CP Kukreja Foundation for Design Excellence Presents 'The Masterplan' Exhibition at CEPT University, Ahmedabad

International Space Planning Competition for Seoul Station

Calzavara Tower Coating Design

LUMINEX returns for a third year, bringing art and community together in an engaging outdoor exhibition using buildings as the canvas. For one night only, free and open to all, eight multimedia artists will transform a five-block radius in the South Park District of downtown Los Angeles. Featured artists this year include JOJO ABOT, Refik Anadol, Alice Bucknell, Nao Bustamante, Petra Cortright, Marc Horowitz, Carole Kim, and Sarah Rara, as well as special installations with Los Angeles Video Artists (LAVA).

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The Living Places - Simon Architecture Prize is an initiative of Simon—curated by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe since the prize’s inception—which aims to distinguish those architectural projects (including interiors, public, domestic, and landscape spaces) whose excellence provide comfort to their inhabitants and improve people’s quality of life on a daily basis; while working, learning, sharing, enjoying...in short, architecture to be lived!

The Mayor's Office of Villanueva, Santander, in partnership with the Colombian Society of Architects, Santander Regional Chapter, is launching an architectural competition for the design of a Tourist Experience Center.

The 24th edition of the Pan-American Biennial of Architecture of Quito (BAQ2024) is approaching. As the most important architecture event in the Americas, it will take place from November 18 to 22, 2024, in the Historic Center of Quito. The event will bring together more than 2,000 daily participants, including prominent professionals and academics from around the world, to discuss and exchange knowledge on contemporary architecture.

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A pivot door is a swinging door that rotates on a vertical axis; a spindle. It is different from regular hinged doors, where the hinges are attached to the side of the door and the adjacent wall. Even though the pivot door is as old as centuries are long, it is still unknown to many people. However, a recent resurgence in its use has put it front and center as an attractive option for architects, designers and homeowners.

UN-Habitat’s “Inclusive Communities, Thriving Cities” Programme invites professional and emerging artists worldwide to participate in a digital art competition on the theme “My Urban Vision”. The participants are invited to use their creativity to inspire change, leveraging their voices and vision for an inclusive and sustainable urban future.

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International Congress on Interior Architecture Education 2024

The Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB-RJ) is hosting the International Competition for the New Rio-Africa Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro. The competition serves as an affirmative action measure that strengthens and realizes the principle of equality in our society, promoting historical reparation and the inclusion of professionals. Its purpose is to provide Black architects from Brazil and Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe) access to frameworks for reflecting on historical ownership and space.

Architecture firms and real estate developers are constantly seeking industrialized construction solutions to optimize project timelines and costs. However, compromising on aesthetics and energy efficiency is not an option. A viable solution lies within the wide range of systems in the face brick ecosystem. 

Three recent projects developed in Spain exemplify how integrating face brick facades can yield unique designs. Furthermore, all three are finalists for the Hispalyt Brick Architecture Award 2021-2023 in the "Industrialization" category.

Companies, designers, architects and agencies worldwide are invited to submit their products and projects for the German Design Awards 2025. Organized by the German Design Council, the Awards set international standards for original design developments and competitiveness on the global market, whether through digitalization or AI. The platform honors only projects that are pioneering in the German and international design landscape with positive developments in circular design, making success visible, while also opening up a valuable network, international reach and additional market opportunities for the award winners.

“With his new diptychs, collage-drawings, wood pieces, and ‘spatial paintings,’ Chico Fortunato expands his vocabulary, demonstrating his customary freedom and predilection for certain elements and colors. He does not clamor for the banal spectacle; he seeks essence,” defines Luiz Chrysostomo de Oliveira Filho, who curates the artist’s solo exhibition, “Construtos.” Featuring previously unseen works produced between 2021 and 2024, the exhibition will be on view at Galeria Patricia Costa starting July 25. As a painter and furniture designer, he reveals through his precise yet delicate lines a preference for geometric figures, dominating the space with lines that articulate colors with a peculiar lightness. Among the most recent works, the collage-drawings stand out—a medium never before explored by Chico Fortunato in his long artistic career.

Color has a profound impact on human emotions. We experience joy, aggression, nostalgia, or affection, and these specific moods can often be triggered by a particular color. Paleta perfeita is a unique color guide—a practical tool for artists and designers working in fashion, graphic design, interior design, and textiles, or for anyone seeking a better understanding of the relationship between color and emotion.

"OLYMPIANS" at the National Historical Museum
Photography exhibition by Gustavo Malheiros highlights female athletes and opens on July 20 with a book launch (Arte Ensaio Editora)

In a famous essay about the relationship between feminism and architecture, Mary McLeod noted how Foucault, in articulating the concept of heterotopia ‘seems to have expressed an unconscious disdain for aspects of everyday life such as the home, the public park and the department store, which were instead provinces in which women found not only oppression, but also a degree of comfort, security, autonomy and even freedom.’ The backdrop for this exhibition is a work by the English architect naturalized Swedish Ralph Erskine, called Shopping, which opened in September 1955 in Luleå, a town on the edge of the Arctic Circle where most of the population of Norrbotten is concentrated. With its hard-to-reach location, this building received little attention from architectural critics, who were only interested in it as something it was not: the first shopping mall in history. In spite of its name, the building is in fact rather like a passage, a shopping mall with no underground parking and no car access, located in the very center of the city. The importance of the building did not escape to Mai Zetterling - the first female director to win an award for directing at the Venice Film Festival after the war with the short film War Game (1962) - who set the decisive sequences of Flickorna (The Girls, 1968), a milestone in the promotion of a culture of equality and gender diversity (from which the title line of the exhibition is taken). By juxtaposing the projection of this film transposition of Aristophanes' Lysistrata with the transfigurations of promotional and documentary images conserved in the archives that in various ways give an account of the commercial gallery's past, the exhibition intends to make explicit the contestation to the stereotyped image of the “Swedish woman” that asserted itself on the international scene, and more specifically in Italian cinema, from the end of the 1950s onwards. In order to gain a physical and bodily awareness of how much Shopping's architecture has been and still continues to be a field of confrontation and redefinition of gender identity, those who visit the exhibition will have the concrete possibility of tracing its complex inner atrium and directly comparing it with figurines, caricatures (macchietta)
and human representations of the time, giving life to the performance of a real ‘animated view’.

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History whispers through the weathered stones of monuments, each one a testament to a bygone era. But what if these grand structures, once bustling centers of power or worship, could find a new purpose in the modern world? The "Reimagining History: AI Competition" challenges you to do just that. Participants are invited to embark on a journey of creative exploration, selecting a historical monument – a majestic castle, a sprawling palace, or a serene temple – and envisioning a new, relevant use for it in the 21st century. The task lies not just in finding a function, but in seamlessly integrating it with the existing architectural style and historical significance of the monument. Can you breathe new life into these architectural giants, ensuring they not only stand as testaments to the past but also thrive as vibrant spaces in our present? Utilize the power of AI rendering to showcase your vision, and together, let's reimagine the future of historical preservation.