries must be sent before the closing date of 20/01/2007.
The winner will be announced on 11/06/2007.
Future Towns,
Media Might,
44 The Bramery,
Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire,
GL51 8HE
Best Dubai Pics Collection
Das Park Hotel by Andreas Strauss
The idea of dasparkhotel was born as a mixture out of memories, ideas and emotions about my personal traveling style and the needs and wishes of some people around me, people I met around the world. Finally I was dreaming of something like an ‘easy access minimal accommodation thing’ on the places where we wanted to travel and also at the places or cities I’m mostly living.
It is a little comfortable small housing unit, just like a coin locker where friends or other people can sleep in and safely store private belongings, reload their personal and their technical devices batteries. To work with a ‘ready-made’ is mostly based on my somehow already traditional work style which means that I cause of many reasons like to reuse or new-use existing things, structures, objects witch are known for a different use.
The Tube is maid sense cause of their immense solidity which brings a real secure feeling when you sleep in public space, a very proper thermal behavior, easy set up and finally you don’t even hear something from the outside, except someone kicks against the wooden door. However hot weather it may be, its inside never be hot and it just putted somewhere and no one with out a heavy crane will be able to move or remove it.
The Tube is a standard part which can be organized at every second concrete factory all over Europe and if you decide to close the hotel you only have to take the door and the interior out and give it back to the guys who dig it into the ground for the reason it was maid for.
The inside surface witch we only clear varnished gave a surprisingly nice and ‘body-friendly’ structure and finally each of the tubes got individual a wall-painting designed and done by the Austrian Artist Thomas Latzel Ochoa. Our Number-code-locks were really online at the beginning because of the sort of nice system the local power company provided. We had internet through the normal electro cable and a modem that you only plug in the socket. That will be changed to a more independent system this year to give us the chance to set up a hotel on places where you for example, maybe only have the chance to collect the electricity needed via solar-power.
Living Steel - architectural competition
On the heels of a successful conclusion to the first competition, and with demonstration groundbreaking ceremonies in Kolkata and Warsaw just around the corner, Living Steel is launching its 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing. On 2 October, a Call for Expressions of Interest to participate in the competition will commence, asking architecture firms around the world to take up the challenge to design sustainable housing for Brazil, China and the United Kingdom.
A short list of up to six architect firms or consortia will be selected for each of the three locations and a detailed competition brief provided by 14 February 2007. Competition submissions are due from the short-listed firms by 14 May 2007. Winners will be announced in September 2007.
Scott Chubbs, Living Steel Programme Director said, “Our second competition once again invites architects worldwide to submit their expressions of interest to be included among the short list of firms chosen for the competition. These short-listed firms will be challenged to design buildings that are able to meet a growing housing need in a way that improves on economic, environmental and social performance of current housing.”
Schedule
2 October 2006 Call for expressions of interest
12 january 2007 Deadline for receipt of expressions of interest
1 February 2007 Notification of firms invited to participate in the competition
14 February 2007 Dispatch of competitions documents
14 May 2007 Deadline for receipt of competition entries
September 2007 Announcement of competition results
Prize
Winners Prize € 50,000 (Brazil), € 50,000 (China), € 50,000 (UK)
Other finalists, up to 5 for each location € 10,000 € 10,000 € 10,000
Jury
Glenn Murcutt
Charles Correa
Andrew Ogorzalek
Jaime Lerner
James Berry
Nicholas de Monchaux
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2007 CNU Charter Awards - urbanism competition
Recognizing Achievements in Design, Planning, and Development that Meet the Exacting Standards of the Charter of the New Urbanism. Administered by the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Charter Awards program recognizes the best work of this new era of placemaking. Each year CNU convenes a jury of respected experts to review submissions and select the winning entries that best embody and advance the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism. Winners set the gold standard for urban design and development and serve as powerful examples for future development.
