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 Read more…
The open two-stage competition welcomed both national and international integrated design teams, with competitors encouraged to demonstrate exceptional design talent, creative flair, sensitivity to the heritage context and expertise in sustainability. Seventy-six teams from 19 countries comprising 241 firms entered the competition’s first stage. The shortlisted teams are (in alphabetical order): • Read more…
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Type: Open, International, RfQ Number of Expressions of Interest: 68 Shortlisted for second stage: 6 Professional adviser: Dovetail Design Strategists Winner Coldefy & Associés with RDAI, Xavier Veilhan, dUCKS scéno, Agence TER, Prof. Laila Farah Finalists Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rene Gonzalez Architects with Raymond Jungles, Inc. heneghan peng architects, Gustafson Porter + Read more…
Location: Kiev, Ukraine Competition Organizer: Phase eins, Berlin Number of entries: 165 Type, Open, international Winner Querkraft Architekten with Kieran Fraser Landscape Design Vienna, Austria 2nd Prize Dorte Mandrup A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark with Martha Schwartz Partners, New York 3rd Prize merz merz gmbh & co. kg, Berlin, Germany with Topotek 1 Gesellschaft von Landschaftsarchitekten Read more…
Sponsor: University of Leeds Administration: RIBA Type: EOI, Invited Language: English Location: Leeds, UK The five shortlisted teams are: • Cullinan Studio with Turkington Martin • Evans Vettori Architects with Re-Form • Nicholas Hare Architects with Fabrik and Hesketh Hayden Architects • O’Donnell + Tuomey with Dermot Foley • Reiach and Hall Read more…
From 121 teams comprising 354 individual firms, four teams were shortlisted to provide concepts for the final stage of the competition. They are: Deborah Berke Partners with DAVID RUBIN Land Collective and Atelier Ten Kevin Daly Architects with TLS Landscape Architecture, Productora and Transsolar Olson Kundig with Surfacedesign, Inc Schaum/Shieh Architects with HKS Read more…
1st Place – Infinity Airport Winner: Daoru Wang, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA 2nd Place – Newark Airport Biophilic Headhouse and Community Nexus Winner: Samantha Pires, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA 3rd Place – LondonHeathrow2075 Winner: Christopher Johnson, University for the Creative Read more…
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Organized by the Finnish Heritage Agency, the National Museum of Finland open competition received 179 entries, from which five were selected to take part in a second stage. This was entirely and anonymous competition—even in the second stage. The architecture competition is conducted according to the competition rules of the Finnish Association of Architects Read more… |
An Ideas Competition in Berlin Seeks Answers 
Winning entry perspective Image: ©AllesWirdGut Architekten
Berlin developer HOWOGE recently staged what was regarded as a “planning Laboratory” competition for a model satellite in northwest Berlin. The brief for this invited competition noted that the urban sprawl, which had accompanied the reunification of Germany(and Berlin) in 1989, was low density in character, occupying wide swaths of suburban areas around the city. With previous high density, and now controversial Berlin projects in mind—the problems with Berlin’s high-density Gropius-Stadt as a warning signal—the sponsor here suggested that lessons learned from past mistakes could be avoided with a high-quality design strategy… Read more… Winner Announced for New Preston Mosque Competition
LUCA POIAN FORMS Image courtesy RIBA
Facilitator: RIBA
Location: Preston, U.K.
Type: International, open
The competition attracted over 200 entries from 40 different countries.
Five finalists were chosen to participate in a second phase:
Winner
• LUCA POIAN FORMS, London, UK
Finalists - BLANKPAGE Architects, Lebanon
- Borough Architects + buchhandler-nelli + elca, Cambridge, UK
- Mcheileh Studio, New York (Highly Commended by the Evaluation Panel)
- TABE SHOURI, New York
RIBA competition website:
www.architecture.com/competitions 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/ Astrakhan Looks to Raise Its Quality of Life Index
Aerial view of downtown Astrakhan
Planning competitions with a strong landscape component take many forms, including some for plazas and gateways to major town centers, city neighborhood sites with multi-story housing units, university campus plans and finally, comprehensive city plans—the latter either being for new towns, as in China, or strategies for the improvement of existing cities—as was here the case with Astrakhan, a major city on the Volga delta, and the Caspian Sea. Read more…
Image: ©wHY Architecture
Earlier this year, an article in the Architects’ Journal described what almost sounded like a death knell for wHY Architecture’s winning competition design for Edinburgh’s Ross Pavilion site. When the competition took place, some observers may have regarded wHY as a wild card, in the company of such high-profile firms as BIG and David Adjaye,* There can be no question that they understood the site and program better than their rivals, and it would have appeared that innovation had won the day. Their design could have served to rethink the way in which this site, with its replacement of an outdated bandstand by a contemporary structure, would serve as a destination for Scotland’s public—much as has been the case for Frank Gehry’s pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park. 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… |
