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On the occasion of J. S. Bach’s 325th birthday (31st of March 2010) we are pleased to announce the following international architectural competition: A HOUSE FOR J. S. BACH.

We are sure no architecture school in the world would ask its students to have their projects inscribed, at the beginning, with the initials “J.J.” and at the end, with the initials “S.D.G.”

Nor is there any contract document, today, that starts and ends similarly.

Yet, perhaps they should.

Register by: June-28-2010 / Submit by: July-28-2010

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“Art in Architecture” intends to generate ideas about the relationship and interaction between the two. The thematic goal is to seek images about architecture as a repository for art, revealing how art is expressed in architecture, and how art and architecture affect and are affected by each other. In focusing on the capacity of art and architecture to be transcendent, this exhibition will add special voice to the current debate between the ‘container’ and the ‘contents’ that has been taking place across the globe. This is an open competition; individuals and groups are eligible.

Register by: May-03-2010 / Submit by: June-01-2010

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MISSION STATEMENT
We are a student-run organization seeking to provide a scholarly and provocative forum for emerging issues at the forefront of theory and practice in landscape architecture and related disciplines.

GOALS & OBJECTIVES
1. Feature student research & innovation impacting landscape architectural theory and practice,

2. Foster creative interaction across related disciplines,

3. Increase awareness of emerging landscape architectural theory and practice within academic and professional communities.

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

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The Territorial Agency for Residential Housing (ATER) for the Commune of Rome hereby invites tenders for the international planning competition “PASS – Project for social and sustainable housing” for requalification of the social housing complexes comprised within Area Plan No. 15-bis Tiburtino III, lots situated between via Grotta di Gregna and via Mozart in Rome.

The primary aim of the invitation to tender is to promote quality in transformation of the buildings and urban requalification by providing:
a) 120 new homes, that is to say 40 new homes (approximately 3000 m2) through recovery of the ground floor levels and 80 new homes (approximately 4200 m2) through recovery of the attic service areas;
b) new services in the area, for a total of approximately 1200 m2;
c) requalification of public spaces;
d) integrated operations to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings (comprising approximately 450 homes).

Register by: 06-09-2010 / Submit by: 06-09-2010

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After having been one of the first places in the world to be hit by a catastrophic event as a result of global warming, Indonesia has managed to recover from such devastation and chaos. In the wake of the images which were broadcast around the world just a few years ago, we have been witnesses to how tsunamis, contrary to what we might have believed, have become more frequent –as in the recent case of the earthquake in Chile- and this fact has led us to the conclusion that more than ever planning is needed for a prevention and research center. That is why, for this competition, ARQUITECTUM, together with the PELITA HARAPAN UNIVERSITY, has proposed a proper Marine Research Center which would fulfill this need. But the idea is not simply to locate it at an ad-hoc site, but instead to select a paradisiacal and beautiful place, thereby eradicating that paradigm under which research centers must always be located far from civilization or located at isolated spots, be it far from cities or the many wonderful scenic places which the world has to offer.

On the contrary, with this project we propose to encourage the participants to demonstrate how, through architecture, a symbiosis can be achieved between science and art, between landscape and technology. ARQUITECTUM therefore aims to call upon large technology companies, developers or oil companies to incorporate within their vision the principles of architecture, for until now they have not discovered, for example, that it is possible for an oil platform to be an object which is able to commune with nature, or for an aircraft carrier to possess an architectural aesthetic, or at least to understand that it ought to possess one.

Register by: June-15-2010 / Submit by: July-01-2010

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The Chicago Architectural Club is pleased to announce the 2010 Chicago Prize Competition: MINE THE GAP, a single-stage international design ideas competition dedicated to examining one of the most visible scars left after the collapse of the real estate market in Chicago: the massive hole along the Lake Michigan shore that was to have been?and may yet be?the foundation for a singular 150-story condominium tower designed by an internationally-renowned Spanish architect, a tower which was to have become a new icon for the city and region. What to do with the gap? Whether or not the project is resuscitated, what else can we do with this strategic and highly-charged site? Once the motor of real-estate speculation has stalled, what can we use to propel ourselves, and the discipline, forward?

Register by: May-03-2010 / Submit by: May-03-2010

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The 2010 ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition is an exciting opportunity for architects, city planners, urban designers, engineers, and landscape architects, including students, graduate students and interns of these disciplines around the world to contribute ideas about creating more resilient cities.

The purpose of the ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition is to stimulate thinking and discourse about how to increase the resilience of our cities as we move into a century where our cities will be subjected to the combined environmental and economic impacts of Peak Oil and Climate Change.

Register by: May-14-2010 / Submit by: May-28-2010

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In celebration of the launch of Foreign Architects Switzerland, a new publication, we are hosting an ideas competition for an Islamic Center in Zuerich. Triggered by the recent ban on the construction of minarets in Switzerland, we search for entrees where Muslims can gather and practice their religion in an open, western context.

Located on a prominent site above the Limmat River, the presence of such a Mosque is impossible to camouflage. How can architecture, as a manifestation of social relationships, expedite conflicts in a city? Is Zuerich an undisturbed town, or a war-zone, a platform for ideas to be fought for? How can elements of a foreign culture be augmented, rather than diminished, through contextualism?

Register by: March-01-2010 / Submit by: March-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.

Register by: June-04-2010 / Submit by: June-04-2010 Read the rest of this entry »

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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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