Judging Criteria
Charter Awards entries are judged on the extent to which they fulfill and advance the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism, which defines the essential qualities of outstanding buildings and urban places from the scale of the region to the building and the block. The Charter Awards recognize excellence in architectural, landscape, and urban designs built in harmony with their physical and social contexts as well as the policies, plans and codes that structure them. Projects to be considered include regional plans, neighborhood plans, and urban buildings, parks, and public spaces.
The judging criteria recognize that implementing high-quality built work is a special achievment while also acknowledging that large-scale plans také years to implement.
Jury
Stefanos Polyzoides
Hillary Brown
Andrés Duany
Kjell Forshed
Vince Graham
Susan Van Atta
Hon. Miguel Pulido
Submission deadline and mailing address
Submissions must be sent to CNU by Tuesday, January 22, 2007, and must arrive within a reasonable time after that deadline. The entry fee for student and faculty submissions is $50, which includes a one-year CNU student membership. Current student members will receive a one-year membership extension. CNU will e-mail a confirmation after your submission materials have been received. Please make sure that the e-mail address listed on the Entry Form is correct, since much correspondence regarding the program will be conducted via e-mail.Winners will be notified in March 2007.
Stoke-on-Trent City Centre - architectural competition
Introduction
Stoke-on-Trent – the city region and its City Centre – is at an exciting turning point. Stoke-on-Trent City Council, in partnership with Advantage West Midlands, North Staffordshire Regeneration Zone, Renew North Staffordshire and English Partnerships seeks to create a vibrant and prosperous city that is the heart, soul and mind of the region. Over the next 10 to 15 years the regeneration plans add up to a £1.2 billion investment including an expected £385 million worth of private sector investment in the City Centre. This investment will create up to 6,500 jobs in the new commercial, retail and leisure developments and a modern transport interchange that will create a hub for the local bus network and national transport providers. The Council and its regeneration partners are keen to appoint an outstanding multidisciplinary team to work with them to design and deliver a scheme that will transform the centre of Stoke-on-Trent into a city that will be internationally acclaimed for its standard of public realm. One of the key proposals is the focus on strong unified pedestrian movement corridors throughout the City Centre that will enhance the ‘sense of place’ which will aid orientation when moving around the City. This network of streets will link a series of revitalised public spaces and squares that will be transformed into new areas for relaxation, market trading, events and performance. The approximate budget for the public realm is £20m.
The competition seeks creative ideas and concepts, with the intention of appointing a design team to work in close collaboration with the Council and its partners to také the project onto the delivery stage.
Context
Stoke-on-Trent has a central location with excellent communications. The City is
approximately 16 kilometres from north to south and 6 kilometres from east to west
and is a ‘linear city’. It is a unique city, being made up of six towns, which came into
being in 1910 when the six pottery towns of Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley (City Centre),
Stoke, Fenton and Longton were united under a single local authority.
Competition Structure
Stage 1 : Seeks concept designs (presented on a maximum of 2 A1 sheets) which will be judged anonymously. Proposals should focus on initial ideas and thinking. A shortlist of six will be selected and the authors invited to proceed to the next stage.
Stage 2 : Stage two will involve further exploration of stage one design
concepts.
The Judges
representatives from : Stoke-on-Trent City Council; Advantage West Midlands and the Private Sector. The panel will also include Les Sparks from CABE and Anthony Barnett, the architect representing the RIBA.
Competition Timetable
Brief available : mid November 2006
Question deadline : 1st December 2006
Replies to questions / clarifications : 8th December 2006
Stage 1 submission deadline : 14.00hrs 11th January 2007
Invitation to stage 2 : w/c 5th February 2007
Final judging / interviews : w/c 19th March 2007
Prize Money
An equal honorarium of £4,000 will be paid to each stage two finalist.
Eligibility
The competition is open to architect-led multi-disciplinary design teams. It should be noted that the competition promoters will be looking to select a team with the capacity and resources to deliver the project and competitors should bear this in mind from the outset.
