Death by Architecture / Competitions

Competition / International Call for Ideas "Spazio Giovani alla Frontiera" / Municipality of Gorizia, Italy

Death by Architecture — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:27:53 GMT

"Spazio Giovani alla Frontiera" is a project that will launch the renovation of the ex-Civil Hospital of Gorizia through an international call for ideas.

The project is promoted by Italian Youth Ministry and Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia and developed by Municipality of Gorizia - Youth policies Department, lead partner of the project, with the support of Informest, Health Services Company A.s.s. n. 2 Isontina, Municipality of Nova Gorica and Municipality of Sempeter-Vertojba.

The competition foresees the development of an Urban Project referring to the area currently owned by the Company for Health Services n. 2 Isontina, as precursor to a redesign and reorganization process of the Gorizia's former Civil Hospital and recovery of the existing park.

Competition / Manufacturing Identity - Open call for Submissions / Victoria University of Wellington School of Design

Death by Architecture — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Manufacturing Identity is an open collection of works exploring how emerging technologies will impact how creative practitioners see themselves, portray themselves, and understand the role of their self in their creative processes.

Technological advances have significantly impacted how individuals in society construct their sense of self; sometimes as empowered creators and equally as alienated observers. In addition, the personal nature of creative work imbues the finished products with the values of their creator, while acknowledging the technical realities of their production.

Manufacturing Identity invites all creative practitioners (artists, craftspeople and designers) to explore the impacts of emerging technologies on how they construct their idea of self.

Submissions will be made to the website (www.manufacturingidentity.tumblr.com), and should contain:

1) a self-portrait/self-portrayal, indicating how emerging technologies affect their construction of their own sense of sense of self,

2) an approximately 300-word summary of the themes explored in the work.

Submissions will be published continuously during the submission period, to allow all website visitors the opportunity to view work and respond with their own works. At the completion of the submission period a summary of themes will be published on the website. In addition, a physical exhibition of works is anticipated at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

In addition, you can join the group on Facebook, "Manufacturing Identity".

Competition / Eduardo Garcia Award / AIA Tampa Bay

Death by Architecture — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:36:23 GMT

Eligibility
The annual award is offered to registered architects 40 years of age or younger. The Garcia Award promotes design excellence through recognition of young architects with talent, passion, and dedication; qualities for which Eduardo Garcia was known for.

Eddie Garcia | 1938-1984
"a quiet man of principle, who loved life, who loved people and who loved his profession"..

Submission requirements
1. An entry form downloaded from www.aiatampabay.com

2. A Nomination letter from a member of the architectural profession

3. A portfolio of professional, academic or personal work which best demonstrates and represents individual design ability. Sketches, artwork, and other material may be submitted. The portfolio's format and media is at the applicant’s discretion. In all work presented, the applicants will need to clearly define the extent of their participation.

Submission deadline
All completed entry packages must be mailed or delivered to the Tampa AIA Office by 5:00pm on September 24, 2010

Competition / The HuB Design Competition / Architecture for Humanity Charleston

Death by Architecture — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Architecture for Humanity Charleston invites you to participate in Charleston's continuing legacy of preservation and sustainability. As a basis for exploration, the HuB Design Competition proposes that a new light rail system has been established that will provide a connection between Charleston's downtown peninsula and its surrounding communities. Entrants to the competition are challenged to design the two major components of the new transit system:

The Downtown Transit Hub: The new downtown transit hub is a mixed-use building that will be located within the heart of the Charleston peninsula. The building will provide services for light rail, bus riders, cyclists, pedestrians and will also address the growing need for community meeting space, affordable retail and office space. We have chosen an underused site in a prominent location adjacent to the Charleston City Visitor Center on Meeting Street.

The Node Transit Station: The node transit station is a prototypical design that will be located at various locations throughout the Charleston Lowcountry. It is a modestly scaled structure that will serve the new light rail system and the existing bus system.

The two designs should collaborate to create a system of cohesive recognizable nodes for tourists and residents.

The HUB is an idea's competition geared towards the generation of innovative thoughts and solutions that will spark debate and help in the advancement of this rich culture. It will occur in a single stage, aimed towards identifying the most appropriate proposal that responds to the competition's goals and objectives.

