Next Stop: The 2013 Burnham Prize Competition

Next Stop

The 2013 Burnham Prize Competition

by Stanley Collyer

Winning entry by Hesam T. Rostami and Bahareh Atash

The NEXT STOP competition challenged designers worldwide to propose a vision for iconic, functional and sustainable stations for Chicago’s planned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. It attracted forty-two entries representing design teams from 14 countries. Each competition entry includeed a station prototype and variations for three neighborhoods—the Loop, Bucktown-Logan Square and Pilsen.

Why Stop

Why Stop

Imagining the South Coast Rail

by Kim Poliquin

Winning entry by Emer O’Daly

What would make you stop? A glowing greenhouse? A rolling theater? Or how about a super pier? During the summer of 2011 SHIFTboston challenged architects, urban designers, designers and landscape architects — professionals and students — to visualize new destinations along the proposed South Coast Rail extension, a new rail line that will connect Boston to Taunton, New Bedford, and Fall River, Massachusetts.

Canadian Holocaust Memorial

Sponsor: Canadian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Location: Ottawa, Canada

Languages: English and French

Type: Open, RfQ, international, 2-stage

Eligiblity: Open to Canadian-led teams of professional artists, architects, landscape architects and other urban design professionals. International competitors may also participate in these teams.

Submission Deadline: 4 September 2013

Design Challenge: Teams of professional artists, architects, landscape

Stormproof: Design Competition for Building Resilient Cities

Sponsor: Oneprize.org

Type: Open, international, ideas

Language: English

Eligibility: Open internationally to architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, artists, students and individuals of all backgrounds. Entries can be submitted by individuals or in teams.

Fee:

Early Registration – US $100 until 30 June, 2013 Late Registration – US $150 from 1 July,

Houses for Change

Sponsor: IE University School of Architecture and Design, Madrid

Type: Open, ideas, international

Eligibility: Students and young professionals

Fee: none

Awards: A prize equivalent to 20,000 € applicable towards the tition fees of a master program at IE + construction of the winning prototype.

Registration Deadline: 10 December 2013

Submission Deadline: 16 December 2013

Design for Death Competition

Type: open, ideas, international

Sponsors: LIEN FOUNDATION and ACM FOUNDATION

Fee: none

Registration deadline: 1 September 2013

Submission deadline: 1 September 2013

Awards:

1st prize: 25,000 euro 2nd prize: 10,000 euro 3rd prize: 5,000 euro

REBUILD BY DESIGN: Hurricane Sandy Regional Planning and Design Competition

Registration deadline: 20 July 2013

Submission deadline(s): TBD

Sponsors: Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, NEA

Royal Adelaide Hospital Design Competition

Sponsor: Office for Design and Architecture, South Australia

Location: Adelaide, Australia

Type: Open, ideas, international, two-stage

Language: English

Eligiblity: Open internationally to registered architects and landscape architects

Fee: To be announced

Awards:

Stage One Shortlisted entries (up to 6): AU$100,000 each Stage Two First Prize: AU$200,000 Stage Two Second Prize: AU$70,000 Stage Two Third Prize:

Mapo Oil Reserve Base International Ideas Competition

Sponsor: Seoul Metropolitan Government

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Open, ideas, international

Languages: Korean, English

Eligiblity: Open internationally to all professionals and students

Fee: None

Awards:

1st(1project) – USD 10,000 & Certificate of merit 2nd(2project) – USD 5,000 & Certificate of merit 3nd(3project) – USD 2,000 & Certificate of merit Honorable mention(5project) – USD 1,000

Swiss School Competition

Location: Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland

Language: French

Eligiblity: Open to architects in Switzerland and the EU

Fee: 300 Swiss Francs

Submission Deadline: 25 October 2013

Design Challenge:

Architectural competition for the construction of the new school Platy

The competition documents can be obtained from: www.simap.ch

For more information, please contact:

Aloys PAGE Genevieve Frederick & ARCHITECTS

The San Francisco Transbay Terminal Competition

City and Developer as Infrastructure
Catalyst

Not since the Golden Gate Bridge and BART has San Francisco experienced an infrastructure project of the magnitude and importance as the recently completed Transbay Transit Terminal. The subject of a 2007 competition won by Pelli Clarke Pelli (PCP) with Peter Walker Landscape Architects, the project is only missing some rail connections, which will enable passengers to connect to many parts of the state in the foreseeable future.

