Crisis as Calling........Design Competition
Crisis as Calling is an international design competition open to the public that invites participates to reconsider, and respond to the universal condition of Crisis.  Crisis as an event implies a breakdown, and the collective response is typified by the attempt to return to "normal."    We see this as more than an opportunity for responsive design; we see this as a calling for an expanded role for the design community, and we seek to explore uncharted courses to reveal innovative models for relevant engagement.

Call for Entries
Communicate a proposal that re-contextualizes the space for design to address the definition of crisis. The details of crisis typology and the boundaries for intervention are open, and should be clearly defined by each unique proposal.  As crisis is a universal phenomenon with no bias or preferential destination, there are no restrictions to the type of project one may submit (specific location, program, or range).

For instance submissions might, challenge urban activism in times of trauma, the nature of informal building practices as emergency response, resource allocation as recovery stimulation, or community dynamics that enable awareness at larger scales. What should be clear in each proposal is how a particular challenge that is common to a clearly defined crisis set can be addressed as a materialized solution to a global predicament.

For more information please visit: www.crisisascalling.com
contact email: info@crisisascalling.com

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RELATED EVENT: Crisis as Calling Talk Series

UPDATE: The deadline for submissions has been extended to October 4th, 2013. The corresponding exhibition of the seven selected projects will take place at REVERSE in November.

What:
Entrants will submit a detailed design and energy performance documentation for a Zero Net Energy mixed-use affordable housing project.  Details on submission requirements and project criteria can be found at www.architectureatzero.com

Where:
Following previous years’ successful Architecture at Zero competitions that envisioned a zero net energy future for an urban infill site in Emeryville, CA (2011), and last year’s competition focusing on the next phase of campus planning at the newest University of California campus, UC Merced (2012), this year’s competition will focus on the development of a mixed-use residential building in one of the densest neighborhoods, the Tenderloin, of San Francisco, CA.

Timeline:
Site Tour for Entrants—Summer 2013; To Be Announced
Submissions due—October 1 at 1:00 pm
Jury & Announcement—November 7th + 8th
Exhibition—winners exhibition at AIA San Francisco November 12th—December 20th

Entry Fees:
Students: $30 entry fee + Free Board Printing
Professionals: $100 entry fee + $115 Board Printing
Professional entrants who register before August 1st will receive a discount of 15% off of entry fees. This discount does not apply to board printing fees.

For more information on the 2011 + 2012 competition and to stay updated about this years’ competition, please visit www.architectureatzero.com.  For any questions regarding the 2013 competition, please email architectureatzero@aiasf.org.

The 2013 Otto Linne Award for Urban Landscape Architecture gives students and young graduates of landscape architecture programmes the opportunity to address current themes and challenges within their profession. The award, which is held in honour of Hamburg’s first garden director Otto Linne (1869 – 1937), promotes the professional development of young designers and planners, and honours outstanding artistic achievement.

The issue “Hamburg Horn - By Far: Green!” with which the 2013 Otto Linne Award deals is a highly topical and controversial topic. The points of departure are the growth of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the enormous demand for housing within the city, and the political objective of building 6,000 new homes annually. In a city-state that has a limited amount of open space, this objective is undeniably associated with the densification of existing neighbourhoods. With this in mind, neighbourhoods built during the 1950s and 1960s have become a particular focus of attention, as they have a great potential for such increased density.

Please see http://luchterhandt.de/verfahrensmanagement/3186/ for further information.

SOCIALIGHT

(Source: Alexandre Guilbeault, M.Arch. CLU Foundation Board Member)

The 2013 edition of the CLU Foundation’s competition brings the participants to reflect on the role of lighting in the urban areas of tomorrow. Whether it be a citizen, an end-user or a resident, how can lighting create a sociality between these individuals and meet their different needs.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE THEME

« To an era of strictly functional public lighting followed a period where using lighting as tools of heritage beautification developed rapidly. Wouldn’t it now be time to think of the users and to invent what we could call a social light, meaning a light and ambiance responsive to the needs, the experiences and emotions of the users and citizens? » -  Roger Narboni : Ambiances et atmosphère en lumière urbaine

The 2013 edition of the CLU Foundation’s competition invites participants to consider the role of lighting in the urban areas of tomorrow. Think of the future. Imagine urban neighborhoods where there are, for example, no cars, that the territory belongs to the people and that we put value in community, natural, recreational and social environments. Whether it be a citizen, resident or end-user, how can lighting be conceived around this individual with needs, emotions and desires. Professionals in landscape architecture, architecture or urban planning recognize that neighborhoods need to reinvent themselves. We must put aside our paradigms and open ourselves to new ideas.

Functional needs of urban lighting, such as security, traffic and signaling, have been met with rational responses by designers. But if we look at lighting solutions from a completely different angle, bringing light to a person could generate a feeling of well-being, a sense of belonging to a place or be a way to create a strong identity. In this context, should we review the traditional luminous object that can be found everywhere? How will this physically change the light source?

Without falling into the clichés of Utopia,

• How will the many technological innovations in light help us improve the urban experience?
• How will they shape the life of the city in various public spaces, parks, and other areas that make up a neighborhood?
• How will the different modes of transport influence the way we illuminate the city?
• Will we use street lighting as tools that will improve and favor the well-being of the user, as tools of communication or as tools to create different moods?

It is clear that with the transformation of urban centers, we will need to propose new solutions to adjust to the new urban realities. These are questions that challenge the members of the CLU Foundation. Now it is up to you, lighting entusiasts, to reflect and propose your vision of the role of urban lighting for tomorrow.

REGISTRATION

Registration to the 2013 CLU fondation contest is free. Deadline for contest inscription is : 12th of september 2013, 23h59 (GMT-5) To obtain all rules and regulations to the contest and assure that all your questions are answered please fill out the registration form.

http://www.lumec.com/company/fondation_clu_2013-edition.html

AWARDS

Winners will be selected from all projects received. Prizes will be awarded on merit by a Jury composed of professionals from international renown in such fields as design and urban planning. The prizes will be distributed as follow:

• 1st Prize 2 500$
• 2nd Prize 1 500 $
• 3rd Prize 1 000 $

SCHEDULE

13th of march 2013: Launch of the 2013 Edition
09th of septembre 2013: Deadline for submittal of questions
12th of september 2013, 23h59 (GMT-5): Deadline for contest registration
13th of september 2013, 23h59 (GMT-5): Deadline for project submittal
October 2013: Publication of winners

QUESTIONS

All questions must be submitted before 9th of september 2013 and addressed to:
mailto:lumec.marketing@philips.com

No individual questions will be answered, but a FAQ page at the CLU foundation website will be updated regularly.

The Connected City Design Challenge will build awareness of urban design solutions capable of shaping Dallas forward, develop a more refined and specific strategy for connecting our downtown and river, and assist in securing future public and private investment. By empowering both designers and citizens, The Challenge will work to realize integrated solutions that improve the livability and viability of our city.