How to Register
To register and receive the competition brief send a cheque for £35.00 (including VAT), payable to RIBA Competitions. Note we do not have credit card facilities.
Enquiries
All enquiries should be addressed to the competition organisers:
RIBA Competitions Office, 6 Melbourne Street, Leeds LS2 7PS
T : ++44 (0)113 2341335 F : ++44 (0)113 2460744
E : riba.competitions@inst.riba.org
W : www.ribacompetitions.com
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Pennington Road Footbridge over Leeds/Liverpool Canal - architectural competition
Introduction
The existing Pennington Road bridge is located in an area being regenerated as part of the Merseyside Housing Market Renewal pathfinder. The aim of the competition is to design a new footbridge in replacement which will then become a landmark structure and the focus for a new community. The competition will be open, and held in two stages.
Site and Context
The Housing Market Renewal Initiative will use the Leeds/Liverpool canal as a catalyst for the regeneration of the area. Former and derelict industrial sites adjacent to the canal will be developed with high quality mixed tenure housing. The canal itself will also be improved with investment being directed towards repairs to the towing path and canal boundary. The new footbridge will form part of this regeneration and it is hoped that it will come to represent and signify Bootle and provide an attractive gateway to the town.
Competition Structure
The competition will take the following format :
Stage 1 : Seeks initial designs (presented on a maximum of 2 A1 sheets) which will be judged anonymously. A shortlist of six will then be selected and the authors invited to proceed to the next stage.
Stage 2 : Stage two competitors will be invited to an interview to discuss their designs in greater detail.
Jury Panel
Lee Payne, Housing Market Renewal, Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Tom Clay, Housing Market Renewal, Sefton MBC
Renato Benedetti, RIBA Architectural Adviser
Dave Richardson, Engineer, Technical Services, Sefton MBC
Representative from British Waterways
Local Member x 1
Community Representatives x 2
Joanne Wallis, RIBA Competitions Officer*
Competition Timetable
Brief available: mid November 2006
Question deadline: 8 December 2006
Replies to questions: w/c 18 December 2006
Submission deadline: Wednesday 10 January 2007
Assessment: w/c 22 January 2007
Stage 2 interviews: w/c 5 February 2007
Result: w/c 12 February 2007
Prize Money
An equal honorarium of £2,000 (plus VAT) will be paid to each stage two finalist. It is intended that the winner of the competition will be appointed to work closely with the promoters to take the project through to completion.
The competition is open to registered architects, engineers or students of these disciplines.
How to Register
The competition is open to registered architects, engineers or students of these disciplines. To register and receive a copy of the competition brief, please send a cheque for £35.00 for professionals or £7.50 for students (including VAT), payable to RIBA Competitions. Please note we do not have credit card facilities.
Enquiries
All enquiries should be addressed to the competition organisers:
RIBA Competitions Office
6 Melbourne Street
Leeds
LS2 7PS
T : ++44 (0)113 2341335
F : ++44 (0)113 2460744
E : riba.competitions@inst.riba.org
W : www.ribacompetitions.com
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The New Campus in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design - architectural competition
The New Campus
The relocation of the campus to the city center of Jerusalem presents not merely a physical move, but a cultural shift through which Bezalel aims to participate in the life of the city and to bring the academy closer to the general public, who will have easy access to exhibitions and events conducted on campus, as well as informal meetings with the students and teachers.
Bezalel Academy is a creative and intellectual base for its students and faculty, and will be open for use 24 hours a day. It is hoped that the new campus will provide an agreeable and stimulating environment where the multi-disciplinary approach of the Academy will be optimized. This will be achieved, in part, by offering not only functional education facilities but also places for leisure and any services that may be required to ensure that users can spend most of their day on the campus.
