Aalto University Properties Ltd is organising an open international competition for the design of the Otaniemi central campus area. The competition is divided into two phases.

Phase 1 Competition assignment consists of designing a lively central campus area for the use of Aalto University and the whole Otaniemi science and research community.

The competition period will be from 5 April to 10 August 2012.

A competition jury will select approximately six best proposals for Phase 2, in which the competitors will design the new building(s) to be constructed in the area. The second phase is scheduled to start in November 2012.

The competition can be entered by persons who have the right to practice architect’s profession in the country where they qualified or in the country where they practice the profession. It is recommended to have competing teams of experts with versatile qualifications in urban planning and building design, landscape design, traffic design and ecologically sustainable solutions.

The total prize sum is EUR 300,000. Signing up is via the competition website. The competition will be launched and the related documents released on 5 April 2012. The competition language is English.

More info
campus2015.aalto.fi

FUTURE is launching, for second consecutive year, an international ideas competition to identify the best design concepts with the challenge to develop visionary urban proposals to stimulate contemporary cities, in this case 2 different locations: Chongqing, China and Seville, Spain

The open competition is single-phase and anonymous.
Participants taking part in the competition shall be architecture students or architects under 35 years old on the closing date for submission of entries (July 27, 2012).

Registration deadline July 27, 2012
Submission deadline July 27, 2012

National juries. Shortlist announcement (maximum 10 per location) Until September 17, 2012

Further details arqfuture.com/competitions

Think Space 2012 – PAST FORWARD cycle devised by this year’s guest curator Adrian Lahoud, a former winner in the 2011 Borders Cycle, aims to repeat three competitions that radically transformed architectural culture: The Peak (1982), Yokohama Port Terminal (1995), and Blur Building (1999), with participating architects in the original competition acting as jurors in the current one: Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher (jurors for The Peak), Alejandro Zaera-Polo (juror for Yokohama Port Terminal) and Ricardo Scofidio & Charles Renfro (juror for the Blur Building).

At the conclusion of the competition, a conference in Zagreb, Croatia will bring together participating architects from both cycles. At the end of the competition phase, a further series of events will be organized including a series of international exhibitions that will display the original submissions alongside the winning competition entries from this Think Space cycle. Storefront for Art and Architecture will host the New York exhibition, with more events to be confirmed shortly.

Deadlines:

Each competition starts and ends on the same date, so competitors may make their choice and decide on participating in a single or more competitions.

Launching of the cycle on April 27, 2012.
Registration starts on May 5, 2012.
Deadline for early registration: June 26, 2012 at 12:00 CET
Deadline for entry submission: July 17, 2012 at 12:00 CET
Awards Announcement in September 2012

Awards:

1st Award: 5. 000 EUR
2ndAward: 1. 000 EUR
3rd Award: 500 EUR

Possible changes in the awards, honorable and merit prizes will be defined upon the fundraising activities and at the discretionary right of the jurors.

Submission Fee:

Early registration fee: from 5 May to 26 June 2012 – 370 HRK / 50 EUR
Full registration fee: from 27 June to 17 July 2012 – 555 HRK / 75 EUR

Jury:

The Peak: Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher (ZHA)
Yokohama Port Terminal: Alejandro Zaera-Polo (AZPA)
Blur Building: Ricardo Scofidio & Charles Renfro (DS+R)

Each architect will act as the sole juror for his or her respective competition, with assistance provided by the Think Space curator. The deliverables for the new competition cycle will match as closely as possible the original requirements for each competition. There is no limit to the number of competitions that can be entered.

We invite you to participate in the competitions and explore together with the jurors, guest curators and other professionals from all over the world, how much have the last 30 years influenced the disciplinary transformation, looking back in order to discern how far we have moved and in what direction.

More information on the competitions find on official web page:
think-space.org

About the Think Space programme

The Think Space programme is
• a series of concept degree architectural competitions;
• a platform for spatial experimentation and exchange of conceptual ideas and
• a network of progressive thinkers beyond cultural, geographic or institutional borders.

