Toftegårds Plads Syd

Type: Open, international
Location: Copenhagen (DK)
Elibibility: Architects, Landscape architects, urban designers, etc.
Timetable:
Registration is not required to submit entries in Danish design
competitions. You will be registered as a participant when you ask for the
annexes to the competition brief.
1 April 2008 - Deadline for questions
14 May 2008 - Deadline for Submissions
Lnaguages: English, Danish
Awards: 750.000 DKK
Design Challenge:
Toftegårds Plads Syd (Toftegård Square South) has remained largely unused
for several years. In its current form it far from reflects the fact that it
is one of the most important and most distinctive gateways to Copenhagen.
The City of Copenhagen has therefore decided to launch a competition to
obtain ideas for the creation of a lively, human and vibrant urban space of
high architectural quality. Entrants in the competition may also include
proposals for new buildings, various types of coverings and other structures
in the square. The new square must be part of the ongoing development that
will turn the southern part of the Valby district into one of the most
interesting areas in Copenhagen. The City of Copenhagen looks forward to
receiving many creative and effervescent proposals for the future use and
design of the square.
Competition website (English):
www.arkitektforeningen.dk/Home/Service/English/Competitions/Internationals/T
oftegaard_uk.aspx

Larvik Innner Harbor

Type: Open, international, urban planning
Location: Larvik, Norway
Languages: English, Norwegian
Eligibility: Architects, landscape architects
Timetable:
26. May .2008 (15:00 hrs) - Submission deadline
Prizes: 1,000,000 NOK
Design Challenge;
Larvik municipality, in co-operation with the National Association of
Norwegian Architects, invite graduate architects and landscape architects
with approved education to an open ideas competition for the design of the
Inner Harbour.
A site survey will be held in Larvik on 10.3.2008. The tender documents can
be ordered from Larvik municipality and from the National Association of
Norwegian Architects.

Information:
Larvik kommune
Postboks 2014
Contact: Plan og byggesak,
Attn: Jarl Tore Mehl
N-3255 Larvik, Norway
Tel. 98231849/33171839.
E-mail: jarl.tore.mehl@larvik.kommune.no.
Fax 33 17 18 01.
www.arkitektnytt.no/page/page/preview/10831/news-4-2226.html
www.larvik.kommune.no

Green Room Environmental Pavilion

Sponsor: EASA_Ireland_2008
Type: International, open, student
Fee: None
Awards:
The winning entry will be built at the EASA Summer Assembly in Ireland. The
wining entrants will not have to pay participation fees (max. 2 people) to
the EASA 2008 Assembly in Ireland.
There will also be commendations for the ‘Most Imaginative’ and ‘Most
Practical’ entries. A single entrant from each of these will be awarded free
participation to the easa 2008 Assembly in Ireland.
Timetable:
18 March - Registration/Questions deadline
1st April 2008 - Deadline for submissions
Eligibility: Entry to the competition is unrestricted. A full brief and full
details are available online at www.easa008.ie.
Realization:
The wining project will be given to an architectural office to do
construction drawings and prepare it for construction. It is to be built on
a site in Letterfrack during the 2008 summer assembly as a high quality
built workshop. It may be published in the national and international
architecture press.
Background
An adverse effect of the recent explosion of population in Ireland is the
inability of the educational system to adapt to new circumstances.
• Currently, 750 schools in Ireland are renting temporary prefab
accommodation.
• Most schools have had to use the same prefabs for longer than expected
periods, far exceeded their design lives.
• In some cases current teachers are now teaching in the same sub-standard,
dilapidated prefabs they were educated in.
• Although 13 new schools built around Dublin will open their doors next
September, the construction of new schools is falling long short of the
population growth in and around the city.
Design Challenge:
The brief for this competition is to design a transportable pavillion that
will function as a learning tool for school children. The aim of this brief
is to create a space that embodys a lesson, and successfully explains and
de-mystifies ecological and sustainable, architecture and principles.
Competition address:
EASA Ireland Competition Team
EASA Ireland Ltd.,
2 Terminus Mills, Clonskeagh Road,
Dublin 6, Ireland.
Competition website: www.easa008.ie
Email: competition@easa008.ie