In order to secure the most capable design talent and facilitate a variety of solutions, The Connected City Design Challenge will be structured as a competitive process consisting of two idea streams: a professional stream and an open stream. From the Professional Stream, the jury will select three design teams through a competitive request for qualifications process. The selected design teams will be awarded $50,000 to bring their expertise and ideas to the challenge and up to $10,000 covering travel to Dallas. The Open Stream invites professionals, non-professionals, and students to submit design proposals. By a combination of popular vote and jury selection, four finalists will receive $5,000 each and participate in the public exhibit and activities. Public events will include a symposium and lecture series by all three professional teams and panel discussions including the open stream finalists.

connectedcitydesign.com

OPENGAP invites participants to explore the boundaries and paradigms of house designing. To work in innovative and visionary proposals which can both, think in a basic housing program and the relation of identity between the customer and  the project.

Each participant or team will propose the client for designing a house. This will be a person of interest and inspiration for the project.

This competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic. Competitors could subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people.

The proposal submission consists of two digital panels in .jpg format, not bigger than 4MB each.

Awards:

• First Prize, 2000 Euro
• Second Prize, 1000 Euro
• Third Prize, 500 Euro
• Mentions, Mentions will not have an economic prize.

Schedule:

BEGINNING OF THE COMPETITION: May 9, 2013

REGISTRATION 1ST PERIOD: From May 9, 2013, until June 4, 2013

REGISTRATION 2ND PERIOD: From June 5, until July 9, 2013

REGISTRATION 3RD PERIOD: From July 10, until August 16, 2013

REGISTRATION 4RD PERIOD: From August 17, until September 5, 2013

COMPETITION REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 5, 2013

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Until September 12, 2013

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT: During October, 2013

AWARDING OF PRIZES: During October, 2013

More info:
www.opengap.net
competitions@opengap.net

Goals and objectives:
Formation of a closed space for exhibitions, festivals, fairs. Creation of a new pavilion type in the historic center of the city of Yaroslavl, on the site of the old ravine (protected landscape) according to the development program of the museum complex of the city.
Note: the maximum height above the existing ground level, the upper edge of the ravine — 2 m

Prizes:

• 1st place: Grand Prix of Yaroslavl International Architecture Biennale,
• the right to further object design (for the realization of the project),
• all projects will be published in the catalog of competitive projects,
• the best projects (shortlist) will take part in the exhibition and presentation, as a part of a Biennale program.

Organizers:

• The Government of Yaroslavl Region
• UNESCO World Heritage Committee,
• ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
• Yaroslavl State Technical University.

More info: http://cih.ru/bie/spartak.html

• Architects
• Graduate Architects
• Architecture Students
• Team (Architects, Graduate Architect, Architecture Students, Engineers, Designers )

FEES:
Every entrant shall be required to pay an entry fee as follows:

• Special Registration: $80 US from 29th April 00:00 (GMT) to 09th May 2013 11:59 (GMT)
• Early Registration: $100 US from 10th May 00:00 (GMT) to 13th June 2013 11:59 (GMT)
• Standard Registration: $120 US from 14th June 00:00 (GMT) to 09th August 2013 11:59 (GMT)
• Late Registration: $150 US from 10th August 00:00 (GMT) to 16th August 2013 11:59 (GMT)

SUMBMISSION DEADLINE
16th August 2013 ----------------------------------- Closing Date for Submissions

RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT / PUBLICATION
09th September 2013 ----------------------------------- Official Result Announcement / Publication

PRIZES AND AWARDS
Winning project entry will receive prizes totaling US$ 6,000.00 as follows:

1st Prize

• US$ 3,500 (THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

2nd Prize

• US$ 1,500 (ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

3rd Prize

• US$ 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS)

10 Special Mentions

website: www.superskyscrapers.com

Dan Watson, winner of the James Dyson Award 2012 with his invention, SafetyNet (previously featured on Bustler)

The James Dyson Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. It’s run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to inspire young people about design engineering. 

THE BRIEF 

Design something that solves a problem. 

THE PRIZES 

International Winner:

• £30,000 the student or student team
• £10,000 to their university department
• A James Dyson Award trophy 

Two International Runners-up:

• £10,000 - Certificate of Excellence  National Winners:
• £2,000 - Certificate of Excellence 

WHO CAN ENTER?  

The James Dyson Award is open to product design, industrial design and engineering university level students (or graduates within 4 years of graduation), who have studied in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK and USA. 

HOW IS IT JUDGED?  

Stage 1: A panel of design and engineering professors and professionals in each of the 18 participating countries.
Stage 2: A panel of Dyson design engineers.
Stage 3: James Dyson will name the winner.

www.jamesdysonaward.org

Rapid and dramatic changes are remaking how we work. The tools we work with have changed and continue to evolve at a break-neck pace. The modern office is adjusting to the “work everywhere” approach. Today systems thinkers who explore all facets of sustainability, accessibility, material innovation, and technology shape the design of everything. The workplace is smack in the middle of this massive rethink.

The Workplace of the Future Design Competition asks the design community to imagine what our work lives will be in 2020. The $7,500.00 prize, plus world-wide publicity for the winning entry will help position the chosen team or individual as  leaders in innovative workplace design; it will also help propel their vision forward.  There will also be a $2,500.00 runner-up prize.

The first annual Workplace of the Future Design Competition is presented by Metropolis Magazine and Business Interiors by Staples.

Register now to enter the competition 

For any questions email workplaceofthefuture@metropolismag.com

ENTER NOW to get your practice recognised.

Deadline for entries: Friday 19 July 2013.

The awards will take place on the 3rd December 2013 at The Brewery, London.

What are the Architect of the Year Awards? 

BD’s annual celebration of architecture is unique in recognising a body of work across different sectors, judged by a panel of industry experts.

Returning for its 10th year, the Architect of the Year Awards reward the practices responsible for the best overall body of work in 11 different sectors, as well specialist awards including: Young Architect of the Year, Schueco Gold Award and then IE School ‘Class of’ scholarship. Organised by BD, the AYAs are distinguished from other architectural awards by virtue of honouring overall achievement within a particular sector. This provides a truly meaningful premise on which to compare the work of different architects.

http://www.awards.bdonline.co.uk/

ARCHmedium proposes the creation of this fire station for the city of San Francisco that serves not only to centralize and improve the service but also as a gift and token of appreciation from the city to this department.
The new center should not only be a practical space designed to respond to the needs of firefighters, but must become an icon of the city which rose from the ashes and a reminder of the tragedy, a building that not only the people of San Francisco but the entire world associates with the image of the fire department.

www.en.archmedium.com

• the competition is open to any registered student-individual or team-from all over the world.
• The competition accepts max. 3 people in a team.

