Late September 2018 Competition Call

The Grand Bayway by Common Ground
 (image © TLS Landscape Architecture)

The Berkeley Prize 2019: Architecture & Climate Resilience

Sponsor: UC Berkeley
Type: Open, international, essay, multi-stage
Fee: none
Language: English
Awards: Fellowship

1 November 2018 – (Stage One) 500-word essay proposal due
1 February 2019 – (Stage Two) Essay Semifinalists’ 2,500-word essays due

Process:

The Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Design Excellence endowment was established in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design to promote the investigation of architecture as a social art. Each year the PRIZE Committee selects a topic important to the understanding of the interaction of people and the built world that becomes the focus of the Essay Competition. 

The Committee poses a Question on this website related to the topic. Students enrolled in any accredited undergraduate architecture program or diploma in architecture program throughout the world are invited to submit a 500-word essay proposal in English responding to the Question (see eligibility requirements).  Undergraduate architecture students may team up with undergraduates from allied arts and social sciences programs.

From the pool of essay proposals received, approximately 25 are selected by the PRIZE Committee as particularly promising. The selected individual students, or student teams, become Semifinalists.

These Semifinalists are invited to submit a 2,500-word essay, again in English, expanding on their proposals. A group of readers, composed of Committee members and invited colleagues, selects five-to-eight of the best essays and sends these Finalist essays to a jury of international academics and architects to select the winners.

At the conclusion of the Essay Competition submittals, all Semifinalists are also invited to submit for a BERKELEY PRIZE Travel Fellowship. Details for the Fellowship will be announced in the Spring 2019. Past Travel Fellowship Competition requirements, winning submissions, and follow-up reports by the winners are available to read here on the website.

Essay Question: Architecture & Climate ResilienceWhat have architects done in the past and what can they do in the future to help reduce the negative effects of climate and climate change?

For more information, go to: http://berkeleyprize.org/competition/essay/2019

New Music Theatre in Poznan

Sponsors: City of Poznan, Poland

Type: International, open, two-stage

Fee: none

Language: Polish
Eligibility: Architects (Teams to be composed of an architect, acoustician and stage technologist

Process: The competition consists of two stages.

The participants shall submit the application for participation in the competition along with their portfolio. In the first stage they submit their own description of the vision. Then, 6 teams will be invited to the second stage and to submit their competition work with a model.

Timetable:
18 October 2018 – Registration deadline

Jury
• Joanna Bielawska-Pałczyńska, Urban Conservator
• Wojciech Grabianowski, Architect
• Przemysław Kieliszewski, Director of the Music Theatre
• Mariusz Napierała, Set Designer
• Janusz Lichocki, Managing Principal Epstein
• Piotr Sobczak, Architect of the City of Poznań
• Stefan Sholz, Architect

Prizes:
1^st Place – 80,000 zloty (approx. $14,500)
2^nd Place 50,000 zloty
3^rd Place 30,000 zloty

Design Challenge:

The participant who wins the 1st prize will also be invited to negotiate the public contract for the development of the design and the cost-estimate documentation of the construction of the new seat of the Music Theatre.

For more information and rules, go to:  www.poznan.pl/konkurs_tm and http://bip.poznan.pl/http://bip.poznan.pl/

Plastics World Competition

Competition Details:
‘Plastic Worlds’ is open to all creatives – both professionals and/or students. Participants can compete individually or in a team of up to four people. Each team is asked to register and submit their proposals online by the 11th of January 2019, in the form of two digital A1 landscape sheets accompanied by an additional 500 words explanatory text. Models and videos are highly encouraged but are not mandatory.

The competition, which officially opens for registration on Tuesday the 11th of September 2018, is scheduled to run until the 11th of January 2019 at 11:00am (UK Time). Awarded entries will be officially announced online on the 11th of March 2019. Winners will be selected by an esteemed jury panel of experts, creatives, architects, designers and academics. The public will also have an opportunity to vote for their favourite designs online. The people’s favourite will go on to win the People’s Choice Award.

Plastic Worlds is Eleven’s twelfth international competition to date. Since their start in mid-2015, the challenges launched by this UK based magazine and creative agency have received great global success. Previous competitions have been exhibited in Europe and the USA, published in multiple international magazines such as the Architecture Review, the AJ, Dezeen, Archdaily and Designboom, and have been featured in Bustler’s ‘Top-10 Best Competitions of the Year Awards’ in 2015, 2016 and twice in 2017. 

For more information on Eleven’s Plastic Worlds challenge and to register, please visit: https://www.eleven-magazine.com/competitions/

Competition Schedule:
Competition Opens: 11th September 2018
Early Bird Fees change to Standard Fees: 9th October
Standard Fees change to Late Bloomer Fees: 28th December
Registration Closes / Submission Deadline: 11th January 2019 11:00am (UK Time)
Public Voting Opens Online: 16th January
Public Voting Closes Online: 10th March
Winners and Awarded Announced: 11th March
Competition Fees:
Early Bird: £60
Standard: £90
Late Bloomer: £120

Competition Awards:
– Winner: £2000
– Runner-Up: £400
– Minimum 6 Honourable Mentions: no cash (boo) but lots of glory (yay)!
– People’s Choice Award (selected by general public voting): £100 

*All of the awarded entries listed above will be published on Eleven’s ‘Elevenses’ feed, social media and Apple News channel. In addition, awarded entries will receive fantastic worldwide attention through Eleven’s media partners.

