JAD International Student Design Contest, South Korea

JAD International Student Design Contest, South Korea

Eligibility.
Students who are registered in undergraduate and graduate school in Korea and other countries and students who stay out of school temporarily included.
* A team should be composed of three or less students and should submit only one entry.

Timeline.
A. Application deadline : Wednesday, November 18, 2009
- Download at http: //www.jadidc.com from September 1 to November 18, 2008

B. Submission (by mail) deadline : Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 17:00pm (GMT+9)
* We can also accept the entry with a postmark by November 18, 2009
* Submissions via e-mail are NOT accepted
> Address JAD International Design Competition Committee 5F Lotte Insurance Co., Ltd., Bldg., 51-1, Namchang-Dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea, Zip code 100-778

C. Announcement of results Monday, November 30, 2009 at www.jadidc.com

D. Award ceremony Thursday, December 10, 2009 at Lotte Insurance Bldg., Seoul, Korea (the seat of Joong Ang Design Co., Ltd)

E. Exhibition It will be held at www.jadidc.com from December 10 * The timelines are subject to change later Awards.

A. Gold prize(1 team): US $10,000 and testimonial
B. Silver prize(1 team): US $5,000 and testimonial
C. Bronze prize(2 team): US $1,000 and testimonial
D. Special selection(15 teams): testimonial
E. Finalist(many): testimonial

For Submission and requirement details log on to http://jadidc.co.kr/eng/01competition/sub1_01.htm

Taipei Pop Music Center International Competition

Stage One Material Submission Deadline: 19th October 2009
To encourage pop music creation, patronage performing talents and teams, integrate relevant peripheral industrial development, the R.O.C. plans to build a large pop music performing center in Taipei with outdoor performing plaza and relevant measures. With an area of approximately 7.65 hectares, the center base is located in Nangang District, Taipei City, nearby the MRT Kunyang Station. The principal space design comprises of an indoor performing hall with 4500-6000 seats, an outdoor performing space with 15000 standing seats, hall of fame, a digital library, a medium and small indoor exhibition and performing live house, industrial communities and incubation space, etc. We cordially invite outstanding design teams at home and abroad to custom design a unique performing space for Taiwan's pop music operation and development by taking into consideration all music types and the development trend of international pop music.

Type of Competition: Two-stage open competition.

Total Construction Budget:
The total construction budget (direct construction cost) is about NT＄3,500,000,000 (about US＄106,000,000) including the construction costs of various work items. The tenderer shall use this amount as the basis for estimating construction costs.

Service Fees:
The service fees for this project is a fixed fee in the total amount of NT$ 380,000,000. (about US$11,500,000)

Public Exhibition:
After the competition, the DCA will hold a public exhibition for the participant projects.

Timetable:
1. Announcement of RFP: 2009/07/23
2. Obtaining the RFP: 2009/07/23 ~ 2009/10/19
3. Deadline for Question Submissions for RFP: 2009/09/01
4. Questions Answered Date: 2009/09/08
5. Stage One Material Submission Deadline: 2009/10/19 (before 17:30 Taiwan time)
6. Stage One Qualification Review: 2009/10/20
7. Stage One Jury Session: 2009/10/22 ~ 2009/10/23
8. Announcement of the Short-lists: 2009/10/23
9. Site Visit: 2009/11/10
10. Stage Two Tender Submission Deadline: 2010/01/26 (before 17:30 Taiwan time)
11. Stage Two Qualification Review: 2010/01/27
12. Stage Two Jury Session: 2010/01/28 ~ 2010/01/29
13. Announcement of the Winners: 2010/01/29

Galway Harbour Ideas Competition

Ireland, Centre Pier, Galway Harbour Ideas Competition

Deadline - Registration: 25 Sep 2009
Deadline - Entry submission: 2 Oct 2009

The RIAI (Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland) is administering a single stage ideas competition on behalf of the competition promoters, Galway Harbour Company.
Galway Harbour Company is seeking ideas for a significant building to be located on the Centre Pier, in Galway Harbour. The building should reflect Galway’s importance as a maritime and cultural city and offer a clear image and potential branding for the City of the Tribes. Competitors should assume a budget of €3,000 per m². Competitors will be asked to design a building which incorporates a public stage, exhibition area, retail space, marina facilities, tourist information kiosk and commercial offices.

