How to enter: 
•  All entries must be submitted online.
•  Minimum of 5 high resolution photos of the project, including one front elevation, detail and interior photo.
•  Submissions must also include site layout and floor plans.
•  If entry is a remodel or renovation project, entrant must provide at least 2 additional “before” images.
•  Entrant must provide a 250 word project description with particular comments on why Western Red Cedar was selected.
•  A CD of the high-res images of the submitted entries is to be provided to the WRCLA upon request (WRCLA receives unlimited usage rights, but not ownership, of the high-res images).
•  The WRCLA and their members receive the right to profile the submitted projects in marketing campaigns including online, print, displays, etc. promoting Western Red Cedar.
•  WRCLA respect the privacy of property owners. Property owner name(s), contact information and property addresses are not to be included in award entries unless such information is also that of the architect, builder or photographer to be credited for the job. 

Winners from last year’s award included the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center by Grimshaw Architects and the Queens Botanical Garden by BKSK Architects LLP. For a complete list of 2009 winners, visit http://www.construction.com/cedarawards.

About Western Red Cedar Lumber Association:
Western Red Cedar Lumber Association (WRCLA) is a Vancouver, B.C. based non-profit association known as “the voice of the cedar industry.”  Founded in 1954, the association operates architect advisory and technical service programs throughout the U.S. and Canada.  It seeks to inspire, inform and instruct architects and consumers about Western Red Cedar, its uses and benefits. 

Western Red Cedar is one of nature’s truly remarkable building materials.  Not only does it have distinctive beauty, natural durability and centuries of proven performance, Western Red Cedar is the ultimate green product. It produces fewer greenhouse gases, generates less water and air pollution, requires less energy to produce than alternatives and comes from a renewable and sustainable resource. Equally important, Western Red Cedar is carbon neutral. For more information please visit, http://www.wrcla.org.

Competition Entries should be published to Flickr as soon as they are ready. It is an ideas competetion so if two people submit similar ideas, priority will be given to the design idea which was published and added to the Tiananman Square Landscape Flickr Group first.

http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/chinese_landscape_architecture_competition

Cities have the potential to cater to the full range of human needs and wants. The extent to which they do so depends on “access” – on whether their inhabitants are able to take advantage of all that cities have to offer.

The Schindler Award has the goal of improving access and overall mobility for all city dwellers, irrespective of their age, status or physical capabilities. To that end, it challenges young architects to think beyond form, light and materials and to focus on the needs of the people who will eventually inhabit the structures and spaces that they design.

This means taking account of the diversity of cities, and recognizing the right of everyone – children, young people, parents, workers, the elderly and people with special needs – to be able to move freely and to share and enjoy public spaces.

Visions for an enhanced and accessible “Olympic Park Berlin”

The task is aimed at transforming this somewhat neglected area of the Olympic grounds into a pleasing, functional and fully accessible sport and leisure compound. To achieve this goal, the following tasks must be fulfilled:

On the urban scale:
- Create a master plan to reorganize existing and new functions inside a perimeter of approximately 750 by 850 meters;
- Devise a new access route from the urban transit station and the carpark to the sport facilities and the ‘Waldbühne’.

On the project scale:
- Design a new sports and congress hotel for 150 guests;
- Upgrade the ‘Waldbühne’ to modern standards of ‘Access for All’

The jury felt it is especially fitting that the principles of ‘Access for All’ should be applied to a place used by the Nazis to symbolize their imagined superiority and policies of exclusion.

http://www.schindleraward.com

Design Brief

The challenge is to create a living space, using the provided plan of a typical unfinished basement. The space may be designed to contain any combination of a small washroom, laundry facilities, a home theatre system, a small home office area, and a convertible area to accommodate overnight guests.

Projects should utilize the Roxul products ComfortBatt and/or Safe’n’Sound, maximizing comfort and safety for the end user. Submitted projects should detail where, why, and how the Roxul products have been incorporated.

The submission should contain an overall sense of the renovation of the space, through floor plans, elevations, and details. A written description (of no more that 500 words) must accompany the submission, detailing how the project meets the design criteria and the development process.

We are looking for innovative design ideas surrounding renovation projects that can inspire consumers. Keeping in mind the Roxul slogan: ‘All projects start with ROXUL’, simply add innovation and creativity to come up with a winning design.

Competition Brief (PDF)

Design Exchange

A zero-net energy building generates enough on-site renewable energy to equal or exceed the amount of energy needed to operate the building. This is also known as net-zero site energy. Since a significant proportion of the nation’s use of fossil fuels comes from heating and cooling buildings, creating zero-net buildings is an important way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming.

This year, the competition focuses on the coastal city of Long Beach, California. Students entering Challenge 1 will design a zero-net energy Workforce Training Center; students entering Challenge 2 will design a zero-net energy Student Residence. The projects will be located on adjacent sites on Long Beach Boulevard.

Competition Objectives

The competition objectives are to encourage and reward excellence in architectural planning and design that integrates environmentally responsive design strategies.

Competition participants will have the opportunity to:

• Explore energy efficiency as a basic standard of building design, and the foundation of zero-net design.
• Incorporate principles of sustainability in the choice of building materials, water use and building design.
• Investigate new building materials and methodologies that contribute to sustainable or energy-efficient design.
• Understand the impact of solar orientation, wind orientation, building massing, construction methods, and material choices on building function and energy use.
• Develop an awareness of appropriate technology for particular building types, regional climates, and site location.
• Explore state-of-the-art computer modeling tools for predicting and evaluating the impact of design decisions on building performance and energy conservation.
• Begin to understand the requirements and implications of sustainable energy generation on urban building sites.

http://www.leadingedgecompetition.org

Specifically, challenge one is to spur greater urban renewal of this locale through the proposal of a design for a Chicago Union Stockyards Museum & Education Center incorporating the landmark gate and expanding the park. The second design challenge is provide sustainable residential spaces which encourage assimilation and foster dignity, community and opportunities for immediate vocational participation to immigrant communities currently dwelling in less than desirable conditions in many Western European countries and in the U.S.

Finalists will be chosen from among the entrants which will then be made available to the public for voting to determine the most practical and pleasing interpretation of the given design project.

http://www.chicagoarchitecturetoday.com/convention.htm

Brief - Unemployed Architect?? surviving with a temporary job in MacDonalds or Starbucks or simply scratching yourself at home?? Never before have so many unemployed architects been infiltrating other industries to finance a living. Never before has there been the opportunity for so many architectural eyes to evaluate the efficiency of the design of the industry.

If you find that you are flippin´ burgers then stop to re-assess the design…why not place cows in the car park or chickens on the roof of a KFC??

Perhaps the next time on your trip to the benefits office you have a look at the city transport system where you live and improve its efficiency or even re-evaluate where your toilet faeces end up after you drop a bomb at home

The competition is to re-design or create a new design of a system which can be integrated within a building or city. There are no limits on ideas, however, the process must be thought through from start to finish with an element of practicality

Competition website - http://www.architecturerevolution.com
Entry - free
Prize - 100€ plus mentions
Submission Deadline - february 28th, 2010
Submission Criteria - A2 or 2 x A3 electronic submission via email architecturerevolution@gmail.com

Join the revolution, join the movement, fight for what you believe

Prizes-
Winners in each category will receive a cash prize of $5,000 and a five-day trip to Bologna, Italy to attend CERSAIE 2010 – the world’s largest exhibition for ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings – joining a delegation of top consumer and design journalists. Ceramic Tiles of Italy will award an additional $1,000 to be shared by the winning contractor/distributor team.

Rules-
The competition is open to all North American architects and interior designers. Domestic and international new construction and renovation projects completed between January 2005 and January 2010 are eligible for entry

Categories-
• Institutional
• Residential
• Commercial/Hospitality

Criteria-
A panel of design experts will judge the projects based on their creativity, functionality and aesthetic appeal. The official criterion for the jury includes: overall design of the project, innovative use of tile, tile design, quality of installation, degree that tile enhances the setting and the project’s sustainable attributes.

Deadline-
Submissions must be completed no later than February 19, 2010.
Winners will be announced at the Ceramic Tiles of Italy Press Conference during Coverings, which will be held in Orlando, FL from April 27-30, 2010. In addition, an exhibit of the winning projects will be on display in the Italian pavilion during this internationally acclaimed tile and stone trade show.

Contact-
For more information visit http://www.tilecompetition.com

THE DESIGN COMPETITION PROGRAM: The competition is an open, two-stage design competition. At the first stage, digital submission of the design concept will be online only. These will be judged anonymously by members of our distinguished Jurors, who may choose six to ten finalists. Each finalist will be awarded an honorarium of $2,500 to develop a three-dimensional model and a fully realized scheme for the site. All final presentations will be publicly exhibited and judged at a convocation of the Jurors, and the winner will be declared at a public ceremony. The Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial organization will enter into good faith negotiations with the winning competitor for a contract to provide the services necessary to realize the Memorial. Concurrently the design will be reviewed by the planning board and fine arts board of the city of Atlantic City. In the event the winning design is eventually built, the winner will be awarded a commission to realize the winning design.

THE DESIGN CHALLENGE: This competition seeks to stimulate fresh thinking about public memorials, and invites ideas from diverse fields. The requirements for the Memorial and how it occupies the site are as unconstrained as possible. Participants are encouraged to contemplate the meaning of the Holocaust and genocide in our lives today, and to invent a fitting design for this time and this place. We look to our competitors to propose the appropriate metaphors and forms for such a Memorial.

A FINAL THOUGHT:The Holocaust is surely among the darkest moments in modern history and all recorded civilization. Its infamous accounts mandate that mankind never again tolerate the unjust brutalizatiion and destruction of any group or individual. Yet, in spite of the Holocaust, history continues to repeat itself. This Memorial will be dedicated to all future generations to stand in unity against such wholesale victimization and genocide. Our goal is to create a Memorial that shall raise awareness in the minds of visitors to man’s unconsciousable inhumanity to man. The Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial shall stand as witness and barrier against the future repetition of any such reprehensible acts.

http://www.acbhm.org

http://www.mockfirms.org

Today we are challenging Part 2 students to Make Bethnal Green by asking them — What would you build on the same site today and how would that design make a positive contribution to the environment?

Brief

The Make Bethnal Green Competition will follow a student open ideas format - there is no commitment to necessarily implement any of the design ideas submitted. The anonymous, first phase invites RIBA Part 2 students to consider what they would build on the Bethnal Green site today, taking into account the 21st Century sustainability agenda, modern building techniques and architectural approaches, together with the financial constraints of the affordable housing sector.

A Judging Panel will identify 10 finalists which they feel have responded best to the challenges set out in this Competition Brief. Anonymity will then be lifted with generic and scheme specific feedback provided to each finalist. During the Easter 2010 recess, each finalist will be invited to refine their ideas during a week long placement with one of Affinity Sutton’s framework architect partners.

Each finalist will be randomly assigned to one of the 10 participating architect partners, unless there is a clear geographic advantage of assigning a particular finalist to a specific practice. The placement may also include spending some time with one of Affinity Sutton’s employers agent partners.

Each host practice will be asked to provide feedback on the finalist’s performance during the week-long placement, which will be made available to the Judging Panel to help inform their decision. The Prize Winner will be selected following presentation of design proposals to the Judging Panel at final interview in late April 2010.

At the conclusion of the competition, Affinity Sutton and RIBA will showcase the ideas submitted to Make Bethnal Green via an on-line gallery. Best practice examples may also be incorporated within future editions of Affinity Sutton’s Design Guide. Once anonymity has been lifted, authorship of design ideas will be duly credited and recognised in all such material, publicity etc.

http://www.makebethnalgreen.com

The award seeks to challenge the future of daylight in the built environment with an open-minded and experimental approach. The Award seeks to widen the boundaries of daylight in architecture, including aesthetics, functionality, sustainability, and the interaction between buildings and environment.

