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HLWSF Low Impact Development Design Competition Sponsors: Houston Land/Water Sustainability Forum with co-sponsors including AIA-Houston, ASCE-Houston, Mischer Investments, Bayou Preservation Association, Harris County/Precinct 2, City of Houston/TIRZ 15 Type: 2-Stage, open Language: English Eligibility: Integrated design teams which include an architect, a landscape architect and a civil engineer Registration Fee: $250 Awards: $15,000 in Mark of Dreams: UNESCO’s DREAM Center Logo Competition Sponsors: UNESCO, DESIGN21 Type: open Language: English Eligibility: all registered members of DESIGN 21 at least 18 years of age Registration Fee: None Awards:Overall Winner – $3,000 Timeline:17 November 2008 – Submission Deadline Jury:Judging will be done by the directors and organizers of the DREAM Center program Sponsors: Ed Bacon Foundation and the Philadelphia Center for Architecture Type: open, international (North America), 1-stage Language: English Eligibility: College and university level students Registration fee: None Awards: First Prize: $2,000 Second Prize: $1,500 Third Prize: $1,000 Three Honorable Mentions: $500 each Timetable:16 October, 2009 – pre-registration deadline 30 October, 2009 – Sponsor: Austrian Steel Association Type: International, Student, 1-stage Languages: German, English Eligibility: Students living outside of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland should inquire if they are eligible to participate. Team Composition: The participation of at least one student of architecture and one student of engineering is required.Time Table:1 October, 2009 – Competition brief available Awards:1st Prize: Sponsors:Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA)AIA New York ChapterBRONXMUSEUMArtists UniteTRESPAService Point Type: Open, International, Ideas Competition Language: English Eligibility: Any student or professional (architect, landscape designer, planner, engineer, designer, artist) who has received an undergraduate or undergraduate degree after Sept. 10, 1999.Registration Fee: add $5 for all categories after November 20, 2009Student Entry $35Single Sponsor: ARQUITECTUM and SPAZZIO + PISSANO Real Estate Alliance Type: Professional International, 1-stage Language: English Eligibility: Architects from all over the world who have satisfactorily concluded their studies, as well as any team or office of professionals with at least one architect of said characteristics (in the instance that the person wishing to participate had Sponsors: Jardins de Metis / Redford Gardens Type: Open, International Language:French/English Location: Grand-Métis, in the Gaspésie region of Québec, CanadaTimetable:14 September, 2009 – call for entries6 November, 2009 – deadline to send proposals1 December, 2009 – public announcement of the chosen projects1 February, 2010 – deadline for reception of documents showing the preliminary design for Sponsor: Friends of 339. Project to Save the Peace Pentagon, The Architects Newspaper Type: open, international, Language: English Eligibility: architects, designers, artists, engineers and multi-disciplinary teams worldwide Registration fee: $50 Late registration fee: $100 Awards:1st Prize – $5,0002nd Prize – $2,0003rd Prize – to be determined Timeline:15 October, 2009 – questions deadline1 November, 2009 Sponsor: Ryerson University, the Design Exchange Type: student, 1-stage Language: English Timetable: 21 September 2009 – competition begins 30 October 2009 – Registration Deadline Extension 28 December 2009 – submissions due Jury:James Timberlake of KieranTimberlake (Philadelphia)Anne Cormier of Atelier Big City (Montreal)Ken Greenberg of Greenberg Consultants (Toronto)Samantha Sannella of the Design Exchange (Toronto)Kendra Schank Smith The winners of the Paris 2009: Dance School for Moulin Rouge competition have recently been revealed. Competition organizer Arquitectum invited architects to design a reinterpretation of the ‘new Moulin Rouge’, the most famous cabaret in the world and a symbol of what is an important piece of Parisian life. The new facilities should enhance the |
Zaha Hadid Architects Wins UAE Masterplan Competition
Following the international competition, ARADA has appointed Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) to design the Central Hub, the centerpiece of Aljada, the developer’s masterplan in Sharjah, UAE. The other competitors in the invited competition were HOK (U.S.) and RMJM (London).
Developed with environmental considerations integrated throughout the masterplan to minimize the consumption of resources, the proposal conceptualizes the moment a water droplet strikes the earth’s surface, captured in an array of elliptical buildings designed to channel prevailing winds into civic spaces and courtyards to facilitate cooling during the summer months. The central observation tower is surrounded by vibrant public squares with water features irrigated by recovered and recycled water. Tensile canopies sustain a microclimate at ground level for verdant gardens of species native to the region.
Art, Memory, and the fight for a Vietnam War Memorial
by James Reston, Jr.
Having an idea is one thing. Realization of that idea is another. Maybe this should have been the main thrust of a new book on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Instead, the author of this book, whose interest in this topic dates back to his military service during the Vietnam conflict, chose to sensationalize the the cultural and political themes familiar to the project, rather than treat its progress in contrast to the evolution of other recent memorial competitions located on or near the Mall, the political and emotional components of the various memorials notwithstanding. The World War II Memorial and Eisenhower Memorial also were fraught with controversy by the public and in the press, whereby one hardly resembled the original design, and the other has not yet made it beyond the drawing board. Projects on or near the Mall run into similar obstacles in navigating their way through the DC approval process unscathed, regardless of the subject matter.\ K2K Planning Competition (Kensington / Kingsford)
Finetuning a Sydney Suburb’s Future
Competitions in Australia have become more commonplace than could have become anticipated two decades ago. It was in the early 1990s that Sydney’s mayor, Frank Sartore, decided that competitions could improve on the rather mediocre architecture so prevalent in the city at that time. As a result, major government projects became the subject of design competitions, and a number of notable projects ensued, especially in higher education.
Everyone is well aware of the measures one encounters when entering almost any tower, residential or office, in this era of high security. We are not just talking about protecting the occupants of a residential highrise, but rather the separation of workers from the street and the community at large. The Taichung Tower is intended as the antithesis to this concept of isolation, encouraging interaction at different levels, within the workplace, as well as access, though limited, to the community at large.
Taichung, certainly one of Taiwan’s most forward-looking cities, has just completed a final competition to complete the ambitious Taichung Cultural Center complex—a tower to replaced Sou Fujimoto’s abandoned winner of the initial Taichung Tower Competition (below). The Fujimoto scheme was shelved based on the high construction estimates for his revolutionary scheme—by some accounts doubling the anticipated budget. Aarhus New School of Architecture
After surmounting two formidable obstacles, an open international competition with over 260 entries and a second stage limited to four other finalists—two of which were high-profile invitees*—the young Copenhagen firm of Vargo, Nielsen & Palle was declared the winner of the Aarhus School of Architecture Competition. As is often the case when a competitor from a small firm advances to a final stage, the winner teamed up with ADEPT, which had placed in the top six as an honorable mention in the open stage and Rolvung & Brøndsted Arkitekter, Tri-consult and Steensen Varming.
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