Velletri announced an international design competition for the recovery and enhancement of Piazza Cairoli. The competition is carried out by the Municipality of Velletri in collaboration with the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape designers and Conservation experts of the city and province of Rome.
Beautiful seaside town of Kotor celebrates the first centenary of its beloved football club by calling for proposals for conceptual design for the new stadium.
Transportation infrastructure like flyovers, elevated expressways, bridges, highways are built to perform a certain role in a city. But in the post construction phase, as they are put into an already existing system of urban networks, the under-infrastructure space and infra elements continue to evolve into interesting usages by common people. These public spaces beneath active elevated road and rail beds remain at best largely underused, and at worst dark and dusty corridors of neglect. The reality of the modern infrastructural landscape is as much geopolitical as it is technical. Transportation infrastructure continues being utilized as an urban element, beyond their intended function in many cases.
“Flexible Retreat” is a two stage architectural Competition organized by ArchTwist Ltd in association with Suvastu Properties Ltd. In the first stage, participants are asked to submit creative design concepts for a modular building system within the framework of Bangladesh’s tourism industry. The submitted entries will go through an extensive jury evaluation process where winners will be selected based on judging criteria.
Located in the heart of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation, Château de Nalys is a historic winegrowing estate of around 100 hectares, including 77 hectares of vines, dating back to the end of the 16th century.
The Butrint National Park Visitor Center International Design Competition is a global search for a dedicated and gifted architectural team to design a new visitor center for Butrint National Park, an exceptional UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) on Albania’s Ionian coastline.
Expertise France in collaboration with the Tunisian Ministry of Culture and with the support of the European Union announces the launch of the International multidisciplinary design competition “Requalification of the Acropole of Byrsa and rehabilitation of the National Museum of Carthage”
THE MUNICIPALITY OF DOBRICH is pleased to invite all professionals, with a positive approach towards and interest in urban planning and design, to participate in an open and anonymous competition. Our desire is to challenge participants to put their ideas on paper, to unleash their imagination and to present their concept for the renovation and development of the central part of Dobrich.
The District Museum in Leszno together with the Polish Architects Association invites to participate in the Competition for the development of an architectural and urban concept for the revitalization and extension of the Old Vinegar Production Facility building for the purpose of the District Museum in Leszno city in Poland.
The goal is to design a farmhouse for a maximum capacity of a joint family. The concept should address the climatic aspect and material aspect. Participants are encouraged to explore how the architecture of a place affects the behavior of people under its influence.
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Anne Lacaton, Co-Founder of Lacaton & Vassal, Winner of I Edition of Living Places (2016). Image Courtesy of Simon
The IV edition of the biennial Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize for architecture nominations and registrations is still open and will close on the 15th of September via www.simonprize.org. Inscription and participation are entirely free of charge and the winning teams receive a cash prize of 10.000 €. The vocation of this recognition is to distinguish those architectural projects (including interiors, public spaces and landscaping) whose excellence enhances the capacity of the spaces to ensure the comfort of its inhabitants. Architectures that turn into higher quality spaces for people in their day-to-day lives: to work, to learn, to wait, to play... Architectures to live in.
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Calle de los Negros (starting point of 1871 massacre) in Los Angeles, ca. 1876. University of Southern California.
The City of Los Angeles has issued a Request for Ideas (RFI) inviting artists, architects, designers, students, and other members of the public to submit ideas for a permanent physical memorial to a shocking but largely forgotten incident in Los Angeles history: the lynching of 18 Chinese at the hands of a vigilante mob in Los Angeles on October 24, 1871, the largest massacre of Chinese in California history and the largest mass killing of any kind in Los Angeles history (almost 10 percent of the city’s Chinese population at the time). Here is a link to the RFI.
During the Call for Concepts we invite creatives from all over the world to submit a concept for a light artwork. Do you have an illuminating idea? Then join our call!
Beam Center seeks design proposals for ambitious public artworks that will be brought to life through collaborations between youth and creative big thinkers. Projects will be realized by a community of more than 100 young people at each of our three 2023 Beam Project sites: in New Hampshire (NH), on Governors Island (GI), and in a local NYC community. Artists are invited to submit proposals for any or all of these three sites, but each proposal must be unique to a specific site. Artists proposing for Beam Project NYC are also encouraged to consider potential installation sites and partners, and to include these in their proposal. Winning proposals will be selected by a committee composed of Beam Center staff, youth, past project designers, and community members.
4Q Competition Visual, source: ONplan, illustration: Dana Ledl
The competition will be conducted in the form of a non-anonymous competition workshop: Competition Jury, the Competition Clients and other stakeholders will be engaged in a dialogue directly with the competition participants. The Jury will select will select up to 10 teams who will participate in the competition based on their portfolios. The shortlisted teams will work on a concept for the development of the 4th Quadrant of Victory Square. The jury will then select a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 teams to proceed with the development of their proposals. After the end of Competition Phase 2 the Competition Client will negotiate a follow-on contract with the winner of the competition.
