Maidstone High Street Public Realm Improvements
Sponsor: Town of Maidstone, Kent, U.K.
Type: Open, two-stage (RfQ)
Administration: RIBA Competitions Office
Entrance Fee: £40
Languages: English
Eligiblity: Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects, Engineers, Designers
Timeline:
26 Feb 2009 [17:30[ – Deadline for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents 5 March 2009
Read more…
AIA Ideas Competition 2009
Sponsor: American Institute of Architects Committee on DesignType: open, one-stageLanguage: EnglishFees: AIA Member: $100 Non-AIA member: $150 Associate AIA member: $75 Student: $30Timetable: 13 Feb 2009 – Receipt of registration payment by check 13 March 2009 – Submission deadlineJury: Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA (chair) Leers Weinzapfel Boston, MA Robert Campbell,
Read more…
Competition for Proposals for Temporary Use of a Solar City/[Concurso de Propuestas Par Uso Temporal de Solares Urbanos]
Sponsor: COAM, Madrid, SpainType: Open, International, ideasLanguage: SpanishFee: NoneAwards: 1st Prize – 3,500 Euros
Timetable: 12 February 2009 – End question and answer period 12 March 2009 – Deadline for submissions
Design Challenge:Dealing with solar intervention strategies
Read more…
Singapore Public Housing Competition
Sponsor: Singapore Housing Authority (HDB)Type: Open, international, two-stageLanguage: EnglishFee: $50 for registration and briefJury: To be determinedTimetable: 16 February 2009 – Deadline for submissionsCompensation: All short-listed participating firms will receive SGD$50,000Prizes: 1st Prize – SGD$300,000 (as part of project fees) Merit prizes (2) – SGD$100,000 each
Eligibility: The competition is open
Read more…
Wayne Grace Memorial Competition
Sponsor: Landscape Architectural Registration Boards Foundation.Type: OpenEligibility:The competition is open to any student or team of students currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate Landscape Architectural Degree Program
Timetable: 29 May 2009 – Submissions deadline 31 August 2009 – Winners notifiedAwards: First prize award: $3,000 Second prize award: $2,000
Read more…
11th Arquine International Competition “Faro of Satélite”
Type: Open, InternationalFee: US$120 (after 20 December 2008)Languages: Spanish, EnglishTimetable: 4 February 2009 – Registration deadline 20 February 2009 – Submission deadlineAwards: 1st place: P$100,000 2nd place: P$60,000 3rd place: P$30,000
Challenge:On the 50th anniversary of the Satélite Towers (1958) designed by Luis Barragán and Mathias
Read more…
Designing in Teheran
Sponsor: Benetton, Università luav di VeneziaType: Open, international, one-stageProject: Two Benetton multistory buildings in TeheranLanguage: EnglishFee: NoneTimetable: 27 March 2009 – Deadline for submissionsAwards: First Prizes (2): 20,000 Euros for each building Finalists [4 – 2 for each building]: 5,000 Euros
Entry procedure:Entry and participation in the contest are possible
Read more…
Pier Museum: Miami 2009
Sponsor: Arquitectum, University of Miami; Florida International UniversityType: open, international, ideasFee(s): S$100 to 2 Feb 2009 US$150 to 2 March 2009 US$200 to 31 March 2009 (At the end of the registration process, each participant will get a registration number and password)Awards: US$3,000 for travel costs to Miami for
Read more…
Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space 2 (TOGS 2)
Sponsor: Art Alliance Austin, AIA Austin and AIANYType: Open, IdeasEligibility: Open To Architects and Architectural Designers InternationallyTimetable: 23 March 2009 – Deadline for registrationAwards: First Place – $1,000 Second Place – $500 Third Place – $250Jury: Louise Harpman (Specht Harpman) Deborah Berke, FAIA (Deborah Berke &
Read more…
Botswana Innovation Hub
Sponsor: Botswana Development Corporation LimitedType: International, RfQ, limited to short-listed firmsEligibility: Licensed architecture firmsTimetable:30 Jan 2009 (12:00hrs) – Deadline for submission of Expression of Interest
Design challenge:Botswana´s first Science and Technology Park, Botswana Innovation Hub, is going to be a world class platform for technology oriented and knowledge intensive foreign
Read more…
|
Helsinki Central Library, by ALA Architects (2012-2018)
The world has experienced a limited number of open competitions over the past three decades, but even with diminishing numbers, some stand out among projects in their categories that can’t be ignored for the high quality and degree of creativity they revealed. Included among those are several invited competitions that were extraordinary in their efforts to explore new avenues of institutional and museum design. Some might ask why the Vietnam Memorial is not mentioned here. Only included in our list are competitions that were covered by us, beginning in 1990 with COMPETITIONS magazine to the present day. As for what category a project under construction (Science Island), might belong to or fundraising still in progress (San Jose’s Urban Confluence or the Cold War Memorial competition, Wisconsin), we would classify the former as “built” and wait and see what happens with the latter—keeping our fingers crossed for a positive outcome.