Bezalel aspires to generate an ongoing discourse between artists and designers both from within and outside the Academy by being an interface and meeting place. The Academy therefore has to negotiate between the more private spaces for work and contemplation, and public spaces that encourage interaction.
In addition to housing its current academic curriculum, Bezalel aims to create place for the development of new departments and growth in numbers of students and teachers, for a variety of extra-curricular and external courses, and an infrastructure that will allow the Academy to extend its resources to the public and pursue its ongoing workshop programmes promoting education.
Phase I
The objective of Phase I of the competition is to develop ideas and concepts for the design of the new campus according to the programme (available in the Competition Documents) and to provide a basis for further planning in Phase II.
Phase I is open and anonymous, and between 3 to 5 design proposals will be selected to compete in Phase II. In addition, 5 design submissions will be awarded honourable mentions. All submissions will be published on the competition website under the name of the registrant and team members with the announcement of the results.
Registration for this phase will be via the registration form on this website and by payment in the sum of $100 US, or 450 Shekels. An automated system will produce a User Name and Password sent to the email of each registrant and will be used later to make a submission via the website.
Phase II
The aim of Phase II of the competition is to select a design for the new campus of Bezalel and to appoint the winning architect. The current zoning plan acting on the site will be changed according to the selected design. Phase II is a closed competition in which the winning entries of Phase I shall participate (between 3-5) and compete alongside the following invited firms:
Calendar
Announcement: 01.09.2006
Questions Round I Deadline: 05.10.2006 / 20:00
Answers: 17.10.2006 / 20:00
Questions Round II Deadline: 30.11.2006 / 20:00
Answers: 07.12.2006 / 20:00
Phase I
Registration: 11.12.2006 - 11.01.2007
Submission & Questions Round III: 03.01.2007 - 18.01.2007
Results: 02.2007
Phase II
Notification to Proceed: 02.2007
On-Site Tour:03.2007
Submission and Delivery: 05.2007
Results: 06.2007
Awards
Phase I
5 Honourable Mentions - $5,000 US each
Between 3 - 5 winners - to participate in Phase II
Phase II
Bezalel shall participate in the expenses of those competing in Phase II in an amount that shall be equivalent to $25,000 US (tax and VAT included) per competitor. In addition, Bezalel shall participate in the lodging expenses of those participating in Phase II from overseas in the sum of $10,000 US (tax and VAT included). These amounts shall be paid after the completion and submission of the design, to the satisfaction of Bezalel.
Eligibility
Phase I of the competition requires that the registrant is a registered architect in his/her country of practice.
Phase II requires that the the registrant is an architecture office registered in Israel that has been in operation for a minimum of the last 7 years, and employs a minimum of 5 architects, and has designed at least 5 projects since 01.01.1996 that together include a minimum cumulative primary (net) area of 40,000 m2, of which a minimum of 15,000 m2 are public, educational or cultural buildings.
Any participant whose country of practice is not Israel or who does not meet these criteria, is required to engage with an Israeli architectural office that fulfills these conditions and to provide a copy of their engagement for this purpose with the design submission.
Jury
Prof. Architect Toshiko Mori,
Professor in Practice and Chair, Department of Architecture, Graduate Institute of Design, Harvard University
Prof. Architect Moshe Safdie,
Boston, Jerusalem
Prof. Arnon Zuckerman,
President of Bezalel
Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund,
former President of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Prof. Architect Zvi Efrat,
Head of the Department of Architecture, Bezalel
Chicago Prize 2007 - architectural competition
Crossing the Drive
We can thank our forbearers for handing down the city of Chicago an unencumbered shoreline. Such visionaries as the Canal Commission of 1836 who first proclaimed the shoreline shall remain Forever open, clear and free and Daniel Burnham, who in his 1909 Plan for Chicago stated, the slopes leading down to the water should be quiet stretches of green, have played essential roles in preserving the lakefront as an open space. There also have been major violations of our open lakefront — most notably the construction of an 8-lane highway known as Lake Shore Drive. As a result there are few points in which to safely cross Lake Shore Drive. The site of the 2007 Chicago Prize design competition remains one of the most dangerous pedestrian crossings in the center of the city.
