Archive 5

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Canberra Central Parklands Competition
REC World Headquarters, Gurgaon / REC Township, Gurgaon / Central Institute for Rural Electrification (CIRE) upgrade, Hyderabad
Masterplan for Grangegorman
The Remodeling of the Stadium of Futbol Club Barcelona
Facade of El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
Singapore: National Gallery Design Competition
LOS ANGELES 2057: 50th Anniversary Design Competition
Sheffield Festival Centre
GBD Art District Phase 1 Architecture Competition
Olympic Delivery Authority – VeloPark
New Arts Centre – OMAC[2]
Redevelopment of the area of the “Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Mangiagalli e Regina Elena”
Cleveland Design Competition-Project 2007
Healthcare 2025: Buildings for the future, Netherlands

SHANGHAI EXPO 2010, BRITISH PAVILION
Central Open Space in Multi-functional Administrative City, Korea
Programme of Iran Industrial Trade Center
Lightouch Design Competition
Singapore: National Gallery Design Competition
GBD Art District Phase 1 Architecture Competition
Olympic Delivery Authority – VeloPark
Roland Rainer Competition 2007: Scales of Density – Shapes of Privacy
RE:VOLT
New Media School in Halifax
City of Justice in Vigo Call for Ideas
Mixed tenure housing development at the Eltham Baths site
Envisioning Gateway: A Public Design Competition for Gateway National Park
Tagus River Banks Development, Lisbon, Portugal
Furniture Design competition “cult um’s desk”, Vienna, Austria
The Royal Armouries – The Street Redevelopment
Suspension Footbridge, Iran
Decatur Modern Design Challenge
MEMORIAL HOUSE OF MOTHER THERESA
URBAN CONCEPT FOR THE “CITY HOUSE” BUILDING
Campidoglio due – la casa dei Cittadini (Capito Two – the citizens house)
Cotton Bay Estates Young Architects’ Competition
HIGHLAND HOUSING FAIR COMPETITION 2007
New Museum of Modern Art of Vojvodina
Temporary architecture for the poolbar-Festival 2007, Feldkirch, Austria
Brasserie Bernoulli Interior, Zurich, Switzerland
Development plan for Carlsberg
Lifecycle Building Challenge: designing this building, and the next …
Urban Spaces and Urban Life in Orestad South
Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World Student Design Competition
New Islington Bridge, UK
Development, Delivery and Management Study for a Cross River Park, UK
Build with Thine own hands…
9th International Arquine Competition – The Maps of the City: Infographic Metropolitan Center
Vuores Central Park, Tampere, Finland
Drawing Water Challenge, UK
International Solar Building Design Competition 2007
Park of Campa of the English, Bilbao, Spain
Villa Esperanza: A Santa Fe Sustainable Ideas Competition
Ephemeral Gardens of the “Archipelago of Encounters on the Big Turtle”
Children’s Play Area
Shelter Me
5th IAHH International Student Design Competition 2007: Designing a regional social, cultural and arts complex
Regium Waterfront, Italy
07 SKYSCRAPER ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION
Living Steel 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing
“Living at the City Park” Town Plan
The landscape of the A66/Cargo Fleet transport interchange
Pennington Road Footbridge over Leeds/Liverpool Canal
TRANSBAY TRANSIT CENTER PROGRAM
2006 International Bamboo Building Design Competition
Buckingham Fountain Pedestrian Crossing
UCD Project Gateway, Belfield Campus
International Convention Center of the City of Madrid (CICCM)
Public Space for Ambient Intelligence
International Sustainability Competition Science City
Playing Design
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International call for ideas / an idea for each city
16th INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL
Taipei Botanical Garden
BRIDGE CANOPY: CLYDEBANK
National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center
Cyprus Cultural Center
Residential area in Kivelänranta
NEW OPERA HOUSE WATER PROJECT
City of Music, Dance, and Dramatic Art
Glitnir Bank Headquarters
Museum Folkwang Extension
Valencia del Mar-Marina Real Juan Carlos I
Porcher / JADO Design Experience

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Canberra Central Parklands Competition
SPONSOR: National Capital Authority
TYPE: Open, international, RfP
LOCATION: Australia
TIMETABLE:
23 Apr 2007 – Registration Deadline
23 May 2007 – Submission Deadline
ELIGIBILITY:Landscape architects, urban planners and architects
JURY: Elizabeth Mossop, United States; Christophe Girot, Switzerland; Robert Schäfer, Germany; Sue Barnsley, Australia; Rob Adams, Australia; Stuart Mackenzie, Australia
AWARDS:
1st Prize – AUS $50,000 plus possible design commission
THE COMPETITION:
The National Capital Authority, on behalf of the Australian Government, invites professional landscape architects, architects and urban planners, to participate in a competition for a schematic master plan to revitalise one of the principal parklands in the centre of Canberra. The Canberra Central Parklands Competition offers entrants the opportunity to contribute to a city whose prime generator has been the natural landscape. The Parklands are important as part of Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin’s winning entry in the 1911-1912 international competition for the design of the Australian Federal Capital. They are also important to the future of Canberra as the major urban parklands for an expanding city centre and as a civic focus for national celebration and commemoration.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Joanna Nelson, Competition Registrar
Canberra Central Parklands Competition
c/o National Capital Authority Treasury Building
King Edward Terrace
PARKES ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA
http://www.parklands.nationalcapital.gov.au

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REC World Headquarters, Gurgaon / REC Township, Gurgaon / Central Institute for Rural Electrification (CIRE) upgrade, Hyderabad
SPONSOR: Rural Electrification Corporation
TYPE: Open, international, EoI
LOCATIONS: Gurgaon and Hyderabad, India
TIMETABLE:
16 Apr 2007 – EoI Deadline (3:00 pm) (as well as ideas / sketches / designs), along with relevant information / documents and credentials
The pre-competition conference shall be held at the REC office within four weeks of the receipt of EOIs.
JURY: eminent architects and senior officers from REC
AWARDS:
The winner shall be awarded architectural work of the project.
Participatory prizes (5 max.): INR 1,000,000 each
ELIGIBILITY:
The Architect or (in case of an architectural firm) one of the Directors or Principal Architects of the firm must be registered with COA (India) or any other recognized architectural body (in case of other countries).
Interested architects / architectural firms must have completed at least one project of a similar nature, costing INR 700m / 1000m / 270m or more; or two projects of a similar nature, costing INR 400m / 600m / 160m, respectively
THE COMPETITION:
India is sitting on the blitzkrieg of becoming an economic superpower and it is the Indian rural sector that is going to drive that accelerated growth. A world-class power infrastructure is a prerequisite to sustain higher GDP realization and consistent development of the urban and rural sectors. REC has taken on the mantle of helping in this process by facilitating availability of electricity, thereby accelerating growth and enriching the quality of life of Rural India. REC is looking for partners in the creation of unique concepts and designs for three hubs that will power our activities and drive our mission: construction of the REC World Headquarters and Township (both at Gurgaon) and upgrading of the Central Institute for Rural Electrification (CIRE) at Hyderabad.
THE PROCESS:
REC World Headquarters, REC Township and Upgrading of CIRE are three separate projects and one could participate in the design competition in either or all projects. The design competition will be arranged in two parts. The first part will entail submitting an EOI along with conceptual sketches or designs of the project(s). Selected participants would be invited to participate in the second and main stage of the competition, seeking detailed designs / drawings / models, etc.
REC, for its corporate headquarters, township and upgrading of CIRE is looking for the following aspects in the design:
– Creating a landmark building which reflects the values, ethics and message of the brand “REC”.
– Creating a sustainable, energy efficient, eco and environment friendly building system, integrating the built and unbuilt.
– Creating a built form with state of the art technology which matches international standards.
For this purpose Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has allotted a plot of land measuring 16,890.25 sqm (about 4.2acres) at I-4, City Centre, Sector-29, Gurgaon to the Corporation for development and construction of its new office building with FAR * (Floor Area Ratio) equal to one and has issued a letter of intent for allotment of 10 acres (about 40,000 sqm) of land in Sector-57, Gurgaon for construction for REC township with FAR equal to 1.75. The proposed REC World Headquarters shall have office space required for Chairman & Managing Director, Directors, Officers, staff, secretariat of CMD and Directors, area for visitors of CMD & Directors, Board room, Board room waiting lounge, conference room, conference dining room, executive dining room, library, auditorium, meeting room & pantry at every floor, two level basement parking and other relevant and latest emerging features. We intend to use full FAR for construction and the extra space is planned to be rented out/ leased out. REC Township at Gurgaon shall accommodate about 490 officers and staff apart from other common facilities like guest houses, community center, health club, dispensary, etc. Further, to meet increased international training requirement in the field of power sector particularly in distribution sector, REC intends to have international level institute in distribution management to be called as National Institute for Electricity Distribution Management (NIEDM) on the lines of other contemporary institutes like International School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad by creating infrastructure and training facilities in the existing CIRE campus. * FAR is a ratio of constructed area to plot area.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
General Manger(BD)
Rural Electrification Corporation
Core-4, SCOPE Complex
7 Lodhi Road
New Delhi 110 003
India
Tel: 0091-11-24369690, 24363613
Fax: 0091-11-24365815
pksinghal@recl.nic.in
www.recindia.com

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Masterplan for Grangegorman
TYPE: European, RfQ
LOCATION: Dublin, Ireland
LANGUAGE: English
TIMETABLE:
16 Apr 2007 – Submission Deadline (17:00)
ELIGIBILITY: architects, planners, engineers within EWR
AWARDS: 4-5 participants will be selected to create masterplan
THE COMPETITION:
The purpose of the design contest is to appoint a masterplan design team to produce and develop a masterplan for Grangegorman, a c30 hectare site situated in Dublin, Ireland.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Grangegorman Development Agency
149 Francis Street
Dublin 8
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 707 7800
mcrowley@urbancapital.ie
www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=47007

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The Remodeling of the Stadium of Futbol Club Barcelona
SPONSORS: Futbol Club Barcelona (FC BARCELONA), COAC
TYPE: Hybrid, international, 2-stage
LOCATION: VBarcelona, Spain
LANGUAGES: Catalan, Spanish, English
TIMETABLE:
10 Apr 2007 – Stage 1 Submission Deadline (12:00 noon)
ELIGIBILITY:
Stage 1 – open to all architects that fulfill the legal requirements, on a local, national or international level, and with experience of relevant projects, although not necessarily of the characteristics of the objective of this tender, and who can accredit sufficient professional guarantees and solvency to undertake the project
Stage 2 – a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 contestants will go on to the second, restricted, phase, in which the selected parties will be required to produce a proposal on a blueprint level
JURY:
Two representatives of FC BARCELONA, one of which will be the president, who will have the deciding vote in case of a tie; A representative of the Barcelona City Council; A representative of the COAC; the Jury may be supported, in each of the phases of the tender, by a Technical Commission; the Jury may be advised by a Civil Commission
AWARDS:
a) Award: consisting of the commission for the architectural project for the remodeling of the stadium of FC BARCELONA.
b) Compensations: all of the selected teams that have presented the required documentation will receive a compensation of €40,000.
THE COMPETITION:
Futbol Club Barcelona, on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the Camp Nou, is calling for an international tender for architects to develop a project for the remodeling the stadium. The stadium is the icon of FC Barcelona and the objective is to transform it into an integrated and highly visible urban element. The stadium forms part of a broader renovation project, which will include a set of other buildings that are excluded from the present tender and which will be used for sports and other club related activities. These buildings will which will occupy the area between the Travessera de Les Corts, Arístides Maillol, Joan XXIII and Carrer Maternitat streets. The project must strengthen the identity of FC BARCELONA, differentiating it from other stadiums and buildings used for football around the world. The project must facilitate the use of the land around the new stadium, as open spaces that can be enjoyed by the general public. The new stadium building must occupy a maximum ground area of 52,000 m2, with a height of no more than +130.00 m above sea level corresponding to a height of 40 metres above ground level. The essential elements of the original structure of 1957 must be maintained. This structure which was designed by the architects Mitjans-Soteres, was built up to a height of +23.00 m above ground level, apart from the present day grandstand cover. These must be used as the base for the new edification, and will constitute the minimum gauge for activity. A maximium number of seats should be covered in the future stadium, with a minimum of 50% of the stands. The renovation of the facilities does not necessarily imply a major increase in the capacity, but should rather involve improvements in terms of comfort, ease of access and service facilities, especially on days when sports events take place. It should also be based on improvements of public transport as foreseen by the mobility study. The new building must also be able to serve purposes that complete the “football” function at times when there are no sports events, and taking into account the available covered area. The refurbishing work for the new building must be planned considering the continuation of FC BARCELONA’s football activities at the stadium. he renovation project must take into consideration the need for the pitch to receive sufficient sunlight and ventilation necessary for maintaining the grass in optimal condition.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
In the first stage of the contest there is no direct contact.
Oficina d’Atenció al Barcelonista (OAB)
Avinguda Joan XXIII s/n
08028 Barcelona
Spain
www.fcbstadium.com/eng/index.html

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Facade of El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
SPONSOR: ART Santa Fe Present, Inc.
TYPE: Open, international, RfP
LOCATION: Santa Fe, New Mexico
TIMETABLE:
20 Apr 2007 – Submission Deadline
23 Apr 2007 – Finalists Notified
25 Apr 2007 – Winner Announced
07 Jun 2007 – Start of Installation
12 Jul 2007 – Ribbon-Cutting
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all
AWARDS: Winner – $5,000 and project realization
FEE: $25
THE COMPETITION:
In celebration of Santa Fe’s summer cultural season, an art installation will be erected at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe to give artful definition to the east façade of their building, which faces the proposed Railwalk and Railyard plaza, and to connect it to neighboring businesses and institutions. The installation will transform the façade of the El Museo building throughout the months of July and August 2007. The construction budget for executing the winning design is $30,000. This budget must cover the cost of all materials, labor to construct and install the piece, and expenses to dismantle and dispose of the façade at the end of its display.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Art Santa Fe Presents, Inc.
200 W. Marcy St., Suite 101
Santa Fe, NM 87051
USA
Tel: 505-988-8883
Fax: 505-989-9898
facadecomp@artsantafepresents.org
www.artsantafepresents.org/El_Museo.htm

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Singapore: National Gallery Design Competition
TYPE: Open, international, 2-stage, anonymous, RfP
SPONSORS: Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA) in association with the Singapore Institute of Architects
TIMETABLE:
23 Mar 2007 – Stage 1 Inquiries Deadline
26 Mar 2007 – Registration Deadline
30 Mar 2007 – Stage 1 Answers Posted
13 Apr 2007 – Stage 1 Submission Deadline
ELIGIBILITY: Architects worldwide
BACKGROUND:
The Ministry’s mission is to develop Singapore as a Global City for information, communications and the arts, so as to build a creative economy and a connected society with a Singaporean identity rooted in our multicultural heritage. It aims to propel the creative economy through the development and promotion of the creative industries (arts, design and media) and infocomm technology sector to create new economic value and jobs. It also aims to forge a strong sense of community, national identity, rootedness and inclusion among Singaporeans, and to foster better understanding between the Government and its various stakeholders through effective public communications.
THE COMPETITION:
Architects around the world invited to conceptualise a design for the National Art Gallery, to be housed in two iconic heritage buildings set in the heart of Singapore’s Civic District, City Hall and the former Supreme Court building. The first stage, an open ideas competition, will look for initial design ideas, and be judged on design philosophy and task appreciation. Entries at Stage I are kept anonymous and competitors’ identities will be revealed to the jury after they have been shortlisted for the second stage. Shortlisted competitors will move to Stage II, a design development competition, where they will be asked to develop their initial concepts and demonstrate the workability of their proposals against a budget. At the end of the two-stage competition, the jury will select not more than three winners, where one winner may be commissioned to design and build the National Art Gallery.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Art Gallery Project Unit
The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts
Fax: +65 6338 2721
mica_nationalartgallery@mica.gov.sg
www.mica.gov.sg
www.nationalartgallery.sg

