2007–2008 ACSA Student Design Competition
New Visions of Security: Re-life of a DFW Airport Terminal

SPONSORS:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); Dallas/FortWorth Iinternational
Airport (DFW); American Airlines; Corgan Associates
TYPE:
Open, international, student, RfP
LOCATION:
Dallas, Texas
LANGUAGE:
English
TIMETABLE:
Sep 2007 - Registration Open
07 Dec 2007 - Mid-Project Review
08 Feb 2008 - Registration Deadline
01 Mar 2008 - Questions Deadline
15 Mar 2008 - Answers Posted
04 Jun 2008 - Submission Deadline
Jun 2008 - Winners Announced
Summer 2008 - Publication of Summary Book
ELIGIBILITY:
Students, working individually or in teams, with faculty sponsor
JURY:
Not Announced
AWARDS:
Mid-Project Review:
5 awards of $2,000 ($1,500 for student/team; $500 for faculty sponsor)
Final Prize:
First Place - Student/Team $20,000; Faculty Sponsor $8,000
Second Place - Student/Team $10,000; Faculty Sponsor $4,000
Third Place - Student/Team $6,000; Faculty Sponsor $2,000
Honorable Mention - $10,000 total, made at jury’s discretion.
The design jury will meet in December 2007 for the mid-project review and
during June 2008 to select winning projects. Winning teams and faculty
sponsors will be notified of the results directly.
FEE:
None
THE COMPETITION:
Major changes to airline operations, passenger expectations, and aviation
security over the past 30 years, along with the aging terminal buildings,
make it necessary for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to
explore designs for a major terminal re-life. This competition will require
students to develop design solutions to “re-life” American Airlines’
Terminal A at DFW. The competition is intended to allow for a complete
interior and exterior re-design of the current crescent shaped two-story
terminal necessary to respond to post 911 security requirements, current
airline operational needs, passenger use patterns and expectations, and
concession development.
Designs for the re-life of DFW Terminal A should focus on:
-Accommodating current and emerging security requirements
-Incorporating sustainable design
-Optimizing operational efficiencies
-Incorporate space for retail and concessions
-Converting its 1970’s architecture into a 21st century statement
-Incorporating the airport’s new train system, SkyLink
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Eric Ellis
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1735 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202.785.2324
Fax: 202.628.0448
eellis@acsa-arch.org
https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/0708airport.aspx

2007–2008 ACSA/AISC Student Design Competition
Assembling Housing & Open Category

SPONSORS:
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)
TYPE:
Open, international, student, RfP
LOCATION:
Not Site Specific
LANGUAGE:
English
TIMETABLE:
08 Feb 2008 - Registration Deadline
28 May 2008 - Submission Deadline
Jun 2008 - Winners Announced
Summer 2008 - Publication of Summary Book
ELIGIBILITY:
Students, working individually or in teams, with faculty sponsor
JURY:
Not Announced
AWARDS:
Category I and Category II:
First Prize - Student $2,500; Faculty sponsor $1,000
Second Prize - Student $1,500; Faculty sponsor $750
Third Prize - Student $750; Faculty sponsor $500
FEE:
None
THE COMPETITION:
CATEGORY I - ASSEMBLING HOUSING
Assembling Housing. The eighth annual ACSA/AISC competition will challenge
architecture students to design ASSEMBLING HOUSING in an urban context of
the students and sponsoring faculty selection. The project will allow the
student to explore the many varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel
as a building material. Steel is an ideal material for multi-story housing
because it offers the greatest strength to weight ratio and can be designed
systematically as a kit of parts or prefabricated to allow for quicker
construction times and less labor, thus reducing the cost of construction.
Housing built with steel is potentially more flexible and adaptable to allow
for diversity of family structures and changing family needs over time.
CATEGORY II - OPEN
Open. The ACSA/AISC Competition will offer architecture students the
opportunity to compete in an open competition with limited restrictions.
This category will allow the students, with the approval of the sponsoring
faculty member, to select a site and building program. The Open Category
program should be of equal complexity and comparable size and program space
as the Category I program. This open submission design option will permit a
greatest amount of flexibility with the context.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Eric W. Ellis/AISC Competition
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1735 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202.785.2324 (ext 8)
Fax: 202.628.0448
competitions@acsa-arch.org
https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/0708aisc.aspx

2007–2008 ACSA/AISC Student Design Competition
Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World