“Light of Tomorrow” is the overall theme of the award that celebrates and promotes excellence in completed study works from students all over the world.

http://iva.velux.com

The competition is presented as an opportunity for the Fundación to acquire their own space capable of receive the activities it promotes, and propose solutions to articulate the now unresolved articulations of urban space of such a central part of the city.  The Competition must answer, from present, a series of objectives coming from the open naturaly of the Fundación and from the willingness to debating with an important heritage environment for the future of the city.  Respond to the known existence of the arqueological rests will be an obligation, and to generate a new acces to the space of opportunity that represent the Huerta de San Pablo, opening a critical reflection on urban greater interaction between cultural institutions present.

http://www.arquitecturacontemporanea.org/concursoeng/

With the debut of the international Blue Award, the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design, from the Institute of Architecture and Design, is announcing an award for the best student works in the topic of sustainable architecture and building culture.  The opening presentation of the Blue Award will take place on November 10, 2009 at the TU Vienna.  From that point on, works from Bachelor, Master or Diploma studies can be submitted.  The competition is open worldwide to students of architecture, regional planning and urbanism.  Prizes totaling 15,000 euros will be awarded.

The competition was initiated by the architect Univ. Prof. Mag.arch. Françoise-Hélène Jourda, director of the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design, and functions under the patronage of the International Union of Architects (UIA).

The award’s main purpose is to encourage the topic of sustainability in architecture, regional planning and urbanism.  Concurrently, it shall recognize and award students and teachers dedicated in pursuing the topic in their studies.  The Blue Award aims at helping standardize the exchange between various architecture schools and faculties.

The Blue Award will be handed out in 3 categories

The Blue Award will be distributed among the three categories „Urban Transformation and Development“, „ Building with Ecological Systems“ and „ Building in Existing Structures“.

The emphasis of the category “Urban Transformation and Development“ includes topics from urban redevelopment, renewal, and restructuring of existing city fabric to development of new housing structures and typologies.  Concepts dealing with self-sufficient housing developments, environment friendly forms of mobility, and new interpretations of open/public spaces in urban areas are equally important to this category.

In the category “Building with Ecological Systems”, submitted projects are to reveal the basic principles of sustainable planning and construction, including its social, economical and ecological factors, in the form of an architectonic design.

The topics of the category “Building in Existing Structures” are methods of renovation, adaptation and conversion.  Beyond these usual themes, projects will be awarded which succeed in increasing significantly the average longevity and usage capacity of existing structures, as well as projects which reduce the volumetric demand of new construction.

JURY and EXHIBITION

An international jury, presided by Prof. Thomas Herzog, university professor and architect in Munich, and also expert on sustainable building, will choose the prize winners in each of the three categories previously mentioned.  The awards ceremony will take place in April 2010 at the TU Vienna.
The winning entries will be presented to the public in an exhibition and published catalog.
The prize shall be awarded in the future on a regular basis.

FACTS & FIGURES on the BLUE AWARD

Competition Presentation:    Tu, Nov. 10. 2009, 10 am
Admission:      design projects in architecture, urbanism and regional
      planning, and of the semester SS08, WS08/09, SS09, or
      WS09/10
Submission Deadline:  until Mo, Feb 1, 2010, noon

Jury:  3 architects/professors, 1 urban planner, 1 expert in the field
  of sustainability, 1 architecture journalist.
Presiding Juror:    Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Dipl.-Ing. Architekt BDA Thomas Herzog

Awards Ceremony:  Thu, Apr. 22, 2010, 6 pm
Exhibition:    Fr, Apr. 23 - Fr, Apr. 30, 2010
  Prize-winning projects will be published

Sponsors:  Institute of Architecture and Design,
  Dept. of Spatial and Sustainable Design,
  Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna
  In cooperation with:
  International Union of Architects – UIA
  Society of Architecture and Spatial Design

Documentation & Info:    http://www.blueaward.at (available soon!)
Contact & Inquiries:    Ass.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Anton Kottbauer
  Institute of Architecture and Design,
  Dept. of Spatial and Sustainable Design, TU Vienna
  akottbau@raumgestaltung.tuwien.ac.at
  Tel.: +43/1/588 01 – 25601

Project Author:    Univ.Prof. Mag.arch. Françoise-Hélène Jourda,
  Institute of Architecture and Design
  Dept. of Spatial and Sustainable Design, TU Vienna

News/Press Releases   http://www.blueaward.at

The iF material award provides an excellent platform for important new developments from the world of materials through the public jury at the CeBIT exhibition “design driving innovation”, the exhibition of all awarded entries at the exhibition “material TRENDS” presented at the Hannover Industrial Fair, the well visited online exhibition on the iF Website, the printed documentation of the award as well as the accompanying communication work by iF and the advertising materials provided to the winners.

The iF material award 2010 will furthermore lay a special focus on ecology and sustainability through a newly created evaluation criteria, to emphasize the importance of this topic.

Registration deadline - Early bird: November 13, 2009
Registration deadline - Regular: January 15, 2010
Registration deadline - Last Chance: January 30, 2010
Submission deadline: yet to be announced

International Forum Design

The purpose of these developments is to improve the quality and the attractiveness of the living environment in interurban areas. For example “a town centre” connected by “eco-friendly transport” to a ‘public square’ and to a ‘park’ … served by an intercommunal transport network provides an answer to these concerns. Based on these existing situations, any improvements made to the quality of life will highlight:

• That conditions of access to the urban centres are specific to each territory (i,e, coastline, mountain, plain, large built-up areas) and take into account the location of centres for employment, services and public amenities
• The use of new means of transport aiming to reduce or replace the use of the individual car
• Easy and safe use of the urban centre and its environment by ‘everyone’.

• architectural quality: improvements to facilitate access to public buildings and areas
• quality of community life : possibility of easier access to the urban centre for everyone
• respect of the environment : savings in parking areas and energy could be made, depending on the means of transport used.

The 2009-2010 discussion topic for the “Robert Auzelle seminar” is common to the national prize for elected representatives and professionals and the international competition for academics from all disciplines. The French ’eco-friendly transport’ vocabulary sheet for urban art along with other vocabulary sheets is a referential teaching aid.

Competition Brief in English (PDF)

Metropolis celebrates the next generation by rewarding imaginative young designers at large companies and recognizing the hard work of those striving with their own young firms or on their own as well as students—while some designers have a proposal ready and waiting, others are at the beginning of the process with an undefined desire to create and can use a kick start.

The Next Generation® winners and runners-up are a testament to the success of this mission. Each project recognized has embodied the core values of good design—incorporating systems thinking, sustainability, accessibility, materials exploration, historic relevance, and technology—while forwarding our thinking on what designers can accomplish. The breadth of proposals has been stunning: building projects, urban planning and community building schemes, responsive interior environments, population pressure issues, new materials, ergonomics, product design, social and housing solutions, environmental management, water purity, and waste disposal in crisis situations and so on. The prize of $10,000 in seed money for developing the projects, plus the publicity they receive, have helped winners’ and runners-ups’ projects leap from the drawing board to implementation and production.

http://www.metropolismag.com/nextgen/

Nissan cube® is unlike any other car on the American road. Its funky exterior is punctuated by an asymmetrical rear window and a low, wide stance. Its comfy interior is a place to have fun with friends. It offers multiple options for self expression with features like a removable shag dashboard carpet, multi-color interior mood lighting, and configurable storage. Cube is part car, part social destination.

ADC is inviting students to address these questions:
- How would you introduce cube?
- What creative would you run?
- Where would you run the creative for maximum reach and efficiency?

Develop a campaign, or concepts, that makes Nissan cube a part of our target’s life. The campaign shouldn’t feel like marketing, it should feel like a natural extension of where our target goes and what they do. To this end, use channels and communication vehicles you feel are most appropriate to our target’s lifestyle and what the model represents.

Local dealership location info available upon request. US-based only. International students must respond to US market conditions.

Download PDF of full brief.

Complete info here

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Submissions should be based on the premise that they can be used for executing development of a shop for one of the WORLD Group’s brands.
WSCA will consider all submissions addressing any area of this business development process, including space design, installations for shop visuals, means of expression, etc. As such, WSCA will accept submissions on any scale, from partial propositions to total design concepts.

• Professional Competition Interior Design Category:
  Floor space should be no greater than 170m² (50 tsubo). There are no restrictions to the design, shape, or height.
  
  
• Professional Competition Shop Visual Design Category:
  Means of expressing display ideas, installations within a retail space through the use of art, craft, graphics, structures, etc. Entrants are free to address any area of interest they choose.
  
  
• Student Competition:
  There are no restrictions – submissions may represent interior design or visual design propositions. Entrants are free to address any area of interest they choose.

*Entrants are free to decide whether or not they wish to specify a specific brand or shop name.
WSCA is looking for original ideas realized from taking an innovative perspective, and that are viable in a retail space.

• Special Entry Categories for “T shirt Shop Design Award”
  Designs for a Pop Up (limited time) T shirt Shop, including interior design, shop visuals, T shirt retailing ideas, and actual T shirt designs are welcome.
  Entrants are free to address any or all areas of interest they choose.

Submission details will be posted on this site in early November 2009.

Jury president:
Naoto Fukasawa, product designer
Other jury members:
Nacása & Partners: Takeshi Nakasa, photographer / Atsushi Nakamichi, photographer
Yasuo Kondo, interior designer
Jamo Associates: Norito Takahashi, designer / Chinatsu Kambayashi, stylist
graf: Shigeki Hattori, designer
WORLD Co., Ltd.:
Interior & VM Development Division / Product Development Division

• Professional Competition:
  Interior Design Category - open number of winners
  Shop Visual Design Category - open number of winners

Winners will be invited to be part of a new project development for WORLD, beginning in 2010.
*Although the WSCA is based on the premise that winning submissions will be realized, the project contract may specify changes in the submitted work due to the nature of the project involved.
*The detailed terms, timing, and form of the project will be determined subject to discussion between WORLD Co., Ltd. and the winner(s).

• Student Competition:
  Student Grand Prize:
  - 1 winner: Gift certificates worth ¥200,000
  Outstanding Performance Award:
  To be awarded to submissions meeting the jury’s selection criteria.
  Open number of winners: Gift certificates worth ¥50,000

This competition is open to professional as well as non-professional entrants of all nationalities and ages. Entries may also be made by groups or companies, in which case an individual from that group or company should be named as the representative entrant.
For the student competition, a screening of qualifications applies. Post graduate students are welcome.

Each submission should be presented in no more than 4 files (4 images).
*When printed, only the first 4 pages will be considered. Any additional pages exceeding this 4-page limit will not be considered as part of the submission.
Although there are no presentation style guidelines for the submitted work, proposals should be presented in such a manner that facilitates visualization of your idea.
Entry data should follow the format guidelines outlined below:
Acceptable file types: JPEG or PDF
*If submitting work in PDF form, any text included as part of the design should be outlined when you prepare your data.
File names: File names can be freely determined by the entrant.
File extensions (“.jpg” / “.pdf”) are required.
*Please note that all file names must use standard single-byte Roman characters.
Amount of data: 1 entry (up to 4 files) should not be more than 8MB in total
Color mode: please use RGB
*Any data submitted in CMYK mode will be changed into RGB when it is received. This process may cause subtle alterations in color.

Winners will be notified by the middle of March 2010.
Winning entries will be announced on the official WSCA website set up within the WORLD Co., Ltd. homepage.
Winning entries will be announced on the WSCA2010 website in the spring.
Responses will not be made to any queries, objections, or requests for explanations regarding the judging or final results.