There will be two separate categories for submissions.
Category A is open to architects. Category B is open to recent architectural graduates and current students.

- A Prize Fund of €10,000 is to be awarded at the discretion of the jury in Category A.
- A Prize Fund of €1,000 is to be awarded at the discretion of the jury in Category B.

Eligibility:
Architects:
The competition is open to architects holding a qualification listed in the EU Qualifications Directive 2005/36/EC.

Students / Architectural Graduates
Entry is open to students who are currently pursuing an architecture degree or are recent graduates of architecture.

Jury:
Eamon Bradshaw, Chief Executive, Galway Harbour Company
Sebastian Feldmann, Senior Executive Architect, Galway City Council
John McLaughlin, Director of Architecture, Dublin Docklands Development Authority
Garry Hynes, Artistic Director, Druid
Marcus Donaghy, Donaghy + Dimond Architects
Information and details from: http://www.riai.ie/?id=7447

Banjarmasin: Planning Concept and Idea Competition

General
The competition is an open international competition in order to prepare the component of master plan for the river city Banjarmasin, South Borneo. The topic is the river city Banjarmasin: Planning Concept and Idea Competition. The planning theme is to plan physical development of Banjarmasin city: space and infrastructure arrangement of the city those based on characters, river form and ecological behavior for sustainability of urban economic, social and cultural.

Introduction
In 2009, the government of Banjarmasin City will hold International Competition on Urban Planning Concept and Ideas of Banjarmasin City based on the river system. Banjarmasin is the capital city of South Kalimantan (Borneo), one of Province in Indonesia. The city is laid on flood-prone waterways, located on delta near the Barito-Martapura rivers junction. Banjarmasin has developed on almost 105 rivers, creeks, and canals, so it is famous as the River City.
Since many years ago, rivers have influenced characteristic of the city, in accordance with physical condition, ecology, culture, and economy. For example, many houses are built on rafts or stilts over the water. People using the river as a major transportation, floating market, and most of their menu based on fish and vegetable grown around the river bank.
Nowadays, development of Banjarmasin has hardly paid attention to their river system and neglected them, and the city had lost their river image and impression, the natural resources, and their river culture. Development orientation of the city has changed from river-base to land-base, which valued the rivers just as a complement not as a heart of living as before. Now, we have to realize that existence of these hundred rivers must be part of the city arrangement and development.

The Competition
To control and to overcome the negative and destructive impacts of city development on the rivers and to protect local cultural heritage and city natural beauty, the Banjarmasin city government conduct an international competition on “The River City of Banjarmasin Planning Concept and Idea Competition”. The competition goals are to draw fresh, innovative and new ideas toward further improvement of the physical environment of Banjarmasin city as an international city based on river system.
The competition will give participants the opportunities to propose the conceptual plans and ideas, and to participate in the creation of new vibrant communal and commercial spatial typologies along the waterway. Plans and Ideas from the participants of the competition will illustrate the potential of the city those integrated with identity and local culture, river ecology, and sustainable development.
The final result of the competition is the planning concept and idea of Banjarmasin city development that based on the river system. It will use as technical development planning and detail design for implementation of sustainable development of Banjarmasin city regarding to Indonesian government rules and laws. It also support Banjarmasin to achieve it vision and mission as the international city based on river system.

Sponsor and Promotor
Banjarmasin city government is the main sponsor of the competition; and the city river and drainage department as promoter.

Awards and Prizes
Prizes of the competition is 25,000 USD in total, and all participants will be awarded a certificate.

More details and registration procedure can be found in http://www.banjarmasincompetition.com/

2009 Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition

Status : Open

Compensation:
1st place (1) 2,000,000 yen + gift
2nd place (2) @ 300,000 yen + gift
Honorable Mention (4) @ 100,000 yen + gift
Special prize (10) @ 50,000 yen

Timetable:
3 August 2009 - submission deadline
31 October 2009 - final screenings held
December 2009 - winners announced

Design Challenge:
Applicants are to propose community gathering spaces that meet the requirements of specific places, scales, and mechanisms, approaching the theme from the standpoint of architectural solutions for the present and the future.

