Sponsor: The California Architectural Foundation
Language: English
Registration fee: none
Eligibility: all residents of California
Awards:Student CategoryHonor Award – $2,500 Merit Award – $1,250Professional CategoryHonor Award – $2,500 Merit Award – $1,250An additional Environmental Prize of $5,000 will be distributed to an accredited school of architecture in the State of California, to be named by
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The Bering Strait Project International Ideas Competition recently announced the winning concepts in the professional and student categories. The Bering Strait Project attempts to span the Bering Strait between Russia and the United States via a bridge or a tunnel which would create an overland connection linking Asia, Africa and Europe with North America and
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Sponsor: RIBA, Friends of the Whitworth
Type: international, multiple stage
Registration fee: none
Language: English
Awards:A shortlist of 5 practices will be selected to produce concept designs and will each receive an honorarium of £5,000.
Timetable:15 July, 2009 – deadline for submission of expressions of interest
Jury: To be announced
Design Challenge: This new competition
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Type: open, 2-stage
Language: German
Eligibility: 4-EWG
Awards:1st Prize (2nd stage) – 44,000 EUR2nd Prize – 29,000 EUR3rd Prize – 20,000 EUR4th Prize – 13,000 EURCitations in the amount of 26,500 EUR
Timetable:24 July, 2009 – 1-stage submission deadline
Jury:Prof. Jörg Friedrich, ArchitektProf. Gabriele Kiefer, LandschaftsarchitektinProf. Wolfgang Lorch, ArchitektProf. Anke Mensing, ArchitektinProf. Helmut Raff, ArchitektProf.
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Sponsor: Human Environmental League for Preservation – Nepal
Language: English and all official EU languages
Type: 1-stage, open
Registration fee: none
Eligibility: EU architects, structural and environmental engineers, engineering and architectural companies
Awards:1st Prize – 4,500EUR
Timetable:19 August, 2009 – submission deadline3 October 2009 – winner announced
Design Challenge:
The project aims to return the
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Sponsor: Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, HP
Language: English
Registration Fee: none
Eligibility: architecture students and professionals
Awards:1st Prize – 3,000EUR (+ other prizes)2nd Prize – 2,000EUR (+ other prizes)3rd Prize – 1,000EUR (+ othr prizes)
Timetable:28 September, 2009 – registration deadlineOctober 2009 – winner selection
Jury: (For a complete list of jurors, check
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Sponsor: Urban Development Bureau, Kaohsiung City Government and International Urban Development Association (INTA)
Type: open, 3-stage
Language: Chinese, English
Registration Fee: none
Eligibility: This competition is open to anyone born after 1970 (including 1970).
Awards:1st Prize – $10,000 each (three winners)2nd Prize – $5,000 each (fifteen winners)
Timetable:15 July, 2009 – submission deadline3 August, 2009
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The multi-award winning Imperial War Museum North (IWMN) has selected Topotek I as the preferred design team to develop the external spaces of the Museum following an RIBA international design competition and public consultation with visitors and key partners.
These designs are initial concepts and IWMN will now begin the task of fundraising and seeking
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Sponsor: EXCS
Type: 2-stage, international
Eligibility: an interdisciplinary team of 3-8
Awards:
1st Prize (2) – 15,000EUR (each)
Timetable: 20 June, 2009 – 1st stage submission deadline
Jury:
B. Mampaka. A. Goffart. D. Van Asbroeck. Y. Rouyet. K. Borret.
P. Delesenne (advisory voice) and H. Dinor (advisory voice).
Design Challenge:
The goal of this competition
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Sponsor: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Google
Type: open
Language: English
Registration Fee: none
Awards:$1,000 cash prize
Timetable:23 August, 2009 – competition closes21 October, 2009 – winner announced
Jury:Aidan Chopra, Product Evangelist, Google SketchUpMartin Cox, Principal, Bade Stageberg CoxNeil M. Denari, Principal, Neil M. Denari ArchitectsCathleen McGuigan, Contributor, NewsweekVictor Sidy, Dean of the Frank Lloyd
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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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