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[Note: This competition is not affiliated in any way with the official London Olympic Games.]

INTRODUCTION
The Olympic Games sees the biggest and most prestigious sporting event in the world being staged for the unprecedented third time in London next year, thus making London the first city in the world to host the modern summer games for a third time. London is the largest urban zone in the European Union with a cosmopolitan population of over 7.7 million residence. The London Games is being eagerly anticipated by millions of sporting fans around the world. The Games, which officially kicks off on the 27th July 2012 will see the arrival of world’s top athletes and their team officials representing various participating nations, international dignitaries, the Games officials and not to mention millions of supporters and fans.

AIM OF THIS COMPETITION
The aim of this International competition is to design a temporary, freestanding information pavilion within the world famous Trafalgar Square in the Heart of London during the 2012 Games. The 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 games. _Research, respond to and highlight the unique aspects of designing an information pavilion that will be used by visitors during the games. _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.

Register by: June-15-2011 / Submit by: June-30-2011

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THE LOFT BOUTIQUE BUILDING: The desired residential tower strives to become a new prototype for one of the key residential areas in Lima, Peru. In other words, this project should be think for a single person (single, divorced, widow or a newly wedding couple) who wish to live in the coolest zone of San Isidro. This is why ARQUIA, (www.miloftboutique.com) wishes not just to adapt national parameters and regulations, but also to subscribe to sterling international quality, renewable energy and green design criteria in an effort to set a precedent in local standards, whilst helping to revitalize the inner market and setting a precedent in residential buildings.

Register by: Dec-31-2010 / Submit by: Jan-15-2011

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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 civilization. Unleash the power of your imagination to envision a city capable of thriving through the centuries.

Only when we have clearly envisioned the future we must create, will we have the courage to light “the Possible’s slow fuse”.

Our Living City Design Competition is grounded in our belief that we already have the technical tools and collective wisdom we need to achieve true sustainability. But before we can bring our cities into balance with the ecosystems they inhabit, we must understand what that balance would look like.

This is where you come in.

Register by: Feb-01-2011 / Submit by: Feb-01-2011

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eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2011 Skyscraper Competition.

The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.

Register by: Jan-11-2011 / Submit by: Jan-18-2011

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National Memorial that will honor all United States Military Personnel who sacrificed their lives in The Gulf War, Operations Enduring Freedom and
Iraqi Freedom, and all peripheral operations on The War on Terror. This includes all that have died as a result of combat or non-combat related injuries, suicides, and/or trauma.

Register by: Sept-30-2010 / Submit by: Sept-30-2010

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The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the Rome Prize competition. One of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities, the Academy offers up to thirty fellowships for periods ranging from six months to two years.

Rome Prize winners reside at the Academy’s eleven-acre center in Rome and receive room and board, a study or studio, and a stipend. Stipends for six-month fellowships are $13,000 and stipends for eleven-month fellowships are $30,000.

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

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On the occasion of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, INBAR and the Federation of Hong Kong Industries are organizing the International Bamboo and Rattan Products Ideas Competition to help drive green practices in cities around the world. The competition theme will respond to the Expo’s theme “Better City, Better Life” by focusing on four categories- clothing, food, shelter and transport. This competition will provide a platform for producers, designers, practitioners, and organizations from around the world to present their innovative approaches to building green cities worldwide with bamboo and rattan.

Register by: Jul-31-2010 / Submit by: Aug-31-2010

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PLAT is accepting submissions (projects, photographs, drawings, prints, media projects, essays) for its forthcoming 1.0 issue.

The qualities of the impostor can be traced through the notions of mirroring, imposing, and masquerading seen throughout the exploits of architecture. Double figuration, misalignments, cases of mistaken identity, and questions of legibility can lead to counterfeit architectures and false promises. But where there is a ‘fake,’ there is always something ‘real’ underneath– two for the price of one. What new potentials are generated by this doubling? In PLAT 1.0, we invite you to re-frame architecture (and other ventures) as an IMPOSTOR.

Register by: June-04-2010 / Submit by: July-30-2010

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Biblical in origin, the sukkah is an ephemeral, elemental shelter, erected for one week each fall, in which it is customary to share meals, entertain, sleep, and rejoice.

Ostensibly the sukkah’s religious function is to commemorate the temporary structures that the Israelites dwelled in during their exodus from Egypt, but it is also about universal ideas of transience and permanence as expressed in architecture. The sukkah is a means of ceremonially practicing homelessness, while at the same time remaining deeply rooted. It calls on us to acknowledge the changing of the seasons, to reconnect with an agricultural past, and to take a moment to dwell on?and dwell in?impermanence.

Register by: July-01-2010 / Submit by: Aug-01-2010

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Nothing would seem as removed from St. Francis as Mike Tyson, at least if we are to base our appraisal on the “news.” Yet, the same very “news” informed us not too long ago that Mike Tyson loves (and always loved) the birds. And when we read what he himself said, that he didn’t hurt anyone until someone hurt one of his birds, we begin to wonder…!?

Indeed, surprising is the human heart and the human life…!

When we first saw Mike Tyson fighting in the ring we thought that there was, pure and simple, God’s wrath and nothing else. His fist was a mad thunderbolt. Nothing, and we mean nothing, would have stopped that thunderbolt.

Everybody fell under it, almost instantaneously.

And the “bad boy” of boxing was like a tiger.

Incredible ferocity, almost divine (if we are allowed to say something so oxymoronic, from a Christian point of view).

It is the same “ferocious” man who now, we learn in amazement, loves and feeds the birds.

What a beautiful conjunctio oppositorum!

What a beautiful proof that many times what seems to be “satanic” might not be so removed from what we call “angelic,” and perhaps vice versa. As a character in one of Akira Kurosawa’s movies says: people are not what they seem to be.

So we ask you to design a house for a “ferocious” fighter who loves the birds.

Something between an angry Hercules and a placid, supremely mild, St. Francis.

Address these two sides of human being, TOGETHER.

And send us your works.

Too bad our “beneficiary” might not be so rich any longer… we looked at him recently receiving some prize for playing in a movie, and we saw, unless we were wrong, a timid man, kind of hiding behind the other actors… we loved that timidity though, being his…!

Yes, a timid man who loves to feed the birds, but otherwise, in the ring, a wild, wild tiger.

We will invite Mike Tyson to judge this competition.

Register by: June-30-2010 / Submit by: July-10-2010

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