A Design Competition for Decarbonization, Equity and Resilience in California
Sponsors: Southern California Edison (SCE); San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E); Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E); Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and The American Institute of Architects California (AIA CA) and The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)
Competition site: Allensworth, CA
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A sustainable Development Center in Zambia
Sponsor(s): The UN Refugee Agency; NGO PROVS A.C. Competition consultant: Archstorming.com Type: International, open, one-stage Eligibility: Any architecture student or professional architect can participate in MAYUKWAYUKWA: a Sustainable Development Center in Zambia, regardless of their nationality. Likewise, people from other disciplines can also participate, such
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RfQ Application deadline: 30 November 2022 (12:00 KST)
Diagram courtesy Incheon Housing and City Development Corporation
Organizer: Incheon Housing and City Development Corporation Type: International, General, open Eligibility: -Qualifications for participation are for domestic and foreign architects and can participate alone or jointly. -Joint applications are allowed up to 3 people/firms
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Philharmonic after 2020 fire
Sponsor: Government of Moldova Ministry of Culture Type: Open, International, RfQ Eligibility: Registered Architects/Landscape architects (Applicants should be able to show expertise in preservation) Language: English Fees: none Timetable: February 2023 – Submission deadline (Registration now underway) Jury: The international jury will be made up of architects,
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Client: U.S. Department of State Type: Open, RfQ Eligibility: Construction/Architecture teams with similar projects in size of at least $97.5M Fee: none Language: English Process: Shortlist of five teams with site visit and submission of designs in second stage Project budget: $130-165 million Timetable: 10 October 2022 – Request for clarifications deadline 20 October
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Sponsor: Private client based in the Bahamas Competition administrator: RIBA Type: International, open, ideas Eligibility: Open to design professionals and students Note: See How to Register! Fees: £28 for each category entered Language: English Categories – Beach Club Concept, including restaurant, bar and cabana design – Marina Concept, including reception – meet
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Sponsor: The Ministry of Culture of Albania, the Butrint Management Foundation (BMF) Facilitator: Malcolm Reading Consultants (London) Type: International, open (RfQ), 2-stage Fees: None Language: English Timetable: 11 October 2022 – Deadline for questions 24 October 2022 – Deadline for stage-one responses Process (stage 1) The client seeks a dedicated and gifted
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Sponsor: University of California Berkeley School of Architecture Type: International, open, student, two-stage Eligibility: Open to undergraduate students internationally Category I: Essay Competition Category II: Travel Fellowship Competition Language: English Fees: none Timetable: 15 September 2022 – Competition launch 1 November 2022 – Stage I entries due Jury: • Aleksis Bertoni, USA • Dorit Fromm,
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The ACSA has announced the following competitions for students this year:
2023 COTE Competition The competition challenges students to integrate health, sustainability and equity.
2023 Steel Design Student Competition The competition challenges students to integrate health, sustainability and equity. Two separate categories are open: CATEGORY I: SPIRITUAL SPACE
Design “A Place for the Spirit”
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Mission Statement for Permanent Memorial To provide a space that will remember the 58 who perished in the immediate aftermath as a result of the 1 October 2017 tragedy at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada, and those who succumbed to their injuries thereafter, honor the survivors and the many heroes who
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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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