GOAL OF COMPETITION:
Combined with the reconstruction after Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan Province, the competition with a theme of “Sunshine and Hope” is facing the whole world to collect design scheme of rural “Sunshine primary school” and some of awarded submissions will be put into construction in disaster area.
Taking the competition as a platform let’s open out technology of solar building, promulgate the concept of sustainable operation, express our love and responsibility to the children in disaster area and make their life and studying filled with gladness, hope and genial sunshine.
THEMES OF COMPETITION:
1. Rural Sunshine Primary School in Ma Er Kang area;
2. Rural Sunshine Primary School in Mian Yang area.
ORGANIZER:
International Solar Energy Society
Chinese Renewable Energy Society
PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS:
2009 Competition Brief .PDf | Website http://www.isbdc.cn
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Création Baumann to award prizes for innovative projects using GECKO
In several years of research and development work, Création Baumann developed a silicon-coated self-adhesive textile that can be attached directly to glass and removed again without leaving any residues: GECKO - a world novelty ensuring privacy and glare protection and an effective room design tool.
Within the scope of this competition, projects involving the exemplary and innovative use of GECKO are to be submitted to Création Baumann for appraisal. On the one hand, we are interested in solutions focusing on the functional aspects of the product; on the other, we are interested in projects based on a particularly creative use of the product. Architects, planers, civil engineers, and interior architects with corresponding degrees in architecture, interior architecture, civil engineering, or urban planning are all eligible for participation.
The total prize money amounts to EURO 22,500.00. The best projects in the three categories Functionality, Innovation, and Aesthetics, will be chosen and granted awards. An expert panel of five jurors will assess the projects to be submitted to Création Baumann by March 31, 2009. The festive award ceremony will be held in the early summer of 2009.
The following are entitled to enter the “GECKO: Think Forward” competition: architects, planners, civil engineers and interior architects with a degree in architecture, interior architecture, civil engineering or urban planning.
All documentation must be submitted to Création Baumann by 31 March 2009 at the latest.
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Enter the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge.
In the United States alone more than 6 million students spend much of their day in “portable” classrooms. Anyone who has spent time in one of these classrooms knows that we can do better.
In 2003, the Modular Building Institute estimated that more than 220,000 K-12 portable classrooms were in use by public school systems. Because school systems cannot readily access capital funding, temporary and makeshift classrooms have become an unintended fixture of many educational campuses.
In Florida alone, 75 percent of a school’s portables are now counted as permanent classroom space.
The Competition:
Each year Architecture for Humanity’s Open Architecture Challenge design competition brings public attention to inequities in the built environment affecting the health, prosperity and well being of under-served communities. In 2009 the Open Architecture Challenge will focus on the issue of portable classrooms.
The Open Architecture Challenge will tackle the health, environmental and performance concerns associated with today’s portable schools. New classroom design solutions will be implemented across the nation. Students and teachers understand best what makes a learning space work. The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge will invite them to partner with architects in their community to design better, greener classrooms for their schools.
Entrants will be required to develop a design for an existing student body and demonstrate student participation throughout the design process. The competition will be promoted throughout the global design community and timed to coincide with the academic calendar to encourage student involvement. A curriculum package will be developed in tandem with the competition. The curriculum will be distributed by mail and delivered digitally to schools across the country through partnerships with educational organizations. An inter-disciplinary team of architects, educators and others will jury the entries. The winning design will be built with funds raised as a result of the competition.
All of the designs entered into the competition will be displayed in classrooms across the country, and made available for download on the Open Architecture Network. By sharing the designs-including CAD files-freely, we aim to give school systems access to hundreds of sustainable alternatives to portable classrooms and to impact decision-making where it matters most-at the local level.
Goals:
The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge aims to use architecture and design as a vehicle for strengthening communities by:
Offering innovative and viable alternatives to traditional portable classrooms, introducing K-12 students to architecture, spatial planning and 3D modeling, teaching students, faculty and parents about how buildings impact the environment, and advocating for greener, healthier, more conducive learning environments.