The HUB Design Competition aims to:
- Further research into the development of light rail and future sustainable development in Charleston.
- Raise awareness to the needs of our diverse community.
- Serve as a tool for exhibiting the power of design and exhibiting the innovative ideas of the emerging generation of designers.

Competition / New Royal London Children's Hospital Design Competition / RIBA, Vital Arts

Death by Architecture — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:32:37 GMT

There are two prominent spaces within the new Children's Hospital;

The Play Space which is a double-height area between the 7th and 8th floors and the Children's Roof Garden, also between the 7th and 8th floors. As two of the few open circulatory areas in the new hospital as a whole, the Play Space and Roof Garden have the potential to become key facilities for the Children's Hospital. Both areas are dedicated spaces for young patients (aged 6 months – 18 years) and their families. This project offers the opportunity to create dynamic spaces that would dramatically improve the well being of patients and staff.

The Internal Play Space will need to accommodate a wide range of activities and needs. The area will be used for group activities and by children and young people independently. It will be an area for spectacle with performances and events as well as for quiet time and solitary activities.

The Children's Hospital Roof Garden is the only outdoor garden space in the new hospital and is therefore an essential therapeutic resource for the 40,000 paediatric patients, their visitors and staff. The therapeutic benefits of gardens has long been recognised and recent scientific research by the Wellcome Trust has proven the connection between attractive and well maintained gardens and courtyards in hospitals and the accelerated recovery rate and general well being of patients who have access to or views of nature.

We are looking for practical yet dynamic designs to suit the multiple needs of patients. Much of the new hospital design is constrained by being part of a very large PFI-financed building programme. These two spaces, as they are on a smaller scale and outside the building design contract, offer design teams the opportunity to create spaces that are contemporary, beautiful and innovative. They will be signature spaces for the Trust and high profile.

Competition / The 5th Annual IIDA/Metropolis Smart Environment Awards / Metropolis Magazine, IIDA

Death by Architecture — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:21:35 GMT

You must be an Interior Design or Architecture professional (or member of a team) practicing legally in your jurisdiction who has completed a Smart project. A SMART project is one that is leading edge in development while minimally impacting the environment. Projects must have been completed after April 2009 or not previously published. All types of interiors are eligible and there are no square footage requirements. LEED certification is not required.

Competition / Ballet West: Fluid Adagio Installation / AIA Utah Young Architects Forum

Death by Architecture — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:36:59 GMT

AIA Utah announces the 2010 design/build competition--Ballet West: Fluid Adagio Installation (BWFAI), a first-time-ever joint competition initiated by AIA Utah's Young Architects Forum. We are calling on all young designers to step up to the challenge!

Local, national and international architects and designers are invited to participate in this blind competition to create a temporary installation (estimated to be 1 to 2 years) that will occupy the future building site for Utah’s premiere ballet company, Ballet West. The project's site is adjacent to the historic Capitol Theater in downtown Salt Lake City and is currently vacant, thus providing a unique contextual setting in Salt Lake City's ever-changing urban fabric.

The winner of this two-stage competition will enter into a contract with Salt Lake County and receive $46,000.00 for fabrication and installation. Please take time to explore the project brief and sign up today! Entries may be submitted from individuals, teams, design firms or other collaborations.

The goal of this temporary installation is to create a unique spatial experience within the urban context of Salt Lake City. The objective of the project is to provide visitors with an outdoor recreational/leisure area and a much-needed refuge in an urban environment, while making the best use of the pre-existing space and available materials.

The winning team must respond to the program and tight budget, and will be involved in every aspect of the design, development, and construction of the project. The broader purpose of this competition and resulting installation is to advocate quality design and encourage artistic endeavors in Salt Lake City. With this in mind, AIA Utah is providing young designers the opportunity to design and build a temporary outdoor "Adagio" or leisure space. This installation will heighten the purpose and exposure of design within the city and inspire greater design awareness by the public.

Competition / Downtown Fargo: An Urban-Infill Competition / Kilbourne Group

Death by Architecture — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Kilbourne Group is pleased to sponsor "Downtown Fargo: an urban-infill competition". This is an international, conceptual urban ideas competition open to architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects and aspiring students. The canvas is the U.S. Bank plaza and surface parking lot property in Downtown Fargo, North Dakota. The challenge is to envision an exceptional multi-use space that accommodates retail, residential, parking, office, and civic space. The space needs to convey the energy of "live, work and play" in Downtown Fargo.