The Think Space program aims to bring together world renown and established figures with emerging voices (professionals and students) within the fields of architecture, landscape, design, the arts and the humanities. The annual cycle consist of series conceptual architectural competitions and the awarding event and exhibitions organized at the end of the cycle.

The programme was devised and developed by Zagreb Society of Architects and launched in December 2010.The first iteration – Think Space 2011 – BORDERS cycle finished with 537 participants, architects of younger generation, from 65 countries.

Terreform ONE is now accepting submissions for the 2012 ONE Prize Competition: BLIGHT TO MIGHT.

ONE Prize 2012 is a call to put design in the service of disenfranchised communities, to reinvigorate deindustrialized and depressed urban areas, and to repurpose spaces for economic growth and job creation. Situated in the context of a struggling U.S. economy and the tension of stagnant unemployment, ONE Prize 2012 aims to explore the socially, economically, and ecologically regenerative possibilities of urban transformation and design. The competition is powered by the idea that social, ecological, and economic struggles can simultaneously be addressed through collaborative action and innovative planning.

The ONE Prize seeks architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, artists, students and individuals of all backgrounds:

Can we rework the skeletons of 20th century manufacturing for 21st century innovation?
Can former plants in Detroit become greenhouses, schools, theaters?
Can mill towns be revamped as digital fabrication hubs?
Can vacant parking lots become farms or parks?
Can abandoned strip malls be reinvented?
Can we reboot the American economy?

The ONE Prize winner will receive a cash Award of $5,000, press coverage by One Prize media sponsors, presentation of designs at lectures and exhibitions, and prominent year-long exposure on the competition website. THREE Honorable Mentions will receive a cash award of $500 each.

All participants are asked to register and submit competition entries online. The early registration deadline is May 31, 2012. The late registration AND submission deadline is June 30, 2012 by midnight EST.

The ONE Prize Award is an international competition and it is open to everyone. The teams can have one or more members. The proposals can be for a real or speculative project, for one or more real sites, and located either in the U.S. or abroad, but applicable to the U.S. Further, the proposals need not be generated exclusively for this competition, provided that they address the intent of the competition.

Visit ONE Prize at oneprize.org to register, submit, and receive more information.

Best,
The ONE Prize Team
info@oneprize.org

COMPETITION OPEN TO: ARTISTS, ART GROUPS, DESIGNERS, ARCHITECTS, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS

The Port Credit BIA and the City of Mississauga is seeking artists, art groups, architects, designers and/or engineers to submit proposals to temporarily transform an on-street parking space in Port Credit into a public space this fall as part of the international event Parking Day (Sept 21) and Culture Days 2012 (Sept 28-30).

Up to four Parking Day Installation proposals will be selected with a $500 prize for each winning proposal and a budget of $7,500 for each winning team to design and construct the structure. We are looking for imaginative ideas to create a vibrant streetscape. The installations are intended to be both public art and street furniture and shall aesthetically enhance the overall streetscape, providing space for people in a place usually reserved to park a car.

SCHEDULE
Deadline for questions:  May 14, 2012
Deadline for proposals:  June 4, 2012, Noon
Winners announced:  June 14, 2012
Detailed drawings:  July 30, 2012
Offsite construction period:  September 12 to 18, 2012
Parking Day Installations open:  September 19 to 30, 2012

JURY
A maximum of four winning entries will be selected by the following jury:
• Marion Klinnert, Port Credit BIA Board & Beautification Committee Chair
• Marion Morewood, Port Credit BIA Chair & Parking Committee Chair
• Helena Grdadolnik, Public Art Coordinator, Culture Division, City of Mississauga
• Steve Barrett, Manager, Transportation Asset Management, City of Mississauga
• David Anselmi, Senior VP, Development and Sustainability for Parc Downsview Park Inc & Mississauga Urban Design Panel member
• Stuart Keeler, Artist & Curator, Art Gallery Mississauga
• Joseph Rumi, Director, Rumi Galleries

LINKS
mississauga.ca/publicart
portcredit.com
parkingday.org

Original PARK(ing) Day concept by Rebar. www.rebargroup.org

For the full competition details pdf

An international design competition was launched on April 15, 2012 expected to produce a design that will inform the reconstruction of Notre Dame de l’Assomption, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Port-au-Prince, Haiti destroyed 2 years ago.

