This is the first of several competitions run to identify a range of possible design solutions, against a broad conceptual brief, with no commitment to build. They will be for significant design sites around the world. The aim of the Tiananmen Square Landscape Compeition is to generate debate and ideas for re-designing part of the most important urban space in the history of Chinese Civilization. We hope this will also set a new course for Eastern Landscape Architecture, helping in the development of an ecologically and culturally distinctive design tradition. This is a Web 2.0 landscape design competition running from March 2009 to June 2010.

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

Among the questions we seek to answer through this competitive event are: “How can we use design to bring to connect a community to positives of its past while bringing the all the benefits of today’s technologies?” Also, “What are ways we can utilize form and function to instill worth, pride, and hope to regions of disenfranchisement and disillusionment?

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

What do you get when you combine forward-thinking designers & architects with the leading manufacturers of tile? Why don’t you show us? The Italian Trade Commission and Confindustria Ceramica, the Association of Italian Ceramics, are proud to announce the 2010 Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition Call for Entries. The competition, now in its 17th year, recognizes the exceptional work of North American architects and designers who feature Italian ceramic tiles in their institutional, residential or commercial/hospitality spaces.

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

An open design competition is being sponsored by the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial organization (ACBHM, Inc.), a private non-profit foundation chartered for the purpose of erecting the Memorial, in co-operation with the City of Atlantic City, which has dedicated a superb site for this purpose. Our competition will be advertised nationally and internationally, and juried by a world class panel of experts in the field of architecture and design. Responses are welcomed from throughout the world.                 

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

With the ongoing shrinkage of available and suitable space to meet the residential needs of burgeoning urban populations, designers and developers are looking at the use of vertical communities to achieve housing goals. The 2010 International Skyscraper Challenge affords today’s future designers an opportunity to assume the profile of professionals as they incorporate a team of skilled partners to design, construct and market a tall building for a site within the dense urban population of Mexico City – the 3rd largest metropolitan region in the world. If this is the sort of challenge which intrigues and motivates you, you are just that’s the kind of visionary we’re seeking to compete in the 2010 Mock Architecture Firm Competition! If you believe you have what it takes to put together a team of success-minded drafters, graphic artists, engineers, and communicators to incorporate your own simulated architecture firm then make plans now to be in Chicago, April 15-17 for the 2010 Mock Firms Finals.

http://www.mockfirms.org

With the Blue Award, the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Vienna, Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design is holding for the first time an international student competition on sustainable architecture.  The launch date is set for November 10, 2009 and is open to architecture students worldwide!

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
  (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
  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 is a competition for innovative materials, products and processes. The competition, presented for the fifth time in 2010, is open to manufacturers, designers, developers, design engineers and architects. As in previous years, a renowned jury of international experts will decide over the entries that can be entered in the categories materials, product and processes, to award the best with the highly desired iF label.

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 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition was created in 2003 to promote activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship in young designers. Metropolis saw the need for a new type of competition, one that went beyond the usual beauty pageants for finished projects, a competition that would generate and reward ideas.

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/

Art Directors Club launches inaugural student brief with Nissan. Students currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate level programs in advertising, graphic design, photography, illustration and new media are eligible to enter ADC’s co-presented brief based competition.

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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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

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

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 (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), 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

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

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

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.

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:  (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  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

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.