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LOS ANGELES 2057: 50th Anniversary Design Competition
SPONSOR: Department of Landscape Architecture, Cal Poly Pomona
TYPE: Open, international, ideas
LOCATION: Los Angeles
LANGUAGE: English
TIMETABLE:
01 Apr 2007 – Registration and Submission Deadline
Submit entries digitally to cccpla50@gmail.com
JURY: Mike Abbate, principal, greenworks, p.c.; Jeanine Centouri, principal, urbanrock design; Phil Pregill, department head, cal poly pomona, Peter Aeschbacher, co-founder, cityworks los angeles
AWARDS:
1st Prize – $3000
2nd Prize – $1500
3rd Prize – $750
Up to seven honorable mentions
FEE: $25
BACKGROUND:
In April 2007, the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona celebrates their 50th anniversary looking back upon visions and values of society, culture and the environment through the eyes of designers. The 50th anniversary is a time for reflection and vision. It is a time to imagine the problems and opportunities the future brings and a time to collectively speculate about the role of the design professions in the next 50 years. This is a call for projects that envision life in the Los Angeles region 50 years from now to incite discussions about the future of landscapes, society and the environment.
THE COMPETITION:
Los Angeles is a bellwether – an early indicator or marker, making it an appropriate case study for the future of American cities and landscapes. The Cal Poly Pomona Department of Landscape Architecture mission is “Re – generating Los Angeles.” The term regenerative is a starting point for contemplation in this ideas competition. Fragmentation of ‘re-generate’ implies restoration of existing regimes, while ‘generate’ calls for new solutions. What will be the problems facing Los Angeles in the year 2057? How do we imagine those problems? What will be our solutions based upon our values and resources?
Competition entrants may address these questions in any fashion they feel is relevant and insightful. Should strategies be ‘top – down’ from organized governance, or large-scale, comprehensive frameworks? Or do moments – small scale inventions/interventions become the best way to address pressing issues? We welcome all speculation upon imagining the state of the future and what we wish it to be.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Assistant Professor Ken McCown
California State Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA 91768
USA
kmccown@csupomona.edu
www.cppla50.com

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Sheffield Festival Centre
TYPE: Open, international, RfP
LOCATION: Sheffield, UK
TIMETABLE:
14 Mar 2007 – Inquiries Deadline
23 Mar 2007 – Answers Posted
11 Apr 2007 – Registration Deadline
18 Apr 2007 – Stage 1 Submission Deadline
26 Apr 2007 – Selection Panel Meets to Select Shortlist
13 Jun 2007 – Stage 2 Submission Deadline
18 Jun 2007 – Anonymous Public Exhibition of Short-listed Schemes
12 Jul 2007 – Presentations to Selection Panel
ELIGIBILITY: registered architects and architect-led teams
SELECTION PANEL: Creative Sheffield Andy Topley (Chief Executive – Sheffield One); Paternoster Ltd (Workstation) Colin Pons (Board member); Sheffield Media & Exhibition Centre Ltd. Margaret Bennett (Company Chair); Showroom Workstation Ian Wild (Chief Executive); RIBA (appointed Architect Adviser to the competition); Jeremy Till (Professor of Architecture, University of Sheffield); RIBA (Architect); Sarah Featherstone (Director, Featherstone Associates)
AWARDS:
An equal honorarium of £4,000 (plus VAT) will be paid to each competitor invited to Stage 2 of the competition. The winner’s honorarium will represent an advance on their professional fee.
FEE: £35.00 (inclusive of VAT)
THE COMPETITION:
Submissions are invited from architects, or architect-led teams for a new, circa £3million building to extend the facilities provided by The Showroom cinema and Workstation cultural industries business centre.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Sheffield Festival Centre Competition
RIBA Competitions Office
6, Melbourne Street
Leeds LS2 7PS
UK
Tel: +44(0)113-234-1335
Fax: +44(0)113-246-0744
riba.competitions@inst.riba.org
www.architecture.com/competitions

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GBD Art District Phase 1 Architecture Competition
TYPE: Open, international, anonymous, RfP
LOCATION: Beijing, China
TIMETABLE:
30 Mar 2007 – Receipt of candidates’ candidature and proposal
03 Apr 2007 – Results Announced
08 Apr-28 May 2007 – Winners complete the design of the buildings in designated parts of GBD
Exhibition of the winning projects at DIAF2007 in Beijing.
ELIGIBILITY: architects, artists, designers, and any creative professionals
JURY: architect Zhu Pei, architect Yi Jiezhong, architect Neville Mars, artist Huang Rui, media personality Hong Huang, GBD founder Cai Ming
AWARDS:
1 Gold – Åè150,000
1 Silver – Åè50,000
5 Bronzes – Åè10,000 RMB/Person
THE COMPETITION:
We invite all creative teams/individuals worldwide to design a 50m2, 10m high, 500m3 space. It should provide external open space, guarantee a flexible workspace, and a private living environment. Over two hundred 500M3 units will combine to form the GBD Art District Phase 1 Architecture Competition project.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Email your application form and electronic attachment of your design to artgbd@gmail.com, meanwhile, send your application and the paper version of your design to:
Jiuxianqiao Road #4
798 Dashanzi Art District
P.O. Box 8503
Thinking Hands
Beijing, China 100015
www.artgbd.com

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Olympic Delivery Authority – VeloPark
TYPE: Open, international, EoI
LOCATION: Stratford, East London, UK
LANGUAGE: English
TIMETABLE:
30 Mar 2007 – EoI Deadline (12:00)
19 Apr 2007 – Minimum of 5, Maximum of 8 Shortlisted Announced
Summer 2007 – Results Announced
BACKGROUND:
The ODA was established by the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006, as a statutory corporation, whose Board members are appointed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in consultation with the Mayor of London. The ODA is responsible for ensuring provision of venues, infrastructure and services for the Games and the subsequent transition to legacy uses. The ODA wishes to appoint an integrated Design Team including architects, services engineers, structural engineers and landscape designers to design one of the venues, the VeloPark, and to design its legacy conversion.
THE COMPETITION:
The ODA intends to appoint an integrated Design Team to undertake all the design and planning work for the VeloPark facilities, including but not limited to: an International Cycle Union compliant Velodrome; a BMX circuit; a road cycle circuit; and a mountain bike course as well as providing additional facilities for the community.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Olympic Delivery Authority
1 Churchill Place
Canary Wharf
Attn: Jonathan Whyte
London E14 5LN
UK
Tel: 020 3 2012 000
Fax: 020 3 2012 511
Velopark@london2012.com
www.london2012.org

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New Arts Centre – OMAC[2]
TYPE: Open, European, 2-stage, RfP
LOCATION: Belfast, Ireland
LANGUAGE: English
TIMETABLE:
13 Apr 2007 – Stage 1 Submission Deadline
ELIGIBILITY: architects, engineers, planners within the EWR
JURY: Gareth Hoskins – RIBA Adviser; Margaret McKee – OMAC Chair and Senior Responsible Owner for OMAC [2]; Barrie Todd – OMAC Trustee; Paul McStay – OMAC Trustee; Anne McReynolds – OMAC Project Director and Project Sponsor for OMAC [2]; Representative of Laganside Corporation; The Jury Panel will be supported by expert advisers.
AWARDS:
Up to 6 Stage-2 finalists – £5,000 each
FEE: £35
THE COMPETITION:
The Old Museum Arts Centre (OMAC) invites submissions for a two stage open design competition for the design of a new, circa £11-12,000,000 purpose built Arts Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The new arts centre, working title OMAC[2], should contribute to the creation of, participation in and enjoyment of high quality art across a number of mediums. It is anticipated that the Core Team will comprise:- Architect; Project Manager; Quantity Surveyor / Cost Manager; Structural/Civil Engineer; Building Services Engineers and Planning Supervisor / Co-Coordinator and any other specialisms that may be required to secure the successful delivery of the project. The Core Team will also require specialist support from a suitably qualified and experienced Visual Art Consultant, Theatre Consultant, Acoustician, BREEAM Assessor and Traffic Consultant.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The Old Museum Arts Centre (OMAC)
RIBA Competitions Office
6 Melbourne Street
Leeds LS2 7PS
UK
Tel: ++44 (0) 113 2341335
Fax: ++44 (0) 113 2460744
riba.competitions@inst.riba.org
www.ribacompetitions.com

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Redevelopment of the area of the “Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Mangiagalli e Regina Elena”
TYPE: Open, international, 1-stage, RfP
LOCATION: Milan, Italy
TIMETABLE:
16 Apr 2007 – Deadline (12:00 pm)
THE COMPETITION:
The objects of the Competition are the preliminary design of portions of the hospital complex and the definition of the overall urban design in line with the objectives and goals laid out in the PDD. The total area of the project is approximately 137,000 m2.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
To require the complete material and for any further information on the participation please contact:
COMPETITION SECRETARIAT
Studio EVDS – Arch. Daniela Sarracco
Via Sapeto, 5
20123 Milano
Italy
Tel: +39 02 83241965
Fax: +39 02 8376660
concorsopoliclinico@evds.it
policlinico.webhat.it/italian/index.php

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Cleveland Design Competition-Project 2007
SPONSOR: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
TYPE: Open, anonymous, 1-stage, ideas
LOCATION: Cleveland, Ohio
TIMETABLE:
16 Apr 2007 – Registration Deadline
01 May 2007 – Submission Deadline
May 2007 – Juried Review
May/Jun 2007 – Reception & Exhibition
ELIGIBILITY: Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects, Urban Planners, Artists, Students
AWARDS:
1st Prize – $2,000
2nd Prize – $1,000
3rd Prize – $500
2 honorable mentions
FEE: $30 individual/team; $200 studio (up to 15 students)
OBJECTIVE:
We challenge entrants to present nationally prominent, architecturally significant design solutions for an under-utilized riverbed hillside and bluff along the western edge of Cleveland’s Industrial Flats. Successful solutions will provide the city with a connection to the natural and cultural histories of the industrial valley and provide an unprecedented vantage point from which to observe the next generation of the city’s evolution. Entrants are encouraged to resolve important practical issues such as pedestrian and vehicular access, soils stabilization, view corridors and programming while exploring the site’s relevance within the greater Cuyahoga River Valley and as a national example of the natural cycle of regeneration of abandoned urban landscapes.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Michael Christoff or Bradley Fink, Competition Advisors
Cleveland Design Competition-Project 2007
Tel: +1 (216) 337 – 9410 or
+1 (216) 255 – 0152
info@clevelandcompetition.com
www.clevelandcompetition.com

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Healthcare 2025: Buildings for the future
Sponsor: Netherlands Board for Healthcare Institutions
Type: Open, European, ideas
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Timetable:
02 Apr 2007 (12:00 noon) – Registration Deadline
02 Jul 2007 (5:00 pm) – Submission Deadline
25 Sep 2007 – Jubilee Congress Netherlands Board for Healthcare Institutions, Jaarbeurs, Utrecht: prizes awarded, presentation of best designs.
Eligibility: architects and students of architecture, Dutch and other European architects
Fee:
Architects: euro 250
Students of architecture at tertiary institutions: euro50
Jury: Ms H. d’ Ancona (chair); Mr M. Crouwel, Government Architect; Mr W. Patijn, architect and deacon of TU Delft and associates
Awards:
Total euro30,000
Background:
Healthcare in Europe is changing. Many countries want more competition and an open healthcare market. The health of populations is also changing: other lifestyles, increasing prosperity and climate change, with associated consequences. Plus increasing life expectancies. Europe has more and more inhabitants older than 65, and the number of elderly seniors is also increasing: the group aged 80+ is growing fast. This will also cause the incidence of age-related illnesses to increase. Without any doubt, changes in the healthcare needs of the population will lead to a new breed of health care facilities. This architectural design competition is meant to stimulate thinking about the future of building for healthcare.
The Competition:
In 2005, land reclaimed from the IJsselmeer will be ready for occupation, sufficient for a new city of 160,000 inhabitants. The new city’s population closely mirrors that of existing Dutch cities of similar size. Healthcare for this city has to be developed from scratch. All basic facilities must be on hand, so that inhabitants only need to leave the city for high clinical care. The assignment is to develop ideas for the healthcare arrangements in this new city in 2025. These ideas must be translated into an architectural design for a healthcare facility. The entire healthcare spectrum is represented. A comprehensive description of the new city, the evaluation criteria, and the terms of reference are all included in the competition program.
Additional Information:
Contact Willeke van Staalduinen, Manager
Communications Public Relations
Netherlands Board for Healthcare Institutions
Tel: +31 (0)30 298 3232 or
+31 (0)6 510 53 949
competition2025@bouwcollege.nl
www.bouwcollege.nl

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SHANGHAI EXPO 2010, BRITISH PAVILION
TYPE: Open, UK, Expressions of Interest
TIMETABLE:
23 Mar 2007 – Inquiries Deadline
30 Mar 2007 – Expressions of Interest Deadline
BACKGROUND:
Every World Expo is unique. But the Shanghai Expo will be the most spectacular the world has seen – the first time an Expo has been held in a developing country. Shanghai 2010 will be the commercial, technological and cultural Olympics of 2010. It will be four times the size of the 2005 Expo in Aichi Japan. 2010 will be a critical time for many decision makers and organisations as the demands and challenges of the present are viewed and explored alongside the technologies and opportunities of the future. The full scope of that innovation, creativity and enterprise will be on show over 184 days of the World Expo in Shanghai, from May 1st to October 31st 2010.
THE COMPETITION:
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is looking for a suitable multi-disciplinary team to work with the FCO and its public-private partners to create a stunning and memorable UK pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. The theme of the Expo is ‘Better City-Better Life’, and the UK will be developing its core messages around sustainable development, urban regeneration and climate security. The likely total outturn cost of the scheme is approximately £10,000,000 GBP with an overall program of approximately 30 months. The procurement strategy will be developed following further feasibility analysis and it is expected that the selected team will contribute to this review.
Stage 1: The selection of a shortlist from expressions of interest
Stage 2: A Design Competition involving those on the shortlist
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Matt Carroll
Malcolm Reading & Associates
45 – 46 Berners Street
London W1T 3NE
UK
shanghai2010@malcolmreading.co.uk
www.malcolmreading.co.uk/shanghai
www.ukshanghaiexpo.com
www.expo2010china.com

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Central Open Space in Multi-functional Administrative City, Korea
TYPE: Open, International, 2-Stage
SPONSOR: Multi-functional Administrative City Construction Agency of Republic of Korea and Korea Land Corporation
LOCATION: Yeongi-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, the Republic of Korea
LANGUAGES: Korean and English
TIMETABLE:
24 Mar 2007 – Registration Deadline
09 Mar-04 Apr 2007 – Questions Period
10 Apr 2007 – Questions Answered
07-14 May 2007 – Stage 1 Submission
29 May 2007 – Finalists Announced
08 Jun 2007 – Stage 2 Guidelines Announced
13-16 Aug 2007 – Stage 2 Submission
28 Aug 2007 – Results Announced
ELIGIBILITY: Stage 1 – landscape architects, architects, urban designers and any
interested individuals; Stage 2 – Ten or less finalists from first stage
FEE: US$100
JURY: Mark Francis, Julia Czerniak, Binyi Liu, Byung-E Yang, Ki-Ho Kim, Young-Joon Kim, Peter Latz, Paolo Burgi and Sang-Soo Ahn
AWARDS:
1st prize – US$200,000 + Phase one project contract (US$1,000,000 or less)
2nd Prize – US$100,000
3rd Prize – US$50,000
US$50,000 will be provide to finalists as an honorarium
THE COMPETITION:
Multi-functional Administrative City is the new administrative capital with
the goal of relocating most of administrative organizations from Seoul. The
construction of the city will be started this summer and it has been
scheduled to complete the planning and construction process at 2030. MAC
has a ring-style city structure as huge open space (about 3,200acre) is
located in the core of the city and urban fabric will be constructed around
the open space. (http://www.macc.go.kr/english/) This competition is for
selecting best proposal and designer for the open space.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Tel: +82-2-880-4886
Fax: +82-2-873-5113
macop@macopenspace.or.kr
www.macopenspace.or.kr

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Programme of Iran Industrial Trade Center
SPONSOR: Melli Industrial Group
TYPE: Open, international, 1 stage, RfP
TIMETABLE:
27 Mar 2007 – Registration Deadline
11 Apr 2007 – Submission Deadline
21 Apr 2007 – Results Announced
25-28 Apr 2007 – Exhibition and Awards
JURY: Mr Mohammadreza Jodat, Mr Aliakbar Saremi, Mr Kamran Safamanesh, Mr Iraj Kalantary, Mr Golabchi
AWARDS:
1st Prize – €16,000
2nd Prize – €12,000
3rd Prize – €8,000
4th position till 10th position – €400
THE COMPETITION:
The design of an Iran Industrial Trade Center will be done based on
Commercial 40%
Official 30%
Residential 30%
The goal of our design is to build an efficient place which could be effective and serviceable in different levels city-wide and nationally. It should be accessible and suitable for predicted goals. The site of competition located in the south-eastern part of Tehran is between the countryside and the city. Total measurement of the land: About 24000 square meter according to the enclosed plan (Occupation: 60% of site). The maximum of licensed floors: 5 floors on the ground and 3 floors under the ground. 200 parking (5000 sq m) predicted for guest and visitors in residential, commercial and official sections.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Administrative Secretarial
Melli Management & Services Company
In front of Mehrabad Air Field
The beginning of Fat’h High Way
Tehran 13185-1544
The Islamic Republic Of Iran
Tel:+98 21 66658199
Fax: +98 21 66658199
info@melliaward.ir
www.melliaward.ir

