LAGI 2019

Sponsor: LAGI (Land Art Generator Initiative)

Type: Open, one-stage, international

Location: Masdar City, Abu Dhabi The 24th World Energy Congress will be the venue for the awards ceremony and the exhibition of 25 shortlisted projects designed for Masdar City. The 2020 World Future Energy Summit will host a second exhibition and book launch. Eligibility:

Powerhouse Precinct at Parramatta

View of the site from the north bank of the Parramatta River

Sponsor: MAAS (Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences), Australian Institute of Architects Type: Open, two-stage, international (RfQ) Location: Sydney, Australia Eligibility: Professionals; Interested international teams will be required to partner with a registered Australian architect Fees: None Language: English Timetable:

Create a New Urban Pathway

Sponsor: Steel Institute of New York Type: Open, one-stage, ideas Eligibility: Professionals and students Language: English Fees: $150 – Professionals $125 – Students

Timetable: 1 February 2019 – Submission deadline Jury: • Ben Prosky, AIA, New Yrok • Claire Weisz, WXY • Enrica Oliva, Werner Sobek, New York • Paul Bauer, Dattner Architects •

St. Michael le Belfrey Church

Sponsor: St. Michael le Belfrey Church Competition administration: RIBA Type: Open, one-stage, RfQ Eligibility: Professionals Language: English Fees: None Timetable: 30 January 2019 – Deadline for Questions 19 February 2019 – Deadline for Expressions of Interest (EOI) 7 March – Design brief issued to shortlisted participants Challenge: This requires creating a space

Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center

Sponsor: Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Fund Type: Open, two-stage, international (RfQ) Location: Kiev, Ukraine — site of the Nazi massacre of Jews in 1941 during the invasion of the German army during WWII Eligibility: Professionals Fees: None Languages: Ukrainian and English Timetable: 21 January 2019 – Submission deadline for pre-qualifications 3-4 May 2019

Movies in the Park: Garage Screen Summer Cinema Competition in Moscow

Fondation Domus Competition

Type: Open, one-stage, anonymous

Location: Ardon, Switzerland Language: French Eligibility: Open to registered architects and engineers residing in countries that are members of GATT and WHO (teaming with a Swiss firm is encouraged.) Timetable:

20 December 2018 – Q&A period ends 22 March 2019 – Submission of documents 5 April 2019 – Submission of model

2018 Chicago Prize Competition: Crossing the Line

Organizers: The Chicago Architectural Club

Competition Type: Open, Ideas, International

Location: Chicago, Illinois USA

Eligibility: The 2018 Chicago Prize Competition is open to anyone with a vision for Crossing the Line: students, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, designers and artists.

Timetable: 27 December, 2018 – Early Registration deadline 21 January, 2019 – Registration and

Disruptive Design Challenge: Making Homeownership Affordable in Chicago

Sponsors: Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, LISC Chicago, AIA Chicago, Northern Trust, and Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Type: Open, three-stage, anonymous The competition will be organized in three stages: Ideas (Stage I), Design (Stage II) and Realization (Stage III) Locations: West Humboldt Park and Bronzeville, Chicago (Specific sites will be announced at the beginning of

Kazan’s New Garden City Competition

SMÍCHOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
An International competition in Prague

Winning project by Office Ou (image © Office Ou)

The features of a truly international competition were quite in evidence in Prague’s SMÍCHOV School search for an ideal elementary school design: the event attracted 66 entries from around the world, and the winners were a team from Canada and Poland. The sponsors went so far as to even estimate the number of hours spent by all of the architects who submitted entries for the competition (58,800). One can only imagine what that number might have been for the Helsinki Guggenheim competition, which attracted 1,715 entries.

