Death by Architecture / Competitions

Competition / Seaholm Intake Design Idea Competition / The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department

Death by Architecture — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:45:30 GMT

The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department is pleased to announce the Seaholm Intake Facility Design Idea Competition. The competition is in collaboration with the Austin Parks Foundation, The Trail Foundation and AIA Austin.

The competition is intended to encourage all design students, design professionals, and artists working individually or in teams to envision and articulate concepts for an adaptive reuse of the Seaholm Intake Facility that is for a park or recreational related use. Entries will be challenged to reinterpret and envision a re-adaptive site and buildings for park related use. Entries will respond to the surrounding changing environment while engaging the trail, park users and the Lake front. Entries will create a vision of the facility as a new community destination.

The top ten (10) will then be on display at Austin City Hall from July 29, 2013 through August 2, 2013. All top ten (10) will be posted on the City of Austin project website. The top three (3) entries will receive recognition for their efforts and their concepts will be incorporated into the next stage of development through a Public-Private Partnership process. *All entries will become the sole property of the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department.

Competition / Competition of Competitions / Storefront for Art and Architecture

Death by Architecture — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:39:50 GMT

Redefining Briefs, Clients and Agents Throughout history, competitions have constructed a relationship of servitude between architects and the structures of economic, politic and cultural power. The competition brief has served as the initial document for the manifestation of desires either through programmatic, economic or formal needs. Often, the role of the architect has been reduced to answer a question that someone else has asked. In exceptional occasions, the architect’s ability to reinvent and produce new desires has occurred in the form of rebellion against the brief.

In an act of bravura, architects have broken the rules, driven by the pure belief that the real needs were contained outside of the given principles. This competition claims that the true desires of our present society are outside of the current taxonomy of competition briefs and that architects should be participants in the construction of the questions they are asked to answer.

The intention of “The Competition of Competitions” is to provide and deliver new and relevant forms of engagement and content to the economic, politic and social systems that currently act as the voice of authority for the development of our cities. “Competition of Competitions” asks architects, artists, economists, philosophers, writers, and citizens at large to create interdisciplinary teams to formulate the questions of our time and define the agents that should pursue the task to ask and commission the visions for the future in the form of a competition brief.

We encourage participants to rethink the format, content and agent/s that constitute the basis for the way competitions and commissions are organized.

Competition / Olympic Campus: A new headquarters for the IOC / International Olympic Committee

Death by Architecture — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:27:06 GMT

At the Lausanne-Vidy site (Switzerland), the IOC would like to: • Create new headquarters for 450 staff members on one site. The volume of the planned building is roughly 70,000m3 with a ground surface area of 18,000m2. • Plan for the development of an “Olympic campus” housing administrative buildings as well as possible accommodation and services. The surface area of the plot available to the IOC is 24,000 m2. This will allow the IOC to benefit from two Olympic sites in Lausanne: one in Ouchy around The Olympic Museum, to host the general public; and the other in Vidy for the whole administrative staff and to host its institutional partners. The administrative provisions of the competition and the candidature file are available for download on: http://www.olympic.org/architecture-competition

Competition / San Francisco Fire Department Headquarters Competition / ARCHmedium

Death by Architecture — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:23:24 GMT

The sun had yet not risen when the sirens began to sound. It was the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906 and the city of San Francisco was shaken awake by an earthquake measuring 8.25 on the Richter scale. More than 30 fires were reported throughout the city as a result of gas leaks caused by the earthquake. San Francisco began to burn, and would continue to do so for four days and four nights. The water network had also been seriously damaged by the quake, preventing firefighters from controlling the fire by the usual means. Yet this did not prevent them in their attempt to save the city, and they resorted to using all the tools at their disposal. They dynamited entire blocks in hopes of creating a firewall, fought the flames with hoses where the supply hadn’t been cut and installed water pumps to use water from the bay to control fires closer to the coast.

The American people will not forget the courage of all those men who faced what even today, after 100 years is remembered as the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. ARCHmedium proposes the creation of this fire station for the city of San Francisco that serves not only to centralize and improve the service but also as a gift and token of appreciation from the city to this department. The new center should not only be a practical space designed to respond to the needs of firefighters, but must become an icon of the city which rose from the ashes and a reminder of the tragedy, a building that not only the people of San Francisco but the entire world associates with the image of the fire department.