Language: English or Korean

Fee: None

Timetable:
submission deadline for the 1st round : July 15, 2013 17:00 (online)
submission deadline for the 2nd round : August 12, 2013 17:00 (online)

Awards:
Grand Prize(1) : 10,000,000 KW
First Prize(1) : 50,00,000 KW
Second Prize(3) : 1,000,000 KW
Honorable Mention(4) : 500,000 KW

Jury:

• Junghan Bae (Professor at Seoul National University)
• Yoongyoo Jang (Professor at  Kookmin Univercity / President of UNSANGDONG Architectects)
• Jungyoon Kim (President of Office PARKKIM)
• Joonyeon Kim (Design Director of Samsung Everland Design Group)
• Jaeheon Cheon (Design Director of Samsung Everland Design Group)

Goal
Samsung Everland, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is inviting students in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design programs around the world to participate in our design competition. We are looking for creative ideas and innovative design approaches that will lead us to the new possibilities of urban typologies.

Design Challenge:
Most urban spaces are created with clear intentions. Yet, some are not. They are the results of the indifferences in planning, design, and urban economy. These spaces are neither purposed nor defined. We can find these types of spaces in every corner of any city. In most cases, these spaces are neglected.  Now, we would like you to find these types of spaces that are under utilized, and interpret them in a new way to bring out its full potentials.
The subject of the proposal, "reinterpreting urban space" lies in providing citizens a new perspective toward urban spaces by redefining the relationship between these indeterminate spaces and the city by re-invigorating them with new possibilities.

For more information:
www.samsungeverland.com

Contact
selda@samsung.com

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

Submissions can be the work of an individual or a group up to 4 members (architects, architecture graduates or architecture students) aged 18 or over at the time of registration. Registration and participation in the competition implies an immediate acceptance by entrants of all terms & conditions governing the site and competition.

FEES:

Every entrant shall be required to pay an entry fee as follows:

• Special Registration: $80 US from 11th March 00:00 (GMT) to 16th March 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Early Registration: $100 US from 17th March 00:00 (GMT) to 13th April 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Standard Registration: $120 US from 14th April 00:00 (GMT) to 4th July 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Late Registration: $150 US from 05th July 00:00 (GMT) to 10th July 2013 23:59 (GMT)

SUMBMISSION DEADLINE

12th July 2013-----------------------------------Closing Date for Submission

RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT
05th August 2013----------------------------------- Announcement of Winners

PRIZES AND AWARDS
Winning participants and Triumphant Mentions for Stage 1 will receive prizes totaling US$ 15,000.00 with US$5,000 for this competition distributed as follows:

1st Prize

US$ 3,000 (THREE THOUSAND US DOLLARS)

2nd Prize
US$ 1,500 (ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

3rd Prize
US$ 500 (FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

10 Triumphant Mentions

www.archtriumph.com

• Juries’ favorite US$ 1,000
• Readers' favorite (most votes) US$ 500
• 6 Honorable mentions

Both winners and honorable mentions will be published in international art and design media as well as on the Homemade Dessert website.

Schedule

Start of the competition and registration - March 8, 2013 (01 Greenwich Mean Time)

Voting system open - March 8, 2013

Closing date for registration - July 10, 2013 (01 GMT)

Closing date for submission - July 15, 2013 (01 GMT)

Voting system closed - July 31, 2013 (01 GMT)

Evaluation - July 16, 2013 to July 31, 2013

Announcement of winners - August 1, 2013 (01 GMT)


Please find out more on  HOMEMADEDESSERT.ORG

Which city is the most fun? London, NYC, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Bangkok?

We don’t know either... that’s why we are asking you, the citizens of cities to make your city more fun!

Building Trust international have just announced a new international design competition, which seeks to find exciting design proposals to transform neglected parts of cities into interactive landscapes, encouraging public engagement, community involvement and sustainable adaptive reuse. The competition challenges professional and student architects, designers, engineers and artists to provide a design solution which advocates creativity and promotes outside activity, increasing socialisation.

Contestants should site their proposals in an abandoned or forgotten urban site and develop PLAYscapes that create opportunity for interaction and play for citizens of all ages. Building Trust international will work alongside competition partners, local government and community groups to seek funding and planning for the winning design.

The competition brief can be downloaded from below:

http://www.buildingtrustinternational.org/competition.html

http://www.buildingtrustinternational.org/PLAYbrief.pdf

Final date for registration - 1st July 2013
Closing date for all submissions - 29th July 2013

Announcement of winners to be posted on www.buildingtrustinternational.org - 30th September 2013

Registration:
Professional : £75.00 (Free to those entering from a developing country.)
Student : £15 (Free to those entering from a developing country.)

Topic: Architecture in Transformation
Sub-Topic: The Disappearance of Architectures

Purpose of the Competition:

Architecture must disappear.
Behind the radicalism of this statement lies something crucial for the future of architecture. Architecture as a discipline should no longer think in terms of objects. Walls, facades, structures, are only modalities of architecture, but never its finality. Design comes after. After what? After situations. Architects deal with situations.

Architecture should be conceived as an integral part of the landscape. Glass, concrete or metal would in this case no longer be the elements that build architecture, but the territory, as it exists, as we relate to it.

One of the commitments of an architect is to overwhelm the observable escalation in the production of contemporary architecture by introducing new situations, dialectic situations and experiences, between inside and outside, free and available spaces in-between what is public and what is private.

Sometimes, we make architecture disappear. We make it melt within the territory, blurring the lines between architecture and landscape, between physicality and immateriality, between presence and absence.

Requirements of the Competition：

• Participants can draw up the project proposal themselves and there is no limitation on architectural types. Designers of the project should take into account the features of contemporary urban architecture and pay attention to specific space needs of different user groups.
• Participants can choose sites themselves. The site should be challenging and with distinct urban characteristics.
• Total floor area is around 4,000㎡. It may be increased or decreased up to around 10% according to the designer.
• Language and Measurement Unit: English is the official language of the competition. (Note: The title, school name, name of participants, and introduction of major design must be described in English at least); the unit of measurement is metric scale.

International Supporter:
Union of International Architects (UIA）

Hosting Organizations:
School of Architecture, Tianjin University（TJU）,
Urban Environment Design（UED）Magazine Press

Jury Chairman:
Dominique Perrault (France)

Prizes and Awards:
1st Prize (1 team): Certificate and 50,000 RMB (around 8,000 USD) (before tax)
2nd Prize (3 teams): Certificate and 20,000 RMB (around 3,200 USD) (before tax)
3rd Prize (8 teams): Certificate and 5,000 RMB (around 800 USD) (before tax)
Honorable Mentions (20 teams): Certificate and 6-month free subscription of UED magazines;
Advisors of prize-winning projects will also be awarded with certificates.

All prize winners will have an opportunity to intern at well-known architectural firms.

