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Sucker Punch and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon are organizing an open international ideas competition for a new home for the Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art, MoCCA. The MoCCA was established in 2001 and is based in the soho area of manhattan in New York City. [More info after the break.]

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THE CHALLENGE
In the last years Chile has turned into a leading society in the field of industrial wine production but above all, in the development of the best wine cellars in the world, having successfully merged occidental science and technology with traditional grape growing. Chilean wines assume that it must serve to contemporary taste, while still be an object of design that not only enters through the eyes but through its body that has a sensibility and a unique mixture of flavours. Consistently, Chile has contributed to improve wine style beyond its frontiers, from the simplest flavour design to the most sophisticated, turning into an example of avant-garde harvesting in the world. [More info after the break]

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If you’re a designer, recent graduate, student or talented young gun, now is your chance to shine and bring your work to a wider audience, including experts at Autodesk. As part of our new competition, we’ll be supporting some of the best talent in UK design visualization, with the winner receiving a high-end graphics card worth over £1,000 from our friends at ATI. [More info after the break.] Read the rest of this entry »

MCSimon Via Flickr

Norwegian architects Snøhetta has won the Times Square Reconstruction Project to create a series of pedestrian plazas along Broadway, including Times Square. The winning team led by Snøhetta also comprises WXY Architecture and Design, Weidlinger Associates (engineers), Matthew Nielsen (landscape), Billings Jackson Design (industrial) and Bexel (audio-visual).

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The RIBA is pleased to announce the RIBA Stirling Shortlist 2010

Neues Museum by David Chipperfield Architects with Julian Harrap Archtitects

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts by Zaha Hadid Architects

Christ’s College School by DSDHA

Ashmolean Museum by Rick Mather Architects

Clapham Manor Primary School by dRMM

Bateman’s Row by Theis and Khan

The RIBA Stirling Prize is given for the RIBA Building of the Year. It is run in association with The Architects’ Journal and Benchmark and is presented to the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of architecture in the past year.

The winning architect receives a cash prize of £20,000. The prize is named after the great British architect Sir James Stirling (1926-1992). 

The RIBA Stirling Prize Winner 2009 was Maggie’s Centre London by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

Images:
Neues Museum: Audringje
http://www.flickr.com/photos/audringje/

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts: ZioPaolino
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ziopaopao/

Christ’s College School: Planning Resource
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33232053@N03/

Ashmolean Museum: Martin Beek
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/

eVolo – to study, to develop, to evolve, to fly away…

eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2011 Skyscraper Competition.

The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city. Info about registration, schedule, jury and awards after the break.

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Back in April, 16 architectural firms including Zaha Hadid, Mecanoo and O.M.A. submitted their designs for a new dance and music center on the puiplein in The Hague, The Netherlands. A selection committee led by politician and royal adviser Herman Tjeenk Willink has evaluated the 16 designs and has now selected three Round 2 Finalists. The new building on the Spui Square will become the hot spot in The Hague for dance, opera, musicals, family shows, theater, concerts, classical music and jazz.

The finalists are RAU, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten / Kirkegaard Associates, and Zaha Hadid Architects. After the breaks images of the finalist projects.

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Win one of three iPads and other great prizes, valued at over $2600!. T-Splines, Inc.’s Model your organic designs in CAD Contest (the “Contest”) is designed to promote the creation of new and innovative 3D content using T-Splines, or using T-Splines in combination with other software. Prizes will be awarded to those individuals or teams who submit the best entries, as determined by the contest judges. More info after the break.

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Zurich/Switzerland – The 3rd International Holcim Awards competition offering a total of USD 2 million in prize money is open to: sustainable building and civil engineering works; landscape, urban design and infrastructure projects; and materials, products and construction technologies. The Awards are an initiative of the Swiss-based Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.

Entries must be submitted online at www.holcimawards.org by March 23, 2011. The competition celebrates innovative, future-oriented and tangible projects and visions from around the globe and is open to anyone involved with approaches that contribute towards a more sustainable built environment. The 3rd International Holcim Awards competition is comprised of five regional competitions in 2010/11 and the global phase in 2012. More info after the break.

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Serero Architects won the competition for the new Cultural Center of Meudon-la-Forêt, their design is a building which is wrapped by an organic concrete shell, the project will be presented at the mediatheque of Meudon from June 22nd till July 10th, 2010. More images and project description after the break.

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Young Danish practice JAJA Architects have won the contest for a Mixed-Use Building in Vanløse, Denmark. JAJA Partners, Jan Y. Tanaka, Jakob S. Christensen and Kathrin S. Gimmel, gained international acknowledgement when they became 4th in the contest on building an extension to the main public library in Stockholm, Sweden. They also recived a 2nd prize for the proposal, Urban Transition, on a National Museum in Oslo, Norway. More info and images after the break.

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ARQUITECTUM, a company which organizes architecture competitions, is pleased to invite you to to the International Architecture Competition “ROME 2010”, to be held between the months of June to October 2010. ARQUITECTUM and the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura want to bring a new element to the city’s debate and enigma: a hundred meter high tower, next to the Coliseum, which would present itself as an “important” element, but not necessarily monumental, which would expose Rome’s complexity by being a “vertical” Rome, which would assemble the facts and the enigmas lived and surviving in the Eternal City.

The challenge of this competition is, of course, to discover this “belonging” to Rome, the hidden beauty and exposed all over the city as a mendicant spirit, wandering lost, waiting for the architect willing and able to capture it. Therefore the suggested tower will serve as an element demonstrative of this spirit, projecting it in the present time and the uncertain future of a city which has survived every kind of buildings and can always take in a new one: refreshing, renewing and exposing of the constant rebirth of its vital structure. [More info after the break] Read the rest of this entry »

The Guggenheim is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and they have done so many things to celebrate, back in April we wrote abouth the competition “RE: Contemplating the Void: Intervention in the Guggenheim” where the museum invited participants to reimagine the museum´s iconic rotunda and submit their ideas via Flickr. At midnight on May 14, 2010 the competition was closed and the museum recived over 200 submissions. After careful review, Contemplating the Void curators Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and David Van Der Leer, Assistant Curator for Architecture and Design, have selected five winning submissions which are shown after the break. All submissions are available in the flickr pool.

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Founded in 1977 as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing, Pamphlet Architecture provides a forum for architects and writers to present their ideas, theories and designs in modest, affordable booklets.  Pamphlet Architecture helped launch the careers of architects from Steven Holl and Lebbeus Woods to Zaha Hadid, and has had influence far exceeding the ad-hoc nature of these humble books.

Competition theme: Resilience
By addressing the capacity to cope, the ability to bounce back, and the mitigation and management of risk, proposals are welcome that showcase a fresh understanding of the possibilities and opportunities of resilience in architecture, from the large to the small scale. Whether resilience stems from natural disaster, civil conflict, global warming, catastrophe, and so on, is the applicant’s discretion. Please visit the submission site for more details. Dates and contact info after the break Read the rest of this entry »

In February we announced the competition “A House in Luanda“, Portugal’s biggest competition ever, promoted by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale together with Luanda Triennale, with the goal of selecting the best proposal for the conception of a family unit house in Luanda, was the most participated International Competition of Ideas ever to take place in Portugal.

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