posted 18/05/2010
FORTHcoming competitions
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - CAMPUS DESIGN LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY
Lueneburg, Germany
The Leuphana University of Lueneburg invites landscape architects to
re-design the existing 15ha Campus in conjunction with a proposed new
key building designed by Daniel Libeskind. The competition is a closed
invitation process with 5 participants following an international open
application procedure. The invited participants will be asked to submit
a masterplan (deadline Sept 6, 2010) and also to make themselves
available for a week in October to present and discuss the masterplan
with students at the Leuphana Fresher’s week, as well as support groups
of students in associated projects.
Deadline for Application is June 1, 2010
Further information:
http://www.leuphana.de/en/aktuell/ausschreibungen/auftraege-und-leistungen/landscape_architecture.html
Contact: leuphana@phase1.de
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Posted 4/05/2010
FIRST SANTA & COLE LANDSCAPE COMPETITION
Within the framework of the 6th European Landscape Biennial, we invite
you to participate to the First Santa&Cole Award, co organized by
Santa&Cole, the European Biennial of Landscape Architecture and the
Spanish Landscape Architects Association.This first competition will
reward the landscape architecture intervention in the Valle de Sant
Pere, within the Belloch property, situated in the municipality of La
Roca del Vallés, Barcelona.The surface area subject to the intervention
is of 10 Ha and the proposal should focus on a project, which resolves
the connections, and a coherent coexistence between this plot, the
adjacent cultural complex existing, the historical buildings, and the
different current and future uses. The winning competitor or team will
be entrusted with the assignment of drafting the final design
corresponding to their proposal.
www.santacoleconcursopaisajismo.com
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SOLAR PARK SOUTH
Italy
Regione Calabria - Town Planning and Territorial Governance Department
- announces the first “Zero Emission” international competition, Solar
Park South, fully managed online by means of the portal
www.newitalianblood.com. Participants are requested to provide
economically, energetically and culturally sustainable projects and
innovative ideas for the reuse of an imposing 10-km highway stretch,
between the municipalities of Scilla and Bagnara, soon to be
decommissioned. Participation is open to architects, landscape
architects, engineers, designers, artists, scientists, researchers and
students worldwide.
Prizes
First Prize: 20,000 Euros. Second Prize: 7,500 Euros. Third Prize:
2,500 Euros
Up to 10 Honourable Mentions
Timetable
Online free registrations are open from 15 May to 15 July 2010
Projects can be self-published online from 15 July to 30 July 2010
Website & Info: www.parcosolaresud.it - info@parcosolaresud.it
Posted 15/03/2010
FORTHcoming competitions
Now that the City of New York has
decided to make the pedestrian plazas
in Times Square permanent, the
New York City Department of
Transportation (DOT), in
partnership with the Times Square Alliance, has issued a Request for Proposals for conceptual designs of short-term
“refreshes” of the plazas. The alternate designs, once
implemented, are expected to be operational for eight months, beginning
in mid-July. Proposal submission deadline is April 16th.
The competition is taking place in tandem with a separate design
process for a permanent reconstruction project, to begin in 2012 in
partnership with the Department of Design and
Construction and under the
umbrella of the Mayor’s Greenlight for Midtown program.
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The James Rose Center has announced a competition titled Suburbia
Transformed, One Garden at a Time, an assemblage of landscape
architecture projects that exemplify Rose's modus operandi of combining
economical, site efficient, and ecological approaches with a modern
aesthetic. Rose termed his designs, "Space-Sculptures-with-Shelters."
For most, James Rose is remembered as one of three Harvard Students who
rebelled against their Beaux Arts training in the 1930s, helping to
usher landscape architecture—kicking and screaming—into the modern era.
Yet somewhere after Harvard and well into the real world, Rose lost any
faith he may have had in the modern planning and design professions he
had helped to inspire. By the mid 1950s he had retreated from public
practice and spent most of the later part of his career designing
private gardens that were in direct contrast to the environmental
excesses and cultural banality of the contemporary post-WWII
suburbanization he saw all around him.
Through a juried competition, Suburbia Transformed, One Garden at a
Time will assemble contemporary projects achieving this goal into an
exhibition and catalogue. The emphasis is on how emerging sustainable
strategies and tactics are used to create human landscape experiences
that are beautiful, inspiring, perhaps profound; and which might serve
as examples for transforming the suburban residential fabric, one
garden at a time.
Find more about the competion and entry info here.
Deadline: 03.05.2010
Entry Fee: free
Links:Trienal de Lisboa
Info: The LisbonArchitecture Triennale 2010 promotes this
international competition within the theme "Lets Talk About
Houses" whose aim is to select the best proposal for a patio tipology
prototype of a family unit with a low construction cost in an area of
flat topography, located within the city limits of Luanda.