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Lightouch Design Competition
Type: Open, international, anonymous, RfP
Language: English
Timetable:
30 Mar 2007 – Deadline
18 May 2007 – Top 8 Winners Announced
11-15 Jun 2007 – Prototyping Workshop Series
Jun/Jul 2007 – Annoucement of Winner and Awards Exhibition
Eligibility: all designers and non-designers, professionals or students
Awards:
The top entry will win the grand prize of a trip to Milan on business class and a learning tour to the FLOS factory. The designers for the eight best entries will be invited to Singapore in June 2007 for a prototyping workshop conducted by FLOS.
The Competition:
Everyone should always be able to ‘design’ his own environment. To change it, and be changed by it. Lightouch is a quest for such a creative and interactive live-work-play environment that is shaped by a unique non-intrusive lighting system. It is about using light for its full spectrum of qualities. Less about lamps as technology, though inextricable from the form of light they shape. Entries must be original works of entrants and must not have previously been released commercially. There is no limit to number of entries, and registration is free.
Additional Information:
Lightouch Design Competition
DesignSingapore Council
Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts
140 Hill Street, 5th Storey MICA Building
Singapore 179369
Tel: +65-6735 5932
Fax: +65-6735 5732
info@rubix-cube.com
www.designsingapore.org/lightouch
www.lightouch.org/index.html

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Olympic Delivery Authority – VeloPark
TYPE: Open, international, Expressions of Interest
LOCATION: Stratford, East London, UK
LANGUAGE: English
TIMETABLE:
30 Mar 2007 – Expression of Interest Deadline (12:00)
19 Apr 2007 – Minimum of 5, Maximum of 8 Shortlisted Announced
Summer 2007 – Results Announced
BACKGROUND:
The ODA was established by the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006, as a statutory corporation, whose Board members are appointed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in consultation with the Mayor of London. The ODA is responsible for ensuring provision of venues, infrastructure and services for the Games and the subsequent transition to legacy uses. The ODA wishes to appoint an integrated Design Team including architects, services engineers, structural engineers and landscape designers to design one of the venues, the VeloPark, and to design its legacy conversion.
THE COMPETITION:
The ODA intends to appoint an integrated Design Team to undertake all the design and planning work for the VeloPark facilities, including but not limited to: an International Cycle Union compliant Velodrome; a BMX circuit; a road cycle circuit; and a mountain bike course as well as providing additional facilities for the community.
REGISTRATION:
The ODA is using the London 2012 eTendering Service for this tender.
The site provides a simple, secure and efficient means of managing the tender process from Contract Notice through to Contract Award.
Supplier Instructions on How to Express Interest
1. Browse to the ODA eTender Service: http://etenders.london2012.com
2. Click the “Click here to register” link
3. Accept the terms and conditions and click “continue”
4. Enter your correct business and user details
5. Note the username you chose and click “Save” when complete
6. You will receive an email with your unique password (keep this secure)
7. Login to the portal with the username/password
8. Click the “Open Access PQQs” link. (These are PQQs open to any registered supplier)
9. Click on the relevant PQQ to access the content.
10. Click the “Express Interest” button in the “Actions” box on the left-hand side of the page. This will move the PQQ over to the “My PQQs” page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only)
11. Click on the PQQ code, you can now access any attachments by clicking the “Settings and Buyer Attachments” in the “Actions” box on the left-hand side of the page
12. You can now choose to “Reply” or “Reject”
13. Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ
For assistance contact help.etenders@london2012.com. Phone: 0800 043 2012
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Olympic Delivery Authority
1 Churchill Place
Canary Wharf
Attn: Jonathan Whyte
London E14 5LN
UK
Tel: 020 3 2012 000
Fax: 020 3 2012 511
Velopark@london2012.com
www.london2012.org

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Roland Rainer Competition 2007: Scales of Density – Shapes of Privacy
SPONSORS: City of Vienna, Austrian Chamber of Architects and Consultant Engineers
TYPE: International, open, 1-stage, anonymous, ideas
LANGUAGES: English and German
TIMETABLE:
16 Mar 2007 – Registration Deadline
23 Apr 2007 – Submission Deadline (4 pm CET)
23 May 2007 – Exhibition and Results Announced
ELIGIBILITY: architects, town planners, and graduates of schools of architecture and town planning
JURY: Jens S. Dangschat, Vienna; Georg Driendl, Vienna; Ruth Johanna Kertesz, Vienna; Herbert Kramel, Zürich; Carl Pruscha, Vienna; Eva Rubin, Klagenfurt; Marta Schreieck, Vienna; Reinhard Seiss, Vienna; Walter Stelzhammer, Vienna; Peter Zlonicky, Munich
AWARDS:
1 Roland Rainer Prize 2007 – €8000, excluding 20%VAT,
2 Roland Rainer Recognition prizes – €1000 each, both excluding 20% VAT.
THE COMPETITION:
The competition (On Contemporary Forms of the Garden City) aims at finding designs for future-oriented districts with a mix of functions in European cities. These should represent a further development of the buildings, projects and concepts of Roland Rainer and his paradigmatic ideas on building for life in and with natural surroundings. The goal of these proceedings is to obtain designs for a district of a town that is laid out according to the principles of the garden city. The entrants however must select a suitable location in Europe for their project. What is being sought are projects for a concrete urban district chosen according to urban, social and economic criteria, in the core or periphery of a city in which all the essential functions are taken into account to an equal extent.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Roland Rainer Competition 2007
Karlsgasse 9, 2nd floor
A 1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43.1.505 58 07
Fax: +43.1.505 32 11
info@roland-rainer.at
www.roland-rainer.at

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RE:VOLT
TYPE: Open, international, ideas
TIMETABLE:
15 Mar 2007 – Registration Deadline
01 Apr 2007 – Submission Deadline
15 Apr 2007 – Jury Review
01 May 2007 – Online Exhibition and Winner Announcement
ELIGIBILITY: any person(s) including architects, designers, urban planners, engineers, artists, students and anyone interested in sharing their vision and ideas for an urban community
JURY: TBA
AWARDS:
3 Finalists – $2,000 each
7 honorable mentions will be prizes in categories determined by the jury and will not include a cash prize.
FEE: $25
THE COMPETITION:
Raising the Potential of New and Renewable Energies It’s time to revolt. At any scale, intelligent and innovative methods to reduce our energy use are critical to our survival. For our first competition challenge, we are calling for revolutionary ideas about how to power an imaginary city block with new ideas on renewable energies. Begin with the existing infrastructure – rooftops, bus shelters, telephone poles-then invent what’s needed. Explore solar, wind, water and beyond. And whether you’re powering the entire city block or a single shop, think more from less.
Consider:
How industry can stop polluting the air and water
How visitors can generate energy for the building
How buildings can capture the sun and wind
How offices can be more energy efficient
How homes can lower their utility bills to zero
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Nicole Cassani
RE: VISION
Tel: 415-425-5144
questions@urbanrevision.com
www.urbanrevision.com

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New Media School in Halifax
SPONSOR: ACADIA
TYPE: Open, online, international, RfP
LOCATION: Nova Scotia, Canada
TIMETABLE:
15 Mar 2007 – Registration Deadline
30 Mar 2007 – Round 1 Voting
06 Apr 2007 – Round 1 Results
18 May 2007 – Round 2 Voting
25 May 2007 – Round 2 Results
30 Jun 2007 – Round 3 Voting
06 Jul 2007 – Round 3 Results
16 Jul 2007 – Winners Submissions for Publication
05 Oct 2007 – Exhibition and Awards at ACADIA 2007 Conference
ELIGIBILITY: students and professionals worldwide
JURY: In the ACADIA Competition 2007 for the New Media School the contestants themselves select the winners in a democratic process. This entails three elections in which contestants are to review projects via the Internet, rank and comment on them. Overall rankings of projects will be announced shortly thereafter.
AWARDS:
1st Prize – Cash plus ArchiCAD, Digital Project, formZ, Google Earth, Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, 3DStudio VIZ
2nd and 3rd Prizes and Honorable Mention will also be awarded.
waterfront
FEE: $40 students; $100 professionals
THE COMPETITION:
The New Media School will prepare students and researchers for creative, artistic, and professional activities across a wide range of media arts. Students will participate in a learning environment that will involve reflection on ideas about contemporary media art and culture. The learning spectrum ranges from acquiring skills for specific tools and methods to an engagement in research projects. An important aspect of the school is the creation of a community among students and interaction between different program areas. Communal space and facilities will be essential to foster cross-fertilization and discussion.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Peter Anders, Ph.D.
ptr@andersassociates.net
acadia2007.org/competition

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City of Justice in Vigo Call for Ideas
TYPE: Open, international, 2-stage, ideas
LOCATION: Vigo, Spain
TIMETABLE:
20 Mar 2007 – Stage 1 Submission Deadline
18 Jun 2007 – Stage 2 Submission Deadline
AWARDS:
1st Prize – €60,000
2nd Prize – €40,000
3rd Prize – €30,000
Up to a maximum of three other prizes, provided the jury considers it advisable, of 10,000 each. All prizes include VAT.
THE COMPETITION:
The construction of the future City of Justice in Vigo involves the basic aim of meeting, on a global scale, the needs of the judicial system of the city of Vigo . The permanent increase in the size of the city means it is necessary to plan and design new buildings which will allow an improvement in the service, and better attention paid to the city’s citizens, as well as a more efficient performance of the administration of the justice system in Vigo . As such, the city will be able to rely on a singular and emblematic building complex which will serve as a new referent of the dynamism and modernity of the city. The Invitation to Tender aims to select a basic project design which lays the foundations to the final design of the City of Justice. Stage 1 will consist of an open call for ideas and will order the exterior volumetry needed. Once six proposals have been selected, Stage 2 will consist of a Selective Tendering for the basic project design.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
To receive any news about the tender, as well as the notification of the last updates in the web, the bidders can register sending an email to: novasxustizavigo@coag.es
concursoxustizavigo@coag.es
www.coag.es/novedades/

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Mixed tenure housing development at the Eltham Baths site
SPONSOR: Ujima Housing Association Ltd.
TYPE: International, expressions of interest
LOCATION: Eltham, London SE9
TIMETABLE:
20 Mar 2007 – Expression of Interest deadline
02 Apr 2007 – Jury meets
10 Apr 2007 – Short-listed teams notified by telephone
16 Apr 2007 – Site Visit
23 Apr 2007 – Inquiries deadline
05 Jun 2007 – Submission deadline
11 Jun 2007 – Potential public exhibition of anonymous design proposals
18 Jun 2007 – Final presentations to Jury Panel and decision
ELIGIBILITY: all UK and overseas registered architects. Overseas candidates should demonstrate their ability to deliver the project from within the UK. The Expressions of Interest will primarily be assessed on the basis of the lead architect.
AWARDS:
The competition will take the form of an Invited Design Competition, preceded by a ‘trawl of interest’. A shortlist of (up to) six teams will be invited to proceed to the design phase of the competition. Each of the short-listed teams will receive an honorarium of GBP £4,500 (+VAT) to develop a design proposal.
THE COMPETITION:
Ujima Housing Association Ltd is one of the largest black-led housing associations in Europe and is a non-profit making Registered Social Landlord (RSL). The association owns and manages nearly 4,500 properties (general and special needs) and now works in over 20 London Boroughs. Ujima houses people regardless of their race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation or physical disability. Ujima wishes to identify through a design competition an architect-led team with whom to develop design ideas for a 0.9acre site at Eltham Hill, Eltham, London SE9. The site currently comprises purpose built swimming baths occupying a level “L” shaped site of approximately 0.36 Ha (0.9 acres). The public swimming pool facility is due to be reprovided elsewhere during 2007. Eltham Baths is situated on the north side of Eltham Hill (A210) with return frontage onto Sherard Road. The site lies approximately 300 metres to the west of Eltham town centre, which offers an extensive range of retail and recreational facilities. Eltham also benefits from an excellent network of local bus routes, with easy access onto the A2/A20/M25 motorway network into central London and the South East. A mainline station is located approximately half a mile to the northeast providing regular services into London Bridge, Victoria and Charing Cross stations. Ujima Housing Association Ltd has exchanged contracts unconditionally with LB Greenwich to acquire the site after reprovision has taken place. The indicative construction works budget is anticipated to be in the region of GBP £13m. The intention is to commission the winning team to develop their design proposal up to and including the planning application. Ujima then intends to enter into a fixed price Design and Build contract and will not necessarily require notation of the architect-led team to the D&B contractor.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Eltham Baths Housing Competition
RIBA Competitions Office
6, Melbourne Street
Leeds LS2 7PS
UK
Tel: +44(0)113-234-1335
Fax: +44(0)113-246-0744
riba.competitions@inst.riba.org
www.ribacompetitions.com

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Envisioning Gateway: A Public Design Competition for Gateway National Park
SPONSOR: The Tiffany Lamp Co.
TYPE: Open, international, anonymous
LOCATION: New York/New Jersey Harbor, USA
LANGUAGE: English
TIMETABLE:
14 Mar 2007 – Registration Deadline
23 Mar 2007 – Inquiries Deadline
30 Mar 2007 – Answers Posted
07 May 2007 – Submission Deadline
May 2007 – Jury Deliberation
Jun 2007 – Winners Announced and Exhibition
ELIGIBILITY: all designers and non-designers, professionals or students
JURY: Ethan Carr (National Park Service Historian and Landscape Architect), Andrew Darrell (Director, New York Region, Environmental Defense), Patricia Harris (First Deputy Mayor of New York City), Marian Heiskell (Newspaper Executive, Conservationist, Philanthropist), Walter Hood (Principal, Hood Design), Patricia Kempthorne (Founder and Executive Director, Twiga Foundation), Peter Latz (Principal, Latz + Partner Landscape Architects), John Loring (Design Director, Tiffany & Co.), Anuradha Mathur (Principal, Mathur/da Cunha and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, UPenn), Wendy Paulson (Trustee, The Nature Conservancy of New York and Board Chair, Rare Conservation), Steward Pickett (Plant Ecologist, Institute for Ecosystem Studies), Lindy Roy (Principal, Roy, Co.), Adi Shamir (Executive Director, Van Alen Institute), and Mark Wigley (Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation)
AWARDS:
1st Prize – $15,000
2nd Prize – $10,000
3rd Prize – $5,000
Honorable Mention – $500
THE COMPETITION:
Gateway was designated the first urban National Recreation Area on October 27, 1972, exactly one century after Yellowstone became the first national park in the United States and the world. Thirty-five years later, Gateway continues to struggle to meet the aspirations of its founders, to negotiate its relationship with the communities that surround it, and to balance the goals of historic preservation, environmental conservation, and active recreation.
A 26,607 acre site stretching across the New York-New Jersey harbor and coast, Gateway has incredible potential to become a global model for re-conceptualizing the role of national parks relative to an increasingly urbanized landscape. We must acknowledge the growing urgency to bridge science, design and politics when addressing today’s built environment, and redefine environmental stewardship and cultural patronage to match the scale of contemporary urban development patterns and needs. Envisioning Gateway at this juncture will generate critical dialogue not only about the significance of national parks today, but about the ways in which thriving cities and complex ecosystems can co-exist.
The focus of the competition is twofold — competitors are being asked to address Gateway at a regional scale, and to design a new park sited at Floyd Bennett Airfield relative to its position within the Jamaica Bay Unit of Gateway. Floyd Bennett Field is a 1,358 acre piece of land that was New York’s first municipal airport; today, however, it suffers from a lack of identity and definition. Competitors are challenged to redefine what a “park” is today in terms of contemporary urban conditions and social/recreational needs and desires.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Envisioning Gateway Design Competition
Van Alen Institute
30 W. 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10010
Tel: 212-924-7000
competitions@vanalen.org
www.vanalen.org/gateway

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Tagus River Banks Development
Type: Open, international
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Languages: Portuguese, English
Timetable:
Mar – Submission Deadline
Apr – Results Announced
Jury: The Public
Awards:
1st Prize – euro 20,000
2nd Prize – euro 10,000
3rd Prize – euro 5,000
Mentions – Total euro 10,000
The Competition:
Create a cohesive plan for the riverfront, tying together projects already implemented and those planned for the future.
Additional Information:
TAGUS
Associação para o Desenvolvimento Integrado do Ribatejo Interior
Centro Coordenador de Transportes
P-2200-123 Abrantes
Tel: +351241372180
Fax: +351241331610
info@concursotejo.eu

