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The Puppet Theatre in Stara Zagora encourages those with a flair for the novel, distinctive and unorthodox. We are prepared to take risks in the name of artistic process and the quest of true meaning.
The STATE PUPPET THEATRE in Stara Zagora and the Ministry of Culture, supported by Stara Zagora Municipality are delighted to launch an international Open Architectural Competition for a conceptual design of the EPAC - Experimental Puppetry Arts Centre at State Puppet Theatre – Stara Zagora. The Puppet Theatre in Stara Zagora encourages those with a flair for the novel, distinctive and unorthodox. The theatre is prepared to take risks in the name of artistic process and the quest of true meaning. The EPAC - Experimental Puppetry Arts Centre will be an incubator for live theatre – syncretic, originally incepted, unconventional, interactive and bold. A meeting point for people of deliberate creative motivation and potential, dynamic, unique and diverse creators. The new centre will aspire to offer opportunities to contemporary artists to grow their talent and create a wholesome space for the development of theatre across the breadth of the art of puppetry. The competition is open to designers from across the world who are passionate about contemporary art and theatre and want to contribute to the design of an unorthodox, out-of-the-box building to be the home of the magic of theatre.
The UDL Thesis Publication is an exclusive platform that allows undergraduate and postgraduate students to showcase their creative and research-based thesis projects in the areas of urban design, landscape architecture, and planning. Through this publication, students can showcase their innovative approaches and ideas, thereby receiving recognition and appreciation from their peers, industry experts, and the academic community globally.
2023 Image Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize
The Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize aims to recognise the best and most innovative practices in Landscape Architecture, for build projects created worldwide from 2017 to 2022. Deadline on the 30th May 2023
The Daxi Wood Art Ecomuseum, Taoyuan is hosting the First Daxi International Wood Furniture Craft and Design Competition with a prize pool of US$49,000(NT$1.5 million). The competition aims to promote Daxi's wood furniture craft, encourage diversity and innovation in the industry, and raise international awareness of Taiwan's wood furniture. Creators from all over the world are welcome to participate.
Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. invites students to see where their designs can take them by entering the seventh Vectorworks Design Scholarship. The global competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students in major disciplines related to architecture, landscape architecture, landscape design, entertainment and interior design. Students can submit a new design or past project from any of their classes for the chance to win up to $10,000 USD. Competition entries will be evaluated by an expert panel of international judges in two rounds. First-round winners will each receive up to $3,000 USD and will be entered for the chance to win the grand prize Richard Diehl Award, worth up to an additional $7,000 USD. For complete details, eligibility and to apply visit www.vectorworks.net/scholarship
Archstorming is launching a new competition in collaboration with the local NGO "Teach on the Beach" (TOB) to create a new Educational Center in Busua, Ghana. Teach on the Beach (TOB) enhances lives, emotional growth, and cultivates global citizenship of their students through after-school programs and volunteer opportunities.
Let your imaginations take you places with PIX Moving Space! Experience a hands-free journey to the ideal cafe, bookstore, lounge or cinema that fits perfectly into your life’s scenario. Enjoy coffee in an on-the-go café; kick back and relax while reading a book in the moving bookstore - why not grab some shuteye in our cosy lounges? Even work out during rush hour at the mini gym – all this is now possible with PIX's Moving Space, an autonomous robo-vehicle with no steering wheel or driver's seat.
At Moving Space Hackathon, we need you to design based on our Moving Space 3D model and we provide you with the Alpha version of our self-developed AI-driven design platform - PAM (PIX Algorithm Modeling) ™ for efficiency improvement on the workflow from design to manufacturing. By simply inputting text and images into the PAM™ platform, participants can generate designs for not only Moving Spaces but more daily-to-life things like furniture, decorations and more.
Aiming to collect the most creative and future-adaptive urban design proposals from all around the world, the International Competition For The Urban Design Of Jiuwei International Headquarters Pilot Area in China is officially launched. Registration for the competition is now open for domestic and abroad outstanding design institutions.
