architectural competitions

INFORMATION:
Architects for Health invite architectural students to submit projects to be considered for the third annual Student Healthcare Design Award 2010. As in previous years any* project relating to the design of a healthcare building can be submitted, however the 2010 competition introduces a greater emphasis on the sample brief – Designing for Death: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise and a specific prize will be awarded for the most successful response to the sample brief we have prepared. For more information please read the FAQ section of this website.

In 2009 eighty projects were submitted, eight were short-listed and three were eventually selected for prizes. Find out more about the 2009 competition and winning projects in the 2009 section of this site.

REGISTER FOR THE 2010 PROJECT USING PAYPAL
BY 2nd JULY 2010>>

*ENTRANCE CRITERIA

• A response to the sample brief or a student architectural project concerning healthcare design**
• By students who are presently studying or having completed their studies within 18 months of submission date.
• Open to students worldwide
• Submission electronically to mail@afhawards.org by 1200hrs on the 5th of July 2010
• The project has not been submitted in previous years
• Administration fee of £10 (GBP) payable by PayPal

MANDATORY SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

• • A brief 300-600 word narrative text (strictly no images, in English, MSWord.doc or .txt format) describing the design brief and the proposal. .Within this brief text include at what stage of your studies (e.g. RIBA part 1, RIBA part 2 or equivalent year in your country of education) the project was completed
• • 4 no. A3 landscape PDF or JPG project sheets (text and images @ 300 dpi)
• • Please clearly state your name and project title and institution on every submission page and number pages sequentially

PRIZES:

• £2000 Prize fund to be divided between 1, 2 or 3 of the short-listed Candidates including at least 1 project responding to the Designing for Death Brief.
• Presentation evening at the RIBA (All short-listed to be presented by author or selected representative with substantial contributions to travel funds)
• Publication in a wide range of leading industry and design publications

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Judging panel to be published prior to event will include architects, academics and healthcare professionals
• AfH members can offer their services to support any institution interested in adding a healthcare building type to the student design programme
• Please contact AfH to discuss hosting the travelling exhibition subsequently AFH reserves the right to reproduce and publish all submission materials
• AFH reserves the right to final decisions on prize awards and interpretation of judging criteria.

** Acute, primary, continuing, social, mental health, or other justified in supporting text and approved by the judging panel.

Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is seeking expressions of interest for the re-cladding of a 13-storey tower building on the St Thomas’ Hospital site in central London. The East Wing building has a significant urban presence on the London skyline, being situated on the south side of the River Thames opposite the Houses of Parliament.

The competition seeks a re-cladding design of exemplary quality befitting its location, that will at the same time provide a long-term solution to improved weatherproofing and energy efficiency. The Trust has aspirations that the re-cladding scheme should be of the highest architectural quality hence the decision to proceed down the RIBA competition route. A challenge to design teams will be to achieve a solution that can be delivered with the minimum of disruption and interference to the existing building, without the need for decanting. The internal refurbishment of the building will be carried out separately, at a later date.

The Trust wishes to ensure that the full design team is committed to both the design and delivery of the re-cladding scheme and the competition therefore seeks expressions of interest from contractor/architect teams with the capacity and imagination to deliver the project. The successful consortia will need to strike a balance that considers cost, long term value and architecture, to generate an outstanding vision that will symbolically enhance the Trust’s reputation for healthcare provision and its landmark status in London.

The £21m (approx) project will be the second competition organised this year for the Trust and it follows the announcement last month of a competition for a new £90m Cancer Treatment Centre.

The competition jury panel will include architects David Henderson, co-director of Bennetts Associates, and Jim Eyre OBE of Wilkinson Eyre Architects.

A shortlist of up to six design teams will be invited to produce design proposals and each paid an equal honorarium of £15,000 (plus VAT). In the first instance the competition seeks expressions of interest from consortia which must as a minimum include a contractor, architect, engineers, and a cladding specialist.

The deadline for application is 13th April 2010 and a preliminary briefing paper is available to download from the competition organisers, RIBA Competitions (www.architecture.com/competitions).

