New architecture and design competitions: AIANY Design Awards, Winter Stations, Wood Design & Building Awards, and Metals in Construction Magazine Design Challenge

Itching to flex your creative muscle and join an architecture or design competition? Check out some of the latest challenges listed on Bustler below. 

For this week's curated picks, we have compiled four briefs inviting temporary winter art installation concepts in Toronto, the best new architectural designs from NYC-based professionals, innovative applications of wood in architecture, and facade systems responding dynamically to environmental conditions.

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Winter Stations 2022
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Nov 26, 2021

"Winter Stations is a single-stage international design competition held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Participants are tasked with designing temporary winter art installations which incorporate existing lifeguard towers spaced strategically across the city’s Kew and Woodbine beaches. The structures (not in use in the wintertime) are considered visual anchor points for the installations. As in previous years, Winter Stations intends to build 4-6 winning proposals for a six-week exhibition along the waterfront, funding permitted. While Toronto beaches are not typically as well visited in the colder seasons, Winter Stations has captured the imagination of the city. Designers can expect their designs to be well-visited and should anticipate public interaction."

AIANY Design Awards
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Dec 10, 2021

"AIA New York’s annual Design Awards program recognizes outstanding architectural design in New York and around the world. The program awards projects that exemplify design excellence, demonstrating exceptional skill and creativity in the resolution of formal, functional, and technical requirements. Projects should consider the impacts of built design, addressing issues including ecological stewardship and social responsibility."

2021-22 Wood Design & Building Awards
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Jan 14, 2022

"The Wood Design & Building Awards program invites North American and International entries for 2021-22 – honouring excellence in wood architecture. The program is an opportunity to discover and celebrate the world’s best wood architecture, in diverse locations and with a wide variety of typologies. Entries should consist of building projects that show a wide range of wood product applications and demonstrate an understanding of the special qualities of wood, such as strength, durability, beauty and cost-effectiveness."

Dynamically Active Facades: Metals in Construction Magazine 2022 Design Challenge
Register/Submit Deadline: Tuesday, Feb 15, 2022

"This year’s competition is based on the idea of a dynamic facade system that integrates critical building systems’ functionality, including lighting, ventilation, thermal, visual and acoustical comfort, and energy management, thereby acting as the central component for holistic building systems integration. The design challenge proposes an exploration of the limits and potentials of a façade system capable of responding dynamically to changing indoor and outdoor conditions over the range of seasonal and temporal climatic conditions while maintaining as close to optimal IEQ as possible. The challenge’s $15,000 Grand Prize will be awarded to the building and facade system design judged most innovative and effective in integrating building systems functionality to achieve optimal, carbon efficient year-round control of the indoor environment."

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