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The objective of the “Solar Park South” international competition is to stimulate concrete ideas and revolutionary proposals for the reuse of the soon to be decommissioned highway sections between Scilla and Bagnara. Participants are invited to develop their ideas-projects starting from the basic proposal to:

- Dedicate one carriageway (south-north) to the creation of a space for testing the production of energy using renewable sources, the search for and successive application of new sustainable technologies, and the implementation of measures focused on integrating the Park within the surrounding territory through the upgrading, fruition and valorisation of landscape;

- Reuse the other carriageway (north-south) as an alternative to the National Highway n. 18, which is both obsolete and fragile, in order to ensure better connections between Scilla and Bagnara, and between the latter communities and the surrounding mountainous and rural territory, as strongly requested by local inhabitants, through the reuse of the service roads and technical areas related to the construction of the new highway.

Register by: Jul-15-2010 / Submit by: Jul-30-2010

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Design Against the Elements is a global architectural design competition meant to find a solution to the problems presented by climate change. Spurred by the devastation wreaked in the Philippines by tropical storm Ondoy (Ketsana) and driven by a powerhouse multidisciplinary group of organizations from the private, institutional, and government sectors, the project aims to draw together the most innovative minds in the fields of architecture, design, and urban planning to develop sustainable and disaster-resistant housing for communities in tropical urban settings.

The winning design will be built as a prototype disaster-resistant and livable eco-village in Taguig City, Metro Manila. The village will be the first green and disaster-resistant community in the country. It will provide a model that can be studied and replicated in similar areas. The finished project will house a marginalized community living in an environmental danger zone, giving them a sense of security, ownership, and awareness of sustainability that can be practiced at all levels in their everyday lives.

The project also aims to present a definitive green building solution in a truly local context. Too often, home-owners, architects, and policy-makers think of sustainable building as a luxury that only privileged landowners and advanced countries can afford. Design Against the Elements considers green architecture as essential to survival; it has the ability to reduce the frequency and impact of environmental disasters and lessen the cycle of poverty.

Register by: Sept-24-2010 / Submit by: Nov-19-2010

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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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ARQUITECTUM and the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura want to bring a new element to the city’s debate and enigma: a hundred meter high tower, next to the Coliseum, which would present itself as an “important” element, but not necessarily monumental, which would expose Rome’s complexity by being a “vertical” Rome, which would assemble the facts and the enigmas lived and surviving in the Eternal City. The challenge of this competition is, of course, to discover this “belonging” to Rome, the hidden beauty and exposed all over the city as a mendicant spirit, wandering lost, waiting for the architect willing and able to capture it. Therefore the suggested tower will serve as an element demonstrative of this spirit, projecting it in the present time and the uncertain future of a city which has survived every kind of buildings and can always take in a new one: refreshing, renewing and exposing of the constant rebirth of its vital structure.

Register by: Aug-10-2010 / Submit by: Sept-01-2010

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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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In the second year of AECOM’s Design + Planning online ideas competition, Urban SOS: Transformations calls for responses to sites in one of seven cities that are undergoing transformations. The open student ideas competition for 2010 seeks to engage students in the design, planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, engineering, environmental and related fields, with the urban conditions that are now facing the majority of the world’s population.

This year, we are exploring the topic of ‘Transformations,’ looking at seven cities in particular that are in the midst of a change or collection of changes that represent both challenges and opportunities to the shared futures of each city. Entrants must submit a site redevelopment plan that addresses specific issues in one of the following seven cities:
? Beijing, China
? Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

? Johannesburg, South Africa

? Istanbul, Turkey
? Phoenix, USA
? Port au Prince, Ha?ti

? Sao Paulo, Brazil

Four finalists (individuals or teams) will travel to Barcelona in November to present their submissions to our jury at the World Architecture Festival.

Register by: July-31-2010 / Submit by: July-31-2010

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Faced with the proliferation of beach houses at luxury, closed and exclusive bathing resorts, many clients have opted for quieter places; not necessarily far from the beach, but where they can enjoy greater freedom and more space without all the complex ties formed by the rules that oblige them to adhere to the internal regulations of such condominiums. It is within the context of this return to nature that small lots have begun to proliferate (between 2,500 and 5,000 square meters), in which people have started to establish small accommodation for themselves and their closest relatives, creating a new and socially interesting phenomenon: the country-beach house, which is accommodation that functions during both summer and winter and which does not centralize its activities around a single nucleus, but instead disperses its facilities throughout the area of a comfortable lot, thereby providing a certain degree of independence in the form of zones and sub-zones, creating in this way distinct spaces, which may be differentiated by the type of light, vegetation (or the absence of the same), or simply through differences in colors, texture or materials.

Register by: July-15-2010 / Submit by: July-22-2010

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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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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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