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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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Registration deadline: 20 July 2013
Submission deadline(s): TBD
Sponsors: Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, NEA
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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:
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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
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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
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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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