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What:
Entrants will submit a detailed design and energy performance documentation for a Zero Net Energy mixed-use affordable housing project.  Details on submission requirements and project criteria can be found at www.architectureatzero.com

Where:
Following previous years’ successful Architecture at Zero competitions that envisioned a zero net energy future for an urban infill site in Emeryville, CA (2011), and last year’s competition focusing on the next phase of campus planning at the newest University of California campus, UC Merced (2012), this year’s competition will focus on the development of a mixed-use residential building in one of the densest neighborhoods, the Tenderloin, of San Francisco, CA.

Timeline:
Site Tour for Entrants—Summer 2013; To Be Announced
Submissions due—October 1 at 1:00 pm
Jury & Announcement—November 7th + 8th
Exhibition—winners exhibition at AIA San Francisco November 12th—December 20th

Entry Fees:
Students: $30 entry fee + Free Board Printing
Professionals: $100 entry fee + $115 Board Printing
Professional entrants who register before August 1st will receive a discount of 15% off of entry fees. This discount does not apply to board printing fees.

For more information on the 2011 + 2012 competition and to stay updated about this years’ competition, please visit www.architectureatzero.com.  For any questions regarding the 2013 competition, please email architectureatzero@aiasf.org.

SOCIALIGHT

(Source: Alexandre Guilbeault, M.Arch. CLU Foundation Board Member)

The 2013 edition of the CLU Foundation’s competition brings the participants to reflect on the role of lighting in the urban areas of tomorrow. Whether it be a citizen, an end-user or a resident, how can lighting create a sociality between these individuals and meet their different needs.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE THEME

« To an era of strictly functional public lighting followed a period where using lighting as tools of heritage beautification developed rapidly. Wouldn’t it now be time to think of the users and to invent what we could call a social light, meaning a light and ambiance responsive to the needs, the experiences and emotions of the users and citizens? » -  Roger Narboni : Ambiances et atmosphère en lumière urbaine

The 2013 edition of the CLU Foundation’s competition invites participants to consider the role of lighting in the urban areas of tomorrow. Think of the future. Imagine urban neighborhoods where there are, for example, no cars, that the territory belongs to the people and that we put value in community, natural, recreational and social environments. Whether it be a citizen, resident or end-user, how can lighting be conceived around this individual with needs, emotions and desires. Professionals in landscape architecture, architecture or urban planning recognize that neighborhoods need to reinvent themselves. We must put aside our paradigms and open ourselves to new ideas.

Functional needs of urban lighting, such as security, traffic and signaling, have been met with rational responses by designers. But if we look at lighting solutions from a completely different angle, bringing light to a person could generate a feeling of well-being, a sense of belonging to a place or be a way to create a strong identity. In this context, should we review the traditional luminous object that can be found everywhere? How will this physically change the light source?

Without falling into the clichés of Utopia,

• How will the many technological innovations in light help us improve the urban experience?
• How will they shape the life of the city in various public spaces, parks, and other areas that make up a neighborhood?
• How will the different modes of transport influence the way we illuminate the city?
• Will we use street lighting as tools that will improve and favor the well-being of the user, as tools of communication or as tools to create different moods?

It is clear that with the transformation of urban centers, we will need to propose new solutions to adjust to the new urban realities. These are questions that challenge the members of the CLU Foundation. Now it is up to you, lighting entusiasts, to reflect and propose your vision of the role of urban lighting for tomorrow.

REGISTRATION

Registration to the 2013 CLU fondation contest is free. Deadline for contest inscription is : 12th of september 2013, 23h59 (GMT-5) To obtain all rules and regulations to the contest and assure that all your questions are answered please fill out the registration form.

http://www.lumec.com/company/fondation_clu_2013-edition.html

AWARDS

Winners will be selected from all projects received. Prizes will be awarded on merit by a Jury composed of professionals from international renown in such fields as design and urban planning. The prizes will be distributed as follow:

• 1st Prize 2 500$
• 2nd Prize 1 500 $
• 3rd Prize 1 000 $

SCHEDULE

13th of march 2013: Launch of the 2013 Edition
09th of septembre 2013: Deadline for submittal of questions
12th of september 2013, 23h59 (GMT-5): Deadline for contest registration
13th of september 2013, 23h59 (GMT-5): Deadline for project submittal
October 2013: Publication of winners

QUESTIONS

All questions must be submitted before 9th of september 2013 and addressed to:
mailto:lumec.marketing@philips.com

No individual questions will be answered, but a FAQ page at the CLU foundation website will be updated regularly.