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Furniture Design competition “cult um’s desk”
Type: Open, international, RfP
Location: Vienna, Austria
Timetable:
23 Mar 2007 – Submission Deadline
May 2007 – Results Announced
Eligibility: Craftsman, designer or architect
Awards: euro 3,000
The Competition:
The Viennese carpenters Innung in co-operation with the chamber of economics writes out a Design competition for the organization of a desk, which presupposes the conversion in case of a nominating for final elimination by a Viennese crafts enterprise. The competition work can be planned made of wood, glass, plastic, metal and stone.
Additional Information:
tischler.wien@wkw.at
www.moebel-design.at

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Realization of a bridge on the Lago Pietra del Pertusillo
Type: Open, international, ideas
Location: Marsicovetere, Italy
Language: Italian
Timetable:
20 Dec 2007 – Competition Launch
20 Mar 2007 – Deadline
Eligibility: design professional within the EWR
Awards:
1st Prize – 20,000 euro
2nd Prize – 12,000 euro
3rd Prize – 7,000 euro
Fee: 100 euro
The Competition:
The objective will be to tie the bridge to the land in a coherent way. The nature, place of encounter, passage and dialogue of the man with the landscape will be evaluated.
Additional Information:
Regione Basilicata-Struttura di Progetto Val dÅåAgri
via Roma 10,
Attn: Angelo Mazza
I-85050 Marsicovetere
Italy
Tel: 09 75 31 42 03
Fax: 09 75 35 47 73
revotta@regione.basilicata.it
www.povaldagri.basilicata.it

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The Royal Armouries – The Street Redevelopment
TYPE: Open, international, Expressions of Interest
LOCATION: Leeds, UK
TIMETABLE:
06 Mar 2007 – Expressions of Interest Deadline (2:00 pm)
13 Mar 2007 – Assessment
21 Mar 2007 – Issue Brief and Site Visit
27 Apr 2007 – Short-listed Practices Submission Deadline (2:00 pm)
02 May 2007 – Final Assessment
07 May 2007 – Results Announced
ELIGIBILITY: open to registered architects and architectural practices
JURY: Simon Hudspith, Panter Hudspith Architects, will represent the RIBA on the judging panel. The Royal Armouries will be represented by Peter Armstrong, Museum Director; Karen Whitting, Head of Events & Live Interpretation; Cheryl Graham, Head of Retail; Alan Eyles, Head of Creative Production; Brian Ball, Project Assurance (Finance); and to be confirmed, a member of the Board of Trustees.
AWARDS:
From the expressions of interest 4 teams will be selected to prepare preliminary design concepts and will be invited to present their ideas to the Client at an interview. Each will be paid an honorarium of 3,000 + VAT for 2 A1 concept boards.
THE COMPETITION:
The main entrance area of the Royal Armouries building in Armouries Drive, Leeds is referred to as The Street. The Street provides access to all of the Royal Armouries Museum exhibitions and various other facilities such as shop, cafes and bistro. It also provides access to Royal Armouries (International) Ltd, a separate run organisation. At present, it is felt that the Street area lacks a visitor friendly entrance. What is required is an obvious and welcoming focal point where guests can be helped and directed toward their particular purpose or interest. The current information offered to the museum visitor is dissipated and confusing and is presented in an ad-hoc manner. Several of the stakeholders operating in the area have encroached into the space vying for customer attention. A number of events occur day to day which are hosted by different stakeholders, this leads to large groups arriving on mass at certain times of the day. At present there is no assembly point or area for them to be orientated. The Street functions as a corridor that leads toward the museum lifts and stairwell that takes visitors up into the main building. This long expanse does nothing to either encourage dwell time or create a sense of ore and wonderment that should be the essence of peoples experience when first entering the Royal Armouries Museum. The new design should be clear, strong and informative to the visitor. The overall treatment will incorporate the theme of “Protection” as well as a sense of history. The area will be family friendly, welcoming and retain a good sense of space and scale. Any elements introduced into this area must be user-friendly and sustainable in the future. The project budget is 250,000.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
RIBA Competitions Office
6 Melbourne St.
Leeds, LS2 7PS
UK
www.ribacompetitions.com

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Suspension Footbridge
SPONSOR: MAKAN SHAHR
TYPE: Open, international, 2-stage, RfP
LOCATION: Iran
LANGUAGE: English
TIMETABLE:
24 Feb 2007 – Inquiries Deadline
05 Mar 2007 – Answers Online
10 Mar 2007 – Submission Deadline
26 Mar 2007 – Shortlist Notification
ELIGIBILITY: open to all interested individuals or teamwork that is capable of undertaking such projects
AWARDS: The promoter will select the 10 best entries. Each of the six finalists will receive an exquisite handicraft Persian carpet. Each runner-up will receive an honorable mention.
THE COMPETITION:
Design a suspension footbridge across the Khiyavchai canyon within Meshkin Shahr resort in Iran. This footbridge is going to be main approach to the major tourist resort (Sabalan Shadi) which is developing by Makan Shahr as an investment and engineering corporation.
Stage I: Seeks initial designs which will then be judged by promoter. A shortlist of 10 will be selected.
Stage II: The authors of the 10 selected will be asked to prepare and present the design in greater detail, proof of qualifications and capabilities, engineering service costs, and estimated construction cost.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
All documents should be sent by email
competition@makanshahr.com
www.makanshahr.com/competition.html

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Decatur Modern Design Challenge
Type: Open, national, RfP
Sponsor: Decatur Modern, LLC
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Timetable:
12 Mar 2007 – Submission Deadline
19-21 Mar 2007 – Winners Announced
Eligibility: All Licensed Architects (individual or team) and all Architectural Undergraduate or Graduate Students
Awards:
Eight Professional winners in each of two categories receive design contracts for their designs. Design contracts include a fee of $10k for the first home constructed as a spec home or turnkey construction home for Decatur Modern and $5k for each subsequent home constructed according to the selected home design(s). All winners will be required to complete Construction Documents stamped by licensed Georgia architect and provide them to Decatur Modern for complete pricing and preparation for city permitting.
1st Prize – Professional winning entry will immediately begin construction pricing, permitting, and marketing as the first Decatur Modern spec modern home.
One Student winner will be selected in each category and will receive a $500 prize for each winner and consideration for inclusion in the design portfolio for a DMDC contract (students will have to team with a licensed architect for DMDC contracts).
Objective:
Create an updated classic modern designed single family detached home with a timeless aesthetic that can be efficiently reproduced with a panelized building system within the budget and buildable area specified
Design Guidelines:
The Decatur Modern Design Challenge is focused on bringing great modern design to the middle market intown consumer. Our target intown areas for spec development is largely R4/R4A/R4B/R5 lots ranging in size from 25-40 feet in with and an average of 100 feet in depth. We aim to streamline the permitting process of our spec construction and turnkey production of homes for our consumers through a portfolio of homes that need no modification to meet zoning requirements for the buildable footprint and height on these intown lots. Thus we have created two categories for the design challenge:
Category I – 25′ x 50′ buildable area, maximum height 35′
Category II – 16′ x 50′ buildable area, maximum height 35′
Additional Information:
Decatur Modern
DM Design Challenge
4303 Wieuca Rd
Atlanta, GA 30342
www.dmdesignchallenge.com

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MEMORIAL HOUSE OF MOTHER THERESA
Sponsor: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
Location: Skopje, Macedonia
Type: Open, international, anonymous, RfP
Location: Skopje, Macedonia
Languages: The competition materials and the entire correspondence related to the competition shall be done both in Macedonian and English language. The competition documentation, i.e., graphic presentations may be in a language other than Macedonian, provided an exact translation into Macedonian language is attached thereto. The competition shall be construed and interpreted into Macedonian.
Timetable:
01 Mar 2007 – Submission Deadline (16:00 hours)
Eligibility: professional architects
Fee: 50 euro (3,000 MKD)
Awards:
1st Prize – 300,000 MKD
2nd Prize – 200,000 MKD
3rd Prize – 100,000 MKD
2 purchases – 50,000 MKD
3 purchases – 3 x 20,000 MKD
The Competition:
Elaboration of an architectural concept for the “Mother Theresa” Memorial house, located in front of the ARM building on Makedonija Str. in Skopje. The submission should identify with the personality of Mother Theresa in the suggested concept and achieve quality and balance with the surroundings.
Additional Information:
Archive of the Ministry of Culture
ul. Gjuro Gjakovikj, No. 61
Skopje
Macedonia
Tel: 32 40 565
www.kultura.gov.mk/documents/MegunarodenkonkursSpomendomnaMajkaTereza_en.htm

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URBAN CONCEPT FOR THE “CITY HOUSE” BUILDING
Sponsor: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
Location: Skopje, Macedonia
Type: Open, international, anonymous, RfP
Location: Skopje, Macedonia
Languages: The competition materials and the entire correspondence related to the competition shall be done both in Macedonian and English language. The competition documentation, i.e., graphic presentations may be in a language other than Macedonian, provided an exact translation into Macedonian language is attached thereto. The competition shall be construed and interpreted into Macedonian.
Timetable:
01 Mar 2007 – Submission Deadline (16:00 hours)
Eligibility: professional architects
Fee: 50 euro (3,000 MKD)
Awards:
1st Prize – 250,000 MKD
2nd Prize – 150,000 MKD
3rd Prize – 100,000 MKD
2 purchases – 50,000 MKD
Compensation fund – 80,000 MKD
The Competition:
Elaboration of an architectural urban concept for the “City house” building, located in the city square “Macedonia” in Skopje. The particular criteria for evaluation and selection of the best project shall be the following:
-public character of the building with maximum openness and response to the needs of the citizens.
-openness and relation of the building towards the river Vardar, a riverside building treatment.
-concept in accordance with the urban planning conditions established in the Project programme.
-Functional organization of the City house in accordance with the programme requirements established in the Project programme.
-Implementation of an appropriate construction system which provides seismic safety.
-Enabling of a suitable accessibility of the object for disabled persons, in terms of entries and exits from the building;
-Implementation of the highest esthetic and architectural values and incorporation of authentic elements as an expression of continuity, in order to shape a building that will represent a symbol of the city.
Additional Information:
Archive of the Ministry of Culture
ul. Gjuro Gjakovikj, No. 61
Skopje
Macedonia
Tel: 32 40 565
www.kultura.gov.mk/documents/MegunarodenkonkursGratskakuka_en.htm

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Campidoglio due – la casa dei Cittadini (Capito Two – the citizens house)
TYPE: Restricted, international, 2-stage, RfP
LOCATION: Rome, Italy
LANGUAGE: Italian
TIMETABLE:
06 Mar 2007 – Registration Deadline
ELIGIBILITY: individual or associated professionals, groups of professionals, architecture and engineering firms worldwide
AWARDS:
1st Prize – €500,000
Competitors having obtained at least 40 points will have an expense reimbursement of €35,000
THE COMPETITION:
Preliminary project for new premises for the central offices of Rome’s municipality, to be built in an area close to Ostiense station in Rome. The project should foresee the construction of a new center for the central offices of Rome’s municipality with related infrastructures on more sites and buildings but in a single urban area close to to Ostiense station.
Estimated total cost is €175,000,000 (without VAT). Project proposals should considered the above mentioned cost broken down as follows:
– Buildings €93,300,000
– Antiseismic Structural Works €28,100,000
– Water-Sanitary Systems and Fireproofing €7,600,000
– Thermal Systems €17,500,000
– Electrical Systems €28,500,000
16 participants will be selected to proceed to Stage 2 amongst entrants who send in the correct forms.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Francesca Saveria Bedoni
Lungotevere de’ Cenci, 5
00186 Roma
Italy
Tel: +39 0667106211
Fax: +39 0668801216
patrimon@comune.roma.it
www.comune.roma.it/dipatrimonio www.casaportale.com/public/uploads/bando230.pdf

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Cotton Bay Estates Young Architects’ Competition
Sponsor: Cotton Bay Estates Villas, operated by Starwood Hotels Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Timetable:
04 Dec 2006 – Competition Launch
01 Mar 2007 – Submission Deadline
Eligibility: architects under 40
Architects under 40 may submit a 3,000-sq. ft. to 5,000-sq. ft. one-story or split-level private resort home design on an estate lot at Cotton Bay, in Eleuthera, Bahamas. Qualified architects can register below.
Jury: Richard Meier, Laurinda Spear, India Hicks, Costas Kondylis.
Awards:
First Prize: $5,000
Second Prize: $3,000
Third Prize: $2,000
T. Albert Sands Award: $5,000 to the best design submission by a Bahamian architect
The architect with the winning design will also have the opportunity to work with the Cotton Bay team, who will promote the design to potential clients to build the estate home based on the winner’s design and specs.
The Competition:
Cotton Bay is the first large-scale luxury resort property in the Caribbean owned by native Bahamians, and Bahamian resident Hicks will help to judge submissions based on design excellence and innovation and the creative interpretation of Bahamian Colonial style. As Cotton Bay is also working with the Audubon International Signature Program to preserve the natural island environment, special consideration will be given to submissions that preserve the island’s natural surroundings and can maintain harmonious relationship among structure, vegetation and topography. Applicants are encouraged to incorporate natural energy sources (solar/wind) into the design.
Additional Information:
contest@discovercottonbay.com
architecturalcontest.discovercottonbay.com

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HIGHLAND HOUSING FAIR COMPETITION 2007
SPONSORS: The Highland Council, Scottish Executive, Communities Scotland, Highland & Islands Enterprise and the Forestry Commission
TYPE: Open, international, expression of interest
LOCATION: Inverness, Scotland
TIMETABLE:
28 Feb 2007 – Expression of interest deadline
07 Mar 2007 – Plots allocated and competitors informed
04 May 2007 – Submission deadline
May 2007 – Exhibition at RIAS Convention /Six Cities Design Festival
Aug 2009 – Houses completed for the Highland Housing Fair
ELIGIBILITY: architects worldwide partnered with an ARB registered architect
BACKGROUND:
The Highland Housing Fair (HHF) will be a first for Scotland. It is based upon similar models found in mainland Europe, particularly Finland where historically the housing fair concept has proven very successful in stimulating quality design and innovation in Finnish housing. The HHF aspires to be a catalyst to prompt a similar kind of change within the Highlands and throughout Scotland. By creating an exemplar community, it will act as a model for future housing design and development. It will showcase in excess of 50 new homes with a diversity of housing types chosen by means of a competition. The Homes will be open to the public as a ticketed event that will run for a month. The Exhibition will be held on the Exhibition Site and it is expected that in excess of 30,000 visitors will attend the HHF. The main elements of the HHF can be summarized as follows:
– The location is a green field site on the outskirts of Inverness. The mix and number of units will give a range of house types. It is intended that both the master planning and the individual houses reflect the Fair’s desire to promote ecological/ sustainable design. The Site is in the final stages of being acquired and an outline planning application will shortly be determined.
– Entrants will compete on the basis of design to purchase and build on serviced plots on the Site.
– The intention is that the competition submissions will be displayed during Highland 2007 Year of Culture as part of the Six Cities Design Festival coinciding with the 2007 RIAS Annual Convention.
– The Homes will be built for the opening of the HHF in August 2009. The HHF will be publicized to professionals and the public with visitors experiencing high quality master planning, architecture and interior/product design in addition to cutting edge technology and innovative construction. The Exhibition will be an integral part of the Fair.
– At the end of the Fair, the Homes will be sold or rented at market value by their respective plot developers and subsequently occupied by the owners/tenants.
The Highland Housing Alliance (HHA), a not-for-profit developer will be the site developer. Highland Opportunity Ltd will be responsible for management of the Exhibition.
SITE:
The Master Plan for the Site is intended to be innovative and will form the framework for this unique project. It aspires to be a model for future development within the Highlands and has generated 53 units on 27 plots, which for the purposes of the Competition will comprise a variety of house types. See brief for the House Type and indicative fixed price range for plots.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Competition Office – HHF
RIAS
15 Rutland Square
Edinburgh EH1 2B3
Scotland
Tel: 0131 229 7545
competitions@rias.org.uk
www.rias.org.uk

