Delta and Porto Baros Area Competition, Rijeka, CroatiaSponsor: Port of Rijeka Authority, City of Rijeka, Rijeka Architects Association
Location: Rijeka, Croatia
Type: Open, international
Eligiblity: Open to all professional individuals and legal persons regardless of their place of residence/seat. The expertize in the field of architecture and urbanism is satisfied if at least one of the author holds a master or bachelor degree. Individual authors have to be licensed architects registered in the Directory of Licensed Architects in Croatia – HKA, while groups of authors have to include at least one such member.
Submission Deadline: 22 October 2013
Awards: Three (3) equal first prizes in the net amount of 26.800,00€ Jury: Design Challenge:
The competition goal is to obtain urban design proposals for the Delta area of the City of Rijeka, which will introduce an innovative model of feasible development, in which qualitative values (the environment), identity values (the history, contemporary urban life) and inclusive values (the society and social expectations) will define the guidelines for the Delta site, triggering the renewal process for other suitable waterfront areas in Rijeka as well as the city and the country at large. The awarded competition entries will serve as an expert basis to produce documents of urban planning.
The competition is being promoted as a call for concepts as opposed to a design competition, thus enabling the competitors to investigate into both the “land-use/gross build-up area” framework as well as the spatial/urban context of the site and propose the ideas which could challenge the general guidelines and requirements set by the Master Plan of the City of Rijeka.
For more information, go to: http://d-a-r.hr/delta/en
students must be currently enrolled in a NAAB (National Architectural Accrediting Board) or CACB (Canadian Architectural Certification Board) accredited architectural program offering a B.Arch or M.Arch from an institution of higher education. Registration, submission and voting takes place on the contest website at www.generationkingspan.com. Employees and family members of Kingspan® are not eligible to participate in the contest or vote in the social vote. Previous winners of Kingspan’s Legacy Competition or Generation Kingspan competitions are not eligible to participate in the contest. – See more at: http://kingspanpanels.us/generationkingspan/contest-rules/#contest-objective |
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Competition 
Image: ©KPMB Architects
Not to be outdone by other Canadian provincial capitals, Halifax has chosen to make its own ambitious museum statement on the city’s waterfront. New museums in Vancouver, BC, Calgary and Fredericton, New Brunswick, the latter two by KPMB Architects, are either in development or already under construction. Saskatoon’s Remai Modern by KPMB and OMA’s Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Montréal were more recently completed, and Vancouver’s new Art Museum by Herzog & de Meuron is still under development. Read more… 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/ Urban Adaptation Competition
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Aerial view of site – Courtesy National Finnish Museum
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View from the south with downtown Taichung in the distance image: ©Mosbach/Rahm
The abandonment and closing of airports, including decommissioning those that were used for military purposes, has presented design communities with several opportunities to convert them entirely to civilian purposes. Notable among those which have been the result of competitions are Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California (Ken Smith Landscape Architects), The Estonian National Museum (Dan Dorell, Lina Ghotmeh and Tsuyoshi Tane), and Toronto’s less successful Downsview Park competition, whereby the winning design by OMA, with trees as the primary feature, has been basically ignored. Instead, the area has become the site of numerous commercial and residential projects.
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