Teachers and Students know what makes a classroom work. Lets let them design the classroom of the future.
Competition Schedule:
1. Program Development and Needs Assessment (complete)
2. Identify Project Partners (on-going)
3. Finalize Competition Brief and Companion Curriculum January 15, 2009
4. Competition Launch January 20, 2009
5. Educational/Design Outreach January – April
6. Early Registration March 31, 2009
7. Submission Deadline May 15, 2009
8. Competition Jury June 1-7, 2009
9. Announcement of winners June 15, 2009
http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/challenge2009
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The American Institute of Architects Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international 2009 COD Ideas Competition. In this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore the legacy of modernist design, through a concept design problem.
Winners will receive funding to attend the COD Spring Design Conference in Boston and have their work exhibited at the 2009 AIA National Convention in San Francisco. Selected entries will be displayed on the AIA Web site.
Visit the competition website for complete competition requirements and submission instructions.
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The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), the journal Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, and Metropolis Magazine expand a twelve-year effort to advance a critical understanding of place, the public realm, and the design and creation of human environments through joint sponsorship of THE GREAT PLACES AWARDS, formerly the EDRA/Places Awards.
The newly named program will continue to recognize professional and scholarly excellence in design, planning, research, and academic publication, and to raise awareness and appreciation of the design and maintenance of the public realm. With its interdisciplinary focus, concern for human factors in the design of the built environment, and commitment to promoting links between design research and practice, THE GREAT PLACES AWARDS is the only program of its kind to represent the full breadth of environmental design and related social science activity.
The Call for Entries for the 2009 cycle of THE GREAT PLACES AWARDS runs through February 9, 2009. The jury will be held Feb. 28 to March 1 at the University of Texas, Austin.
The 2009 jury consists of David Lake, Lake/Flato Architects; Elizabeth MacDonald, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley; Rahul Mehrotra, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lawrence Speck, Page Sutherland Page; and William Sullivan, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For more information, visit http://www.edra.org or http://www.places-journal.org. Please note that the Call for Entries will be posted on both sites after October 1, 2008.
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In order to select from a large pool of outstanding installations, an international jury looks at the overall design of the space as well as how the tiles meet their functional and technical requirements.
As you scroll through this new website dedicated to the competition, you’ll find detailed competition rules; a downloadable submission form; answers to frequently asked questions and a historical look at the award-winning projects from the past 15 years. We hope it inspires you to submit project (s)! The North American architects and designers that have won in the past have ranged from star architects like Bernard Tschumi, Stanley Tigerman and Laurinda Spears to young up-and-comers.
Deadline-
Submit by February 6, 2009 to:
Italian Trade Commission
Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2009
33 East 67th Street New York, NY 10065 - 212.980.1500
No fee or limit for entries.
Award-
$5000 per category presented to winning architects/designers at Coverings 2009, Chicago, IL + 5-day trip to Italy to attend Cersaie 2009 with delegation of design journalists (Additional $1000 to be shared by distributor/contractor team).
Categories-
• Residential
• Commercial
• Institutional
Eligible Projects-
New construction and renovation projects completed between January 2004-January 2009
http://www.tilecompetition.com
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The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with Metropolitan Arts Press, have organized The American Architecture Awards as away in which to honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important architects and planners practicing nationally and internationally.
The American Architecture Awards gives an important overview of the current aesthetic direction of today’s commercial, corporate, institutional, and residential work in the United States to the real estate, banking, business, and corporate community, as well as to the press and general public.
The program is one of the Museum’s most important public education outreach initiatives produced throughout the year—to both the Museum’s U.S. and international audience.
The American Architecture Awards are dedicated to the recognition of excellence in architecture and urbanism in the United States.
The program pays tribute to new developments in design and underscores the directions and understanding of current cutting-edge processes consistent with today’s design thinking.
This year’s program honors new (2006-2007) corporate, institutional, commercial, residential architecture, interiors, and urban planning, designed for both built and unbuilt projects alike.
