Archive for April, 2007

Fly to America’s Favorite Architecture !!!

Fly to America’s Favorite Architecture, a layer featuring the American public’s favorite architecture (as selected though a national poll announced earlier this year). View all 150 structures, including many with just created 3-D models of the buildings, ballparks, bridges, and memorials that characterize architecture in the eyes of Americans. And then explore the second layer, […]


Vatnsmýri - architectural competition

A Call for Ideas
Vatnsmýri is a large (150 ha) area near the centre of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland and the northernmost capital in the world. In this Call for Ideas, the goal is to maximize the opportunity offered by Vatnsmýri to strengthen and consolidate the city for the 21st century, providing quality and a […]


First Annual Architecture and Design Competition in Second Life

Topic of the Competition:
Seeking the coolest, most spatially interesting and aesthetically independent pieces of architecture from the inhabitants of Second Life. It can include all buildings: from big to small, spaceships, underwater constructions, villas, fully landscaped and designed islands, complex high rises. Decisive are creativity, innovation, features, style, and spatial qualities.
Goal of the Competition:
The competition […]


the 25th space prize for international students of architectural design

Theme
Public Space, Public Force, Public Imagination
Jury
Raoul Bunschoten_Founding Director of CHORA, Architecture and Urbanism
Park Youn-shim_President of Jangwon Arcadia & Architects Associates
Eligibility
Students (a team may consist of up to 3 students)
Awards
Grand Prize (1): 5,000,000 won
Best Prize(1): 2,000,000 won
Excellent Prize (3): each 1,000,000 won
Many Selected Works: One year Free Subscription to Monthly Magazine Space
* The Grand Prize winner […]


THE 7TH SPACE PRIZE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF INTERIOR DESIGN

Theme
3.6.9. is the spatial volumetric relationship that the participants should adhere to for the competition. The given dimensions are 3m, 6m, and 9m; the space volume of any width, length or height. Within the boundary of the spatial dimensions, the participants are at liberty to explore and suggest innovative interior space reflecting lifestyle(s).
Jury
Kim Joo-yun_Professor, […]


Gaudi Competition - A Minimum House for Leisure in the 21st century

Program meanings
At the XXI century, the space mutation due to human activity entails new meanings.
Depletion of fossil energies and pollution consequences lead him to reconsider his way of wasting space and raw material for building, organizing urban economy and for inhabiting territories.
The project of a multifunctional space, for leisure, work, living puts its creator into […]


The World Habitat Awards

Introduction
The World Habitat Awards were established in 1985 by the Building and Social Housing Foundation as part of its contribution to the United Nations International Year of Shelter for the Homeless.
Two awards are given annually to projects from the global north as well as the south that provide practical and innovative solutions to current housing […]


Schedium Competition

Call for entries
An integral portion of the Schedium series is a portfolio Call for Entries, intended to celebrate the drawing abilities of emerging architects. Winners may be asked to participate in the live drawing series.
Eligibility
To be eligible, you must possess a degree in architecture, or an equivalent international degree. Entrants must have either received their […]


NEW HOLMENKOLLBAKKEN

INVITATION
In 2006 the International Ski Federation (FIS) awarded the World Ski Championships, Nordic disciplines, to Oslo on the condition that a new and modern ski jump is built. Holmenkollbakken (Holmenkollen ski jump) is one of the capital’s and indeed the country’s greatest symbols, even though the ski jump has undergone constant alterations over the last […]