Competition / INSTANTHOUSE @ SCHOOL / MADEexpo

Death by Architecture — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:20:45 GMT

The Instant House @ School is the 5th edition of an ideas competition launched by FederlegnoArredo S.r.l. for MADEexpo, in association with the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano. InstantHouse @ School invites designers to develop a new concept for a Kindergartens or Nursery schools in Milano. A multisensory environment conceived to promote learning and interaction for small children.

InstantHouse @ School explores the idea of ecology of the senses based on new form of learning and socialization. Instant house @ School fosters an innovative visual, tactile and acoustic learning environment through the use of new materials and technologies.

The competition is open to all students and young professionals from all over the world, professionals operating in the field of architecture, engineering industrial design and urban planning. All projects will become part of MADE expo Milan fair 2013, visited yearly by 250.000 people.

All entries will be on view at the exhibition at MADE expo, the forthcoming international construction and design trade show that will take place at the Milan Fairgrounds Rho from 2 to 5 October 2013 and featured on the Instant House website. Winners: Three finalists will receive trophies, promotion and media coverage, as well as cash prizes.

Competition / 2013 Burnham Prize Competition: NEXT STOP-Designing Chicago BRT Stations / Chicago Architectural Club, Chicago Architecture Foundation

Death by Architecture — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:14:56 GMT

The Chicago Architectural Club and Chicago Architecture Foundation--in partnership with the Chicago Department of Transportation, the Chicago Transit Authority, and the Chicago Bus Rapid Transit Steering Committee--are pleased to announce the 2013 Burnham Prize Competition: NEXT STOP: Designing Chicago BRT Stations. This is a single-stage international design ideas competition intended to catalyze iconic, sustainable, and functional design for representative corridors in Chicago’s planned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. NEXT STOP seeks to integrate innovative and compelling transportation design into Chicago’s urban fabric. Importantly, NEXT STOP seeks proposals that realize BRT as a system of solutions: each design team must submit designs for three different prototype sites and demonstrate how BRT station design can be adapted to each context.

Competition / Injection Design Award - Naming Phase / Uniteam - Italy

Death by Architecture — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:10:25 GMT

The Naming phase is the third step of co-creation contest “Injection Design Award” and it asks you to find the best name, pay off and description of the desk pad developed in the previous phases.

- Focus on the product : First of all concentrate on the product, a desk pad that helps you to keep in order your desktop and to work more comfortably. It’s simple, easy to use and extremely versatile: you can use it as mousepad, laptop stand and desk organizer when it’s open, as a tablet stand when it’s close. Then, remember how it has been developed: an open community, that includes designers, creatives, engineers and design lovers from all over the world is working together to find new and effective solutions for everyday problems.

- Language : The product is meant for an international audience, so avoid names, payoffs and descriptions in any language different from English.

- Perfect name : Relevant, positive, easy to remember, short, not too generic and not too similar to an other product name;

- Catchy Pay off : A short slogan that brings the attention of a potential customer to the product;

- Product description : Sell it, sell it, sell it! Once we have their attention, we need to make them buy it. Write a few lines that will be added to the packaging or to the brochure (150 – 300 characters, spaces included) where you highlights the main product features that in your opinion are more effective (optional, so... only the brave!).

- Last tips : Give a short explanation of your project to let know why you think your Naming project is the most suitable.

Competition / Search and Destroy / Review Competitions

Death by Architecture — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:08:15 GMT

You must have heard that being a contemporary architect in Rome is sort of a mission impossible. But honestly, who has never thought of challenging this commonplace as a way to truly feel as an architect? That is, without having to care about critics and insults from the token intellectuals. If you are one of those, here is what you are after! A non-academic contest where no opinion from the Fine Arts is required and where everything is possible, including tearing down the Coloseum and building the new AS Roma football stadium in its place.