Read More…
Young Architects in Competitions
When Competitions and a New Generation of Ideas Elevate Architectural Quality
by Jean-Pierre Chupin and G. Stanley Collyer
published by Potential Architecture Books, Montreal, Canada 2020
271 illustrations in color and black & white
Available in PDF and eBook formats
ISBN 9781988962047
What do the Vietnam Memorial, the St. Louis Arch, and the Sydney Opera House have in common? These world renowned landmarks were all designed by architects under the age of 40, and in each case they were selected through open competitions. At their best, design competitions can provide a singular opportunity for young and unknown architects to make their mark on the built environment and launch productive, fruitful careers. But what happens when design competitions are engineered to favor the established and experienced practitioners from the very outset?
This comprehensive new book written by Jean-Pierre Chupin (Canadian Competitions Catalogue) and Stanley Collyer (COMPETITIONS) highlights for the crucial role competitions have played in fostering the careers of young architects, and makes an argument against the trend of invited competitions and RFQs. The authors take an in-depth look at past competitions won by young architects and planners, and survey the state of competitions through the world on a region by region basis. The end result is a compelling argument for an inclusive approach to conducting international design competitions.
Download Young Architects in Competitions for free at the following link:
https://crc.umontreal.ca/en/publications-libre-acces/
RUR model perspective – ©RUR
New Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Terminal, Taiwan (2011-2020)
Reiser+Umemoto RUR Architecture PC/ Jesse Reiser – U.S.A.
with
Fei & Cheng Associates/Philip T.C. Fei –R.O.C. (Tendener)
This was probably the last international open competition result that was built in Taiwan. A later competition for the Keelung Harbor Service Building Competition, won by Neil Denari of the U.S., the result of a shortlisting procedure, was not built. The fact that the project by RUR was eventually completed—the result of the RUR/Fei & Cheng’s winning entry there—certainly goes back to the collaborative role of those to firms in winning the 2008 Taipei Pop Music Center competition, a collaboration that should not be underestimated in setting the stage for this competition.
Read more…
Winning entry ©Herzog de Meuron
In visiting any museum, one might wonder what important works of art are out of view in storage, possibly not considered high profile enough to see the light of day? In Korea, an answer to this question is in the making.
It can come as no surprise that museums are running out of storage space. This is not just the case with long established “western” museums, but elsewhere throughout the world as well. In Seoul, South Korea, such an issue has been addressed by planning for a new kind of storage facility, the Seouipul Open Storage Museum. The new institution will house artworks and artifacts of three major museums in Seoul: the Seoul Museum of Modern Art, the Seoul Museum of History, and the Seoul Museum of Craft Art.
Read more…
Belfast Looks Toward an Equitable and Sustainable Housing Model
Birdseye view of Mackie site ©Matthew Lloyd Architects
If one were to look for a theme that is common to most affordable housing models, public access has been based primarily on income, or to be more precise, the very lack of it. Here it is no different, with Belfast’s homeless problem posing a major concern. But the competition also hopes to address another of Belfast’s decades-long issues—its religious divide. There is an underlying assumption here that religion will play no part in a selection process. The competition’s local sponsor was “Take Back the City,” its membership consisting mainly of social advocates. In setting priorities for the housing model, the group interviewed potential future dwellers as well as stakeholders to determine the nature of this model. Among those actions taken was the “photo- mapping of available land in Belfast, which could be used to tackle the housing crisis. Since 2020, (the group) hosted seminars that brought together international experts and homeless people with the goal of finding solutions. Surveys and workshops involving local people, housing associations and council duty-bearers have explored the potential of the Mackie’s site.” This research was the basis for the competition launched in 2022.
Read more…
Alster Swimming Pool after restoration (2023)
Linking Two Competitions with Three Modernist Projects
Hardly a week goes by without the news of another architectural icon being threatened with demolition. A modernist swimming pool in Hamburg, Germany belonged in this category, even though the concrete shell roof had been placed under landmark status. When the possibility of being replaced by a high-rise building, it came to the notice of architects at von Gerkan Marg Partners (gmp), who in collaboration with schlaich bergermann partner (sbp), developed a feasibility study that became the basis for the decision to retain and refurbish the building.
Read more…
|
