Sponsor: University of California, Berkeley Type: International, Essay – Travel and Fellowship competitions Number of entries: 79 Topic: How do Civic Buildings Create Community? Awards: • For the eight Finalists, there is the “best of the best” First, Second and Third Prizes, and five Honorable Mentions totaling 35,000USD. • In addition, and in lieu Read more…
Sponsor: Kaizhou New City Management Committee of Deyang City Type: International, ideas, one-stage Location: Kaizhou New City, located east of Deyang City, Sichuan Province, covers two towns, Jisqing and Xinglong, with an administrative area of 200 sq. kilometers. The New City is 64 kilometers from the urban area of Chengdu and located within the Read more…
Sponsor: The Département of the Alpes-Maritimes, France Type: Open, international Eligibility: To professionals: – Landscape architects, landscapers, landscaping companies and landscape gardeners; – Architects, designers, artists, developers, scenographers, decorators. To students involved in the final year of the Landscape Architecture School. Languages: French and English Timetable: 10 July 2020 – Documents submission Read more…
Create a 2020 Vision for Sudbury’s Urban Core in 2050 Sponsor: McEwen School of Architecture (MSoA) in collaboration with the community Type: International, open, ideas Fee: none Language: English Location: Sudbury, Ontario Eligibility: (1) Design professionals and (2) students registered in a full-time program Timetable: 28 August 2020 Read more…
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Photo courtesy Architects Newspaper The passing of Bill Menking represents the loss of one of our most important voices in the architecture world of publishing and criticism. Bill was interested in all facets of design, and regarded design competitions as an instrument to push the design envelope. My initial encounter with Bill occurred Read more…
Sponsor: Shenzhen Natural History Museum, Shenzhen, China Competition organizer: Engineering Design Management Center of Bureau of Public Works of Shenzhen Municipality Type: International, tender process (There are the Invitation Stage, Open Call and Pre-qualification Stage, Design Competition Stage and Final Evaluation Stage.) Fee: none Languages: English and Chinese Timetable: 22 April 2020 – Questions Read more…
Sponsor: Archdiocese of Vienna Competition organizer: ARGEWO, Vienna Type: EU, open, registered architects Fee: none Language: German Process: Open anonymous process for ideas and realization To register, please go to the organizer’s website below Timetable: 4/17/2020 – Competition registration begins 6/22/2020 – Submission deadline Awards: Total awards – €137,000 Design challenge: A campus intended Read more…
Sponsor: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Type: International, open, RfQ, tender process Fee: none Languages: English, Chinese Process: International firms must collaborate with a local Taiwan firm For details of this project, please download the tender document from the “Government E-Procurement System”. Timetable: 10 May 2020 – Submission of qualification documents Challenge: Kaohsiung Museum Read more… |
SWA/Balsley Wins Paveletskaya Plaza Landscape Competition 
Aerial view at night – courtesy SWA/Balsley 5+ Design
Of the nine railway stations in Moscow, Paveletskaya is the largest and one of the last of those that opened around the turn of the century. Compared to other Moscow stations, Paveletskaya, designed by Alexander Krasovsky and opened in 1900, represented a lower-key presence in its sprawling configuration, similar to palaces such as a Sans Souci without the ornamentation. The original site for the recent competition included a small park facing the station, bordered on one side by the Ring Road. Post WWII, the site was bifurcated by a road, thus separating the front entrance of the station from the grassy area facing it. Read more… 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/
Image Courtesy Network Rail
From Grand Central Station to King’s Cross in London, railway stations have often represented some of the major architectural accomplishments of our times. But those edifices have been primarily located in great cities. In the U.K. there are over 2,000 stations located in medium-sized, small, and rural communities. Most of those are ‘quick stop’ locations, and not the destination terminals where space requirements often result in state of the art design. In July of last year, U.K.’s Network Rail, in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) launched a competition to identify a concept for a design that would be suitable for the medium to small-sized rail stations, at the same time updating the program to fit the modern needs of such a facility. The competition was open internationally and received 213 entries from 34 countries last September. Read more… The Urban Confluence Silicon Valley Competition
Urban Confluence Silicon Valley winner: ©SMAR Architecture Studio
After several stops and starts over an extended period of time, the winner of the Urban Confluence Design Competition was named in early March, 2021. SMAR Architecture Studio’s The Breeze of Innovation, which prevailed over two other shortlisted finalists from the original 963 entries, won with a novel tower-like structure consisting primarily of hundreds of rods, generating energy while swaying in the wind. Read More…
Pedestrian perspective
The result of an effort from a professor at the TUM (Technische Universität München) to restore the Budludzha Monument in Bulgaria, located in a remote location on a mountain top in that country, we discovered that it originally was the result of a 1959 design competition won by the young Bulgarian architect, Georgi Stoilov. Read more… A Flawed Plan Leads to Budget Issues
Competition rendering of project looking south to Mies museum ©Herzog de Meuron
Once considered on the forefront of modern architecture in post-WWII Europe, Berlin has had its share of questionable decisions concerning important urban projects in recent history. Beginning with the rebirth of the Berlin Palace (Humboldt Forum) on the Spree by Italian architect, Franco Stella, and now followed by Herzog de Meuron’s controversial addition to Mies’s 20th Century Art Museum, the times when one could look to Berlin as a signpost of architectural innovation can only be viewed in the rear view mirror.
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