Sponsor: Tesseract Type: Open Ideas Language: English Fee: £3 Eligibility: No restrictions Submission Deadline: May 1, 2011 Awards: Half the money collected from entries will be sent straight to Anusaran to fund their building project in West Delhi. The other half of the money goes to the competition winner. Jury: A panel of tutors from
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Sponsor: Carlsberg Group Type: Open International Location: Carlsberg Language: English Fee: Free Eligibility: Businesses working in brand experience development, architecture, visitor attraction design, and event management Timetable: May 6, 2011 – Site inspection June 5 – Application deadline September – Competing teams announced Spring, 2012 – Winner announced Design Challenge: The aim is to create
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Sponsor: City of Sorso Type: Open International Location: Italy Language: Italian Fee: Free Eligibility: Architects and engineers Submission Deadline: May 31, 2011 (submission must be received by June 17) Awards: First prize – € 30,000 Second prize – € 15,000 Third prize – € 5,000 Jury: Five experts in planning, protection, and conservation Design Challenge:
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Sponsor: designboom and Breil Type: Product design Language: English Fee: Free Eligibility: No restrictions Submission Deadline: June 25, 2011 Awards: Three prizes – € 3,000 each Design Challenge: Participants are asked to design the stainless steel watch in the next BREIL collection. BREIL is seeking an attractive, feasible design that could have success as a
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Sponsor: Taichung City Government Type: Two-stage Open International Location: Taiwan Language: English and Chinese Fee: Free Eligibility: Landscape architects Timetable: May 6, 2011 – Question deadline June 30 – Stage one submission deadline July 5 – Shortlist announced July 22 – Site visit October 4 – Stage two submission deadline October 7 – Winner announced
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Sponsor: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Type: Student Language: English Fee: Free Eligibility: All university students Timetable: August 12, 2011 – Registration deadline August 31 – Submission deadline September 30 – Shortlist announced October 11 – Winners announced Awards: First prize – $5,000 Second prize – $2,000 Third prize – $1,000 Design Challenge:
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Sponsor: ThyssenKrupp AG, Essen, Germany Type: EOI, limited, International, 2-stage; 1st stage is anonymous Fee: None Languages: German, English (documents only) Eligibility: Licensed architects in their country of residence Selection process: The number of participants admitted to the procedure will be approximately 25. Five practices have been preselceted beforehand. A selection committee appointed by the
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Sponsor: The National Capital Planning Commission Type: RFQ/Two-stage Location: Washington, DC Language: English Fee: Free Eligibility: Professionals Timetable: April 18, 2011 – RFQ response deadline May 4 – Finalists selected May 10 – Design begins June 17 – Submission deadline June 22 – Public meeting to review proposals June 29 – Jury meeting July 7
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Sponsor: opengap Type: Open Ideas Location: Madrid Language: English and Spanish Fee: 45 Euro Eligibility: No restrictions Timetable: April 10, 2011 – Site visit April 12 – Questions deadline April 18 – Registration deadline April 25 – Submission deadline May 10 – Winners announced Awards: First prize – 6,000 Euro and project development Second prize
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Sponsor: opengap Type: Open Ideas Location: Madrid Language: English and Spanish Fee: 25 Euro before April 18 55 Euro between April 18 and May 16 75 Euro after May 16 Eligibility: No restrictions Timetable: April 30, 2011 – Questions Deadline June 7 – Registration deadline June 14 – Submission deadline July 11 – Winners announced
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Young Architects in Competitions
When Competitions and a New Generation of Ideas Elevate Architectural Quality
by Jean-Pierre Chupin and G. Stanley Collyer
published by Potential Architecture Books, Montreal, Canada 2020
271 illustrations in color and black & white
Available in PDF and eBook formats
ISBN 9781988962047
What do the Vietnam Memorial, the St. Louis Arch, and the Sydney Opera House have in common? These world renowned landmarks were all designed by architects under the age of 40, and in each case they were selected through open competitions. At their best, design competitions can provide a singular opportunity for young and unknown architects to make their mark on the built environment and launch productive, fruitful careers. But what happens when design competitions are engineered to favor the established and experienced practitioners from the very outset?
This comprehensive new book written by Jean-Pierre Chupin (Canadian Competitions Catalogue) and Stanley Collyer (COMPETITIONS) highlights for the crucial role competitions have played in fostering the careers of young architects, and makes an argument against the trend of invited competitions and RFQs. The authors take an in-depth look at past competitions won by young architects and planners, and survey the state of competitions through the world on a region by region basis. The end result is a compelling argument for an inclusive approach to conducting international design competitions.
Download Young Architects in Competitions for free at the following link:
https://crc.umontreal.ca/en/publications-libre-acces/
Winning entry ©Herzog de Meuron
In visiting any museum, one might wonder what important works of art are out of view in storage, possibly not considered high profile enough to see the light of day? In Korea, an answer to this question is in the making.
It can come as no surprise that museums are running out of storage space. This is not just the case with long established “western” museums, but elsewhere throughout the world as well. In Seoul, South Korea, such an issue has been addressed by planning for a new kind of storage facility, the Seouipul Open Storage Museum. The new institution will house artworks and artifacts of three major museums in Seoul: the Seoul Museum of Modern Art, the Seoul Museum of History, and the Seoul Museum of Craft Art.
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Belfast Looks Toward an Equitable and Sustainable Housing Model
Birdseye view of Mackie site ©Matthew Lloyd Architects
If one were to look for a theme that is common to most affordable housing models, public access has been based primarily on income, or to be more precise, the very lack of it. Here it is no different, with Belfast’s homeless problem posing a major concern. But the competition also hopes to address another of Belfast’s decades-long issues—its religious divide. There is an underlying assumption here that religion will play no part in a selection process. The competition’s local sponsor was “Take Back the City,” its membership consisting mainly of social advocates. In setting priorities for the housing model, the group interviewed potential future dwellers as well as stakeholders to determine the nature of this model. Among those actions taken was the “photo- mapping of available land in Belfast, which could be used to tackle the housing crisis. Since 2020, (the group) hosted seminars that brought together international experts and homeless people with the goal of finding solutions. Surveys and workshops involving local people, housing associations and council duty-bearers have explored the potential of the Mackie’s site.” This research was the basis for the competition launched in 2022.
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Alster Swimming Pool after restoration (2023)
Linking Two Competitions with Three Modernist Projects
Hardly a week goes by without the news of another architectural icon being threatened with demolition. A modernist swimming pool in Hamburg, Germany belonged in this category, even though the concrete shell roof had been placed under landmark status. When the possibility of being replaced by a high-rise building, it came to the notice of architects at von Gerkan Marg Partners (gmp), who in collaboration with schlaich bergermann partner (sbp), developed a feasibility study that became the basis for the decision to retain and refurbish the building.
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A Church Ruin as Reconciliation Memorial
View of winning design from south ©Heninghan Peng Architects
For those tourists visiting Berlin today, the sudden approach to the ruins of a 1895 church building located on the city’s downtown Breitscheidplatz would certainly arouse their curiosity. One of the few remaining relics of World War II in the city, the church has now been the subject of a competition: Redesign and renovation of the Old Tower of the Friedrich Wilhelm Memorial Church (Umgestaltung des Alten Turms der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächnis-Kirche).
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