Opening: Friday, January 8, 2010
Closing: 24:00 Japan Standard Time (JST) on Friday, January 29, 2010

Submission Form link will be uploaded to this page upon entry period opening

• Submissions are limited to original, previously un-presented work.
• Please refrain from submitting identical entries to other projects or competitions.
• In the case of works which risk infringement on any copyrights, rights to likeness, trademark rights, design rights, or any other rights held by a third party, the entrant is responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions and stating all such clearances upon submission of the entry.
• As a rule, please refrain from using copyrighted images reproduced from sources such as magazines, books, or websites.
• Should any third party initiate claims of infringement of rights or should any other dispute arise, the entrant will be held responsible for addressing such action or dispute and shall bear any costs incurred, including any damages incurred by the competition organizer.
• Submitted entries will not be returned. If necessary, entrants should make and retain copies.
• Intellectual property rights (including copyrights) of submitted entries reside with the entrant. However, the competition organizer retains the right to publicly announce winning entries.
• While the copyrights of submitted entries reside with the entrant, the competition organizer retains the right to print, publish, include in websites, display, or otherwise announce any submission for the purposes of WORLD Space Creators Awards publicity.
• Only this website's page on 'ENTRY GUIDELINES' is offered in Chinese.
  Other pages are only offered in Japanese and English. Requests for additional information, as well as your work's concept description and other comments should be made in Japanese or English.
]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5631 2010-01-28T00:29:23Z 2009-11-05T00:33:25Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net Environmental Design has been recognised at D&AD since the 1980’s, with legends such as Thomas Heatherwick, Norman Foster and Philippe Starck amongst those who have had their work picked out by the judges.

If you’ve worked on a great project this year, be it an exhibition, restaurant or brand experience, submit it for 2010.

Winners receive the coveted Yellow Pencil, fantastic global exposure and a place in the D&AD Annual.


D&AD Awards
The best Environmental Design of the year sits alongside work in other disciplines ranging from Websites and Graphic Design, to Music Videos and Press Advertising.

Your entry will be judged by a panel of leading Environmental Designers, led by Foreman Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture, Tokyo.

Judges are asked to consider whether entries are:
-An original and inspiring idea.
-Exceptionally well executed.
-Relevant to context.

Categories
Retail & Services
Leisure & Tourism
Public Space & Community
Workplace
Permanent Exhibitions
Temporary Exhibitions
Installations

As opposed to architecture and infrastructure, the D&AD Environmental Design categories are intended to recognise the design of spaces and the way in which they are used by their occupants.

Click here for more detailed category descriptions.

How to enter
Entering is simple. Just submit your entry details online and send stills or a short film to explain your entry.

The entry fee is £155.

Enter before Wednesday 18 November to save 10%

The final deadline is Wednesday 27 January 2010.

http://awards.dandad.org/2010/landing/environmentaldesign/?utm_source=51

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5316 2010-01-26T06:55:55Z 2009-09-22T20:48:56Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net Competition Brief

The student participants are required to identify a site in a city of their own choice anywhere in the world for planning and designing affordable housing in sustainable humane habitat project.

The site for the project shall be about 5-10 ha which will be a brown field site located in an urban area which is at present neglected. The site may have dilapidated housing stock. The project shall aim at providing affordable housing to about 1000 families belonging to various income and social groups. A high priority shall be given to provide housing for the urban poor and low income families. The project shall aim at sustainable urban renewal of the area with a mixed land use strategy.

Site Surveys and Analysis

The participants are required to carry out detailed surveys and analysis of the area to identify the issues and problems faced by residents with respect to their housing conditions and quality of their living environment.

Dwelling Units

The individual dwelling units may vary from 30 sq.m. to 120 sq.m. It may have different types of housing for various sections of the society and different age groups of the population. It may incorporate different income and social groups.

Sustainable Community

The project should aim at designing affordable housing and evolving a sustainable community with diverse neighbourhoods. The community shall have its own local shopping facilities and also provide for some workspaces such as offices and workshops. It shall have its own network of educational institutions such as primary and high schools, health care facility, community and recreational facilities. All efforts shall be made to evolve its humane character.

Sustainable Humane Habitat

The project should aim at achieving a high standard of sustainability and affordability. It should incorporate sustainable technologies such as water harvesting, energy efficient design, recycling of wastes and other principles of sustainable humane architecture.The sustainable community should be accessible through public transportation networks and preferably be a car-free community. The landscape design of the project would aim at achieving harmony with nature thus contributing to evolution of a sustainable humane habitat.

Eligibility

The competition is open to all registered undergraduate / post graduate / doctoral students of any nationally recognized school, college or institution of architecture, engineering, planning, urban design, landscape design, environmental design and related disciplines of anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, social work, etc.

The Student group shall be headed by a student of architecture. The participants may be individuals or a group of not more than 5 students. The students shall fill in the registration form and air mail it along with the supporting certificates from the head / director / principal of the school / college / institution for each of the student participant.

Awards

First Prize INRs 75,000/-

Second Prize INRs.50,000/-

Third Prize INRs.25,000/-

Maximum of 5 Honourable Mentions without any case prizes shall be given.

Deadlines

Early registration: US $ 50 to be received by December 31, 2009

Late registration: US$ 75 up to January 25, 2010

Queries; December 31, 2010.

Final submission date: January 25, 2010.

Jury dates; January 27-28, 2010.

Awards declaration, January 31, 2010.

Publication of document: August 15, 2010


www.humanehabitat.org

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5629 2010-01-16T06:55:17Z 2009-11-04T18:12:24Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net The Ville de Montréal is pleased to announce a nationwide ideas competition for the redesigning of the area around the Champ-de-Mars métro station. The purpose of the competition is to solicit explorations and illustrations of a variety of development concepts made possible by the planned covering of the Ville-Marie expressway and the potential reconfiguration of its exit ramps.

Champ-de-Mars station, with its magnificent glassworks by renowned artist Marcelle Ferron, is one of the few landmarks remaining from the time before the construction of the Ville-Marie expressway. The immediate perimeter of the station forms a link between downtown Montréal and Old Montréal, and is one of the main pedestrian access routes to the historic district.

Refelecting on the Quality of Public Spaces in Montréal

The competition invites entrants to submit development proposals that integrate smoothly with the existing public spaces and take into account the current and future built environment, including the impending Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. Proposals must promote citizen appropriation of the urban environment and provide a development framework that facilitates movement through the city.

This design competition is the third to be implemented in the wake of the commitments announced by the Mayor of Montréal at the Pecha Kucha Night for Elected Officials on September 30, 2008. It aims to provide tangible impetus for creativity in made-in-Montréal design and architecture and widen access to public design commissions to the largest possible number of practitioners.

About the Competition

The concept competition is being held on an anonymous-entry basis and is open to all design professionals, students or consortiums whose main place of business is located in Canada. It is a single-stage competition, with two submission categories, one for professionals and the other for students. The language of the competition is French. However, the conceptual approach may include a text in English.

Proposals received will be studied and evaluated by a jury on the basis of the following criteria:

• enhancement of the architecture and glassworks of Champ-de-Mars métro station
• reinforcement of the pedestrian links and access routes leading from the station to all of the surrounding areas
• innovative and esthetic qualities of the project
• atmosphere created by the planned action

The jury members are:

• Melvin Charney, architect
• Odile Decq, architect and Director of the École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris
• Jacques Des Rochers, Curator of Canadian Art, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
• Michel Dionne, architect, Cooper, Robertson & Partners, New York
• Raphaël Fischler, urban planner and professor at the School of Urban Planning, McGill University
• Mario Masson, landscape architect and Division Manager, Service du développement culturel, de la qualité du milieu de vie et de la diversité ethnoculturelle, Ville de Montréal
• Alessandra Ponte, associate professor, School of Architecture, Université de Montréal
• Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec, landscape architect and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at Université de Montréal

Instructions for Prospective Entrants

Registration is free and mandatory. Each entrant must complete the form available here, by January 15, 2010. Download the competition regulations here.

Proposals must be sent no later than February 10, 2010, at 5 p.m. (local time) to:

Ideas Competition
Redesigning of the area around Champ-de-Mars metro station
A/S bureau Design Montréal
303, rue Notre-Dame Est, 6e étage
Montréal (Québec) H2Y 3Y8

Entrants who have questions about the competition must submit them by e-mail to the Design Montréal office at info@realisonsmontreal.com, no later than January 15, 2010.

The design competition is being jointly run by the Design Montréal office and the Urban Planning division of the Ville de Montréal’s Service de la mise en valeur du territoire et du patrimoine.

http://www.realisonsmontreal.com

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5433 2010-01-16T06:55:07Z 2009-10-05T22:00:09Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net The Valley Development Council, in collaboration with the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, would like to invite you to participate in the 2009 Smart Growth Design & Reuse Competition.

Architects, designers and planners are invited to prepare concept plans for the redevelopment of two significant downtown/village center sites in the Pioneer Valley, a region of Western Massachusetts defined by the Connecticut River Valley. These redevelopment sites are located in Southampton and Palmer.

The goal for this international design competition is to create a local example of smart re-use, and to provide a model of how communities in the region can grow smarter. With the partnerships formed through this competition process, there will be significant momentum for turning the winning concept plan idea into reality.

Early registration is open until October 15, 2009. Late registration is due by January 15, 2010.

http://www.valleyideas.org

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5744 2010-01-16T06:55:02Z 2009-11-16T22:59:03Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net In a time of economic upheaval and rapid social change design will have an outstanding role in the future. Vienna as an important young design location can make a substantial contribution to this.

MAK and departure therefore announce a first-time-ever joint ideas competition: under the heading of Project Vienna – A Design Strategy proposals are invited for innovative design strategies and concepts. Design must go beyond mere object modeling and surface cosmetics and be understood as an integral part of cultural creation. Design informs our everyday life, our culture, and our sense of aesthetics beyond fleeting fashions and styles – design is the mirror of our civilization.

The ideas competition targets designers who represent a broad notion of design, who interact with other disciplines or network with artists, architects, and other creative professionals. The focus is on the significance of design as a concrete possibility and relevant practice of intervening in, and informing social structures. After the decline of modernist design utopias and avant-garde attempts at an encompassing redesign of our sphere of living, the call is now for independent and intelligent contemporary models for the Vienna of the 21st century.

http://www.designprojectvienna.at/

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.3896 2010-01-16T06:33:46Z 2009-05-06T22:39:47Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net FOSTERED: SPACE FOR THE HOMELESS CHILD - OPENING JULY 2009
Encouraging social change through design-based dialog.

Fostered includes two competitions: a standard open to all applicants and a student competition open to those enrolled at a university at the time of the submittal deadline. Entries from each competition will be evaluated and awarded separately.

Challenge:

Develop an architectural design to foster healthy emotional development for homeless child/ren.
What challenges must they face in order to become well-adjusted adults?

Considerations:

Who are the world’s homeless children?...refugees, orphans, foster care, children in poverty, those in poor family structure, the disowned, runaways…

What challenges must they face in order to become well-adjusted adults?

http://www.sociodesignfoundation.org/2010comp.html

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5286 2010-01-16T06:26:18Z 2009-09-17T20:28:19Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net http://www.landartgenerator.org/
http://www.landartgenerator.org/competition.html

The Land Art Generator Initiative is the artworld’s responsible answer to the question:

“what comes after oil?”