ELIGIBILITY
All submissions must be the work of American architects and architectural firms either working nationally or internationally for projects both in the U.S. and abroad.
International architecture firms headquartered outside the United States are eligible to enter projects built, or to be built, in the U.S. only.
CRITERIA
Criteria for submissions includes any commercial, corporate, institutional, or residential building type or urban planning project, built or unbuilt in the U.S., designed since January 1, 2007.
Unbuilt projects are eligible only when a client is named.
Building types and categories are: corporate headquarters and office facilities, retail, hospitality, institutional, health care, government, transportation, educational, and residential and interiors of any kind, including renovations and restorations, and urban planning projects. Previously awarded buildings by the Museum are not eligible.
JURY FOR AWARDS
A jury of recognized design practitioners, business professionals, educators, and critics will review the submissions and select winning projects for awards. Usually the jury takes place abroad.
Previous juries have been held under the auspicious of the following professional associations: The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland; The National Association of Finnish Architects; The Lithuanian Society of Architects; and The Norske Arkitekters Landsforbund; and The National Council of Spanish Architects. Each Submission is Juried Anonymously.
RESULTS
Selected and awarded recipients will be required to prepare either framed drawings or photographic panels and models for exhibition.
The Museum will exhibit the awarded projects in an exhibition format and publish the selected winners either on the Museum’s website or in a catalogue by Metropolitan Arts Press or both.
Previous exhibitions have taken place in Thessaloniki, Greece; Milan, Italy; Dublin, Ireland; and Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
Architects, associate architects, clients, developers, landscape architects, planners, contractors, and structural engineers are cited for their individual contributions.
APPLICATION: DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1, 2009
On-line application click here
Mailed in submissions must include the folllowing on one CD: Copy of the on-line application form; fee; and one-page description in MicroSoft; three (3) to five (5) photographs, site plans, floor plans, sections, and elevations. All images must be 300 dpi in .jpeg/ .jpg format and no larger than 4-6 MB. Attach list of additional consultants. Application fee is $300 per project. Checks made payable to Metropolitan Arts Press. Call/email for information regarding electronic transfer.
Submit to: The Chicago Athenaeum 601 South Prospect Street, Galena, Illinois 61036 Tel: +815/777-4444 FAX: +815/777-2471. Email: .
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“Simple Systems - Complex Capacities” is not an architectural competition in a conventional sense. The purpose is not to come up with a solution for a defined brief for a specific location, whether as an idea or as a proposal for realisation. “Simple Systems – Complex Capacities” is in some sense an idea competition concerning the systematic formulation of ideas regarding materialisation processes of architectures while, on the other hand, the ostensible division of idea and realisation is diminished. The concern that underlies this competition is diametrically opposed to this division. The notion of ‘concept-competition’ may describe this concern perhaps the best. This does not preclude, however, that competition entries are developed on the basis of a concrete case and for a specific location. The notion of the interaction between material system and environment that underlies the required design process even requires context-specificity.
The online colloquium provides for the possibility to ask questions about the competition, its theme, the specific task and deliveries. Questions can be posted in the period from 1st September to 15th November. The blog will remain available on the ARCH+ homepage until the completion of the competition.
188 ARCH+ “Form Follows Performance - Zur Wechselwirkung von Material, Struktur, Umwelt” delivers a first inroad to the theme of the competition. English speaking participants may refer to Michael Hensel’s and Achim Menges book Morpho-Ecologies (AA Publications, London, 2006, ISBN: 1 902902 53-X). This does not imply that competition entries have to exactly conform to the work shown in the publications. On the contrary we are looking forward to receive alternative approaches and further developments of the presented concepts.
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Call for Entries
Win $10,000
FIX OUR ENERGY ADDICTION
Rising energy costs present new design problems.
Redesign the broken models of the 20th century. Challenge our patterns of living and working in a fuel-hungry world…come up with solutions that connect us, make us more efficient, more humane.
Ask yourself…
How would I bring work closer to home?
Can a product help eliminate long commutes?
What can I do to revitalize old ideas such as living above the store?