Drawings
The following must be included with an application: Floor plan, cross section, site plan (at any scale), and perspective diagram or photo of model. Applicants are free to add charts, diagrams and descriptive text to help describe their proposals. Descriptive texts must be within 100 words.

Materials
Applicants must complete all drawings, illustrative matter, and texts on one sheet of thick drawing paper (600mm×840mm). They may use blueprint, pencil, ink, color, and photographs.

Submission
On the back of an entry, applicants must attach a piece of paper bearing their name, address, age, telephone or fax number, and e-mail address. Also they must indicate the name, address, and telephone or fax number of their school or place of employment. In the case of group applications, applicants should provide the same information and indicate one individual as the representative of the group.

Jury:
Toyo Ito
Masaru Okamoto
Riken Yamamoto
Kiyoshi Sakurai
Taro Ashihara
Kengo Kuma
Kunito Takahashi

For more information, go to: http://www.cgco.co.jp/kyougi/

UPDATE LIST OF ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION 2009

new USA: Lifecycle Building Challenge 3

Submission deadline: August 30
LBC3 is an international design competition focused on facilitating future material reuse. Lifecycle building includes design for deconstruction and adaptive reuse--principles that support cost-effective disassembly and anticipate the future reuse of building materials. Submit your innovative project, design, or idea in Building and Product categories to conserve building materials and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by preserving embodied energy. This year LBC3 is open to US and international student and professional participants, and is sponsored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

new USA: rouse[D] competition + exhibition

Submission/Registration Deadline: July 31, 2009

rouse[D] is a two part open ideas competition and exhibition, that will focus on re-inventing the city of Detroit through the use of digital computation methodologies! It challenges people to come up with designs that will rouse the city of Detroit and encourage an evolution of our understanding of its unique urban environment. Ranging from macro to micro, explore all options; this project is not just about the large scheme, but also the small details. They are looking for the most CREATIVE and thoughtful designs that could help Detroit and make it better in some way. The competition does have one condition; the site or sites must be IN Detroit proper. Curated by Method Lab and Syzygy Studio We have the opportunity as individuals to do something great! Let's come together, make a difference, not just in ourselves, but in a community that truly needs us NOW more than ever!

Middle East: Towards MidEastPan - Design Ideas Competition
Registration end: July 13
With the launch of MidEastPan and towards the Forum of Themes and Sites in the coming September a Design Ideas Competition is being held. The competition is an open invitation for ideas and projects within the Built Environment in the Middle East. Projects can be of any scale (communal, local, national, regional etc') and to address any location and context (real or not). The competition is open to individuals and teams from the Middle East and is held in two streams: General and Students.

new UK: Architects for Health 2009 Student Health Design Award

Submission by 3rd July 2009Architects for Health invite architectural students to submit projects to be considered for the third annual Student Healthcare Design Award in 2009. Any project relating to the design of a healthcare building can be submitted. For students without qualifying projects AFH have a number of sample briefs available.

new Germany: Arctic Perspective Initiative "Mobile Media-Centric Habitation and Work Unit

Deadline: July 1st, 2009

This open architecture design competition is open for the submission of proposals for the design of a mobile media-centric facility, life support habitation and work module with renewable energy supply, waste recycling, and communications systems. Proposals are invited from architects, designers, engineers, artists, students, and engineering teams. The design should be an open source mobile architecture/system/machine capable of functioning in extreme as well as temperate climates and containing mass/industrial and amateur production/manufacturing potential. The unit is to serve as a model for mobile research within extreme cold environments, with the ability to incorporate high tech solutions while utilizing sustainable resources.

new UK: World Habitat Awards 2009

Stage I entries must be received by 1st June 2009

The Building and Social Housing Foundation is currently seeking entries for the World Habitat Awards 2009 competition. The World Habitat Awards were initiated in 1985 and seek to identify practical, innovative and sustainable solutions to current housing issues faced by countries of the Global South as well as the North, which are capable of being transferred or adapted for use elsewhere. The competition is open to all individuals and organisations, including central and local governments, NGOs, community-based groups, research organisations and the private sector. An award of £10,000 is presented to the winners at the annual United Nations global celebration of World Habitat Day.

new: Call for Submissions for Monu - magazine on urbanism - Clean Urbanism
Ideas and abstracts should be sent by the end of May 2009.

