We want to bring to your attention an open international competition for the conceptual master planning project of Mongolia's new city, "New Kharkhorum." This project presents a unique opportunity for everyone to contribute innovative ideas to the city's development. We highly encourage you to visit our website to register and be considered for this exciting project.
The competition seeks to identify an innovative architectural practice to design a public pavilion for the Devonshire Gardens development in Cambridge. Following the assessment of an open Expression of Interest, 4 to 5 practices will be invited to proceed to the ideas phase of the competition. An honorarium of £1,500 plus VAT will be paid to each shortlisted team.
Archstorming, in partnership with the NGO Fundación Vicente Ferrer (FVF) and its local partner Rural Development Trust (RDT), is launching a competition to create a versatile Community Center prototype for rural communities in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
More than 3,000 school buildings in Ukraine are currently severely damaged or destroyed as a result of ongoing military aggression. More than a third of Ukrainian pupils only have access to distance learning. A large number of pupils do not attend school because their safety is not guaranteed: there are no shelters. Internal migration to safer parts of the country has put the education infrastructure in less war-affected regions under severe strain, some schools operate three shifts a day. Pupils and teachers are facing the problems of emotional and psychological well-being. The following key priorities are identified in the light of these and other challenges related to education in Ukraine: - Access to education; - Pupils' and teachers' safety; - Educational gaps due to inadequate education process; - Teacher burnout and pupils’ psychological well-being. In terms of the needs of educational infrastructure which exist today and will remain in place for the near future, Ukraine will require the multi-purpose education centers in regional centers covering an area of up to 50 kilometers. The examination of a multitude of arguments at the competition development phase has led to a decision to develop the concept of a Multifunctional Education Center. Multifunctional Education Center is to accommodate around 550 children of all ages, from primary school to lyceum, with facilities for temporary accommodation for pupils and teachers, spaces for community activities and psychological rehabilitation, and a dual-use shelter. Adaptive Reuse Architectural Design means an architectural work, a set of architectural solutions for a building design featuring maximum solutions for the site, the interior and the exterior of the building, which can be applied independently of the specific target site or location, and could be re-used, in adapted form, for multiple different locations, each time by individually integrating and adapting it to the local context. High-quality, sustainable, ready-to-localize project designs obtained via the contest will be provided free to the communities and donors. It will expedite the rebuilding of schools, saving time and resources for the country that suffered greatly from the unrighteous and cruel invasion.
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BuildFest Poster, courtesy Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival
BuildFest invites academics and researchers to propose ideas for large-scale art installations to be built on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock festival. Over the course of a five-day live-work festival, accepted participants will work with self-organized student teams to build, install, and work through on-site design solutions. Once completed, the selection of installations will be utilized during the Catbird Music Festival—an Americana festival taking place on the historic 1969 Woodstock site—as functional art-infrastructures to be experienced and adapted for festival attendees.
THE TERRITORY AND SPATIAL VISION OF THE RIGA PASSENGER TERMINAL LLC "Riga Ropax Terminal” announces an open Sketch Design competition for a new passenger and ro-ro cargo terminal. A new passenger terminal would put Riga on the map of European cruise ports, provide modern and environmentally friendly ferry passenger services in Riga, and create new opportunities for developing the ro-ro cargo segment. The new terminal will be located in the southern part of Exportosta, reducing traffic in the city center of Riga and reducing sound and air pollution. The task of the Competition is to determine the best proposal for the vision of spatial development of the territory of the Riga ROPAX terminal.
The Antepavilion commission is an initiative to develop, construct and display experimental structures that offers emerging artists, architects and makers the opportunity to create new work within a complex urban environment. This year’s open call competition is now open for entries.
The aim of the Competition – to obtain creative ideas and proposals on how to respectfully preserve the burials of the Great Cemetery, its cultural-historical and natural values for future generations, how to implement the sustainable development of the territory and how to use the potential of the existing green infrastructure as a biologically diverse and unique landscape on the European scale, in order to improve the quality of the urban environment and the accessibility of the Great Cemetery to residents and guests of the city of Riga.
YOUNG ARTISTS AT WORK (YAW) AT JAMES SURLS’ BMOCA EXHIBITION, 2023 | COURTESY OF BMOCA
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), in partnership with Emerald Development, are pleased to announce the opening of the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for design teams interested in the North Boulder Creative Campus project located at 4401 and 4481 Broadway in Boulder, Colorado. The RFQ is open from January 29, 2024, with submissions due by March 15, 2024.