The Connected City Design Challenge will build awareness of urban design solutions capable of shaping Dallas forward, develop a more refined and specific strategy for connecting our downtown and river, and assist in securing future public and private investment. By empowering both designers and citizens, The Challenge will work to realize integrated solutions that improve the livability and viability of our city.

In order to secure the most capable design talent and facilitate a variety of solutions, The Connected City Design Challenge will be structured as a competitive process consisting of two idea streams: a professional stream and an open stream. From the Professional Stream, the jury will select three design teams through a competitive request for qualifications process. The selected design teams will be awarded $50,000 to bring their expertise and ideas to the challenge and up to $10,000 covering travel to Dallas. The Open Stream invites professionals, non-professionals, and students to submit design proposals. By a combination of popular vote and jury selection, four finalists will receive $5,000 each and participate in the public exhibit and activities. Public events will include a symposium and lecture series by all three professional teams and panel discussions including the open stream finalists.

connectedcitydesign.com

OPENGAP invites participants to explore the boundaries and paradigms of house designing. To work in innovative and visionary proposals which can both, think in a basic housing program and the relation of identity between the customer and  the project.

Each participant or team will propose the client for designing a house. This will be a person of interest and inspiration for the project.

This competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic. Competitors could subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people.

The proposal submission consists of two digital panels in .jpg format, not bigger than 4MB each.

Awards:

• First Prize, 2000 Euro
• Second Prize, 1000 Euro
• Third Prize, 500 Euro
• Mentions, Mentions will not have an economic prize.

Schedule:

BEGINNING OF THE COMPETITION: May 9, 2013

REGISTRATION 1ST PERIOD: From May 9, 2013, until June 4, 2013

REGISTRATION 2ND PERIOD: From June 5, until July 9, 2013

REGISTRATION 3RD PERIOD: From July 10, until August 16, 2013

REGISTRATION 4RD PERIOD: From August 17, until September 5, 2013

COMPETITION REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 5, 2013

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Until September 12, 2013

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT: During October, 2013

AWARDING OF PRIZES: During October, 2013

More info:
www.opengap.net
competitions@opengap.net

After a very successful first edition of the participatory book ‘What is the future of architecture?’ we are very happy to announce our decision to do it again and present - ‘The future of architecture II’!

The future of architecture is a participatory book project, self-initiated by Crap is Good. The book consists of and depends on participation and collaboration. It is entirely independent from funds, sponsoring or organisational support and therefore relies completely on its concept and your support.

With the same motivation as last year, we are in search of all possible takes on the question ‘What is the future of architecture?’

Going through the answers we’ve gotten last year, we can say there are some recurring assumptions, a red line weaving its way through the book. The book, consisting of 52 very different takes on the same question - ‘What is the future of architecture?’ - takes us from fiction stories to a philosophical email discussion, through series of images and photography, to science-fiction and poetry. While leafing through, often a blurry image would come to mind, an imaginative glimpse of the future.

In this years edition we are very happy to include the answers of Ethel Baraona, Santiago Cirugeda, ETC, and many more to be announced.

Have a look on our website for more information and send in your answer before the 1st of september, 2013.

www.the-future-of.org.

PROJECT:
The program challenges participants to design a NEW Urban Vertical Farm and Botanical Gardens Skyscraper in Seoul City that takes into today's ever-increasing urban growth, consumption in populated cities.

The design should be visually and aesthetically engaging and investigates the possibilities for urban Vertical farming communities and maximise the positive impact of Vertical Farming and be an acceptable addition to the Seoul City Skyline.

