architectural competitions

RE-THINKING SHANGHAI 2012 – International Design Competition

This design competition is open to all students, architectural professionals, and artists. The aim of the competition is to further and expand a dialog about green thinking in Asia. The competition site is located in Shanghai, China.

Entries will be evaluated upon design merit, quality of sustainable ideas, and the impact proposal will have on Shanghai. The winner of the competition will get 3 months to work in 10 DESIGN’s Hong Kong or Shanghai office to further develop their ideas. An international jury composed of magazine editors, educators, and design professionals will select the winning entry. An exhibit of the winning entries and other notable submissions will be held both in Hong Kong and Shanghai and then at various universities and venues around the world.

DESIGN BRIEF
The aim of the competition is to design a visionary proposal for a sustainable architectural intervention along the Suzhou Creek in Shanghai. The location of the site selected can be anywhere along the Suzhou creek as long as it is within Shanghai. The project must occupy at least 150,000 square meters of land and contain residential, office, and commercial functions. The ratio and size of the programmatic elements is up to the competitor. The project must also maximize green areas on the site. We are looking for concepts that move beyond the ordinary and address issues such as power generation, cleaning air and water pollution, and the use of innovative materials and geometries.

Registration
closing 1 March 2012

Entry Submission
Aviable: 7 Nov 2011
Closing: 28 March 2012

more: http://www.10design.co/think/competitions/en/1/rethinking-shanghai-2012/the-brief/

International Student Award. Topic: Sustainability

Start of Submission: October 1st, 2011
Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2012

Registration: www.blueaward.at

The Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design, Vienna University of Technology organizes together with the Society of Architecture and Spatial Design biannually the BLUE AWARD, an international student competition for sustainable architecture.

The competition is open to university students of Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree programs, as well as students working on a diploma thesis or dissertation, in the academic fields of architecture, urbanism or regional planning. The submitted project must be part of a supervised coursework, having taken place during one of the following semesters: Summer Semester 2010, Winter Semester 2010/11, Summer Semester 2011 and Winter Semester 2011/12.

The competition awards projects addressing the topic of sustainability. The economical, cultural and social dimensions of sustainable development should be equal in significance to the classical problems of technique and function.

The Blue Award 2012 will be handed out in three categories.

Category 1 – Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development
Category 2 – Ecological Building
Category 3 – Building in Existing Structures

The British architect Sir Michael Hopkins will be Honorary President of the jury.

Awards Ceremony and Exhibition Opening will take place on April 26, 2012 at the TU Vienna.

Catalog: the prize winners will be published.

Contact:
office2533@raumgestaltung.tuwien.ac.at
office@blueaward.at

The City of Zagreb as promotor, and Zagreb Society of Architects (DAZ) as organizer, are launching an open, on-line, one-stage, anonymous, ideas Competition for the urban-architectural conceptual design for the Zagreb Badel Site redevelopment.

Competition purpose and goal: to obtain a quality urban design concept that meets all the functional and economic criteria required to create a new and modern segment of the city centre, while both adding value to the wider urban area and providing a reminder of the historical development of the site. The site area should become a new factor in the definition of identity of this part of the city as well as the central point for the most relevant activities in the fields of business, tourism, hospitality, culture and art, while remaining a location providing quality everyday life environment for its inhabitants both today and tomorrow.

The competition is open to all professionals, who hold a master’s degree in architecture or have completed a five-year course of study and are graduate engineers in the field of architecture and urban planning.

Deadlines
Competition start date: Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012
Inquiries deadline: Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012
Entry submission deadline: Thursday, 5 April 2012, 12:00 CET

Competition brief is available at the DAZ web page: www.d-a-z.hr/en/competition/badel
Contact: Phone. +385 1 4816151, Fax +385 1 4816197, E-mail: badel@d-a-z.hr

Awards
Provided that at least ten (10) competition entries, that meet all the competition and profession criteria, are received by the closing date specified above, the Competition Jury will award the following prizes, accompanied by the gross amounts specified below:

First prize: 226,800.00 HRK (approx 30,240.00 €)
Second prize: 170,100.00 HRK (approx 22,680.00 €)
Third prize: 113,400.00 HRK (approx 15,120.00 €)
Fourth prize: 56,700.00 HRK (approx 7,560.00 €)

Competition Jury
These are the seven (7) members of the Competition Jury, who have been appointed to evaluate the competition entries:
1. Zoran Boševski architect, Croatia, President of the Competition jury
2. Jadranka Veselić Bruvo, architect, Croatia, Vice president of the Competition jury
3. Prof. Tadej Glažar, architect, Slovenia
4. Prof. Ir. Francine Houben, architect, the Netherlands
5. Irena Matković, Msc, architect, Croatia
6. Silvije Novak, professor, Croatia
7. Toma Plejić, architect, Croatia

Deputy of a Competition Jury member:
Robert Jonathan Loher, architect, Croatia

Expert advisors:
1. Prof Anka Mišetić, PhD, sociologist, Croatia
2. Tamara Rogić, PhD, architect, Croatia