The long-term goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative is to design and construct a series of land art installations that uniquely combine aesthetic intrigue and artistic concept with clean energy generation. The LAGI viewing platforms will be tourist destinations, drawing people from around the world to experience the beauty of the collaborative artworks. At the same time, the art itself will continuously distribute clean energy into the electrical grid, with the sculptures having the potential to provide power to thousands of homes.

We are living in a world in which the climate is deeply affected by the burning of fossil fuels for energy generation and in which it is estimated by the oil industry that petroleum reserves will be mostly used up by the time children born today reach middle age.

So what can the artworld do in order to stimulate change at an even faster pace? Why not create works of art that themselves provide clean, infinitely renewable energy to the world? These artworks can be large-scale installations related to the genre of land-art. They can be profound and lasting statements of purpose. Their message can reach across generations and continents.

The time is now to do whatever we can to make the shift to cleaner forms of energy.  Art has the power to reach the hearts and the minds of the world, and it is this power that we must tap into if we are to see substantive change.

This open call to interdisciplinary teams is the first step in the process of inititating this change. The winning proposal will be the first in line to be constructed. Once completed, it will be the first of its kind in the world.

An exhibit of all qualified proposals will be held at the conclusion of the competition. This exhibit will provide a forum for a public presentation and discussion of all of the works. It is the intention of LAGI to have this exhibit travel to as many venues as possible in the time after the competition period in order to broaden the audience that is a part of the dialogue.

The designs should be considered first and foremost as Land Art Installations. The considerations for energy generation should come in a close second. What this means is that the installations are art first, power plants second. There will most-likely be sacrifices to be made in terms of efficiency of energy generation in order that the design function primarily on a conceptual and aesthetic level. The objective is not to design and engineer a device that provides the cheapest KWh or the most energy per square meter of land.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.4174 2010-01-13T06:59:02Z 2009-06-13T15:15:03Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net eVolo - 2010 SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION
http://www.evolo-arch.com

eVolo – to study, to develop, to evolve, to fly away…

The launch of eVolo Magazine is a step closer to our objective to provide a forum for showcasing the most innovative, the most avant-garde designs that will define architecture in this century.

After several years of organizing the annual Skyscraper Competition it has become a renowned architectural prize around the world. The best projects of each competition are widely published from architecture, design, and fashion publications to technology, business, and entertainment magazines. The winning projects are also featured in websites, television documentaries, and galleries.

We would like to invite students and professional architects, engineers, and designers to take part in the 2010 Skyscraper Competition.  The main idea of this contest is to examine the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community and the skyscraper and urban living.

In the last few years we have seen hundreds of new skyscrapers been developed around the world without careful consideration to the context or environment. There is a constant lack of urban planning and poor architectural design without intellectual or perceptual enjoyment. The aim of the competition is to push our imagination to redefine the term skyscraper through the use of new materials, technology, aesthetics, programs, and spatial organizations. Globalization, environmental warming, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are just some of the multi-layered elements that should be taken in consideration.

There are no restrictions in regards to site, program or size. The objective is to provide maximum freedom to propose the most innovative projects for this fascinating architectural genre. Ultimately, the designs should help the environment, restructure our cities and improve our way of life. Immediate


Registration:

All students, architects, engineers, and designers are invited to participate in the competition. It is encouraged to have multidisciplinary teams.

Participants must register by January 12, 2010 at http://www.evolo-arch.com

Registration fee:

US $60 until November 17, 2009 (early registration)
US $85 from November 17, 2009 to January 12, 2010 (late registration)

One registration = one project. Participants may submit various projects but they must register each entry.
Individual entries are accepted.
There is no limit on the number of participants per team.
After your registration has been approved eVolo will send the registration number which is necessary in the submission boards.


Schedule:

June 15, 2009
Competition announcement, registration begins, acceptance of questions

November 9, 2009
Acceptance of questions deadline

November 17, 2009
Early registration deadline

November 23, 2009
Answers to questions posted on website

January 12, 2010
Late registration deadline

January 18, 2010
Submission deadline

February 22, 2010
Winners’ announcement


Submission requirements:

This is a digital competition and no hardcopies are necessary. Entrants will submit their proposal via email no later than January 18, 2010 (23:00 hours US Eastern Time) to the following email address:  skyscraper2010@evolo-arch.com  The project submission must contain the following files:  1. Two boards with the project information including plans, sections, and perspectives. Participants are encouraged to submit all the information they consider necessary to explain their proposal. These boards should be 24” X 48” in HORIZONTAL format. The resolution of the boards must be 150 dpi, RGB mode and saved as JPG files. The upper right corner of each board must contain the participation number. There should not be any marks or any other form of identification. The files must be named after the registration number followed by the board number. For example: 0101-1.jpg and 0101-2.jpg. 
2. A DOC file containing the entrants personal information, including name, profession, address, and email. This file must be named after the registration number followed by the word “info”. For example: 0101-info.doc.
3. All the files must be placed in a ZIP folder named after your registration number. For example:  0101.zip


Jury:

To be announced on July 13, 2009


Awards:

1st place. US $2000
2nd place. US $1000
3rd place.  US $500

Winners and special mentions will be published in several magazines including eVolo_04. 

Previous winners have been included in Aeroflot (Russia), Architecture and Culture (Korea), Bauwelt (Germany), C3 (Korea), Casamica (Italy), Enlace (Mexico), Focus (Canada), Future Arquitecturas (Spain), Grazia Casa (Italy), L’Arca (Italy), Le Fourquet (Mexico), L’Uomo Vogue (Italy), Pasajes de Arquitectura (Spain), Quo (China), Space (Korea), Spade (Canada), Spazio Casa (Italy), Tatlin (Russia), Time Style and Design (USA), Wettbewerbe Aktuell (Germany), Vogue (Australia, USA), Vox Design (Poland)


Regulations:

This is an anonymous competition and the registration number is the only means of identification. The personal information files will be kept by the General Advisor and will not be opened until the Jury has selected the award winners.
1. The official language of the competition is English. 
2. The registration fee is non-refundable. 
3. Any participant contacting the members of the Jury will be disqualified. 
4. Entrants will be disqualified if any of the competition rules are not considered. 
5. Participation assumes acceptance of all the competition rules.

http://www.evolo-arch.com

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.4036 2010-01-11T06:00:36Z 2009-08-25T20:03:37Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net Zerofootprint is proud to launch the Zerofootprint Building Re-Skinning Competition. The goal of this competition is to advance the state-of-the-art in retrofitting existing building structures through better design and improved materials and technology, thus creating retrofitting systems that can be scaled to a large number of buildings and deployed globally. Older wasteful buildings account for nearly 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and it is our wish that by creating a smart, reproducible, beautiful, cost-effective, and energy efficient scheme, a scalable solution may be found. More information can be found here: http://communities.zerofootprint.net/building-re-skinning-competition/

Judging the competition are some of the world’s most respected architects and environmentalists, including William McDonough, Edward Mazria, Stefan Benisch, Andrew Bowerbank, Thomas Auer, Judith DiMaio, and George Baird.

The competition will be judged on the aesthetics, energy efficiency, smart technology, return on investment and potential as a solution for a large number of buildings. The deadline for the submission of designs is January 10, 2010.

The Z-Prize:
The winning 5 entries will be monitored for a period of 3 years after completion of the retrofit to examine and compare how they actually perform in practice. The Z-Prize will be given to the building that has most reduced the energy per square foot, averaged over the 3 years of monitoring. We hope to make the Z-Prize, the largest prize in the world for architecture so as to encourage high quality worldwide participation.


Zerofootprint is an organization dedicated to a mass reduction in global environmental impact.  We provide software and services to individuals, governments, universities and corporations that measure and manage carbon footprints and engages employees and citizens worldwide in combating climate change.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5239 2010-01-11T04:38:57Z 2009-09-11T16:42:59Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net The ZEROprize
Addressing an Urgent Global Need
North America’s existing building infrastructure accounts for up to 40% of all greenhouse gases produced in the United States and Canada. In cities that figure can surpass 65%. Older buildings while structurally sound often waste precious energy and are a major source of the greenhouse gas emissions polluting our cities.

Zerofootprint is offering the ZEROprize to the design team who can take an older concrete high-rise structure and, using re-skinning along with other retrofitting technologies, reduce its carbon, water, and energy footprint to net zero while also maintaining the highest architectural design standards.

To secure the ZEROprize, a candidate building will be required to have a net zero footprint for one year.

The Re-Skinning Award
In addition to the ZEROprize, the supporting Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Award will be offered every year. The Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Award is meant to attract state-of-the-art retrofitted and re-skinned buildings that are exceptional, but do not meet the performance standards of the ZEROprize.

The objective of the Re-Skinning award is to stimulate global interest in new building technologies, an area that the media tends to underreport, and accelerate innovation in a critical industrial sector. Through its website, the Re-Skinning Award will also provide building owners everywhere with quantitative information explaining how green, retrofitting technologies can reduce energy demand, clean our cities, and save them money.

The Re-Skinning Award entry date is January 10, 2010.

http://communities.zerofootprint.net/building-re-skinning-competition/

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5159 2010-01-07T00:03:48Z 2009-09-03T01:20:49Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net Clients worldwide have become more demanding. They want aesthetically and creatively appealing designs, better technology to have everything at their fingertips, and facilities that allow them to indulge or relax, just a call away. Also, gone are the days of heavily formal designs in hotels. The new breed of adventurous designers and travelers has made the hotels rethink their set beliefs about guest service and hotel design.

Travelers want to be surprised or wowed each time they walk in. The reason for a more casual ambience in hotels can also be attributed to the need of frequent travelers to feel at home. Only a decade back, renovations and would be carried out at a gap of five to seven years. The periodicity has now increased to three to five years. Additionally, as business travel has increased all across the globe, new hotels are constantly being built in major destination cities.

This has increased the workload on designers, but eased their work because of the hotel’s enthusiasm to experiment. Modular building is one way to help maintain all the aspects of a modern hotel within the newly shortened lifespan and demand for “the next best thing.”

The competition asks students to learn about modular building techniques and systems in the design of a modern and sustainable Miami Beach hotel. Objectives for the competition include:
1.To research, respond to and highlight the unique aspects of designing a modern hotel that serves the selected site and community of Miami Beach, FL
2.To learn about and utilize the modular building process to develop a mutli-story design that meets both the program requirements and promotes advancements for future modular buildings
3.To design a facility that utilizes sustainable features in the areas of thermal comfort, indoor air quality, day lighting, acoustics, energy efficiency, resource strategy, aesthetics, and economic practicality (ability to attain LEED certification is preferred but not required)
4.To develop a design that compliments the existing buildings and natural surroundings of the community both now and into the future
5.To develop a design that reflects the unique culture, history and climate of Miami Beach site

Winning designs will be awarded $2500 for first place, $1500 for second place, $750 for third place, or $500 for each honorable mention (3).

For more information on the competition, to download the program or to register you or your team (teams may be up to four students) please visit the competition Web site at http://www.aias.org/modularbuilding.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.4944 2010-01-05T06:09:02Z 2009-08-27T00:20:03Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net Exploration of housing typologies reveals vast the potential of overlaying urban, contextual, cultural, social, and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies for the future.  The d3 Housing Tomorrow Competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects.

The competition calls for transformative solutions that advance sustainable thought, building performance, and social interaction through study of intrinsic environmental geometries, social behaviors, urban implications, and programmatic flows.  Special emphasis may be placed on housing concepts that investigate dialogues including engagement of internal/external socio-economic diversity, change/adaptability over time, public/private realm connectivity, and permanence/impermanence of materiality.  d3 challenges participants to rethink strategies for investigating residential design from macro-to-micro scales ranging from urban—promoting broader physical interconnectivity; communal—exploiting an interaction of units with shared facilities; and internal—examining the interior particularity of the unit, individual, or family in housing design toward promoting identity, ownership, and intimacy.