From the Altar of the Fatherland to the Aurelian Walls, from the Termini Rail Station to the Palazzaccio, from the Temple of Minerva Medica to the Città Universitaria, from the Palazzo dei Congressi to the building of the Italian postal company, from the Foro Mussolini all the way to the new “monuments of contemporary Italian architecture” – either the Maxxi, the new Tiburtina station, the Ara Pacis or The Cloud of Fuksas…we don’t necessarily have to like any historical or important building or think of it as beautiful.

As in Alessandro Baricco’s Lesson 21, sometimes we want to think that that the Ninth Simphony of Beethoven is overrated without being considered heretics. And we want to put ourselves to the test and make it more beautiful. Taking part in the contest is easy; there are only a few rules to be followed: identify a building in the City of Rome which is considered particularly important by the public opinion, destroy it and replace it with a brand new one, as long as it keeps the same value and serves the same purpose. And, as Petrolini made Nero say: “Rome will be born again, more beautiful and magnificent than ever before.”

An iconoclast project, a half-serious game, perhaps a provocation but also a way to think over both the role that contemporary architecture plays in an historical city and the concepts of collective memory, monument and identity. As Rem Koolhaas wrote in Junkspace: “Identity is like a mousetrap in which more and more mice have to share the original bait, and which, on closer inspection, may have been empty for centuries.”

Competition / Calp (Spain) New Ideas for the Old Town / Calp City Hall

Death by Architecture — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:49:03 GMT

The Town Council of Calp, in Alicante, announces an international tendering for new ideas to conceive and revitalize the historical centre of the town in order to promote the restoration of the space, to improve mobility and accessibility and to improve energy efficiency. In short, as explains César Sánchez, mayor of the town ‘we are talking about turning Calp into a better town; a fair, creative, ecological, human, plural and close place. A sustainable town’.

The election of the winning project, awarded with 50,000 euros, will take place by a process with the participation of citizens at 16 or more. Previously, a professional jury would choose the best ten proposals. The closing date for entries and collection of materials is the 30th of April, and projects should be presented before the 15th of September. [All the information in www.ajcalp.es/ciutatsostenible].

The contest is international and open to all the professionals working in territorial development as a multidisciplinary concept. Projects should include a financial report and a report of process of execution with a total amount not exceeding the 800.000 euros.

As Mr. Sánchez explains in the current context ideas became a ‘vital tool’, especially in the local sphere. ‘This international contest wants to award the ideas intending to create changes in order to guarantee a new future for the Old Town of our city and all in all, for all the people in Calp. Ideas generating employment, not only for the promoters of the winning project or the local companies executing the action, but also revitalizing the original centre of our town and as a result, turning the historical centre in an epicentre of activity, a meeting and culture point.

A sustainable town is a place to find opportunities’, states the mayor. The presented projects should face up the economical, social and environmental challenges presently in the Old Town ‘keeping its own essence, identity and idiosyncrasy as a part of the town’, states Mr. Sánchez. Among other aspects, creative solutions in order to attract new residents in this area and to promote the enterprising activity will be considered an advantage. Activity came to a halt despite the go-ahead program created by the municipal team, which included a 95% discount for business licenses. This process should also include actions concerning the cultural sphere to reevaluate the Historical Centre as a place of neighbourhood cohabitation and an attraction to people visiting the town. However, to deal with these questions it is also necessary to act over the impact that the passage of time had without an integral action in the area: It is necessary to reconsider an urban renew with interventions regarding the streets’ design, pedestrian areas, facades, lighting…

It is also necessary to conceive a new structure of mobility with an emphasis on pedestrian areas and the removal of architectural barriers; taking measures of energy efficiency. From the beach to the Old Town Connectivity will be another key element for the jury: the jury will favour the projects with a higher permeability between the historical centre and the periphery around town beaches, in such a way that people living or visiting the outlying areas discover and use the installations of the old town. Lastly, this initiative focuses on social participation from its origins. Apart from the popular consultation that will decide the winning project, the rules of the contest specify that the promotion of the collaboration among citizens concerning gardening and use of public spaces will be considered to be positive.