This competition challenges entrants to design a connection from/between Buckingham Fountain and the Chicago lakefront by crossing Lake Shore Drive.
Program
The competition for the pedestrian crossing at Buckingham fountain requires a strategy that considers the hybrid nature of the site: highway infrastructure, landscape design, lighting design and architecture. We challenge competitors to prepare visionary designs that reflect the forward-looking and innovative spirit of Chicago and enhance the crossing’s fundamental nature as a place that brings together earth, water, and sky. To do this, entrants will need to resolve important practical issues such as access, function, and safety by addressing the following challenges:
- Design a new pedestrian crossing that connects the existing Buckingham Fountain area to the Lake Michigan side by spanning across Lake Shore Drive to the east. Designs should celebrate the existing historic fountain without mimickery of style, but rather enhance its identity through the design of a new contemporary addition.
- Create new access for pedestrians, in-line skaters, and bicyclists to mediate Lake Shore Drive. Designs should pay attention to the ways that these seemingly utilitarian structures can enhance the experience of crossing a highway. How does the landscape of the park connect with the landscape of the waterfront?
- Entrants are encouraged to develop additional programs for the crossing and/or spaces on each end of the crossing. Designs should address the variety of activities and people who will use the crossing and the Park, and provide opportunities to engage them in multiple dimensions.
- The views south along Lake Shore Drive toward the Museum Campus are very important, as is the east view of the Lake from the Buckingham fountain. The experience of the automobile driver along this stretch of highway is to be considered equally with that of the pedestrian.
- Buckingham Fountain is known for its computerized evening lighting programs. Consider lighting as an integral component of the design. Lighting is perceived to be a transforming element that can be used to promote linkages, create identity, and shape experiences. Any lighting proposal will take into account the impact that illumination will have on the environment.
- Envision an internationally prominent, architecturally significant solution, that will be a functional work of art and support recent additions to Grant Park with the completion of Millenium Park and the new expansion of the Art Institute by Renzo Piano.
Schedule
Please note: Competition schedule is subject to change.
10.11.2006 Competition Announced
11.11.2006 Question/Answer Period Closed
01.09.2007 Entries Due
01.25.2007 Opening/Award Ceremony
02.08.2007 Exhibit Closing (tentative)
Jury
Marion Weiss, Chair and Keynote Speaker
Weiss/Manfredi Architects
Daniel Wheeler
Principal, Wheeler Kearns Architects, Interim Director of the School of Architecture of the University of Illinois Chicago
Nancy Hamilton
ARUP Engineering, Chicago
Joe Rosa
Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago
Jeanne Gang
Architect, Studio Gang
Doug Garofolo
Architect, Garafolo Architects
Thomas Oslund
Landscape Architect, Oslund and Associates
Andrew Metter
Annex/5
Richard Blender
Co-President, Chicago Architecture Club
Michael Wilkinson
Co-President, Chicago Architecture Club
The Chicago Prize
First Prize $5000 USD
Second Prize $2500 USD
Third Prize $1000 USD
Honorable Mentions at the discretion of the jury $100 USD
Selected projects will be published as part of the CAC Journal #11.
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KUELAP 2007 - Landscape Competition - Lodge museum in Chachapoyas, Peru
COMPETITION OBJECTIVES
The following are the objectives of the “KUELAP 2007” contest:
Make worldwide Architectural Ideas summons which will help to select the most original, creative and contemporary proposal for a “Lodge-Museum” as described before.
Collect the Ideas which are best involved with archaeological consciousness, and are at the same time able to enhance a beautiful and harmonious geographic reality.
Promote the discussion of ideas related to the development of projects in cultural heritage, historic parks or ecologic sanctuary settings.