Competition / Living City Design Competition: Visualizing the Future of Civilization / The International Living Building Institute

Death by Architecture — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The International Living Building Institute, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, invites the world's most talented and daring designers, planners, artists and animators to create a new global vision: a breathtaking, compelling model for the future of civilization. Unleash the power of your imagination to envision a city capable of thriving through the centuries.

Only when we have clearly envisioned the future we must create, will we have the courage to light "the Possible's slow fuse".

Our Living City Design Competition is grounded in our belief that we already have the technical tools and collective wisdom we need to achieve true sustainability. But before we can bring our cities into balance with the ecosystems they inhabit, we must understand what that balance would look like.

This is where you come in.

Each Living City Design Competition team will envision a city that meets all of the Imperatives of the Living Building Challenge 2.0, including its specific requirements for density, shading, urban agriculture, transportation, energy and water use. The end result must be rooted in solid ecological and architectural principles and explicitly aligned with the Living Building Challenge 2.0.

Like the Living Building Challenge itself, any Living City Design visualization must address the lived experience of the city's inhabitants. The beauty of the city and its sustainability must be visible throughout the urban ecosystem. Each entry must thoroughly incorporate the rules of the Living Building Challenge 2.0 document, and as a result must:

- Demonstrate a rich street life based on pedestrians and public transportation
- Demonstrate new green city infrastructure for water and waste;
- Demonstrate a net zero energy and water community; and
- Demonstrate agriculture imbedded into the community.

Competition / Architectural Association - Berlin Laboratory International Workshop Friday 3-Sunday 12 September 2010 / Architectural Association London / ANCB Berlin

Death by Architecture — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Architectural Association - Berlin Laboratory
International Workshop
Friday 3–Sunday 12 September 2010

Post-wall Berlin has emerged as a major player in contemporary cultural production. As a laboratory of lifestyles and modes of production, it attracts an influential community of highly creative people from around the globe. The AA Berlin Laboratory explores the role of experimentation, harvesting this exceptional energy. This intense workshop organised by the Architectural Association School of Architecture explores tools and systems of experimentation, focusing on the idea of dwelling.

No other city has been as enthusiastic as Berlin in experimenting with modes of living. From mass housing to highly individualistic visions of living and extreme communal regimes, Berlin has long pushed the boundaries of what it means to live together. New organisational forms of dwelling, combined with alternative implementation methods, are currently challenging the roles of both architect and local authority in the process of delivering dwellings for the city.

During this intense workshop participants will work both in the laboratory/studio and the field/city, revisiting existing experiments in dwelling and the social ideals that shape them. In search of new logics of living, students will use emerging computational and rule-based design systems to develop prototypical forms of dwelling relevant to the city of Berlin. The workshop will be led by AA and Berlin-based tutors and hosted by Aedes Network Campus Berlin (ANCB). In addition, a public programme of visits, lectures and seminars with speakers from different disciplines will provide a stage for debate.

The laboratory is open to anyone interested in experimental design in the context of this vibrant city. Places still available.

Competition / 2010-2011 Architecture & Design Writing Fellowship / The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow

Death by Architecture — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:31:31 GMT

The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow is pleased to offer the 2010-2011 Architecture & Design Writing Fellowship. With an emphasis on the fields of American architecture, landscape architecture, crafts and furnishings, this Fellowship is designed to support qualified professionals and arts commentators. The Fellowship is open to a range of architecture & design writing genre, criticism, history, regionalism, globalism, public art, museum practice, and biography; as well as to artists compiling a presentation on a body of work.

Fellowship entitles the recipient to 4 weeks free residency at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

For applications and/or more information, please contact the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow.

Competition / Santiago de Chile 2010 / Association of Wines of Chile

Death by Architecture — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:22:05 GMT

In the last years Chile has turned into a leading society in the field of industrial wine production but above all, in the development of the best wine cellars in the world, having successfully merged occidental science and technology with traditional grape growing. Chilean wines assume that it must serve to contemporary taste, while still be an object of design that not only enters through the eyes but through its body that has a sensibility and a unique mixture of flavours. Consistently, Chile has contributed to improve wine style beyond its frontiers, from the simplest flavour design to the most sophisticated, turning into an example of avant-garde harvesting in the world.