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New Museum of Modern Art of Vojvodina
TYPE: Open, international, 1-stage, online, student
LOCATION: Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
LANGUAGE: English
TIMETABLE:
20 Feb 2007 – Registration deadline and download of program
04 Apr 2007 – Submission deadline
20 Apr 2007 – Voting deadline
25 Apr 2007 – Results announced
11 May 2007 – Public exhibition
ELIGIBILITY: students of architecture (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate), individually or in teams, from Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungaria, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (countries that have common cultural and historical background and professional links).
JURY: Entries of all the competitors will be displayed on Museum’s website. Rating of the entry will be decided by on-line voting of the visitors of the website.
FEE: 20 Euro
THE COMPETITION:
The subject of the competition is the development of the creative urban-architectural plan for the complex of buildings of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad. The complex consists of the museum building, between 8500 and 9000 m2 in area, access terrace, parking area and of the museum park, including a park with sculptures. The location intended for the museum complex is situated on the left bank of the Danube, in the area between the city beach “Strand” and Liman Park, the Sloboda Bridge and the student dorms. The competition has been opened in order for the following elements to be defined:
– The physical structure and the organization of the space;
– The creative architectural plan for the museum and its accompanying elements;
– Landscape and horticultural design of the free space;
– Functional and visual balance of the building and its surroundings.
The aim of the competition is to conduct a research on positions of young architects concerning roles and functions of the museum in the era of mass media (transformation of the museums from “warehouse” through “machine” to “dynamic network of cultural policies of articulation and disarticulation of public spaces, public episteme and both collective and individual identifications with art in synchronic and diachronic sense”).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Competition Secretariat:
Association of Architects of Novi Sad
Ljubica Milovic´, Dip. Arch., Competition Coordinator
Novi Sad, 20 Svetozara Miletica Street
Tel/Fax: 99 381 21 423 485
ljubicns@sbb.co.yu
dans@eunet.yu
www.msluns.org.yu

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Temporary architecture for the poolbar-Festival 2007
Type: Open, international, RfP
Location: Feldkirch, Austria
Language: German
Timetable:
19 Feb 2007 – Submission Deadline
Eligibility: Architect, landscape architect, interior decorator, designer, student
Award: euro 1,800
The Competition:
The pool cash festival 2007 (www.poolbar.at) opens June 30 in a former indoor swimming pool in Feldkirch. Designers are invited to create a temporary interior that shapes the architecture for the festival.
Additional Information:
vai (Vorarlberger Architekturinstitut, Assistenz)
Christiane Enzenhofer
Tel: +43 [0] 5572 51169 9542
info@v-a-i.a
www.poolbar.at
www.v-a-i.at
www.poolbar.at/public/text.php?aid=859

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Brasserie Bernoulli Interior
Type: Open, international
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Language: German
Timetable:
28 Feb 2007 – Submission Deadline
Apr 2007 – Results Announced
Eligibility: Students and professionals in all design disciplines
Fee: Fr. 120. – (membership at the wallpaper forum included; no fee for current members)
Awards:
1st Prize is realized and remains at least one year in the Brasserie Bernoulli
The Competition:
Interior design of a restaurant with the incorporation of wallpapers.
Additional Information:
Tel: 044/271 05 22
info@tapetenforum.com
www.tapetenforum.com

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Development plan for Carlsberg
Sponsor: Carlsberg A/S
Type: Open, international, hybrid, ideas
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Languages: English, Danish
Timetable:
01 Nov 2006 – Competition launch
28 Feb 2007 – Submission deadline
Eligibility: All urban designers, architects, designers, engineers, artists, architects students etc.
Awards:
Total €400,000
The Competition:
At the end of 2008, Carlsberg Breweries will discontinue its beer production on the site in Copenhagen where the brewery was founded, leaving behind a 33-hectare area which, besides enjoying an attractive location in the centre of Copenhagen, is a national treasure of immense historical value. The dream is to create a vibrant city district on this site, which will combine old and new. Carlsberg A/S is planning a very free competition in which entrants will be faced with as few specific constraints as possible. It will thus be up to the entrants to present the most convincing visions for the development of the site and the most compelling proposals for facilities to be accommodated there in the future.
The five following firms are pre-invited:
– BaumanLyons Architects, England
– Behnisch Architekten, Germany
– Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects and Urbanists, Canada
– Enric Miralles Bendetta Tagliabue, Spain
– WEST 8 urban design & landscape architecture, Netherlands
The competition is also open for all firms, architects, urban planners, designers, engineers, artists, architects students, etc.
Additional Information:
td@aa-dk.dk
www.arkitektforeningen.dk

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Lifecycle Building Challenge: designing this building, and the next …
Type: Open, national, 2-stage, ideas
Sponsors: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Building Materials Reuse Association, AIA, West Coast Green
Timetable:
15 Dec 2006 – Competition Launch
15 Feb 2007 – Registration Deadline
15 Apr 2007 – Submission Deadline
May – Winners Announced
Eligibility: professional architects, designers, manufacturers, builders, deconstruction experts, reuse professionals, engineers, etc. and students nationwide
Awards:
Contestant entries will be communicated to the public, industry, and government to encourage the construction of buildings that incorporate lifecycle building principles. Award and recognition will be given to notable entrants in each category.
Background:
Lifecycle building is the design of building materials, components, information systems, and management practices to create buildings that facilitate and anticipate future changes to and eventual adaptation or dismantling for recovery of all systems, components, and materials.
Also known as design for disassembly and design for deconstruction, lifecycle thinking encompasses the idea of creating buildings that are stocks of resources for future buildings. By creating building components that can be easily recovered and reused, materials are kept at their highest value, resulting in reduced consumption of energy and resources.
Waste production figures present a snapshot of valuable lost resources. These materials are known as Construction and Demolition debris (C&D):
consumes 60% of total materials flow in the United States, excluding food and fuel.
accounts for 33% of total waste generated in the United States.
Building renovation and demolition accounts for 91% of the C&D generated each year, while new construction accounts for only 9%.
Between 2000 to 2030, 27% of existing buildings will be replaced and 50% of the total building stock will be constructed.
The Competition:
The Lifecycle Building Challenge will be a web-based competition. Entrants are asked to submit designs and ideas that support disassembly and anticipate the future use of building materials. The Challenge will be open to built and un-built work, and has three main categories:
Building: an entire building from foundation to roof
Component: a single building assembly, system, or connector
Service: a tool, method, or other idea
Additional Information:
Tel: 415.947.4103
Fax: 415.947.3530
info@lifecyclebuilding.org
www.lifecyclebuilding.org

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Urban Spaces and Urban Life in Orestad South
Type: Open, international, RfP
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Languages: English, Dutch
Timetable:
31 Oct 2006 – Competition Launch
07 Dec 2006 – Inquiries Deadline
14 Feb 2007- Submission Deadline Queries
Eligibility: The competition is open to everyone, but is in particular aimed at architects, including landscape architects, who are encouraged to work with ethnologists, anthropologists, sociologists, human geographers and representatives of other disciplines with competencies that are relevant to provide a response to the brief’s requirement of focusing on urban life.
Awards: Total 750,000 DKK. Of this sum, a 1st Prize of at least DKK 150,000 will be awarded. The Orestad Development Corporation intends to ask the winners of the competition to provide consultancy services in relation to the realisation of the winning entries.
The Competition:
Orestadsselskabet (Orestad Development Corporation) invites entries that can lead to the creation of attractive, unique and functional urban spaces that will form a good setting for the diverse life that will unfold in Orestad South in the coming years. Orestad South is covered by the most extensive local plan in Danish history in terms of square metres covered. A total of 1.2 million square metres of residential facilities, commercial facilities and public institutions will emerge in this area in the coming decade, forming a completely new urban area south of Copenhagen. A vibrant city district is first and foremost shaped and animated by the people who use it on an everyday basis: at home, at work or in the various public institutions and facilities. For this reason, the new urban spaces must not only be characterised by a high aesthetic quality; they must also be a robust and inspiring setting for everyday life in all its diversity. The competition for the design of urban spaces in Orestad South is testimony to our belief that the development of high-quality urban spaces is crucial in making an urban district attractive and viable in the long run. Entrants are requested to present proposals for an overall plan of the urban spaces in the planned city district. The urban space plan must give an overview of the various types of activities and functions and their locations in the three north-south urban spaces and the seven open squares included in the competition. Entrants are also requested to present motivated outline proposals for a number of activity fields in the three north-south urban spaces and to present outline proposals for the layout, functions and activities of the seven squares in the area.
Additional Information:
Architects’ Association of Denmark
www.orestad.dk/byrum
www.arkitektforeningen.dk/aa/457B0963-17E5-4D28-8817-F0B836042D10.htm

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Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World Student Design Competition
Sponsor: Portland Cement Association
Type: Open, international, student
Timetable:
08 Feb 2007 – Registration Deadline
13 Jun 2007 – Submission Deadline
Late Jun 2007 – Results Announced
Eligibility: all ACSA-affiliated schools around the world, including Canada
Awards:
Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes and software totaling nearly $50,000. $10,000 in cash prizes will be given for two entries in each category. Each winning school will also receive pcaStructurePoint software, a retail value of $9,745, which combines PCA’s suite of concrete design software with an array of structural engineering resources.
The Competition:
Investigate an innovative use of portland cement-based material to achieve sustainable design objectives. For the 2006-07 Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World Competition students have the flexibility to provide solutions in two separate categories.
* Component Category will allow students to design a single element of a building using portland cement-based products.
* Structure Category allows students to create a comprehensive building design incorporating porland cement- based products.
Additional Information:
Eric W. Ellis / Concrete Thinking Competition
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1735 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202.785.2324 (Ext. #8, Competitions Hotline)
Fax: 202.628.0448
competitions@acsa-arch.org
www.acsa-arch.org

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New Islington Bridge
Type: Open, international, 2-stage, anonymous, RfP
Location: Manchester, UK
Language: English
Timetable:
09 Feb 2007 – Stage 1 Concept Submission Deadline (2:00 pm)
19 Feb 2007 – Shortlist Announced
Mar 2007 – Stage 2 Shortlisted Presentations
Eligibility: teams which include both architects and engineers
Stage 1 Jury: Tom Bloxham MBE, Urban Splash; Nick Johnson, Urban Splash; Clive Wilding, English Partnerships; David Chilton, English Partnerships; Lyn Fenton, New East Manchester; Martin Stockley, Martin Stockley Associates (Infrastructure Engineers for New Islington); Andrew Grant, Grant Associates (Landscape Architects for New Islington); Chris Wise, Expedition Engineering and Professor at Yale School of Architecture; Julian DeMetz, DeMetz Forbes Knight (Architects at New Islington)
Awards:
An equal honorarium of £2,000 + VAT will be paid to each competitor invited to Stage 2. The winner’s honorarium represents an advance on their professional fee.
Fee: £25
The Competition:
The ambitious search is on for a team of architects and engineers to design and deliver a new footbridge over the Rochdale Canal which will link New Islington, Manchester’s Millennium Community, with its neighbor Ancoats Urban Village. The open competition, organised by RIBA with the support of the ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers), together with the partners for New Islington, Urban Splash, English Partnerships and New East Manchester, is an exciting challenge. The judges are looking for a solution which addresses the very practical constraints at the site, such as different levels, clearances and access points, but at the same time creates an object of beauty, in the spirit of the architectural aspirations set out in Will Alsop’s framework for New Islington. We’ve heard the debates about whether the architect or the engineer designs a bridge! We’ve also seen slick bridge competition entries which don’t look quite so slick when they’re built! We want this bridge to be something special, but we also want you to show us something which will work. We are therefore looking for consortia capable of producing the full picture – aesthetics and engineering. We aren’t bothered who does what within your team (or who leads it) – we just want a fantastic bridge!
Stage 1 seeks basic ideas, a quick sketch, presented on a single A1 boards. A shortlist of five will be selected and the authors invited to work up their ideas and attend an interview.
Anyone wishing to submit an entry must register with the RIBA Competitions Office to receive an official “declaration form.” Only entries accompanied by a declaration form will be considered.
Additional Information:
New Islington Bridge
RIBA Competitions Office
6 Melbourne Street
Leeds LS2 7PS
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 113 2341335
Fax: +44 (0) 113 2460744
riba.competitions@inst.riba.org
www.newislington.co.uk www.ribacompetitions.com

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Development, Delivery and Management Study for a Cross River Park
Location: East London, UK
Timetable:
09 Feb 2007 – Deadline to Receive Brief Details
16 Feb 2007 – Deadline for Tender Submissions (4:00 pm)
The Competition:
Design for London, supported by the Mayor of London and his Chief Advisor on Architecture + Urbanism, Lord Rogers, and its partners on the Cross River Park Steering Group are inviting consultants to tender for a study to investigate the creation of a new metropolitan park alongside the proposed Thames Gateway Bridge, spanning the river between East Beckton and Thamesmead. The proposed park will be a key project in the delivery of the East London Green Grid. The study will consider the feasibility of the park including development, delivery, future management and maintenance and develop a cost model and business plan. The study will also investigate the design impact of the park on the proposed Thames Gateway Bridge (subject to Public Inquiry). The skills required from consultants include park and open space management, maintenance; funding and delivery; project management and cost control, as well as the highest standards of planning, landscape and urban design with knowledge of consultation; public art and environmental issues. Cross River Park is seen as a major opportunity to create a significant new public space in the Thames Gateway embracing the River Thames, enhancing the health and well being of existing communities and helping to promote sustainable regeneration in the Thames Gateway.
Additional Information:
To receive details of the brief contact
Charlotte Kokken
Design for London
charlotte.kokken@london.gov.uk
www.london.gov.uk/gla/tenders/cross-river-park-16feb07.jsp

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Build with Thine own hands…
Sponsor: Sufi Order International
Type: Open, international, RFP
Location: Abode of the Message Retreat Center, New Lebanon, NY
Language: English
Timetable:
5 Feb 2007 – Submission deadline
Apr 2007 – Winners announced
Eligibility: Open to architects, landscape architects, artists and other designers.
Fee: None
Jury: Selection Committee constituted of builders, architects, and designers within the Sufi Order International Community (see website)
Awards:
Winner – $5,000
Background:
The Sufi Order International (SOI) has begun a design competition for the rebuilding of a sanctuary (burnt in 2003) located at the Abode of the Message, a residential community, retreat center, and headquarters of both the SOI offices and the Suluk Acadademy school of esoteric studies. As the heart of the SOI community and physical symbol of its spiritual ideals, the sanctuary is intended to be a sacred site of meditation, ceremony, and communion with nature. Designs should incorporate the remaining foundation, be open to the air, and harmonize with the surrounding mountain retreat site. The winning design will be developed into plans for actual construction in Summer, 2007.
The Competition:
To design an open-air sanctuary/temple to be used for meditation and ceremonies at a residential retreat center serving an international community.
Additional Information:
UniverselSC@yahoo.com
www.saffronjournal.org/universel

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9th International Arquine Competition – The Maps of the City: Infographic Metropolitan Center
Type: Open, international, RfP
Location: Mexico City
Languages: Spanish, English
Timetable:
31 Jan 2007 – Registration Deadline
05 Mar 2007 – Submission Deadline
Mar 2007 – Jury Meets and Awards in Mexico City during the 8th Arquine Congress
Jury: Humberto Ricalde (professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México); Rusell Rudzinsky (professor at the University of Arkansas); Margarita Flores (finalist at the 7th International Arquine Competition); Arturo Aispuro (Mexico City Government project director); Carlos Ferrater (architect of the Cataluña Conventions Center)
Awards:
1st place: Arquine – $100,000 Mexican pesos (US$10,000)
2nd place: Autodesk – $50,000 Mexican pesos (US$5,000)
3rd place: Editorial Cordillera – Coleccion DOMUS 1928-1999, Vol. I-XII, Taschen, 2006
Mention: HP invent – equipo HP Designjet 110 plus
Finalist: Funcionalismo – Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer
The Competition:
The 9th International Arquine Competition, set out in the context of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, calls for proposals for a Metropolitan Infographic Center, an archive and permanent exhibition of the different graphic expressions of the Mexico City territory, including prehispanic codices, plans of the colonial, Porfirian, revolutionary, modern and contemporary city, as well as metro plans, graphics of seismic areas, maps of the usage and timing of urban transport, water and drainage infrastructures, and lot division. The center should house a space for the exhibition of possible and ongoing city projects, with a clearly informative vocation aimed at citizens. At the same time, it must be capable of incorporating new exhibition and information storage technologies, responding to the complexity of a places that unites prehispanic, colonial and modern architectures.
The Metropolitan Infographic Center will have a total surface area of 450 m2.
Additional Information:
Av. Parque Espana 3 int. 12
Colonia Condesa
06140 Mexico D.F.
Tel/Fax: + (5255) 5208 2289 / 5514 7012
Inqueries will only be received via e-mail: concurso@arquine.com
The e-mail’s subject field should read “DUDAS CONCURSO” otherwise
it will go straight to spam. The answers to FAQs will be posted online from November 13.
www.arquine.com