INTRODUCTION
Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city of Brazil, the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper. This makes it the 6th largest in the Americas and 26th in the world.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup which is an international association football tournament and the 20th competition is scheduled to take place in Brazil from 12th June to 13th July 2014. This will be the second time Brazil has hosted the competition with the first being in 1950, making Brazil the fifth country to have hosted the World Cup twice after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany.

AIM OF THIS COMPETITION
The aim of this International Competition is to design a free standing World Cup Structure in Lapa square in the heart of Rio de Janeiro during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
The project should create a social space which includes a live big screen TV, an information area, a cafe, etc...

This competition hopes to achieve the following:
_Encourage and reward design excellence at a small scale which integrates function, structure, details and the spirit of the World Cup.
_Research, respond to and highlight the unique aspects of designing an iconic structure that will be used by visitors during the World Cup.
_Encourage the employment of sustainable design in all aspects of the proposal.

COMPETITION STRUCTURE
This is a single stage Competition with the aim of identifing the most appropriate proposal, which best satisfies the general and specific objectives of the contest.

THOSE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE Architects, Architecture Graduated, Engineers and Students. Interdisciplinary teams are also encouraged to enter the Competition. Submissions can be the work of an individual or a group up to 4 members and there is no age limit.

AWARDS
Winning participants will receive prizes totaling US$ 6,000 with the distribution as follows:
1st PRIZE: US$ 3,500
2nd PRIZE: US$ 1,700
3rd PRIZE: US$ 800
There will also be 7 honorable mentions.

This is an open International Competition hosted by [AC-CA]™ to generate progressive contemporary design ideas. There are no plans for the Symbolic Structure to be built.

For more information please visit our website: http://www.ac-ca.org/en/home
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ac1ca

Engineering Degree, without any age restrictions, who can compete with a photographic study of the new urban Landmarks with a creative and original interpretation.

The prizes are two trip to Helsinki during the Design Week and an intership at BNKR in Mexico City.

The entry to the contest is free and it is held exclusively on line. It is possible to submit all works online at the website contest.floornature.com until JUNE 30 2013.

Open International Design Competition for Building Resilient Cities

Recently relocated to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Terreform ONE has announced the 4th annual ONE Prize Competition. Since 2010, the annual competition has attracted thousands of participants from around the world.

This year’s competition is set in the context of severe climate dynamism.  How can cities adapt to the future challenges of extreme weather? The ONE Prize is a call to deploy sophisticated design to alleviate storm impact through various urban interventions such as: protective green spaces, barrier shorelines, alternative housing, waterproofing technology, and public space solutions. We wish to reinvigorate infrastructure and repurpose spaces towards environmental adaptation in order to put design in the service of the community.

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

• How can urban ecosystems be enhanced to prevent flooding?
• What can restore Rockaway Beach social infrastructure and public space?
• When can the New Orleans community change to accept storms without losing character?
• What can protect Asian Coastal Cities against the unforeseen?
• Where can shorelines be storm surge barriers as well as interactive zones?
• How can storm proofing be seen as an opportunity to rethink the future of our cities?

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

To register go to http://www.oneprize.org

Open Agenda is an annual competition aimed at supporting a new generation of experimental design and critical enquiry in Australian architecture. Open to recent graduates, Open Agenda provides a new platform for discussion and is focused on developing the possibilities of speculative design research in architecture and the built environment.

Each year three exceptional proposals are provided funding to explore new positions in architecture for critical consideration. Developed as exhibition, publication and lecture, as part of the Sydney Architecture Festival these ideas are given wide exposure and support.

utsarchitecture.net/openagenda/

Join IFI–The International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers to re-imagine the work place of tomorrow. This competition is open to students interested in engaging the needs of people around the world by re-framing, re-inventing and re-designing the future workplace.

The theme for WING 2013 is THINK/WORK. This theme represents our need to imagine different solutions and develop innovative approaches and practices to satisfy our future work environment.

The winning team (of two) will receive a fully paid for travel and accommodations to attend the IDA–International Design Alliance Congress 2013 and IFI General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey. The winning team will be invited to participate in stimulating programs and exciting social events.

Please find further details on the WING 2013 official website.
http://ifiworld.org/wing/

COMPETITION OF COMPETITIONS
Redefining Briefs, Clients and Agents.
by Storefront for Art and Architecture for the AAAI!

Throughout history, competitions have constructed a relationship of servitude between architects and the structures of economic, politic and cultural power.

The competition brief has served as the initial document for the manifestation of desires either through programmatic, economic or formal needs. Often, the role of the architect has been reduced to answer a question that someone else has asked. In exceptional occasions, the architect’s ability to reinvent and produce new desires has occurred in the form of rebellion against the brief. In an act of bravura, architects have broken the rules, driven by the pure belief that the real needs were contained outside of the given principles.

Given competitions operate in a confined space for experimentation, they have perpetuated and sometimes repeated ad nauseam a series of programmatic and social needs – from Museums to Concert Halls - without actually asking what needs of society architecture should aspire to serve.

This competition claims that the true desires of our present society are outside of the current taxonomy of competition briefs and that architects should be participants in the construction of the questions they are asked to answer.

If a competition is the articulation of society’s desires in space, what new desires should we consider? What are the questions of our time that we should be asking to architects, urban planners and policy makers to redefine the way in which we build our cities and territories? What underrepresented spaces, individuals or collectives need to be explored?  And, what are the agents, authorities or organizations from which the competitions should be promoted?

The intention of “The Competition of Competitions” is to provide and deliver new and relevant forms of engagement and content to the economic, politic and social systems that currently act as the voice of authority for the development of our cities. “Competition of Competitions” asks architects, artists, economists, philosophers, writers, and citizens at large to create interdisciplinary teams to formulate the questions of our time and define the agents that should pursue the task to ask and commission the visions for the future in the form of a competition brief.

We encourage participants to rethink the format, content and agent/s that constitute the basis for the way competitions and commissions are organized.

For more information about deliverables, rules and prizes visit the website: http://storefrontnews.org/programming/events?preview=true&e=520

Photo via ricedesignalliance.org

rdAGENTS, Rice Design Alliance’s young professionals group, will host its third annual Anything That Floats competition on Saturday, June 22 at Sesquicentennial Park. The event challenges participants to build a device that can float a short distance along Buffalo Bayou using discarded building materials. This event was originally scheduled for Saturday, May 4th, but was cancelled due to a water release from Addicks Dam into Buffalo Bayou. The rise in water and strong current would have been too dangerous for the participants to race across the bayou. The previously scheduled date coincided with the Kentucky Derby and we will continue with the horse‐racing theme! We encourage viewers to wear their best derby gear and participants to wear a jockey costume for extra points.

Participants only will be allowed to start building on the day of the competition and will be judged based on creativity, innovation, and speed, among other spontaneous criteria that emerge from the event. KHOU‐TV news reporter Katherine Whaley of KHOU and Doug Combes from Chamberlin Roofing and Waterproofing will judge the event. The public is encouraged to attend.

