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48 Hours Competition

The Young Architects Forum (YAF) is announcing the third annual 48 Hour design competition. Open to all Students, Designers, and Architects up to 10 years of licensure. The purpose of this competition is to provide a venue for designers and architects to showcase their ability, and to illust ...

01.09.2010

turn me ON

turn me ON presents a new series of international design ideas competitions put forward by OzQuest Adventures in association with Architects Without Frontiers. Open to all creative minds, turnmeON 2010s theme of Water seeks the design of a system to deliver wat ...

01.09.2010

Competition - SRD 2010

Sustainable Residential Design Competition welcomes your innovative ideas and design works in contemporary and sustainable residential design from a single residential unit to ...

01.09.2010

Call for Entries - 2010 Professional Excellence Awards

You are invited to participate in the annual Professional Excellence Awards program of AIA Chicago. The awards will be presented at the chapters Annual Meeting in December. ...

01.09.2010

Kaplicky s blob saga: Competition goes to court

The case of the international architectural competition for a design of the new Czech National Library building in Pragues Letná plain, won in 2007 by the London-based Future Systems architectural practice founded by the late Jan Kaplicky, is going to court. ...

01.09.2010

Symposium Series - Building Livable Cities 2010

Building Livable Cities is a multi city investigation on ideas that can make Indian cities Livable. As part of the initiative, symposiums will take place across 5 cities – Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and Ahmedabad between Oct 18-22. ...

31.08.2010

Competition - House of Tolerance

School of Architecture in Split is organizing the international workshop “House of Tolerance“. It is open to regular and foreign students, as well as for young professionals under 35. ...

31.08.2010

Call for Papers - Design + Computation: The Virtue of the Virtual Conference

The Cultural Mediations and Technology Program at McGill Universitys School of Architecture is currently accepting papers for this international conference to be held May 2011 at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec in association with The Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation ...

31.08.2010

A DESIGN AWARD & COMPETITION

The A Architecture and Building Design Competition is a freestyle design competition open to both concept stage and realized works designed by professional and young designers, design companies and other business in this industry worldwide. ...

28.08.2010

Competition - DAWNTOWN MIAMI 2010

A public international architecture ideas competition for a new Seaport Terminal in Downtown Miami, to be located on Watson Island ...

28.08.2010

Call for Papers. ¨Fixed? Architecture, Incompleteness and Change”.

“Fixed? Architecture, Incompleteness and Change”. It is organized by the School of Architecture, Design and Environment, University of Plymouth, UK (Thursday 7 - ...

27.08.2010

Call for Ideas for the Renovation of Former Civil Hospital of Gorizia

A call for submissions launched for the renovation of former civil hospital of Gorizia in the scope of Spazio Giovani Alla Frontiera Project. The competition foreseens the development of an Urban Project referring to the area currently owned by the Company for Health Services n ...

27.08.2010

Waterfront Synopsis 2010 Conference

“Waterfront Synopsis” will focus on the topic of Placemaking and Sustainability, bringing the forces of environmentalism, climate change, and sustainability together with the ideas of community, livability, health and Placemaking. Many people around the world are realizing the impacts of “Plac ...

27.08.2010

Design Competition for a Model School and a Girls Hostel

The Deptt. of School Education, Govt. of Haryana, proposes to construct a number of Model Schools and Girl Hostels at various location in Haryana. It is proposed to hold a limited Design Competition for selecting the best architectural design of (i) a Model School and (ii) a Girls Hostel to be adopt ...

27.08.2010

New Aging Conference

New Aging is a uniquely strategic conference, complemented by hands-on workshops, matchmaking sessions, and open houses at collaborating institutions. Guests within and outside of the design profession will provide the professional and visionary background of the conference, leading to a manifesto o ...

27.08.2010

The 5th Annual Ed Bacon Student Competition

A design competition open to college and university level students internationally. Philadelphia has a long tradition of hosting national and international expositions to celebrate Americas birthday. The year 2026 will mark the nationss 250th. What will this type of celebration look like in the 21st ...

27.08.2010

CoARQ 1st International Competition for Architecture Students

CoARQ is very glad to invite architecture and design students to participate at the 1st. international architecture student competition. The aim of this competition is to collect projects with the best quality and relevance, developed and elaborated by students from around the world, in order to put ...

