About Competitions
What is COMPETITIONS?
The new Competitions-Archive LLC is a successor entity to the non-profit The Competition Project, Inc., which was founded in 1986, and was a pioneering, non-profit corporation serving as a clearinghouse for information and ideas on design competitions, in the United States as well as abroad. From 1991 to 2010, it was the publisher of COMPETITIONS, a quarterly magazine dealing exclusively with design competitions on an international scale and having a world-wide circulation. Since 2010, the Competition Project published a monthly COMPETITIONS E-zine, reviewing past competitions and announcing upcoming design competitions in architecture, landscape architecture and planning. It was supplemented by instant email notices about results and new competitions as we heard about them. Subscribers also received a comprehensive yearly publication, COMPETITIONS Annual, which reverted from a print format to digital format in 2016. All this provided our subscribers with a handy reference source on past competitions, which were covered by the E-zine over the course of the year.
As of March 16, 2020, with the dissolution of the non-profit corporation, all rights to the competitions website, competitions.org, have become the property of the new entity created for that purpose, Competitions-Archive LLC.
BACK ISSUES INDEX
For a complete index of back issues of COMPETITIONS magazine, visit the website STORE. Back issues are now available to purchase. Some of those no longer in print are available in PDF format. Competition participants featured in the magazine may purchase copies for $10.00 an issue, plus shipping if an overseas order. The discount for shipping will not appear in the webstore, but will be applied before credit card processing.
Back issues of the COMPETITIONS Annual can be purchased online, https://competitions.org.
EDITORS
G. Stanley Collyer, PhD, Hon. AIA, Editor-in-Chief
Daniel Madryga, MS Arch, Website editor
Technical specialists
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David Gurr, Website creator
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Bill Liskamm FAIA (San Rafael, CA)
William Morgan, PhD (Providence, RI)
George Thomas Kapelos FRAIC (Toronto, Ontario)
Paul D. Spreiregen FAIA (Washington, DC)
Brian Carter,FRSA (SUNY Buffalo), author
Frederick Borck, Berlin, Germany
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David Gurr, Website creator
Past Board Members
Armand Ostroff, CPA, President
Robert Kissinger, AIA
Randy Reifsnider AIA
Grady Clay, Editor and author
James Walters, AIA
David Horvath, Archivist
Kimberly Greene, Attorney
Henry Kuehn, President
Jan Grayson, CPA
Susan Rademacher, FASLA
Graziella Bush, Columbus, Indiana
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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/
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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A Church Ruin as Reconciliation Memorial
View of winning design from south ©Heninghan Peng Architects
For those tourists visiting Berlin today, the sudden approach to the ruins of a 1895 church building located on the city’s downtown Breitscheidplatz would certainly arouse their curiosity. One of the few remaining relics of World War II in the city, the church has now been the subject of a competition: Redesign and renovation of the Old Tower of the Friedrich Wilhelm Memorial Church (Umgestaltung des Alten Turms der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächnis-Kirche).
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