March 22, 2010 | Broadcast | Competitions
Cast Your Vote at GOOD’s Gas Stations of the Future Contest
The people over at GOOD Magazine invite you to cast your vote on their “Design the Gas Station of the Future” project. The submissions are in, and now it’s up to the public vote who will be the lucky winner. Cast your vote here through Tuesday, March 23. The winners will be announced shortly after.
via GOOD Magazine
March 14, 2010 | Broadcast | Competitions | News
eVolo Announces Winners of 2010 Skyscraper Competition
Ken Yeang, eat your heart out.
the eVolo award was established to examine the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and urban living. The competition asked to redefine the term skyscraper through the use of new materials, technology, aesthetics, programs, and spatial organizations. the 2010 competition saw globalization, environmental warming, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution as just some of the multi-layered elements that were called into focus by entrants; and this year’s winners, with highly imaginative solutions like the Water Purification Skyscraper above, came from Indonesia, Malaysia and the United States.
via Bustler.net
January 19, 2010 | Broadcast | Competitions
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge HK Boundary Crossing Facilities International Design Ideas Competition
The new Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HKZMB) links up Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao in the Pearl River Delta, China. It provides opportunities for significant social and economic development in that region for coming decades.Being a check-point to entering into Hong Kong from the HKZMB, Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities (HKBCF) will be constructed on a 130-hectares of reclamation site to accommodate the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine facilities of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. To reflect its importance and aim at constructing the HKBCF as a new landmark, an international design ideas competition was organized to draw new design ideas and to engage general public for the master layout plan of HKBCF and layout design of the Passenger Clearance Building. The winning designs in the Professional Group of the Competition will be taken as reference for the detailed design of the HKBCF.
For the Competition Document, entry form and details, please visit : http://www.hkbcf-design.hk
January 19, 2010 | Broadcast | Competitions
37th Annual IIDA Interior Design Competition
Submit: Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Together with Interior Design magazine, IIDA’s Annual Interior Design Competition honors outstanding design in all areas of practice: Corporate, Education/Institutional, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Residential and Retail/Showroom.
PURPOSE
To recognize and reward outstanding interior design, and to encourage new ideas and techniques in the design and furnishing of interior spaces.
WHO SHOULD ENTER
Any design professional practicing legally in their jurisdiction may submit entries. Truly international in scope, this competition is open to participants worldwide.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Projects must have been completed after January 1, 2008.
JUDGING CRITERIA
Submissions will be judged for suitability of design to the project challenge, originality of the design solution, and the successful integration of interior finishes and furnishings. The winner is determined by a jury of design professionals. The jury reserves the right to not select a winner from the entries submitted for this competition.
AWARDS
All winners of the competition will be announced at IIDA’s NeoCon® celebration COOL. The winning projects may be published in the NeoCon issue of Interior Design magazine. In the event that a previously published entry is selected as a winner, Interior Design magazine reserves the right not to republish that project.
DEADLINES
Deadline to request entry kit: Wednesday, February 10th, 2010.
Deadline to submit completed entries: Wednesday, February 17th, 2010.
January 19, 2010 | Broadcast | Competitions
Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2010
Totally independent, the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, now in it’s second year, is the only concept of its kind dedicated exclusively to design.
Judged by a highly influential panel of top international journalists from the design, hospitality and lifestyle sectors, the judges will recognise and reward both ‘restaurants and bars’ and their ‘designers’ for design excellence. With free online entry and a wide variety of categories, applicants and their projects receive extensive exposure, raising their profile for the duration of the competition and beyond.
The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards have rapidly established a distinguished following, attracting submissions from such high profile designers as Zaha Hadid, Karim Rashid, Kengo Kuma and David Collins in its first year.
Culminating in a unique and innovative awards ceremony, the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards’ winners, including the best designed restaurant and the best designed bar, will be announced and presented with their awards at Westfield Stratford in June 2010.
January 19, 2010 | Broadcast | Competitions
iF material award Register/Submit: Saturday, January 30, 2010
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
January 19, 2010 | Broadcast | Competitions
International Competition: Intercommunal Territories and Small Towns
Submit: Monday, February 15, 2010
Public services, shops and jobs are found in the centres of small towns of less than 20,000 habitants and large villages for reasons connected with the history of urban development and town planning.
Small towns and village communities, where there is a strong potential for the quality-of-life with nature and national heritage, are areas where town planning and rurality can combine, respecting ecological constraints. Sustainable development in these territories will provide an alternative to the urban concentrations in large built-up areas.
