Sponsor: Birmingham City Council, RIBA
Location: Birmingham, UK
Type: open, international, 2 stage
Eligiblity: Open to registered architects, landscape architects, urban designers and students of these disciplines worldwide.
Language: English
Entrance Fee: £50+VAT for professionals and £15+VAT for students
Awards: 5 shortlisted designs will receive and honorarium of £5,000 + VAT and will advance to
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Sponsor: Arquideas
Location:Â Kruger National Park, South Africa
Type: Open, ideas
Eligiblity:
This competition is open to international undergraduate and graduate students and recent graduate of architecture or related degrees, individually or in teams made up of a maximum of four members. Recent graduate means that person graduated within the 2 years before the competition
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Van Alen Institute in partnership with the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) today announced the selection of three multidisciplinary teams as finalists for Future Ground, a competition that is bringing together leading experts in design, policy, and community development from around the country with local stakeholders to tackle the challenges of reusing vacant land in
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Sponsor: Cultural Affairs Department, New Taipei City Government
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Type: 1 stage, Expression of interest
Awards:
First prize – project commission Second prize – NTD $2.5 million Third prize – NTD $1.5 million Fourth-sixth place – NTD $1 million each
Submission Deadline: 14 January 2015
Design Challenge: In recent years, the New
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Sponsor: The California Endowment
Location: Coachella Valley, California
Type: International, 1 stage (student round), 2 stage (open round)
Eligibility:
Open Division – The goal of the Open Division is to produce anÂÂ implementable proposal for a housing communityÂÂ that can and will be realized.
Individuals, firms, or teams from around the worldÂÂ comprised of
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Sponsor: Katus
Location: Svertingstad Gard, Norway; Ulenurme, Estonia
Type: Open, international, ideas
Awards:
Development area in Norway: ÂÂ ÂÂ I prize 5,000€ II prize 3,500€ III prize 2,000€ ÂÂ Terrace house in Estonia: I prize 4,000€ II prize 2,500€ III prize 1,500€
Submission Deadline: 26 January 2015
Design Challenge:ÂÂ
We believe that this
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Sponsor: OISTAT
Location: Berlin, Germany
Type: Open, student, 1 stage
Eligibility: Open to architects andÂÂÂ students of schools of architecture.ÂÂÂ Collaborations between architects andÂÂÂ other theatre practitioners such asÂÂÂ directors, designers, technicians, actors,ÂÂÂ dancers, musicians, or students in thoseÂÂÂ fields, will be welcomed, although it isÂÂÂ not an essential requirement. ArchitectsÂÂÂ or students associated with
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Sponsor: The Museum of Science Fiction
Location: Washington, DC
Languages: English
Type: Open, international
Eligiblity: This competition is open to students, architects, industrial designers, and exhibit designers. Teams or individuals from the United States or abroad may participate.
Entrance Fee: None
Award: $1000
Registration Deadline: 31 October, 2014
Submission Deadline: 30 November, 2014
Jury: The
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Sponsor: reTHINKing Architecture Competitions
Location: Tarifa, Spain
Type: Open, ideas
Eligiblity:
All students and architecture professionalsor related branches anywhere in the world can participate in the contest. Participation can be individual or in groups, being eight (8) the maximum number of members. Team members can be from all disciplines (artists, philosophers, photographers, etc.), without being
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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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