Category: competitions
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Sukkah City
An interesting competition and potential for installation is Sukkah City. A recent email from one of the co-organizers Joshua Foer explains the concept: “…it aims to radically reinvent the original green building: the sukkah. The sukkah is an ephemeral, elemental structure traditionally erected by Jews for one week each fall. Its ancient design constraints require…
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PICA Coop Design Competition
Based on the work from last year to create the Chicken Cube – I was recently asked to serve on a design competition jury put on by SERA Architects to design the perfect chicken coop. The competition was aimed at benefitting the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) for their upcoming TADA 2010 Annual Gala…
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FLOW: A Competition
Winners of the international competition „FLOW“ arrived via an email today. The european competition is: “… for students in the last two years of architecture, engineer, art, landscape, town planning, sociology and young architects were born after December 31st, 1975 in Europe.” The subject area of the competition is the City of Brussels, covering the…
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Field Ops is Hot (Still)
In addition to being named on the top 10 list in Fast Company’s Most Innovative Architecture Companies (the only LA on the list) and the major success of the High Line, a couple of recent wins have pushed James Corner Field Operations fully from the realm of the theoretical provocateur, to competition all-star to full-fledged…
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Sprawl Repair Kit
I was not terribly impressed by the collective productivity of last years Reburbia competition. There were highlights, but one was left wondering what all the fuss was about – and if these short, open-ended festivities were worth the attention. One exception in terms of ideas is the Urban Sprawl Repair Kit (via Inhabitat) by Galina…
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Terrain Vague
Via Death by Architecture, a recent call for papers for Terrain Vague: The Interstitial as Site, Concept, Intervention features an opportunity for work to be included in: “This collection of essays will focus on terrain vague—marginal, semi-abandoned space in or along the edge of the city—as abstract concept, specific locale, and subject of literary, architectural,…
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From Mowing to Growing
Via BLDGBLOG, a competition announcement about one of the most intriguing competitions recently. This one investigates the ideas related to food and urban agriculture, the hot topic of the last year. One Prize is Organized by Terreform 1 with a subtheme: “From Mowing to Growing is not meant to transform each lawn into a garden,…
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WPA Video: Local Code / Real Estates
I managed to butcher the announcement of the WPA 2.0 finalists a few weeks back… (which should be up to date now)… and was made aware of it thanks to Ben Golder, one of the team members from the Local Code team. He recently sent me this link to a video of their project. I…
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WPA 2.0 Student Finalists
As a follow-up to the previous post, the student award finalists were announced as well, including a few of the notables images from some of the entries.“R_Ignite” was designed by four graduate students of the Manchester School of Architecture – Peter Millar, Jamie Potter, Andy Wilde and Stuart Wheeler. This proposal revitalizes port cities and…
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WPA 2.0 Winners
[post corrected on 12.13.09] I have been remiss in posting about the WPA 2.0 competition beyond this initial post way back when… it’s been exciting to see both the professional and student awards coming together into a fabulous compilation on information on the reinvention of public infrastructure. So alas, it was time to capture at…