Arts Center/Theater Building

Sponsor: Municipality of Sundsvall, Sweden
Type: Internation, open, single-stage
(Conducted in accordance with Swedish competition guidelines - LOA).
Eligibility: Open to all architects
Fee: none
Languages: Swedish or English
Timetable:
15 May 2008 - Deadline for submissions
Th e closing date for entries is 15th May 2008, by which date entries,
addressed to the Competitions Officer, Asa Björklund, must have been
consigned to the post office or some other carrier or else delivered to the
Competitions Officer direct. Entries consigned for public delivery not later
than this
date, 15th May 2008, but received by the Competitions Officer more than one
week later will not be considered.
Awards:
Th e prize money is MSEK 1 (US$168,000), exclusive of VAT. The jury will
apportion this total amount between the prize-winners..
Jury:
The jury consists exclusively of Swedish professionals. A list is contained
in the competition brief.
Design Challenge:
Design a lively meeting point for residents and visitors, offering culture
in every form, a place where openness and diversity prevail. This should be
a place where children, young persons and adults have a central place for
both gathering impressions and expressing themselves. An integrated arts
complex serving both Sundsvall and the region is to be created by means of a
new arts centre/
theatre and the Kulturmagasinet.
Competition Organizer:
Municipality of Sundsvall
City Planning Office
SE-851 85 SUNDSVALL
Competition Officer:
Asa Björklund
Swepro Project Management AB
SkönsbergsvaÅNgen 3
SE-856 41 SUNDSVALL
Tel. +46-60-168 982, +46-70-548 28 28
asa.bjorklund@swepro.se
Please note. All questions or representations to do with the competition
must be addressed to the Competitions Officer or submitted through the
competition website. Competition entrants may not contact any Jury member
directly on matters relating to the competition.
Website:
www.arkitekt.se/tavlingar/sundsvall2008

City Racks Design Competition
Bicycle Rack - Street/Interior Furniture

Sponsors: New York City Department of Transportation (DOT); Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum, Google Inc. and Transportation Alternatives
Location: New York City
Type: International, open, two-stage
Format: Competitors will submit concept ideas in Stage I. A selection
committee will select up to ten competitors who will move to Stage II and
receive an honorarium of $5,000 to produce two full-scale prototypes of
their design. These prototypes will be exhibited at an opening reception at
the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in fall 2008 and will then be
installed at two locations in the City to test their ability to withstand
the New York City street environment. The jury will then select first-,
second-, and third-place winners. The first-place winner will receive an
additional $10,000 prize[1].
Timetable:
30 April 2008 - Registration Deadline
14 May 2008 - Stage I Question Period Ends
9 June 2008 - Stage I Submission Deadline
Design Challenge:
The purpose of the competition is to develop functional, well-designed
sidewalk racks and to generate new concepts for bicycle parking inside
commercial and residential buildings. These two initiatives, in addition to
NYCDOT’s commitment to increasing the number of miles of bicycle facilities,
providing the City’s first sheltered bike parking stations and creating more
bicycle parking at transit stations, will raise the profile of bicycling as
a convenient mode of transportation in New York.
The City intends to use the winning sidewalk rack as its new standard for
bicycle parking. The design for the in-building rack will first be installed
by Google in its New York City headquarters. It may also be used by
City-owned buildings in the future, when possible.
Jury:
Patricia E. Harris, First Deputy Mayor, New York City
Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation
Ellen Lupton, Curator Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design
Museum
Google Representative (TBA)
David Byrne, Musician, Artist, Cyclist
Steve Madden, Editor-in-Chief, Bicycling Magazine
Duncan Jackson, Industrial Designer, BillingsJackson
For information and to register, go to:
Website: http://nycityracks.wordpress.com

LIVE the BOX

Type: Open, one-stage, national
Sponsors: of AIA Newark and Suburban and the Young Architects Forum
Language: English
Fees: $150 (Design professionals; $75 (students)
Eligibility: All comers, no limitations on age, etc.
Timetable:
April 15, 2008 - Competition Launch (Registration begins)
June 24, 2008 - Registration Deadline
July 8, 2008 - Questions Deadline
July 15, 2008 - Answers Posted
July 31, 2008 - Submission Deadline
Exhibition: October 2008
First Prize: $10,000
Second Prize: $7,000
Third Prize: $3,000
Honorable Mention: $1,000
Design Challenge:
Thousands of unwanted shipping containers clog our ports and the land around
them. AIA Newark and Suburban challenges the nation's most innovative
thinkers and designers to re-invent the box with their most visionary and
creative utilizations of shipping containers as the primary construct of an
urban multi-family mixed use project. The selected site is adjacent to a
major train station, and walking distance to the downtown and major cultural
centers of Newark, NJ.
Materials: Designs must utilize standard height shipping containers in
either 20'-0" or 40'-0" nominal lengths as the main building block of the
structure. These containers may be utilized in an configuration or quantity
and may be cut or solid.
For information and to register, go to:
Website: www.livethebox.org