This is why the challenge for this competition is to design a Museum that has XX Century History of Wine exhibition areas and also be a landmark for the city of Santiago. To this end, the plot where this project will take place is located at Cerro San Cristobal, since this hill is the most natural and, at the same time, urban backdrop to lay out a natural/artificial product such as wine. This is an amazing opportunity for the winning architect to become well known in a potentially growing market such as design of wine cellars and vineyards of all South America.

Competition / USITT 2011 "Ideal Theatre" Student Design Competition / United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc

Death by Architecture — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:17:30 GMT

Architectural and theatre students are invited to participate in USITT’s Fifth Annual "Ideal Theatre" Student Design Competition. This international design competition brings together the "client user" and the "designer" to explore the possibilities of what a performing arts space could be. Winning design teams will receive free Conference registrations and cash prizes.

Application deadline is November 17, 2010 and the deadline for completing submissions is December 22, 2010.

A jury of professionals will select three projects for Honor Awards. The Honor Award teams will be invited to the USITT Conference & Stage Expo in Charlotte, North Carolina from March 9 to 12, 2011 where they will present their projects to the USITT Architecture Commission. All submissions exhibited at the USITT Conference. United States entries considered for the USITT/USA Architecture Entry at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.

In 2010 teams from Poland, Germany and the Unites States received Honor Awards.

Competition / World Habitat Awards 2010 / Building and Social Housing Foundation

Death by Architecture — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:12:15 GMT

The Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) is currently seeking entries for the World Habitat Awards 2010 competition.

Now in their 25th year, the World Habitat Awards seek to identify practical, innovative and sustainable solutions to current housing issues faced by countries of the Global South as well as the North, which are capable of being transferred or adapted for use elsewhere. The competition is open to all individuals and organisations, including central and local governments, NGOs, community-based groups, research organisations and the private sector.

Each year a panel of international judges assesses the projects entered for the competition and selects two winners. An award of GBP 10,000 is presented to the winners at the annual United Nations global celebration of World Habitat Day.

Details of previous winning projects and finalists can be found on the World Habitat Awards website at www.worldhabitatawards.org.

Please note that Stage I entries must be received by 1st November 2010.

Competition / design is... postcard campaign / AIA Cincinnati - Committee on Design

Death by Architecture — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:04:37 GMT

The AIA Cincinnati Committee on Design wants to start a community dialogue by asking you what design is...

You have a blank canvas the size of a postcard to show us what you think design is...

Be creative. Be honest. Use whatever media or method you prefer.

Through this campaign we hope to broaden design dialogue, share our creative energy, and have fun in the process. We seeking submissions from all design disciplines including Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, EGD, Branding and Packaging Design, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, and the countless other design professions out there.

Perhaps even more importantly we want to hear from those who do not call design their profession, but have an opinion about it. We welcome all to participate.

Postcards will be displayed throughout downtown Cincinnati. The viewing public will be invited to vote for their favorite design.

Designs selected by the community and a local jury will be represented at the Cincinnati Design Awards - Novemember 2010.

Please see our website for additional information www.cincinnatidesigncommittee.com

Competition / 2011 Mock Firms International Skyscraper Challenge / Chicago Architecture Today

Death by Architecture — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

"Architecture that Works" is the theme of 2011 Mock Firms International Skyscraper Challenge which seeks to focus student-design groups on issues involving improving the urban work environment through innovative uses of space, structure and sociology. The desired outcome is the creation of "hyper-vertical communities of commerce" which inspires in form and "works" in function for both internal and external people populations.

THE COMPETITION
Just in its 3rd year, the Chicago-based Mock Firms Architectural Competition is already highly regarded on the landscape of student-based design competitions. The Mock Firms model aims to help facilitate the formation and function of simulated architectural design firms by collegiate and secondary school students. The purpose is to challenge them to conceive, coordinate, construct and even commercialize a tall building project for Stockholm, Sweden which will be interactively judged by top industry professionals against a field of their peers. A discount is available for early registrants.