What kind of interiors or furnishings does a telecommuter really need?
Or follow your own dreams…what calls out for a major redesign?
Focus on one area that needs fixing—products, interiors, buildings and landscape, communication systems, or anything else you can imagine—and develop your idea fully.
Open to all designers in practice 10 years or less.
Eligibility
The Next Generation Design Competition is open to any designer or architect in practice for ten years or less, as well as design students. The $10,000 prize is intended to support designers whose entries reflect considerations of sustainability, distribution and manufacturing systems, economy, current technologies and materials, function, and provocative form and can speak to any one of the 6 sub-disciplines supported by the magazine—architecture, urban planning, landscape design, interior design, product design, graphic design. Employees of Sponsors are not eligible. All entrants agree to be bound by the Official Rules.
Entry Fee & Deadline
The entry fee is $75 for each submission. All entries must be submitted by January 30, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. PST Residents of the following states by law are not required to pay an entry fee: AZ, CT, MD, ND, and VT.
2009 Metropolis Next Generation
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If you have a passion for creative and innovative design, here’s an opportunity to work with one of the most creative organizations in family entertainment. Created and sponsored by Walt Disney Imagineering, the ImagiNations Design Competition offers opportunities for diverse students to showcase their talents. You can win a 10-day all-expense-paid trip to present your project to a panel of Walt Disney Imagineering executives and have the opportunity to compete for the “Best in Show” awards. This incredible opportunity will provide participants with insight into Disney’s creative process, and learn what it takes to succeed in an innovative organization. Additionally, all qualified applicants will be considered for Internship opportunities with Walt Disney Imagineering.
Imagineers are challenged to build on the Disney legacy of great storytelling to pioneer new forms of entertainment through technical innovation and creativity. The ImagiNations competition encourages you to do the same! Past winners of the competition have gone on to serve internships at Imagineering and some have become full-time Imagineers.
http://disney.go.com/disneycareers/imaginations/index.html
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INTRODUCTION
This is the first of an annual ideas competition open to undergraduate architecture and design students, sponsored by Nationwide Building Society and proposed to run over three years. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) will be managing the delivery of the competition. Strategies for the individual home as well as the wider community are invited. Emphasis can be placed on refurbishment, as well as or as an alternative to newbuild. The intention is to stimulate and reward both innovative thinking about how people can live more sustainably in the future and also the successful visualisation of key themes integrated into a hypothetical environment.
OBJECTIVES
Nationwide Building Society is the second largest mortgage lender in the UK and a leading provider of funds for affordable housing. Having made their own corporate commitments towards a sustainable future, Nationwide now wish to promote social, economic and environmental sustainability in housing. In sponsoring this competition they seek to incentivise the design professionals of the future, as well as future homeowners, to take account of and be inspired by the challenges of sustainability in housing. Nationwide also wish to focus the attention and capture the imagination of the wider public through promoting and exhibiting the shortlisted entrants. In developing ideas for high quality affordable housing, the competition should also generate ideas and influences for community infrastructure, in terms of social and economic factors and environmental impacts, such as resource-efficiency.
JUDGING PANEL
Graham Beale, Chief Executive, Nationwide;
Ian Duncan, Corporate Responsibility Manager, Nationwide;
Lynne Sullivan, Architect and Executive Director, Inbuilt Ltd;
Walter Menteth, Architect and Lead consultant, WMA;
David Orr, Chief Executive, National Housing Federation;
Paul King, Chief Executive, UK Green Building Council;
Anne Ashworth, Assistant Editor (Property), The Times;
Louise Harrison, RIBA Competitions Office (Observer).
AWARDS CEREMONY AND EXHIBITION
An Awards Ceremony will be held at RIBA Headquarters, London on 2nd February 2009, followed by an exhibition of the shortlisted and winning competition entries. The event will be hosted by Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs presenter, designer and author.