Competition / Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2013 Vision Competition: Recycling Socialism / Estonian Cultural Endowment, City of Tallinn

Death by Architecture — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:46:20 GMT

What to do with an ideal idea? Should totality be attacked with totality? Can geometric order be enjoyable to live in? What is there to recycle for today’s life and new utopias of the future? We invite architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and university students in these fields to take part in the TAB 2013 Vision Competition and envision the future of an iconic circular block-housing district – Väike-Õismäe ("Little Blossom Hill"). VÄIKE-ÕISMÄE Väike-Õismäe differs from other similar neighbourhoods in Tallinn by way of its concentric plan derived from the idea of a circle-city. The district is positioned circularly as a single, complete solution around a pond in the middle. On the one hand, Väike-Õismäe, which was recognised with a national award upon completion in the 1980s, is a clear underlying structure for further developments. On the other hand, this circle-based plan is also a limitation that gives the illusion of a functional whole, but where – similarly to other modernist apartment block areas – the environment and modern-day life are still searching for a common language.

COMPETITION & DEADLINE

TAB 2013 Vision Competition is an open international architecture competition. The deadline for competition entries: April 30th, 2013. Evaluation of the competition entries and announcement of the winners’ pseudonyms: May 2013

Exhibition opening and award ceremony: September 7, 2013 as part of the TAB 2013 main programme.

TASK

1) find and present Väike-Õismäe’s local quality

2) develop and describe on the basis of the chosen quality a method for upcycling the Väike-Õismäe space

3) show in the competition entry the proposal’s functionality both on the scale of a detailed architectural solution (zoom-in) as well as on an urban-plan level (zoom-out).

We are looking for competition entries that are visionary, find undiscovered values and solutions that express the development opportunities of Väike-Õismäe as an enjoyable living environment.

WHERE TO BEGIN

How to reanimate modernist totality into an enjoyable living environment? How to recycle the Väike-Õismäe plan? How to keep living in Õismäe? What could be the most central value of Õismäe’s existing environment?

Competition / Glorious Sutton - Call for Good Ideas / London Borough of Sutton

Death by Architecture — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:42:55 GMT

Be part of an amazing urban renaissance which is taking hold in Sutton and see your design realized at full scale in a real high street. We want to hear from Graphic Designers, Graffiti Artists, Architects, Branding Designers, Design Students and anyone else with bright and innovative design ideas. How would you evolve a brand for a town centre? How would you develop a fresh take on Worcester Park’s rich suburbanism? How would the design be specific to the locality and yet generic to include all the diversity of the high street?

Competition / 3C: Comprehensive Coastal Communities / Operation Resilient Long Island (ORLI)

Death by Architecture — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:41:43 GMT

The Challenge After Super-storm Sandy, thousands of homeowners in Long Island and the Tri-State area face a critical point in determining their future. The competition seeks creative and innovative designs for comprehensive coastal communities along Long Island, New Jersey, NYC and Southern New England. Existing homes must now comply with new FEMA regulations. Homes that are deemed 50% or more damaged must be either demolished and reconstructed, or raised above the Base Flood Elevation (BFE). These codes ensure life safety to citizens living in flood plains, however nobody has considered the implications that these new codes present to the overall aesthetics of the community.

ORLI asks these questions: What will happen to an entire community once some homes are raised and some remain on the ground? Can a comparable community be envisioned or will the unique aesthetic these communities have be lost forever? By focusing the competition at the regional scale, we can impact local municipalities along the vulnerable Atlantic Coast.

The Comprehensive Coastal Communities competition envisions new towns where proper planning and implementation will render these places resilient for generations to come. The students feel that by focusing on community planning they can make an impact on local town codes. The competition will ask competitors to select a specific community and design a housing typology and incorporate it into a neighborhood block plan. The streetscape including landscape, façade cohesion and zoning are all considerations for neighborhood block proposals.

The jury for the Comprehensive Coastal Communities competition is forthcoming and will be available in the coming weeks but will be comprised of a team of professionals in various fields, including sustainability, build-ability, and resilient design.

Registration

There is no fee to enter. Registration deadline is June 30, 2013. Submissions are due July 25, 2013.