Technical Committee:
1. Ana Dana Beroš, architect, Croatia
2. Azra Suljić, architect, Croatia
3. Marko Trzun, architect, Croatia

Competition secretary:
Sanja Cvjetko Jerković, architect, Croatia

For additional information, see the DAZ web page:
www.d-a-z.hr/en/competition/badel

Dizining is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and architecture fans from around the world to take part in the Dizining Spring 2012 Innovative Competition. Established in 2012, the annual Innovative Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for ecological-multi-function program buildings. It recognizes exceptional ideas that redefine the ecological architectural design through the implementation of new fresh technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on urban transformation, globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital insurgency. It is an opportunity that examines the relationship between the ecological vs. functional combination and the natural world, architectural-design and the community, and the building and its relationship to the city and citizens.

The participants should take into consideration the advances in technology, the exploration of sustainable systems, and the establishment of new urban and architectural methods to solve economic, social, and cultural problems of the contemporary city including the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure and the exponential increase of inhabitants, pollution, economic division, and unplanned urban collapse.
The competition is an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical/horizontal community. It is also a response to the investigation and adaptation of new habitats and territories based on a dynamic equilibrium between man and nature – a new kind of responsive and adaptive design capable of intelligent growth through the self-regulation of its own systems.

There are no restrictions in regards to site, program or size. The objective is to provide maximum freedom to the participants to engage the project without constraints in the most creative way. What is an ecological multi-functional building in the 21st century? What are the historical, contextual, social, urban, and environmental responsibilities of these mega-structures?

Dizining is committed to continue stimulating the imagination of designers around the world – thinkers that initiate a new architectural discourse of economic, environmental, intellectual, and perceptual responsibility that could ultimately modify what we understand as a contemporary skyscraper, its impact on urban planning and on the improvement of our way of life.

Click on the following link to know more: http://dizining.com/contest

ARCHITECTURE PAVILION COMPETITION
International competition for preliminary design of Architecture Pavilion
General sponsor of the competition: Kingspan company
Competition organizer: Magazine Arhitekton
Opening date: December 30, 2011; Closing date: April 6, 2012

Awards:
1st Prize: 2000 Euro
2nd Prize: A three day trip to Austria, professional tour and visit to the Zumtobel factory
3rd Prize: Free one-year magazine subscription, publishing of the awarded work, public promotion of the work and possibility of publishing one more project in the following year

Competition is in the international category. It is open to architects and students of architecture. The subject of this competition is the preliminary design of the Architecture Pavilion. Approximate dimensions of the Pavilion should be 3.6 x 12m and the height of the pavilion should not exceed 4.2m. The pavilion design should include materials such as sandwich panels of Kingspan product range. Location and other parameters of the project are optional. It is required to design interior and exterior lighting solutions.

Creative usage of different panels should result in a project that realistically reflects the idea of contemporary architecture and affirms architecture itself. Similar to Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion for the Exhibition in Barcelona, the Architecture Pavilion should represent a “universal, timeless and spaceless building”. Special attention should be paid to facade and light. By diverse usage of interior and exterior light project should generate high-quality ambience in compliance with its purpose.

All entries must be submitted in digital format – two posters (w/h: 68cm/84cm) at 240dpi. Discs with .pdf, .psd, .eps or .jpg files should be sent to: Magazine Arhitekton, 18 Svetogorska, 11000 Belgrade, or you can contact: office@casopisarhitekton.com for internet submission instructions.
Deadline for submission is April 6, 2012.

Magazine Arhitekton will organize printing and prepare prints for the exhibition “The 2nd Annual Magazine Award” which will be held in Belgrade.

In addition to the winning projects, other selected projects will be presented at the exhibition. The segment of the pavilion will be built and assembled in the exhibition area.

The winners of the competition will be announced in one of the issues of Arhitekton Magazine and at www.arhitekton.net, after the competition closure.

For more information about the Kingspan products visit www.kingspan.rs or contact: info@kingspan.rs
For more information about the competition contact: office@casopisarhitekton.com or visit www.arhitekton.net

The University of Notre Dame’s project Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure invites you to submit a design to the Shelters For All Competition (http://sheltersforall.org/). This Competition seeks innovative solutions to the urban housing crisis in the developing world. You are invited to develop and submit conceptual designs for homes that address the needs and constraints of the over 1 billion people living in urban slums worldwide. Realizing that people often prefer to work in teams, we have created a Team Tool that you can use to form teams through our website. Winning designs will be awarded over $15,000 (USD) in prizes and the opportunity to be implemented in ongoing development projects through the University of Notre Dame. $600 in awards will be given to the three people who refer the most people who go on to submit designs. Contributions will also help us learn about the generation of novel ideas that can be used to solve societal grand challenges.