Located at the intersection of the east-west and north-south axes of Chengdu City, the Tianfu Cultural Park covers the Shaocheng and Huangchengba areas, stretching from Donghuamen Street in the east to Xijiao River in the west, and from Junping Street-Xiyu Street-Dongyu Street in the south to Dongmen Street-Yangshi Street-Xiyulong Street in the north. This area is the birthplace and historical and cultural origin of Chengdu's 2,300-year history of urban construction. As a driving project to change the urban pattern of downtown area and reshape the urban form, the Tianfu Cultural Park focuses on optimizing and enhancing the cultural inheritance and innovation function, so as to build into a centralized demonstration place of the world famous cultural city, a key carrier of the Western financial center, and the cultural center of Chengdu’s thousand-year historical iteration.
As an essential part of the Tianfu Cultural Park, the Luomashi Financial and High-end Business Agglomeration Area is one of two core agglomeration areas of Chengdu’s financial industry. The Project is located within the Luomashi Financial and High-end Business Agglomeration Area. To comprehensively implement CPC Chengdu Committee’s and Chengdu Municipal People's Government’s work deployment of accelerating the construction of “three optimizations and enhancements” key areas, contribute to the construction of the national Western financial center, promote organic urban renewal, focus on building a commercial and business core area that gathers important urban public services functions, and create a significant place for high-end financial service industry and international cultural exchanges, this international solicitation of architectural concept schemes is hereby launched, aiming at gathering global intelligence, improving the design schemes with high starting point, high standards and high-level, enhancing the overall quality and orientation of the Project.
House at 9,000 feet, Intermountain Region of the United States. Image Courtesy of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
The Canadian Wood Council has announced the winners of the 39th annual Wood Design & Building Awards program. The awards program honors and recognizes the remarkable contributions of architects worldwide who excel in wood design and construction. This year, the program attracted a record 181 nominations from 25 different countries, and 24 winning projects were chosen from the excellent pool of submissions.
The National Archaeological Museum. Image Courtesy of Kengo Kuma and Associates
Kengo Kuma’s proposal for The National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece, aims to draw attention to the importance of science in archaeology, the value of its collections, and the fundamental role and character of the museum in the present and the future. As the memory of the museum is traced back, words in acts of burying, concealing, and revealing begin to emerge. These three words are pivotal transitional moments that help shape the museum into what it is today and pave the way for its future application.
The American Institute of Architects UK Chapter is pleased to announce its 2023 Design Awards. For over 20 years, these awards, which are not restricted to AIA members, have proven highly valued by architects as they confer international recognition for design excellence.
Madera: Innovation for Social Architecture in Uruguay is an international architecture competition organized by the Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning of Uruguay (Ministerio de Vivienda y Ordenamiento Territorial, MVOT) and MEVIR, with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank. The competition is a call for proposals for new low-rise, single family, housing typologies using innovative wood technology. The winning proposal will be built by MEVIR in a demonstration complex of 20 units in the town of Tranqueras, in the Department of Rivera, in the north of Uruguay. The main objective of the competition is to promote and enhance the use of Uruguayan wood as a construction material for social housing, incorporating design and technological innovation, energy efficiency, and sustainability principles.
The Society of Façade Engineering (SFE) and the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineering (CIBSE) have joined forces with Zak to co-located the SFE Façade Awards and Dinner with the Zak World of Facades London conference for the second year running.
"Communal Space for Social Raise” International Architecture Student of Wiswakharman Expo 2023.
Wiswakharman Expo is an annual architecture event series held by architecture students of Universitas Gadjah Mada. Every year, Wiswakharman Expo brings a fascinating theme. This year we hold an International Architecture Competition with the theme of “Communal Space for Social Raise”
This year's MiG challenge reflects on Moshe Safdie's statement "I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past." This difficult task raises the problematics of the site within the framework of the glocal - a term coined in the 1990s to think about globaliזation dialectically, as an interdependent process of integration and diversification, in which the local is shaped by the global, but also that locality becomes ever more important either as resistance or as a motor of innovation. In light of recent developments such as the worldwide pandemic, climate crisis, and the fracturing of the international political order, it is time to reconsider the agency of the local. The 2023 MIG prize challenge is to rethink how the local is redefined by these worldwide challenges through cooperative and confrontational interaction with other localities and scales of reference. The proposed project should make a clear statement in regards to the status of locality in its different material, environmental, cultural and social aspects as it adapts to inflows and outflows of people, ideas, memories, technologies, resources, natures and capital, and test its architectural implications in the design of a building that is both rooted in the place's past and proposes a vision of a possible future. The project must be detailed to the scale of a building (i.e. 1:100 or 1:200) and include an explanation of the ideology behind the design. The design must address the well-being of the users and respect the surrounding environment of the proposed projects.