Gold Medal 2020 XIV Edition Italian Prize Sustainable Architecture / HOME*: Humanitarian and (un) Ordinary Machine for Emergency. Image Courtesy of International Prize for Sustainable Architecture
The Italian Prize for Sustainable Architecture is part of the International Prize for Sustainable Architecture, founded and promoted since 2003 by Fassa S.r.l. (registered holder of the trademark “Fassa Bortolo”) and the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara. The Prize aims to reward and promote valuable architectural projects that are environmentally conscious and sustainable, minimizing anthropogenic impact and improving the resilience of buildings and cities towards current and future natural events and climate change, including through the reuse of existing structures.
The Paradyż Designers Competition is an opportunity for architects, interior designers, and students studying in art- and architecture-related fields to envision and design modern spaces with large-format sintered stone. Now in its 3rd edition, this international competition includes a prize pool of €42,000, including a trip to the Salone Internazionale del Mobile Furniture Fair in Milan, and is judged by renowned members of the architecture and design fields.
The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (H&LS) Memorial Project Committee invites artists, architects, designers, multi-disciplinary teams, and other creators to express their interest in conceiving a site or sites on Harvard’s Cambridge campus for commemoration and reflection, as well as for listening to and living with the University’s legacy of slavery. We seek expressions of interest from those with investments of thought and practice in memorialization, ritual, community-building, history, and questions about the future. In particular, we are interested in creative visions that activate and make visible complex dynamics, such as: permanence and vitality; honor and rebuke; ecology and the built environment; institutional interest and the common good. We welcome submissions from individuals, collaboratives, and teams rooted in traditional or non-traditional memorial practices at any stage of their career.
The Changdong-Sanggye area, situated in the northeastern metropolitan center of Seoul, Korea has been designated as an 'urban regeneration area' with the aim of creating an economic and cultural hub suitable for "2030 Seoul Plan". The goal of this competition is to develop a new concept for the complex center that integrates public transportation transit facilities, apartments, offices, and commercial spaces within District 2 of the Chang-dong urban development zone, to inspire creative designs that align with the 'Comprehensive Concept Plan for the Urban and Architectural Spaces of Seoul for the next 100 years.', and to select the optimal design that revitalizes urban regeneration and promotes residential welfare from functional, social, and economic perspectives.
The program task of this competition is the conceptual design of the congress center with a proposal for arrangement of additional facilities along the route of the road to Dubrovnik within the given location within the part of the zone "Draženska Gora", the city of Trebinje. The congress activity is a polyvalent symbiosis of new facilities that MH “ERS“ wants to establish on the territory of the city, and they represent multifunctional economic and cultural branches that also have some quite specific benefits compared to other types of business. The congress activity combines the expanded scientific, professional, educational and commercial branch of the economy. Meetings of this type present the latest professional knowledge and achievements in a particular field, thus including the area where the meeting takes place in the map and the agenda cycle of a particular activity. The architectural and spatial framework for their realization is a hybrid facility of combined content that primarily enables hosting of congress events. The architectural features of a new complex and its content indicate future developments in the construction sector in the zone of its location; by activating the area concerned, it gains in value and becomes a desirable location for aditional attractive facilities. The idea to build a congress center at a given location is part of a broader vision of the development of "dubrovački pravac" of the western zone of Trebinjsko polje (karst field); along with the congress center, it is necessary, at the level of the urban scheme, to design a wider ensemble of additional facilities, namely: a high category hotel, a sports hall and certain public city purposes facilities.
Project name: Architectural Scheme Design of North Area (Section 2) of International Collaborative Innovation Zone of The Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone Project location: Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province Deadline for pre-qualification application: 17:00 on December 26, 2023
Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property of Montenegro has announced an International Competition for a Conceptual Architectural Design of the Hospital Facility within “Danilo I” General Hospital Complex in Cetinje (Montenegro).
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Imagine your chair made from Andean bamboo (Chusquea Scandens). Plan on coming to the Andean forest to build it. Be part of the publication with the collection of participating chairs and aspire to be elected by an international jury.
SIT DOWN AND FEEL One of humanity’s most important contributions, and one that supports, literally and often to the extreme, our choice not to move, is the chair. Disregarding the hip joint’s capacity for permanent movement, we adopt from an early age a sitting posture that in adulthood can account for an average of 7 hours of every day, according to studies by experts in workplace ergonomics, who also recommend changing positions from time to time, lest we begin to take root. Our body spends so much time in a chair that the challenge for designers has been to create one with a backrest and seat that merge with the body to unload its weight, distributing it over four legs. The process of imagining, recreating, developing, and producing a new chair is summarized in each iconic model that scholars of the history of design have placed on the timeline of humanity —which since the industrial revolution seems to spend increasingly more time seated— and of a profession exploding with endless creativity and rife with proposals for furniture that contradicts, complies with, reformulates, and varies the possibilities of our bodily actions when we stop moving around to rest, find ourselves, feel, and sit down.