Upon the announcement of winners and honorable mentions, ORLI plans to create a publication of all work to be then distributed to local municipalities throughout the region. A symposium is also planned which will showcase the winners along with 20-30 honorable mentions and will discuss the future implications of storms and overall climate change. The symposium will be organized by ORLI and collaborators and will be held at NYIT’s Auditorium on Broadway in New York City on October 10, 2013.

Competition / Sunshade Competition / International Festival of Art & Construction

Death by Architecture — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:38:23 GMT

The object of the competition consist on designing a itinerant textile sunshade device in order to build it in a summer workshop at IFAC from 4 to 15 August, 2013 in Covarrubias (Spain). The programme is simple, around 70/100 square meters of an opened light shadow device. The use will be very flexible and open: talks and lectures, workspace, dining, concerts...

Competition / Luxury Housing Development in Costa Brava (Spain) / Buildtonet.com

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:27:28 GMT

Buildtonet.com invites architects to submit conceptual design proposal for a new construction project of Luxury Housing development in Costa Brava. The aim of the competition is to develop a luxury housing project for the Russian market. International open procedure. Competition is open to professionals from all countries without restriction of any kind.

The competition is divided into two phases, the first phase where participants present an economical proposal, a brief summary of the project intentions and a portfolio of their best projects -which should be posted on their Buildtonet profile-. The second phase is for the 5 selected finalists who will develop a preliminary design for the building.

Prizes: The winner will obtain a prize of € 9000 plus the commissioning of the project and the construction management. Two additional prizes of 1.000 and 500 € will be awarded to the second and third teams classified.

Competition / Farm to Fork Stand (New England) / AIAVT : Emerging Professionals

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:25:44 GMT

ELIGIBILITY: This competition is open to all emerging design professionals and architects within 5 years of registration, living or working in New England. Entrants may work individually or as part of a team.

BRIEF:

In the past few decades the local food movement has grown significantly; however, local food still only constitutes less than 10% of the total food system in the United States. While farmers’ markets, locavore restaurants, and home vegetable gardens continue to grow in number, there remains a real need for systemic tools to inform the public, promote local food businesses, and facilitate local food distribution. Entrants are asked to design a practical and symbolic center for the local food system in a New England community. The Farm to Fork Stand should actively engage with the existing local food system, promoting local products, farms, restaurants, and seasonal foods through information display, workshops, distribution, events, etc.

Competition / Balancing Pavilion / New Culture Festival Art-Ovrag, Charity foundation OMK ? Uchastie

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:24:56 GMT

BALANCING PAVILION we understand the transformative, possibly mobile object which has one or several points of support, which can be installed in different locations throughout the city. This object can stand on the ground, but not on the base or the ribbon foundation; its part should be separated from the ground. In this case, we are giving maximum of freedom. The more original is the project, the better. Function of the object – pavilion for exhibitions of contemporary art and holding the workshops. It has to be possible to use throughout the year, with period of service no less than 5 years.

Competition / Visions in Practice - Call for Participation / wonderland

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:23:36 GMT

Wonderland – platform for european architecture is inviting young architects to apply for a unique Blind Date! In cooperation with the Chamber of Architects of Milan, wonderland is organizing a series of Blind Dates in spring / summer 2013. In each event, one Italian team will come together with two other European teams to present and discuss different points of view and approaches on a selected topic.

The topics - inspired by wonderland's 'manual for emerging architects' - revolve around the creation and establishment of an architectural practice. The aim is to confront the differences in professional practices in different European countries and in relation to the Italian situation. Just as in the 'manual for emerging architects' the Blind Dates mainly deal with the 'HOW' of everyday architecture.

Blind Date is a format for presentation, communication and networking of young architectural teams, urban planners and landscape architects, developed by wonderland. Blind Dates create a platform for young architectural professionals to present their own work and ideas to the public - maybe for the first time.