It should also respond directly to the issue of space and population density in Seoul city. And also address the social, environmental, cultural and economic issues and concerns of the ever-increasing urban growth.

ELIGIBILITY:

• Architects
• Graduate Architects
• Architecture Students
• Team (Architects, Graduate Architect, Architecture Students, Engineers, Designers )

FEES:
Every entrant shall be required to pay an entry fee as follows:

• Special Registration: $80 US from 29th April 00:00 (GMT) to 09th May 2013 11:59 (GMT)
• Early Registration: $100 US from 10th May 00:00 (GMT) to 13th June 2013 11:59 (GMT)
• Standard Registration: $120 US from 14th June 00:00 (GMT) to 09th August 2013 11:59 (GMT)
• Late Registration: $150 US from 10th August 00:00 (GMT) to 16th August 2013 11:59 (GMT)

SUMBMISSION DEADLINE
16th August 2013 ----------------------------------- Closing Date for Submissions

RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT / PUBLICATION
09th September 2013 ----------------------------------- Official Result Announcement / Publication

PRIZES AND AWARDS
Winning project entry will receive prizes totaling US$ 6,000.00 as follows:

1st Prize

• US$ 3,500 (THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

2nd Prize

• US$ 1,500 (ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

3rd Prize

• US$ 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS)

10 Special Mentions

website: www.superskyscrapers.com

PROJECT:
The program challenges participants to design a NEW Urban Vertical Farm and Botanical Gardens Skyscraper in Seoul City that takes into today's ever-increasing urban growth, consumption in populated cities.

The design should be visually and aesthetically engaging and investigates the possibilities for urban Vertical farming communities and maximise the positive impact of Vertical Farming and be an acceptable addition to the Seoul City Skyline.

It should also respond directly to the issue of space and population density in Seoul city. And also address the social, environmental, cultural and economic issues and concerns of the ever-increasing urban growth.

ELIGIBILITY:

• Architects
• Graduate Architects
• Architecture Students
• Team (Architects, Graduate Architect, Architecture Students, Engineers, Designers )

FEES:
Every entrant shall be required to pay an entry fee as follows:

• Special Registration: $80 US from 29th April 00:00 (GMT) to 09th May 2013 11:59 (GMT)
• Early Registration: $100 US from 10th May 00:00 (GMT) to 13th June 2013 11:59 (GMT)
• Standard Registration: $120 US from 14th June 00:00 (GMT) to 09th August 2013 11:59 (GMT)
• Late Registration: $150 US from 10th August 00:00 (GMT) to 16th August 2013 11:59 (GMT)

SUMBMISSION DEADLINE
16th August 2013 ----------------------------------- Closing Date for Submissions

RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT / PUBLICATION
09th September 2013 ----------------------------------- Official Result Announcement / Publication

PRIZES AND AWARDS
Winning project entry will receive prizes totaling US$ 6,000.00 as follows:

1st Prize

• US$ 3,500 (THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

2nd Prize

• US$ 1,500 (ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

3rd Prize

• US$ 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS)

10 Special Mentions

website: www.superskyscrapers.com

How will we work in 2020?

Rapid and dramatic changes are remaking how we work. The tools we work with have changed and continue to evolve at a break-neck pace. The modern office is adjusting to the “work everywhere” approach. Today systems thinkers who explore all facets of sustainability, accessibility, material innovation, and technology shape the design of everything. The workplace is smack in the middle of this massive rethink.

The Workplace of the Future Design Competition asks the design community to imagine what our work lives will be in 2020. The $7,500.00 prize, plus world-wide publicity for the winning entry will help position the chosen team or individual as  leaders in innovative workplace design; it will also help propel their vision forward.  There will also be a $2,500.00 runner-up prize.

The first annual Workplace of the Future Design Competition is presented by Metropolis Magazine and Business Interiors by Staples.

Register now to enter the competition 

For any questions email workplaceofthefuture@metropolismag.com

The Architect of the Year Awards are back for 2013 and now open for entries!

ENTER NOW to get your practice recognised.

Deadline for entries: Friday 19 July 2013.

