Sponsor: Land-of-Sky Regional Council, Asheville, NC
Type: open to students at southeast US schools.
Language: English
Registration: None
Eligibility:Architecture students only, under the direction of class professors.
Awards:
· $2,500 to winning design team school
· finalist designs presented at national conferences
· finalist designs featured in professionally produced short video
· opportunity for student
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Sponsor: ARQUITECTUM
Type: open
Language: English
Registration: $100 (early bird – from May 1st to May 28th 2009)$150 (from May 29th to June 29th)$200 (from June 30th to July 30th 2009)
Eligibility:Architects and landscape architects from all around the world; individuals or multidisciplinary teams (6 members at most). Architecture students are also eligible, but only
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Sponsor: Sustainability Centre Foundation
Type: open
Language: English
Registration: 100 EUR
Eligibility:Participation in this competition is open to architects, urban designers and landscape designers, either individually or in teams. The entrant (or chief designer) must be registered in the Architects Register in the Netherlands or with the equivalent professional register in his/her country of work.
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Type: open
Language: English
Eligibility:Multidisciplinary teams made up of architects, engineers, and environmental scientists from anywhere in the world to enter this competition. This competition is also open to educational institutions receiving funding from Industry Canada’s Knowledge Infrastructure Program.
Awards:The Z-Prize will be given to the building that has most reduced the energy per square
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The seven practices, selected to develop their submissions for the new GSA building to sit opposite the world-famous Mackintosh Building in the Garnethill district of Glasgow, are: (in alphabetical order)
Benson + Forsyth (London, UK)
Elder & Cannon (Glasgow, UK)
Francisco Mangado Architects (Pamplona, Spain)
Grafton Architects (Dublin, Ireland)Hopkins (London, UK)
John McAslan and Partners
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Type: open
Registration: 100 EUR
Eligibility:Any team of young urban and architectural design professionals (architects, urban planners, landscape designers, engineers). Teams may also include young professionals from other disciplines. All candidates must be under 40 years old on the closing date for submission of entries.
Awards:1st Prize – 12,000 EURRunner-Up – 6,000 EUR
Timetable:29 June
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Sponsor: Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, The Landscape Institute, RIBA
Type: open, 2-stage
Language: English
Eligibility:Design teams or practices must include landscape architects, an architect and a structural engineer. The architect and engineer must have experience of similar projects. A track record of sea-side/water side projects will be an advantage.
Awards:A fee of £4,000 plus reasonable expenses
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Sponsor: Maserati, Architectural Digest
Eligibility: open to professional and amateur architects, designers and homeowners who are legal residents of the United States
Awards:
The prize for the existing garage is a feature in an October 2009 special advertising section to appear in Architectural Digest, including professional photography of said garage, and showcase on Maserati.us/DesignDriven. The
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Sponsor: Cuddesdon, RIBA
Type: international, 2-stage
Language: English
Eligibility: registered architects
Timetable:11 June 2009 – deadline for expression of interest
Design Challenge:Architects with outstanding design skills are being sought to take part in a competition to design a new College Chapel in Oxfordshire. Ripon College, Cuddesdon intends to commission the new building as part of
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Six architectural practices have been chosen to go through to the next phase in the competition to design a new Students’ Centre for the London School of Economics and Political Science on its Aldwych campus. They are :
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (London) David Chipperfield Architects (London) de Rijke Marsh Morgan (London) Feilden Clegg Bradley
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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.
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Young Architects in Competitions
When Competitions and a New Generation of Ideas Elevate Architectural Quality
by Jean-Pierre Chupin and G. Stanley Collyer
published by Potential Architecture Books, Montreal, Canada 2020
271 illustrations in color and black & white
Available in PDF and eBook formats
ISBN 9781988962047
What do the Vietnam Memorial, the St. Louis Arch, and the Sydney Opera House have in common? These world renowned landmarks were all designed by architects under the age of 40, and in each case they were selected through open competitions. At their best, design competitions can provide a singular opportunity for young and unknown architects to make their mark on the built environment and launch productive, fruitful careers. But what happens when design competitions are engineered to favor the established and experienced practitioners from the very outset?
This comprehensive new book written by Jean-Pierre Chupin (Canadian Competitions Catalogue) and Stanley Collyer (COMPETITIONS) highlights for the crucial role competitions have played in fostering the careers of young architects, and makes an argument against the trend of invited competitions and RFQs. The authors take an in-depth look at past competitions won by young architects and planners, and survey the state of competitions through the world on a region by region basis. The end result is a compelling argument for an inclusive approach to conducting international design competitions.
Download Young Architects in Competitions for free at the following link:
https://crc.umontreal.ca/en/publications-libre-acces/
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.
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Winning entry ©Herzog de Meuron
In visiting any museum, one might wonder what important works of art are out of view in storage, possibly not considered high profile enough to see the light of day? In Korea, an answer to this question is in the making.
It can come as no surprise that museums are running out of storage space. This is not just the case with long established “western” museums, but elsewhere throughout the world as well. In Seoul, South Korea, such an issue has been addressed by planning for a new kind of storage facility, the Seouipul Open Storage Museum. The new institution will house artworks and artifacts of three major museums in Seoul: the Seoul Museum of Modern Art, the Seoul Museum of History, and the Seoul Museum of Craft Art.
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Belfast Looks Toward an Equitable and Sustainable Housing Model
Birdseye view of Mackie site ©Matthew Lloyd Architects
If one were to look for a theme that is common to most affordable housing models, public access has been based primarily on income, or to be more precise, the very lack of it. Here it is no different, with Belfast’s homeless problem posing a major concern. But the competition also hopes to address another of Belfast’s decades-long issues—its religious divide. There is an underlying assumption here that religion will play no part in a selection process. The competition’s local sponsor was “Take Back the City,” its membership consisting mainly of social advocates. In setting priorities for the housing model, the group interviewed potential future dwellers as well as stakeholders to determine the nature of this model. Among those actions taken was the “photo- mapping of available land in Belfast, which could be used to tackle the housing crisis. Since 2020, (the group) hosted seminars that brought together international experts and homeless people with the goal of finding solutions. Surveys and workshops involving local people, housing associations and council duty-bearers have explored the potential of the Mackie’s site.” This research was the basis for the competition launched in 2022.
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Alster Swimming Pool after restoration (2023)
Linking Two Competitions with Three Modernist Projects
Hardly a week goes by without the news of another architectural icon being threatened with demolition. A modernist swimming pool in Hamburg, Germany belonged in this category, even though the concrete shell roof had been placed under landmark status. When the possibility of being replaced by a high-rise building, it came to the notice of architects at von Gerkan Marg Partners (gmp), who in collaboration with schlaich bergermann partner (sbp), developed a feasibility study that became the basis for the decision to retain and refurbish the building.
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