CONTEXT
The theme of this first year’s competition is Sustainable Housing in an Urban Environment. Within this theme, there will be awards for each of three categories: Existing Housing; New Build; Community/Neighbourhood. A specific site is not defined, and there is no commitment to build any of the winning entries, but a hypothetical context must be described in broad terms in order to demonstrate the entrant’s response to the brief. In the case of refurbishment a specific context and existing building typology will need to be described.
There is no specific definition of the ‘Urban’ context, or the ‘Sustainable Urbanism’ approach which is sought, but there is an inherent assumption that an appropriate site will be substantially mixed-use in character and accessible by public transport.
Exemplar new developments such as Vauban, Freiburg; Hammarby, Stockholm; Kronsberg, Hanover; Malmo; Ijberg etc may be relevant. Other regeneration models, e.g. applying homezone principles to existing neighbourhoods, will also be useful.
REQUIREMENTS
Entries are expected to address all specific issues relevant to sustainability in the individual home and/or the wider community. We anticipate key considerations to be addressed, for example:
Entrants are invited to define or comment on the suitability of their proposals to different tenure types and different cultural and physical contexts.
The accompanying technical report should, where possible, describe specific expected outcomes or impacts arising from design strategies utilised and make reference to relevant benchmarks. For example, space heating and hot water strategies can be described with relevant key specifications and expected kwh/m2 per annum performance. This could also be referenced to PassivHaus or Code for Sustainable Homes energy performance standards. With other strategies, outcomes may be less specific and there will be acknowledgement that sustainability is a dynamic and location-specific concept.
The Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards competition will be open to students in Years 1 to 3 of undergraduate courses at architectural and other related design colleges.
Entries should be anonymous and comprise no more than 2 x A1 lightweight boards and an accompanying technical report (maximum of 10 x A4 sides).
Drawings of internal layouts should be a minimum of 1:50 scale.
Eligibility criteria must be satisfied. A successful competitor must be able to satisfy the assessors that he/she is the bona fide author of submitted designs.
JUDGING
Assessment criteria will be based on the key considerations outlined in Requirements above.
http://www.nationwideriba.co.uk
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The competition provides a unique opportunity for architects and future architects to challenge conventional approaches to design, and to investigate and develop new concepts for an open and sustainable architecture for the 21st. century. Intended to bring wider international recognition to talented architects and designers.
Woodstock Museum is a Federal non-profit 501(c)3 educational institution provisionally chartered by the New York State Board or Regents and is a major tourist attraction around the world.
This is an open competition with limited restrictions.
We are asking that individual architects, architectural firms, architectural organizations, individual students and student groups forward an email to indicating intent to place an entry in the competition as early as possible.
The Phase-One fee is U.S. $60 for Professional (each additional $30) and $25 for Student Entry (each additional $15). If judged in, the applicant will receive by mail an official entry form, a set of blueprints, photos, etc. for Phase-Two.
Phase-One entry Deadline: Dec. 31, 2008 Late Deadline: Jan.16, 2009 (late entry fee is additional $50 Professional, $35 Student)
Final Submission Deadline: April 1, 2009 (after acceptance in phase-one)
Winners will be notified in a timely fashion.
AWARDS*
Professional
First Prize $2,500.
Second Prize $1,000.
Third Prize $ 500.
Student
First Prize $ 500.
Second Prize $ 250.
Third Prize $ 100.
*Additional stipend for conference attendance will be given to prizewinners.
Award winners will be featured on Woodstock TV streamed worldwide, newspapers, magazines and other promotional materials.
See http://www.woodstockmuseum.org for more information.
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A competition to create elements of a consumer call-to-action campaign to buy FSC-certified products as a means of protecting forests around the world.
OVERVIEW
We are all consumers of forests. From paper and magazines to building products and furniture, we are surrounded with the fiber of forests from around the world. But few of us know the origin of these forest products, much less if they were responsibly managed and legally harvested before making their way into our homes and offices.
The forest products trade, estimated at $300 billion a year, is a vast global industry. What we purchase in the United States, France or Japan can affect the health – or destruction – of forests in Indonesia, Cameroon or Brazil. Some of this trade is traffic
