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| The British Homes Awards Sustainable Landscape Architecture Competition In partnership with the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and The Landscape Institute (LI), the British Homes Awards invites submissions for a two-stage open design competition from members of The Landscape Institute and Landscape Institute Registered Practices. This competition offers the opportunity to showcase innovative, sustainable design for the new landscape to be created for the Phase 2 expansion of the BRE Innovation Park at Garston, Watford. |
Cleveland Design Competition - Project 2008: interPLAY. The annual Cleveland Design Competition Submission deadline: 05 Dec 2008 Introduction "...cities today have many problems. Recreation is, simultaneously, one of those problems and a way to alleviate many of the other problems..." (Friedberg Play and Interplay) Cleveland, Ohio's Detroit Shoreway neighborhood is changing. In the last decade, the neighborhood has seen significant investment in arts and culture, renovation of aging housing, and the replacement of lakefront industrial areas with housing and public spaces. As urban neighborhoods like Detroit Shoreway become more economically and generationally diverse, it becomes increasingly important to provide viable, active community play environments that bring together residents of different ages, classes and backgrounds. Too often, play environments are poorly planned and generically programmed. This presents an incredible opportunity for designers to invent truly imaginative play spaces that bring diverse communities together. Project 2008: interPLAY challenges entrants to propose active and passive recreation along an existing multipurpose path that connects Cleveland's west side neighborhoods to Edgewater Park and Lake Erie. Entrants must design an intergenerational playscape that activates the residual space around the pathway; enhancing one of Cleveland's few pedestrian connections to the lakefront. Site The Project 2008 : interPLAY competition site, located a few minutes west of downtown Cleveland in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood, is situated at the northern terminus of West 65th Street at Father Caruso Drive. Owned by the City of Cleveland, the site at the West 65th street bike tunnel currently sees a great deal of use as a connection from the neighborhood to the lakefront. At approximately one acre, the portion of the site south of the Norfolk Southern rail lines is bound by West 65th Street, the rail lines to the north, and the industrial property to the East. The approximately one acre portion of the site north of the rail lines is bound by the significant grade change and vegetation buffer to the east, the rail lines to the south, and an eastbound on-ramp to West Shoreway (State Route 2). In 2002, the City of Cleveland updated the City's Master Plan in an effort to create a more accessible lakefront. "Connecting Cleveland: The Lakefront Plan," identified the conversion of West Shoreway to a 35 mile per hour boulevard as a priority project for the Ohio Department of Transportation and the City of Cleveland. Among the details include at-grade intersections, bicycle paths and sidewalks, and new park space. While the current West Shoreway conversion does not physically alter the competition site, entrants are encouraged to anticipate future plans for the lakefront. In July of 2003, $850,000 in improvements to the West 65th Street bicycle tunnel were completed; demonstrating a commitment to the Lakefront Plan and desire to connect the City's bike and pedestrian pathways. Challenge Project 2008: interPLAY entrants must illustrate a vision for intergenerational recreation along the multipurpose pathway at West 65th Street. While the pathway at the competition site is already used by residents and visitors of all generations and backgrounds, its sole function as a passageway to the lakefront precludes interaction and sustained activity. Designs will create a destination for adults, teenagers and children with inventive play landscapes, pavilions, architecture, and/or artistic interventions for fun and leisure, activity and amusement. Questionable assumptions about how activities and users must be segregated leave many neighborhood parks and plazas underutilized - only occupied for limited times of day (or seasons of the year), used by a single age group, or serving singular skills and interests. Designers should go beyond existing convention to propose inclusive and creative solutions that elevate community play design. Designs must: - Engage the existing path while maintaining its use as a pedestrian and bicycle connection and enhancing the experience without re-engineering the meandering pathway or affecting the impact of the beloved mosaics. - Address complex infrastructure adjacencies without compromising their current function. Where possible, solutions should safely embrace this existing infrastructure and explore the opportunities its proximity presents. - Ensure maximum accessibility for users with a variety of disabilities. While it is suggested by the Access Board that assistive devices be used to accommodate users with disabilities, we encourage entrants to develop designs integral to programmed uses to minimize the need for additive devices. - Extend use of the site through multiple seasons and times of day; simply because it is rainy, cold, dark, or hot, doesn't mean the site is not usable. - Employ the sustainable use of resources and materials for construction and ensure efficient maintenance and operation of the playscape. Download the Competition Brief to read more (409KB PDF) |
Registration: 12 January 2009
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2009 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition Call for Entries: FIX OUR ENERGY ADDICTION Rising energy costs present new design problems. Redesign the broken models of the 20th century. Challenge our patterns of living and working in a fuel-hungry world...come up with solutions that connect us, make us more efficient, more humane. Ask yourself... Focus on one area that needs fixing-products, interiors, buildings and landscape, communication systems, or anything else you can imagine-and develop your idea fully. Open to all designers in practice 10 years or less. |
TALL EMBLEM STRUCTURE FOR ZA/ABEEL PARK, DUBAI In conformity with the UIA-UNESCO regulations for international competitions, the competition has been approved by the UIA. JURY |
| WELLESLEY ROAD AND PARK LANE, CROYDON INTERNATIONAL URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION Submission: 18 March 2009 The London Borough of Croydon invites designers to meet the challenge of transforming a one kilometre length of the main route that punctures the heart of Croydon from an urban motorway into an environmentally friendly destination in its own right. Practices operating in fields of urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning and transportation are especially welcome. Aim of the competition: Organisation: Time scale: |
Registration: 13 February 2009 The American Institute of Architects Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international COD Ideas Competition. |
| INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ARCHITECTS: BIENNIAL BARBARA CAPPOCHIN PRIZE 2009 Submission: 30 June 2009 The third edition of this biennial prize aims to heighten awareness and associate the different actors in the world of architecture: planners, builders and customers, in promoting the quality of planning and construction, in natural and urban contexts. SUBMISSIONS PRIZES JURY SCHEDULE PARTICIPATION PROCEDURE |
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