26.08.2010

TRIMO URBAN CRASH 2011

The Trimo International Competition for students of architecture and design works to encourage aspiring designers of urban space toward a bolder, more ambitious approach to and understanding of architecture; and to unite them in the ongoing search for the creative expression and transf ...

26.08.2010

Cartoons in Park Avenue, New York

The cutesy yet devilish cartoon characters created by the Japanese neo-Pop artist Yoshitomo Nara will soon be familiar sights on the Upper East Side landscape. O ...

25.08.2010

Sydney Architecture Festival 2010

The annual Sydney Architecture Festival celebrates the citys architecture and aims to engage the public in exploring aspects in the built environment. ...

25.08.2010

Architectural Photography Competition

Email your best Architectural Photograph with your answer to the question given of the Frui News website. ...

25.08.2010

Manufacturing Identity

This open collection of works encourages all design practitioners (artists, craftspeople and designers) to submit considerations of how emerging technologies affect their sense of self. ...

23.08.2010

Call for Papers. DMACH 2011 Digital Media and its Applications in Cultural Heritage

Call for Papers DMACH 2011 Digital Media and its Applications in Cultural Heritage Organized by The Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region, Jordan Al-Turath Foundation, Saudi Arabia In collaboration with Queen Rania Institute of Tourism and Heritage, Hashemite University 16-17 March ...

21.08.2010

Taiwan Tower Conceptual Design International Competition

To commemorate the centennial anniversary of the founding of Taiwan, R.O.C. and celebrate the merger between Taichung County and Taichung City, the government of Taiwan, R.O.C. will erect “Taiwan Tower” as an important landmark in the new special municipality. Here, visitors will be treated to a pan ...

20.08.2010

FABRICATE - Call for Work Announced

The conference, FABRICATE, is seeking to ‘break the mould’ in gathering and publishing innovative built or partially built material, the call for works emphasises a very high standard of diverse visual content to accompany text. It is recommended that submissions include an appropriate ran ...

20.08.2010

The HuB Design Competition

Architecture for Humanity: Charleston is pleased to announce the chapters first open design competition, titled The HuB. The goals and objectives of the competition have been developed in direct response to dialogue with various Charleston non-profit organizations. Each group was asked t ...

19.08.2010

New Book: Self-Sufficient City

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the technology company HP have developed an international contest with the idea of self-sufficient city. It is an invitation to reflect on how we will live in the near future in the light of the social, cultural and technological changes in wh ...

18.08.2010

Have Your Say, Rate the Projects

Design engineers from 18 countries have entered projects for this years James Dyson Award. A panel of Judges is now reviewing entries. 20 projects will make the international shortlist. A general announcement will be made on the website on 24th of August. ...

18.08.2010

Retail in Harlem

La Marqueta, between 111th and 116th streets in Harlem, New York, was once the place to drive a bargain on plantains and avocados. But it never recovered from a slow decline in the 1970s, and several attempts to revive it have failed. Luckily for neighborhood residents, however, La Marqueta was buil ...

17.08.2010

Competition - New Royal London Children’s Hospital Internal Play Space and Exterior Roof Garden

The RIBA is delighted to announce the launch of an invited design competition on behalf of Vital Arts , the arts organisation for Barts and the London NHS Trust for the design of an internal childrens play space and exterior roof garden within the new Royal London Hospital set to open in 2012. The R ...

17.08.2010

Living City Deisgn Competition: Visualizing the Future of Civilization

The International Living Building Institute, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, invites the world’s most talented and daring designers, planners, artists and animators to create a new global vision: a breathtaking, compelling model for the future of civilizat ...

17.08.2010

In the line of beauty: Architects and the sublime

Why dont todays architects embrace the sublime? Thats the thesis of a provocative new book. Jay Merrick couldnt agree more

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16.08.2010

Winner of BSA Unbuilt Architecture Award

See the winning project designed by MA-based office Choi+Shine. ...

16.08.2010

An English man in New York

Photographs from Jason Bells series An Englishman in New York will be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery from 24 August until 17 April 2011. His book of ...

15.08.2010

The Re-Announcement of Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center International Competition

To create Kaohsiung as a maritime capital, Kaohsiung City Government sincerely invites architects from all over the world to participate in the international competition of Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center. The objective of the project is to lead Kaohsiung City becoming the gate to marit ...