Competition / Schools of Tomorrow Student Design Competition / AIAS & Kawneer

Death by Architecture — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:35:47 GMT

The design of educational facilities serves as a major focus for architects and the communities in which they live and work. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that there were 95,726 public schools in the United States in 2005, nearly 10,000 more than in 1995. And even in the current economic downturn, the American Institute of Architects indicates that the design and construction of schools represents the driving force of designs fees for architecture firms in the United States.

While population growth is projected to level off in the next few years, schools will continue to serve as the center for education in the community. School districts in the US will need to start building schools that address the needs of their users, needs that reach far beyond the color of paint in the classroom. And these large buildings will also need to start using technology and building systems to help reduce their economic and environmental impact.

Elementary schools in particular have generally simple programmatic requirements and allow for tremendous creativity within the design solution. The challenge comes in making a building that functions in the simplest way possible for the young minds of children, provides a modern workplace for the teachers and staff and promotes the spirit of its community. Kawneer and AIAS give students a chance to meet these challenges in the 2010 Schools of Tomorrow Design Competition.

Competition / Kay e Sante nan Ayiti Open Innovation Competition / The ARCHIVE Institute

Death by Architecture — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Kay e Sante nan Ayiti (Creole for Housing and Health in Haiti) seeks to solicit ideas on housing prototypes that work to reduce the transmission of tuberculosis for a community in St. Marc, Haiti. ARCHIVE encourages (though within prescribed parameters) ideas that vary in size, scale, layout, grouping, building construction methods, structural responses, materials, and form. Five winning designs will be used to build five single-family units.

Both professionals and students are encouraged to participate. Architects, building designers, urban planners, health professionals, researchers, public health specialists, and other interested professionals are encouraged to submit their ideas to the competition. Individuals can submit their name, profession, and background to the website to seek partnerships with professionals in other fields. We are encouraging teams to be multidisciplinary in nature in order to foster dialogue between the design/engineering fields and health sciences. Up to six people are permitted per team.

To raise global awareness of the relationship between housing and infectious disease, ARCHIVE will publish a compendium featuring the competition's best entries, as well as a 'best practices' design development compendium. These will be available via the ARCHIVE website and distributed through relevant publications and reports. Honorable mentions for projects strong in certain disciplines will be denoted. After the project winners have been announced, ARCHIVE will host a travelling project exhibition to showcase the work to various universities worldwide. This will take the form of a multimedia presentation (combining powerpoint and video footage) which will chronologically demonstrate the project's implementation procedure. The exhibition will include a public health lecture and an open display of the most innovative poster submissions.

The cost of registering a team varies according to the country in which the main applicant is based:

$50US for professionals from developed nations
$30US for students from developed nations
$10US for teams from developing nations

For teams with mixed entrants, (for example, 2 members from a developing country, and 2 from a developed country) the required fee will be $50US.

Competition / Advertisements for Architecture 2010 / OpenHAUS Exhibitions + DARCH

Death by Architecture — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

OpenHAUS and DARCH invites design professionals and design students to create an 'Advertisement for Architecture'. The most outstanding of these entries will be exhibited at the award winning Surry Hills Library and Community Centre in Sydney, Australia for the Sydney Architecture Festival 2010, 20 October to 7 November 2010.

Entrants are invited to submit an A0 advertisement addressing:

? How architecture contributes to the built environment.
? The creation of desire for architecture.
? The promotion of a greater awareness of the role of the architectural profession both culturally and socially.

The exhibition provides a chance to promote the architectural profession and engage with the public. It is an opportunity to reflect on how the profession has evolved and to generate creative and innovative ways of communicating the strengths of the profession to a wider audience.

Competition / ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition / Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University & the Woodcock Foundation

Death by Architecture — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:28:12 GMT

The ARC competition invites international teams of design professionals to address new design challenges in the coalescent issues of road transportation safety, structural engineering, wildlife conservation and landscape ecology.

Specifically, ARC seeks innovation in feasible, buildable, context-sensitive and compelling design solutions for safe, efficient, cost-effective, and ecologically responsive highway crossings for wildlife. In the broadest context, ARC will challenge competitors to reweave landscapes for wildlife using new methods, new materials, and new thinking. In doing so, the ARC competition aims to raise international awareness of a need to better reconcile human and wildlife mobility through a more creative, flexible and innovative system of road and habitat networks in our landscapes.