In an article appearing in the current issue of Faith&Form, a magazine dedicated to the architecture of places of worship, Mgr Guire Poulard, Archbishop of Port-au-Prince calls on architects of the world to offer their ideas for building a new cathedral. He writes that the “ideal design must engage the future and celebrate life.”  He continues in noting that a successful plan “must be mindful of the past and memorialize the thousands who died and were injured in the earthquake of January 12, 2010”

Prize Awards
• First Place, US$12,000
• Second Place, US$8,000
• Third Place, US$5,000

You will be able to sign up for an account on April 15. Entries can be submitted from October 15, to November 15, 2012.

Details of the competition open to architects of the world are provided on the site at ndapap.org.  The site also contains historical information and other data on the destroyed structure and construction site.

For more information write to info@ndapap.org

If you’re a design professional or a student of design, we invite you to submit your best rendering to the Inspired Visions Global Rendering Competition. Designers from anywhere in the world are welcome to participate, and you can enter in one of three categories:

* Rendering with Renderworks 2012
* Rendering with CINEMA 4D
* Monochromatic model (rendered in Renderworks 2012 or CINEMA 4D)

MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS ARE ALLOWED, BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL RENDERINGS MUST BE BUILT ON A VECTORWORKS MODEL.

We’ll award a prize to the “Fan Favorite” so remember to vote for your favorite entry!

The winner in each category will receive $2,500 USD. In addition, winners will be included in an official media announcement and will also be featured on Planet Vectorworks, and on the Nemetschek Vectorworks and MAXON social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
In addition, the public will select their “Fan Favorite” from all entries, which will be posted on the competition’s website. Voting will take place directly on the site.

PRIZES
The winner in each category will receive $2,500 USD. Winners will be included in an official media announcement and will also be featured on Planet Vectorworks, and on the Nemetschek Vectorworks and MAXON social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Submission round: April 16, 2012  - August 16, 2012
Voting round: April 16, 2012 - August 16, 2012

To enter, vote or learn more about the competition, visit inspiredvisions.vectorworks.net

This competition seeks to encourage suggestions and solutions to the elusive combination between the creation of an architectural-spatial experience in the space of the architecture gallery, a predefined space with clear characteristics, combined with the contents of an exhibition containing architectural and/or design work by the planners. This exhibition must combine two seemingly disparate themes – the presentation of a pre-selected body of work in the gallery space; the creation of an architectural and spatial experience examining the purpose and abilities of the gallery of architecture, a dedicated physical space, and its continuing purposeful role in contemporary times.

TIMELINE

15 April 2012: First announcement
29 April 2012: Meeting and tour at gallery
4 May 2012: Meeting and tour at gallery
13 May 2012: End of early registration
3 June 2012: End of registration, Final Q&A date
21 June 2012: Submission deadline
July – August 2012: Competition exhibition at gallery
October = November 2012: Exhibition of winning proposal at gallery

SELECTION AND PRIZES
This is an open, anonymous single-stage competition. The jury shall select one competition winner. Three honorable mentions will also be awarded. The winning proposal will be awarded be given the opportunity to create and exhibit the winning proposal at the gallery. This shall include:

1. Use of the gallery space for a period of 6 weeks for the exhibition.
2. An exhibition budget of NIS 20,000 (+VAT; approx. EUR4,000) for all production expenses.
3. The production of a 48-page exhibition catalogue, in the gallery’s standard format. (1,000 copy print run; 750 copies will be given to the competition winner)
The honorable mentions shall receive no additional prize.
For the complete brief and call for participants, visit zearchitecture.com