Please note : Territories and project sites located in large built-up areas can be introduced in a proposal…
The purpose of these developments is to improve the quality and the attractiveness of the living environment in interurban areas. For example “a town centre” connected by “eco-friendly transport” to a ‘public square’ and to a ‘park’ … served by an intercommunal transport network provides an answer to these concerns. Based on these existing situations, any improvements made to the quality of life will highlight:
- That conditions of access to the urban centres are specific to each territory (i,e, coastline, mountain, plain, large built-up areas) and take into account the location of centres for employment, services and public amenities
- The use of new means of transport aiming to reduce or replace the use of the individual car
- Easy and safe use of the urban centre and its environment by ‘everyone’.
Quality of life will be evaluated using the three criteria in the ‘Referential for the quality of life’ with priority given to the respecting references below :
- architectural quality: improvements to facilitate access to public buildings and areas
- quality of community life : possibility of easier access to the urban centre for everyone
- respect of the environment : savings in parking areas and energy could be made, depending on the means of transport used.
The 2009-2010 discussion topic for the “Robert Auzelle seminar” is common to the national prize for elected representatives and professionals and the international competition for academics from all disciplines. The French ’eco-friendly transport’ vocabulary sheet for urban art along with other vocabulary sheets is a referential teaching aid.
- Competition Brief in English (PDF)
via ArtUrbain.fr
January 19, 2010 | Broadcast | Competitions
International VELUX Award 2010 for Students of Architecture
Submit: Monday, May 03, 2010
The International VELUX Award 2010 for Students of Architecture wants to encourage and challenge students of architecture to explore the theme of daylight in its widest sense - and to create a deeper understanding of this specific and ever-relevant source of energy and light.
The award seeks to challenge the future of daylight in the built environment with an open-minded and experimental approach. The Award seeks to widen the boundaries of daylight in architecture, including aesthetics, functionality, sustainability, and the interaction between buildings and environment.
“Light of Tomorrow” is the overall theme of the award that celebrates and promotes excellence in completed study works from students all over the world.
- details via http://iva.velux.com/
January 19, 2010 | Broadcast | Competitions
The Land Art Generator Initiative Competition
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 art world 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.
Proposals
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.
January 19, 2010 | Broadcast | Competitions
Open Source House Design Competition
Submit: Monday, May 17, 2010
Designing Sustainable Housing Together
Why?
Lower middle class in developing countries is rapidly growing and so is their demand for housing. A lack of affordable building materials and the use of inefficient construction methods are two of the reasons why houses are built in an unaffordable and unsustainable way. These houses have a short lifecycle, leaving behind unusable but costly materials and construction waste.
We think this can be changed
Contest:
Open Source House will start with a Design Competition at the 15th of January 2010. The challenge is to design an affordable, modular house according to 8 eco-architectural principles, which stimulate affordability, exchangeability and sustainability. The platform is the place where architects, building engineers, students professors etc. can come together to share their ideas with eachother. No Idea will be lost and every idea is available for everyone to implement them in their own country for free!
The best design will be awarded and realized in a pilot project in Ghana! Sign up for Design Competition and share your idea on the platform.
Open Source House
Affordable housing through sustainable design
For more information see http://www.os-house.org
November 26, 2009 | Broadcast | Competitions
2010 Bentley Student Design Competition
A global pool of infrastructure professionals armed with effective knowledge and tools is essential to meeting basic human needs throughout the world. Critical to expanding the supply of infrastructure professionals is attracting students to those professions and providing them with the appropriate education to enable them to contribute to global sustainability.
Bentley’s Student Design Competition program awards technically advanced projects created by middle school, high school, and university students around the world as well as recognizes the achievements of their educators and mentors. It fosters interest and growth in the AEC and geospatial professions by allowing students to showcase their design work while also preparing them to be future members of the infrastructure community.
via Bentley
details after the jump
November 26, 2009 | Broadcast | Competitions | News
4 individuals, 7 projects win President’s Design Awards
This year's recipients are (clockwise from top left) Tham Khai Meng, Look Boon Gee, Koichiro Ikebuchi, and Chris Lee. -- PHOTOS: OGILVY & MATHER, PRESIDENT'S DESIGN AWARD
SINGAPORE: President S R Nathan gave out the annual awards – aimed at encouraging the local design industry to raise the bar in areas such as architecture and product design – at the Istana on Thursday evening.
The four winners of the Designer of the Year award are Koichiro Ikebuchi, director of Atelier Ikebuchi; Chris Lee, founder and creative director of Asylum Creative; Look Boon Gee, managing director of LOOK Architects; and Tham Khai Meng, worldwide creative director of Ogilvy and Mather.