The awards will take place on the 3rd December 2013 at The Brewery, London.

What are the Architect of the Year Awards? 

BD’s annual celebration of architecture is unique in recognising a body of work across different sectors, judged by a panel of industry experts.

Returning for its 10th year, the Architect of the Year Awards reward the practices responsible for the best overall body of work in 11 different sectors, as well specialist awards including: Young Architect of the Year, Schueco Gold Award and then IE School ‘Class of’ scholarship. Organised by BD, the AYAs are distinguished from other architectural awards by virtue of honouring overall achievement within a particular sector. This provides a truly meaningful premise on which to compare the work of different architects.

http://www.awards.bdonline.co.uk/

The sun had yet not risen when the sirens began to sound. It was the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906 and the city of San Francisco was shaken awake by an earthquake measuring 8.25 on the Richter scale. More than 30 fires were reported throughout the city as a result of gas leaks caused by the earthquake. San Francisco began to burn, and would continue to do so for four days and four nights.
The water network had also been seriously damaged by the quake, preventing firefighters from controlling the fire by the usual means. Yet this did not prevent them in their attempt to save the city, and they resorted to using all the tools at their disposal. They dynamited entire blocks in hopes of
creating a firewall, fought the flames with hoses where the supply hadn’t been cut and installed water pumps to use water from the bay to control fires closer to the coast.
The American people will not forget the courage of all those men who faced what even today, after 100 years is remembered as the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

ARCHmedium proposes the creation of this fire station for the city of San Francisco that serves not only to centralize and improve the service but also as a gift and token of appreciation from the city to this department.
The new center should not only be a practical space designed to respond to the needs of firefighters, but must become an icon of the city which rose from the ashes and a reminder of the tragedy, a building that not only the people of San Francisco but the entire world associates with the image of the fire department.

PROJECT:
The program for this international ideas competition challenges participants to design a new Contemporary Bridge to carry pedestrians over the River Spree in Berlin. The new footbridge should create a new Icon or landmark in Berlin, considering that there are a number of existing examples of great bridge forms in this area of the city and its proposed position between two well-known bridges - the Schilling Bridge (Schillingbrucke) and the Oberbaum Bridge (Oberbaumbrucke).

ELIGIBILITY:

• Architects
• Architecture Graduates
• Architecture Students
• Team (Architects, Architecture Graduates, Architecture Students )
• Inter-Disciplinary Teams (engineers, designers in-conjunction with an architect).

Submissions can be the work of an individual or a group up to 4 members (architects, architecture graduates or architecture students) aged 18 or over at the time of registration. Registration and participation in the competition implies an immediate acceptance by entrants of all terms & conditions governing the site and competition.

FEES:

Every entrant shall be required to pay an entry fee as follows:

• Special Registration: $80 US from 11th March 00:00 (GMT) to 16th March 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Early Registration: $100 US from 17th March 00:00 (GMT) to 13th April 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Standard Registration: $120 US from 14th April 00:00 (GMT) to 4th July 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Late Registration: $150 US from 05th July 00:00 (GMT) to 10th July 2013 23:59 (GMT)

SUMBMISSION DEADLINE

12th July 2013-----------------------------------Closing Date for Submission

RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT
05th August 2013----------------------------------- Announcement of Winners

PRIZES AND AWARDS
Winning participants and Triumphant Mentions for Stage 1 will receive prizes totaling US$ 15,000.00 with US$5,000 for this competition distributed as follows:

1st Prize

US$ 3,000 (THREE THOUSAND US DOLLARS)

2nd Prize
US$ 1,500 (ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

3rd Prize
US$ 500 (FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

10 Triumphant Mentions

www.archtriumph.com

PROJECT:
The program for this international ideas competition challenges participants to design a new Contemporary Bridge to carry pedestrians over the River Spree in Berlin. The new footbridge should create a new Icon or landmark in Berlin, considering that there are a number of existing examples of great bridge forms in this area of the city and its proposed position between two well-known bridges - the Schilling Bridge (Schillingbrucke) and the Oberbaum Bridge (Oberbaumbrucke).

