Fort Point Channel is poised to become Boston’s “next great place.” As a centrally located connection between the waterfronts of downtown and South Boston, the long underutilized waterway has become the subject of attention in the last decade. The award winning 2002 Fort Point Channel Watersheet Activation Plan has laid the groundwork for a revitalized waterfront neighborhood that promises a variety of recreational, cultural, and maritime facilities. This September, in addition to the usual signs of revitalization, visitors may be surprised to come across a bright pink balloon hovering over the channel. This intriguing object is the result of SHIFTboston’s recent Barge 2011 Design Competition.
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Creating Spaces: A Multi-Layered Approach to a Complex Program
The Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Music Center, Taiwan
 Once the destination of large passenger liners and freighters, ports such as Manhattan and San Francisco are now more likely to be the site of entirely different activities. Cities have discovered that waterfronts lend themselves to all kinds of recreational activities: instead of large ships, we may now find tennis courts, museums and restaurants located on those once abandoned piers. The conversion of waterfronts to other uses is hardly limited to North America. In the run-up to the 1984 Barcelona Olympic Games, Oriel Bohigas was asked to devise a plan, which included the redesign of the Barcelona waterfront. It turned out to be an attractive destination for locals and tourists alike and may have represented a subliminal moment in the minds of the Spanish architects who recently won the recent Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center International Competition in Taiwan. Recognizing the potential of this post-industrial site, the Kaohsiung authorities chose to stage a competition as a vehicle to facilitate the transformation process — with the stated intention of injecting new energy into an outdated waterfront location.
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Sponsor: FOSPP Type: Design and Build Location: Philadelphia Language: English Fee: $25 Eligibility: No restrictions Timetable: May 1, 2011 – Registration deadline June 21 – Submission deadline Awards: Winner – $20,000 and contract Design Challenge: FOSPP is seeking a water feature that will act as a visual icon for the park. Interaction with the water
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Sponsor: Finzels Reach Ltd. Type: Call for expression of interest for artists Location: Bristol Language: English Fee: Free Eligibility: No restrictions Submission Deadline: May 4, 2011 Awards: Commissioning of up to 15 days work at 350 Euro per day Purchase of work at up to 182,750 Euro Design Challenge: Finzels Reach Ltd is redeveloping a
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Sponsor: Irish Architecture Foundation Type: Design and Build Location: Ireland Language: English Fee: Free Eligibility: Teams of architects and craft persons Timetable: May 12, 2011 – Submission deadline May 17 – Shortlist announced May 18 – Interview May 20 – Winner announced June 6-July 3 – Design development July 4-31 – Construction August 1-21 –
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Sponsor: Future Arquitecturas Type: International Open Ideas Location: Hangzhou, Nanjing, Madrid and Barcelona Language: English Fee: 60 Euro (includes subscription to future magazine) Eligibility: Students and architects under 30 years of age Timetable: June 15, 2011 – Questions deadline June 30 – Registration deadline July 31 – Submission deadline September 10 – Shortlist announced September
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Sponsor: PG Bison Type: Student Language: English Fee: Free Eligibility: Interior design and architecture students Timetable: April 29, 2011 – Questions deadline August 12 – Submission deadline September 2 – Finalists selected October 13 – Awards ceremony Awards: First prize – A trip for winning student and lecturer (valued at R50,000 per person) and TFG
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Sponsor: Municipality of Sipoo Type: Open International Planning Location: Finland Language: English Fee: Free Eligibility: Teams with at least one architect Submission Deadline: September 30, 2011 Awards: First prize – 50,000 Euro Second prize – 40,000 Euro Third prize – 35,000 Euro Additional 25,000 Euro in special prizes Jury: Christel Liljestrom, Municipality of Sipoo Hanna
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Sponsor: Congress of New Urbanism Type: Open, ideas Location: Madison, WI Language: English Fee: Students – $20 Professionals – $60 Eligibility: Students and professionals in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and planning Timetable:
April 29, 2011 – Submission Deadline June 4, 2011 – Winners AnnouncedJune 1-4, 2011 – Exhibition – CNU 19 Madison
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Sponsor: contestA and ISMOF Type: Student Location: Spain Language: English and Spanish Fee: € 28 before April 30 € 53 between May 1 and May 31 € 75 after June 1 Eligibility: Architecture students Timetable: August 7, 2011 –Registration deadline August 22 – Submission deadline October 10 – Winners announced Awards: First prize – €
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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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