MONU #11 will be published in the summer of 2009.
When it comes to Clean Urbanism, a lot of proposals have been made recently for the building of so-called "eco-cities" that produce their own energy from the wind, the sun, bio-fuel, or recycled waste. But it has often been denied that such sources of energy, being integrated directly into cities, are highly inefficient, very expensive, and in the case of wind energy, very noisy. Nevertheless, wind turbines in an urban realm, for example, nowadays feature in almost every urban competition entry that requires sustainable energy concepts. Solar panels on rooftops have become state of the art on innumerable new building designs, however inefficient and expensive they are. The question is: how might we achieve a Clean Urbanism that is socially, economically, and politically, but also environmentally correct? This issue of MONU is meant to initiate an advanced discussion and stimulate new and fresh ideas to discover and increase our understanding of how Clean Urbanism could actually work.

new UK: Onedotzero -call for submissions

The deadline to submit is 29 May 2009
Onedotzero extends an open call for submission to the 2009 festival programme to be premiered at the BFI Southbank; the UK's flagship centre for moving image located in London's most visited cultural quarter, before an extensive UK and world tour. Onedotzero is seeking proposals for installations, interactive works and live audiovisual performance in addition to short film / animation works for the festival and other projects.

new Poland: International Design Competition - An Architect -the Drawer of Dreams

Submit by 29th May
A challenge to architects to design a loft of their desire, using a wide category of products. Creativity and innovative ideas are required using the FDH duet high pivot windows and at least two other types. While creating your vision integrate urban or landscape elements of your preference. Sponsored by FAKRO Company and Stadslab European Urban Design Laboratory.

new USA: d3 Natural Systems International Architectural Design Competition

Registration Deadline: May 20th 2009

Exploration of natural systems from the microscopic to the universal unearths vast design potential for overlaying cultural, ecological, and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies. The d3 Natural Systems Competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, interiors, and designed objects. The competition calls for innovative proposals that advance sustainable thought and performance through the study of intrinsic environmental geometries, behaviors, and flows at various scales. By identifying, examining, and applying their structural order on form and function- -bottom-up, performance-based solutions for limitless building typologies, functional programs, and material conditions may be realized. The d3 Natural Systems Competition allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in a scale-appropriate manner- -from large-scale master planning endeavors, to individual building concepts, to notions of interior detail. Accordingly, there are no restrictions on site, scale, program, or building typology.

new Australia: Situate -an International Sculpture Competition
Closing date for Stage 1 entries: 20th May 2009
The Western Australian Government is undertaking an open competition for a major public art commission for Forrest Place, Perth. The project has been designed to encourage innovative partnerships between artists and other design professionals. The competition process will identify a multidisciplinary team that brings originality and design excellence to the project.

new: UK: Urban SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses Competition

Students must register and provide statements of intent by 15 May 2009.
We are in an urban age. Most of us today live in cities. Is there a place or a neighborhood in your city that needs a good fix? Do you know of an unplanned settlement, a displaced community, economic uncertainty that has driven away business, environmental degradation that has reduced quality of life, an area enduring the aftermath of natural calamity, a derelict urban site? Have a plan that could turn things around? The competition is open to submissions that solve these common urban problems, on any site, within any city or town, worldwide. If you're passionate about improving the quality of the world's communities, then this competition is for you. Today's built environment needs creative, thoughtful ideas. If you have them, this is your chance to let them shine. The Urban SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses competition is open to individual students or teams of up to four undergraduate and graduate students at all levels from all countries in the design and planning fields including landscape architecture, urban design, architecture, landscape urbanism, economics, planning, geography, engineering, environmental studies and related fields.

List of Current Architecture Design Competition

The list of worldwide competitions below updated on weekly based. Most of them are open to international entry. Go onto each title links for more details and requirements of each competition registration. Try your Architecture...compete with all designers from all over the World...and grab the reward!

