Transportation infrastructure like flyovers, elevated expressways, bridges, highways are built to perform a certain role in a city. But in the post construction phase, as they are put into an already existing system of urban networks, the under-infrastructure space and infra elements continue to evolve into interesting usages by common people. These public spaces beneath active elevated road and rail beds remain at best largely underused, and at worst dark and dusty corridors of neglect. The reality of the modern infrastructural landscape is as much geopolitical as it is technical. Transportation infrastructure continues being utilized as an urban element, beyond their intended function in many cases.
The mission of the AIA Japan Design Awards Program is to encourage excellence in architectural design and planning, and to provide an avenue through which architects may gain recognition by their peers and the public. The ultimate goal is to raise the standards of architectural design excellence for both the architectural community and the public.
Budapest Architecture Film Festival – Call for Films
The 15th Budapest Architecture Film Days, organized by KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, are announcing a competition on the occasion of Budapest's 150th birthday.
As a part of the 8th Annual Inspireli awards, the Edu-Project Croatia / Miris Garden competition is now open. It is a unique educational project that gives students a chance to influence the face of 150,000 m2 large development project with a total investment value of approximately 100 million EUR in Starigrad Paklenica, Croatia.
The Merit List [TML] is an initiative by Matter and supported by Takshila Educational Society to recognise projects of critical relevance in the context of contemporary architecture of India.
“Flexible Retreat” is a two stage architectural Competition organized by ArchTwist Ltd in association with Suvastu Properties Ltd. In the first stage, participants are asked to submit creative design concepts for a modular building system within the framework of Bangladesh’s tourism industry. The submitted entries will go through an extensive jury evaluation process where winners will be selected based on judging criteria.
ACA's 9th International Design Competition 2022 with the theme, “Building Envelope”. The building facade has acted as a major factor in manifesting environmentally conducive spaces and improving overall performance of the built form. While conventional architecture is known to have employed passive control techniques; contemporary buildings have used active or semi active controlling methods. The competition calls for entries that have a strong focus on creating sustainable and environmentally viable prototype that is sensitive to the candidate’s own heritage & culture and geography. Entries will be judged based on the solution proposed and how sensitively the issue has been addressed.
House of the Desert. Image Courtesy of Guardian Glass
Few materials offer the design flexibility of high-performance glass to help achieve energy efficiency, and often without compromising aesthetics. It can be beautiful yet versatile, innovative yet timeless, able to inspire but also help save energy and promote well-being. Guardian Glass's new eBook introduces some important topics that begin to demonstrate how glass can do this.
Exeter College Cohen Quad, London / ABA / Photo by Studio8. Image Courtesy of ABA
In March 2021, ACO and AIT-Dialog successfully launched a virtual tour through the seven continents of the world, inviting architects, urban planners, engineers and landscape architects to become part of "beyond.aco | architecture across continents". Now the journey continues: Join them at their next live event on 8 November 2022 and look forward to inspiring lectures from international speakers.
Beyond the rhetoric of the green and contemporary exploitation, the landscape is - in itself - an element of conflict. It is an alterity both considering the inhabited world and to the world of design. It questions new codes, aesthetics, tools, and vocabularies. It is therefore a probability. But the landscape is also otherness with respect to the inhabited world, it is a project that clarifies, reveals everything that instead the design world wants to mask, conceal, embellish, pacify. With this in mind, Seeds questions the original and primary meanings of the landscape and of our way of inhabiting the Earth: it investigates the landscape as a detector of the world’s asymmetries and, at the same time, as design alterity.
DEX (Design EXperimentation) is a yearly event hosted by INDA as a platform for experimentation unbounded by the reality or feasibility of design but grounded on research to challenge, explore and innovate through tangible ideas and concepts. INDA, the International Program in Design and Architecture founded in 2006, is taught within the Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. This is an open call to exceptional creative professionals, thinkers, makers and/or educators with a minimum of 6 years of professional experience and a Bachelor degree (Master degree or higher are preferred). The curator of the DEX 2023 edition invites guests to explore the concept of RAW as design ethos through experimental workshops investigating physical materiality, digital technology, abstract ideas, across different design aspects and disciplines. Submissions will close on 18.Nov.2022 and successful applicants will be notified on 25.Nov.2022
