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1st Prize : TOWER INFINITY
Hyun, Gun Bo(GDS Korea Architects)
+ Charles I. Wee(GDS Architects, Inc.)
+ Jang, Jae Young(GDS Korea Architects)
2nd Prize : INVERSE OBELISK
Hahm, In Sun(Konwon Architects and Engineers)
+ Kang, Min Gu(Konwon Architects and Engineers)
+ Sinn, Dong Won(Konwon
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Sponsors: Land Trust and RIBA
Type: Anonymous, two-stage, ideas, international
Language: English
Eligibility: Open to architects and architect-led teams from any discipline
Fee: £50 + VAT
Timetable
15 February 2012 (14:00hrs) – Submission deadline
Jury:
Catherine Burd, Burd Haward Architects, RIBA Adviser
Deborah
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Sponsor: City of Zagreb, Croatia and the Zagreb Society of Architects
Type: open, on-line, one-stage, anonymous, ideas
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Fee: None
Language: English
Eligibility: The competition is open to all professionals, who hold a master’s degree in architecture or have completed a five-year course of study and are
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Sponsor: State University of New York (SUNY)
Type: RfQ, open, 2-stage
Eligibility: Architectural firms in North America
Fee: none
Language: English
Budget: $250M
Timetable
31 January 2012 – Registration (RfQ) deadline
15 February 2012 – Shortlisted firms announced
16-22 March 2012 – Design presentations by
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Sponsor: University of South Florida
Type: Open, one-stage, student and professional
Language: English
Timetable
20 March 2012 – Deadline for submissions
Eligibility: Students registered in an accredited architecture program; design professionals
Awards: N/A
Jury
Charles Waldheim, Urban Agency
Chris Reed, STOSS Landscape Urbanism
Margaret
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Sponsor: Fakro Company
Type: Open, EU, one-stage
Languages: English, Polish
Timetable
20 March 2012 – Deadline for submissions (may be sent at any time before that)
Eligibility: Architects having a degree from a recognized European institution or working as an architect in an architectural firm
Awards
1st
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Sponsor: Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung, Berlin, Germany
Type: Open, EU, two-stage
Language: German
Timetable
1st Phase: 2.14.2012 – Submission deadline for plans
1st Phase: 2.21.2012 – Submission deadline for models
1st Phase: 3.30.2012 – Jury
2nd Phase: 7. 17.2012 – Submission deadline for plans
2nd
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Sponsor: City of Helsinki, Finland
Type: Open, International, two-stage
Languages: English, Finnish
Timetable:
30 March 2012 – Deadline for registration
16 April 2012 – End of Stage one of competition
Competition Format
The competition is being arranged as an open two-stage international architectural competition. Those persons
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Improving Education by Design
The 2011 Cleveland Design Competition
by Stanley Collyer
Can reducing class size and hiring more qualified teachers be the only answer to improving our educational system? Not according to the goals set forth by the organizers of the most recent 2011 Cleveland Design Competition. This open contest challenged architects to come up with new ideas, keeping pace with “the continuing advancements in pedagogy, curricula and organization models.” In other words, why shouldn’t equal attention be devoted to the “reinvention of learning environments.”
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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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