Italy: 2009 BARBARA CAPPOCHIN PRIZE
Registration and submission: 30 June 2009

This international prize is organised every two years by the Barbara Cappochin Foundation to recognise recently completed projects for their architectural quality and their adaptationto the territory, city, or landscape in which they were built. The 2009 prize will studyrealisations completed between 1st July 2006 and 30 June 2009.This prize is supported by the International Union of Architects, the Italian National Councilof Architects, Urban Planners, Landscape Architects, and Conservationists, and the PaduaRegional Order of Architects, Urban Planners, Landscape Architects, and Conservationists.The deadline for receiving inscriptions and sending candidatures is 30 June 2009.

UK: The Art Fund Pavilion Architectural Competition

Application Deadline 03rd March 2009
Tent London and The Lightbox have launched an open competition for The Art Fund Pavillion. This is a unique opportunity to design a semi-permanent pavilion that will sit alongside a RIBA award-winning building by Marks Barfield Architects. The international panel, of judges includes Wayne Hemingway and Kieran Long. The winning design will provide additional exhibition space for Woking's new gallery and museum, and will be built with funding by The Art Fund Prize, The UK's largest single art prize of £100,000. The new pavilion will be launched during the London Design Festival 2009.

Evolo: 09 SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION

Registration: 12 January 2009, Submission: 19 January 2009, Open to all Entry fee: US $50Awards: US $3,500 Jury: Not yet announced. For the 2009 edition eVolo invites architects, engineers, and designers to continue exploring on new ideas and concepts for vertical density.Skyscrapers have been springing up in fast-developing countries without careful consideration of the urban fabric, environmental effects, and quality of life.The 2009 competition calls for innovative designs for the XXI Century which takes into consideration the historical and social context, the existing urban fabric, the human scale, and the environment.There is no restriction on site, height or shape.The idea is to give the designers enough freedom to address the challenge in the most creative and innovative way.Designs must be technologically feasible and environmentally responsible.The projects should also investigate on the urban and private space as well as the definition of new programmes for a vertical structure.EligibilityAll students, architects, engineers and designers are invited to participate. It is encouraged to have multi-disciplinary teams. There is no limit on the number of participants in a team. Individual entries are accepted.

UK: DWA Architects Caring for Older People -International Student Design Competition
Launch date 5th January 2009; entries to be submitted by 6 March 2009.
DWA Architects are organizing this ideas competition, open to all architectural students. The competition is jointly sponsored by DWA Architects and BUPA Care Homes. The theme of the competition is designing for older people in 60 to 70 years time.

Italy: Metropolitan T shirt competition
Deadline 28th February 2009.
The competition is born for designs to be reproduced on T-shirts. The chosen theme for the competition is "metropolitan design", everyday uniqueness. The dominant aspect of the design, along with innovation, dedication, attention to detail, is above all the expression of your own story; all aspects that contribute to characterising the "metropolitan luxury" concept responding to the theme of the competition. Your T-shirt has to be (for someone) a symbol of uniqueness, character and an expression of his or her own values. The organizers invite designers, artists, students and architects under 40 to participate in an ideas competition focused on this interesting cultural market reality.

USA: 2009 AIA Committee on Design Ideas Competition

Registration Deadline: February 13, 2009
Submission Deadline: March 12, 2009The AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international 2009 COD Ideas Competition. In this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore the legacy of modernist design, through a concept design problem. Visit the competition Web site (http://www.aia.org/cod_ideas) for more information or to submit a project.

USA: 2009 Young Architects Forum: Foresight -Call for Entries
Competition Deadline: Wednesday, February 11, 2009Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Young Architects Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in public forums, an on-line installation, and an exhibition at the Architectural League beginning in May 2009.. A poster of the winning entries will be published and distributed nationally, as will a catalogue of winning work published by the Architectural League and Princeton Architectural Press. The Young Architects Forum is an annual competition, series of lectures, and exhibition organized by the Architectural League and its Young Architects Committee. The Forum was established to recognize specific works of high quality and to encourage the exchange of ideas among young people who might otherwise not have a forum.