The teams will never have met before and their only point of connection is the common topic of discussion for the evening. With these events, wonderland offers young European architecture professionals the opportunity to present themselves to an international audience, to provide ideas for discussion and to make new friendships and collaborations. Inspired by the wonderland 'manual for emerging architects', Blind Date to the following topics will be organized: - Getting Started - Making Mistakes - Going Public - Getting Specialized - Making Competition

Competition / CrisisasCalling / REVERSE + DESIGNCIRCUIT

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:21:54 GMT

Crisis as Calling is an international design competition open to the public that invites participates to reconsider, and respond to the universal condition of Crisis. Crisis as an event implies a breakdown, and the collective response is typified by the attempt to return to "normal." We see this as more than an opportunity for responsive design; we see this as a calling for an expanded role for the design community, and we seek to explore uncharted courses to reveal innovative models for relevant engagement.

Call for Entries

Communicate a proposal that re-contextualizes the space for design to address the definition of crisis. The details of crisis typology and the boundaries for intervention are open, and should be clearly defined by each unique proposal. As crisis is a universal phenomenon with no bias or preferential destination, there are no restrictions to the type of project one may submit (specific location, program, or range). For instance submissions might, challenge urban activism in times of trauma, the nature of informal building practices as emergency response, resource allocation as recovery stimulation, or community dynamics that enable awareness at larger scales. What should be clear in each proposal is how a particular challenge that is common to a clearly defined crisis set can be addressed as a materialized solution to a global predicament.

Competition / Kilbourn Town Entertainment Complex / AIA Milwaukee

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:20:45 GMT

AIA Milwaukee is proud to announce its 2013 Design Competition: Kilbourn Town Entertainment Complex, a single stage local ideas competition dedicated to examining and finding solutions to some of the large design challenges facing the City of Milwaukee. This year’s competition focuses upon the continued demand and evolution of the facilities we design by developing an adjacent entertainment complex for Milwaukee’s main arena, the BMO Harris Bradley Center, capable of providing auxiliary sources of income and delaying the need to demolish the existing facility to make room for a new one to provide these sources of income.

Competition / Call for Projects: Spontaneous Interventions Comes to Chicago / Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:19:08 GMT

Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, the official U.S. representation at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2012), will travel to Chicago in May 2013, and is seeking new projects—urban interventions realized in U.S. cities in the past two years—with an emphasis on those based in Chicago and the Midwest region. The exhibition will be on view through Summer 2013.

Spontaneous Interventions examines the growing movement of architects, designers, planners, artists and citizens initiating their own projects to bring positive change to the urban realm. The exhibition, organized by Ho on behalf of the New York–based nonprofit Institute for Urban Design, was selected by the U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), which manages the U.S. representation at select international events. In Venice, the exhibition featured 124 “actionable strategies” aimed at expanding the comfort, functionality, inclusiveness, safety, and sustainability of U.S. cities.

The exhibition in Chicago will feature a site-specific adaptation of the original exhibition design and will include many of the projects featured in Venice alongside dozens of new projects selected as a result of this open call for submissions. To accompany the reinstallation of the exhibition in Chicago, the curatorial team is creating a roster of programs that engages local architecture, design and arts communities, and is also exploring the possibility of creating interventions on sites throughout the city.

Architects, designers, planners, artists and citizens who have realized an intervention in a U.S. city—and in particular, in Chicago and the Midwest—in the past 2 years (2011 or 2012) are encouraged to submit PDFs of their projects by Wednesday, March 6 to be considered for inclusion in the Chicago exhibition. Submissions should include a brief project description (maximum 500 words) and images (maximum 5).

Competition / The Suspension of Disbelief - A Sustainability Ideas Competition / Cascadia Green Building Council Young Professionals of Portland

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:17:35 GMT

The Problem: Currently we are surrounded by a plethora of barriers to obtaining true sustainable lifestyles. This has come to pass purely as a matter of societal evolution and habitual development. In order to redirect society’s evolution, we must influence behaviors by introducing new environments, systems and lifestyles. Often, in order to make simple progress, one must first approach a problem from the extreme.

The Challenge: Think of an unsustainable condition that you have observed in the broadest context of sustainability. Develop, Design or Redesign a product, space, technology or process that can solve that unsustainable condition. For the purpose of this competition feel free to assume a Suspension of Disbelief, or a willingness to suspend one’s critical faculties and believe the unbelievable. In other words, you will not be limited to existing technology or societal norms.