Competition / 2011 8th OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition / OISTAT

Death by Architecture — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:34:11 GMT

The OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition (TAC) is an international ideas competition, aimed at students and emerging practitioners, which is organised every four years by the Architecture Commission of OISTAT (International Organisation of Scenographers, Technicians and Theatre Architects).

Most spaces for the performing arts (drama, music theatre, dance, concerts and other forms) are housed in specialized buildings, built for the purpose.

While there will always be a need for these buildings, there is increasing interest amongst theatre practitioners in the use of existing buildings and settings, which are not purpose built theatres, to present productions. These settings, sometimes known as 'found space', can often provide a unique atmosphere, which resonates with a particular production or style of presentation, in a way that may not be possible in a conventional theatre. While these spaces may lack the technical infrastructure and facilities of a theatre, they can make up for this through the atmosphere provided by the special character of the place, its interaction with the performance and the opportunity to explore less conventional forms of presentation. Many new theatres are also created by converting existing buildings, where the character of the original building contributes significantly to the special atmosphere, and provides a sense of continuity with the past.

These are the basic themes to be explored in this competition.

Competition / Whitehaven Central Harbour Site Competition / Energy Coast Cumbria and Magnus Homes

Death by Architecture — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:20:25 GMT

Britain's Energy Coast Cumbria and Magnus Homes invite submissions to a two-stage, International Open Design Competition for a circa GBP ?10m mixed-use development on a prominent site overlooking Whitehaven Harbour.

Britain's Energy Coast West Cumbria has been working in partnership with Magnus Homes to support the development of this key development site on Whitehaven Harbour as this project directly contributes to two of Britain's Energy Coast West Cumbria top priority outcomes: improved quality of business accommodation and to improve the quality and diversity of housing.

The 2,600m2 [0.26Ha] site occupies a fantastic setting adjacent to Whitehaven Harbour and represents one of the most impressive current development opportunities in Cumbria. Over the past decade, the former working port has been transformed into a thriving marina for leisure craft, with significant investment in associated public realm improvements. The redevelopment of the site presents an opportunity to continue this regeneration via the contribution of an active harbour frontage, with improved visual and pedestrian links to the town centre.

The scheme should reinforce the distinctiveness of Whitehaven, and seek to complement, via the use of high quality architectural approaches, the local vernacular rather than necessarily offering a pastiche of it. The scheme should respond to the context of the harbour-side setting and its marina, but should be mindful of its position between the harbour and the Town Centre, to achieve a sustainable development of long-lasting architectural quality.

Whilst allowing Whitehaven to become known as an exemplar of creative, high quality contextual design, the scheme will have to present a commercially viable proposition.

The design competition is open, but not limited to: architects, designers, artists, product designers, and related disciplines. The Architecture Foundation encourages design teams to suggest flexible and innovative yet realisable designs for this permanent structure.

Competition / Stratford Kiosks Competition / The Architecture Foundation

Death by Architecture — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:07:05 GMT

The Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of an open international competition to design a permanent yet flexible, free standing group of kiosks in Meridian Square, Stratford, London, for use before, during and after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Situated at the front of Stratford Regional Station and hosting a variety of uses, the kiosks will serve as key venues for information, orientation and services within the rapidly changing town centre.

Since 2009 the local authority, the London Borough of Newham (LBN) has embarked on an ambitious programme of public realm works throughout the centre of Stratford with the aim of improving the quality of the town centre for those that live, work, and shop in the area, whilst also preparing to welcome the millions of visitors who will come to the area during 2012. Studio Egret West, working for LBN, has developed a master plan for the area with new public realm designs, consolidated traffic, de-cluttered spaces and major new landmark structures. Design for London has been closely involved in this project as part of the London Development Agency's Olympic Fringe public realm programme.

Competition / 2011 eVolo Skyscraper Competition / eVolo

Death by Architecture — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:24:31 GMT

eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2011 Skyscraper Competition.

The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.

The exponential increase of the world’s population and its unprecedented shift from rural to urban areas has prompted hundreds of new developments without adequate urban planning and poor architectural design. The aim of this competition is to redefine what we understand as a skyscraper and initiate a new architectural discourse of economic, environmental, intellectual, and perceptual responsibility that could ultimately modify our cities and improve our way of life.