USA: Great Places Awards 2009- Call for Entries

Deadline for entries is February 9, 2009.
Celebrating excellent places and how people inhabit them. Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, EDRA, the Environmental Design Research Association, in cooperation with Metropolis magazine announce the twelfth annual Great Places Awards. Unique in the ever-expanding universe of award programs, our concern is for good places and how people inhabit them. We seek entries of exemplary work, inviting participation from a range of design and research disciplines, recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one profession or field. Projects should emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design.

USA: Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2009
Completed submissions to be received no later than February 06, 2009.
For the 2009 edition of this annual competition, North American architects and interior designers are invited to submit domestic and international new construction and renovation projects completed between January 2004 and January 2009. A panel of design experts will judge the projects based on their creativity, functionality and aesthetic appeal. The official criterion for the jury includes: overall design of the project, innovative use of tile, tile design, quality of installation and degree that tile enhances the setting.

Slovenia: TRIMO URBAN CRASH international competition for students of architecture
The competition is running until 31 January 2009.
Architecture students of 11 European countries are invited to participate in the second running Trimo Urban Crash competition organised by Trimo, one of Europe's leading suppliers of construction solutions. Students are invited to design an object for a given location in the centre of the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. The winning project will be built and taken into permanent use on location in June 2009. The winner will also be awarded paid summer school attendance at an internationally acclaimed architectural school. This year's task is designing an urban meeting place, an information spot or an alternative cultural stage made with Trimo products.

China: 2008 Shanghai Qingpu New City West Region International Competition of Conceptual Urban Design
Submission Jan 31st 2009
Competition is endorsed by the Government of Qingpu District and Shanghai Urban Planning Administration Bureau, and organized by Shanghai Qingpu New Urban Area Construction Development Co. Ltd., and di Magazine. The aim is to collect creative ideas from all of the world for sustainable construction and development in the west region of Qingpu District, Shanghai, and to provide a basic reference for the detailed planning later.

USA: Call for Entries -Art Directors Club Awards 88
Deadline Jan 16th 2009; student deadline Jan 30th 2009.
The Art Directors Club is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. Founded in New York in 1920, ADC is a self-funding, not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to connect, provoke and elevate creative visual communications professionals around the world. It focuses on the highest standards of excellence and integrity in visual communications for the industry, and encourages students and young professionals entering the field. ADC provides a forum for creatives in Advertising, Design, Interactive Media and Communications to explore the direction of these rapidly converging industries.

USA: 2009 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition
Entry Deadline: January 30th, 2009
Metropolis magazine challenges young designers to apply their innovative talents to our energy addiction and rethink the broken models that represented 20th-century life and work. The Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition, which has been promoting activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship in design since 2003, is supported this year by sponsors ASSA ABLOY, Herman Miller, Inc., and Sherwin-Williams."We hope to see intelligent and beautiful ideas, at all scales, that bring out the humanist tendencies of young designers everywhere," notes editor in chief Susan S. Szenasy. "This socially and environmentally conscious generation is looking for ways to connect with the large issues of our time, and Next Generation® offers them that opportunity. We know that designers are great at fixing things, that they're masters of creating elegant, sustainable, and humane solutions to real problems."

USA: HH Richardson Library Expansion 'Ideas' Competition

Submission deadline: Jan. 23, 2009This is an exciting architecture, urban design and planning sketch problem. The challenge being how to add on to a historically and architecturally significant building and what strategic moves can be implemented to reinforce the library's role as the "center" of town?

UK: Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards
The closing date for entries is Friday 16 January 2009
Nationwide Building Society announces the launch of the Sustainable Housing Awards in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects. The annual ideas competition is open to all undergraduate architecture and design students. The competition aims to stimulate and reward innovative thinking about how people can live more sustainably in the future. Students are invited to present sustainable design ideas for one of three categories: existing housing, new build or community/neighbourhood.

USA: Student competition to design a campus performing arts center

Submission Deadline January 15, 2009The Architectural Commission of the United States Institute for Theatre & Technology (USITT) has announced calls for entries for its 3rd annual student Architectural Design Competition to design an "Ideal Theatre" on an academic campus. The competition is open to any U.S. or International architecture and theater student at an accredited college or university. Architecture students are asked to work with a theater student, or group of theater students, as a "Client." The client will outline a program and requirements for an ideal theater for teaching professional theater. The enrolled architecture student, or group of students, will serve as the "Design Team" on the project. Through a series of design meetings with the client, the student architectural team will design a $25 million Center for Performing Arts with 400 to 600 seats for campus productions.