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Vuores Central Park
Type: Restricted, international, 2-stage, RfQ
Location: Tampere, Finland
Languages: English, Finnish
Timetable:
31 Jan 2007 – Registration Deadline
Eligibility: Architects, landscape architects within EWR
The Competition:
Diversified, interesting design teams are sought for the competitive tendering of the design of Vuores Central Park in Tampere, Finland. Such teams should include at least expertise in landscape architecture and the design of storm water drainage, as well as know-how in environmental art.The first stage is registration for tendering. Design teams will be selected from among registration participants. In the second stage, competitive tendering will be held between the selected teams on the basis of price and quality. The commission includes the park design and an optional implementation design.A minimum of three (3) and a maximum of five (5) teams that meet the requirements of the commission will be selected for the competitive tendering.
Additional Information:
City of Tampere, Registry
PO Box 487
FI-33101 Tampere
Finland
ypa.kirjaamo@tampere.fi
Mr Pertti Tamminen
+358 20 716 5525
+358-400 638 218
pertti.tamminen@tampere.fi
Ms Ranja Hautamaki
+358-20-71 66103
+358-50 4067184
ranja.hautamaki@tampere.fi
www.tampere.fi/english/vuores/centralpark.html

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Drawing Water Challenge
Sponsors: WaterAid UK, Arup Cause
Type: Open, international, anonymous, ideas
Timetable:
31 Jan 2007 (5:00 pm) – Registration and Submission Deadline (via drawing.water@arup.com)
Feb 2007 – Winners Announced
Eligibility: anyone can participate
Jury: Ken Shuttleworth (make), Sir Christopher Frayling (RCA); Marcus Fairs; David Glover (Arup); Jo da Silva (Arup); WaterAid directors Awards: Winning participants’ submissions will be published on the internet, the printed press and at the awards ceremony.
The Competition:
One billion people do not have access to safe water. Two-fifths of the world’s population lives without adequate sanitation. This situation is not improving.
their challenge: to survive
your challenge: to improve their chances
The drawing water challenge is a competition that aims to find solutions to help improve this situation. Water is essential to life, as is effective sanitation. We are seeking original proposals for ideas that could help many more people gain access to these basic services. Proposals may be for one of the following:
* a new concept
* a new technology
* a new product
* an innovative approach
Additional Information:
www.arup.com/arupcause
www.wateraid.org

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International Solar Building Design Competition 2007
Sponsors: International Solar Energy Society, Chinese Renewable Energy Society, Architectural Society of China, Organizing Committee of Solar World Congress 2007
Type:Open, international, ideas
Timetable:
31 Jan 2007 – Registration Deadline (midnight)
18-21 Sep 2007 – ISES International Solar World Congress 2007, Beijing, China
Eligibility: Open to architects worldwide
Jury: Composed of international and national experts in solar energy and building design field
Awards:See website
The Competition:
The goal of this worldwide design competition is to broaden the range of ideas of solar design, specifically in relation to human habitation. Optimally, entries willfocus on the integration of ideas of solar technology and new solar building design products with innovative new concepts of design. Participants should feel free to submit either low-rise or multi-storey dwelling entries.
This competition is a centerpiece of the ISES International Solar World Congress 2007, which will be held from September 18-21, 2007 in Beijing, China. The theme of the 2007 conference will be ‘Solar Energy and Human Settlement.’
Competitive Themes: Low-rise Dwelling, Multi-storey Dwelling
Additional Information:
Mr. Wang Yan, Ms. He Jianqing
Tel: 86-10-68366999-2687 or 2147
Fax: 86-10-68302808
wy@cadg.cn
jqh.bj@cadg.cn
www.house-china.net/isbc/English/frontweb/shownews.asp?borderid=9&newsid=43

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Park of Campa of the English
Type: Open, international, ideas
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Language: Spanish
Timetable:
19 Jan 2007 – Deadline
Eligibility: Professional architects
Awards:
1st Prize – 12,000
2 Mentions – 6000 EUR
Quality of the proposal, integration in the urban surroundings, adjustment to the established necessities of the functional program in the bases, technical, city-planning and economic viability of the proposal within the limits of the bases, adjustment to criteria of sustainability and respect to environment.
Additional Information:
Bilbao Ria 2000, SA
4, planta C
E-48001 Bilbao
Spain
Tel: 94 661 35 19
Fax: 94 424 49 82
jmarzana@bilbaoria2000.es
www.bilbaoria2000.com

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Villa Esperanza: A Santa Fe Sustainable Ideas Competition
Type: Open, international, ideas
Location: Sante Fe, New Mexico
Language: English
Timetable:
15 Jan 2007 – Inquiries and Registration Deadline (postmarked by midnight, 1/15/07)
07 Feb 2007 – Submission Deadline
07 Mar 2007 – Award Ceremony
Eligibility: Student and professional architects, planners, landscape architects
Fees:
National Entrants
professionals: $90
students: $45
International Entrants
professionals: $90 + $110 for printing and mounting
students: $45 + $110 for printing and mounting
International entrants may waive the printing fee if they choose to mail hard-copy work. However, because the Hopewell Mann Competition committee is not responsible for lost or damaged mail, we encourage applicants to submit pdfs of each board on CD ROM to be printed by us at our local, certified print shop.
The Competition:
This goal of this international competition is to provide a model for social justice and sustainable housing design in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The project focuses on the redesign of the Hopewell Mann neighborhood, an existing low-income housing project, to address issues of urban transit, green design and affordability. Winner(s) may be selected to work with the sponsors on the final design.
Send Registration Applications to:
Hopewell Mann Design Competition
Attn: Jamie Blosser
Atkin Olshin Lawson-Bell Architects
1807 Second St, #103B
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Submissions to:
Hopewell Mann Competition
Santa Fe Civic Housing
664 Alta Vista St.
Santa Fe, NM 87505
www.santafedesignweek.com/competition_archregister.php

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Ephemeral Gardens of the “Archipelago of Encounters on the Big Turtle”
Sponsor: Societe du 400e anniversaire de Quebec
Type: Open, international, anonymous, 2-stage, RfP
Location: Quebec City, Canada
Language: French, English
Timetable:
24 Jan 2007 – Phase 1 Registration Deadline (online at www.quebec400.qc.ca)
31 Jan 2007 – Phase 1 Inquiries Deadline
16 Feb 2007 – Phase 1 Submission Deadline (5:00 pm)
16 Mar 2007 – Finalists Announced
20 April 2007 – Phase 2 Inquiries Deadline
04 May 2007 – Phase 2 Submission Deadline (5:00 pm)
28 May 2007 – Winners Announced
13 July 2007 – Deadline for the designers to hand in their plans and estimates in keeping with the comments from the Jury and the Technical Committee.
01 May – 06 Jun, 2008 – Laying out and creation of the gardens
10 Jun 2008 – Societe du 400e Official Opening
Eligibility: Students and professionals from Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Awards:
See website
The Competition:
The year 2008 will mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City, the cradle of the French presence in North America. By establishing a post at the foot of Cap Diamant, on the shores of the St. Lawrence, Samuel de Champlain, the city’s founder, had chosen a millennia-old trading site. Quebec City has since continued as a place for exchange and encounter up to the present day. In this spirit, the festivities for Quebec City’s 400th anniversary have been assigned the theme of MEETINGS AND ENCOUNTERS.
The Ephemeral Gardens will be an artistic event where creators from different horizons (see website for details on horizons) are invited to bring an artistic viewpoint on the major themes of Quebec City’s 400th anniversary. This viewpoint will be expressed through creator gardens : outdoor creations using mediums that combine different elements, including plant materials. The gardens will have a night life. Lighting, however simple it may be, is to be included by the creators in their garden concepts. It should be sporadic and gradually dim each evening until there’s no illumination at all. Thus, people could visit the gardens in the dark, with special guided tours being planned for certain occasions. The gardens may also be visible from the uppertown. All lighting, however, must be developed in compliance with the Espace 400e Sustainable Development Plan. The total budget earmarked for creating each garden is $20,000 CAN, including materials and labour.
Additional Information:
Ephemeral Gardens of the “Archipelago of Encounters on the Big Turtle”
Societe du 400e anniversaire de Quebec
1135 Grande Allee Ouest, suite 100
Quebec (Quebec)
G1S 1E7
Canada
jardinsephemeres@quebec400.qc.ca
www.quebec400.qc.ca

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Children’s Play Area
Sponsors: Urban Splash, Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council, Groundworks Trust
Type:Open, international, 2-stage, anoynymous, RfP
Location: Altrincham, Cheshire, UK
Timetable:
17 Nov 2006 – Inquiries Deadline
12 Jan 2007 – Submission Deadline
Jan/Feb 2007 – Shortlist of 6 Announced
Feb/Mar 2007 – Consultation
Mar 2007 – Results Announced
Eligibility: registered architects, landscape architects and designers
Jury: Composed of international and national experts in solar energy and building design field
Awards:
£4000 towards winners fees. It is the intention that the winning design will be built, and the winner of the competition will be appointed to work closely with the promoters to deliver the scheme. Runners up will receive £2000 each.
Fee: £25.00 (including VAT)
The Competition:
This competition seeks designs for a new childrens play area in John Leigh Park, Altrincham, Cheshire. John Leigh Park is approximately 14 acres of mature parkland and is just a few minutes walk from Urban Splashs Foster & Partners designed development of 290 canalside apartments known as the Budenberg HAUS Projekte. As a result of this development an exciting opportunity has arisen for new childrens play facilities within the existing context of the park. The desire is to create a unique and modern play environment for five to fourteen year old children which will stimulate them both physically and mentally something which pushes the boundaries and is different, yet meets the Councils requirements in relation to health and safety and longevity of play equipment. A shortlist of six designs will be chosen by the judging panel, and then displayed locally for public comment. The design chosen by the public will be the winner. The budget for the project is 130,000 which is to include construction costs, professional fees and disbursements.
Additional Information:
RIBA Competitions Office
6 Melbourne Street
Leeds LS2 7PS
UK
T : ++44 (0)113 2341335
F : ++44 (0)113 2460744
riba.competitions@inst.riba.org
www.johnleighpark.co.uk
www.ribacompetitions.com

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Shelter Me
Sponsor: DESIGN 21: Social Design Network™
Type:Open, international, ideas
Timetable:
28 Jan 2007 – Submission Deadline (online only midnight EST)
29 Jan-11 Feb 2007 – Audience Votes
05 Mar 2007 – Winners Announced
Eligibility: rDesign It competitions are open to all registered members (membership is free) of the DESIGN 21: Social Design Network™, who are at least 18 years of age as of the date of entry. Become a member at www.design21sdn.com/designit/index.php
Jury:Panel comprising of design and media professionals will be announced.
Awards:
1st prize – $5000
2nd prize – $3000
3rd prize – $1500
Audience prize – $500
Fee: $25.00
The Competition:
Design a temporary emergency shelter for deployment in a natural disaster. In the past two years, widespread catastrophic events have called forth large-scale relief efforts throughout both urban and rural areas of the world. How would you design an emergency relief structure to be used in the relief efforts of a natural disaster, such as a flood, earthquake or hurricane? ShelterMe challenges designers to present a cost-effective short-term shelter that is affordable, lightweight, strong and easily deployed. If your design is geared towards a recurrent scenario in a particular region, you must specify the location and scenario and outline how your scheme is tailored towards the situation and conditions.
Additional Information:
www.design21sdn.com/designit/index.php

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5th IAHH International Student Design Competition 2007: Designing a regional social, cultural and arts complex
Type:Open, international, student, ideas
Timetable:
30 Dec 2006 – Early Registration Deadline
30 Dec 2006 – Inquiries Deadline
24 Jan 2007 – Late Registration Deadline
24 Jan 2007 – Submission Deadline
28 Jan 2007 – Results Announced
30 Jan – 05 Feb 2007 – Exhibition
Eligibility: all registered students of any nationally recognized school, college or institutions of architecture, urban design, planning, landscape design, environmental design
Awards:
1st Prize – Rs. 50,000/-
2nd Prize – Rs. 25,000/-
3rd Prize – Rs. 15,000/-
The Jury may award honorable mention to deserving entries without any prize amount.
Fee:
Foreign countries (except SAARC countries):
Early registration: US $25
Late registration: US $50
Indian and SAARC countries:
Early registration: INRs 1250
Late registration: INRs 2500
The Competition:
The design aims at planning and designing a regional social, cultural and arts complex for a sustainable community. The design and planning proposal shall aim at humane, sustainable and innovative architecture. The design brief shall be evolved in its regional, urban/rural context. The complex shall have a community centre, social centre, women centre, youth centre, art and craft centre, exhibition centre, library and resource centre and share some public places and social interaction spaces with the community. It shall Include a regional arts and crafts centre, which provides for research and training in the arts, crafts and culture of the region. It may provide some outdoor and indoor sports facilities or it may be located in close proximity to such recreational facilities.
Additional Information:
Prof. Akhtar Chauhan, Convener
Prof. Anil Nagrath, Technical Co-coordinator
IAHH International Student Design Competition Secretariat
Rizvi College of Architecture
Off Carter Road
Bandra West
Mumbai 400050
INDIA
Tel: 91-22-26050624 /26044196
Fax: 91-22-26002744
ichh2007@humanehabitat.org
www.humanehabitat.org

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Regium Waterfront
Type: Open, European, 1-stage, anonymous, RfP
Location: Reggio Calabria, Italy
Language: Italian
Timetable:
12 Jan 2007 (12:00 midnight) – Registration Deadline
18 Jan 2007 (12:00 midnight) – Mandatory Inspection
28 Feb 2007 (12:00 midnight) – Inquiries Deadline
12 Mar 2007 (12:00 midnight) – Submission Deadline
Eligibility: Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners, Engineers within the EWR
Fee: 100 euro
Awards:
100,000 first prize
50,000 second place
40,000 third place
30,000 fourth place
20,000 fifth place
Should the Evaluation Committee consider it inopportune to offer the last two prizes to the fourth and fifth places, the remaining available amount of 50,000 euro can be equally shared among the best 5 projects coming after the third place, the Committee’s decision being final. Amounts are to be considered inclusive of tax burdens.
Additional Information:
www3.reggiocal.it/regiumwaterfront
www.comune.reggio-calabria.it

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Living Steel 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing
Sponsors: Arcelor, BaoSteel, BlueScope Steel, CELSA Group, Corus, Erdemir, Imidro, Mittal Steel, Posco, Ruukki, Tata Steel
Type: Open, international, expression of interest Timetable:
12 Jan 2007 – Expressions of interest deadline
01 Feb 2007 – Firms invited to participate notified
14 Feb 2007 – Dispatch of competitions documents
14 May 2007 – Submission deadline
September 2007 – Results announced
Jury: Glenn Murcutt, Charles Correa, Andrew Ogorzalek, Jaime Lerner, James Berry, Nicholas de Monchaux
Awards:
Winner (Brazil) – €50,000
Winner (China) – €50,000
Winner (United Kingdom) – €50,000
Up to 5 finalists in each location – €10,000 each
Background:
The Living Steel International Architecture Competitions were launched to develop innovative approaches to meet sustainable housing needs. Underpinning each competition is the need to address the economic, environmental and social implications of increased population density and growth. The competitions were developed with the guidance of the International Union of Architects (UIA). They follow the provisions of the International Recommendations for Competitions in Architecture and Urban Planning adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 27 November 1978.
The Competition:
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.
Additional Information:
info@livingsteel.org
www.livingsteel.org

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“Living at the City Park” Town Plan
Type: Open, international, RfP
Location: Aula village (D)
Language: German
Timetable:
11 Dec 2006 – Inquiries Deadline
15 Dec 2006 – Required Colloqium
27 Feb 2007 – Submission Deadline
Eligibility: Open to architects, landscape architects, town planners within the European marketing area EWR, World Trade Organization
The Competition:
The competition area enclosure approx. 9 hectars and is northwest the town center. Parallel the Tinnitusklinik in such a way specified extends to the main street west of the swabia hot spring in the east up to the Hillstrasse. A goal of the available competition is the re-organization hospital areas at the northern edge of the Aulendorfer town center, no longer used. On that freely becoming surfaces at the city park are to develop quality residential districts, which strengthen the village long term. The attractiveness and efficiency of the health establishments are to be increased by supplementing uses and a formative revaluation of the park plants beyond that altogether.
Additional Information:
www.aulendorf.de/wohnenamstadtpark callably