The use of new materials, technologies, aesthetics, and novel spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are some of the multi-layered elements that the participants should take into consideration. This is also an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community.

There are no restrictions in regards to site, program or size. The objective is to provide maximum freedom to the participants to engage the project without constraints in the most creative way. What is a skyscraper in the 21st century? What are the historical, contextual, social, urban, and environmental responsibilities of these mega-structures?

Competition / Beaux Arts Ball 2010 - Projection Mapping and Lighting Installations / Architectural League of New York

Death by Architecture — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:44:17 GMT

The Architectural League is seeking individuals or teams of artists and designers to create light installation and projection mapping projects for our annual Beaux Arts Ball. The Ball will take place on September 25, 2010, at the American Academy of Arts and Letters at Audubon Terrace in Washington Heights. Last year, the event drew over 1000 architects, designers and artists at The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus. Up to ten proposals will be selected for display for the duration of the event, from roughly 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Teams may submit one or more proposals for review.

The site, Audubon Terrace, is a landmark complex of approximately eight early 20th Century Beaux Arts buildings in New York City. Home to the Academy, the Hispanic Society and Boricua College, the various architecturally complementary buildings, which take up most of a city block, are arranged in two parallel rows facing each other across an east/west pedestrian plaza. The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Images of the terrace and floor plans of the Academy’s buildings are at the end of this document and can also be found at http://archleague.org/bab2010images.

Three of the Academy's buildings and the terrace will house various projection mapping projects and lighting installations.

Competition / Spies of Suburbia / PRE-Office, Studio-X

Death by Architecture — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:40:11 GMT

On 27 June 2010, ten men and women were arrested in the United States, accused of maintaining suburban American lives for years as part of a Russian espionage ring. As anachronistic as the Cold War now seems, so too is the seemingly fictitious technology the spies are said to have used: short-wave radio, invisible ink, briefcase hand-offs, clandestine meetings. And true to the spy stories of decades past, the saga includes one so-called Bond girl and ends with a minutes-long swap of secret agents between the two governments staged in Vienna. Did that really happen?

The Cold War is largely responsible for generating the cultural climate that enabled the development, growth, and eventual sprawl of the suburbs. Once created, these suburbs supply an almost ideal setting for an anonymous, innocuous cover for reconnaissance. The goal of the infiltrating spy is not to be noticed, to be normal. Where better to live a normal life than in a normal suburb?

Participants in July's Spontaneous Architecture competition are invited to consider the historical and present relationship between suburbia and espionage in times of culturally pervasive war. In today's War on Terror, what if anything has changed? Today we have terms like Sleeper Cells, but our popular media have painted pictures of these cells sleeping in American bedroom communities, and many still fear that urban density only creates targets. How do where and how we live affect how we fight and imagine our enemies?

Submissions are single images, formatted in 8.5 inches by 11 inches (landscape), 300 dpi tiffs. Images must be anonymous, containing no identification of their creators. Submissions may (but are not required to) include up to 100 words of text. All submissions are due by 11:59PM on 27 July 2010.

Competition / Brussels Courthouse International Design Contest / Belgian Buildings Agency

Death by Architecture — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The contest, "Brussels Courthouse, Imagine the Future!" aims at developing a view of the future of the Courthouse in the form of one or more ideas, including the broad lines of an architectural and urban planning project for the Courthouse and the surroundings of Place Poelaert. This is an open and creative international contest. The concepts submitted shall treat the building as a monument and consider the meaning of this place within a contemporary context.

The organizers wish to keep this line of approach as broad as possible. The purpose of this contest is not to submit a finalized urban planning or architectural project to the Belgian Buildings Agency and the FPS Justice but to imagine the future allocation – whether judicial or not – of the Brussels Courthouse and of the surroundings of Place Poelaert.

It is suggested that the participants work on one or on both of the following scenarios:
1. Either a scenario based on a Courthouse (partially) keeping its judicial functions, e.g. the court of appeal (civil section), the Court of Cassation, the Public Prosecutor’s office of the Court of Cassation, the court of assize and the bars.