What: Anything That Floats hosted by rdAGENTS. Breakfast and lunch will be provided to the participating teams by RDA.

When: June 22, 2013, 7:30 a.m.‐1:30 p.m. Teams may unload any materials along Preston St. between Smith St. and the bayou. Races will begin around 11:30 p.m.

Where: Sesquicentennial Park along Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas

RDA Member Registration Price: $25

Non-­‐RDA Member Registration Price: $35

For more information, including how to enter, allowed materials, judging criteria, and rules, please visit http://ricedesignalliance.org/2013/anything-­‐that-­‐floats-­‐ 2013-­‐save-­‐the-­‐date

The winner will be announced in an official ceremony as part of the Close, Closer Opening Week calendar of events (12-15 Sep).

This is the first edition of the Début Award which, in conjunction with the Triennale Millennium BCP Universities Award Competition (announced last March 15) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (to be announced this September) signal the Triennale’s commitment to excellence at all stages of an architect’s career.

COMPETITION : FREE TO PARTICIPATE

London based designers and robotic fabrication specialists RoboFold released new software for robotic simulations and fabrication control called Godzilla, on 3rd May 2013. The software comes as a user-friendly plug-in for Robotic simulations in Rhino 3D to perform variable tasks for Architecture, Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Digital Fabrication and many other disciplines, using Grasshopper Plug-in.

Workshop & competition are organized at RoboFold London.

DAY 1:

• Learn the Godzilla software Interface
• Creating a tool path
• Robot fundamentals: Inverse Kinematics, Applications
• Use example files: Set up a robot simulation
• Scripting a loop in Python

DAY 2:

• Developing the winning design into a working application
• Testing
• Beers and BBQ

Details:

• Tutors: Gregory Epps(RoboFold founder), Florent Michel (RoboFold Software developer)
• Please install Rhino5, Grasshopper, and Godzilla before this event.
• No previous experience with Grasshopper necessary.
• Hours: 10am-6pm.

Workshop Fee:

Student: £ 399
Professional: £ 599

The fall issue of MAS Context will focus on the topic of TRACE.  

We will be exploring physical remnants and selective memories, tangible and intangible reminders of a past that influence our present and future. At the same time, we will be discussing the traces that we continue to leave, both physical and digitally, and how those will affect us in the future. 

What are the consequences and opportunities that can emerge from the new traces we create? Who benefits from the generation of new traces? Which traces should we embrace and which ones should we dismiss or even fight against? Is ignoring all traces the only way to truly move forward and foster radical changes? 

For this issue we are soliciting submissions that explore, question, and critically address the role of traces in our built environment. Submissions can be in the form of critical essays, photo essays, analytical studies, data visualizations, visual explorations, interviews or films. 

For more information about the submission process, visit our submission guidelines. 

Please, send your submission to submission@mascontext.com by Monday, June 17.  

19 | TRACE FALL 13 will be published in early September, 2013.

Deep and controversial economical transformations have been hitting Europe. On one side they show a highly destructive potential; on the other side they are the key to undiscovered scenarios once unimaginable. Beneath the remains of ancient systems often lays the opportunity to write new cultures.

Shipbuilding industry has been hardly struck by crisis: while great arsenals are in distress, medium and small ones ceased to work time ago. Therefore plenty harbor areas are now in search of a new vocation since they have a strategic role for the urban, economic and landscape value of the city.

Which future to imagine for such areas? This is the challenge YAC proposes designers. YAC invites to redesign an old dismissed harbor area in a play-area that can take advantage of the particular situation between the sea and the city. The aim is to offer tourists and citizens a modern and appealing wellness and entertainment centre.

Whatever the meaning challengers will associate to a wellness / entertainment vocation (skatepark, movie theatre,…), YAC invites to work in a temporal and personal perspective.

YAC aims to promote a field of research focusing on such contemporary living axioms: in synthesis it shall be smart. Modern technologies can provide users quick information and discretional points of view like never before. In this sense Architecture must point the same direction by giving its users the the faculty to live space in changeable ways - depending on what they prefer.

Starting lines for reflections can be the themes of dynamic or modular spaces, as well as interactive park areas.

Jury:
Nicola Leonardi (The Plan)
Nardo Goffi (Pesaro Municipality City Planner)
Giovanni Leoni (Bologna University)
Francesco Tarentini (Shanghai University, Area 17 Studio)
Marco Gaudenzi (Gaudenzi & Associates Studio)

youngarchitectscompetitions.com

Over $10,000 in cash prizes, including two $1,000 student prizes.

Complete competition information will be available early June.

Competition submissions will be the subject of an exhibition within 54 Jefferson during ArtPrize 2013 at SiTE:LAB, winner of the ArtPrize juried award for best venue in 2011 and 2012, an exhibition seen by over 30K people.

54 Jefferson Ave SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan USA 49503

http://54jeff.org/

Each summer a group of researchers gather in New York City for 4 weeks of intense creative and scientific exploration. ONE Lab provides a unique opportunity for students to learn from internationally recognized scientists and renown designers and artists: Dr. Dickson D. Despommier, Vito Acconci, Skylar Tibbits and a host of TED Fellows.

ONE full merit scholarship and several partial merit scholarships are available.

ENTER TO WIN!

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RELATED EVENT: ONE LAB 2013: Productive Cities

70 years ago Life magazine published Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map. With an undistorted projection of the Earth’s surface, ability to be easily reconfigured and transform from a 2-D map to a 3-D globe, the Dymaxion Map (patented in 1946) was a cartographic breakthrough and its iconic design has inspired generations since.

In celebration of the map's publication anniversary, the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is calling on today’s graphic designers, visual artists, and citizen cartographers to create a new and inspiring interpretation of the Dymaxion Map. BFI will publish accepted entries within an online gallery, feature the selected finalists in a gallery exhibition in New York City and select one winning entry to be produced as a 36" x 24" poster and offered for sale within our online store. *

BFI is seeking submissions across the creative spectrum and will be selecting the winner based on originality, aesthetic beauty and informative qualities. The contest is open to all and will provide entrants with a high-res image to use as ‘canvas’.** Submissions must employ or contain obvious reference to the map’s foundational grid and adhere to specific size and resolution requirements.

Timeline:
April 15, 2013 – Announce Call for Entries
April 22, 2013 – Contest Open
June 14, 2013 – Submission Deadline (11:59 PM EST)
July 12, 2013 – Announce Winners
Fall 2013 – Exhibition of selected Finalists in NYC (details TBA)

http://www.bfi.org/mapcontest

FAR ROC [For a Resilient Rockaway] is a two-phase design competition that will explore innovative strategies for the planning, design and construction of a resilient and sustainable development at Arverne East, an 80+ acre site on the Rockaway Peninsula.

