Institutional Subscriptions 2The Competitions Project offers institutional subscriptions. With an institutional subscription, users have full access to the competitions.org website when accessing the site via the institution’s network without needing a login. This service is designed to meet the needs of libraries but is open to other institutions as well. An institutional subscription provides:
- an unsharable administrative login (with user name, email address, and password) and
- a sharable institutional login (with separate user name, email address, and password)
- no-login-needed access to the competitions.org website when accessing the site via the institution’s network using IP address authentication
- login required access to the competitions.org website when accessing the site via the internet
- a small number of additional unsharable logins if requested
- a small additional ezine and newsletter subscriptions if requested
The weekly Competitions newsletters and monthly ezines are delivered to the email address of the institutional account. The sharable institutional user name and password can be used to access the full competitions.org website from computers not on the institution’s network or when IP address authentication is not possible. Subscription renewal and other administrative email are delivered to the email address of the administrative account. The ezine and newsletter can be delivered to the administrative email address if desired by sending a request to scollyer@competitions.org. The administrative user name and password can be used to access the administrative “profile page” [ Profile Page ] which is used to update billing information, IP address block information, and contact information. By default, login user names are the email address of the login but can be changed by request.
FAQ
Q: It’s not working. What do I do?
A: Ask your librarian or other administrator to contact us. If you are the librarian or administrator, please contact us at scollyer@competitions.org with the IP address block with user name and email address for both the administrative and institutional accounts. (See below)
Q: What is a “profile page”?
A: It is the an administrative web page. Once logged in with the administrative user name and password, a librarian or other administrator can update contact, billing, IP address block, and other information. Passwords can also be changed. The profile page is at [ Profile Page ]. Be sure to login with the administrative user name and password. The institutional user name and password can only be used to access the competitions articles, interviews, etc.
Q: What is the IP address block?
A: The no-login-needed feature of an institutional subscription requires that the institution’s network access the competitions.org server from a known set of IP addresses. Your institution’s network administrators choose these addresses and thus have this information. Please keep the number of requested address blocks small. A few large blocks are faster to check and easier to administer on our end.
Q: How can I check what IP address my proxy, etc server is using?
A: That is a matter for network administrators. But the COMPETITIONS server shows that you are currently using IP address: 52.23.219.12
Q: I updated the IP address block and it is correct but no-login-needed is still not working. What is wrong?
A: Updating the IP address block requires a manual OK by the COMPETITIONS website administrator so there is a time delay. But also check your IP address and other information listed at the bottom of this page. If the IP address listed is not in your address block then no-login-needed will not work. It is possible that the IP address information is being lost due to proxy servers or … . Your current IP address as seen by this (the COMPETITIONS) server is
Your current IP address: 52.23.219.12
Your alternative IP address: [new_show_ip]
If your IP address block does not include this address, no-login access will not work.
Q: Help!! I set the IP block addresses in my profile page and …!
A: Please paste the above IP address and your login email address plus contact information and send it to us using the below contact form.
Thanks and our apologies for your difficulties.
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The Chicago Architecture Club Shines the Spotlight on Another Endangered Landmark 
Public Pool Image: ©Perkins&Will
What do Bertrad Goldberg and Helmut Jahn have in common? Besides having high-profile buildings threatened by demolition, both served as subject matter for two competitions sponsored by the Chicago Architecture Club (CAC)—raising public consciousness about their impending fate. They both produced buildings in a city famous for its architecture that have been abandoned: Goldberg’s Future Prentice Women’s Hospital, demolished in 2014 after a valiant effort by preservationists to save it from the wrecking ball; and Jahn’s Thompson Center, now the object of a similar effort by the State of Illinois to sell it to a developer. Read more… 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/ 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 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… Hightech Designs as Low- and Mid-Rise Research Models Siemens Healthineers Campus, Bengaluru 
Aerial View of site, Rendering: ©Eller + Eller Architekten
Siemens new Healthineers campus in Bengaluru, India, is hardly a milestone in the design of major R&D facilities. Although the winning design by Eller + Eller Architekten did include the necessity to go higher than the 2- to 4-story models we often find, whether in Silicon Valley, Detroit, or in Munich, the relatively small site for such a large program did ask for that campus feel, asking the competitors to focus on the interdisciplinary factor as well as sustainability and cost.
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