Competition / Robert Silman Fellow for Preservation Engineering / National Trust for Historic Preservation/Robert Silman Associates

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:16:26 GMT

The Robert Silman Fellow will spend the first 6 months in private practice at one of Robert Silman Associates' three offices (Boston, NYC, or Washington DC) prior to starting a 6-month position as the Robert Silman Fellow for Preservation Engineering at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in its Washington DC headquarters. The 6-month term at the National Trust will be under the supervision of the Graham Gund Architect of the National Trust, and will be an intensive period of work that will include master planning, condition assessments, consultant team selection, technical research, materials conservation methods, preventive and corrective maintenance, contract documents, bidding and negotiation practices, contractor selection, job site administration, and distribution of grant funds for various restoration, rehabilitation, and preservation projects at the 27 National Trust Historic Sites nationwide. Upon successful completion of the Fellowship, the Fellow will be hired as a full-time employee of Robert Silman Associates.

Competition / Remember the Triangle Fire Memorial / Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:13:53 GMT

The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition seeks entries for an international design competition to honor the victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and its legacy. Designers have the chance to wrap almost the entire façade of the New York City building where the blaze occurred. Anyone with an idea is encouraged to submit. A jury of architects, designers, and labor activists will choose the winning design in a two-stage process, with a grand prize of $5,000.

Competition / Kaunas Architectural Festival International Student Project Competition / Kaunas University of Technology Dept. of Architecture

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:12:08 GMT

Kaunas Architecture Festival (KAFe 2013) and partner Kaunas University of Technology Department of Architecture and Land Managment kindly invites final degree students (BA and MA) to participate in Kaunas Architecture Festival 2013 final student work exhibition-competition concerning Kaunas' historic city center derelict waterfronts revitalisation and revival of brownfield teritories with some historic heritage buildings.

This autumn in Kaunas, Lithuania which is situated on the two waterfronts of Nemunas and Neris will be a major architectural event Kaunas Architecture Festival (KAFe 2013). As a part of extensive “KAFe 2013” program is a planned final student work exhibition-competition concerning main Kaunas' problems as derelict waterfronts of both riversides in the historic city center. The exhibition will take place in 11 – 30 October in Zalgiris Arena Catalogue of all selected and exhibited works will be published, printed and possible to acquire during the exhibition event.

Competition / Call for Submissions: In Pursuit of Architecture 2003?2013 / Anyone Corporation

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:02:51 GMT

Since its inception in September 2003, the journal Log has sought to present through writing the kinds of thinking and concepts that drive the making of architecture today.

In Pursuit of Architecture, a special tenth anniversary issue of the magazine, will feature ten buildings that have contributed to architectural discourse between 2003 and 2013. Architects age 59 and younger are invited to submit ONE building project completed or started between 2003 and 2013 for publication in this celebratory issue.

In a 2 MB PDF with a maximum of four letter-size pages, please present concept sketches, plans and sections, photographs of the finished work or its construction, a project text, and client contact. Log will only consider permanent work completed or initiated in the last ten years; we will not consider temporary pavilions, installations, or competition entries.

Individuals or firms that submit multiple entries will not be considered. PDFs should be sent to submissions [at] anycorp.com. Deadline: 11:59 PM, Monday, April 15, 2013. The ten selected projects will be published in Log 29 in a portfolio format that illustrates the concepts and processes of each building. The architects of the selected projects will also be asked to participate in an all-expenses-paid special daylong symposium at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on Saturday, September 21, to discuss, along with several architecture critics, the issues that weigh on making architecture today.

Competition / Life of an Architect Playhouse Competition / Life of an Architect

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:55:53 GMT

2nd Annual Life of an Architect Playhouse Competition!! Last years event was a spectacular success (many thanks to those who participated) and I am hopeful that we can have similar – and possibly greater involvement this year. At the end of last years inaugural playhouse competition we were able to build two playhouses. This year we know that we can do two, but we are shooting for three!!