Confirmed Competition Jury (so far):
– Carl Precht (Director, Penda)
– Michael Pawlyn (Founder and Director, Exploration Architecture)
– Shannon Royden-Turner (Founder and Director, Actuality)
– Safia Qureshi (Founder and CEO, CupClub)
– Luca Maccarinelli (Associate, Spark* Architects)
– Richard MacCowan (Founder and Director, Biomimicry UK)
– Andrea Verenini (Editor in Chief, Eleven)
– Eloise Carr (Editor, Eleven)

Competition Organizers:
This competition is organised by Eleven, an architecture and creative-lifestyle magazine, design agency and online platform dedicated to creative innovation, architecture and design. Eleven is one of the leading competition generators, creating award-winning international challenges and publishing articles on the industry’s coolest people, places, ideas and designs.

September 6, 2018

•  The Activation of the Kazan City Urban Functions on the Volga River Bend
  21 September 2018 – Submission deadline
  
  
• UIA – HYP Cup 2018 International Student Competition in Architectural Design
  20 September 2018 – Submission Deadline
  
  
• Network Rail Footbridge Design Competition
  13 September 2018 – Application Deadline
  
  
• Home-For-All Student Design Competition
  7 September 2018 – Submissions Deadline
  
  
• Planning for Munich District “Freiham Nord”
  7 September 2018 – Submission of Qualification
  
  
• LA+ Iconoclast Competition - Sponsor: LA+ Journal; Penn Design
  
  
  

  Type: Open, International, Ideas
  Location: New York City
  Language: English
  Eligibility: Open to students and professionals of any discipline. Entries may be made by individuals and teams of up to three (3) people.
  Fee: USD $60
  Awards:
  US $20,000 total prize money
  • 5 winners to receive US$4,000, a certificate, and publication in LA+ Journal’s LA+ ICONOCLAST issue
  • 10 honorable mentions to receive a certificate and publication in LA+ Journal’s LA+ ICONOCLAST issue
  Timeline:
  10 October 2018 – Submission Deadline
  27 November 2018 – Winners announced
  Jury:
  • Richard Weller – Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Jenny B. Osuldsen – Partner and director of Snøhetta
  • Charles Waldheim  – John E. Irving Professor and Director, Office for Urbanization at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
  • Lola Sheppard – Founding partner of Lateral Office and Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Geoff Manaugh – Freelance writer, author of the New York Times-bestselling book A Burglar’s Guide to the City (2016), and former director of Studio-X NYC
  • Beatrice Galilee – Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
  
  Design Challenge:

  LA+ ICONOCLAST asks you to redesign New York’s Central Park, which has been fictionally devastated by eco-terrorists.
  
  Central Park is arguably the canonical work of modern landscape architecture. Its aesthetic and socio-political ideals of health, beauty and democracy underpin the profession of landscape architecture, which Olmsted first named, to this day. Writing of the park in 1973, the artist Robert Smithson claimed that Olmsted “combined both art and reclamation in Central Park in a way that is truly in advance of his times.” But what would Olmsted do today? What will you do?
  
  This competition asks that you redesign Central Park, starting, as Olmsted and Calvert Vaux did, from scratch. In doing so this competition seeks to explore the following questions: 1) If in parks, no matter how faux or superficial, we manifest a collective aesthetic expression of our relationship with the “natural” world, then what, on the occasion of nature’s disappearance, is the aesthetic of that relationship today? 2) What is the role of a large urban park today? 3) How might issues of aesthetics on the one hand and performance on the other coalesce into what Olmsted described as “a single work of art”? 4) Given the extraordinary history of the Central Park site, the competition asks how the new interprets the old, and how together, the new and the old anticipate the future.
  
  In short, the brief is to create the concept for a new, 21st century Central Park. The brief asks for a plan, a short explanatory text, and discretionary supporting imagery. The competition favors conceptual rigor and imagination, and places a premium on engagement with the questions outlined above. Basic issues of feasibility, materiality, circulation, and programming will also be taken into consideration by the jury.
  
  
  
  eVolo 2019 Skyscraper Competition
  eVolo Magazine invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the 2019 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture.
  
