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Bangkok:I am Fashion Hub

Final registration deadline:25 February

The final registration deadline for the "Bangkok: I am Fashion Hub" architecture competition is Wednesday, February 25, 2015.

Since the agreement to form an integrated ASEAN Economic Community into a single market, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand have been attempting to position themselves as the ASEAN Fashion Capital. With no clear front-runner Thailand, and in particular Bangkok, have a real chance of claiming the title despite the fierce competition. 

Bee Breeders architecture competitions organisers, in co-operation with some of Bangkok’s most prominent new fashion designers, are supporting Thailand’s goal of becoming the ASEAN Fashion Capital. As such, Bee Breeders asks designers from around the world to submit architecture visions for a regional ASEAN Fashion Hub that would be based in Bangkok. 

The purpose of the Fashion Hub is to serve as a central location with the facilities to provide education and experience to both fashion students as well as up and coming local fashion designers. The Fashion Hub will have areas dedicated to workshops and skills labs and facilities to accommodate guest speakers and exchange programs with students and designers from all around the world. 

Participants are encouraged to present a building complex that would inspire and attract regional and international attention. The building should be a proud landmark and representation of Bangkok’s emerging talent. 

As a central location for fashion in Bangkok the Fashion Hub will also serve as a venue to present and display local and international collections, in the hopes of attracting both designers and investors from other countries to further the city’s standings as the ASEAN Fashion Capital. 

Bee Breeders believes that world-class ideas exist world-wide, therefore Bee Breeders encourages participation from architects, architecture students and architecture enthusiasts from around the world. Bee Breeders is looking for bold and creative ideas, which produce an engaging vision of Bangkok’s future fashion status. One that will conform to Bangkok’s identity and will be welcomed by its citizens, its visitors and all of its new fashion designers. 

All required competition documentation is available for download including: extended competition brief; photos of the site and context; AutoCad drawings and 3D Sketchup model.

Prizes
3 winning proposals and 6 honourable mentions will be selected. 
Bee Breeders will award a total of US$ 10,000 in prize money to competition winners as follows: 

1st prize winner - US$ 6000 
2nd prize winner - US$ 3000 
3rd prize winner - US$ 1000 

The winners will get international art and design media coverage and will be featured on the Bee Breeders website. 

The following media partners have committed to present the current competition and its winners in their publications:  Arch20; Archello; Archi.ru; Archilovers; Archinect; Architectur Journal; Wettbewerbe; Architime.ru; BauNetz; NIP; ViaVili; WA; World Architecture Community; World Architecture News / list to be updated.

For potential media partners who are also interested in covering the present competition and its winners, please contact  on:hello@beebreeders.com

Bee Breeders will also acknowledge outstanding performance of all winners and honourable mentions with Certificates of Achievement.
 

Closing date for registration:Feb 25, 2015 (11.59pm GMT)

Closing date for submission:Mar 16, 2015 (11.59pm GMT)

Announcement of the winners:Apr 2, 2015

Jury

Special Guest Jury

Thatwasin Boat Khajeenikorn - menswear designer, visual merchandiser, and guest fashion editor at ELLE UK magazine, Bangkok-Thailand (read interview);

Ilze Mucina - fashion designer, professor Accademia Italiana, Bangkok-Thailand.

Jury

Alona Martinez - lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom; 
Allison Schwartz - architectural designer, MA Architects, USA; 
Andrejs Edvards Rauchut - 2010 Cooper Union graduate, associate professor at RISEBA; 
Audrey McKee - architectural designer, Renzo Piano, France; 
Carlos M Guimarães – architect, depA, correspondent of A10 magazine, Portugal; 
Collin Anderson, architectural designer, Renzo Piano Building Workshop 
Eva Otanke - planner, owner of "Cilderman Ltd", MSc. Candidate in Sustainable Urban Development at University of Oxford, Latvia; 
Gemawang Swaribathoro - architect, OMA, Hong Kong; 
Gia-Hy Hoang - architect, Ateliers 2/3/4/ 
Louis Gyoh - architect and academic, RIBA, MCIOB, FRSA, United Kingdom; 
Mandy Too - architectural executive - DPA, Singapore; 
Pierre-Henri Baudart - architect, Studio Akkerhuis;
Simon McGown - project designer, Morphosis Architects, USA. 

Fees 
Registration:US$ 140

Following documentation is available for download
- Extended competition brief 
- Site and context photographs
- AutoCad and PDF site plan and sections 
- 3D Sketchup site model 

All information can be downloaded as often as required; no additional information or material will be provided after registering. The provided materials can be used or alternatives can be created or sourced at the participants discretion.

Eligibility
Competition is open for all. No professional qualification is required. Design proposals can be developed individually or by teams (4 team members maximum).

Language
- Correspondence with organizers must be conducted in English.
- All information submitted by participants must be in English.

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