SPONSORS:
Portland Cement Association
TYPE:
Open, international, student, RfP
LOCATION:
Not Site Specific
LANGUAGE:
English
TIMETABLE:
05 Dec 2007 - Registration Opens
08 Feb 2008 - Registration Deadline
14 May 2008 - Submission Deadline
Jun 2008 - Winners Announced
ELIGIBILITY:
Students, working individually or in teams, with faculty sponsor
JURY:
Not Announced
AWARDS:
Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive prizes
totaling nearly $50,000, including:
-A cash prize of $10,000 divided among the top winners in each category.
-pcaStructurePoint software (valued at nearly $10,000), which combines PCA’s
suite of concrete design software with an array of structural engineering
resources, awarded to each winning school
FEE:
None
THE COMPETITION:
In the 3rd Annual Portland Cement Association (PCA) Concrete Thinking for a
Sustainable World Competition, students are challenged to investigate
innovative uses of portland cement-based material to achieve sustainable
design objectives. The competition offers two separate entry categories,
each without site restrictions, for maximum flexibility.
Category I – Recycling Center
Design an environmentally responsible Recycling Center focused on reusing
today’s materials to preserve tomorrow’s resources.
Category II – Building Element
Design a single element of a building that provides a sustainable solution
to real-world environmental challenges.
www.ConcreteThinker.com is a comprehensive resource for information on using
cement-based materials for sustainable design.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Eric Ellis
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1735 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202.785.2324
Fax: 202.628.0448
eellis@acsa-arch.org
https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/0708pca.aspx

PCI Total-Precast Design Challenge:
A LEED Certified Middle School

SPONSORS:
See website
TYPE:
Open, national, student, ideas
LOCATION:
Category I: Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Illinois
Category II: Not Site Specific
LANGUAGE:
English
TIMETABLE:
23 May 2008 - Submission Deadline (by 5:00 pm)
Jun 2008 - Jury Deliberations
Jul 2008 - Results Announced
05-08 Oct 2008 - Awards Presented at the PCI Annual Convention & Exhibition
in Orlando, FL
ELIGIBILITY:
Students/teams in architecture or in architecture-related programs with
faculty advisor
JURY:
The jury will be composed of three prominent architects/engineers
representing design
expertise in the field of total-precast concrete design, sustainable design,
landscape planning, and/or the presentation/evaluation of architectural
competition.
AWARDS:
The winning entries may be exhibited at the 2008 PCI Annual Convention. In
addition, winning entries may be published in the PCI Journal and Ascent
Magazine. A limited number of honorable mention citations may also be
awarded at the discretion of the jury. PCI reserves the right to publish
photographs of all entries and names of entrants without compensation.
FEE:
None
THE COMPETITION:
This year’s PCI Total-Precast Design Challenge is the design of a new middle
school to be located at the designated site in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
area. The project will address the vision that PCI has for a new middle
school, in addition to showcasing a total-precast concrete solution (defined
as 100% of structural and architectural elements). In this year’s
competition we are following the consideration of sustainable building
practices. The potential for precast/prestressed concrete as a green
building material is significant, and innovative applications may contribute
to greater performance in several areas of sustainable building. Successful
entries will be characterized by innovative use of precast/prestressed
concrete as an agent in sustainable design. A minimum potential Silver LEED
rating is required to be integrated into the design. Students may
participate in the site-specific competition (Category I), or opt to enter
in the nonsite-specific category (Category II) and work with a local school
district where plans for a school are in progress.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Michael Potts
Director of Education
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute
209 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 500
Chicago, IL 60606-6938
Tel: (312) 583-6784
Fax: (312) 786-0353
mpotts@pci.org
http://www.pci.org/education/arch_design/

Solar Power Plant Tower

SPONSORS:
The Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS); China's Ministry of Science and Technology; Beijing's
Municipal Commission for Science and Technology
LOCATION:
Beijing, China
LANGUAGE:
Chinese, English
TIMETABLE:
23 Nov 2007 - Competition Launch
15 Jan 2008 - Submission Deadline
ELIGIBILITY:
Architects and engineers worldwide
JURY:
Not Announced
FEE:
Not Announced
AWARDS:
1st prize - 30,000 yuan
Two 2nd prizes - 20,000 yuan each
Three 3rd prizes - 5,000 yuan each
6 excellent award recipients - 1,000 yuan each
THE COMPETITION:
The Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS) has recently launched an international design competition for
a tower building, the key architecture of its planned first-ever solar
thermal power plant to be built near the foot of the Badaling Great Wall in
northern suburb of Beijing.
The IEE solar thermal power plant which will work as a model for China's
upcoming other new solar power plants around the country will also be the
first such project in Asia.
The landmark solar power plant tower, which will be built up to over 100
meters tall, will work to receive focused solar energy that will be
reflected onto its top solar receiver by an array of thousands of
sun-tracking mirrors, or heliostats, installed in front of the foot of the
tower.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/234543.htm
http://iee.ac.cn