An architecture of emergence suggests that design expression requires purpose beyond formal assumption and aesthetic experimentation itself.  Concurrent with sustainable thought, the d3 Housing Tomorrow Competition assumes that architecture does not simply form, but rather perform various functions beyond those conventionally associated with residential buildings.  Accordingly, design submissions must be environmentally responsible while fostering inventive conceptual living solutions for today and tomorrow.  Although proposals should be technologically feasible, they may suggest fantastical architectural visions of a sustainable residential future.

The d3 Housing Tomorrow Competition allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in a scale-appropriate manner, from large-scale master planning endeavors, to individual building concepts, to notions of the interior realm.  Although there are no restrictions on site, scale, program, or residential building typology, proposals should carefully address their selected context.

Visit the competition website for further details:

http://www.d3space.org/competitions

d3 is an organization committed to advancing innovative positions in art, architecture, and design by providing a collaborative environment for artists, architects, designers, and students from throughout New York City and around the world.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5653 2010-01-05T00:00:38Z 2009-11-08T05:20:40Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net TownShift: Suburb Into City
An Ideas Competition for Surrey’s Town Centres
Shifting Towards Sustainable Suburbs

“TownShift: Suburb Into City” is open an international ideas competition seeking innovative ideas for five of Surrey’s established Town Centres: Guildford, Fleetwood, Cloverdale, Newton and Semiahmoo. The aim of the competition is to “Shift” thinking and opportunities for each of these “Town” hubs towards more intense, public-minded and productive urban futures. Approved by the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, this competition is proposed in order to generate innovative new thinking about suburbs transforming towards sustainability in an era of increasingly expensive energy. TownShift has been conceived to open up debate and communicate design ideas amongst the general public and city-building professions, and we hope its results will shape this rapidly-evolving city for decades to come. Indeed, the civic slogan proudly displayed on Surrey’s new urban brand is “The Future Lives Here.”

Registration Opens November 6, 2009
Registration Closes January 4, 2010
Submissions Due January 6, 2010

Questions Due Before December 10, 2009
Answers Posted December 14, 2009

Exhibition Opens February 4, 2010
Awards Presented February 24, 2010

http://www.townshift.com

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.3902 2010-01-03T06:55:11Z 2009-05-06T23:12:12Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net DECEMBER SACRED SPACE FOR ATHEISM

Socio Design Foundation: Encouraging social change through design-based dialog.

December Challenge: Sacred Space for Atheism

Through a single vignette, respond with a spatial interpretation and/or answer to December’s challenge. See Submission for further details.

http://www.sociodesignfoundation.org/2009minidec.html

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5763 2010-01-01T06:55:32Z 2009-11-18T18:58:39Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net Think you have the most clever, useful and fun DIY project around? Dremel has teamed up with a leading home improvement expert to give you the opportunity to flaunt your home improvement skills by entering the 30 Minute Miracles contest.

All you have to do is send us your best home improvement or remodeling tip that can be accomplished in 30 minutes or less using Dremel tools. To enter, visit the contest website or mail your entry to: “30 Minute Miracles Contest.” c/o Dremel, P.O. Box 6297 Villa Park, IL 60181-6297. All entries must be 200 words or less. The contest runs from November 2 - December 31, 2009.

Entries will be judged on creativity, originality and level of difficulty. Winners will be selected by Dremel and home improvement expert Paul Ryan.

The grand-prize winner will receive a $2,500 American Express Gift Card, and two additional winners will receive a $1,000 American Express Gift Card or $500 American Express Gift Card.

The Dremel “30 Minute Miracles” contest is open to U.S. residents age 18 or older. Winners will be announced at http://www.dremel.com by February 5, 2010.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5745 2010-01-01T06:55:23Z 2009-11-16T23:07:24Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net The Prize “Sustainable Architecture” Fassa Bortolo is more than a simple competition. It is a way of spreading a new culture in the building sector with the twofold aim of creating a new and exclusive meeting point for professionals of the sector as well as making the work of planners and builders well-known, a work resulting from their continuous search for the best balance between the human being and the environment.

This initiative, which has been promoted by Fassa Bortolo - a leading company in the production of premixed plasters - and the Architecture Faculty of the University of Ferrara, aims at stimulating innovative solutions in the sector of bio-architecture. The prize will be awarded each year and is devoted to professionals and groups of architects and engineers who have implemented projects of sustainable architecture in the past five years.

Furthermore the edition 2007 of the Prize also includes a section devoted to neo-graduates , who can participate with their Degree Thesis. The application form must be sent by 31/12/2009, whereas the relevant papers - indicated under the section “Competition Notice” on the website - must be submitted by January 2010.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.4503 2010-01-01T06:55:10Z 2009-08-04T16:44:11Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net The student initiatives with the most powerful and provocative solutions will be given financial awards to help fund the implementation of their project within the community. A total of $15,000 will be awarded to the concept or concepts that have the demonstrated ability to ignite change within their local community based on the following broad parameters:
• Addresses a pressing social need within a community
• Can be implemented within that community
• Delivers positive results that can be measured
Awards will be given to fund the material costs of executing the project. Design Ignites Change believes that designers should be compensated for their time when executing socially minded projects. As such, up to 10% of your total requested award amount may be earmarked as an honorarium to cover your time. Monies will be disbursed in one of two ways:
• Paid directly to the vendors contracted to execute the project
• Paid to the school or organization who will oversee the execution of the project

Worldstudio will determine the best way to distribute the award money on a case-by-case basis.

Deadline

The application deadline is December 31, 2009. A complete case study must also be posted on the Design Ignites Change website by December 31, 2009.

Eligiblity

The following groups enrolled in Design Ignites Change are eligible to submit projects developed in 2009 for an award:

• Colleges/universities engaged in projects that use design thinking to address social issues
• Colleges/universities engaged in a youth mentoring program around social issues
• Creative professionals engaged in a youth mentoring program around social issues

Participants in the basic Create! Don’t Hate. billboard mentoring program are not eligible, but any unique extensions – in addition to the billboards – of the Create! Don’t Hate. program, developed by the mentoring organization and the mentees can be submitted.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2010:/1.5682 2010-01-01T06:27:36Z 2009-11-12T17:45:38Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
You Must Register an “Intention to Submit” your Kalil Grant Proposal

The mission of the Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design is twofold: to foster the understanding of the design intersections between nature and technology, and to support a heightened sense of responsibility for increasing the sustainability of built environments.


One $5000 Fellowship Grant is available annually for application by Scholars and Practitioners, inside or outside of the New School University:

•The Scholar/Practitioner Grant supports the project of a current faculty member or group of faculty members from any New School division, or an outside scholar/scholar group, or a practitioner from within any design field.
     
Intention to Submit Deadline: November 13, 2009
Intention to Submit forms available immediately at:
http://www2.parsons.edu/sce/kalil/app/int_sub_form.pdf

Application Deadline: December 31, 2009

Proposals will be blind, without indication of the author on or in the Proposal itself. Applicants are required to submit an electronic Intention to Submit Form. Each form is given a reference number in order to keep track of personal information and Proposal materials. Reference numbers will be placed on Project Proposals.

For More Information on Michael Kalil
and The Kalil Endowment for Smart Design visit:
http://www.parsons.edu/sce/kalil/index.php


e-mail questions and downloaded Intention to Submit Forms to:
kalil@newschool.edu

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5656 2009-12-31T17:55:32Z 2009-11-19T00:28:33Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net The Challenge:

Freegreen.com is challenging you to develop affordable green home designs that fit contemporary lifestyles. There are a lot of people who want a new home but don’t want a generic suburban McMansion. The American dream is not one size fits all. Our dreams are changing, and FreeGreen is challenging, you, the residential design community, to develop new ideas for people who don’t dream of the generic. The single family home is the most commonly built building in America, but less than 5 percent of the homes built in America have direct involvement with an Architect. The challenge of the Who’s Next competition is to re-envision the typical suburban home in an ecologically conscious manner that also reflects today’s modern lifestyle. Competitors will select one of two user profiles (see right) and design a single family home that fits their chosen profile. All homes designed in this contest must be 1800 Sq. Ft. or less.

Why You Should Enter:

It’s Easy

All you have to deliver is nine images and image descriptions. No boards, no presentations, no complications. Just nine slides that will be uploaded in a Facebook style onto the competition website.

It’s Affordable

Our entry fee is just $50. Our goal is to get, and promote as many entrants as possible so we created and entry fee that is manageable.

It’s Useful

There is of course a cash prize of $5,000. We expect to drive over 500K visitors to our contest viewing and voting site, on which you and/or your firm will be promoted. For the top three entries, FreeGreen will turn your designs into a house plan. FreeGreen will place this house plan on our Open Source Site for sale (at whatever price you want), and you will retain the rights to this house plan using it as you wish. You will also receive 70% of all revenue from sales made of your plan on the FreeGreen Open Source Site.

For full details please visit http://www.freegreen.com/whosnext/

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5191 2009-12-31T03:34:59Z 2009-09-08T21:54:00Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net Manifestations of Memory is a student design competition for an American Slavery memorial. The purpose of this competition is to commemorate the African and African American victims of the institution of American slavery by creating a place where ideas for memorials to them can be submitted, discussed, and exhibited. Although we are looking for architectural designs, we invite all college (undergrad or grad) students of any discipline to submit their ideas on how such a memorial may look.  This is an IDEAS competition so be creative and submit your designs!  For more information please visit, http://www.asmcompetition.com
]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5519 2009-12-20T06:59:29Z 2009-10-19T16:54:30Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net With all the different actors needed to erect a building the architect always has to enter into a dialogue. The end result will be a compromise, whether you like it or not. A compromise is understood as a concept of finding agreement through communication, through a mutual acceptance of terms—often involving variations or aberration from an original goal or desire. Some architects may understand compromise as a capitulation, referring to a “surrender” of objectives, principles, or material, in the process of negotiating an agreement. Is “compromise” an agreement that no party is really satisfied with? Or is the compromise, in many cases, the most appropriate answer? An increasing number of young architects tend to compromise their beliefs, their health, their social life. Work long hours to endure in the so called world of architecture, where fame and media define who is going to be the next star architect. How much do you need to compromise in order to belong to this glamorous world? Glamour denotes luxury and elegance, creating an impression of attraction and fascination, an impression which is better than reality.

Deadline for abstracts is week 47. Deadline for final submissions is week 50.
Join us making issue #3: Glamorous Compromise and send your ideas and abstracts to: submission@conditionsmagazine.com

website: http://www.conditionsmagazine.com

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5746 2009-12-19T06:55:46Z 2009-11-16T23:19:48Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net ABOUT BARANGAROO

Barangaroo is a new 22 hectare waterfront precinct in Sydney’s CBD that will use Australian leadership and innovation to set global benchmarks in sustainability and urban design.
Key open space features will include:

• creation of a significant harbourside park;
• restoration of an entire harbour headland to its pre-European settlement shape
• completion of the 14-kilometre Foreshore Walk from Woolloomooloo to Anzac Bridge.

Over the past 12 months, the Concept Plan has been modified to include the creation of a more natural headland and larger northern cove. The aim is to complement some of the key natural features of the harbour immediately west of the Harbour Bridge.

HEADLAND PARK AND PUBLIC DOMAIN REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
 
Barangaroo’s Headland Park and Public Domain represents a rare opportunity to design a landmark harbourside space and, reinstate the green headlands of the western harbour. Leading architecture, landscape architecture and urban design companies are now invited to respond to a Request for Proposals (RFP) to shape Barangaroo’s public domain.

RFP submissions close at 2 pm on 18 December 2009.