Competition / PINarchitecture : March Brief / The Tangible Internet / PINarchitecture

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:45:04 GMT

The Tangible Internet : The internet significantly impacts social, economic, and political systems, yet the presence of the internet is generally limited to computer and smart phone screens. The vast amount of information and data contained on the internet is distributed almost exclusively through narrow pixels. How might internet interfaces be integrated into the physical environment? What if weather reports, twitter feeds, and wikipedia entries were represented with objects in space? How might the internet become more tangible? Submissions may be technical, conceptual, practical, and/or artistic. Participants are asked to consider a solution that does not utilize digital screens.

Competition / SOCIALIGHT / CLU Foundation

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:44:32 GMT

SOCIALIGHT / The 2013 edition of the CLU Foundation’s competition invites participants to consider the role of lighting in the urban areas of tomorrow. Think of the future. Imagine urban neighborhoods where there are, for example, no cars, that the territory belongs to the people and that we put value in community, natural, recreational and social environments. Whether it be a citizen, resident or end-user, how can lighting be conceived around this individual with needs, emotions and desires. Professionals in landscape architecture, architecture or urban planning recognize that neighborhoods need to reinvent themselves. We must put aside our paradigms and open ourselves to new ideas.

Competition / HKU Cities-in-Asia Summer Program: Studio SHA-HKG-SIN, Jul 5 to Aug 2, 2013 / Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:42:33 GMT

Studio SHA-HKG-SIN is a three to four-week design and research studio organized by the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture in the cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Taught by a diverse group of faculty members from the University of Hong Kong, and speakers from internationally renowned universities and independent research groups, the course offers participants a design studio experience within Asia’s most vibrant contexts.

Fundamental to the study of architecture and cities is the question of rapid urbanization and innovation on the multiple fronts of society, culture and the economy. For the purpose of this summer program, the three key cities in east China, the Pearl River Delta and Southeast Asia will serve as platforms for the understanding of such issues, in the current neo-liberal world of urbanization, where international corporations have grown far more powerful than sovereign governments. Saskia Sassen notes that it is precisely because cities are no longer within the realms of national politics, they naturally become the new frontiers where the “political informal” can thrive within the infrastructure and systems of cities without overt control.

Through this course, participants will focus on different architecture and building types that have emerged from the current state of rapid urbanization. These urban building types are unique in the way they resist and subvert, or become mutated or subsumed by the prevailing urban conditions of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. The design and research studio would be based on the examination and re-invention of a number of these building types. Participants will have the benefit of visiting numerous cities under-going massive change, exploring broad-ranging issues such as identity, migration, cultural production, colonialism, nationalism and globalization through topics in architectural history and theory. This program will include study trips to the cities of Hangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou and Shenzhen. In support of the design and research studio, a daily lecture and seminar program will further enrich the participants’ knowledge in these fields.

Competition / [RIO DE JANEIRO] Symbolic World Cup Structure / [AC-CA]

Death by Architecture — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:38:10 GMT

INTRODUCTION

Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city of Brazil, the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper. This makes it the 6th largest in the Americas and 26th in the world. The 2014 FIFA World Cup which is an international association football tournament and the 20th competition is scheduled to take place in Brazil from 12th June to 13th July 2014. This will be the second time Brazil has hosted the competition with the first being in 1950, making Brazil the fifth country to have hosted the World Cup twice after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany.

AIM OF THIS COMPETITION

The aim of this International Competition is to design a free standing World Cup Structure in the heart of Rio de Janeiro during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The project should create a social space which includes a live big screen TV, an information area, a cafe, etc... This competition hopes to achieve the following:

_Encourage and reward design excellence at a small scale which integrates function, structure, details and the spirit of the World Cup.

_Research, respond to and highlight the unique aspects of designing an iconic structure that will be used by visitors during the World Cup. _Encourage the employment of sustainable design in all aspects of the proposal.

COMPETITION STRUCTURE

This is a single stage Competition with the aim of identifing the most appropriate proposal, which best satisfies the general and specific objectives of the contest. THOSE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE Architects, Architecture Graduated, Engineers and Students. Interdisciplinary teams are also encouraged to enter the Competition. Submissions can be the work of an individual or a group up to 4 members and there is no age limit. This is an open International Competition hosted by [AC-CA]™ to generate progressive contemporary design ideas. There are no plans for the Symbolic Structure to be built.