Architect Look Boon Gee’s win sees him finally get some much-deserved public recognition for some good work done over the past few years, including the recent Henderson Waves bridge, which has been featured in international journals including the likes of Architectural Record. Also earning accolades was The Asylum’s Chris Lee, for the firm’s hand in a great many interior design projects that have raised more than a few eyebrows.
One thing that has to be brought up though, are the few statements by the DesignSingapore Council that border on the vague:
“In the last decade, you can see the flair of a more varied, diverse environment – day and night, city and countryside – is now starting to emerge, including the creation of this bridge.”
“The DesignSingapore Council said this year’s winners reflect an increased vibrancy in the design sector.”
What do these cryptic statements mean? Is there a real countryside in Singapore? What is vibrancy anyway? Instead of just mouthing off a few obligatory words to the press, it would help the Council and the curious public, to be more specific and, as one might be inclined to say, earnest with their comments.
November 7, 2009 | Broadcast | Competitions | Showcase
South African Interpretation Centre wins World Building of the Year at World Architecture Festival Awards 2009
Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre in South Africa, designed by Peter Rich Architects of Johannesburg, has won global architecture’s most coveted accolade of World Building of the Year at the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF Awards) 2009.
The presentation took place during a special awards ceremony, which marked the conclusion of global architecture summit the World Architecture Festival, at the Centre Convencions International Barcelona (CCIB) on 6th November.
Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, which is situated at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers, is designed to house artifacts from the region’s prehistory. The project is underpinned by a strong social programme, using the skills and labour of local people and involving them in the design and construction process. Judges praised the project for its roughness and hand-crafted intelligence. They also admired the way in which it handled issues of sustainability and its relationship to the landscape.
The WAF Awards form the biggest architectural awards programme in the world and are designed to celebrate and showcase the work of the international architectural community. The WAF Awards are unique in that they involve shortlisted architects presenting their projects live to more than 1,500 delegates, distinguished architects and renowned industry experts during World Architecture Festival between the 4th and 6th of November.
Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre was selected from a total of 15 finalists, by a ‘super-jury’ chaired by Raphael Viñoly of Rafael Viñoly Architects PC, which included Kengo Kuma, Farshid Moussavi, Suha Ozkan and Matthias Sauerbruch. The finalists were whittled down from a shortlist of over 270 projects.
Speaking at the WAF Awards Paul Finch, WAF programme director and editor of Architectural Review, said: “The super-jury faced a tough challenge to choose a winner from such a strong list of finalists. Yet again we received a huge response to these fiercely contested Awards, with 272 projects shortlisted from a 67 different countries. The wide geographical range and quality of this year’s designs were exceptionally high and offers a real insight into the current condition and diversity of global architecture. Our congratulations go to Peter Rich Architects who thoroughly deserve to receive world architecture’s highest accolade.”
Collecting the World Building of the Year Award, Peter Rich said: “I will continue my quest to be of service to the less privileged, because they deserve it.”
Commenting that his next project would be in Ethiopia, Rich added: “I’m going to continue the good fight and take it to the world.”
This is the 2nd year the World Architecture Festival Awards have been presented. Last year’s overall winner of World Building of the Year 2008 was Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, designed by Irish practice Grafton Architects. The Awards look beyond borders to celebrate the finest work from the world’s greatest architects.
In addition to the 15 categories in the World Building of the Year, for buildings completed in the last year, this year’s Awards feature three new sections – Interiors and Fit-Out, Structural Design and Future Projects, which celebrates excellence in design for projects still on the drawing board.
The World Structural Design of the Year Award went to upi-2m for Arena Zagreb in Croatia, the World Future Project of the Year Award was given to Miralles Tagliabue Embt for the Spanish Pavilion for 2010 Expo Shanghai and the World Interiors & Fit Out of the Year Award was won by Amanda Levete Architects for the Corian Super-Surfaces Showroom.
November 7, 2009 | Broadcast | Competitions
The MET by WOHA wins at World Architecture Festival
Singapore based WOHA’s latest completed high-rise residential tower, The Met in the heart of downtown Bangkok Thailand, towers over its competition by emerging victorious in the Housing category at the ongoing World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
The design of the 66-storey tower is an innovative solution to the issues of density in tropical Asian cities, and offers a new model for high-density tropical housing. The Met explores how aspects of low-rise tropical housing can be adapted to provide vast amenities through indoor-outdoor spaces in the sky. The jurors presiding in the Housing category were on the lookout for an exemplary building for other architects and specialists in residential developments. In their selection of The Met as the winner, the jurors felt that the high-rise tower brought the sharpest and most detailed realised concept, and that has great potential for the future.