13.08.2010

Courseware is ready

Courseware presentation of the 7th Cycle of WA Awards is ready. 211 slides with full descriptions of projects and architect profiles. This anthology is accompanied with full descriptions of the Winner projects and enriched with the architect profiles. It showcases emerging and esta ...

13.08.2010

Competition for the New Business Complex Bericevo, Dol Pri Ljubljani

The aim of the construction of the new ELES complex is to support operational activities of the national transmission system operator by providing contemporary architecture that reflects the mission of the company, its environmental awareness and social responsibility, and will serve present and fut ...

12.08.2010

Workshop - AA Berlin Laboratory

During this intense nine-day workshop participants will work both in the laboratory/studio and the field/city, revisiting existing experiments in dwelling and the social ideals that shape them. In search of new logics of living, students will use emerging computational and rule-based design ...

12.08.2010

airBaltic New Terminal Design Competition

airBaltic is asking for your expressions of interest to be part
of this unique and exciting opportunity by participating in
an “Architectural Design Ideas” competition to design this
terminal. ...

11.08.2010

Design Against the Elements

Design Against the Elements is a global competition to design sustainable and disaster-resilient communities for tropical urban environments. The winning design will be built for an urban poor community in Taguig City, Philippines and will serve as a prototype for vulnerable communities around the w ...

11.08.2010

Chicken Coop Design Competition 2010

The Poultry Project 2010 Chicken Coop Design Competition is calling farmers, designers, engineers, thinkers, architects, artists, and locavores to design a chicken coop for use in urban or
suburban backyards. The ideal coop will integrate aesthetics with utility and make creative use of loc ...

11.08.2010

design is...

The AIA Cincinnati Committee on Design invites you to participate in our first venture - a postcard campaign that asks you to define design in your own terms - on a postcard.
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10.08.2010

The Writers Colony 2010-2011 Architecture and Design Fellowship

The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow is pleased to announce the 2010-2011 Architecture and Design Fellowship. Wİth an emphasis on American architecture, landscape architecture, crafts and furnishings, this fellowship is designed to support qualified professionals and arts commentators. The fellowship ...

10.08.2010

Competition - Wines of Chile

Arquitectum jointly with the Universidad Finis Terrae and the Asociación de Vinedos de Chile, is pleased to welcome to the international architecture competition SANTIAGO DE CHILE 2010. In the last years Chile has turned in to a leading society in the filed of industrial wine production but ab ...

10.08.2010

Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor and Green District Competition

The competition asks architects, landscape architects, designers, engineers, urban planners, students and environmental professionals to create an innovative urban vision for Los Angeles CleanTech Corridor, a several-mile-long development zone on the eastern edge of downtown LA. ...

10.08.2010

8th Oistat Theatre Architecture Competition 2011

The OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition (TAC) is an international ideas competition, aimed at students and emerging
practitioners, which is organised every four years by the Architecture Commission of OISTAT (International Organisation of
Scenographers, Technicians and Theatre Architects). ...

10.08.2010

GAMECHANGERS | Sports Micro-Venture Fund

This Challenge is seeking proposals for the final round of funding to support the construction of sport facilities offering programs that tackle social issues in the community. This Request for Proposal (RFP) process will award up to $500.000 in funds and is directed toward micro-interventions ...

09.08.2010

Downtown Fargo: an urban-infill competition

This is an international, conceptual urban ideas competition open to architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects and aspiring students. The canvas is the U.S. Bank plaza and surface parking lot property in Downtown Fargo, North Dakota. The challenge is to envision an exceptional multi-use ...

09.08.2010

International Competition to Develop Adhamiya

The Baghdad Mayoralty has launched an international architectural competition to develop the al-Adhamiya City area of Baghdad, specifically the areas close to the Shrine of Imam Abu Hanifa. ...

09.08.2010

Call for Entries - Minding the Future of the Civic Arena

A design competition to accumulate public ideas and activate dialog about the development of the Civic Arena. The aim of the competition is to call for proposals for an adaptive reuse of the Arena that serves as both a monument to Pittsburghs engineering prowess and a symbol of its past inj ...

08.08.2010