Applicants involved in the Stage 1 commercial development EOI process are welcome to participate in the Barangaroo Headland Park and Public Domain Design RFP, in accordance with specific guidelines:

• Submissions will be accepted from Stage 1 applicants complying with the terms and conditions of the Headland Park and Public Domain Design RFP and the Stage 1 request for proposals process.
• Applicants may be required to demonstrate to the Barangaroo Delivery Authority and the Probity Auditor that appropriate internal governance and confidentiality arrangements and procedures will be implemented to address any of the Authority’s confidentiality, probity, competitiveness or cost concerns, and also demonstrating an ability to comply with such arrangements and procedures.

http://www.barangaroo.com

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5564 2009-12-19T06:55:01Z 2009-10-25T23:57:03Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net PlastiCity FantastiCity is remodeling the constructed city at any chosen scale to become a world of playful opportunity, where nothing that manifests itself in today’s cities is present. This ideas competition seeks a multidisciplinary approach to discover new potentials and possibilities within the world and in particular for the Landscape Architecture profession.

What if when you take a lunch break, parks literally broke from the earth, airlifted above the clouds escaping into the sunlight, landing within the hour leaving you at peace with the world?

http://www.plasticityfantasticity.com (see for full details)

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5588 2009-12-17T04:37:12Z 2009-10-28T16:41:14Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net Heritage Malta, the national agency for Museums, Conservation practice and Cultural Heritage, has embarked on a €2.5million (excl VAT) project, part funded through the European Regional Development Fund, to enhance the visitor experience at the Ġgantija Heritage Park, which includes the Ggantija Temples, that are the world’s oldest free-standing structure and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The aim is to present an organised, pleasant and sustainable experience, to the circa 150,000 yearly visitors, whilst highlighting the landscape setting of the site and the removal of past interventions which have a negative impact on the setting.

The project shall include the construction of an Interpretation Centre, which shall act an orientation point for the various cultural sites in the village of Xaghra whilst including a permanent display focusing on Gozo’s prehistory, pathways to link the Interpretation Centre to the Temples, and the Temples to the ‘Exit Point’, including the rehabilitation and landscaping of the Heritage Park and the restoration and rebuilding of approximately 200m of rubble wall, as well as an ‘Exit Point’ including a souvenir shop and other basic amenities for the visitors to the Heritage Park.

Towards this end, Heritage Malta, has launched a design contest for ‘Enhancing the visitor experience in the Ġgantija Heritage Park World Heritage Site’. More information can be obtained from http://www.heritagemalta.org/erdf032. Submission date is the 16th December 2009.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5737 2009-12-16T06:55:32Z 2009-11-16T20:31:37Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net On the occasion of the 5th FESTIVAL OF LIVELY ARCHITECTURE in MONTPELLIER, the association Champ Libre launches a call for applications to realize 10 installations.

The Festival settles in the very heart of the city of Montpellier, it will thus take place in the Escutcheon and more specifically in the courtyards of private mansions. Therefore it will propose a journey to visitors, sort of an architecture discovery in the middle of the city.

This way the goal of the Festival in Montpellier is on one hand to open up to the inhabitants, during the festival these emblematic places and on the other hand – thanks to the interventions of teams or creators who will present a specific work in each and every place – to reveal an intimate relationship between contemporary architecture, installation and heritage.

Thematic Festival 2010: Between shadow and light

Selection of the teams: Please return a data file before December 15th 2009 (with the postmark attesting the postage date).

The application file must content:

• A presentation of the team, and each member if it is not an individual application, with curriculum vitae of each member
• References of architecture realizations, installations, competitions…
• An intention letter according to the Festival of Lively Architecture and to the thematic

Between shadow and light.

Eligibility: the consultation is opened to young architects, landscape designers.

The applications must be sent by emails in PDF to the following address: asso_champlibre@yahoo.fr

Please indicate the subject as following: « Application FAV 2010 Montpellier”, and please do not send files that would be too heavy.

A complete document with details about the thematic, constraints related to the conception of the intervention (nature of grounds, exposition, visitors, settlements…) will be sent to the selected teams.

Announcement of the selected teams: January 2010
Deadline for project submissions: February 15th 2010

The Festival will take place from June 17th to 20th 2009.

Each team will have a grant of 1000,00 €, inclusive of tax for the realization of their projects.

All the questions should be emailed to Champ Libre association asso_champlibre@yahoo.fr

FAV website: http://favmontpellier.nerim.net

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5164 2009-12-16T06:00:28Z 2009-10-05T22:05:29Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net EMERGING NY ARCHITECTS LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

HB:BX Building Cultural Infrastructure
The High Bridge International Ideas Competition

Launch Party
September 10 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Trespa Design Centre
62 Greene Street NY, NY 10012
FREE Admission
RSVP: Please e-mail enyacompetitions@gmail.com

September 10, 2009, NEW YORK, NY. The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA New York Chapter, is pleased to announce its fourth biennial international ideas competition, High Bridge: Bronx, Building Cultural Infrastructure (HB:BX). Please join us at the Trespa Design Centre in SoHo, September 10 at 6:00 pm to help us celebrate its launch.

This competition is open to all emerging professionals, including, but not limited to, architects, artists, engineers, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners who have completed their education at the undergraduate or graduate level within 10 years of the competition announcement (September 10, 2009). The registration deadline is November 18, 2009, and the submission deadline is January 18, 2010. An online gallery will feature all submitted design entries. In addition, cash prizes and inclusion in an exhibition and publication will be awarded to the winning designs.

HB:BX is an open ideas competition to design an arts center that culturally reinforces the physical connection between the Manhattan and Bronx High Bridge communities of New York City. Working in cooperation with the arts organizations Artists Unite and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, ENYA means to draw awareness to the current efforts to restore and reopen the historic High Bridge. This competition is a forum to explore the urban and community improvement opportunities that may come with the achievement of such a momentous milestone. Thus, ENYA challenges designers to explore how disused structures can be reprogrammed into elements of a vibrant urban cultural center. Entrants are also challenged to rethink the relationship between existing infrastructure (aqueduct, railway, highway) and the contemporary urban context. These issues, universally relevant to any growing city, take on a more site-specific nature when considering the importance of the High Bridge and the topographic challenges posed by the steep riverbanks of the Harlem River. Also defining this competition are the unique clients who ask entrants to reconsider architecture’s role in the creation, display, and experience of viewing art in one of the world’s most culturally vibrant cities.

General information about HB:BX follows:
Type: International Ideas Competition.
[Note: The competition results are intended to generate ideas for the site and will not result in actual development by ENYA or other parties involved.]

Registration Begins: Sept 10, 2009
Early Registration Ends: Nov 15, 2009
Late Registration Ends: Dec 15, 2009
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2010 (postmarked)
Open to: Emerging Designers
Entry Fee: $35 Student, $65 Individual, $110 Team (2-4), $300 Group(5+)
Awards: $5,000 (ENYA prize), $2,000 (2nd Place), $1,000 (3rd Place), $1,000 (Student)

About ENYA, AIA New York Chapter
ENYA (Emerging New York Architects) is a forum for the interests and activities of students, interns, associates, and new architects. The committee, which is part of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, establishes networking, mentoring, technical, and public advocacy initiatives to foster the professional development of architecture students and young professionals and to strengthen the quality of the built environment.

About the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter
Founded in 1857 by seven visionary architects, the AIA New York Chapter is the first and largest chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Today, the AIA New York Chapter is a membership-based organization comprised of licensed architects and professional affiliates in real estate, construction, engineering, and facilities management, and currently has 4,300 members. Operating out of the Center for Architecture, a storefront space in Greenwich Village, the Chapter is dedicated to three primary goals: public outreach, professional development, and design excellence.

The AIA New York Chapter is guided by the work of its dedicated committees. Over two-dozen committees, open to all interested, are continually exploring such vital issues as housing, planning, urban design, community development, historical preservation, and environmental sustainability. The AIA New York Chapter also serves as an advocate in public policy discussions with governmental decision-makers and other civic and professional associations.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5767 2009-12-15T21:52:11Z 2009-11-18T20:35:16Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net EMERGING NY ARCHITECTS LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

High Bridge: Bronx, Building Cultural Infrastructure, (HB: BX)
International Ideas Competition

LATE REGISTRATION DEADLINE & JURY ANNOUNCEMENT

Early Registration Deadline:  November 20, 2009 (Save $5 by registering early)
Late Registration Deadline:  December 15, 2009
Submission Deadline:      January 15, 2009
Open to:          Emerging Designers

JURY:

ANTONIA SERGIO BESSA   Director of Curatorial and Education programs, Bronx Museum of Arts.
JOSHUA DAVID   Co-founder and Chief Development Officer of Friends of the Highline
CRAIG DYKERS; NAL, AIA   Principal, Snøhetta
PETER FERKO   Artist and President of Artists Unite, Inc.
SANGMOK KIM; AIA, LEED,AP   Principal N.E.E.D., Winning Team of 2008 ENYA International Design Competition
HILARY SAMPLE; AIA   Principal, MOS and Assistant Professor at Yale University
KAZYS VARNELIS; PH.D.  Director, Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Register online at: http://www.enyacompetions.org

November 17, 2009, NEW YORK, NY. The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA NY Chapter, is pleased to announce the jury and extended registration deadlines for its fourth biennial international ideas competition, High Bridge: Bronx, Building Cultural Infrastructure (HB:BX). Register for the competition online at http://www.enyacompetitions.org.

This competition is open to all emerging professionals, including, but not limited to, architects, artists, engineers, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners who have completed their education at the undergraduate or graduate level within 10 years of the competition announcement An online gallery will feature all submitted design entries. In addition cash prizes and inclusion in an exhibition and a publication are awarded to the winning designs.

HB: BX is an open ideas competition to design an arts center that culturally reinforces the physical connection between the Manhattan and Bronx High Bridge communities of New York City. Working in cooperation with the arts organizations Artists Unite and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, ENYA means to draw awareness to the current efforts to restore and reopen the historic High Bridge. This competition is a forum to explore the urban and community improvement opportunities that may come with the achievement of such a momentous milestone. Thus, ENYA challenges designers to explore how disused structures can be reprogrammed into elements of a vibrant urban cultural center. Entrants are also challenged to rethink the relationship between existing infrastructure (aqueduct, railway, and highway) and the contemporary urban context. These issues, universally relevant to any growing city, take on a more site-specific nature when considering the importance of the High Bridge and the topog
raphic challenges posed by the steep riverbanks of the Harlem River. Also defining this competition are the unique clients who ask entrants to reconsider architecture’s role in the creation, display, and experience of viewing art in one of the world’s most culturally vibrant cities.


General information about HB: BX follows:

Type: International Ideas Competition. The competition results are intended to generate ideas for the site and will not result in actual development by ENYA or other parties involved.

Entry Fee: Add $5 for all categories after November 20, 2009.
$35 Student, $65 Individual, $110 Team (2-4), $300 Group (5+)
Awards: $5,000 (ENYA prize), $2,000 (2nd Place), $1,000 (3rd Place), $1,000 (Student)

About ENYA, AIA New York Chapter
ENYA (Emerging New York Architects) is a forum for the interests and activities of students, interns, associates, and new architects. The committee, which is part of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, establishes networking, mentoring, technical, and public advocacy initiatives to foster the professional development of architecture students and young professionals and to strengthen the quality of the built environment.

About the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter
Founded in 1857 by seven visionary architects, the AIA New York Chapter is the first and largest chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Today, the AIA New York Chapter is a membership-based organization comprised of licensed architects and professional affiliates in real estate, construction, engineering, and facilities management, and currently has 4,300 members. Operating out of the Center for Architecture, a storefront space in Greenwich Village, the Chapter is dedicated to three Primary goals: public outreach, professional development, and design excellence.

