Tanggam v4

Finally, the major upgrade is over. I present to you the new and improved Tanggam!

The frontpage have been revamped. News and happenings will be updated regularly, and we will also RSS news from other architecture-related sites so that the community can keep themselves current. The blog format is much easier as most of us are more familiar with it. It is easier to maintain, and I’ve eliminated all the unnecessary elements and tools that weren’t used in the last version. Streamlining is the keyword.

There is still some tweaking to do on the template, but it is all superficial. Some colours are off and don’t seem to belong here. It looked totally different when I was working on it offline. No matter, easily fixed. You will also notice that the shoutbox is gone. I plan to reintroduce the shoutbox soon, so in the mean time, use the comments section under the article to raise issues.

So if update your bookmarks. We’re here to stay!

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SEAMLab’s inaugural Scholarship Competition encourages students to thoughtfully consider contemporary challenges and opportunities that exist in material design, architecture, engineering, science, and the built and natural environments. This Scholarship Competition invites students of architecture, art, design, engineering, planning and science to submit research, speculations, or design projects that operate as FOG ANALOGIES. These submissions should utilize select characteristics of fog to propose a responsive material, structure, or environment pertaining to one of the following three categories:

MATERIAL _dematerialized matter
STRUCTURE _dematerialized space
ENVIRONMENT _dematerialized landscape

Entries will be juried by a multidisciplinary panel of professionals. Competition winners will be awarded monetary scholarships for graduate study at a United States college or university.

Register by: Apr-15-2010 / Submit by: Apr-15-2010

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“Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed.”
– President Rene Preval of Haiti

In the wake of the Port-au-Prince earthquake, Haitians have sustained an immense loss of life, with numbers still climbing, and the collapse of physical structures signifying the collapse of the governmental, social, economic, and infrastructural institutions those structures housed and represented. Many of those institutions and infrastructures were weak before the quake, as Haiti is among the world’s poorest nations, reliant on international aid and subject to severe economic disparity.

Register by: Feb-15-2010 / Submit by: Feb-15-2010

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** PLEASE NOTE: OFFICIAL COMPETITION SCHEDULE NOT RELEASED YET, WE WILL UPDATE IT HERE WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE **

The Marine Culture and Pop Music Center is an integral part of the major public investment and construction plan by the Kaohsiung City Government. A major investment toward the overall development of Kaohsiung and even the whole of Southern Taiwan, it is one of the “i-Taiwan 12 Infrastructure Projects” as well as the “International Art and Pop Music Center” under Executive Yuan’s “New Ten Construction Projects”, which has a budget of NT$500 billion over five years. Through the building of an international art and cultural performance venue and a marine culture center, the aim is to establish Kaohsiung as a fulcrum for Asia-Pacific pop music production and performance and an international exchange platform for marine culture.

Register by: Apr-15-2010 / Submit by: Apr-15-2010

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The CAE Design Awards is an Internet-based marketplace of ideas. Through this forum the committee will disseminate quality ideas on educational facility planning and design to clients, architects, and the public. As we rethink and reshape what we do as architects, we must evaluate and measure our successes, and have an arena in which to test ideas. This awards program is an opportunity to engage in critical evaluation and experimentation, not as an end in itself, but always in the context of our clients and their needs.

Register by: Mar-01-2010 / Submit by: Mar-01-2010

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The call is to design a pragmatic art installation for one of three pre-selected sites that fulfills the following criteria:

- Is a three dimensional form that has the ability to stimulate and challenge the mind of the viewer on a contemplative level.

- Embodies a sense of beauty and concept in its built form that is derived from the artistic sensitivities of the design team and from an acute attention to details.

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Over the past decade architecture has witnessed a revolution in design and fabrication tools available to the discipline that has changed the way we imagine space forever. Digital design methods for form finding and implementing have produced an influential body of work, preoccupied with the development of novel, complex and heterogeneous spatial form.

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Floods are natural phenomena. Their impact can come to devastate villages built in their path.

The Usumacinta Observatory will be used to study the rises in the river, define infrastructural projects to contain floods and, at the same time, provide refuge for the affected population.

The ARK should be a project that raises awareness about a reality that is as hazardous as is it inevitable. It is not foreseen that the water be retained by either dams or reservoirs.

Register by: Feb-15-2010 / Submit by: Feb-19-2010

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This Competition concerns the development of the architectural conceptual design of the building to house the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, intended to become a new identity landmark of the City of Gdansk, and the conceptual site landscape design commensurate with the nature, status, and location of the site.

Register by: Mar-26-2010 / Submit by: Aug-13-2010

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We could call this house The House of Subtext. Strangely, this is supposed to be a house for a man whose pseudonym at one time, in translation, meant: Man without a Spleen.

But was he really a “man without a spleen…?”

Register by: Jul-15-2010 / Submit by: Jul-15-2010
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