ELIGIBILITY:

• Architects
• Architecture Graduates
• Architecture Students
• Team (Architects, Architecture Graduates, Architecture Students )
• Inter-Disciplinary Teams (engineers, designers in-conjunction with an architect).

Submissions can be the work of an individual or a group up to 4 members (architects, architecture graduates or architecture students) aged 18 or over at the time of registration. Registration and participation in the competition implies an immediate acceptance by entrants of all terms & conditions governing the site and competition.

FEES:

Every entrant shall be required to pay an entry fee as follows:

• Special Registration: $80 US from 11th March 00:00 (GMT) to 16th March 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Early Registration: $100 US from 17th March 00:00 (GMT) to 13th April 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Standard Registration: $120 US from 14th April 00:00 (GMT) to 4th July 2013 23:59 (GMT)
• Late Registration: $150 US from 05th July 00:00 (GMT) to 10th July 2013 23:59 (GMT)

SUMBMISSION DEADLINE

12th July 2013-----------------------------------Closing Date for Submission

RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT
05th August 2013----------------------------------- Announcement of Winners

PRIZES AND AWARDS
Winning participants and Triumphant Mentions for Stage 1 will receive prizes totaling US$ 15,000.00 with US$5,000 for this competition distributed as follows:

1st Prize

US$ 3,000 (THREE THOUSAND US DOLLARS)

2nd Prize
US$ 1,500 (ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

3rd Prize
US$ 500 (FIVE HUNDRED US DOLLARS)

10 Triumphant Mentions

www.archtriumph.com

Natural systems offer architects and designers signficant potential as alternative, ecologically performative architectonic strategies.  The d3 Natural Systems competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, urbanism, interiors, and designed objects.  Established in 2009, the annual d3 Natural Systems competition is an emerging voice in alternative architecture and one of the most notable awards in speculative, performance-based design. It recognizes exemplary ideas that redefine architecture as an ecological project through the implementation of advanced programs, technologies, materials, and social interventions that engage adaptability, globalization, and emergence.

The 2013 competition calls for innovative proposals that advance sustainable thought and performance through the study of intrinsic environmental geometries, behaviors, and flows.  By identifying, examining, and applying their structural order on form and function- -bottom-up, performance-based solutions for limitless building typologies, functional programs, and material conditions may be realized.

An architecture of emergence suggests that design expression requires purpose beyond formal assumption and aesthetic experimentation itself.  Concurrent with sustainable thought, the d3 Natural Systems competition assumes that architecture does not simply form, but rather perform various functions beyond those conventionally associated with buildings.  Design submissions must be environmentally responsible while advancing inventive conceptual solutions.  Although proposals should be technologically feasible, they may suggest fantastical architectural visions of a sustainable global future.

The d3 Natural Systems competition allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in a scale-appropriate manner--from large-scale master planning endeavors, to individual building concepts, to notions of interior detail.  Accordingly, there are no restrictions on site, scale, program, or building typology, proposals should carefully address their selected context.

www.d3space.org/competitions

Awards totaling $3,000 USD and Special Mentions
1st Prize: $1,250 USD
2nd Prize: $1,000 USD
3rd Prize: $750 USD

Registration: $50 USD

Eligibility: Open to architects, designers, & students

The 2013 Faith & Form / IFRAA International Awards Program for Religious Art and Architecture is now accepting project submissions, including those for student work. The awards program recognizes the best in religious art and architecture, unbuilt work, and student work. All submissions must be made online on the Faith & Form website, at this address:

www.faithandformawards.com

Online project submission reduces the costs to submitters, as no binders or shipping charges are necessary. Awards submissions must be made by June 30, 2013. Judging will take place in July, and winners will be contacted shortly after the jury's deliberations.

To participate in the awards program, please visit www.faithandformawards.com, and register for the program. You will be given a user name to login and begin the project submission process. Submission fees can be paid with a credit card or Paypal. All project materials for submission should be in jpeg or PDF format and ready for uploading before you start the process. Additional information is found on the website.

