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CONTESTS & ARCHITECTURAL
DESIGN COMPETITIONS
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Mock Firms Competition
 The
Mock Firms model aims to help facilitate the formation and
function of simulated architectural design firms by
collegiate and secondary school students. The purpose is to
challenge them to conceive, coordinate, construct and even
commercialize a tall building project or residential project
which will be interactively judged by top industry
professionals against a field of their peers. Entering
in its 4th year, the Chicago-based Mock Firms Architectural
Competition is already highly regarded on the landscape of
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"Black
Spectacles" Launches the The Un-Competition ...
PR Web (press release)
Along with the competition, The Chicago Architectural Club
is going to host an event that continues the discussion
about design entrepreneurship. Alan Barker, Board Member of
the Chicago Architecture Club notes: “The Un-Competition
Project is a ... |
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Regional Finals in "Future
City CompetitionTM"
Set
Students create a vision of the future
Chicago, October; In conjunction with
NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEKTM, Chicago engineering societies
will be hosting a student design competition in area
schools. The contest, known as the "Future City
CompetitionTM" (www.futurecitychicago.org),
will require middle grade students with the assistance of an
engineer mentor, to design a future city with SimCity 4
Deluxe software and then build three-dimensional table top
model to scale.
This program has been developed by engineers
to provide much needed technological education to the
students. According to Bob Johnson, spokesman for the
Chicago program, the competition is in its nineteenth year
and is the only one of the 39 regional programs that has
competed continuously in all years.
"Currently
schools are being contacted to assemble teams to participate
in the competition. Besides building a model students will
be required to write an essay.“ This year’s essay
topic is – "Fuel Your Future: Imagine new ways to meet
our energy needs and maintain a healthy planet."
Students will also write a City Narrative outlining the
key features of their city.
Derek Johnson, co-coordinator adds, "It is a
great experience for all involved -- the students have fun
while learning about engineering and gaining valuable
teamwork and presentation skills. Engineers, mentors,
judges and volunteers always leave impressed by the
students' ability and enthusiasm."
Locally, the regional judging for the
competition will take place Saturday, January 21, 2012, at
the University of Illinois at Chicago, 750 South Halsted.
Judging of the projects will begin 8:30 a.m. and end at 2:30
p.m. The winners will be announced at an Awards Ceremony
beginning about 3:00 p.m.. The student models will be on
display until the conclusion of the awards ceremony. The
public is invited and encouraged to see the vision of the
future as seen by Chicagoland's 6th, 7th and 8th grade
students. There is no cost to attend.
Students from Chicago area schools will be
competing for the top prize. The winning school will
receive prizes and trophies for the team members. All
participants will receive gifts courtesy of the Chicagoland
Engineers Week Committee and local engineering/architecture
firms. In addition, team members from the winning school
will advance to the final judging in Washington, DC. during
NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEKTM, February 19-25, 2012. The winner
of the national competition will receive a week's trip to
Space Camp. Top teams from the Regional Competition will be
honored at the Annual Chicagoland Engineers Benefit,
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The Zagreb
Society of Architects
is launching the
fourth and the last
competition for
this year's
Think Space cycle -
Moral Borders. For
this year’s annual
cycle, the main theme
connecting all four
competitions is Borders
Devised by Hrvoje Njirić,
founder of Zagreb based
njiric+ arhitekti,
the architectural studio
of international fame
and visiting professor
at architectural schools
worldwide,
Moral borders
competition
challenges contestants
to radically examine the
present day conditions
by going beyond the
stereotypes, patterns
and typologies that have
proven their
inoperability,
while exercising their
own imperfect duties of
civic agents in search
of morally diverse
frameworks of affordable
utopias.
The higher the
buildings, the lower
the morals.
Noel Coward, English
playwright
(1899-1973)
The escalation of
the market economy
in the recent
decades has resulted
with a complete
exclusion of
architects as
credible civic
agents. „The
Faustian bargain“,
as Koolhaas puts it,
accepted widely by
the architects
themselves, has
promoted them into
the members of the
star-system and
their work has
gained the media
presence indeed, but
it's creators became
more and more
eliminated from the
decision-making and
their public role
significantly
diminished.
If we want to think
about architecture
as the social
project today, it
requires some
support, more than
ever. If we tend to
believe it is
possible to
reinstall it, there
are some questions
to be answered. How
to recreate any form
of idealism as a
necessary
prerequisite, even
if it is
provisional,
simulated or
temporary? What
forces can we
mobilize to improve
the weak impact on
the public sector?
How to regain the
trust of the
society? How to
treat vague moral
borders of our
discipline? And
finally, how to
articulate the first
utopias of the 21st
century and how
plausible can they
be?
