Sponsor: NuGen Type: International, open, 2 stage First stages are digital and anonymous Fee: 50£ + VAT (for each competition) Eligibility: Licensed architects and landscape architects Timetable: 1 March 2016 – First stage submittals in digital format Jury: Sir Terry Farrell – Architect and Town Planner Peter Shepherd – Ecologist Kate Bailey – Landscape Architect
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Sponsor: Municipality of Pristina, Kosovo Type: Expression of Interest (EOI in phase I) and competition Eligibility: Licensed architects and landscape architects (phase II) Languages: English and Albanian Awards 1st Prize – 45,000 Euros 2nd Prizes (2) 10,000 each Each shortlisted team will receive 7,000 Euros Timetable 25 November 2015 (9AM local time) – Deadline for
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Sponsor: CTBUH 2017 Student Design Competitions
Format: 2 competitions: design and research
CTBUH 2017 Student Design Competition Registration Deadline: July 17th Submission Deadline: July 24th This competition, kindly sponsored by Wood Bagot, seeks solutions to the challenges of modern tall buildings including mass urbanization; climate change; etc. in order to connect the multiple layers of
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Sponsor: City of Kaunas, Lithuania
Type: open, international, anonymous, one-stage
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania
Languages: English, Lithuanian
Eligibility: Licensed architects, engineers, etc.
Competition adviser: Malcolm Reading Consultants
Fee: none
Jury: TBD
Timetable:
Launch: early summer 2017
Interested architects and designers are invited to visit
https://competitions.malcolmreading.co.uk/kaunasconcertcentre/
to sign up and receive notification of the competition launch.
To Design and implement a transformational gateway project Canal Street Triangle in Manhattan’s Chinatown
Sponsors: Van Alen Institute; Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
Type: open, international, anonymous, one-stage
Location: Chinatown, New York City Fee: US$50 Languages: English Eligibility: architects, engineers, designers, etc.
Jury: TBD Timetable: 19 June 2017 – Submission deadline Challenge: The project will provide
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Sponsor: Europan Europe
Type: open, anonymous, one-stage
Language: English
Eligibility: EU
Timetable:
19 June 2017 – Deadline for registration
30 June 2017 – Deadline for submissions
1 December 2017 – Results of jury proceedings
Awards:
First prize – €12,000
Second prize – €6,000
Fees: €150; additional entries by same teams are €50
Challenge
The ideology
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Sponsor: City of Trondheim, Norway Organizer: Association of Norwegian Architects Type: open, EU Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish Fee: none Challenge: The assignment is to give Kjøpmannsgata an overall design that links the different urban areas, connects the area to its surroundings the city to the river. Kjøpmannsgata shall be a sustainable area for many activities
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Sponsor: Rethinking Architecture Competitions Type: open, international, one-stage Language: English
Timetable 3 May 2017 – Early registration ends 25 May 2017 – Regular registrations ends 14 June 2017 – Late registration and FAQ ends 14 June 2017 – Submission deadline Fees: Early registration – €40 Regular registration – €70 Advanced regiatration – €90 Awards: 1ST
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Sponsor: Competitions for Designers Type: open, international, ideas Language: English Timetable: 27 March 2017 – Deadline for early registration (€50) 25 April 2017 – Deadline for standard registration (€75) 24 May 2017 – Deadline for late registration (€100) 31 May 2017 – Deadline for submissions Awards: 1st prize €5,000 2nd prize €2,000 3rd prize €1,000
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Sponsor: Young Architects Competitions Type: open, international, ideas Fee: none Eligibility: Teams must at least one competitor between the ages of 18 and 35 Languages: English Timetable: 28 March 2017 – Deadline for early registration (€50) 26 April 2017 – Deadline for standard registration (€75) 24 May 2017 – Deadline for late registration (€100) 31
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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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