Xingdong New Area Urban Design Competition: City of the Future

Winning entry by Cui Kai (© Cui Kai)

 

Master plans have been around for ages; but master plans for very large cities with all their support systems are relatively new. Milton Keynes (MK), located in Buckinghamshire in southern England, and begun in the late 1960s, is one of the most successful of the

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Powerhouse Parramatta International Competition Results

 

Type: Open, RfQ, two-stage Location: Sydney, Australia Number of RfQ submissions: 74 teams entered

Winner:

Moreau Kusunoki (Paris) and Genton(Sydney)

 

Finalists:

• AL_A (UK) and Architectus (Australia)

• Bernardes Architecture(Brazil) and Scale Architecture (Australia)

• BVN Architecture(Australia) and Carlo Ratti Associati (Italy)

• CHROFI (Australia) withReko Rennie (Australia)

• Steven

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Cheongju New City Hall, So. Korea

 

Sponsor: Cheongju City government Type: International, open, two-stage Fee: None Languages: English and Korean

Process: In open competition Phase 1, five teams will be shortlisted to participate in Phase 2.

In addition to those five teams, three firms have been preselected to also participate in Phase 2: Snøhetta, Daniel Libeskind and Dominique Perrault.

Schedule:

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Investigating Chicago’s Most Complex Infrastructure Issue

 

The O’Hare International Airport Competition

 

Winning entry – Studio-ORD

 

The updating and modernization of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport has been well overdue. Aside from occasional problems caused by Chicago’s winter storms, congestion at the airport has led air travelers to avoid the airport when catching a connecting flight is on the agenda.

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A Vision of the Future: Heath Park Design Competition

 

Sponsor: SOG Ltd. Competition coordinator: RIBA Type: Open, International, two-phase, anonymous Location: The Heath Business & Technical Park, Runcorn, U.K. Language: English Fees: £30

Process: Up to 12 competitors will be interviewed to reduce the number of entrants to the second phase to three (3) The competitors invited to interview will receive up to

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ARCHITECTURE AT ZERO: Library Competition

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A Quest to Memorialize a Serious Hate Crime: The Pulse Memorial Competition

Winning entry by Coldefy & Associés (image © Coldefy & Associés)

 

In these times when political emotions run high and gun violence is the norm, not the exception; and when emotions no longer are held in check, but encouraged by our leaders, minorities become easy targets for those who adhere to ideologies based

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Green City Kigali, Republic of Rwanda

Selection of Urban and Architectural Design Consultant organization to undertake Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Architectural Design Services

 

Sponsors:Rwanda’s Green Fund (FONERWA), KfW Development Bank and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Type: International, RfQ, two-stage Language: English Fee: None

Eligibility: Through the design competition, the selection process is seeking to appoint an experienced and

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Almetyevsk (Russia) Urban Planning Competition

 

Type: RfQ, open, International, 2-stage Fee: None

Languages: Russian and English Eligibility: Registered architects, planners, etc. Process: and awards The three teams generated from a shortlisting format that advance to the competition stage of the contest will each be compensated with a stipend of 2,500i,000 rubles (approx. USD 40,000)

The following awards will be

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Urban Confluence Deadline Extended

 

Notice:

The submission deadline has been extended to April 3, 2020

 

“The Submission requirements are being revised to allow more flexibility and creativity. We will now allow two boards instead of one. In addition, other revisions to the submission requirements will allow entrants more freedom to present the attributes of their project. All

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