Deadline: 23.04.2010
Entry Fee: free
Links: greenpeace
Info: Organized as a creative protes to the Heathrow Airport
expansion, this open competition for students and professionals
organized by Greenpeace aims to gather innovative ideas that can show
the site's potential in other public uses.
Submissions
Deadline: 12.04.2010
Entry Fee: free
Links: concretegeometries
Info: The ‘Concrete Geometries’ Research Cluster at the
Architectural Association School of Architecture in London is seeking
submissions of work from the fields of art, architecture, sciences and
humanities that explore the relationship between spatial form and
social or aesthetic processes.
Registration:
19.03.2010 Deadline: 26.03.2010
Entry Fee: 35/50/80
$CAN
Links: greenshed
Info: The Pandora Park Community Garden Society invites student
and professional architects, landscape architects, builders, engineers,
gardeners and designers to take part in this international competition
for a storage shed that will showcase sustainable building
strategies and materials.
Registration:
26.03.2010 Deadline: 05.04.2010
Entry Fee: 40$
Links: artallianceaustin
Info: The Art Alliance Austin promotes this International Ideas
Competition for innovative proposals for a temporary outdoor structure
that will function simultaneously as an exhibition space and as an
architectural exhibition.
Deadline:
15.04.2010
Entry Fee: free
Links: gava
Info: With this
award GAVA aims to acknowledge designers of all disciplines with the
most innovative concepts, designs, materials and applications of
water-inspired enviroments from across the globe in two distinct
categories: Commercial and Residential spaces.
Posted 18/02/2010
FORTHcoming competitions
1) Constructed
Territory: "A juried exhibition of work integrating the use of
maps, cartography, or environmental and topographical explorations."
Submissions due: May 14, 2010.
2) made
up: "This call welcomes designers, filmmakers, architects,
scholars, researchers, and artists to submit proposals for
design-driven research projects to be conducted in Summer 2010 in the
Graduate Media Design Program studio [at the Art Center College of
Design in sunny Pasadena]. We are looking for projects that are
motivated by research questions and that use design/making as a mode of
inquiry. We are particularly interested in projects that address the
theme 'made up' which explores the role of fiction in design."
Submissions due: March 23, 2010.
3) Mine
the
Gap: "An international design ideas competition dedicated
to examining one of the most visible scars left after the collapse of
the real estate market in Chicago: the massive hole along the Lake
Michigan shore that was to have been—and may yet be—the foundation for
a singular 150-story condominium tower designed by an
internationally-renowned Spanish architect, a tower which was to have
become a new icon for the city and region. What to do with the gap?"
Submissions due: "anytime between March 22, 2010 and May 3, 2010."
4) All
That Glitters Is Good: "How do you prepare your architectural
drawings? What mediums do you allow yourself in your quest to explain
three dimensional intent and ideas on a two dimensional surface? Answer
truthfully, when was the last time you did anything beyond hitting
print?
All That Glitters Is Good asks you to submit your most
accomplished architectural representation that uses glitter. This
includes new drawings made with glitter, old drawings pepped up with a
little sparkle, as well as anything else that you can imagine so long
as it satisfies two criteria:
1. It’s a drawing of architecture.
2. It uses glitter."
Submissions due: March 15, 2010.
Posted 20/04/2009
cork docklands public realm
Cork City Council invites Expressions of Interest from a
multidisciplinary consultancy team including suitably qualified and
experienced Landscape Architects,
Architects & Urban Designers, Art Consultants, Civil and Structural
Engineers, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers and Quantity Surveyors
in relation to the design of the Public Realm in Cork Docklands.
Deadline June 5th 2009
click here for details
Posted 18/01/2009
Dover Esplanade
Dover Esplanade design competition is a two-stage design competition
to produce an innovative design for a significant section of
harbour-side beach and public realm on Dover's waterfront. The aim is
to create a modern and attractive new seafront that will become a major
attraction to visitors and residents of Dover alike. The competition is
being run by the Landscape Institute Competitions Office under the
auspices of a partnership comprising Dover Harbour Board,
Dover District Council, Kent County Council, SEEDA, and English
Heritage. The project is being funded jointly by SeaChange and the
partnership. SeaChange is
a government initiative led by CABE in partnership with Arts Council
England, BIG Lottery, English Heritage, Heritage Lottery Fund, Museums,
Libraries and Archives Council, and the Regional Development Agencies.
The deadline for expressions of interest is 23rd January 2009.
Email competitions@landscapeinstitute.org to
obtain Stage 1 Brief.