3rd Advanced Architecture Contest - IAAC

3rd Advanced Architecture Contest INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

IaaC 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest - The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of the future.

The aim of this architecture competition is to promote on-line discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.

The contest is open to architects, planners, designers and artists who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, socialization and globalization, with a view to enhancing the connected self-sufficiency of our cities.

The prize (Total value: 60.000, 00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme.

This Architecture Competition Jury, which is composed of architects, directors of some of the world's foremost architecture schools, and mayors of prominent cities around the globe is looking for outstanding proposals for any city in the world, at any scale, and within any timescale.

The competition prizes will consist of three scholarships for the IaaC Masters in Advanced Architecture for academic year 2010-11, cash prizes, and the latest generation of large-format HP printers. The selected projects will go on show in a major exhibition, due to open in Barcelona in May 2010, which will then travel to key cities around the world. The best projects will also be featured in a book to be published by Actar. The project is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Housing, the Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona City Council, and the publishing house "Actar".

The Registration is FREE,
and the competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via the Internet

Reference link : http://www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org/

Gotong Royong City
Envisioning the Future of Jakarta
International Architectural and Urban Design Competition

The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) 2009 in collaboration with Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Architects Jakarta Chapter) is pleased to announce an idea competition on the theme of ‘gotong royong city’ in the context of the extended metropolitan region of Jakarta. Three winning entries will be selected by an international jury for exhibition in the IABR 2009 and awarded prizes totaling 7,000 Euros.

The competition is open to all professionals and students in architecture, urban design and related disciplines. Entrants are encouraged to form inter-disciplinary teams including sociologists, artists, planners, anthropologists, engineers, economists etc.

Jury

Stephen Cairns (Edinburgh University, subcurator IABR 2009)

Kees Christiaanse (KCAP Rotterdam, curator IABR 2009)

Vedran Mimica (Berlage Institute Rotterdam)

Andrea Peresthu (TU Delft)

Daliana Suryawinata (SHAU Rotterdam, the why factory, subcurator IABR 2009)

Prizes

A total amount 7,000 eur will be distributed as follows:

1 Winner 1,500 eur prize + 1,500 eur*

1 Runner-up 750 eur prize + 1,500 eur

1 Honorable mention 250 eur prize + 1,500 eur

*An additional funding of maximum 1,500 eur will be awarded to each winning team to develop the project further to integrate with the thematic aims of the IABR 2009. This development will be anchored by a workshop to be held in Jakarta where a number of the competition jury will work with competition winners.

Registration

Online registration is open from 27 Feb – 14 Mar 2009. Registration is free. There will be a 6-digit code sent to your email address upon the completion of registration. This code will be used to judge all entries anonymously. Therefore it is essential to include this code in your submission.

Registration Closes : 14 March

Submission Dates : 27Feb – 6 Apr (24.00 NL time, GMT +1)

Results Announced : 13 April

Official website of the competition :
http://www.gotongroyongcity.org
http://ddm.caad.ed.ac.uk/gotongroyongcity/

International Architecture Contest for the development of designs for two Benetton multistorey buildings in Teheran

International Architecture Contest for the development of designs for two Benetton multistorey buildings in Teheran



Designing in Teheran is an international contest open to creatives, designers and architects, who are called upon to develop a design for two multistorey buildings, hereafter A and B, set in the Iranian city of Teheran.

Deadline : March 27th, 2009

Jury :
Odile Decq
Cino Zucchi
Makio Hasuike
Tobia Scarpa
Luis Pereira Miguel
Tatiana Sambo
Michele Zanella

Prizes :

The total prize money is Euro 30,000.00 for each building.

The winner for A and the winner for B will be awarded Euro 20,000.00 each.

The remaining two finalists for each building (four finalists), will be awarded Euro 5,000.00 each.

Should the contest, for any reason, end without a classification of merit or without winners, the Jury will divide the total prize money between the designs considered worthy of recognition. If the same person wins for both A and B, the prize money will be combined.

Further information : http://www.benettongroup.com/designinginteheran/