WHO CAN ENTER?
The competition is open to all architects around the world that have satisfactorily completed their studies to become architects and have a degree that certifies them as such (as well as any team or professional office that has at least one architect that meets this requirement).
NOTES:
The participant must have an “academic” (University or College) diploma that confirms that he has already finished the architecture profession (by example, if you have an advanced architectural degree –like a Master of Architecture- from any University; you work in an architectural office and I you’re a professional designer but you don’t have professional license; you are eligible to participate).
The winner architect will eventually develop his project associating with a Peruvian architect that will be recommended by ARQUITECTUM.
RGISTRATION PROCESS
Entrants are required to officially register in the KUELAP 2007 before their proposals can be accepted. There are two ways to register:
Online Registration: Entrants can register online, paying via the secure payment systems of the following credit cards: VISA, MASTERCARD, DINERS CLUB and AMERICAN EXPRESS. They will receive a registry number which must later be attached to the proposals submitted, following the instructions further below.
Offline Registration: Entrants can register offline, via postal mail, e-mail or fax. Payments options include personal check, money order, or account to account transfer payment. To register offline, fill a registration form and e-mail or fax it with a copy (scanned or printed) of the confirmation of payment to the ARQUITECTUM account (as indicated on the form). We will immediately send a confirmation of registration as well as your number as officially registered participant in KUELAP 2007. This number, as well as your personal or team data must be included in the envelope containing the submitted proposal printing, as is instructed in the section “Submission Requirements”.
Early Registration: From October 23th to November 21st: US $ 100 (80 EUROS)
Late Registration: From November 22nd to December 31st US $ 150 (120 EUROS)
• CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT: October 1st, 2006
• CONTEST BEGINS: October 23th, 2006
• ACCEPTANCE OF QUERIES DEADLINE: until November 10th, 2006
• QUERY RESPONSES POSTED: November 15th, 2006
• EARLY REGISTRATION: until November 21st, 2006
• REGISTRATION DEADLINE: December 31st, 2006
• PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: January 10th, 2007
• JURY EVALUATIONS: January 16th to February 1st, 2007
• WINNERS ANNOUNCED: February 5th, 2007
• PERU EXHIBITION: March 12th, 2007
• ONLINE EXHIBITION: April 1st, 2007
JURY
Enrique Bonilla
Mathias Klotz
Manuel Fernández de Luco
Skyscraper Competition
COMPETITION BRIEF
After the great success of the last year competition, eVolo Architecture presents the international architecture competition: 07 SKYSCRAPER. This year competition will close the skyscraper series which main goal is to shape the future of this fascinating architectural genre. Architects, designers and engineers from around the world are encouraged to take part in this new challenge.
eVolo Architecture makes an invitation to the participants to explore, rethink, speculate, and experiment on new ideas that would change the conception and redefine the term skyscraper. A journey into the unknown that defies the logic of the present, formulates new questions, and perhaps gives the society a new type of building. A building for the next generation, for the new type of living that allows nw potencials and perceptions. The project should also investigate on the urban and private space as well as the definition of new programs for a vertical structure. The competition does not have any restrictions on size, program, site or shape.
What is a skyscraper at the beginning of the XXI Century? What are the historical and social contexts of these megastrucutres? What are their responses towards the urban fabric? Is the modern skyscraper a city by itself? Is the human scale lost?
REGISTRATION
all students, architects, engineers, and designers are invited to participate. It is encouraged to have multidisciplinary teams.
register before january 8, 2007
registration fee is US 40 per team
individual entries are accepted
no limit on the number of participants in a team
entrants may pay with major credit cards including: visa, mastercard, american express and doscover via secure payment system.
Each participant must include their e-mail adress with their payment. As soon as we have received the competition entry fee we will send the entrant their participation number (different from paypal transaction number) which will be used later on in the submission boards.
SCHEDULE
august 15, 2006
competition announcement, registration begins, acceptance of questions.