If you have questions, please contact the Faith & Form editor, Michael J. Crosbie, at: mcrosbie@faithandform.com

http://hypcup2013.uedmagazine.net/Eg_index.php

Topic：Architecture in Transformation
Sub -Topic: The Disappearance of Architectures

Purpose of the Competition：

Architecture must disappear.
Behind the radicalism of this statement lies something crucial for the future of architecture. Architecture as a discipline should no longer think in terms of objects. Walls, facades, structures, are only modalities of architecture, but never its finality. Design comes after. After what? After situations. Architects deal with situations.

Architecture should be conceived as an integral part of the landscape. Glass, concrete or metal would in this case no longer be the elements that build architecture, but the territory, as it exists, as we relate to it.

One of the commitments of an architect is to overwhelm the observable escalation in the production of contemporary architecture by introducing new situations, dialectic situations and experiences, between inside and outside, free and available spaces in-between what is public and what is private.

Sometimes, we make architecture disappear. We make it melt within the territory, blurring the lines between architecture and landscape, between physicality and immateriality, between presence and absence.


Requirements of the Competition：
Participants can draw up the project proposal themselves and there is no limitation on architectural types. Designers of the project should take into account the features of contemporary urban architecture and pay attention to specific space needs of different user groups.
 Participants can choose sites themselves. The site should be challenging and with distinct urban characteristics.
 Total floor area is around 4,000㎡. It may be increased or decreased up to around 10% according to the designer.
 Language and Measurement Unit: English is the official language of the competition. (Note: The title, school name, name of participants, and introduction of major design must be described in English at least); the unit of measurement is metric scale.

International Supporter:
Union of International Architects (UIA）

Hosting Organizations:
School of Architecture, Tianjin University（TJU）,
Urban Environment Design（UED）Magazine Press

Jury Chairman:
Dominique Perrault (France)

Prizes and Awards
1st Prize (1 team): Certificate and 50,000 RMB (around 8,000 USD) (before tax)
2nd Prize (3 teams): Certificate and 20,000 RMB (around 3,200 USD) (before tax)
3rd Prize (8 teams): Certificate and 5,000 RMB (around 800 USD) (before tax)
Honorable Mentions (20 teams): Certificate and 6-month free subscription of UED magazines;
Advisors of prize-winning projects will also be awarded with certificates.

All prize winners will have an opportunity to intern at well-known architectural firms.

INTRODUCTION
Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city of Brazil, the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper. This makes it the 6th largest in the Americas and 26th in the world.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup which is an international association football tournament and the 20th competition is scheduled to take place in Brazil from 12th June to 13th July 2014. This will be the second time Brazil has hosted the competition with the first being in 1950, making Brazil the fifth country to have hosted the World Cup twice after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany.

AIM OF THIS COMPETITION
The aim of this International Competition is to design a free standing World Cup Structure in Lapa square in the heart of Rio de Janeiro during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
The project should create a social space which includes a live big screen TV, an information area, a cafe, etc...

This competition hopes to achieve the following:
_Encourage and reward design excellence at a small scale which integrates function, structure, details and the spirit of the World Cup.
_Research, respond to and highlight the unique aspects of designing an iconic structure that will be used by visitors during the World Cup.
_Encourage the employment of sustainable design in all aspects of the proposal.

COMPETITION STRUCTURE
This is a single stage Competition with the aim of identifing the most appropriate proposal, which best satisfies the general and specific objectives of the contest.

THOSE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE Architects, Architecture Graduated, Engineers and Students. Interdisciplinary teams are also encouraged to enter the Competition. Submissions can be the work of an individual or a group up to 4 members and there is no age limit.

AWARDS
Winning participants will receive prizes totaling US$ 6,000 with the distribution as follows:
1st PRIZE: US$ 3,500
2nd PRIZE: US$ 1,700
3rd PRIZE: US$ 800
There will also be 7 honorable mentions.

This is an open International Competition hosted by [AC-CA]™ to generate progressive contemporary design ideas. There are no plans for the Symbolic Structure to be built.

