2018 Berkeley Prize – The Social Art of Architecture

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Type: Open, international, essay, multi-stage Fee: none Language: English Awards: Fellowship

12 March 2018 – Proposal Deadline

Process: The Committee poses a Question on this website related to the topic. Students enrolled in any accredited undergraduate architecture program or diploma in architecture program throughout the world are invited to submit a

Adelaide Contemporary

Sponsor: Government of South Australia Type: open, RfQ, International, two-stage Fee: none Timetable 24 November 2017 – First stage deadline (RfQ) (21:30 ACDT / 11:00 GMT Eligibility: The two-stage competition will seek architect-led teams with an initial open global call for Expressions of Interest. Up to six teams will be selected to develop a

Taoyuan Museum of Arts, Taiwan

Note: Tender schedule now available! Sponsor: Taoyuan City Government Type: open, international, two-stage Fee: none Languages: English and common Chinese Timetable: 14 December 2017 – Deadline for receipt of tenders Overview In view of the fact that the existing Taoyuan arts and cultural facilities are mainly for performing arts activities and for small exhibition

Finalists in the Kaunas M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre International Design Contest announced

UAB Paleko Archstudija and UAB Baltic Engineers; Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios; and Adam Khan Architects announced as the finalists of the Kaunas M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre International Design Contest

• 117 teams entered the contest from 36 countries • All concept designs for the Centre were judged anonymously • New M.K.

Adelaide Contemporary

Sponsors: Government of South Australia Type: open, RfQ, International, two-stage Timetable October 2017 – Competition Launch Eligibility: The two-stage competition will seek architect-led teams with an initial open global call for Expressions of Interest. Up to six teams will be selected to develop a concept design at the second stage and will need to

2018 Berkeley Prize – The Social Art of Architecture

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Type: Open, international, essay, multi-stage Fee: none Language: English Awards: Fellowship

Addition to Kansas City’s Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Competition (1999)

The Museum as Sculpture Park

by Scott Cantrell, Kansas City Star Architecture Critic

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View of Steven Holl’s completed Museum addition from Museum garden – Photo: ©Stanley Collyer (2007)[/caption]

Fresh from his much-admired contemporary art museum Kiasma in Helsinki, Steven Holl has landed yet another important museum commission: an $80 million enlargemennt and renovation of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. The New York-based architect, whose choice was announced in July (1999), was one of six high-profile finalists picked to participate in a sketchbook competition. The others were Tadao Ando Architects and Associates, Annette Gigon/Mike Guyer, Carlos Jimenez Studio, Machado and Silvetti Associates, Inc., and Atelier Christian de Portzamparc.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art – Architect: Wight & Wight (1933) Photo: ©E.G. Schempf

The Nelson-Atkins museum is known especially for it collection of Asian art and furnishings. It also is developing an increasingly important collection of 20th-century, including a large group of Henry Moore’s and four large “Shuttlecocks” by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The building program calls for a roughly 55 percent addition to the roughly 234,000 GSF of the museum’s 66-year-old existing structure, a stern neoclassical monolith designed by the Kansas City firm of Wight & Wight. (Other Wight & Wight landmarks in Kansas City include the deco-neoclassical City Hall and Jackson County Court House downtown.)

In a way, Holl’s design—with underground galleries topped by a series of seven free-form, translucent glass “lenses”—is the most conservative (entry) in that it presents the least obstruction to the 1933 building. Holl’s plan calls for a new main entrance lobby off the northeast corner of the present building, to be accessible from either ground level or a new underground parking garage. New galleries will be arrayed in an underground procession down the sloping east side of the Museum’s grounds. The above-ground lenses will house the entrance lobby, a cafe, an educational facility and library.

Art Competition for the Stair Hall in the Berlin Castle

Type: open, 2-stage Eligibility: Artists Language: German

Budget: €300,000 26 October 2017 – Stage 1 submission deadline Announcement in German and English: http://www.bbr.bund.de/BBR/DE/WettbewerbeAusschreibungen/Kunstwettbewerbe/Ablage_LaufWettbewerbe/Ablage_2017/II._WB_KaB_HUF_Treppenhalle.html

Yilong Futuristic City International Design Competition

Sponsor: UED Magazine Type: International, one-stage Eligibility: Professionals and students Fee: none Theme: Oriental Landscape and The Futuristic City Deadline for Registration: 20/10/2017 Deadline for Submission: 15/11/2017 Jury Convenes: December 2017 Awards 1st Prize (1 team) Certificate and 200,000 RMB (approx. US$30,000) (tax included); 2nd Prize (3 teams) Certificate and 100,000 RMB (approx.US$14,) (tax included);

Indigenous Housing in Canada 2017

The purpose of this competition is to raise awareness of Indigenous Housing in Canada and improve opportunities available to design, deliver and maintain housing for remote access Indigenous Canadians.

Sponsors: Architects Without Borders Canada, Manitoba Association of Architects, etc. Type: open, one-stage Eligibility: architects and students Fee: none Timetable November 14, 2017, (2:00pm CST) Deadline

35 years of COMPETITIONS

Recalling Some of the Most Memorable, Both Built and Unbuilt

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.

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/

New Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Terminal, Taiwan

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.

Seoripul Open Storage Museum in Seoul

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.

Take Back the City Competition

Belfast Looks Toward an Equitable and Sustainable Housing Model

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.

Alster Swimming Pool Restoration, Hamburg

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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2018 Berkeley Prize – The Social Art of Architecture

Adelaide Contemporary

Taoyuan Museum of Arts, Taiwan

Finalists in the Kaunas M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre International Design Contest announced

Adelaide Contemporary

2018 Berkeley Prize – The Social Art of Architecture

Addition to Kansas City’s Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Competition (1999)

Art Competition for the Stair Hall in the Berlin Castle

Yilong Futuristic City International Design Competition

Indigenous Housing in Canada 2017

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35 years of COMPETITIONS

Recalling Some of the Most Memorable, Both Built and Unbuilt

Young Architects in Competitions

When Competitions and a New Generation of Ideas Elevate Architectural Quality

New Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Terminal, Taiwan

Seoripul Open Storage Museum in Seoul

Take Back the City Competition

Belfast Looks Toward an Equitable and Sustainable Housing Model

Alster Swimming Pool Restoration, Hamburg