November 19, 2006
acceptance of questions deadline
december 5, 2006
answers on questions will be posted on website
january 8, 2007
registration deadline
january 15, 2007
submission deadline (23:00 hours US Eastern Time. UTC/GMT -5 hours)
february 1, 2007
winners announced
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
this is a digital competition and no hardcopies are necessary. Entrants will submit their proposal via email no later than January 15, 2007 (23:00 hours US Eastern Time) to the following email adress: 07skyscraper@evolo-arch.com.
The submission must contain the following files:
1. Two boards with the project information including plans, sections, and perspectives. Participants are encouraged to submit all information they consider necessary to explain their proposal. These boards should be 24´´ X 48´´ in VERTICAL format. The resolution of the boards must be 150 dpi, RGB mode, and saved as JPG file with compression level 3. The upper right corner of each board must contain the participation number. There should not be any marks or any other form of identification. The files must be named as the registration number followed by the board number. For example: 0101-1.jpg and 0101-2.jpg
2.A .doc file containing the entrant personal information, including name, profession, adress, email and telephone number. This file must be named with the participation number followed by word „info“. For example: 0101-info.doc.
JURY
The members of the Jury are the winners of the 06 Skyscraper Competition.
CHANGHAK CHOI
GONZALO PARDO DÍAZ
NERI OXMAN
MITCHEL JOACHIM
AWARDS
1st place – US 2000
2nd place – US 1000
3rd place – US 500
Wind Shaped Pavilion
The Wind Shaped Pavilion is a design proposal for a large fabric structure that can be used as a public or private pavilion. As a lightweight fabric structure, the wind slowly and randomly rotates each of the six segments around a central open support frame. This continually alters the shape of the pavilion, while at the same time generating electrical power for its nighttime illumination.
Good Fonts for your architectural presentation
Recently I’ve been browsing through the Net searching for the best license-free fonts which would fit as a serious heading for a serious online-presentation. Fortunately, I wasn’t the first web-developer, who was trying to find such fonts. One of the best resources I’ve found was Gerrit van Aaken’s essays collection “Freie Schriften im Portrait” (free fonts in a portrait) in German language.
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labels: fonts, architecture, architects, presentation
Infiniti Interactive Mirrors
Infiniti division of Nissan North America, as part of their continuing strategy to establish themselves as a progressive, dynamic luxury brand, commissioned The George P. Johnson Company to create an entirely new exhibit for the 2006 auto show season. Central to the new exhibit would be various interactive new media installations allowing visitors to learn about the brand and vehicles. These were highlighted by the Interactive Mirrors.
The objective was to create a unique and fascinating interactive experience, engaging consumers at larger-than-life size and immersing them in the presentation. The interactive mirror shares the brand’s philosophy of using design to create a more emotionally rich experience and demonstrates how design is manifest in Infiniti vehicles.
The installation consists of three 8’ high by 3.5 ’ wide panes of mirrored glass placed side by side, each displaying rear-projected content from a high-lumen projector. A user standing in front of the mirrors has the unusual sensation of seeing their reflection and the projected content simultaneously.
Fallingwater in Half Life II
Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania. The house was built partly over a waterfall in Bear Run at Rural Route 1 in Mill Run, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.
Now you can see this house in Half Life II.
Doc single sofa, sofa bed
A sofa with removable covers and integrated/patented mechanism which transforms the sofa into a bunk bed. Doc XL furnishes the day area and with a simple movement transforms into a practical ready made bunk bed with integrated supporting ladder and protection guard.
label: furniture, design, cool, sofa, bed, transformation
Ricardo Bofill
After accomplishing a series of world-class buildings such as Shiseido, in Ginza, Tokyo, the Christian Dior Headquarters, Cartier Headquarters, Rochas Headquarters, Axa Headquarters, Paribas Bank Marché Saint Honoré, all in Paris, The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, The Metz Auditorium, France, the Barcelona Airport, The National Theatre of Catalonia, in Barcelona, The New Palacio de Congresos, Madrid, SWIFT Headquarters, near Brussels, Bofill has demonstrated his expertise to design flagship buildings all over the world.
