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

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.

Adelaide Contemporary Art Museum Winner Announced

Diller Scofidio Renfro’s solid and compelling design for Adelaide’s new Museum of Contemporary Art prevailed over a strong field of five international teams. As a high-profile project, it could come as no surprise that the original RfQ drew 107 teams including over 500 firms—before the shortlisting process whittled a list of finalists down to six teams. This organization format occurred under the guidance of the professional adviser, Malcolm Reading Consultants.

Maiden Memorial Competition

Winning entry by MIstudio

The demonstrations in Kiev in 2013-14, which led to the fall of the Russian-friendly Yanukovych regime, cannot be completely understood without knowledge of the history of the the Ukraine, its people and culture. Let it suffice to say that the Ukranians, who speak their own Slavic language, have gravitated toward western Europe, especially culturally, ever since the middle ages.

As Europe’s breadbasket in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, the Ukraine’s troubled relationship as a region within the Soviet Union after 1918 was exacerbated by the Stalin purges and grain export controls leading to the deadly famine of the 1930s (See our coverage of the Holomodor Memorial competition in Washington, DC. commemorating the deaths of millions in the Ukraine during this period: https://competitions.org/2016/11/national-holomodor-memorial/)

The Aalto Connection

A Famous Name Attracts 674 Entries

Winning entry by Sini Rahikainen, Hannele Cederström, Inka Norros, Kirsti Paloheimo, Maria Kleimola
Images courtesy © Alvar Aalto Foundation

Extensions to buildings are normally regarded as significant projects by most architects, whereas linking two existing structures might appear as a lesser priority. On rare occasion of such a significant linkage, which took place between two buildings at Pratt Institute in New York was the project by Steven Holl, which had to deal with differing floor levels in fitting the connection to the two structures.

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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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Recent Competitions

Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve Results

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