USA: 09 Skyscraper Competition - eVolo

Registration deadline: 12 January 2009:
The 2009 competition calls for innovative designs for the XXI Century which takes into consideration the historical and social context, the existing urban fabric, the human scale, and the environment. There is no restriction on site, height or shape. The idea is to give the designers enough freedom to address the challenge in the most creative and innovative way. All students, architects, engineers and designers are invited to participate. It is encouraged to have multidisciplined teams. There is no limit on the number of participants in a team.

UK: Competition to find perfect green space for Astley Village
The submission deadline is January 7th 2009.RIBA has launched a two stage competition to find a design team, who will help deliver a landscaping/environmental improvements scheme for Astley Village in Chorley, Lancashire. The competition is being organised on behalf of Places for People, one the UK's largest property maintenance and regeneration companies and is open to all practising architects, landscape architects, town planners and urban designers.

UK: National Wildflower Centre International Open Design Competition
The deadline for Stage One submissions is 7 January 2009
The RIBA Competitions Office announces the launch of an international open competition for the design of an innovative, architecturally striking educational, conference and seed production complex at the National Wildflower Centre in the Liverpool City Region. The client for the competition is Landlife with funding for the competition provided by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA). Entries are invited from architects or architect-led teams, which will be judged anonymously at the First Stage.

Egypt: International Competition for Urban design of Ramses Square, Cairo
Deadline for submission 1st Jan 2009
Ramses Square which is of important historical and urban value needs to be redeveloped in order to meet with the existing urban and traffic conflicts, therefore the Egyptian Government decided to issue an international planning & urban design competition in order to reach the best solution of the Square in the light of a comprehensive planning vision of Cairo City Center which is of great historical, urban and cultural value. The ministry of Cultural affairs has commissioned the National Organization for Urban Harmony (NOUH) to tender this competition in line of the guidelines and regulations of the Union of International Architects (UIA) and other relevant local agencies and authorities in Egypt. The Competition aims at producing an urban design plan for Ramses Square within a comprehensive vision for the city center of Cairo. It is open to all architects, planners and urban designers, either individuals or teams.

UK: Avenue Campus Competition
Closing date for first stage submissions is 17 December 2008.
The University of Northampton is running a design competition for architects to plan future developments at its Avenue Campus on St. George's Avenue in Northampton. The aim is to enhance the site's leading role as a centre for Arts and Applied Sciences education and research. Two stage competition open to all professional architects registered with the Architects Registration Board (ARB) or an equivalent EU registration authority.

USA: National Bus Shelter Design Competition, Art Rocks!
The deadline for submissions is December 12, 2008.
The Athens Area Arts Council (AAAC), in partnership with Athens-Clarke County and Athens Transit, announce YOU, ME AND THE BUS II; a national design competition for bus shelters in Athens, Georgia. The project aims to enhance the public transportation system and improve quality of life in Athens by integrating utilitarian public services with artistic ingenuity and inspiration.

USA: Greenworks, Santa Fe
Submissions Due: December 12, 2008
The City of Santa Fe and Enterprise Green Communities are sponsoring Greenworks, an open design competition in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The objective of the competition is to design a multi-unit, residential housing compound on a 1/4 acre city-owned vacant lot in downtown Santa Fe that will provide a designated number of affordably-priced homes. Lessons learned from Greenworks will contribute to the advancement of land use policy, green building standards, and an effective community input process for the City of Santa Fe, suitable for replication in communities across the United States.
Canada: Architecture Competition for the New Montréal Rio Tinto Alcan PlanetariumProposals for the first phase to be submitted by 3 p.m. on December 11th 2008.
Request for Proposals in two phases -architects from Montréal and around the world are invited to submit anonymous, unremunerated architectural concepts. A nine-member jury will examine the proposals and recommend five of them, on the basis of pre-established criteria. In phase 2, the finalists will form multidisciplinary teams to develop and fine tune their concepts and submit them to the same jury. The new Planetarium, with a gross surface area of roughly 8,000 m?, will be built on the Olympic Park site, next to the Biodôme, and will have to meet LEED platinum standards. The winning team will be announced next spring.
Anyone wishing to enter the competition must register. Only submissions from parties who have obtained the free RFP documents from the Direction de l'approvisionnement will be considered (all documents are in French only). The Direction is located at 9515, rue Saint-Hubert, Montréal, Quebec, H2M 1Z4. Regular office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. Candidates may submit questions in writing to the Professional Advisor for the competition, architect Louise Amiot, by fax (418 692-5447) or e-mail: (lasbarch@qc.aira.com).