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The landscape of the A66/Cargo Fleet transport interchange
Sponsor: Middlesbrough Council, Tees Valley Arts
Type: Expressions of Interest
Location: Middlesbrough, England
Timetable:
08 Jan 2007 – Expression of Interest Deadline (4:00 pm)
15 Jan 2007 – Shortlist Finalists Contacted
During Week Commencing 22 Jan 2007 – Site Visit and Brief
05 Mar 2007 – Submission Deadline (2:00 pm)
During Week Commencing 19 Mar 2007 – Interviews
Eligibility: landscape architects, architects, horticulturists, ecologists, engineers, designers and artists working in the public realm. Collaboration between these disciplines is encouraged. Candidates should note that they would be expected to demonstrate their ability to deliver the project within the UK.
Jury: See Website
Awards:
A shortlist of up to five teams will be invited to proceed to the design phase. Each of these will receive an honorarium of £3,000 (+VAT) to develop a design. The successful team’s honorarium will represent an advance payment on fees for the full commission.
The Competition:
Middlesbrough Council are seeking expressions of interest to develop proposals for the landscape of the A66 / Cargo Fleet transport interchange in the east of the city. The commissioners hope that a treatment developed and prototyped on this site can be used throughout the A66 ‘road-scape’ in the City. Located in northeast England Middlesbrough is looking to move forward by creating a positive, pro-active, aspirational and dynamic economy and townscape. The City Council and its partners in the Regeneration Agencies aspire to influence thinking, behaviour and cliched images of the City in a positive and constructive way that contributes to its regeneration. The ambience of the city is seen as crucial to its future as a centre for commerce, leisure and living and its principal through-route is key to the presentation of both its historic and new iconic buildings, structures and initiatives. This road mediates the image of the City to its users, visitors and passers by. There is genuine enthusiasm amongst the client group for the encouragement of innovative, aspirational and dynamic landscape design and a willingness to embrace something original and positive that has not been seen before!
Additional Information:
All inquiries regarding the competition should be made to:
RIBA Competitions Office
6 Melbourne Street
Leeds LS2 7PS
UK
Tel: +44(0)113-234-1335
Fax: +44(0)113-246-0744
riba.competitions@inst.riba.org
www.ribacompetitions.com

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Pennington Road Footbridge over Leeds/Liverpool Canal
Type:Open, international, 2-stage, RfP
Location: Leeds/Liverpool, UK
Language: English
Timetable:
08 Dec 2006 – Inquiries Deadline
18 Dec 2006 – Inquiries Answered
10 Jan 2007 – Submission Deadline
05 Feb 2007 – Stage-2 Interviews
12 Feb 2007 – Results Announced
Eligibility: Open to registered architects, engineers and students of these disciplines
Jury: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 will sit on the panel as observer only
Awards:An equal honorarium of £2,000 (plus VAT) will be paid to each Stage-2 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.
Fee: £35.00 for professionals or £7.50 for students
The Competition:
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.
Stage 1 : Seeks initial designs, 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.
Additional Information:
RIBA Competitions Office
6 Melbourne Street
Leeds LS2 7PS
UK
T : ++44 (0)113 2341335
F : ++44 (0)113 2460744
riba.competitions@inst.riba.org
www.ribacompetitions.com

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TRANSBAY TRANSIT CENTER PROGRAM
Type: Open, international, RfQ
Location: San Francisco, CA
Languages: English
Timetable:
15 Nov 2006 (10-12 noon) and 7 Dec 2006 (9-11 am) – Pre-Submittal Meetings at Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
11 Jan 2007 – RfQ Deadline (3:00 pm Pacific)
The Competition:
In Stage I, in response to the Request for Qualifications (RFQ), Respondents will submit packages describing their interest in and qualifications concerning this project. Each Respondent team must include a Lead Designer to design both the Transit Center and Tower, a Development Entity for the Tower, and a full team of professionals capable of executing the work. The Jury will evaluate the submittals and recommend to the TJPA Board of Directors a short list of Respondents to be invited to participate in Stage II.
In Stage II, Respondents will prepare a Proposal for the design of the Transit Center, and a Proposal for design and development of the Tower. The Jury will evaluate the Proposals and recommend the top-ranked Respondent to the TJPA Board. The Respondent approved by the Board will be invited to negotiate agreements with the TJPA to become the D/D Team.
Additional Information:
Transbay Joint Powers Authority
Attn: Donald J. Stastny, FAIA, FAICP
201 Mission Street, Suite 1960
San Francisco, CA 94105
dstastny@stastnybrun.com
www.transbaycenter.org/design-developmentcompetition

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2006 International Bamboo Building Design Competition
Type: Open, international, ideas
Timetable:
31 Dec 2006 – Registration deadline
15 Jan 2007 – Submission deadline
Awards:
1st prize – US$5,000
2nd prize – US$3,000
3rd prize – US$2,000
Design Challenge:
The 2006 International Bamboo Building Design Competition is intended to promote use of bamboo as a structural material in construction. The competition includes a number of different categories corresponding to different types of buildings.
Additional Information:
International Bamboo Building Design Competition
1156 Makawao Avenue
Makawao HI 97678 – USA
info@bamboocompetition.com
www.bamboocompetition.com

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Buckingham Fountain Pedestrian Crossing
Type: Open, anonymous, 1-stage, ideas
Location: Chicago
Timetable:
09 Jan 2007 – Entries Due
25 Jan 2007 – Opening/Award Ceremony
Awards:
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
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. Additional Information:
http://www.chicagoarchitecturalclub.org/comp/2007/chicago/index.php

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UCD Project Gateway, Belfield Campus
Type: Open, 2-stage, RfQ
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Language: English
Timetable:
20 Nov 2006 – Inquiries Deadline
06 Dec 2006 – Expression of Interest Deadline
Dec 2006 – Longlist Announced
Dec 2006 – Longlist Interviewed
Jan 2007 – Shortlist Announced
Feb 2007 – Design Submission Deadline
Mar 2007 – Winner Announced
Eligibility: Open to all architectural firms, joint ventures, or consortia of architects, as eligible under EU Directive 2005/36/EC or comparable registration recognized by a national government.
Jury: Dr Hugh Brady, President, UCD; Sir Richard MacCormack, MacCormack Jamieson Pritchard; Mr James Mary O’Connor, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners; Ms Heather Ann McSharry, General Manager, Reckitt Benckiser (Ireland) Ltd.; Mr Michael O’Doherty, Former Chief Architect, Office of Public Works
The Competition:
The Expressions of Interest stage will first produce a longlist of no more than ten candidates. Firms with extensive experience in the design of institutional/commercial buildings of or in excess of 20,000 gross square metres and experience with the design of large civic spaces and associated landscape and open space design. Firms must have successfully completed prime consulting contracts for major capital works in excess of €50,000,000. Following an interview phase, three to five applicants will be invited to participate in Stage 2: Design to submit a detailed design proposal in response to the Conditions of Competition and Design Guidelines that will be issued by UCD in due course. The winning design will be announced in the second quarter of 2007.
Additional Information:
www.ucd.ie/gatewayproject

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International Convention Center of the City of Madrid (CICCM)
Type:Open, international, 2-stage, RfP
Location: Madrid, Spain
Language: Spanish
Timetable:
14 Dec 2006 – Registration and Inquiries Deadline
01 Feb 2007 – Stage-1 Submission Deadline
01 Mar 2007 – Shortlist of 6 Maximum Announced
08 Mar 2007 – Informative Meeting
27 Apr 2007 – Entrants Called to Closed Exhibition before Jury
27 Apr 2007 – Results Announced
Eligibility: Open to architects worldwide
Jury: See website
Awards:
1st Prize – 50,000 euros
2nd Prize – 50,000 euros
3rd Prize – 40,000 euros
The rest of selected entrants for the second phase will receive a consolation prize of 25,000 euros. The Jury may agree to award special mentions to a maximum of three projects, which will receive a payment of 3,000 euros.
The Competition:
The Madrid International Convention Center will be a meeting point for the celebration of meetings and cultural events. It will be located in the final section of the Castellana axis, in a high strategic value area of the city, recovered as a new financial center and great park, as ending of the green area formed by Parque Norte and Parque de la Ventilla.
Additional Information:
Tel: 91 700 11 38
Fax: 91 700 11 89
secretariat@concursociccm.com
www.concursociccm.com

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Public Space for Ambient Intelligence
Sponsor: NTT DoCoMo, Inc. Mobile Society Research Institute
Timetable:
08 Dec 2006 – Registration (online)/Submission Deadline
Mar 2007 – Results Announced
Jury:
Hideyuku Tokuda, Kengo Kuma, Ryue Nishizawa
Awards:
1st Prize (1 work) – ¥2 million
2nd Prize (2 works) – ¥500,000 each
Honorable mentions (7 works) – ¥100,000 each
All including tax.Total purse: ¥3.7 million.
Prize-winners will present their works at the “Mobile Society Symposium 2007” scheduled for early March 2007.
The Competition:
What new kinds of public space exist in a society sustained by ambient intelligence (ubiquitous computing)? Public spaces are places for communication between people and things. What public spaces appear when new communications have arisen in a society that has developed ubiquitous computing technology (ambient intelligence)? We are calling for proposals for these immanent new spaces.
Additional Information:
Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd.
“NTT DoCoMo, Inc. Mobile Society Research Institute International Architectural
Design Competition 2006” [this must be specified]
2-31-2 Yushima
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8501
JAPAN
Tel: +81-3-3811-7101
www.japan-architect.co.jp/docomo/2006/en/index.html

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International Sustainability Competition Science City
Type: Open, international, ideas
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Languages: German, English
Timetable:
10 Nov 2006 – Inquiries Deadline
01 Dec 2006 – Inquiries Answered
15 Dec 2006 – Registration Deadline
16 Feb 2007 – Submission Deadline
03 Apr 2007 – Winners Announced
17 Apr 2007 – Awards Presentation and Exhibition
Jury:
Urs Bieri, Dr. Hans-Peter Burkhard Director of CCRS, Marie-Therese Büsser, Karin Frick Gottlieb Duttweiler, Prof. Dr. Peter Gross, Prof. Dr. Hansjürg Leibundgut, Dr. Claude Martin, Dr. Barbara Rigassi, Prof. Dr. Hans Rudolf Schalcher, Prof. Dr. René Schwarzenbach, Kaspar E. A. Wenger, Gabriela Wülser
Awards:
The prize money available amounts to 150,000 Swiss francs (CHF). The jury shall decide on apportionment.
The Competition:
Science City stands for the vision of a university campus and urban district for a thinking culture as part of the strategic planning of ETH Zurich. The goal is to implement various measures in order to transform the ETH Hoenggerberg location into an attractive urban district with a high quality of life where science and society come together on a daily basis.
Submissions:
“International Sustainability Competition Science City”
Novatlantis – Sustainability at the ETH domain
c/o Amstein + Walthert AG
Andreasstrasse 11
Postfach
CH-8050 Zurich
Switzerland
Additional Information:
ETH Zurich
Dr. Michael Salzmann
Project Director Science City
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 14
ETH Zurich, HPI F 27
CH-8093 Zurich
Switzerland
urech@novatlantis.ch
www.sciencecity.ethz.ch

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Playing Design
Sponsor: Local Council of Lissone, Italy
Type: Open, international, RFP
Language: English, Italian
Timetable:
15 Dec 2006 – Submission deadline
Eligibility: Design professionals worldwide
Awards:
1st Prize – €5,000
2nd Prize – €3,500
3rd Prize – €1,500
Realization of prototypes of the first 10 selections.
The Competition:
Design innovative tools or toys for children and parents.
Additional Information:
www.playingdesign.com

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United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International call for ideas / an idea for each city
Sponsor: Le Carré Bleu – feuille internationale d’architecture
Type:Open, European, student, ideas
Languages: French, Italian, English
Timetable:
30 Nov 2006 – Registration Deadline (online)
30 Dec 2006 – Inquiries Deadline
28 Feb 2007 – Submission Deadline
23 Mar 2007 – Results Announced
Eligibility:
Open to students of architecture (at least at the fourth year) and young architects (after the 01.01.2004).from schools of Architecture of different European, Suisse and Mediterranean countries. Competitors may call non architects advisors: Each group (with a maximum of 3 persons plus the advisors) must indicate one person responsible for the relations with Le CB. Jury:
Lucien Kroll, Hans Ibelings, Jaime Lopez de Asiain
Awards:
The 10 shortlisted teams will be offered a subscription of 1 year for “le Carré Bleu” + “l’Arca”. Each will be given the opportunity of paid stages (6 months each 6,000/month) in 2007 at some European architecture practices. Within the limit of given places, the jury can propose more than 1 stage to selected architects.
The Competition:
Le Carré Bleu announce a yearly competition to select innovative urban landscape and architecture design proposals with particular attention to the relations between built and unbuilt spaces, to urban integration and to relations between space and multiethnic societies. The 2006/07 edition is focused on water, in all its realities and in all different possibilities it can offer. Proposals must concern small or medium size towns. Competition asks for ideas and design proposals regarding urban and architecture requalification. The site will be chosen by each competitor who, in a problematic situation will propose a design capable to start a transformation process of the site, giving maximum emphasis to the relation between water and the city.
Additional Information:
Competition Secretary
INARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura
via Crescenzio 16
00193 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39.06.68802254
Fax: +39.06.6868530
segretariat@lecarrebleu.eu
www.lecarrebleu.eu

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16th INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL
Type: Open, international, 1-stage, RFP
Location: Chaumont-Sur-Loire, France
Language: French, English
Timetable:
01 Sept 2006 – Specifications and rules available
31 Oct 2006 – Submission deadline (12:00 noon)
20 Nov 2006 – Schools and Universities submission deadline (12:00 noon)
Eligibility:
Landscape architects (graduate from Schools, Universities or registered as member of FFP-Fédération Française du Paysage, EFLA-European Foundation for Landscape Architecture or any other equivalent institution for non-European countries). Teams, which include at least one landscape architect, from multiple backgrounds such as architects, engineers, designers and artists. Students from landscape or architecture schools, with a teacher representing the team. The festival is allowed to invite guests to create a garden without competing.
The Competition:
Mobile ! Gardens for a moving world, the 16th International Garden Festival, will include 26 plots (210m2 each) to be attributed through an international contest. Gardens specifications will present the theme in details as well as the technical constraints related to the design of a garden in Chaumont-sur-Loire (ground, exposure, visitors, plants…). Contest rules fixes the course of the consultation and enumerates the rules of participation in the contest.
Additional Information:
Conservatoire International des Parcs et Jardins et du Paysage
Ferme du château – 41 150 Chaumont-sur-Loire – FRANCE
Tel: +33 2 54 20 99 22
Fax: +33 2 54 20 99 24
cipjp.chaumont@wanadoo.fr
www.chaumont-jardin.com/site/page/festival/concours_en.php

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Taipei Botanical Garden
Organizer: Taiwan Forestry Research Institute
Type: Open, international, RFP
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Language: English, Chinese
Timetable:
10 Nov 2006 – Submission deadline
08 Dec 2006 – Exhibitition documents submission deadline
12 Dec 2006 – Finalists presentation at symposium
Background:
Since the opening in 1896, Taipei Botanical Gardens has been a landmark for research, display and studies of the field of biology, forest resources and other sciences as well as functioning as the urban green lung for Taipei city. Over a hundred years plant collection, there is an astonishing variety of plants in the garden, each marked with its formal scientific name, its place of origin, its applications, unique features etc. Beside public plant exhibitions, the Gardens is manned with research staff. The garden itself is a living herbarium. Research teams work on individual research projects in the areas of systematic taxonomy, morphological botany, biological interactions, ethno botany, conservation of rare species etc. Those individual experiments are in continually in process within the Botanical Garden. The Garden has a collection of over 1500 living species, bordering the Nan-Hai Art District. Together, the Gardens with the Nan-Hai Campus contain various traditional Chinese style as well as historical buildings used as museum, broadcasting radio station and education centers, among others. Facing the new era, the Garden and its surrounding area needs a new plan, a new approach that will encompass the re-definition of its architecture and the environment within the 12.5 hectares site, aspiring to become the new symbol for Green Taipei.
The Competition:
The site is strategically located in the Capital, neighboring the Presidential Palace and CKS Memorial Hall and other significant public buildings within the city. Therefore, aside for the design of the proposed site, the competition also calls for a comprehensive urban planning that correlate to the site surrounding, especially the western district of Taipei city. The main goal is to strive for a design that will mark a new beginning toward the future growth of the urban core; the new design should incorporate the meaningful natural ecology with the rich cultural heritage found within the site, proposing a plan that strives for efficient allocation of the urban green resources, including the horticulture environ, ultimately, to revive the site‚ genius loci, and putting the Garden on the world botanical garden map. The design site includes the Botanical Gardens and Nan-Hai Campus; the main idea is to fuse nature with cultural resources in to an unified whole, as the baside guidelines for the comprehensive planning and design, the site area is about 12.5 hectares.
Additional Information:
Taiwan Forestry Research Institute
Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan
10066, Nan-Hai Rd. No. 53
Taipei City, ROC
Taiwan
Fax: +886-2-2395-9318
tpbgarden@gmail.com
www.tpbg.com.tw