The AIA New York Chapter is guided by the work of its dedicated committees. Over two-dozen committees, open to all interested, are continually exploring such vital issues as housing, planning, urban design, community development, historical preservation, and environmental sustainability. The AIA New York Chapter also serves as an advocate in public policy discussions with governmental decision-makers and other civic and professional associations.

Sponsors Include:
Trespa
Service Point
world-architects.com

JURY BIOS:

ANTONIA SERGIO BESSA   Director of Curatorial and Education programs, Bronx Museum of Arts.

Antonio Sergio Bessa is the director of curatorial and education programs at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. A graduate of the Steinhardt School of Education at NYU, he has published and lectured often on the relationship between architecture and writing. His books include Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing and Novas: Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos, (both through Northwestern University Press); and Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100 (Fordham University Press).

JOSHUA DAVID   Co-founder and Chief Development Officer of Friends of the Highline

Joshua David is a co-founder of Friends of the High Line and assumes primary responsibility for the organization’s fundraising efforts, as well as overseeing public communications. Joshua is a member of the Advisory Council of Transportation Alternatives, a New York City-based non-profit that advocates on behalf of the city’s cyclists, pedestrians, and transit-users. A longtime resident of Chelsea, he served on Manhattan Community Board No. 4 as the co-chair of their transportation committee. He is also a member of the steering committee of the Greater Gansevoort Street Improvement Project, which worked to expand and improve pedestrian facilities in the Meatpacking District. Before founding Friends of the High Line with Robert Hammond in 1999, Joshua was a freelance magazine writer and freelance editor for Gourmet, Fortune, Travel + Leisure, Wallpaper, and others.

CRAIG DYKERS; NAL, AIA   Principal, Snøhetta

Craig Edward Dykers was born in Frankfurt, Germany and has lived extensively in both Europe and North
America. He received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture at the University of Texas in Austin after initial studies in medicine and art. Craig worked in both Texas and California before co-founding the architecture, landscape, and interior design companies Snøhetta arkitektur landskap AS in Oslo, Norway in 1989 and Snøhetta Inc. in New York City in 2004. He has served as co-designer of many prominent projects, including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the National Opera in Oslo, Norway, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum and Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City. Other projects include the Lillehammer Winter Olympics Art Museum in Norway and the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin. Active professionally and academically, Craig is a member of the Norwegian Architecture Association (NAL) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Arts in England. He has also served as a Diploma Adjudicator at the Architectural C
ollege in Oslo and as a Distinguished Professor at City College in New York City. He has lectured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In addition, Craig has been commissioned to create installation art projects in public spaces, many focused on the notions of context, nature, and human nature.

PETER FERKO   Artist and President of Artists Unite, Inc.

Peter Ferko is an artist in several media. His artwork often utilizes photography to explore perception. He engages in action-oriented projects as a means of engaging other artists in ways that encourage community and dialog. He has travelled to meet artists and arts administrators in Eastern and Central Europe and Russia and has collaborated with artists in Poland and Russia. Peter also plays bass and sings and has recorded with his groups the Peter Ferko Band and the SoLow Bass Show. He is President of Artists Unite, Inc. (http://www.artistsuniteny.org).

SANGMOK KIM; AIA, LEED,AP   Principal N.E.E.D., Winning Team of 2008 ENYA International Design Competition

Sangmok Kim is a principal and a co-founder of N.E.E.D., a multidisciplinary design practice based in New York and Seoul that focuses on exploring the sublime relationships between architecture and landscape. Led by two partners, Sangmok Kim and Sungwoo Kim, their first internationally acclaimed project was ‘FishWORKS’, which won the First Place Emerging New York Architects Prize in 2008. Since then the winning projects have ranged from Seoul Performing Arts Center, Wonji Municipal Crematorium, Yongsan US Military Base Regeneration and Wirye New City Masterplan among many others.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Seoul National University in Korea, and a Master of
Architecture from Columbia University with Honor Award for Excellence in Design.

HILARY SAMPLE; AIA   Principal, MOS and Assistant Professor at Yale University

Hilary Sample is an Assistant Professor at Yale University and has previously taught at the University of Toronto, Northeastern University, and SUNY Buffalo, where she was awarded the Reyner Banham Teaching Fellowship. She is an architect and founding principal of MOS, an interdisciplinary architecture and design practice based in New Haven. Projects designed in her office have been showcased in numerous publications, including Architectural Record, Architect, A+U, Wallpaper, Surface, Space Korea, Mark, AV Proyectos, The New York Times, and exhibited at the Venice Biennale, SMOCA, MoMA and the Arts Institute in Chicago, and has received numerous awards, most recently a Design Award from Progressive Architecture, and New York City Architectural League Emerging Voices. Current work includes a Villa in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and the public art installation “Afterparty” PS1/MoMA in Long Island City. Ms. Sample was also a project architect with the Office for Metropolitan Arch
itecture in Rotterdam, and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York City. She was a visiting scholar at the CCA in Montreal. Her research has been published in Praxis: Journal of Writing Building, 306090 and Verb. She is currently completing the book Sick City: A Global Investigation into Urbanism, Infrastructure and Disease. Ms. Sample received a B.Arch. from Syracuse University and an M.Arch. from Princeton University.

KAZYS VARNELIS; PH.D.  Director, Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Kazys Varnelis is the Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. In addition to directing the Netlab and conducting research, he is on the architecture faculty at Columbia and teaches studios and seminars in history, theory, and research. Varnelis is a co-founder of the conceptual architecture/media group AUDC, which published Blue Monday: Absurd Realities and Natural Histories in 2007 and has exhibited widely in places such as High Desert Test Sites. He is editor of the Infrastructural City. Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles, Networked Publics and The Philip Johnson Tapes: Interviews with Robert A. M. Stern, all published in 2008. He has also worked with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, for which he produced the pamphlet Points of Interest in the Owens Valley.

From 1996 to 2003 he taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture where he was coordinator of the program in the History and Theory of Architecture and Cities. In 2004 he became a founding member of the faculty of the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland where he continues to teach and is on the advisory board. He has also taught in the Environmental Design program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, the Public Art Studies program at the University of Southern California, the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

Contact: Joseph E. Hawkins, Associate AIA@ enyacompetitions@gmail.com
Emerging New York Architects Committee
AIA New York Chapter
enyacompetitions@gmail.com
http://www.enyacompetitions.org

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5679 2009-12-12T07:00:40Z 2009-11-12T17:46:42Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net The San Francisco Fashion & Arts Board Presents, Infill Fashion, a cutting edge design exhibition that asks competitors to sustainably aestheticize neglected urban areas, abandoned lots, boarded houses and any space with the potential to inspire creativity. The top ten entries will be shown at a major gallery in the bay area and bid on by potential donors and patrons of the arts. Submit any media type, or means of representation that best represents your project.

email SFFAboard@gmail.com for a project summary and gallery information.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5601 2009-12-12T06:55:40Z 2009-10-29T17:42:41Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net The AIA is hosting its first ever design competition on Facebook—the AIA Facebook Young Designers Challenge. The competition is targeting emerging professionals, and is open to all AIAS members, all Assoc. AIA members, and all AIA young architect members. (The AIA defines young architects as being licensed 10 years or less.)

The AIA is asking designers to submit new, unbuilt building projects that address America’s most pressing design needs for the 21st century. This can include, but is not limited to: sustainability, public infrastructure, affordable housing, retrofitting suburbs and other resource-intensive built environments, urban farming, and rehabilitating dilapidated urban cores. This requirement is intentionally flexible. The most important factor is that each design offers an innovative solution to a concrete and unsolved problem. The winning designer will be announced in AIArchitect with a feature article on their design in January.

Let’s see what tomorrow’s generation of architects has to offer America today!

Details on Facebook

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.4332 2009-12-12T06:55:38Z 2009-07-08T16:57:39Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net Honorary membership is one of the highest honors that The American Institute of Architects can bestow upon a person outside the profession of architecture.

Submissions

All information must be submitted online by December 11, 2009. Please see “Principles Underlying Election to Honorary Membership” for more information.  Component or Knowledge Community sponsors must notify the appropriate regional director of the nomination.

Nominations

Any member of the national AIA Board of Directors, or a representative of an AIA Component or Knowledge Community may nominate:

• Persons of esteemed character who are not eligible for membership in the Institute but who have given distinguished service to the profession of architecture or the allied arts and sciences
• National and component staff members who have served on staff for a period of at least 10 years.

Required Submission Materials

Jury

William E. Holloway, AIA (Chair), Wilmington, Del.
Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects, PC

Anne J. Swager, Hon. AIA , Pittsburgh
AIA Pittsburgh

Benjamin Vargas, FAIA, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Bartizan Group Project Managers, PSC

(2010 Jury Coming Soon)

Year Awarded: 2010
Submission Deadline: December 11, 2009
Award Category: Achievement, Membership

Contact:
Elizabeth Henry
202.626.7563
ehenry@aia.org

Sponsoring Organization:
American Institute of Architects

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.4333 2009-12-12T06:55:37Z 2009-07-08T17:19:38Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net The AIA Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community and the American Institute of Architects are pleased to announce that the AIA Housing Awards have gone green!

The AIA Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community established this awards program to emphasize the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit and a valuable national resource. The categories are (1) One and Two Family Custom Residences, (2) One and Two Family Production Homes, (3) Multifamily Housing, and (4) Special Housing.

AIA Housing Awards Call for Entries

Submissions

Entries must be submitted before midnight Eastern Time on December 11, 2009. 

The submission deadline date will be strictly observed; no exceptions will be made. No entry fee will be refunded for entries that are disqualified, late, or not completed. Payments and submissions will only be accepted online.

Please review the 2009 AIA Housing and HUD Walk Through before beginning your submission. 

Eligibility

All architects licensed in the U.S. are invited to submit their completed, built projects located in the U.S. In addition, owners of structures or projects fitting the eligibility guidelines may submit those projects for review. Projects completed since January 1, 2004, are eligible.

2009 Jury

Kenneth H. Workman, AIA, Cincinnati (Chair)
RWA Architects, Inc.

Rainy Hamilton Jr, AIA, Detroit
Hamilton Anderson Associates, Inc.

Jane Kolleeny, New York City
Architectural Record Magazine

Jeff Oberdorfer, FAIA
First Community Housing

(2010 Jury Coming Soon)

Year Awarded: 2010
Submission Deadline: December 11, 2009
Entry Fee Deadline: December 11, 2009
Award Category: Achievement, Design

Contact:
honorsawards@aia.org
1735 New York Ave., NW
Washington DC
United States of America

Co Sponsors:
The AIA Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.4334 2009-12-12T06:55:10Z 2009-07-08T17:25:12Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net The Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are pleased to announce that the AIA/HUD Secretary’s Awards have gone green!

The Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community of the AIA, in conjunction with HUD, recognizes excellence in affordable housing architecture, neighborhood design, participatory design, and accessibility. Good design is a cornerstone of thriving homes and communities of all incomes and backgrounds. These awards demonstrate that design matters, and provide examples of important benchmarks in the housing industry. The categories of the program include (1) Excellence in Affordable Housing Design (2) Creating Community Connection Award (3) Community-Informed Design Award (4) Housing Accessibility - Alan J. Rothman Award.

AIA/HUD Secretary’s Awards Call for Entries

Submissions

Entries must be submitted before midnight Eastern Time on December 11, 2009.

The submission deadline date will be strictly observed; no exceptions will be made. No entry fee will be refunded for entries that are disqualified, late, or not completed. Payments and submissions will only be accepted online.