OFFICE 52 at Carnegie Mellon

Form and Dichroic Light
Scott Hall at Carnegie Mellon University
Michelle LaFoe and Isaac Campbell
OFFICE 52 Architecture
Forward by Cesar Pelli, FAIA
Introduction by Michael J. Crosbie, FAIA
Leete”s Island Books, Maine USA
Hard cover; 96 pages in color
ISBN 9780918172709

In his introduction to Form and Dichroic LIght, Michael Crosbie never mentions the term, “wild card,” to describe Office 52’s participation in the invited competition for the Carnegie Mellon Engineering Building. The four finalists, picked from a list of 17 firms, also included three household names: ZGF, Wilson, and BCJ (Bohlin Cywinski, Jackson). So what possible chance could a firm, which had just recently opened a small office in Portland, Oregon, have against a competition lineup of this magnitude? But as OFFICE 52 Principal, Isaac Campbell explained, as a small firm, “we were quite nimble,” and the $50,000 stipend the firms all received to produce a design could allow OFFICE 52 more time to undertake the research involved than might be the case with a larger office, where a cost controller is constantly focusing on the operation.

Movies in the Park: Garage Screen Summer Cinema Competition in Moscow

Winning entry by SYNDICATE (image © SYNDICATE, courtesy Strelka-KB)

Garage Screen, a program of film screenings on contemporary art and culture, was launched in 2012 and introduces viewers to notable examples of Russian and foreign feature films, documentaries, and experimental films. Since its inception, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has selected and shown films and videos examining issues of contemporary art and culture in all their manifestations, rare documentary films on the lives and lifestyles of prominent and little-known artists, musicians, architects, and performing artists, as well as films about the creation of exhibitions and works of art.

A Museum as Entertainment Landscape

The Taoyuan Museum of Arts Competition

The competition for the Taoyuan Museum of Arts is similar to now what has become the typical invited format for major projects in Taiwan. In this case, 14 architectural teams submitted their qualifications, and four qualified for the second competition stage. They were Q-LAB + menacoo architecten, Joe Shih. Architects + Riken Yamamoto and Field Shop, Ricky Liu & Associates, and JJPan and Partners, Architects and Planners + MVRDV.

Repository Library as Public-Friendly Asset

Southern Branch of the National Central Library and National Repository Library, Taiwan

The primary reason for establishing a “Southern Branch” of Taiwan’s National Central Library And National Repository Library was logical: the main National Central Library was running out of space to store an increasingly large quantity of physical and digital items. One might have assumed this could have all been accomplished by building a large warehouse-type storage facility. Nothing of the kind happened here. The site of the competition announced by the competition organizers for the design of a new building was in a small city of 80,000 in southern Taiwan.

The San Francisco Transbay Terminal Competition

City and Developer as
Infrastructure Catalyst

Not since the Golden Gate Bridge and BART has San Francisco experienced an infrastructure project of the magnitude and importance as the recently completed Transbay Transit Terminal. The subject of a 2007 competition won by Pelli Clarke Pelli (PCP) with Peter Walker Landscape Architects, the project is only missing some rail connections, which will enable passengers to connect to many parts of the state in the foreseeable future.

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Welcome Dave

LAGI 2019

Powerhouse Precinct at Parramatta

Create a New Urban Pathway

St. Michael le Belfrey Church

Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center

Movies in the Park: Garage Screen Summer Cinema Competition in Moscow

Fondation Domus Competition

2018 Chicago Prize Competition: Crossing the Line

Disruptive Design Challenge: Making Homeownership Affordable in Chicago

Kazan’s New Garden City Competition

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Recent Competitions

SMÍCHOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
An International competition in Prague

OFFICE 52 at Carnegie Mellon

Movies in the Park: Garage Screen Summer Cinema Competition in Moscow

A Museum as Entertainment Landscape

The Taoyuan Museum of Arts Competition

Repository Library as Public-Friendly Asset

Southern Branch of the National Central Library and National Repository Library, Taiwan

The San Francisco Transbay Terminal Competition

City and Developer as
Infrastructure Catalyst

Welcome Dave

2017 Annual is here!

Recent Competitions

SMÍCHOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: An International competition in Prague

The Taoyuan Museum of Arts Competition

Southern Branch of the National Central Library and National Repository Library, Taiwan

City and Developer as Infrastructure Catalyst

SMÍCHOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
An International competition in Prague

City and Developer as
Infrastructure Catalyst