Category: competitions
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Two if by Land, None if by Sea
Just last month, a strange site appeared in Portland, docked at Waterfront Park. The area, chain-linked off from anyone getting too close, gave a vision of a spectacle equal parts Rose Festival Fleet Week and kitschy episode of the The Love Boat, spawned from gigantism of the engineering prowess and the ego that could only…
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Tackling Suburbia
The latest competition out there challenging entrants to envision visionary designs is Reburbia: A Suburban Design Competition that focuses on the suburbs as the venue for exploration. Sponsored by Inhabitat and Dwell, the premise is open and relatively simple: “Show us how you would re-invent the suburbs! What would a McMansion become if it weren’t…
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DailyLand: Almere Hout Noord
Almere Hout Noord CompetitionWest 8 ; Mecanoo Architecten > info via Land8Lounge; World Landscape Architect “…a socially sustainable residential and office neighborhood, promoting small-scale networks of the different residents.” :: images via Land8Lounge
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DailyLand: Imperial War Museum North Exterior
Imperial War Museum North ExteriorManchester, UKTopotek 1> more via Bustler:: image via Bustler From the description: “The camouflage patterns used by the military are an abstraction of landscapes of combat. These patterns represent a visual average of the natural environment: the muted green, brown, and ocher hues of typical camouflage are a graphic summary of…
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DailyLand: Secret Landscape Garden
An interesting visual exploration of space in this competition entry. I’m interested in what readers think about the success of this story/illustration (with a book illustrator) in telling this particular tale. Personally, aside from the plan graphic, I’m not feeling it and find it distracting from the overall concept, but that’s the beauty of expression…
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Freshkills Park Video
An email from Bijan Rezvani from thirteen/wnet in NYC offers a short video as part of ‘The City Concealed’ series. The installment of Freshkills Park Project – outlining the innovative work of Field Operations and team in transforming the former world’s largest landfill into this long-term process to create an amazing large park. The City…
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Re:Vision Dallas = Vertical Green
The annoucement of three winners for the Re:Vision Dallas Competition on Bustler was telling in some of the interesting forms, and the consistency of veg.itecture as a vital building element – particularly the use of roof and walls faces for environmental, aesthetic, and productive means. Check out the full array of info and pics on…
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North Dakota – Mobile Chaplet
It is not too often that North Dakota architecture gets the nod from Some recent coverage from Bustler featured one of the 2009 AIA Small Projects Awards for the ‘Mobile Chaplet’ by Moorhead & Moorhead. :: image via Bustler“Mobile Chaplet is one of six portable spaces for reflection commissioned to travel to rural communities around…
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Drawing Water
This great image (from BLDGBLOG) featuring a proposal from EDAW for a 2008 exhibition from the London Festival of Architecture entitled ‘If I could design London I would…‘ As pointed out on the BLDGBLOG post, the poster features some compelling retro-futuristic graphics that look at the water-based configuration of London. :: image via BLDGBLOG A…
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Food for Thought Winners
The winners for the competition ‘Food for Thought’ sponsored by 24-7 sandwich shop have recently been announced, and it seems as if the organizers were successful in providing some provocative visions of a new culture of food. The winning entry ‘Connection Wall’ comes from Milos Milivojevic from Serbia and envisions a digital diner where virtual…