Hrvoje
Njiric
Submission
deadline
for Moral Borders is
28
October 2011
(Fri),
12:00, CET -
Central European
Time.
There is an early
participation fee of
220 HRK / 30 EUR
until 4 October
2011.
From 5 to 28 October
2011 participation
fee will be 330 HRK
/ 45 EUR.
Prizes
1. prize: 1000 EUR
2. prize: 700 EUR
3. prize: 350 EUR
All winners will be
granted with
ORIS pack:
Participant’s Kit
includes all the
necessary
information about
this particular
contest.
All the entries form
the previous
competition
Ecological Borders
have been
published in
our
gallery.
Please take a look
at award winning
works, and read the
juror's comments!
We look forward to
your submissions!
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Tourism is a growing resource in the world, and
Rome is one of the cities with the highest number of tourist
visits per year. It's rare be faced with a project in
a city so rich in history and culture. Circo Massimo
competition wants to create a new center in a polycentric
city like Rome, a new meeting place, where young
people can meet for sports, for a concert in the
evening, for an exhibition, for a play.
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Proposal
Gastronomy is without a doubt one of the largest economic
activities in the world. With the appearance of new
restaurants like the Bulli by Ferran Adria among others, a
new concept of cooking has been born, where investigation
and research have become key to understand the present and
future of gastronomy.
From ArchMedium
we will like to propose the creation of a new restaurant
concept that we have called �Market Lab�. The Paris Maket
Lab is a complex where kitchen is taken to a new level; not
only in the way that dishes are prepared but also in the way
the clients interact with it. The Market Lab acts as
restaurant and cooking school at once, and it wants to be
nothing less than one of the best in the world in both
categories.
The chosen site
is strategically located a few steps away from the
Sain-Germain market at the heart of Paris, forcing the new
design to integrate and dialogue with all the history and
the urban planning that surrounds it.
Jury:
The Jury will be formed by:
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President of
the jury: Gustavo Gili
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Urban
Planning: Estaninslau Roca
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Architect:
Josep Bohigas
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Specialist
(Cooker): Gontzal Bilbao
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Invited
Architect from Paris: Alejandro Lapunzina
Prizes:
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4000 Euros
in Chash
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Publication
of the project in the TC Cuadernos magazine, Future
Arquitecturas, SUMMA+ and WA+wettbewerbeaktuell.
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1 year
subscription to the ON Diseño magazine.
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Exhibition
at the Architecture University of Barcelona (ETSAB) and
Buenos Aires (UBA)
Calendar:
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September 15th 2011 |
Registration period begins |
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January
31st 2012 |
Submission deadline |
You will be able to find more information including the
complete rules of the contest, pictures of the site, etc. by
following the link below:
http://www.archmedium.com/mediakit/Concursos/PMKTL_Pre.php |
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INTRODUCING
WORKING TOWARD
SUSTAINABILITY
Fundamental
Exercises in Green Building Design
Bringing Our Research and
Today's Industry Experts Into Your Classrooms and
Organizational Meetings!
A new instructional
video series on sustainable design. Titles in this 5-disk
video curriculum include:
Accompanying the 4 DVD's is a
data CD which contains the following:
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A multi-question file
which can be used as an exam or series quiz
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LEED Design situations for
cad programs
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Case Studies of successful
green projects
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Images of green-related
subjects
Additionally, a 46-page
workbook of assignments and resources compliments the video
series with ...
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Discussion, Group & Design
Questions & Projects
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A Green Glossary &
Statistics
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LEED Charts
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Important Standards in
Sustainability
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Online Resources
Based on the documentary
Sustainable Chicago
Produced & Published by
Chicago Architecture Today LLC
5-Disk Package (DVD, CD) &
Soft cover Workbook, 46 pages
To purchase by check,
designate payee as Chicago Architecture Today LLC
Retail Price $549.95 (20
additional workbooks - $699.95)
Please allow 2-3 weeks for
delivery
Refund Policy
Full refunds are available for
the return of any unopened materials (video and workbook)
for up to 10 days after receiving purchase. Return shipping
costs will be the responsibility of the customer. Cancelled
purchases will be honored if the material has not yet been
shipped and if shipped, will be fulfilled after items are
returned. There is a non-return policy if any part of the
purchased and shipped material has been opened or used.
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PLAY ARCH-ID CHICAGO!
CONTEST RULES &
INFORMATION
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Architecture
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reserves the
right to change
the rules,
parameters and
prizes of the
contest at any
time as my be
necessitated
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as to qualifiers
and winners
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any failure in
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or any
circumstance
where the
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and/or winner.
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of prize
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be from between
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to 60 days in
total.
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is open to all
participants
regardless of
age,
orientation,
gender, ethnic
origin or
residency.
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until January.
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