In recent years, the relationship between the built and the natural environment has been dramatically affected by climate change, severe storm events, and rising sea levels. The extensive damage to low-lying waterfront zones caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 reinforced the need for resilient infrastructure and redevelopment strategies for existing coastal communities throughout the greater New York area. Costly damage to buildings, roads, and utility systems by the storm raises the controversial question of whether areas of particular geographic vulnerability should be rebuilt, maintained and defended, or simply abandoned.

With these and other questions in mind, and given the scarcity of land and the significant need for housing and economic development in outlying areas of New York City, the FAR ROC design competition has been organized to solicit creative ideas for resilient development strategies that can be implemented not only in the Rockaways but also throughout New York City and in vulnerable communities everywhere. Following a first-phase open call for design proposals, up to four finalists will be selected by an independent jury and provided a stipend of $30,000 to further refine their design strategies.

The winner of the competition will be announced in advance of the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy on October 24th, 2013, and will receive an additional cash prize of $30,000.

http://www.farroc.com/

Van Alen Institute is pleased to announce the launch of Ground/Work, an international architecture competition seeking innovative designs for a new street-level venue to house the Institute’s work space and public programs. Since 1982, the Institute has occupied the sixth floor of its building at 30 West 22nd Street in Manhattan, where a diverse program of competitions, curatorial initiatives, and public events has made Van Alen an influential center for design innovation. This year, the Institute is making its public-oriented mission central to the reinvention of its own office and event space, transforming the ground floor and lower level of its building to house its entire organization.

Ground/Work invites emerging designers, up to ten years out of school, to propose bold visions for a light and highly flexible ground-floor space that is visible, accessible, and participatory in public life, with a strong connection to the street and the city at large. The Call for Portfolios runs from May 15 through June 13, 2013. Up to three finalists will be selected to compete in the second phase of the competition. The winning team will have four months to complete design work for construction in winter 2013.

View the full competition overview and submit your portfolio at: www.vanalen.org/groundwork

The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is calling on today’s graphic designers, visual artists, and citizen cartographers to create a new and inspiring interpretation of Bucky's Dymaxion Map. BFI will publish accepted entries within an online gallery, feature the selected finalists in a gallery exhibition in New York City and select one winning entry to be produced as a 36" x 24" poster and offered for sale within our online store.

BFI is seeking submissions across the creative spectrum and will be selecting the winner based on originality, aesthetic beauty and informative qualities. The contest is open to all and will provide entrants with a high-res image to use as ‘canvas’. Submissions must employ or contain obvious reference to the map’s foundational grid and adhere to specific size and resolution requirements.

Full contest details here: http://www.bfi.org/mapcontest

• Architects
• Architecture Graduates
• Architecture Students

FEES:

Entrants are required to pay an entry fee as follows:

• Special Registration: US$45 from 11th March 00:00 (GMT) to 16th March 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Early Registration: US$50 from 17th March 00:00 (GMT) to 13th April 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Standard Registration: US$55 from 14th April 00:00 (GMT) to 10th June 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Late Registration: US$60 from 11th June 00:00 (GMT) to 18th June 2013 23:59 (GMT)

SUMBMISSION DEADLINE
20th June 2013 ----------------------------------- Closing Date for Submission

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT
27th June 2013 ----------------------------------- Announcement of Winners

PRIZES AND AWARDS
Winners of the competition will receive the following prize and benefits as follows:

1st Prize

• US$ 500 (FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)
• Publication on ArchTriumph website
• Publication on various websites and blogs

2nd Prize

• US$ 300 (THREE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)
• Publication on ArchTriumph website
• Publication on various websites and blogs

3rd Prize

• US$ 200 (TWO HUNDRED US DOLLARS)
• Publication on ArchTriumph website
• Publication on various websites and blogs

10 Triumph Special Mentions

• Publication on ArchTriumph website

www.archtriumph.com

CityVision Competitions is an annual architectural contest that invites architects, designers, students, artists and creatives to develop urban and visionary proposals with the aim of stimulating new ideas for the future of our cities.
All through innovative ideas and methodologies that can improve the connection between the historical, contemporary and future city vocation, thus promoting a positive evolution of the critical architectural historiography.

CityVision Competitions is part of the homonimus architecture laboratory, CityVision, that every year proposes deep researches and studies with the aim of generating a dialogue between the contemporary city and its future image.

CityVision is a way to explore the reality and the future of architectural design thanks to a printed and digital free press project, CityVision Magazine; the organization of international architecture competitions, CityVision Competition; events, lectures, installations and exhibitions, CityVision Projects.

http://www.cityvisionweb.com/competitions/riodejaneiro/

Jury

Alejandro Zaera-Polo (President)
Architect in Madrid
Alejandro Zaera-Polo (born Madrid, 1963) is an accomplished contem- porary architect and co-founder of London-based Alejandro Zaera- Polo Architects (AZPA). His work has consistently merged the practice of architecture with theoretical practice, providing a strong intellec- tual rigour to the discourse on architecture through a sharp capacity to identify social and political trends and creatively extrapolate them.

Jeffrey Inaba
Architect in New York
INABA is an architecture office founded by Jeffrey Inaba that special- izes in an analytical approach to form making and building. The firm applies a creative method of problem solving to define a proj- ect’s objectives and identify unique formal options that can be realized with a high degree of design resolution. This stems from the practice’s broader philosophy to grasp the depths of a problem and once it is ap- praised, to provide clients with findings that assist in making better- informed decisions during planning, design and realization phases.

Jeroen Koolhaas
Architect-Artist in Rotterdam
He studied graphic design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, and has been working as a freelance visual designer and illustrator for the New Yorker magazine and Prada since he graduated in 2003. In 2005 Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, shot a documentary for MTV about Hip-Hop music in the favela’s of Sao Paulo and Rio de janeiro. Together they founded the Favela Painting project in 2007. Between that yeah and 2010 they created 3 large scale mural projects in differ- ent Favelas in Rio de Janeiro. In 2011 the two were invited to work with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program on their biggest project yet, Philly Painting, completed in october 2012.

Hernan Diaz Alonso
Architect in Los Angeles
Hernan Diaz Alonso is the principal and founder of Xefirotarch, and practices architecture in Los Angeles and New York. At SCI-Arc, where he has taught since summer 2001, Hernan Diaz Alonso teaches and coordinates advanced graduate design studio and visual studies courses. He also teaches in the MRD program in SCIARC, which is dedicated to research and design of on the metropolitan cul- ture. He has been a guest critic at Columbia University, gsap, Yale Uni- versity, school of architecture and school of media art, Penn University School of architecture.

Cristiano Toraldo di Francia
Architect in Ancona
Cristiano Toraldo di Francia has been founder of the radical group “Superstudio” in December 1966 in Florence in coincidence with the first exhibition of “Superarchitettura”. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Florence with a “Tecnomorphous architecture” thesis by the title of “Holyday machine on the Calabrian Coast” (published by Domus 1968), which drawings are now owned by the permanent collection of Centre Pompidou and by MAXXI Archives. His researches on the renovations of the language of architecture and of the role of the architect in a late capitalistic society, are documented by several publications through out the world, and have been shown in the major art museums and exhibitions: from the Venice Biennale (1978,1999) to the Milan Triennale (1973) from the Museum of Modern Art NY (1972, 2002), to the Centre Pompidou (1996, 2000), and finally the MAXXI (2011).