The program challenges participants to design a NEW Ecological Car-Park in Shanghai to respond to the chronic shortage of car parking spaces in the city with ecology at its core. The proposal should incorporate at least the following spaces clearly detailed and justified as participants are free to decide on the ratio, size and location of the Project:

• Access
• Parking
• Circulation
• Payment
• Services
• Security
• Lighting & Illumination

Total Area: Open to participants.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS:
The city’s location on the flat alluvial plain has meant that new skyscrapers must be built with deep concrete piles to stop them from sinking into the soft ground.

COMMENTARY:
It is the organiser’s intention for this stage (Stage 1) of the competition to be as design constraints free as possible to allow competitors’ ideas for the chosen site and designs to be as creative and test the boundaries of what is possible. However exciting and challenging the creative opportunity presented within such few parameters may be, it is equally important that any proposal exhibit an amount of functionality and viability.

ELIGIBILITY:

• Architects
• Architecture Graduates
• Architecture Students
• Team (Architects, Architecture Graduates, Architecture Students )
• Inter-Disciplinary Teams (engineers, designers in-conjunction with an architect).

Submissions can be the work of an individual or a group up to 4 members (architects, architecture graduates or architecture students etc) between the age of 18 and 45 years of age at the time of registration. Registration and participation in the competition implies an immediate acceptance by entrants of all terms & conditions governing the site and competition.
Category: Car Park + Marina
Fee Classification: Special Registration
Registration Fee: $100.00 USD
Competition Opened: Monday, April 02, 2012
Competition Closes: Friday, August 24, 2012

More information
www.archtriumph.com

A History of Design Recognition
In 2000, the Solutia Design Awards was born to honor architects and automotive designers whose use of laminated colored glass, made with Vanceva^® interlayers, was deemed the best among entrants with special consideration for the following criteria:

1. Creative use of laminated color glass
2. Relation to new and developing applications of laminated glass
3. Overall aesthetics of project
4. Degree of attention paid to laminated glass benefits

Today, as the creative use of color in design continues to grow, Solutia is proud to host the World of Color Awards^TM – Inspired by Vanceva. Focusing on architects, interior designers, glass fabricators, glazing engineers and other industry professionals for their innovative use of colored laminated safety glass in building design and interior spaces, the contest and the conversations around it are meant to inspire, educate and showcase greatness in architectural design around the world.

An Open Call for Entries
The World of Color Awards^TM – Inspired by Vanceva is open to all professional architects, interior designers, glass fabricators, engineers and other industry professionals. Any individual or group of individuals contributing to the design of a project may submit a nomination. Multiple entries from an individual or group are acceptable. Solutia employees and Solutia customers may also make nominations. Winning projects or honorable mentions from previous Solutia competitions are not eligible for consideration. Solutia reserves final decision on eligibility and accepts no liability in this regard.

Important Dates for Your Entry
Design and architectural projects must have been completed between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2011 to be considered for this contest.

Entry Deadline – Submissions will close on March 16, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. CST

Entry Rules and Requirements
All entries must include the liberal use of Vanceva laminated color glass products. When submitting a nomination, please include a descriptive overview explaining the inspiration and vision for the project. Include detailed photography of the glazing used in the project, as well as several additional photos that portray the overall scope of the project. Interior and exterior views are preferred, if possible. Design studio sketches, drawings and renderings that help communicate the location, form and function of the glazing in the overall design are also strongly encouraged.

Winners will be determined by a jury panel made up of leaders from the international architectural and design industry.

No entry fees are required.

Solutia reserves the right to publish submitted materials at their discretion. Winners must agree to transfer to Solutia and/or its assignees the rights to use these materials by accepting the Submitted Materials Use License in the registration section.

worldofcolorawards.com

UPDATE: The WOCA entry deadline has been extended to Sunday. April 15, 2012 at 11:59PM CDT.  Hooray!