USA: Discarded Dreams: Used Mattress Design Competition

Deadline for registration and submission: December 5th 2008
Architecture for Humanity and Rubicon National Social Innovations invite entrants to create innovative ways of converting used mattresses into useful products. The competition aims to encourage entrants to form groups capable of creating a consumer product, instructions detailing how to make the product, and a plan for production on a larger scale. Entrants must create designs that take into account the volume of mattress waste generated each year. Groups are encouraged to utilize local resources, including existing manufacturing facilities and other waste products. The winner/winners will be invited to collaborate with Rubicon to design and execute a method of collecting and converting the mattresses into their value-added product, and potentially distributed for commercial use. This would be a unique opportunity to help an emerging social enterprise develop a product line with 100 percent reclaimed materials, create green-collar jobs, and support individuals in moving out of poverty.

UK: Refurbishment of Roof Terraces at the RIBA Headquarters Building, Portland Place, London
Deadline for receipt of Expressions of Interest Thursday 4 December 2008
Designers are invited to submit Expressions of Interest for the redesign of three roof terraces at the RIBA Headquarters building at 66 Portland Place, London. The objective is to design and create simple sustainable architectural garden terraces that will compliment and enhance 66 Portland Place. The aspiration is to commission a work of quality and originality that will create a signature project in the context of the fine Grade II* listed 1930's building, designed by George Grey Wornum.

UK: River Soar Foot and Cycle Bridge Competition

Deadline for receipt of expressions of interest is Thursday 4th December 2008.
Organised by the RIBA Competitions Office, this new competition seeks suitable architect or engineering-led teams for the design of a new foot and cycle bridge crossing the River Soar in Leicester. The project vision is to stimulate the regeneration of the Abbey Meadows area of the city and to connect the proposed Leicester Science Park and the adjacent National Space Centre, with the residential development to be carried out at Wolsey Island on the opposite bank of the River Soar.

USA: 2009 International Architecture Awards
Deadline for 2009 submissions is 1st Dec 2008.
The Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, in association with Metropolitan Arts Press and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, are organising the 2009 International Architecture Awards to honor the most outstanding contemporary architecture designed and built throuyghtout the world.

UK: International Urban Design Competition for the regeneration of Wellesley Road and Park Lane in Croydon
Submission of Expression of Interest with pre-qualification questionnaire: 1st Dec 2008
The London Borough of Croydon invites designers to meet the challenge of transforming a one kilometre length of the main route that punctures the heart of Croydon from an urban motorway into an environmentally friendly destination in its own right. Practices operating in fields of urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning and transportation are especially welcome. Two stage urban design contest; jury members include Will Alsop, Joanna Averley, Ricky Burdett and Jon Rouse.

UK: Make Me a Home -Northshore International Competition
Competition Closes 1st December 2008.
A 23 hectare site with over a mile of south facing riverside frontage along the River Tees, immediately adjacent to the eastern edge of Stockton-on-Tees town centre. The Northshore Development Partnership Ltd (aka Urban Splash and Muse Developments) is working closely with Tees Valley Regeneration and English Partnerships to create homes, offices, shops, hotels, bars, restaurants, cafés, leisure facilities and a new extension of Durham University's Queens Campus, all tied together with lots of lovely public space. We've got the Masterplan, beautifully crafted by Ryder Architects and Grant Associates, and now we need you to bring your own little piece of magic to the plans. Make your mark. Make your own home sweet home.

Competition Source Links:
http://www.arplus.com/competition/competiton.htm

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