2008 Living Steel Sustainable Housing

Type: Open, expressions of interest (EOI)
Timetable:
29 April 2008 - Deadline for EOI
Challenge: This competition will be unlike the others in its format with a
3-day charette- at a location somewhere in the world. Ten firms will be
selected to create innovative sustainable housing for a location in Russia.
For details, go to:
www.livingsteel.org

Space Prize for International Students of Architecture Design 2008

Sponsor: Space Group
Type: Internation, open, ideas, two-stage
Country: Korea
Fee: US$50
Timetable:
20 June 2008 - Registration Deadline
11 Sept 2008 - Submission Deadline (Must be Postmarked or Delived by
visit)
Eligibility Undergraduate and graduate students (up to 3) up to master's
degrees (students on leave of absence included)
Prizes:
Grand Prize (1): 5 million KRW
1st Prize (1): 2 million KRW
2nd Prize (3): each 1 million KRW
3rd Prize (many): One year Free Subscription to Monthly Magazine Space
* The Grand Prize winning team is given an opportunity to join Space Group,
and other prize winners get preferential treatment when they apply to the
Space Group.
Theme: Where, how do you live?
If the 20th Century was a period of change, when the impact of the
Industrial Revolution became apparent in various sectors of the society, the
21st Century is already witnessing another transformation; it is difficult
to enumerate the complexities of this new century, ranging from the movement
of huge amounts of capital with the expansion of globalization and the
intricacies of class differences, to lifestyle changes due to new
technologies. However, most people still lead their lives in accordance with
dwellings and lifestyles that were created from the 19th Century to the 20th
Century, because they are familiar with these constructs. Dwellings that
comprise physically solid and socially inflexible systems require people to
live in conformity with them and still retain control. The division of
rooms, which include the living room, the kitchen, and bedrooms, and which
are used according to their functions, is almost a global phenomenon; the
rooms fulfill exclusive functions respectively, and fail to offer
flexibility by meeting new demands. Moreover, one also rarely finds cases
reflecting various types of families and the changing environment. As modern
architects in the early 20th Century reflected changing new lifestyles with
proposals that transcended their era, rather than merely reflecting their
times, we hope that applicants will create new alternatives for dwellings
based on currently imaginable technological advancements and predictions of
future social changes.
Jury
Ryue Nishizawa (Office of Ryue Nishizawa)
Choi Moon-gyu (Department of Architectural Engineering, Yonsei .University)
Submissions:
1. Less than 20 pages of Power-point File
2. Two copies of printed Power-point Images
Website:
http://www.space-prize.com/architect/eng/main.asp

Sham Spiritual Oasis

SPONSORS: European Commission
Type: Open, geographically restricted
Location: Syria
Fee: None
Languages: English, Arabic
Timetable:
30 April 2008 - Questions Deadline
15 May 2008 - Registration Deadline
15 June 2008 - Submission Deadline
Eligibility: Students of Art or Architecture from Europe or Arab
Mediterranean countries who are under 30 years old.
Check website for details.
First three winners- US$1,000
Design Challenge: The competition aims at developing a concept of a place of
hospitality for travelers and pilgrims through the Sham Region (old name for
Damascus), a place to be called Sham Spiritual Oasis. It will serve as a
visitor center, a place of spiritual growth and tolerance.
Competition website:
http://www.shamspiritualoasis.org
Email: info@shamspiritualoasis.org

Ecohouse Student Design Competition 2008

Type: Open, international, ideas
Eligibility: Students
Location: Oxford (UK)
Language: English
Awards: £3,500
1st Prize £2000
2nd Prize £1000
3rd Prize £ 500
Timetable:
24 June 2008 - Submission deadline
Design Challenge:
The competition invites designs for an ecohouse of 120m2 for up to six
persons on a plot of 200m2. It will be launched at the forthcoming Ecobuild
by The Concrete Centre, in conjunction with the Architectural Press and
Teachers in Architecture.
The designs should take full account of how to reduce energy needs for
heating, cooling and lighting, the use of passive sustainability techniques,
and the use of local construction materials and renewable energy sources. In
addition, the homes must be designed to be robust and resilient and last
until at least the end of this century and through an age of increasingly
extreme weather events. Whilst taking account of all of these criteria, the
homes must also be designed for comfort and lifestyle flexibility.
Registration:
Registration is compulsory. Judging will take place in early July and
winners notified within 3 working days. Winning and highly commended
candidates will be invited to a prizegiving which will take place at the
Oxford Conference: Resetting the Agenda for Architectural Education 22-23
July 2008 (www.oxfordconference2008.co.uk).
Website: www.concretecentre.com/main.asp?page=1740