Iraqi Memorial

SPONSORS:
TYPE:
Open, international, RfP
LOCATION:
Philippines
LANGUAGE:
English, Arabic
TIMETABLE:
As a user generated content site, the project is ongoing indefinitely –
Iraqimemorial.org will continue to be realized as new memorial proposals are
uploaded to the site. A first “Juror’s Deadline for Review” has been
established as March 19th, 2008, the fifth anniversary of the start of the
war in Iraq.
ELIGIBILITY:
artists, designers, architects or other interested creative individuals at
minimum of 18 years old
JURY:
-Dr. Nadje Al-Ali, Centre for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London, UK
-Yaelle Amir, Independent Curator and Writer, New York City, USA
-Dr Bernadette Buckley, Lecturer in International Politics, Goldsmiths
University of London, UK
-Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta, The Raqs Media Collective, Delhi,
India
-Dr. David Simpson, Professor of English, University of California Davis,
USA
-John David Spiak, Curator, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
-Dr. Marjorie Vecchio, Director/Curator, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery,
University of Nevada, Reno, USA
AWARDS:
Exhibition (there will be no "winner" of this competition)
FEE:
None
THE COMPETITION:
Iraqimemorial.org is an online call to action to artists, designers,
architects or other interested creative individuals or collaborators to
propose concepts for the creation of memorials to the many thousands of
Iraqi civilians killed in the War in Iraq. As of 2007, estimates range from
77,000 to over 655,000 deaths in Iraq of non-combatants as a consequence of
“Operation Iraqi Freedom”. The memorial concepts will be featured in a
growing online exhibition/database of proposals accessible on the site.
Proposals are available to be viewed and rated by the public as well as by
an internationally diverse group of individual scholars and curators who are
serving as jurors.
This project seeks to highlight conceptions of memorials in the broadest
context possible. All media and processes are to be featured on the project
site, this includes but is not limited to experimental or traditional
applications of: sculpture, architecture, installation, performance,
murals, web art, digital art, photography, video, film, audio art, etc.
Please visit the project web site for further detailed entry requirements
and information.
Participating artists as of 11/29/07 include:
Tony Allard-USA, Paul Dixon-UK, Carla Drago-Australia, Al Fadhil-Germany,
James Hutchinson-UK, James Johnson-Perkins-UK, Sabine Kacunko-Germany,
Suzanne Kanatsiz-USA, Lynn Marie Kirby-USA, Erik Krikortz-Sweden, Patrick
Lichty-USA, Maria Paschalidou-Greece, John Quinn-UK, Kate Sicchio, UK, Jack
Toolin-USA.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Information/Project Contact:
Project Director Joseph DeLappe
Associate Professor
Digital Media Studio
Department of Art/224
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada 89509
775-784-6624
delappe@iraqimemorial.org
http://www.iraqimemorial.org

The Millennium School Design Competition

SPONSORS:
See website
TYPE:
Open, international, RfP
LOCATION:
Philippines
LANGUAGE:
English
TIMETABLE:
11 Jan 2008 - Registration Deadline
25 Jan 2008 - Questions Deadline
15 Feb 2008 - Answers Posted
10 Mar 2008 - Submission Deadline
Mar-Apr 2008 - Jury Deliberations
Apr 2008 - Results Announced
ELIGIBILITY:
Architects worldwide
JURY:
Not Announced
AWARDS:
1st Prize - US$10,000
2nd Prize - US$5,000
3rd Prize - US$3,000
Special Category Awards - US$2,000 each
FEE:
None
THE COMPETITION:
Millennium School is a design competition for school buildings in
developing countries located in the tropics. The Millennium School Design
Competition is part of the Be Better Build Better Campaign and aims to
solicit the best architecture-for-humanity designs from all over the world.
Architects shall be brought together in a collective effort to try to find
solutions to the problems of school buildings in the developing world, and
in particular those that are constantly faced by natural disasters like
typhoons, flash floods and earthquakes. The competition will facilitate the
emergence of new sustainable design solutions and appropriate technologies
that will improve the quality of school buildings in the developing world.
The competition will offer a venue for the practice of architecture for a
client group that would otherwise have no access to design professionals
that can solve their problems.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
United Architects of the Philippines
53 Scout Rallos St.
Diliman, Quezon City, 1103
Philippines
Tel: 4126364, 4126374
info@millennium-school.org
http://www.millennium-school.org

Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space

SPONSORS:
Art Alliance Austin; AIA Austin
TYPE:
Restricted, international, 2-stage, ideas
LOCATION:
Austin, Texas
LANGUAGE:
English
TIMETABLE:
22 Feb 2008 - Registration Deadline
24 Mar 2008 - Submission Deadline
09 Apr 2008 - Winner Announced
ELIGIBILITY:
Any architecture or interior design professional/student who has completed
their education within 10 years of the competition announcement is eligible.
Student applicants must be in their final year of architecture/interior
design school or enrolled in an architecture/interior design graduate
program.
JURY:
Architects/Designers: Louise Harpman and Goil Amornvivat
Gallery Representative: Wally Workman
Museum Representatives: Dana Friis-Hansen and Elizabeth Dunbar
FEE:
US $35
AWARDS:
Grand prize: $1,000
Every attempt will be made to building the winning design as part of Phase
II during Art City Austin 2009. The winning design will be published in
various art and architecture publications.
Second prize: $500
Third prize: $250
Top 10 entries: Exhibition at various events through out Art Week Austin
2008 and at Art City Austin 2008.
THE COMPETITION:
The purpose of this Design Competition will generate proposals for a secure
temporary space for the exhibit of fine art. The outdoor setting requires
that the proposed prototype provide both protection for and exhibition of
juried works (during the day as well as evening). Unifying the exhibition
through temporary architectural spaces that facilitate and enhance the
installation of work by selected artists.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
http://www.artallianceaustin.org/aia_togs_competition.html