July 3rd Announcements

Note: As is our policy, we have not listed a number of ongoing ideas competitions based on several criteria: the participants may be asked to actually create their own program, the disproportionate ratio of entry fee to prize money, and cases where organizers running idea competitions on a frequent basis are doing so without real clients.

Design Competition for an Artist Residence Community

Sponsor: ArchPolis

Type: Open, international

Language: Russian, English

Fee: None

Eligibility: Architects

Timetable:

28 May - July 9, 2012 - Application Period

9 July - 16 July, 2012 - Selection of 15 participants

17 July - 29 September, 2012 - Development of conceptual and schematic designs

29 September - 10 October, 2012 - Jury selevtion of winners

Awards:

15 Participants: RUB 100,000 each (Approx. $3,075 US)

1st Prize - RUB 500,000 (Approx. $15,370 US)

2nd Prize - RUB 400,000 (Approx. $12,300 US)

3rd Prize - RUB 300,000 (Approx. $9,200 US)

Jury: TBA

Design Challenge:

The creation of a natural and cultural environment for living and the arts in Nikola-Lenivets, Russia.

Project objectives:

1. The conceptual design for a community of artist residence.

2. The creation of a functional zoning concept of the art community.

3. The creation of a conceptual plan in accordance with the functional zoning of the art community

4. Schematic design of the proposed project.

For more information, go to: http://nikola-lenivets.com/konkurs/

Rethink Athens European Architectural Competition

Sponsor: Onassis Foundation

Type: Open, Two stage, European

Fee: None

Eligibility: Liscensed Architects from EU countries

Timetable:

7 September, 2012 - First Stage submission deadline

Awards:

First Stage:

Participants selected for 2nd stage of competition - € 25,000 honorarium each

"Utopian" Proposal Award - € 10,000

Up to 5 additional proposals (at discretion of Jury) - € 5,000 each

Second Stage:

Cash prizes totaling € 160,000

1st prize - 45%

2nd prize - 33%

3rd prize - 22%

Jury:

First stage:

CHAIRMAN OF THE 1ST STAGE JURY: Anthony Vidler -Dean & Professor, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union School of Architecture, New York City, USA

Eran Ben-Joseph - Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Head, Joint Program in City Design and Development MIT, USA

Alfredo Brillemburg - Architect, Guest Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture & Planning at Columbia University, Co-founder of the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory at Columbia University, USA

Yannis Evmolpidis - Urban Planner, Special advisor of the Mayor of Athens in urban planning and regeneration

Konstantinos Moraitis - Architect, Assoc. Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Marianna Moschou - Secretary of the Board, Onassis Foundation

Richard Plunz - Director, Urban Design Program, Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia University, USA

Charles Waldheim - John E. Irving Professor and Chair Department of Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Vana Xenou - Professor, Department of Architecture, Painting Workshop, NTUA, Greece

Design Challenge:

Purpose of the Competition is the selection of the Architect (Person or legal entity), that will undertake the design of the architectural public space for the creation of a New City Center in Athens along the axis of Panepistimiou Street. The objectives for the city center re-constitution, extending from Amalias Ave to Patission Ave, are the transformation of  the city center into a destination for the public  instead of a traffic area for motor vehicles, the functional, aesthetic and environmental upgrade of  the city center, the re-enhancement  of commercial, administrative and financial activities in the city,the repopulation of  the city center, the highlighting of the historical and cultural identity  of the capital, the improvement of quality of life for all citizens.

For more information, go to: http://www.rethinkathenscompetition.org

Warming Huts v.2013

Sponsor: Forks Foundation

Type: Open, international

Language: English

Fee: None

Eligibility: This call for entries is open to all professional designers (or teams of designers) who have a proven portfolio of design work. Each design team must include an artist and a member of a recognized architectural association. Membership includes registered architects and intern members. The organizers encourage the formation of multi-disciplinary teams.

Timetable:

3 September, 2012 - Submission Deadline
22 September, 2012 - Jury of Competition
October 2012 - Announcement of Winners

Honoraria and Budget:

The budget for the creation and construction of each hut is $16, 500 (CAN). This budget is divided in the
following fashion:
• up to $3,500.00 for the designers' honorarium.
• up to $7,500.00 (including taxes) for the purchase of materials and/or the employment of consultants
necessary for the realization of the project. This budget is managed jointly by The Forks and the designer.
• up to $4,000.00 for labour costs for the construction of the hut.
• up to $1,500.00 for Construction Management conducted by The Forks
Up to $1,000.00 is available for accommodation expenses and up to $ 2, 500.00 is available for airfare. All travel
expenses are only applicable to foreign teams.

Jury:

To be announced

Design Challenge:

Warming Huts v. 2013 is launching a Call for Proposals to select design teams to create three (3) new, unique shelters for the Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail (ACURT), on the Assiniboine River, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The shelters will be installed along the world’s longest skating trail (www.rivertrail.ca) between the end of January, and the beginning of March, 2013.

This competition is about testing the ability of architecture and art to establish meaning for users of the skating trail as they enjoy leisure time on the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. Within the context of a cold climate, the huts should embody the potential of creativity in responding to the pragmatics of shelter in this context. The designs must allow for the hut to be delivered to the site on pre-fabricated skids. A SketchUp model of the skid is available for download on the competition website.

For more information, go to: www.warminghuts.com

Shortlist Announced for the Redevelopment of the Quadrangle at the Strand Campus, King's College London

RIBA has announxed that six teams have now been selected to take part in the design stage of the competition for King’s College London to redevelop the Quadrangle at the historic Strand Campus in London WC2.

The shortlisted teams (in alphabetical order) are:

Barozzi Veiga Studio, Barcelona

Carme Pinos Studio, Barcelona

Eric Parry Architects

Hall McKnight, Belfast

Henley Halebrown Rorrison

Zaha Hadid Architects

The teams will be given until mid August to work on their design submissions with final interviews held at the beginning of September.