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Five design teams vie to build a pavilion for Nelson-Atkins
Proposals by five teams of architects and designers have been named finalists in a competition to build a temporary pavilion on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
SOM Chicago Wins Competition to Design the Greenland Group Suzhou Center
The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) announced that it has won an international competition to design the Greenland Group Suzhou Center, in Wujiang, China.
“inmidtown Habitats” New Design Competition Launched
The Architecture Foundation is running a new open and international competition that calls on design teams to submit proposals for urban beehives, bird/bat-boxes and planters.
Call for Submission: Coworking Building (COB) Madrid 2011
Arquideas informs that the registration period for the Coworking Building (COB) Madrid 2011 academic competition is open. The purpose of this competition for students of architecture is to provide ideas for creating a coworking Building (COB), in the city of Madrid, Spain.
The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA NY Chapter, announced its fifth biennial design ideas competition
The Harlem Edge/Cultivating Connections competition will explore the redevelopment of the decommissioned Department of Sanitation marine transfer station located in the Hudson River at 135th Street.
Berkeley Prize Announces 14th Annual Competition Cycle
The international Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence announces that the 2012 BERKELEY PRIZE launches on September 15, 2011. Details after the jump
Annual Visionary Design (AViD) // Breaking Grounds: Designing the National Pavilion
The competition is to design a “National Pavilion” for a future World’s Fair. The pavilion can be a free standing pavilion or complex of structures and landscape – using native construction materials on a structural framework of a choice of wood, bamboo, reinforced concrete, steel or any combination of these. There is no budget constraint.
THE BI BLOG’ Call for Submission “FREE”
THE BI BLOG is currently seeking proposals for a forthcoming print publication on the topic “FREE”. There is an implicit conflict in the word “free”. While it is commonly used to describe items without any attached value, such as the newspapers that litter the world’s subway systems, or the samples offered in grocery aisles to tempt more formidable purchases, to be free is generally regarded as the most valuable of human rights.
SWA Group’s Design for Nanjing Hexi New Town
SWA Group announced this week that its plan for a transformative 7-kilometer swath of Yangtze River waterfront of the Hexi New Town in Nanjing, China, was selected as the winning entry among the four finalist teams and will begin detailed design in July toward anticipated initial construction beginning in 2011.
Winners Announced for the Lavender Lake Art Factory Competition
The winning designs of the suckerPUNCH-curated Lavender Lake Art Factory competition have recently been announced. The international competition asked architects to submit concepts for an ‘art factory’ at the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York that will contain private/shared art studios, a storefront gallery/bar, analog/digital shops, and live/work spaces for rotating artists in residence.
AIA Announces Winners of the 2009 CAE Educational Facility Design Awards
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) have selected 13 educational and cultural facilities for this year’s CAE Educational Facility Design Awards. The purpose of the design awards program is to identify trends and emerging ideas, honor excellence in planning and design, and disseminate knowledge about best practices in educational and community facilities.
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