The sixth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE–, opens in May 2014 in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. The Dutch landscape architect Dirk Sijmons is the curator and the theme is Urban by Nature.

IABR–2014–Call for Projects–
The IABR calls for best practices from all over the world to support and substantiate the Biennale’s main exhibition’s narrative. Prospective participants who have designed or are designing concrete projects that deal with the relationship between man, nature and city, are invited to respond to the IABR–2014– Call for Projects–, and submit their applications by June 9, 2013.

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The Call for Projects–, the Application Form–, and the Introduction to IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE– can be downloaded from our website: www.iabr.nl

The competition is organized by FAKRO company – a global roof window manufacturer in cooperation with an European magazine for architects – A10.

This year's task will be to prepare an architectural visualization presenting a new take on the loft. Project submissions must make use of at least 10 FAKRO roof windows chosen from the FAKRO product line.

The main goal is to design a functional space full of natural light, using highly energy-efficient technology in order to create unconventional loft concepts, where light and space play major roles. For architects, the only requirement is to develop the most original and timeless concept.

We are waiting for the visualization of your project, which will be evaluated on

the 24th - 27th of July 2013 by a professional jury led by Indira van't Klooster:

Authors of the best projects will be a warded with:

1st place – €5000
2nd place – €3000
3rd place – €2000

Deadline for sending in projects
01st February – 03rd June 2013

Announcement of results
08th June 2013

http://fakro.com

The Jury reserves the right to award honourable mentions

WEBSITES: (for information and application details) • www.instanthouse.it • www.federlegnoarredo.it • www.madeexpo.it CONTACT: • info@instanthouse.it

The Jury reserves the right to award honourable mentions WEBSITES: (for information and application details) • www.instanthouse.it • www.federlegnoarredo.it • www.madeexpo.it CONTACT: • info@instanthouse.it

AIAVT : Emerging Professionals Competition 2013

ELIGIBILITY:
This competition is open to all emerging design professionals and architects within 5 years of registration, living or working in New England. Entrants may work individually or as part of a team.

AWARDS:
1st Place : $1000 / 2nd Place : $500 / 3rd Place : $250 (AIAVT Sponsored)
The Top 20 entries will be recognized and displayed as part of a traveling exhibition around New England.

BRIEF:
In the past few decades the local food movement has grown significantly; however, local food still only constitutes less than 10% of the total food system in the United States. While farmers’ markets, locavore restaurants, and home vegetable gardens continue to grow in number, there remains a real need for systemic tools to inform the public, promote local food businesses, and facilitate local food distribution.

Entrants are asked to design a practical and symbolic center for the local food system in a New England community. The Farm to Fork Stand should actively engage with the existing local food system, promoting local products, farms, restaurants, and seasonal foods through information display, workshops, distribution, events, etc.

WEBSITE (Download Full Details):
http://www.aiavt.org/Emerging_Professionals

CONTACT:
aiavt.ep@gmail.com

• American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)— USA
• University of Technology Sydney — Australia
• Design Academy Eindhoven — Netherlands
• School of Design in Milan (NABA) — Italy
• Arts and Design Academy in Milan — Italy
• HTWK Leipzig School of Architecture —Germany
• IED School of Design — Italy
• The Superior Technical School of Architecture in Madrid (ETSAM) — Spain
• Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) — Spain
• Seville School of Architecture (ETSAS) — Spain
• Almeria School of Art (EAA) — Spain
• Alicante School of Superior Art and Design — Spain

The CDC introduces participants to a broad array of global design trends and theories, enhancing their educational experience and knowledge as they prepare to enter a professional world with an increasingly international focus.  This year, students participating in the CDC Design category are tasked creating a concept for a dynamic office setting using any Cosentino material. In the Architecture category, submissions will focus on a new conceptual approach for an outdoor kitchen using any Cosentino material suitable for exterior use.

The conceptual submissions will be evaluated by a jury of prestigious architecture and design leaders based on a number of criteria including: Creativity, innovation, analytical research, product adaptation, feasibility, conceptual and technical quality, and presentation.

The CDC is open to all students enrolled in the 2012-2013 academic year, studying design or architecture at any college or university around the world. All CDC submissions require conceptual drawings and plans, and a report explaining the design solutions. The call for entries begins February 28, 2013 and runs until June 1, 2013. The CDC will award $1,500 to the top three submissions in both categories. Three second-place prizes will earn a cash prize in both categories and honorable mentions also will be issued. Additionally, winning designs from any ASID student members in the US are eligible for an additional cash prize and the opportunity for their design to be displayed at a leading industry trade show in 2013.


Complete submission requirements, additional contest information, and previous winners are detailed on the competition website: http://www.cosentinodesignchallenge.org

The University of Virginia School of Architecture would like to extend the invitation to submit visions for the future of water to be considered for inclusion in the upcoming book entitled WATER INDEX.   This book will catalogue the world’s most promising and provocative visions for the future of water and humanity.  This is an open call for projects and papers that acknowledge and challenge the pressing water issues confronting the 21st Century.  Submissions can vary in scale and discipline. Submissions can be at the scale of a cup or a dam, a fountain or a city. WATER INDEX is a search for intelligence about how to create a sustainable, productive relationship between water and people.

The WATER INDEX will be structured as an index that positions emerging terms, mechanisms, and strategies within a framework of three pressing water topics: The Rising, The Contaminated, and The Disappearing.  These three conditions of water present fundamental complications for humanity’s dependence on water and will become thresholds within the index.  Flowing between these three thresholds is a gradient of terms and topics from which the selected submissions will be indexed.

Terms for Speculation
Submissions may specifically align to one of the identified terms below or suggest other water terminologies or topics to be included in the WATER INDEX.

Rising, Antarctic Ice Sheet, Arctic, cataclysmic cycles, Catastrophism, coastline, control, creation, currents, drowned, dynamics, erosion patterns, expansion, flood, flood channels, flood mark, glacier, ice, Kona storm, landslides, liquefaction, living material, measurement, melting, monsoon belts, new territory, Northwest Passage, rate, retreat, saltwater intrusion, sea level, sea surface temperatures, sheet flooding, snowmelt, storm surge, super storm, SuperDam, Tibetan glaciers, transformation, turbulence, underwater, water-laden, Contaminated, waterborne, water mafia, water cartel, urbanization, toxic, salinity, recharge, putrid coast, public health, popcorn shrimp, petrochemical, paving, nonlinear localized water infrastructure, living ecology, hydrological dystopias, Gulf of Mexico, fertilizer, diarrhea, decentralization, cracks and fissures, cholera, black mayonnaise, Amphibian Apocalypse, agricultural runoff, Disappearing, aquifer, artesian basins, biofuel plantations, depletion, desalination, dissipative structures, double cropping, drying out, ephemeral, hot stain, hydraulic decoration, irrigation, lawns, leaky infrastructure, Manifest Destiny, megadrought, over consumption, Owens Lake, pools, sinkholes, species, subterranean water, suicide, sweat, urban heat islands, water mining, wetlands.