We created this competition in order to provide a way that designers can be involved in solving the urban housing crisis in the developing world. A growing population of individuals who live in urban slums suffers from serious vulnerabilities. Limited natural resources make it difficult to produce quality construction materials. Weak regulation, building codes and enforcement hinder community planning. Moreover, urban unstructured settlements often lie in some of the most hazard-prone parts of the world and are subject to hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, earthquakes, as well as heavy rains and flooding. Meeting the challenge to create resilient, feasible, sustainable, viable and scalable housing solutions for the urban poor in developing countries will require considerable innovation. That is the reason we are soliciting the global community to develop creative solutions that are mindful of the environmental conditions, historical context and cultural preferences of communities where the housing will be built. While preference is given to innovative designs that may be applied broadly throughout the developing world, we also accept designs that target a specific country or region.

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2012

COMPETITION & WORKSHOP
THEME: Social Housing
PLACE: Yaroslavl, Russia
DATE: May, 1-9, 2012
CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: 9000 $
MORE INFO: http://cih.ru/j2/p53b.html

In May of 2012, from 1st till 9th, in Yaroslavl, in a picturesque place on the bank of a pond, not far from the Volga-river an architectural bureau “Narodnij architektor” and an information portal www.cih.ru, with the support of the department of Architecture of Yaroslavl State Technical University will spend WORKSHOP devoted to a social architecture and innovative approaches to the typology of modern habitation.

The organizers of workshop aim to teach participants a creative method of doing free-for-all architecture with the minimum construction budget.

Within the holding of workshop, the action which does not have any analogs in Russia will be spent — the construction of the sample of the house in real time; with step-by-step analysis of each constructive and architectural decision with the participants of workshop.

All participants of the workshop will make impressive common theoretical and practical work with the house of new typology as a result. The final lecture will be read in this new house of social availability.

In the run-up of the workshop a competition among the students-architects in Yaroslavl and other interested professionals will be held. The goal is to design a house-”minimum”.

Ten best works will be exhibited and discussed in the workshop; the authors of the most striking works will be awarded with prizes from the sponsors, an opportunity to present your creative methods in front of the audience and be published on the websites of the organizers and media partners. Final results of the competition and the 3 best works will be determined by a vote on the final day of the workshop.

About Slide Design:

Be “The Designer” of the coolest new water park attraction in town.

“We are looking for Architects and Designers with fresh new talent, to design a truly beautiful new water park attraction.”

Slide Design is a brand new Architecture and design competition concept. Aimed at Architects, Landscape Architects, Artists, Engineers and Designers of all backgrounds.

To give fresh new talent the opportunity to design and build a new outdoor water Park slide attraction. The opportunity to win $20,000 and a Design contract to build the architectural creation in Dubai.

This is a stage one Concept development Proposal request (CDP), and winners will work with our dedicated Engineering team at the office or via internet communication thereafter in stage-(2). Upon successful completion of this second stage the commission for the project will stand at 9% of the building cost.

This is an exciting opportunity to Design the next super-water creation. And truly put something beautiful into the world of water parks and in the field of water slide design.

Register you Team or individual Registration @ http://www.slidedesigncompetition.com/registration

Contact : Info@slidedesigncompetition.com
James@slidedesigrncompetition.com

Registration Deadline: February 29th.
Submission Deadline: March 31st.

Entry $50

Jury Wild Wadi.

http://www.slidedesigncompetition.com

The VELUX Group has launched the International VELUX Award 2012 to encourage and challenge students of architecture all over the world to explore and investigate daylight in architecture under the award theme “Light of Tomorrow”. Deadline for registering is 1 March 2012 and projects must be submitted by 7 May 2012.

The International VELUX Award 2012 encourages sustainable ideas and solutions consider-ing new buildings and the existing building stock in cities as well as in suburban residential areas. The Award is looking for proposals that combine a clear energy strategy a specific focus on the health and well-being of people living and working in the buildings.

The 2012 Award jury members are:

Alvaro Siza from Portugal, Brigitte Shim from Canada, Peter Stutchbury from Australia, and Francis Kéré originally from Burkina Faso now living in Germany. They have all taught, published and built across borders and all share an interest for sustainable building combined with a deep respect for local environments and conditions.

Learn more on the IVA 2012 website: http://iva.velux.com/

ARCHITECTURE AT ZERO, presented by AIA SF and PG&E, is an international open ideas competition with a focus on the specific challenges of creating urban zero net energy (ZNE) buildings. The competition seeks creative and feasible approaches to urban ZNE building to broaden the conversation around how a site zero net energy project will be approached now and in the future. Further, it seeks to raise the profile of ZNE building among built-environment professionals, students, and the general public in California and beyond.

Architecture at Zero is open to architects, designers, engineers, and students of these disciplines.

Awards & Prizes: $25,000 in total prize money will be awarded. There will be at least two awards given, one for a student entry and one for a professional entry. Final decisions and prize money distribution will be made solely by the jury.

Jury: Susan Szenasy, Editor in Chief, Metropolis Magazine
Bob Berkebile, FAIA, BNIM
Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, Brooks + Scarpa Architecture
Allison Williams, FAIA, Perkins + Will
Stephen Selkowitz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

Deadline: November 29, 2011, 1pm PST
Entry Fee: $185/ $85 for students
Questions: architectureatzero@aiasf.org

See http://www.architectureatzero.com for more information