OFFICE 52 at Carnegie Mellon

Form and Dichroic Light
Scott Hall at Carnegie Mellon University
Michelle LaFoe and Isaac Campbell
OFFICE 52 Architecture
Forward by Cesar Pelli, FAIA
Introduction by Michael J. Crosbie, FAIA
Leete”s Island Books, Maine USA
Hard cover; 96 pages in color
ISBN 9780918172709

In his introduction to Form and Dichroic LIght, Michael Crosbie never mentions the term, “wild card,” to describe Office 52’s participation in the invited competition for the Carnegie Mellon Engineering Building. The four finalists, picked from a list of 17 firms, also included three household names: ZGF, Wilson, and BCJ (Bohlin Cywinski, Jackson). So what possible chance could a firm, which had just recently opened a small office in Portland, Oregon, have against a competition lineup of this magnitude? But as OFFICE 52 Principal, Isaac Campbell explained, as a small firm, “we were quite nimble,” and the $50,000 stipend the firms all received to produce a design could allow OFFICE 52 more time to undertake the research involved than might be the case with a larger office, where a cost controller is constantly focusing on the operation.

Sandy Hook Memorial

Commemorating the deaths of 26 victims of a well-publicized school shooting is no small chore. But because of the tragic events at its elementary school in 2012, the village of Sandy Hook has achieved national prominence as a symbol of the gun violence afflicting the nation. Although it is almost impossible to bring closure to such an event, the community did determine that the establishment of a memorial would at least be a positive step in that direction. To arrive at such an important issue as a design for the memorial, it was determined that an international design competition was a logical path to follow.

Architecture as Political Statement in the Ukraine

After an extended and rigorous competition process, the winner(s) of the National Memorial for the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and Revolution of Dignity Museum in Kiev have been selected. They are:

1^st Prize – Kleihues + Kleihues Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, Berlin/Germany
2^nd Prize – Burø architects, Kiev/Ukraine
3^rd Prize – Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture, Paris/France

This was the second competition in the process to determine the designs for both the site and the museum complex itself. The purpose of the project was to honor the victims of the attempted suppression of the protests, which ultimately ended with the deposition of the pro-Russian premier, Viktor Yanukovych.

Where Ecology Rules: Hsinta Ecological Power Plant Competition

Whether it was the establishment of a shrimp industry, general water and flood abatement, or a site for bird migration, the Hsinta Ecological Power Plant competition produced a plethora of interesting approaches to mitigate the negative effects normally associated with the introduction of a power plant. Each of the five finalists in this international, two-stage competition showed an extensive amount of research to support their design strategies and the underlying sustainability features.

Mussolini on the Spree…and More

A construction site since the end of World War II, the apex of Berlin’s construction boom has seemingly reached a final stage with two major projects, one which is almost completed (Berlin City Palace), the other still on the drawing board, but scheduled to be realized by 2020—the addition to Mies van der Rohe’s New National Gallery by Herzog de Meuron. Above is a view across the Spree River to the almost completed Palace by Italian architect, Franco Stella, the winner of the 2008 competition. At first glance we think we might be finding ourselves in the EUR district of Rome, built during during the 1930s under Mussolini: the “modern” facade is almost a replica of one of the two buildings flanking the approach to Adalberto Libera’s Palazzo Della Civitá. Of course this is only the one, “modern” side of the Palace, looking east across the Spree to a future ensemble of modern structures. The other three sides are Baroque replicas of the original, including the dome.

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Next Stop: The 2013 Burnham Prize Competition

Why Stop

Imagining the South Coast Rail

Canadian Holocaust Memorial

Stormproof: Design Competition for Building Resilient Cities

Houses for Change

Design for Death Competition

REBUILD BY DESIGN: Hurricane Sandy Regional Planning and Design Competition

Royal Adelaide Hospital Design Competition

Mapo Oil Reserve Base International Ideas Competition

Swiss School Competition

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OFFICE 52 at Carnegie Mellon

Sandy Hook Memorial

Architecture as Political Statement in the Ukraine

Where Ecology Rules: Hsinta Ecological Power Plant Competition

Mussolini on the Spree…and More

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Imagining the South Coast Rail

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