Next Generation Container Port Challenge
Sponsors: Port Authority of Singapore
and the Singapore Maritime Institute
Type: Open, Ideas, International
Language: English
Fee: None
Eligibility: architects, engineers
(Eligibility will not be limited to those in the maritime sector to encourage
cross-sharing and adoption of ideas from other domains.)
Awards:
The winners of the competition will
receive a US$1 million cash prize. Commendation prizes may also be awarded to
deserving teams. Up to S$5 million in R&D grants will be considered for
award to selected teams to pursue further research on their proposals.
Jury: The competition will be judged
by an international panel comprising representatives from the Singapore
government and the maritime industry and academic institutions.
Timetable:
31 July 2012 - Registration deadline
31 Dec 2012 – Submission deadline
Design Challenge:
NGCP Challenge seeks to identify ideas
that will achieve a quantum leap in port performance, productivity and
sustainability for a new generation of container port that is set 10 years in
the future. Participants will be required to consider several operating
specifications, such as a handling capacity of at least 20 million Twenty-foot
equivalent units, 24/7 operations and a 90 per cent berth on arrival for ships.
Their design should also be operational within the given land profile and also
be environmentally sustainable
For more information, go to:
Lightitude: Lighting Urban Areas Above the Polar
Circle
Sponsor: Fondation Concept Lumière
Urbaine (CLU)
Type: Open, internationl, one-stage
Language: English
Fee: None
Eligibility: Students, graduates in
the profession of architecture
Awards:
1st Prize - $2,500 or a 12
weeks training course with the industrial design and engineering teams of
Philips Lumec.
2nd Prize - $1,500
3rd Prize - $1,000
Timetable:
31 Aug 2012 – End Q & A period
2 Sept 2012 – Deadline for
registration
3 Sept 2012 – Deadline for project
submittal
Design Challenge:
"LIGHTITUDE" is the theme of
the 2012 CLU foundation contest. This year’s theme invites participants to
reflect on lighting the communities near the Polar Circle. Due to their high
latitude these communities are subjected to particular lighting phenomena.
Since light is an essential part of every living organism, it or its lack
thereof has a profound effect on humankind. Can these isolated communities
benefit from a more adapted artificial outdoor lighting solution to satisfy
their particular Nordic needs and identities?
For more information, go to:
King's College London
Architectural Competition
Sponsor: King’s College London
Type, Open, EOI, international,
anonymous in first stage
Language: English
Location London WC2
Eligibility: Licensed architects,
Landscape architect (teams)
Fee: £50 + VAT for documents
Budget: £20M
Process:
Based on the applications, five teams
will be selected for move on to a competition phase.
Design Challenge:
Renovation of underground areas of
Quad building with connections to other adjoining campus buildings;
relandscaping the current car park into a learning area; creating a new
entrance and reception area from the Strand; refurbishment of the 320 seat
lecture theater with improved access; and other accessibility issues.
To receive documents and register, go
to:
Reimagining Tall:
CTBUH 2012 International Student Tall Building Design
Competition
Sponsor: KONE
Type: Student, international
Fee: None
Awards:
■ First Place: US$8,500 –
US$5,000 cash + stipend to attend 2012
Shanghai Congress (up to US$3,500 value*)
■ Second Place: US$6,500 –
US$3,000 cash + stipend to attend 2012
Shanghai Congress (up to US$3,500 value*)
■ Third Place: US$4,500 –
US$1,000 cash + stipend to attend 2012
Shanghai Congress(up to US$3,500 value*)
■ Fourth Place: US$4,000 –
US$500 cash + stipend to attend 2012
Shanghai Congress(up to US$3,500 value*)
■ Fifth Place: US$3,500 –
Stipend to attend 2012 Shanghai
Congress(up to US$3,500 value*)
Timetable:
■ Friday, June 22nd – Registration
Deadline
■ Friday, July 6th – Submission
Deadline
■ Monday, July 16th – Short-listed
“Semi-finalists” Announced
■ Monday, July 30th – Top-five
“Finalists” announced
■ Wednesday, September 19th-21st –
CTBUH Shanghai Congress
■ Thursday, September 20th (afternoon)
– Top-five “Finalists” present to jury in Shanghai
■ Thursday, September 20th (evening) –
Winners announced and prizes conferred during Congress Dinner
Design Challenge:
The goal of the competition is to shed
new light on the meaning and value of tall buildings in modern society. As
noted by the 2011 Competition Jury Chair, William Pedersen of Kohn Pedersen
Fox,
“There has been a major transition in
the sense of the value of the tall building and what it can contribute to the
urban realm, and society in general. This transition moves the tall building
away from just an instrument of financial
exploitation and toward a development
highly concerned with its impact on the city, the environment, and the urban
habitat.”
Judging Criteria:
■ Creative Approach (25 points):
• The design response is innovative
and inspirational.
• The design program is creative, yet
clear and justified.
■ Response to Site (25 points):
• The design responds to the
physical/cultural aspects of site, such that the design is unique to its
location, and
not a generic response to a tall
building capable of being reproduced regardless of its location.
• The design responds to the
environmental aspects of site.
■ Sustainability (25 points):
• The design considers the building’s
environmental impact and energy usage.
• The design considers efficiency
throughout (core, shell, space, usage, etc).
• The design considers social
sustainability, occupant lifestyle and well-being.
■ Functionality (25 points):
• Planning and building organization
is clear and appropriate.
• There is a clear structural,
technical and constructional rationale.
Judges will also consider the CTBUH
Criteria defining a tall building by “at least 50% of its height being occupied
by usable floor area,” i.e., proposals should be functional “buildings” not
simply observation, communication, or other
towers.
For more information, and to register,
go to:
Nashua International Design Competition Winners
1st Place – BumpZoid, New York, NY (Carl Pucci
& Efrain Carbaca)
Runners-up (3)
Entry 0005 - Jennifer Garcia &
Kenneth Garcia, Coral
Gables, Florida
Entry 0010 - Teja S. Sawant & Somkant R.
Thakur, Chicago, Illinois
Entry 0017 -
teraform environments,
(Paul Privitera & Charlotte Firestone), Boston, Massachusetts
Next Fifty at Seattle Center Finalists
About The Design Competition
In the spirit of the 1962 World’s
Fair, Seattle Center and AIA Seattle invited multidisciplinary design teams to
compete in an international design ideas competition to re-envision a nine-acre
site in the heart of Seattle Center and use it to explore innovation in public
space in the coming century. Design ideas are meant to harness Seattle ’s
history of innovation and civic engagement to inspire the next generation of
great public spaces and connect interaction and innovation to meet the
challenges of the future. The competition is sponsored by AIA Seattle, Seattle
Center and Seattle Center Foundation/ The Next Fifty, and funded by the
Grousemont Foundation. It honors long-term civic leader Howard S. Wright, who
took a simple sketch on a napkin and created a landmark building known around
the world, the icon of Seattle, the Space Needle.
The Finalists
-
ABF (France) for their design, In-Closure .
The design envisions an interactive wall around a forested landscape that is
both flexible and dynamic, embracing social life in the city at multiple
scales.
- KoningEizenberg
Architecture + ARUP ( United States ) for their design, Park . The design
organizes the disparate elements of the Seattle Center site and program into a
sustainable and coherent landscape. It offers a mastery of the immediate and
physical and programmatic challenges facing Seattle Center .
- PRAUD (
United States ) for their design, Seattle Jelly Bean
. The design is highly imaginative, and suggests a new kind of icon for the 21 st
century, an atmospheric and interactive cloud that is tethered both literally
and figuratively to the site below.