The basic legal act concerning the reconstruction of the Saski Palace, the Brühl Palace and tenement houses at ul. Królewska in Warsaw is the Act of August 11, 2021 (Journal of Laws of 2021, item 1551) on the preparation and implementation of investments in the reconstruction of the Saski Palace, Brühl Palace and tenement houses at Królewska Street in Warsaw, adopted to "celebrate the jubilee of the 100th anniversary of the rebirth of the independent Republic of Poland, to restore the historic shape of the representative space of Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square in Warsaw, destroyed during World War II, to satisfy the will of Poles and to strengthen the unity of the civic community, symbolized by the rebuilt Saski and Brühl palaces together with the complex of tenement houses at ul. Królewska, and also to complete the work of rebuilding the capital city, destroyed and demolished by the German occupiers, so that those buildings and structures that proudly expressed the sovereignty of the Polish state a hundred years ago would serve Poles both today and in subsequent generations and be a visible sign of the continuity of our history, and at the same time a testimony to a strong and modern Republic of Poland”. Reconstructed facilities must meet the requirements of the Act.
TerraViva Competitions launches HYBRID COWORKING, a new interior design competition that puts the focus on the transformation of existing bars and cafés all over the world. Prizes up to 7.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed by, among others, Fabrizio Vizzi (Rosan Bosch Studio), Jesica B. Orizi (Maris Interiors), Giulio Ubini (Tuc Studio), Nadica Filipovic (ARR&D Interiors);
We are delighted to invite architects, artists, and designers to express their interest in working on a new site-responsive public art project in Somers Town, Central London.
The competition participants are requested to design an innovative Yurt structure informed by and in collaboration with a local Central Asian community that can be built within two (2) months and with an overall budget of CAD$4000. The design must be innovative and practical, aimed to solve a real need by a local community to improve the quality of their life. We invite designs that can be built using local materials but with modest modern technological improvements for joints and other components to increase structural stability and achieve the adoption of new technologies such as off-grid electricity, better thermal insulation, users’ improved comfort and a new look. The idea is that people can still carry, assemble and dismantle the yurts themselves with no specialized help or transportation. Keywords: deployable structures; Yurt; local materials, digital fabrication, spaceframe/lightweight structures. Awards: Stage One: 1st place CAD$500, 2nd place CAD$300, 3rd place CAD$200 Stage Two: CAD$4000 to build Mentorship: The top three projects will receive mentorship from the jury to better develop their design and strategize construction in collaboration with the local community of their choice. Registration: Participants must e-mail info@architectonic.ca to register and receive an entry code. Language: English is the official language of the competition; however, where appropriate, other languages can be incorporated with English translation. Schedule: March 10th- April 30th, 2023. Submissions are open. May 1st -10th, 2023: Jury composition to be confirmed. May 11th -May 15th, 2023: Jury to select the first, second and third place winners. May 16th – June 15th, 2023. Mentoring stage one winners to further develop their designs. June 20th -June 25th, 2023. The jury decides the final winning project to be constructed. July 1st - September 15th, 2023. Construction Period. CAD$4000 will be released for construction in 4 installments.
Image by Martin Pretorius and Raphael Trischler. Buildner San Francisco Affordable Housing Challenge. Image Courtesy of Buildner
To live in a world surrounded by the constant rise of new challenges calls for adaptability, resilience and continuous learning. As a response, design competitions encourage architects to think outside the box to create innovative solutions. Both for theoretical and practical projects, these competitions provide a collaborative platform to promote innovation and creativity to solve contemporary challenges. Such is the case of Buildner, which develops a space for showcasing open architecture competitions to discover new architectural possibilities.
A tool for driving progress by fostering groundbreaking ideas that promote the discussion of critical topics such as affordable housing, sustainability and small-scale architecture, Buildner architecture competitions are key for addressing global challenges. These competitions aim to inspire the next generation of designers to challenge the status quo.