Juan O’Gorman - famous architect
The first son of an Irish father and Mexican mother, Juan O’Gorman was born in Mexico City in 1905. After graduating from the Architecture School of the National University of Mexico, O’Gorman worked in the offices of various architects. O’Gorman adhered to a philosophy of progressive socialism which ultimately affected both his writings and buildings. Influenced by Le Corbusier and other European Modernists, O’Gorman produced some of the first examples of functionalist architecture in Mexico.
International Bamboo Building Design (architectural) Competition
An Architecture Design Competition of Structural Bamboo Buildings”Visionary Designs for Ecological Living” Some of the winning entries will be chosen for manufacture bythe world’s premier builder of international code approved bamboo homes.
CALL FOR ENTRIES:
Competition Objectives: This competition has been created to develop new award winning designs for bamboo buildings, raise awareness of the use of certified structural bamboo for building code approved structures, and introduce architects, designers and builders to working with bamboo as a structural material.
UPDATE: August 1, 2006. We are preparing a book based on designs of the Bamboo Competition. To be published next year, featuring many building designs.
Building Design Categories: There are design categories for different types of bamboo buildings, and winners will be chosen in each design category.
Sponsors, Partners and Affiliated Organizations: Bamboo Technologies, currently manufacturing 20 models of certified building code approved bamboo houses, is looking for new award winning designs, and has the capacity to manufacture new designs at its bamboo building factory.
Registration: Open to architects, builders, designers, students anywhere in the world.
Registration deadline is December 31, 2006.
Countries: Registrants entered from over 30 countries around the planet.
Schedule: Submissions by January 15, 2007.
Submissions: Entries are pdf files submitted using the Login•Submit page.
Jury: Juries of experts and notable people are being selected for relevant categories. Events will be planned and announced for winners in January 2007.
Awards: Competition is designed for winners in many categories
- Winning designs may be built by Bamboo Technologies, royalties to designer
- Overall First Prize $5,000. Second Prize $3,000. Third Prize $2,000
- Finalists announced on the competition website and can vote on best designs
- Winning designs will be announced in international publications and media
- Free stay in a bamboo resort house in Maui, Hawaii
- Finalists may be included in upcoming book on bamboo buildings
FAQ: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the competition.
Research: See our list of bamboo building and design books for reference.
labels: bamboo buildings, modern architecture, architecture competition, Ecological Living, floor plan
New train station in Berlin
In June 1992 the federal government decided that the new station should be built on the site of Lehrter Bahnhof. While close to the centre of Berlin and government buildings, the area was still not heavily populated. The following year, a design competition for the project was held, which was won by the Hamburg architecture firm Gerkan, Marg and Partners.
The design called for traffic on five levels. The highest is the main deck, including two S-Bahn platforms, on a bridge 10 m above street level, and the lowest comprises four platforms 15 m underground. New tunnels to Potsdamer Platz under the Spree and the Tiergarten, Berlin’s central park, form a new north-south line running to the northern part of the S-Bahn ring around central Berlin. Platforms for the planned extension to U-Bahn line 5 are also included, as were platforms for the cancelled Transrapid maglev train. The short line U55 should open in 2007.
The building work took place in several stages. In 1995 the construction of the Tiergarten tunnels began, and this work was finished in 2005 with the completion of the last station tunnel. The tunnels provide four tubes for long-distance and regional services and two tubes in a separate alignment for the U-Bahn, in addition to a road tunnel ventilated by a 60-m-high tower completed in 2004. During its construction, the course of the Spree had to be diverted (1996-1998). Water leaks in the tunnels caused over one year’s delay to the construction work.