About the Publication
WATER INDEX looks to employ the dystopian threats surrounding water as a provocation. The 21st Century is facing an elevating crisis with water.  The seas are rising, the deserts are expanding, and the cities are growing at alarming rates. We must construct new mechanisms for subsistence.  In a state of expanding fragility between water, economy, ecology, politics, and culture, the question is the format for deliverance.  Is it sufficient to build life support systems that offer momentary alleviation?  Is it possible to reframe the problems in order to formulate new solutions?  The WATER INDEX will provide a catalog for the future of water and humanity.   The book is a resultant of a yearlong focus on water at the University of Virginia School of Architecture.  The content will include selected submissions from students, faculty and professionals from around the world.

WATER INDEX’s relevance is ever growing as our complications with water continue to become more and more severe and frequent.  In the last year, the news has been dominated by tragic water related catastrophes:  Hurricane Sandy drastically disrupted the northeastern United States taking over 150 lives and causing over 50 billion dollars in damage, Hurricane Isaac hit the Gulf Coast exactly 7 years after Hurricane Katrina, the summer of 2012 brought the worse drought to the United States in a quarter of a century, the Mississippi River shrank to its lowest levels in a quarter of a century, flooding has brought chaos to the Philippines, and scientists at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center reported in August that the amount of ice covering the sea surface has shrunk to its lowest recorded level.  Population growth and climate change are drastically effecting how we interact with water.  Water feeds life, but so often it also takes life.

Final Submission Deadline: 11:59pm EDT on May 31st.

Submission Instructions
All submissions are to be uploaded from the book’s website: www.waterindex.info . Entries may be submitted by individual authors or as a group or team. There is no limit to number of entries allowed, but all entries must be submitted independently with proper identification. We will be accepting both projects and papers for consideration in the book.

Project Submission Requirements
Refer to waterindex.info for submission requirements and formats.

Selection Process
Submission does not guarantee inclusion in the publication.  Selection for the publication will be a highly competitive process.  Projects will be evaluated based on significance, relevance and originality.  Selected authors will be notified in early July 2013.

Website address: http://www.waterindex.info

The County of Orange, the Orange County Board of Supervisors and OC Parks are sponsoring a competition for the design of a new Crime Victims’ Memorial to be installed at a beautiful site within William R. Mason Regional Park. The goal of this competition is to identify an outstanding artistic complement to the landscape of the park, to create an iconic gathering space that will provide visitors with a space for contemplation, remembrance, and healing. The winning design will be inherently egalitarian and human-scale, expressing the cross-cultural and inter-generational impact of crime on members of our community.

Entrants should view details of the competition and register online at http://ocparks.com/about/projects/orange_county_crime_victims_memorial in order to participate in the jury evaluation of submitted designs. OC Parks must receive the completed registration form no later than 5:00 p.m. (PST) on May 31, 2013. OC Parks will send a registration confirmation in reply via email.

To contact the Design Competition Coordinator please send email to:
CVMemorial@ocparks.com

The Jacques Rougerie Foundation’s ambition is to provide an opportunity for young architects and designers to stimulate their inventiveness, creativity and boldness at the service of architectural innovation. In order to do so, the Foundation is organizing for the third consecutive year, an international architectural competition, focusing on topics that are dear to us; Water and Space.

This competition, organized under the aegis of the prestigious Institute of France, aims to reward the most innovative architectural projects by delivering three awards of € 10,000 each.

It is open to everyone, even students, and offers a unique opportunity for architects all around the world to make their projects come true, or simply to reward their creativity and hard work.

This year, the three awards are:

"Innovation and Architecture for the Sea” Award - 10 000€
“Innovation and Architecture for Space” Award - 10 000€
“Architecture & Sea Level Rise” Award - 10 000€

The deadline for registration is: May 28, 2013

You can find all the required infomations about the competition and download the registration file on the following link: http://fondationjacquesrougerie.fr/en/concours/reglement-concours/

Do not hesitate to contact us at info@fondation-jacques-rougerie.com if you have questions regarding the registration.

We look forward to discover your most innovative projects!

Thank you and good luck!

WANTED:
    A Master Architect to Shape Taichung's Cultural Persona

Invitation:
    If you have vision for branding a city's cultural identity
    If you have prowess in choreographing a city's urban aesthetics
    We are looking for you!

Site:
The site is located on the northern end of Taichung Gateway Park, which is part of Taichung Gateway District, Taiwan (R.O.C.). With Convention and Exhibition Center to its north, this project will integrate parkland landscape to form a key cultural landmark and an entryway gesture into Taichung Gateway Park.

Spacial Requirement:
The project will comprise Taichung Public Library and Taichung Fine Arts Museum.

Design Objective:
In response to a growing urban population, urban development and changing cultural environment, this project aims to provide citizens with a multipurpose cultural, artistic and recreational facility. By combining and synergizing the functions of arts, culture and education, the overall goal is to enhance cultural services, amenity, making arts and culture an integral part of the city life.
Other design objectives include promoting culture-related industries, linking tourism, marketing resources and enhance branding of the city as a cultural hub.

Taichung City Government cordially invites outstanding local and international design firms to contribute your vision and participate in this competition!

Total Construction Budget:
About NT＄2,410,000,000. (Approximately US$ 80,000,000. Subject to the announced tender document.)

Service Fee:
The service fee for this project is 13.5% of the total construction cost. (Subject to the announced tender document.)

Qualifications for Participation: (for Stage One)
1. Any licensed architect of Taiwan (R.O.C.), alone or in joint tender.
2. Any licensed architect (or Firm / Corporation) of foreign country, alone or in joint tender.
3. Joint tender of licensed architects of Taiwan (R.O.C.) and licensed architects (or Firms / Corporations) of foreign countries.
For more information, please visit our website or refer to tender notice.

Timetable:
    Stage One Tender Submission Deadline    2013/05/27
    Stage One Jury            2013/05/30 ~ 2013/05/31
    Announcement of Shortlisted Tenderers    2013/05/31
    Stage Two Tender Submission Deadline    2013/08/27
    Stage Two Jury            2013/08/29 ~ 2013/08/30
    Announcement of the Winners        2013/08/30

For more information, please visit:
    www.TCcenter.com.tw

Host Organization:
    Taichung City Government, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Organizer:
    Barry Cheng Architects
    TEL: 886-4-2326-1799  FAX: 886-4-2326-5212
    Email: barry-cheng@umail.hinet.net