  SCHEDULE
  Nov 20, 2018: Early registration deadline
  Jan 29, 2019: Late registration deadline
  Feb 12, 2019: Project submission deadline (23:59 hours US Eastern Time)
  Apr 9, 2019: Winners’ announcement
  
  JURY
  Melike Altınısık
  Vincent Callebaut
  Marc Fornes
  Mitchell Joachim
  
  AWARDS
  1st place: US $5000
  2nd place: US $2000
  3rd place: US $1000
  For more information: http://www.evolo.us/registration-2019-skyscraper-competition/
  
  CGTrader’s Digital Art competition 2018
  CGTrader, one of the leading 3D model marketplaces in the world, has just launched the Digital Art Competition, which is open to all CG artists (both 2D and 3D): https://www.cgtrader.com/digital-art-competition ! You can submit up to three works of art to each of the six categories: Character Illustration, Character Concept Design, Environment Illustration, Environment Concept Design, Object Design, and Object Concept Design. All artworks will also have the chance to win the Public Award. The CGTrader Digital Art Competition offers artists exposure in our 1.2M+ user community and the opportunity to win prizes worth a total of $60,000. There are no hard requirements, and artworks do not have to be created exclusively for the competition, so feel free to show everyone your best and favorite works. For more details, visit the competition page and be sure to check out the Categories & Prizes section!
  
  
  
  2018-2019 HERE+NOW | A House for the 21st Century
    
  The American Institute of Architects (AIA), Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) knowledge community is pleased to announce the
  
  
  

  HERE+NOW: A House for the 21^st Century
  International Student Design Competition 

  
  for the 2018-2019 academic year. Administered by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and sponsored by AIA CRAN, this program is intended to provide architecture students, working individually or in teams, with a platform to explore residential architecture and residential architectural practice.
  
  
  OPPORTUNITY
  According to the US Census, over 920,000 units of single family housing were completed in 2014. Many of these houses were built speculatively, as a generic prototype independent of context. Historically, Residential Architecture has represented a direct expression of culture and context, with local, vernacular elements informing the stylistic preference of the time. While the exterior of a house presents a more individualized image of its owner(s), the underlying design elements speak to broader cultural ideas of domesticity and family. Technological innovation, both in materials and systems, continues to advance the level of energy efficiency and resiliency in homes designed and built today. 
  
  This competition challenges students to envision a house for HERE+NOW: informed by context, culture, and vernacular, but fully embracing 21st century technology and ideas of domesticity.
  
  
  SCHEDULE
  

  Summer 2018     Competition Launch
  April 3, 2019        Registration DEADLINE
  May 22, 2019      Submittal DEADLINE
  Summer 2019     Winners Announced

  
  
  The 2018-2019 COTE Top Ten for Students Competition: Innovation 2030 recognizes design proposals that best combine design excellence and environmental performance.
     
     
  INTRODUCTION
  Architects play a crucial role in addressing both the causes and effects of climate change through the design of the built environment. Innovative design thinking is key to producing architecture that meets human needs for both function and delight, adapts to climate change projections, continues to support the health and well-being of inhabitants despite natural and human-caused disasters, and minimizes contributions to further climate change through greenhouse gas emissions. Preparing today’s architecture students to envision and create a climate adaptive, resilient, and carbon-neutral future must be an essential component and driving force for design discourse.
  
  Given their long lifespan, new buildings must be designed to address solutions to climate change and to respond to its projected impacts, well into the second half of the 21st Century and beyond. As with the COTE Top Ten award for built work by design professionals, COTE Top Ten for Students allows designs to be characterized in terms of 10 measures ranging from Community to Water to Wellness.
  
  ABOUT THE COMPETITION
  The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE), in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), is pleased to announce the fifth annual AIA COTE Top Ten for Student Competition: INNOVATION 2030. The program challenges students, working individually or in teams, to submit projects that use a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology to provide architectural solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The competition will recognize ten exceptional studio projects that seamlessly integrate adaptive, resilient, and strategies for moving towards carbon-neutral operation within their broader design concepts.

Competitions Announcements from August 27
  San Francisco Transbay Terminal Competition


LA+ Iconoclast Call - $20K Prize
LA+ Journal invites submissions from landscape architects, architects, planners, artists, and designers for the LA+ ICONOCLAST design ideas competition. The competition challenges creative thinkers to reimagine Central Park in the wake of a hypothetical eco-terrorist attack carried out to protest the loss of the world’s forests.  For more details, see http://laplusjournal.com or contact LA+ Editor in Chief, Tatum Hands, at laplus@design.upenn.edu. The competition jury chair, Professor Richard Weller, is available for comment or interview, upon request. Images are available.
   
• International Landscape Competition for the Columnar Jointing area, Jeju Island

• Architecture at Zero

• Customer Innovation Center- Johnson Matthey
• Planning for Munich District “Freiham Nord”
 
• Fentress Global Challenge 2018/2019: Airport of the Future
 
• International Competition in Architecture 2018 – Jacques Rougerie Foundation
 
• Oriental Bay Pavilion Competition
 
• Ideas for a New City District, Rosenstein/Stuttgart
 
Call for Entries: New Hungarian Museum of Transport 

 WASTE: Lagos Landfill Stadium International Open Ideas Competition Call for Submissions
March out loud asks participants to design a new multi-purpose stadium at the former Olusosun Landfill. How could this massive structure, known to be wasteful in its resources, limited lifespan, and inconsistent usage, confront critical issues of waste in Lagos while sited on a former landfill? Designers are encouraged to consider how the stadium might act as a porous entity, serving as both a world-class sporting facility and local commodity.