2. or a scenario based on a Courthouse totally cleared of its judicial functions and to imagine (objective of the contest):
? What appearance would the Courthouse have after an architectural intervention, which must however not damage the heritage it represents?
? How does the above-mentioned proposal integrate into the surroundings of Place Poelaert, for which other development possibilities may also be submitted?
? What would be the Courthouse’s new functions?
? How would citizens and Legal professionals perceive this building once it is modernized?
? What would be the new urban juncture of this building between the upper and lower part of the City of Brussels?

Competition / 72 Hour Urban Action / The Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism

Death by Architecture — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:20:27 GMT

72 Hour Urban Action is an international real-time architecture and design festival. It is defined by community needs, an extreme deadline, a tight budget and limited space.

We invite teams of architects, students, designers, artists and craftspeople to respond to community needs and wants in relation to its public spaces.

Selected teams will have three days and three nights to plan and realize their projects in response to missions assigned to them on takeoff day.

Selected projects will remain on site permanently.

The first 72 Hour Urban Action will take place in Bat-Yam, Israel as part of the Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism.

YOU GET
Up to $ 2,500 for materials
Central prefabrication camp
Sleeping accommodations + Food
Angels Team: Construction and Safety Engineers
Truck + Documentation

FUN + FAME + FORTUNE*
*1st prize $ 3,800

YOU NEED Design and work tools (drill, saw, hammer etc.)
Your favorite materials (optional)
A portable computer + CAD software
Friends (individual applicants will be invited to join a team)

Competition / Diseno Entre Mares / ISTHMUS (Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseno de America Latina y el Caribe)

Death by Architecture — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:18:31 GMT

As a celebration of our school's 10th anniversary and in commemoration of the 200 years of the independence movement in most Latin American countries, ISTHMUS (Escuela de Arquitectura y Dise?o de Am?rica Latina y el Caribe), is sponsoring a competition to submit, through creative far-fetched proposals, new images for the Panama Canal.

This construction is one of the modern wonders of the world and one of the most important symbols of our continent. The crossing between the oceans is an exceptional and unforgettable experience.

How can it be enhanced? What can be done to make it even more memorable?

The competition is open to all and has no inscription fees. Up to three proposals of the intervened image of one of the Canal Locks (Miraflores) can be submitted. The image should be accompanied by a short explanatory text.

There are no cash prizes, but an effort is being done to include all the submissions in a final publication, and to obtain funding for awards which will be announced as available.

Competition / POST FACT: Visualizing Information [curated exhibition] / d3, new york

Death by Architecture — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:13:03 GMT

An abundant range of potentialities for visualizing information has emerged. Data is increasingly being used to generate complexity in the design of graphics, packaging, objects, exhibition spaces, interiors, and architecture. Across the allied disciplines, shaping an experience by marrying visual metaphor to information has taken on deeper meaning in our globally connected world. Inducing complexity to frame a particular point of view that connects, addresses, inspires, or confounds can offer new portals into a project. By seeking such complexity, designers engage critical opportunities to define, frame, and focus seen and unseen forces operating across time, space, and context. Thus, an ability to simultaneously convey simplicity through greater complexity offers new territory for both author and audience. Today, research and diagramming are being applied in unconventional ways. Aesthetically and procedurally elaborate, such methods – on occasion approaching art, offer sophisticated and stimulating tools that provide clarity through visual richness. post fact:visualizing information seeks work in graphic design, industrial design, exhibition design, interior design, and architecture that showcases various research-based methodologies employing data-driven design and information visualization. The exhibition seeks trans-disciplinary work that illustrates the potential for complexity, simplification, and readability by employing techniques and forms of expression that expand the role of information in conceiving contemporary design.

Curators:
Diego Padilla Diaz de Leon
Professor, Department of Art and Design
DAAD, Universidad de Monterrey

Gregory Marinic
Professor, Department of Architecture
DAAD, Universidad de Monterrey

Please send the following:
CV and up to 10 JPEG images to:
postfact@d3space.org

Deadlines:
Call for Submissions Deadline: September 15, 2010
Accepted Submissions Annouced: October 1, 2010
Accepted Submissions Deadline: October 15, 2010
Exhibition Opens/Monterrey, Mexico: TBD Nov/Dec, 2010