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BRIDGE CANOPY: CLYDEBANK
Sponsors: Clydebank rebuilt, West Dunbartonshire Council (WDC), Cities Growth Fund, British Waterways Scotland, The Waterways Trust, Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire
Type: Open, international, 2-stage, RFP
Location: Clydebank, Scotland
Language: English
Timetable:
02 Oct 2006 – Inquiries deadline
17 Nov 2006 – Submission deadline (16:00)
27 Nov 2006 – Shortlist announced
Dec 2006 – Public consultation
Dec 2006 – Finalists interviewed
Dec 2006 – Winner announced
Eligibility: Open to all registered architects
Jury: The jury will comprise leading Architects, and representatives of the Project Sponsor and Partners. The Independent Assessor will be Andrew PK Wright PPRIAS.
Awards:
Each finalist will receive £1000+ VAT
One finalist will be selected as a winner and the winner’s honorarium represents an advance on their professional fee. The winner will be commissioned to develop their design as a basis for a planning application and implementation [conditional upon consents and confirmation of the funding package].
The Competition:
Clydebank is undergoing a major regeneration programme focussed on its Riverside and Town Centre following the demise of shipbuilding and the loss of other major employers over the past 20 years. Prepare proposals for a canopy over the Sylvania Way pedestrian bridge across the Forth and Clyde Canal within Clydebank Town Centre. A design is sought which will provide an architecturally outstanding yet realistic proposal that can be delivered within the next 15 months. The original bridge canopy was constructed with the Clyde Shopping Centre in the early 1980’s and although the upper mall was recently refurbished, the existing bridge canopy reflects the original shopping centre design and not the future direction of the town and its current regeneration programme. The desire to upgrade the canopy emerged from consultation with stakeholders and community representatives undertaken as part of the wider regeneration process. The canopy must be capable of being taken from design concept stage through to delivery with a budget of £200k (including fees).
Additional Information:
Clydebank Canal Bridge Canopy Competition
Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
15 Rutland Square
EDINBURGH
EH1 2BE
Scotland
Tel: 0131 229 7545
competitions@rias.org.uk
www.rias.org.uk

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National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center
Sponsor: Council for Cultural Affairs
Type: Open, international, 2-stage, RFP
Location: R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Languages: Traditional Chinese, English
Timetable:
05 Dec 2006 – Stage-1 submission deadline
08 Dec 2006 – Stage-1 finalists announced
20 Dec 2006 – Site visit
20 Mar 2007 – Stage-2 submission deadline
23 Mar 2007 – Final winner announced; public exhibition
Eligibility: (Stage 1) Any licensed architect of the R.O.C. (Taiwan) is qualified to tender. Any licensed architect of foreign country is qualified to tender. Joint tender is available for licensed architects of the R.O.C. (Taiwan) and licensed architects of foreign countries. The team member of joint tender must include at least one licensed architect of R.O.C. (Taiwan) and the number of the team member shall not exceed five members.
Jury: Mei Cheng, Pao-The Han, Po-Yun Hsu, Toyo Ito, Chaolee Kuo, Ming Cho Lee, Mohsen Mostafavi, Adele Naude Santos, Philip Ursprung, Mirko Zardini
Awards:
No more than seven finalists will be selected to enter Stage 2.
One 1st Prize – The priority right to be awarded under this procurement project.
One 2nd Prize
One 3rd Prize
No more than Four Honorable Mentions
The jury may choose not to select any prizewinner when it is necessary. Each of the finalists submitting the Second Stage required documents, drawings, model, and conducting the presentation and Q&A shall be awarded a prize of NT$1,600,000, approximately US$50,000. The awarded prize money for the First Prize winner is included in the Service Fee and shall be deducted when the first payment term of Service Fee is paid. The above prizes will be subject to the R.O.C. income tax and will be withheld by the Council for Cultural Affairs. Foreign tenderers shall be subject to a 20% withholding income tax, and R.O.C (Taiwan) tenderers shall be subject to a 10% withholding income tax.
The construction budget for this project is NT$6.5 billion, approximately US$200 million (The tenderer shall use this amount as the basis for estimating construction costs, which shall not exceed this amount. This amount is NOT inclusive of the construction cost of the Metropolitan Park Area.) The service fee for this project is a fixed fee in the total amount of NT$702,000,000.
The Competition:
The government of the R.O.C. (Taiwan) invites innovative architects from all nations to participate in an international competition for the design of the largest Performing Arts Center complex in Taiwan, the National Kaohisung Performing Arts Center. Located in the second biggest city in Taiwan, the Arts Center will be within the 65-hectare Metropolitan Park and will include three theaters and one concert hall. It is our aim to create a world-class international architectural landmark that will enrich the artistic and cultural life of the harbor city, Kaohsiung.
Additional Information:
Barry Cheng, Barry Cheng Architect
7F-1, # 227
Section 4, Mei-chung West Road
Taichung 404, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel: 886-4-2297-5600
Fax: 886-4-2298-3155
barry-cheng@umail.hinet.net
www.nkpac.com.tw

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Cyprus Cultural Center
Type: Open, international, 2-stage, RFP
Location: Nicosia, Cypress
Languages: Greek, English
Timetable:
04 Dec 2006 – Stage-1 submission deadline
11 Dec 2006 – Access to documents deadline
05 Mar 2007 – Stage-2 submission deadline
16 Mar 2007 – Winner announced
Eligibility: All registered architects worldwide
Awards:
5 to 8 architects will be selected to advance to Stage 2. Each participant in Stage 2 of the competition will be paid an honorarium of 50,000 EUR following receipt of the second stage submission. The honorarium paid to the architect subsequently appointed to carry out the project will be treated as an advance payment of fees, and subsequent fee payments will be abated accordingly. The Foundation will reimburse reasonable expenses incurred by competitors invited to travel to Nicosia for the purpose of interviews with the Jury and briefing for the second stage. Competitors will be required to obtain approval of estimated expense amounts in advance and submit documentation of actual expenses.
The Competition:
The Cyprus Cultural Centre will be one of the most significant new works of architecture in Nicosia: a national venue for the performing arts that will have a transformational impact upon cultural provision in Nicosia, in Cyprus within the wider multinational context of the European Union and beyond. It will add a much needed dimension to the civic life of the city: a building that combines beauty with function; that has a sense of presence and occasion; but that is, above all, a human resource, a forum for the people of Cyprus. In the context of the regeneration and revitalisation of Nicosia, the building and its environs will become the focal point for the life of the area and a principal tourist destination in Cyprus. It is intended that the building will become an important new landmark and that it will help to establish the design standards which correspond to the high aspirations for the City and Country as a whole. The projected final construction cost for the project is estimated not to exceed 80 million EUR. The main performance space will be a 1 350 – 1 400 seat multi-purpose auditorium suitable for symphonic music, dance, opera and musicals; the smaller hall will contain approximately 500 seats and will be suitable for chamber music, dance, jazz, and world music; and the external space will be suitable for larger scale events, providing for audiences up to 2 000. The Centre will also contain spaces suitable for educational activities, exhibitions and informal performance, and be capable, when appropriate, of serving conferences and public events.
Additional Information:
Cyprus Cultural Foundation 55 Byron Avenue
PO Box 25652
Attn: Mr Tassos Angelis, Competition Secretary
CY-1311 Nicosia
Tel: (357)22 410 191
Fax: (357) 22 410 196
tangelis@ccf.org.cy
www.ccf.org.cy www.ccf.org.cy

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Residential area in Kivelänranta
Type: Open, international, ideas
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Language: English, Finnish
Timetable:
04 Dec 2006 – Deadline
Eligibility: The competition is open to all citizens of countries in the European Union or countries covered by EU procurement legislation, in accordance with current agreements and legislation. Entrants must have the right to work as architects in their own country.
Awards:
Total €66,000
The Competition:
The city of Jyväskylä is organising an open, international ideas competition for the Kivelänranta residential area, to be constructed on a neck of land between the Tuomiojärvi and Palokkajärvi lakes. The area will be a northwest extension of the Taulumäki district in the centre of Jyväskylä. Because of the central location and noteworthy natural value of the area, particular emphasis is laid on its development. The purpose of the competition is to create a pleasant area with its own identity, combining a residential area of innovative and sustainable elements with the surrounding nature.
Additional Information:
www.jkl.fi/lang/competition

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NEW OPERA HOUSE WATER PROJECT
Sponsor: National Foundation for Art in Public Buildings
Type: International, invitation to pre-qualifying round
Location: Oslo, Norway
Timetable:
14 Oct 2006 – Submission deadline to pre-qualifying round
Eligibility: Artists worldwide
The Competition:
International artists are invited to signal their interest in participating in a closed competition for an autonomous artwork in the water – using water as the central element. The budget framework for the completion of the art project will be approximately 6 million Norwegian Kroner.
Submissions should be addressed to:
PROJECT NEW OPERA HOUSE – WATER PROJECT
Utsmykkingsfondet for offentlige bygg
(National Foundation for Art in Public Buildings)
P.O.Box 6994 St. Olavs plass
N-0130 OSLO, Norway
Visiting address: Kristian Augusts gate 23, Oslo
Additional Information:
www.operautsmykking.no

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City of Music, Dance, and Dramatic Art
Type: Limited, European, RFQ
Location: Le Mans, France
Language: French
Eligibility: Professional architects within EWR
Timetable:
20 Oct 2006 – Registration deadline (17:00 Uhr)
Awards:
A minimum of 1 and maximum of 3 architects will be selected from the RFQ.
Winner – €180,000 including all taxes which constitutes an advance on fee.
The Competition:
Calls for a plan for the City of Music in Mans as part of the national school of music, dance and theatre. The plan should include an auditorium of 350 seats as well as a lecture hall seating 150, resource center, teaching facilities, recording studio, practice spaces, a theatre with associated spaces, administrative buildings, housing and an underground car park from 340 spaces on two levels intended to some extent for the City of the Arts and the public. The space should have excellent accoustics and consider the urban environment . Place of execution is 12 street Jean, Jaurès, F-72000 Mans. Duration of the completion period is 48 months as from the notification of winner.
Additional Information:
Ville du Mans
Hôtel de ville place
Saint-Pierre, 72039
France
Le Mans Cedex 9
Tel: 2 43 47 47 53
Fax: 2 43 47 37 40
www.lemans.marco-web.fr

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Glitnir Bank Headquarters
Type: Open, international, 2-stage, anonymous, RFP
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Languages: Icelandic, English
Timetable:
03 Oct 2006 – Inquiries deadline
24 Oct 2006 – Stage-1 submission deadline (18:00 GMT)
Jan 2007 – Stage-2 submission deadline
Eligibility: Open to all
Fee: €100
Jury: Bjarni Ármannsson, Finnur Reyr Stefánsson, Karl Wernersson, Sigríour Ólafsdóttir, Sigurour Gústafsson
Awards:
4 to 6 Stage-1 finalists – €30,000, in addition to VAT
Stage-2 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes – Total of €90,000
Design Challenge:
The objective of the zoning is to increase the density of habitation in the area by combining residential areas with premises suitable for Glitnir’s headquarters and other compatible commercial activities. Competition Format:
The first stage should indicate designers’ ideas concerning the comprehensive plan for the site. In the second stage, the 4 – 6 submissions selected in the first stage will compete.
Additional Information:
www.ai.is/samkeppnir/glitnir-en

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Museum Folkwang Extension
Sponsor: City of Essen through Geschäftsbereich 6 A
Type: Open, international, hybrid, RfQ
Location: Essen, Germany
Languages: German, English
Timetable:
27 Oct 2006 – Application Deadline
03 Nov 2006 – Confirmation of Participation
07 Nov 2006 – Competition Materials Distributed
10 Nov 2006 – On-site Colloquium
07-20 Nov 2006 – Online Forum
07-08 Dec 2006 – Participants Colloquium
23 Jan 2007 – Submission Deadline
Feb 2007 – Jury Meeting
Mar 2007 – Exhibition
Eligibility: RfQ is open to professional architects within the European Economic Area and the World Trade Organization. The design competition will be held as a restricted architectural competition among twelve competitors, including three pre-invited firms.
Jury: Hans-Jürgen Best, Prof. Eckhard Gerber, Fritz Heinrich, Prof. Marcel Meili, Manfred Osthaus, Simone Raskob, Prof. Kirsten Schemel; Alternate architectural jurors: Prof. Gesche Grabenhorst, Rainer Norten;Technical jurors: Prof. Dr. hc. mult. Bertold Beitz, Dr. Hartwig Fischer, Dr. Volker Rattemeyer, Dr. Wolfgang Reiniger, Dr. Oliver Scheytt, Dr. Katharina Schmidt; Alternate technical jurors: Prof. Ute Eskildsen, René Grohnert, Dr. Thomas Kempf, Dr. eH Achim Middelschulte, Dr. Henner Puppel
Awards:
1st Prize – €68,000
2nd Prize – €51,000
3rd Prize – €33,000
Recognitions – €18,000
In addition, each competitor submitting an entry that lends itself to examination will receive, as remuneration for services rendered, the sum of €30,000. Subject to prior consultation, competitors will be reimbursed for travel (economy-class air fare or first-class rail fare plus taxi fare or car rental) and accommodation for two persons attending the competition colloquia. Apart from the award of prize money, the payment of remuneration for services rendered and the reimbursement of travel and accommodation, no payments will be made to the competitors.
The Competition:
The site is located between Goethestrasse and Bismarckstrasse, approx. 1 km south of Essen’s city center. The objective is the design of a new extension to the Museum Folkwang in the City of Essen. This task puts high demands on aesthetic, spatial and functional qualities, on the connection of the new building to the existing ones, on the integration with the extant urban situation, and on the economic conception and planning of construction and operation. The building projected is to be completed by the end of 2009.
The competitors having been selected in advance by the Sponsor are:
• Adjaye Associates, London
• Gigon Guyer Architekten, Zurich
• SANAA Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa & Associates, Tokyo
Additional Information:
www.phase1.de/projects_museum-folkwang_home_e.htm

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Valencia del Mar-Marina Real Juan Carlos I
Type: Open, international, 1-stage, anonymous, ideas
Location: Valencia, Spain
Language: Spanish
Timetable:
31 Oct 2006 – Registration deadline (14:00)
08 Feb 2007 – Submission deadline (20:00)
Fee: €150
Awards:
Total €300,000
The Competition:
Following both the designation of Valencia as the Host City for the 32nd Edition of the America’s Cup and the decision to prolong the activity of Consorcio Valencia 2007 beyond the termination of the Event, the Entity’s aims fall within the global objective of self-financing, to be reached through the exploitation of the resources at its disposal.
Additional Information:
www.valencia2007.com

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Porcher / JADO Design Experience
Type: Open, national, ideas
Language: English
Timetable:
31 Oct 2006 – Submission deadline
Eligibility: Open to certified kitchen and bath designers, professional interior designers or members of the design community, and legal residents of the United States and the District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age at time of entry.
Design Challenge:
Powder Room Category – Transform a powder room, measuring 5-feet by 5-feet, into a functional, modern space.
Master Bathroom Category – Transform a master bathroom, measuring 12-feet by 15-feet, into a luxurious spa-like retreat.
• Porcher toilet, bathtub or whirlpool, and sink/lavatory(s) with either JADO or Porcher faucets. (Specify the Porcher and JADO products on the official entry form. Include other design specifications – e.g., furnishings, wall/floor/lighting treatments – as appropriate.)
• Separate walk-in shower with either JADO or Porcher shower heads/fixtures.
• Other Porcher accessories, as appropriate. Please refer to the enclosed brochure and/or visit www.porcher-us.com and www.jadousa.com for a complete listing of products and specifications.
Additional Information:
Porcher / JADO Design Experience
c/o Carmichael Lynch Spong
800 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
nmcinerny@clynch.com
www.porcher-us.com
www.jadousa.com

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