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.
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