Please review the 2009 AIA Housing and HUD Walk Through before beginning your submission.

Eligibility

AIA-member architects with completed projects, located in the U.S., are welcome to submit. In addition, owners of structures or projects fitting the eligibility guidelines may submit projects for review. Projects completed since January 1, 2004, are eligible. HUD funding is not a requirement for any applicant in this award program.

Past Recipients

For information on past recipients, please visit the awards page on HUD USER, HUD’s research-focused Web site.

2009 Jury

Kenneth H. Workman, AIA, Cincinnati (Chair)
RWA Architects, Inc.

Rainy Hamilton Jr, AIA, Detroit
Hamilton Anderson Associates, Inc.

Jane Kolleeny, New York City
Architectural Record Magazine

Jeff Oberdorfer, FAIA, San Jose, Calif.
First Community Housing

Luis F. Borray, Assoc. AIA
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development

Regina C. Gray, PhD
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development


(2010 Jury Coming Soon)

Year Awarded: 2010
Submission Deadline: December 11, 2009
Entry Fee Deadline: December 11, 2009
Award Category: Achievement, Co Sponsored

honorsawards@aia.org
1735 New York Avenue, NW
Washington DC

Co Sponsors:
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5364 2009-12-12T02:47:05Z 2009-09-29T17:26:13Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net THINK PLAY THINK NEW THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX
THINK BIG IDEAS FOR BOSTON:
2009 SHIFTboston Ideas Competition

Submission Deadline: Friday, December 11, 2009

SHIFTboston is calling on all visionaries to submit his and her most provocative ideas for the City of Boston.  Think: WHAT IF this could happen in Boston? SHIFTboston seeks to collect visions that aim to enhance and electrify the urban experience in Boston. We want innovative, radical ideas for new city elements such as: public art, landscape, architecture, urban intervention and transportation. Competitors could explore topics such as: the future city, energy efficiency and ecological urbanism. YOU TELL US.

The honorary recipient will receive a cash prize and present at the SHIFTboston Forum at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston on January 14, 2010. The winning entry will be displayed on billboards, bus shelters, subway cars and post cards in the Boston Metropolitan area. All eligible entries will be promoted on the SHIFTboston blog and website and will become part of the SHIFTboston Exhibit.

For information please visit http://www.shiftboston.org

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5736 2009-12-10T06:55:54Z 2009-11-16T20:23:03Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net Køge Kyst, the urban development company, wishes to run an idea competition for the development of a new urban area in Køge, based on the company’s areas in and around Køge Havn (Harbour), and the relationship of these areas to their neighbouring areas.

Køge Kyst is a partnership involving the Municipality of Køge and Realdania Arealudvikling.

The idea competition is to be held as a 2-phase parallel competition, i.e. a combination of a competition and a parallel assignment. The objective of the parallel competition is to lay the foundations for a consolidated development plan for the new part of Køge, which comprises three sub-areas: the Station Area, the Collstrop Site and Søndre Havn. The total area in question covers almost 24 hectares.

Køge’s position in Denmark will be reinforced appreciably in the immediate future with the implementation of a new railway connection between Copenhagen and Ringsted via Køge, and through the establishment of the Femern bridge connection.

Køge Kyst wishes to make use of these opportunities through a high-profile strategic project involving the town opening up towards the water and linking the new part of town to the historical town centre. At the same time, the town will utilise its infrastructural position to play a key regional role in the fields of residential expansion, retail trade, culture and commerce.

Over the coming 20 years, it is expected that more than 300,000 m2 of newly constructed floor space will be established in the three sub-areas, divided between residences, commercial premises and cultural facilities. It is expected that the residential area alone will be expanded by 150,000 m2 of floor space, the retail area by 20,000 m2, and the commercial premises area by 100,000 m2 - corresponding to approx. 4,000 workplaces.

Køge Kyst is therefore inviting inter-disciplinary teams with the necessary competences to participate in the development of the town of Køge, based around the company’s areas on the Køge Havn (Harbour) site. The invitation applies to Danish, foreign and mixed teams.

Køge Kyst has a vision for the urban development project - consisting of six “vision points” - and this vision is to be the consistent theme for both the urban development project and the parallel competition.

The interdisciplinary teams are to demonstrate their competences with regard to the following six vision points: 

  * Development of cultural and leisure facilities/activities
  * Development of concepts for and the localisation of premises for retail trade and other commerce
  * Preparation of plans for traffic and infrastructure, and models for parking
  * Urban development, urban renewal and urban lifestyle
  * Collaboration and dialogue with stakeholders and citizens
  * Sustainability - from the perspectives of the environment, health/social welfare, and finance.

The participating teams are also expected to have in-depth insight into the financial aspects of major urban development projects.

Køge Kyst expects to pre-qualify 5-7 teams. This number is then likely to be reduced to three teams following an introductory competition round. The three teams selected will then continue with the second phase of the parallel competition. For their work, the teams will receive a fee of EUR 20,000 each for Phase 1, and EUR 80,000 each for Phase 2. In addition, a sum of up to EUR 100,000 will be available to the adjudication committee to reward entire approaches and/or individual elements.

For information about pre-qualification requirements, the form of the competition and the timetable, visit http://www.koegekyst.dk

Applications with documentation material are to have been received by Køge Kyst no later than 12 noon on 9 December 2009.

The material is to be sent in hard copy format (6 copies) and electronically to:

Køge Kyst P/S
Havnen 39
4600 Køge
Denmark
kent.j@koegekyst.dk

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5567 2009-12-09T05:39:15Z 2009-10-26T17:52:22Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net ARCH IS ____________.
new ideas – architecture and designers

A juried competition to select 2 talented young architects or architectural designers (or firms/collaborations) to receive a “Young Architectural Talent” award, give a lecture, and be featured in an online publication. Jury will evaluate
each entrant’s Submission Package based on the following criteria:

• Clarity of the entrant’s thoughts and the translation of that into his/her/their design work.
• Relevance of the entrant’s thoughts and work to today’s times and issues.


Download call for entries

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5423 2009-12-09T00:00:44Z 2009-10-05T16:52:46Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net SUPERFRONT LA’s first exhibit of 2010 will address the urban scale.  The group exhibit will span architecture, urban design, and urban planning to present emergent urbanism, “wild building”, and other alternatives to conventional modes of planning cities.  Dealing with urban topics from derelict construction sites to refugee camps, favellas, temporary housing and other contemporary spatial phenomena, the exhibition will confront the current economic crises and larger issues of globalization.  Work will be exhibited in multiple formats, from physical models to drawings, animations, video games or experimental formats.

Call for entries – please submit work for consideration in any format.  By email: submit links, text description, or attached files no larger than 2 MB to unplanned@superfront.org . By hard-copy, submit to SUPERFRONT BK, 1432 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216.  Please do not send original work.  If you want your materials returned, include a self-addressed stamped envelope.  For consideration, all materials need to be received by November 30th.

Architects, urban designers, and planners selected for exhibition will be notified December 8th.

Unplanned will open at SUPERFRONT LA at the Pacific Design Center in January 2010 (exact date TBA) and will be on view for 3 months

A member of the Design Loves Art program at the Pacific Design Center, SUPERFRONT LA is the temporary off-shoot of Brooklyn’s SUPERFRONT, a gallery and project space promoting experiments in architecture.

http://losangeles.superfront.org/2009/10/call-for-entries-unplanned/

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5450 2009-12-07T23:00:55Z 2009-10-06T23:17:03Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net For years, Northern Virginia’s Four Mile Run has functioned as a flood control channel and a border between the City of Alexandria and Arlington County.  More recently, growing community interest in revitalizing and celebrating the Run has resulted in the Four Mile Run Restoration Master Plan.  The plan outlines a broad range of ambitious, feasible goals to restore the ecology of the Run while re-establishing it as a cherished park space and a means of stitching together communities. 

Bridges are built to connect, traverse, and inspire.  The pedestrian and cyclist bridges planned to reach across the run will be the defining elements in bringing people to the shores of the stream and to each other.  As pieces of transit infrastructure, the bridges will also link neighborhoods, streets, and pathways, thus providing a more accessible and desirable means to walk or bike across the region.  The first of these bridges is to establish the design language for the others to follow, and is the subject of this professional competition.  Taking inspiration from its surrounding natural and industrial elements, the bridge is to be a modern, sustainable, and sculptural piece, spanning clear across the run with minimal impact to the streambed. 

The competition to design and build this bridge begins with a request for qualifications and culminates in a public presentation given by three finalists.  A winning team will be chosen based on the strength of their professional skills and the potential for their conceptual design to become an icon for the Four Mile Run and its surrounding community.

Please visit http://www.4milerun.org/ for more competition details.  The deadline to submit qualifications is 4:00 pm (EST) December 7, 2009.

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5602 2009-12-05T06:55:06Z 2009-10-29T17:51:08Z Vanilla Hustler alexander@bustler.net http://www.bustler.net The Urban Land Institute/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, now in its eighth year, offers graduate-level students the opportunity to form their own multidisciplinary teams and engage in a challenging exercise in responsible land use. Student teams comprising at least three disciplines will have two weeks to devise a comprehensive design and development program for a real, large-scale site fraught with challenges and opportunities. Submissions will consist of boards that include drawings, site plans, tables, and market-feasible financial data. Visit the competition archives to view previous submissions.  ULI will announce this year’s competition site on January 18, 2010, which is the day the competition officially gets underway.

The ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition is part of the Institute’s ongoing effort to raise interest among young people in creating better communities, improving development patterns, and increasing awareness of the need for multidisciplinary solutions to development and design challenges. This competition is an ideas competition; there is no expectation that any of the submitted schemes will be applied to the site. The winning team will receive $50,000 and the finalist teams $10,000 each.

http://www.udcompetition.uli.org

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5678 2009-12-04T22:40:37Z 2009-11-12T17:47:39Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net The Kalil Smart Design Scholar/Practitioner Fellowship Grant supports the project of a current faculty member or group of faculty members from any New School division, or an outside scholar/scholar group, or a practitioner from within any design field.

The grant supports travel, research, tools, etc as proposed by the applicant with a lump sum $5000.

All projects that explicitly involve technology and design in the service of environmental sustainability will be considered.

Intention to Submit forms available immediately at:   
http://www2.parsons.edu/sce/kalil/app/int_sub_form.pdf

Proposals will be blind, without indication of the author on or in the Proposal itself. Applicants are required to submit an electronic Intention to Submit Form. Each form is given a reference number in order to keep track of personal information and Proposal materials. Reference numbers will be placed on Project Proposals.

For More Information on Michael Kalil and The Kalil Endowment for Smart Design visit:
http://www.parsons.edu/sce/kalil/index.php

e-mail questions and downloaded Intention to Submit Forms to:
kalil@newschool.eduinto the future

]]> tag:bustler.net,2009:/1.5646 2009-12-03T19:00:05Z 2009-11-07T01:24:06Z Paul Petrunia hustler@bustler.net http://bustler.net The Community Design Collaborative, in partnership with the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, is seeking submissions for Retooling Industrial Sites, an exhibit to showcase the exciting possibilities for the reuse of neighborhood industrial sites. The exhibit has been designed as an opportunity for architecture, planning and engineering firms from the Mid-Atlantic region to highlight their own best practices in industrial reuse. Submissions of all project types and scales encouraged: large and small, built and un-built, interior and exterior, new construction and preservation.

Eligible projects include industrial sites returned to industrial or transformed into commercial, open space, and/or residential uses. Projects must be submitted by an authorized principal or partner of an architecture, landscape design or planning firm, located within the Mid-Atlantic region.

Complete details and submission guidelines can be found at http://infillphiladelphia.org/

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