For more information please visit our website: http://www.ac-ca.org/en/home
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ac1ca

Open International Design Competition for Building Resilient Cities

Recently relocated to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Terreform ONE has announced the 4th annual ONE Prize Competition. Since 2010, the annual competition has attracted thousands of participants from around the world.

This year’s competition is set in the context of severe climate dynamism.  How can cities adapt to the future challenges of extreme weather? The ONE Prize is a call to deploy sophisticated design to alleviate storm impact through various urban interventions such as: protective green spaces, barrier shorelines, alternative housing, waterproofing technology, and public space solutions. We wish to reinvigorate infrastructure and repurpose spaces towards environmental adaptation in order to put design in the service of the community.

The ONE Prize seeks architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, artists, students and individuals of all backgrounds.

• How can urban ecosystems be enhanced to prevent flooding?
• What can restore Rockaway Beach social infrastructure and public space?
• When can the New Orleans community change to accept storms without losing character?
• What can protect Asian Coastal Cities against the unforeseen?
• Where can shorelines be storm surge barriers as well as interactive zones?
• How can storm proofing be seen as an opportunity to rethink the future of our cities?

The ONE Prize Award is an international competition and it is open to everyone from professional to students. The teams can have one or more members. The proposals can be for real or speculative projects, at one or more actual sites. Projects can be located either in the U.S. or abroad, but should be applicable to the U.S. Proposals need not be generated exclusively for this competition, provided that they address the intent of the competition.

To register go to http://www.oneprize.org

Proposals are sought for the inaugural round of Independents’ Group Fellowships, to commence in September 2013. IG Fellows will develop and prototype novel architectural ideas in collaboration with industry partners, to lead a future generation of design-led technologies for the built environment.

The Independents’ Group (IG) is an international research platform for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration that brings together leading academic and industry partners to develop prototypes for the future of the built environment. It aims to enable new models of collaborative practice and address current divisions between academia and practice; between design culture and industry; and among sectors of the building industry.

Led by two of the world’s leading independent architecture schools, the IG will connect advanced manufacturing partners; technical consultants, cultural and media organisations who share a commitment to addressing future challenges in our built environment through project based research.

In 2013, four Fellowships are being offered by The Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, and the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at RMIT University, Melbourne. The Fellowships will provide applicants with academic research guidance, connect them to a network of industry expertise, and provide financial support for project-related costs over a six-month period. Outcomes will be disseminated to the widest possible audience through a range of research prototypes, exhibitions, publications and events.

The Fellowships are open to emerging architects with a maximum of eight years post-graduate professional experience. The IG is seeking candidates who have the potential to define future directions for design practice and have a demonstrated record of independent design research.

Applications are invited on research areas including Mass Customisation, Future Materials, Integrating Design Information, and Digital Fabrication, with a focus on applications in rapid construction in Australia, and transformation of existing buildings in Europe.

For further information and application procedures please visit: www.independentsgroup.net

Join IFI–The International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers to re-imagine the work place of tomorrow. This competition is open to students interested in engaging the needs of people around the world by re-framing, re-inventing and re-designing the future workplace.

The theme for WING 2013 is THINK/WORK. This theme represents our need to imagine different solutions and develop innovative approaches and practices to satisfy our future work environment.

The winning team (of two) will receive a fully paid for travel and accommodations to attend the IDA–International Design Alliance Congress 2013 and IFI General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey. The winning team will be invited to participate in stimulating programs and exciting social events.

Please find further details on the WING 2013 official website.
http://ifiworld.org/wing/

Join IFI–The International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers to re-imagine the work place of tomorrow. This competition is open to students interested in engaging the needs of people around the world by re-framing, re-inventing and re-designing the future workplace.

The theme for WING 2013 is THINK/WORK. This theme represents our need to imagine different solutions and develop innovative approaches and practices to satisfy our future work environment.

The winning team (of two) will receive a fully paid for travel and accommodations to attend the IDA–International Design Alliance Congress 2013 and IFI General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey. The winning team will be invited to participate in stimulating programs and exciting social events.

Please find further details on the WING 2013 official website.
http://ifiworld.org/wing/