“The Met by WOHA is an excellent attempt to open a skyscraper to the city and to allow its inhabitants to use
the building as much as possible. A system of pass ways, sky-parks and swimming pools on upper levels forms a real vertical analogue of the city and creates a new quality of living.The wide use of greenery almost as an additional facade material is also an effective way to unite horizontal dimensions of the city with the verticality. The use of passive ways to save energy is also an important aspect of this project.” - jury citation
WOHA is the only asia-based architecture firm to win an award at World Architecture Festival 2009. For more winners, stay tuned for the full post coming up shortly.
More:
Official WOHA website
November 5, 2009 | Broadcast | Competitions
MIPIM Future Project Awards 2010
The search continues for the icons of tomorrow as the MIPIM AR Future Project Awards call for entries
The designers of tomorrow’s iconic architecture have been invited to follow in the footsteps of previous winners, such as Kim Kwan Joong / Samoo Architects and Engineers (who won in 2009 for Magok Waterfront, Seoul) to submit their designs in competition for the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards 2010.
The annual awards scheme, which has reached its eighth year, identifies and celebrates good quality architectural design for projects either still on the drawing board or under construction, and is well established as the centrepiece event for architects during the MIPIM conference and exhibition each March.
see past winners here
November 2, 2009 | Broadcast | Competitions
2010 METROPOLIS Next Generation® Design Competition
CALL FOR ENTRIES
To enter, provide one small (but brilliant and elegant) fix-leading to an incremental (or dramatic) change in sustainability. Your fix needn’t have anything to do with “environmentalist engineering” to make a difference. Concentrate on what you know best, are aching to improve in a way that deploys your training and imagination.
www.metropolismag.com/nextgen
October 29, 2009 | Broadcast | Competitions
OPERATION VOID DECK DESIGN COMPETITION
Supported by Hong Leong Holdings Ltd
Open for Submission
Calling all designers
Everyone needs a place to hang out beyond the four walls of the home – a place to chat with friends, to be inspired, to find rest. What is your vision for the renewal of the void decks of the heartlands?
The Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) presents Operation Void Deck – an open competition to design an architectural intervention at the void decks of public housing estates.
The competition has been jointly organised by the SIA, the Marine Parade Town Council, the National Library Board, and Hong Leong Holdings Limited. It aims to generate unique, exciting ideas about how to bring something more to the lives of residents, and show how architecture and design can impact upon society.
For this inaugural round of the competition, Block 51 Marine Terrace will served as a site to envision how the ground level of the block might be used to contribute to needs of the surrounding community.
Competition Guidelines
The competition is open to all, including architects, interior designers, students, and people with great ideas.
Entries should present a vision of how to encourage community interaction and enhance the quality of life of the residents across generations, especially the elderly. Design ideas could range from a furniture installation to the remodeling of an area within or surrounding the void deck at Block 51 Marine Terrace.
The envisioned proposal should factor in a construction budget of $30,000.
The winning design entry will stand the chance to be further developed with support from SIA, and may potentially be built at Block 51 Marine Terrace in early 2010. Special mentions will be exhibited in an ideas gallery.
The prize categories are:
1st prize – $3000
2nd prize – $2000
3rd prize – $1000
The closing date for submission is 12 noon, Monday 16 November 2009 .
Please click HERE to download the Design Competition Brief.
In line with Operation Void Deck, the National Library Board Singapore is organising a Bear Fruit Academy programme to help interested parties develop their design proposals. This is open to all non-professionals as well as to students and interested parties. For more information on the programme, please contact Chris Koh at Chris_KOH@nlb.gov.sg or log on to thecreativeacademy.wordpress.com for more information on the Bear Fruit Academy programme.
For queries on the competition, please call 65 6226 2668 or write to design_competition@sia.org.sg
October 28, 2009 | Broadcast | Competitions
Architype Review: Call for Competition Submissions
Call for Submissions and Nominations
Now accepting submissions and nominations for the following typologies:
Industrial by Dec. 04, 2009
Health Care by Jan. 15, 2010
Pure Innovation Please submit at any time innovative projects you feel are worthy of consideration for publication in Architype Review.
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Selected projects for publication will be notified for further information.
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Note: Those projects not following the guidelines above will not be added to the submission list.
Note: Architype Review will contact ONLY those projects considered in the final deliberations for additional information. We apologize that we will not be able to give feedback for those projects that are not selected from the submission list. There will be no official release dates for these issues and Architype Review reserves the right to change the upcoming types depending on the number of submissions. Architype Review reserves the right to revise and update these rules at any time. continue >>>
