DawnTown 2009 Competition

Sponsor: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Miami Downtown Development Authority, Marquis, and Akerman Senterfitt

Type: open, 1-stage, internationalLanguage: English

Eligibility: Architects, designers, students, and amateurs from around the world are invited to participate.

Registration fee: none

Awards:1st Prize – $8,0002nd Prize – $4,0003rd Prize – $2,000

Timetable:14 October, 2009 – registration deadline28

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Preston Guild 2012 Competition

Sponsor: RIBA, Community Gateway Association

Type: 2 – stage, open

Language: English

Eligibility: The competition is open to all qualified architects and to architect-led multi-disciplinary teamsRegistration fee: £35.00Awards:Each team invited to take part in the second phase of this competition will receive a payment of £3000.

Timetable:21 September, 2009 – site visit21 October, 2009 –

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Bienal Miami+Beach 2009 Competition

Sponsor: Government of the Atlantic Department, the School of Architecture, Art and Design and the Architecture program at the Autonomous University of the Caribbean

Type: open, international

Language: English, Spanish

Eligibility: architects, urbanists, artists, and interior designers

Registration fee:$20 – early registration$30 – registration$40 – late registration

Timetable:11 September, 2009 – early registration deadline1

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d3 Housing for Tomorrow Competition

Sponsor: d3

Type: open, 1-stage

Language: English

Registration fee:$25 – students$50 – professionals

Timetable:4 January, 2010 – registration deadline15 January, 2010 – submission deadline

Awards:1st Prize – $5002nd Prize – $2503rd Prize – $125

Jury: To be announced

Design Challenge:Exploration of housing typologies reveals vast the potential of overlaying urban, contextual, cultural, social, and

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“Ideal Theater” Student Design Competition

Sponsor: USITT

Type: open, student

Language: English

Eligibility: architectural and theater students

Registration fee: none

Timetable:20 November, 2009 – registration deadline19 January, 2010 – submission deadline

Jury: Theatre Architect, Theatre Consultant, Acoustician based in Los Angeles, CA, USA to be announced

Design Challenge: The competition poses the design question, “What is the Ideal Theatre

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Air Force Village Design Competition

Sponsor: Air Force Villages, San Antonio, TX

Type: Open, 1-stage

Language: English

Eligibility:This competition is open to U.S.-based licensed and aspiring architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects, and students enrolled in college-level design programs in any of these areas of study. Competitors may enter as individuals or as a part of a team. Multi-disciplinary teams

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LSE Students’ Centre Competition Winner and Exhibition Announced

The six finalist schemes for the competition to design a new Students’ Centre for the London School of Economics are to be exhibited in London. The designs will be displayed throughout September at New London Architecture, the Centre for London’s Built Environment.

The exhibition follows the recent announcement of Dublin based practice O’Donnell &

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Worthing Swimming Pool Winner Announced

London based practice Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won the competition to design a new swimming pool for Worthing Borough Council. Wilkinson Eyre were selected in preference to Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, also based in London. Both teams had been identified as preferred teams at the end of the first stage of the competition and were

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