California Senior Housing Design Competition

Sponsor: Suburban Alternatives Land Trust (SALT) and Northbay Family Homes (NFH)

Type: open, 2-stage

Language: English

Eligibility: architects and designers

Registration fee: $100

Timetable:

14 September, 2009 – briefing and site tour

15 November, 2009 – deadline for registration

4 December, 2009 – 1-stage submissions due

January 2010 – jury recommendation of finalists

Jury:
Michael Pyatok, FAIA, President, Pyatok Architects, Inc. Oakland, CA

Cheryl Barton, FASLA FAAR, LEED AP, Principal, The Office of Cheryl Barton Landscape Architects, San Francisco

Lynn N. Simon, AIA, LEED AP, President, Simon & Associates, Inc. Green Building Consultants, San Francisco

Jim Leland, Mayor, city of Novato

Dietrich Stoeh, CSW/Stuber-Stroeh Engineers, Novato, CA

Douglas Crah, Cost Consultant, former regional President Standard Pacific Homes

Avis Licht, Co-Founder of the Commonwealth Garden, Bolinas, CA, and Landscape Designer

Russell A. Colombo, President and CEO Bank of Marin

Design Challenge:
The Project site is located in the City of Novato, Marin County, north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Construction is planned to begin upon securing financing. Site planning and housing designs must demonstrate innovative sustainable solutions that can also be applied to meet future housing needs, a zero net energy goal, and multiple benefits including job creation, carbon and cost reduction, and opportunities for local food production/agriculture.

For more information, go to: http://www.nfh.org/competition.html

National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Perkins & Will

Carrying the label, “Artistic Ideas Competition,” five firms vied for a commission to design a new National Museum of the U.S. Navy. Household names, the five were
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) Copenhagen/ New York
Gehry Partners (Los Angeles)
DLR Group (Columbus, OH)
Perkins&Will (Chicago) Winner!
Quinn Evans (Ann Arbor)

With a site not yet identified, it is possible that a final design will look quite different from the present submission. the Navy has expressed a preference for M Street SE and 6th Street SE, near the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.

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/

Dallas Tabs Nieto Sobejano as Choice For Museum Redesign

Six Firms Competed to Rethink the Future of a Major Museum

Aerial view of winning design ©Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (courtesy Malcolm Reading Consultants)

The history of the Dallas Museum of Art’s expansion has been punctuated by several moves, culminating in a new building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes in 1984. The importance of this move to a new, somewhat desolate location in the city cannot be underestimated: it has led to the revitalization of what is now called the “Arts District,” with the relocation of various arts institutions to new facilities: the opera house (Foster and Partners), Dee and Charles Wyly Performing Arts Theater (REX/OMA), Nasher Sculpture Center (Renzo Piano), and I.M. Pei’s Meyerson Symphony Center being among the most significant.

A Korean Heritage Site Sets the Tone

Chungji National Heritage Museum Competition

Image ©Ona Architects + Jongjin Lee architects + Laguillo Arquitectos

For those unfamiliar with Korean Heritage and its symbols, the choice of the jury for a new complex to house artifacts, now located at various scattered sites, would seem to beg more information, especially when one views the designs of the non-selected finalists—all quite modern. Some of this can certainly be explained by the subject matter of the new museum’s holdings, another by the site in broader terms. Some might say that emphasis placed on the heritage element in the design brief fostered an interpretation leading to the choice of the winning design: “The site chosen for the new Chungji National Museum is logical: Chungju, located in the central part of the Korean Peninsula, is the center of the so-called ‘Jungwon culture,’ which has played an important role geographically and historically since ancient time. Jungwon culture developed around the Namhan River, which runs through the central region from east to west, and the relics showing this are currently scattered and stored in various museums.”

Bringing Design and Construction in Closer Proximity

University of Florida’s College of Design Construction and Planning’s New Addition

Development phase image courtesy ©Brooks + Scarpa

If architects have had one complaint concerning the planning and realization of a project, it has been with planners and especially construction managers, both of whom often display a lack of knowledge about architecture. The survival of a well-conceived design can hang in the balance when there is a knowledge gap at the planning and realization end.

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