FORTHcoming competitions


posted 06/03/211

2011 Burnham Prize Competition
“McCormick Place REDUX”


The Chicago Architectural Club is pleased to announce the 2011 Burnham Prize Competition: “McCormick Place REDUX”. This year’s competition is co-sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects and Landmarks Illinois and is intended to examine the controversial origins and questionable future of the McCormick Place East Building, the 1971 modernist convention hall designed by Gene Summers of C.F. Murphy Associates and sited along the lakefront in Burnham Park.
See:http://chicagoarchitecturalclub.org/


posted 30/01/2011

COMPETITION TO DESIGN NYC'S SIXTH BOROUGH
via Freshkills Park Blog by freshkillspark on 1/21/11

This year’s ONE PRIZE—an annual design and science award to promote green design in cities—is being awarded through a design competition centered around the development of New York City’s “sixth borough,” its bodies of water.  Organized by Terreform 1 and Planetary One, the competition aims to advance the City’s potential to develop the world’s largest urban clean technology corridor along its waterways and water bodies, as well its capacity to host a clean tech world expo in 2014.  Submissions are to make proposals for both a ‘blue’ transportation network—”a series of green transit hubs incorporating electric passenger ferries, water taxis, bike shares, electric car-share and electric shuttle buses”—and one zone of the expo.

In addition to exposure and participation in the Expo, the winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize.  Registration closes April 30th, and Submissions are due May 31st.  More details are available in the competition brief.




posted 17/12/2010

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE EUROPE - Call for entries

Landscape Architecture Europe is the triennial yearbook of European landscape architecture. So far, two editions have been published, Fieldwork in 2006 and On Site in 2009. The third book, again an observation of the current mindsets and corresponding design approaches in Europe, enters production now and will be published in early 2012.The book series aims to be the standard, critical review of the state of the art of European landscape architecture.
Submitted projects have to have been designed or realised in the period from 2008 to 2010. Priority is given to implemented designs and, if not realised, to strategic plans. All kinds of projects are welcome: gardens, parks, public space, rural landscapes, town planning projects and regional plans. The projects have to be commissioned projects.
Each competitor can submit a maximum of 3 projects. Entries are to consist of a maximum of 6 pages A4, featuring a text (in English), drawings, pictures and photographs. Please send in by email at entry@landscapearchitectureeurope.com (as a pdf, maximum 12 MB). The data form belowhas to be submitted too.
As at every edition, an independent selection jury will choose from the projects submitted. Authors of selected projects will be asked to provide comprehensive material in printable high quality formats and recent, royalty-free photographs.

Closing date 10 January 2011
Entry
free

posted 18/05/2010


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.

A House in Luanda International Competition


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.

The Heathrow Contest


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.

Temporary Outdoor Gallery Ideas Competition

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.

Gava Awards 2010

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 10/03/2009

otto linne award for urban landscape architecture

International Ideas Competition for urban landscape architecture.
Submisison deadline Spetmebr 16th 2009. Open to students.
click here for website

Posted 10/03/2009

Parque de Valdebebas, Madrid

International Ideas Competition for the design of an urban park.
click here for website

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.