Sponsor: BIM Polantis, City of Suresnes Type: open, international, one-stage
Eligibility: Students of architecture and professionals Languages: English and French
Fee: €48.00
Location: Suresnes, France Timetable 4 February 2018 – Registration Deadline 17 March i2018 – Submission Deadline
Submissions via wetransfer at the following address:
bimcontest@polantis.fr Prizes: 1st Prize – €10,000 2nd Prize – €5,000
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Sponsor: Cyprus School of Architecture Type: open, international, one-stage
Eligibility: Students of architecture and professionals Fee: €20 Language: English
Location: Paphos, Cyprus
Timetable: 2/23/2018 – Registration deadline 2/23/2018 – Submission deadline Construction budget: €20,000 Awards: Winner will be constructed after consultation with landowners Challenge: The Lighthouse competition involves the design of an un-manned structure with
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Sponsor: Bushman Dreyfus Architects Type: open, international, one-stage, public art Eligibility: no restrictions Fee: none
Location: The Mall, Charlottesville, VA Timetable: 2/22/2018 – Registration deadline 2/23/2018 – Submission deadline 4/10/2018 – Announcement of winners Awards: 1st Prize – $5,000 (2) Finalists – $1,000 Community Choice Award – $1,000 Submission requirement: a 30”x40” poster, non-digital Jury:
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Breathing New Life in the 21st-Century Hospital
Sponsors: UIA-PHG, Paris Healthcare Week Type: student, open, international Language: English Fee: none
Themes: • Digital Hospital • Architecture for an aging population and behavioral health • Emerging trends in hospital design • The universally accessible hospital • The hospital and the city • Future-proof healthcare
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Sponsor: YAC / Young Architects Competitions Theme: Conversion of prison to art museum Location: Fortress of Santa Caterina, Favignana, Italy Type: student, international, one-stage Fees/Timetable:
11 February 2018 – €75 (Early registration deadline) 11 March 2018 – €100 (Standard registration deadline) 8 April 2018 – €150 (Late registration deadline) 11 April 2018 – Submission
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Sponsor: Korean Government Location: Seoul, Korea Type: Professional and student Fee: none Timetable: 31 January 2018 – Registration deadline 28 February 2018 – Submission deadline Design scope: A basic design and a working design of The Child & Youth Arts Education Center” in the Northeast Region and “Gangbuk-gu Comprehensive Sports Center” Construction
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by William Morgan
Winning entry ©D/R/E/A/M Collaborative / Wozny Barbar & Associates
“We must look beyond current options and activate new and original ideas,” declared Mayor Martin J. Walsh in announcing Boston’s first-ever housing competition. “The Housing Innovation Competition, “ Walsh continued, “ is a chance for Boston to take its place in
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Playing the China Card: The MRY Example
Chun Sen Bi An Housing, Chongqing (competition 2004; completion 2010)
COMPETITIONS: Moore Ruble Yudell (MRY) has had a reputation as an international player since the 1980s. How did you manage to become involved in China?
James O’Connor: We were first invited to take part in a (developer) competition in Beijing in 2002, the Beijing Century Center. We won, but the project was never built. The client was not that serious, and we never got paid. After that, we said that we would never enter another competition in China. But, what turned out to be a real clientele kept after us to participate in one of their projects. After turning them down several times, we finally relented. That was a competition for the Tianjin Xin-he New Town Master Plan and Housing in Tianjin—which we did win.
 
Chun Sen Bi An perspectives (above)
Chun Sen Bi An Housing Master Plan
COMPETITIONS: Once you have become established in China, it would seem that you almost can pick and choose between competitions and projects.
O’Connor: Right before the time of the Olympics, there were few foreign firms working there so we were interviewing clients as opposed to clients interviewing us. And every time we would go out, we would be involved with another project, or another competition. It all started in kind of a shaky way; but that’s kind of how it evolved.
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Sponsor: arch out loud Type: Open, international, ideas Timeline: 29 April 2018 – Registration Deadline 30 April 2018 – Submission Deadline Awards: First prize – $5,000 3 Runners-up – $1,000 each
Design Challenge: arch out loud challenges competition entrants to design a mixed dwelling development on one of the last undeveloped sections of Mumbai’s coastline.
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Winning design © Outpost
This competition was an open, ideas competition with wide participation from Europe.
Winner
Outpost Architecture & Design, London
Runnerup
Wilson Owens Owens Architects (WOO), London
Finalists • 318 Studio, London • CF Architects, offices in Kent and Surrey, U.K. • Jan Verhagen and Pricille
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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.
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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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