Architectural Competitions for Winter 2008

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Flip A Strip
Competition submission deadline: March 31, 2008
Launches Jan 5th. An architectural design competition and exhibition at The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art which will challenge architects to dream up ways in which to adapt, re-vamp and/or renovate small-scale strip shopping plazas that seem to be dotting all of our metro & suburban landscapes these days. Open to all architects in the U.S. who have been practicing professionally for at least 5 years.
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Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space - Art City Austin 2008
Deadline for Registration is February 22, 2008
Art Alliance Austin in collaboration with the Austin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, AIA-Austin, is launching an ideas competition to design Temporary Outdoor Gallery Spaces (TOGS). Any architecture or interior design professional/student who has completed their education within 10 years of the competition announcement is eligible. Student applicants must be in their final year of architecture/interior design school or enrolled in an architecture/interior design graduate program. A two-person team collaboration is allowed however, one member of the team must meet the above criteria. Limit of one entry per person or team.
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Young Architects Forum 2008: Resonance
Competition Deadline February 11, 2008
Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the Architectural League's annual Young Architects Competition. This year's theme, Resonance, posits that architecture is a profession of ideas. Choice, agenda, and a means both to respond to problems and project solutions are key to professional vitality and progress. But how do architectural ideas resonate beyond professional boundaries? What are the means by which an architect's ideas/acts take effect? The committee calls not for demonstrations of instrumental capacity, but for ideas, implemented or not, that leverage that capacity creatively and proactively in the world.
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2008 Steedman Traveling Fellowship Competition
The registration deadline is Jan. 29, 2008.
Granted since 1925, the biennial Steedman Fellowship is open to citizens of all countries with not more than eight years of experience following receipt of a professional degree in architecture. The competition carries a $30,000 first place award to support study and research abroad - the largest such award in the United States.
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The 99k House Competition for an Affordable, Sustainable House Prototype
Deadline for submissions is January 14, 2008.
The Rice Design Alliance (RDA) and AIA Houston announce a two-stage national competition to design a sustainable, affordable house that addresses the needs of the low-income family in the Gulf Coast region. The competition objectives are to
* Broaden awareness of green building strategies applicable to affordable housing,
* Generate and publicize buildable examples of sustainable, affordable houses, and
* Construct an exemplary sustainable, affordable house prototype.
The competition challenges designers and architects to design a sustainable, affordable house. Special consideration should be given to affordability, longevity, energy savings benefits, and appropriateness for the hot, humid climate of Houston. The City of Houston has donated a site for the house through the Land Assemblage Redevelopment Authority (LARA) initiative. The lot is located in Houston's historic Fifth Ward, a residential area east of downtown. The competition is a two-stage project to be completed in 2008
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International Newest to Oldest

Espoo City Hall Ideas Competition
Competition runs to end March 2008
To commemorate the 550th anniversary of Espoo, an international architecture competition is being held for the renovation of City Hall and an adjoining office complex. The languages of the competition are Finnish and English. The competition area is City Hall and its environs, but the entire adjoining office complex and its border areas will be studied. The results of the competition will be published in the summer of 2008.
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International Spatial Design Competition for the Mobility Centre Project in Ferizaj/Urosevac
Competition period ends 17 March 2008
In Ferizaj/Urosevac Municipality, is an urgent need for stimulating economic development and attracting investors/businesses, commercial and industrial activities generating opportunities for employment and above all re-exploiting the railway as a catalyst for economic growth. In the Municipality, the concept of a "Mobility Centre Project" which integrates the railway station and inter-city/international bus terminal was raised and discussed with a view of creating a main transport hub. The Municipality of Ferizaj/Urosevac has proposed an "International Spatial Design Competition" as a means to achieving the Mobility Centre Project. UN-HABITAT Kosovo is co-funding the project and will support the competition throughout the process. The competition is organized with a view to explore pragmatic and sustainable improvement measures to be reflected in the "Urban Charter of Ferizaj/Urosevac City Centre".
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New Library and Theatre/Concert Hall in the City of Bodo
Registration Deadline 22nd Feb 2008
Open idea competition for a new library, concert hall and theatre etc. in the centre of Bodø. The total floor area is approx. 11,700 m2. The building volume is approx. 70,000 m3. There are three alternative locations for the arts buildings. The idea competition aims to clarify the location, the main idea for the building form and volumes, and the design of the outside areas.
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10th Arquine International Architecture Competition -The bicentennial towers
Registration Period to February 4th, 2008.
Thirty years on from the publication of Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas's manifesto celebrating congestion culture, at the peak of the high building craze in most of the world, and moving on from post 9-11 panic, Arquine announces its 10th International Competition, proposing the design of two skyscrapers, with 100 floors each, to celebrate the bicentenary of Mexico's independence in 2010. The project consists in setting each tower in two strategic areas of Mexico City: the Azcapotzalco Technology Park and the Xochimilco Ecology Park, establishing a dialectic between content and void; between built object and urban landscape. The competition invites you to embark on the projects with two relevant discourses in mind: ecology and technology, true paradigms of early 21st-century culture.
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Architectural competition for the extension of the Kunsthaus Zürich
The application deadline is 1 February 2008
The Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, the Stiftung Zürcher Kunsthaus and the City of Zurich announce an international architectural competition for the Kunsthaus extension. Architects are invited to apply for the pre-qualification round. The project, of signal importance to Zurich's urban planning in this area, will be located between Heimplatz and the old Cantonal School, both immediately adjacient to Zurich's old town. The project is part of Zurich's University District master plan, which aims to create an appealing "education and culture zone". Its starting point, the square known as Heimplatz, will in the process be better defined and upgraded. A public "art garden" forms an additional element of the competition brief; from there, a series of park-like areas will evolve along the edge of the slope below the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich).
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