Sponsors: Romanian Government Facilitator: Elie Weisel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania Type: Open, international Location: Banloc-Goodrich Palace (also know as the “Red Building”), Bucharest, Romania Eligibility: Languages: English, Romanian Fees: None (Compensation: Each team to receive £6,000 for documents delivery) Timetable: 19 October 2020 – Site visit (Register by 10/16/2020)
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Sponsors: Balfour Beatty and Leeds City Council Facilitator: RIBA Type: Expressions of Interest (EOI), shortlist Eligibility: UK and Europe-based Landscape architect-led multi-disciplinary design teams Language: English Fees: None (Compensation: Each team to receive £6,000 for documents delivery) Timetable: 27 October 2020 – Expression of Interest deadline Budget and fees: The Client has identified a direct
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Type: International Design Competition Location: Yerevan, Armenia RfQ, Expressions of Interest with shortlist of three (3) finalists Fee: none Budget: €25M Language: English Compensation: The three shortlisted teams will each receive a stipend of €20,000. In addition the sponsor will also cover travel and lodging expenses for two key members of each team for a
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Sponsor: NuGen Type: International, open, 2 stage First stages are digital and anonymous Fee: 50£ + VAT (for each competition) Eligibility: Licensed architects and landscape architects Timetable: 1 March 2016 – First stage submittals in digital format Jury: Sir Terry Farrell – Architect and Town Planner Peter Shepherd – Ecologist Kate Bailey – Landscape Architect
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Sponsor: Municipality of Pristina, Kosovo Type: Expression of Interest (EOI in phase I) and competition Eligibility: Licensed architects and landscape architects (phase II) Languages: English and Albanian Awards 1st Prize – 45,000 Euros 2nd Prizes (2) 10,000 each Each shortlisted team will receive 7,000 Euros Timetable 25 November 2015 (9AM local time) – Deadline for
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To the Competition Participants:First of all, please accept my deep apologies for the situation.The tendering procedure of New SkyRider International Competition project, conducted by Urban and Rural Development Department, New Taipei City Government (hereinafter referred to as ”Agency”) has been suspended due to the project site, located in the Wenzizhen Redevelopment Zone, cannot be obtained
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Sponsor: RIBA
Location: Surrey, UK
Type: Open
Eligibility: Registered architects, designers and landscape architects,(students of these disciplines may also apply) based in the UK.
Awards: Each shortlisted designer will receive an honorarium of £3,000 + VAT.
Timeline: Wednesday 27 January 2016 – Phase 1 submissions deadline
Design Challenge: The competition is seeking designs for a
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Sponsor: Nka Foundation Location: Ghana Type: Open, ideas, international Language: English Eligibility: An individual or a design team can submit an entry to the Designing for the Arts competition. The individual participant can be a student or a graduate since 31st January 2010 and the design team can be two or more persons. A team
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Sponsor:Â The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has invited expressions of interest for the redevelopment of 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, which will be known as the Paul Marshall Building.
Type:Â Open, RfQ, International
Language:Â English
Project budget:Â £100M
Process
The Design Competition is a two-stage process. Expressions of Interest will be sought
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(Mies van der Rohe’s Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts)
Sponsor: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Location: Berlin, Germany
Type: Open, ideas
Entrance Fee: None
Awards: The total competition money available amounts to 260,000 euros plus VAT. 10-20 equivalent prizes of 13,000 to 26,000 euros each are planned to be awarded.
Languages: English, German
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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.
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.
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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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