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/london/st_thomas_hospital_recladding.htm

http://www.architecture.com/Useanarchitect/Findanarchitect/Competitions/Competitions.aspx

Bicycle Transit Centre

Overview

The mission of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC) is to advance and
promote sustainable and environmentally responsible planning, design, construction and
operation of the region’s buildings, landscapes, cities and communities, mindful of the
legacy left for future generations.
Each year, the DVGBC conducts a Sustainable Design Competition to engage students from
regional colleges and universities. Professors are encouraged to incorporate the Design
Competition with the Spring 2010 college and university curriculum. This year the DVGBC
would also like to invite young professionals to enter the competition. Integrated with the
LEED Green Building Rating System, the Design Competition unites students and young
professionals with esteemed individuals from the DVGBC and the local design community.
The goal is to incorporate sustainable design strategies into the college curriculum and
empower the students and young professionals within the green building movement to
become future leaders.
The competition will award a number of cash prizes as well as a grand prize stipend
to attend Greenbuild, the USGBC’s annual Green Building Conference and Expo (www.
greenbuildexpo.org). Greenbuild 2010 will be held in Chicago.

Eligibility

http://dvgbc.org/sustainable_design_competition

We are pleased to inform you about a new architecture contest named RomeCityVision which will be online from today
until 20th May 2010. We will be happy if you could put the news in your competition section.

The competition is organized by our magazine CITYVISIONmag and our president of the jury will be JUERGEN MAYER H.

RomeCityVision is an ideas competition, which challenges architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives individuals to develop visionary urban proposals with the intention of stimulating and supporting the contemporary city, in this case Rome. Through innovative ideas and methodologies which can improve the connection between the historical, present, and future city. CITYVISION aims to foster a critical evolution of architectural historiography.

The Italian city manifests a consistent absence of Contemporary Urban Planning and relatively ineffective architectural intervention. The objective of the competition is to drive your imagination, by the use of new materials, echo- technologies, parametric software and territorial
organizations for a future vision of the city of Rome.  Globalization, environmental concerns, the future historiography of the city, adaptability and emerging digital practices are some of the elements that should be taken into consideration.

The Planning Proposal can re-assess a significant monument, road, district or better still the whole city. For this reason there are no restrictions of site, program or dimension of the project. The goal is to give maximum freedom, with the intention of achieving the most innovative
and provocative proposals. Proposals should aim to augment and stimulate the urban inhabitance and experience of the ordinary person. The proposed planning, should support and integrate itself environmentally, seeking to create and improve a unified relationship between the city and its’ cultural behavior.

This International Competition has three aims:

1. To stimulate research in urban planning and civic vitalization.
2. To encourage and promote progressive ideas from the emerging generation of designers.
3. To stimulate the scientific development in the field of architecture by means of a critical reflection and discussion.

Schedule

Announcement of the competition
27th Febraury 2010

Acceptance of questions deadline
19th April 2010

Early registration deadline
26th April 2010

Answers to questions posted on website
30th April 2010

Late registration deadline
28th May 2010

Submission deadline
2nd June 2010

Announcement of results
15th June 2010

This Competition is a valuable opportunity for everyone to
contribute innovative ideas for the city of Rome.

For competition details, please browse:

http://www.cityvision-competition.com

Enquiries can also be made by email to
info@cityvision-competition.com

The Invitation
To create Kaohsiung as a maritime capital, Kaohsiung City Government sincerely invites architects from all over the world to participate in the international competition of Kaohsiung Marine Culture and Pop Music Center. The objective of the project is to lead Kaohsiung City becoming the gate to marine culture nation, Taiwan!
The site is located at No.11~15 wharf of Port of Kaohsiung with approximately 11.89 hectares measure. Facility planning shall have the functions of pop music exhibition and performance, it should also possess the functions of close linkage with the industrial chain and talent cultivation for the pop music industry for the purpose of creating and shaping the blue ocean of aesthetics economy and pop industry of southern Taiwan.
With the international competition, we cordially invite your participation!