Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s Performance + Assembly: The Experience of Space covers a range of performance and assembly spaces designed by AS+GG from central spaces in the world’s largest expositions to small, flexible high-technology theaters to expressive and functional auditoriums. The book of global cultural work includes building designs from Chicago to Istanbul, Astana to Dubai and features both photography of built spaces and unbuilt ideas. In this book Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture reviews projects to answer questions that relate to how buildings can be used to enhance the experiences of the users beyond set programmatic requirements by asking questions like: How can architecture and design help advance the technologies, the operations, the program, and the way buildings perform? At a more sensorial and experiential level, the book explores how architecture can speak to the soul to create a place in between the art and the audience.

The State of Housing Design 2023 is a new book that examines national trends, ideas, and critical issues as they relate to residential design. The volume examines recently built housing projects of notable design that address issues of affordability, social cohesion, sustainability, aesthetics, density, and urbanism. Through critical essays, visual content, and a survey of architects, advocates, residents, and developers, it provides both designers and the general public with an overview of the forces at play in contemporary design of housing.

Film and architecture festival announces an Open Call for films related to the topics of architecture, urbanism and design. It could be short films, mid-length or feature films. Selected works will be screened at the 13th edition of Film and architecture festival which will be held from September 26 to October 1. Please submit your movies using this form: https://forms.gle/JFAmKomtios1vWQX9

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Forecast has announced the six new mentors and its call for project ideas for the ninth edition of Forecast Mentorships.

Why the Claude Parent Prize for Transgressive Architecture?
To encourage and reward an alternative and visionary architecture.

THE TERRITORY AND SPATIAL VISION OF THE RIGA PASSENGER TERMINAL
LLC "Riga Ropax Terminal” announces an open Sketch Design competition for a new passenger and ro-ro cargo terminal. A new passenger terminal would put Riga on the map of European cruise ports, provide modern and environmentally friendly ferry passenger services in Riga, and create new opportunities for developing the ro-ro cargo segment. The new terminal will be located in the southern part of Exportosta, reducing traffic in the city center of Riga and reducing sound and air pollution.
The task of the Competition is to determine the best proposal for the vision of spatial development of the territory of the Riga ROPAX terminal.

Welcome to the EMERGING TALENTS AWARD!

Today more than ever we need to safeguard one of the cornerstones of sustainable urban development: citizen participation in urban planning processes.

The Antepavilion commission is an initiative to develop, construct and display experimental structures that offers emerging artists, architects and makers the opportunity to create new work within a complex urban environment. This year’s open call competition is now open for entries.

The Jeff Harnar Awards are now accepting submissions for the 2024 awards cycle. The Jeff Harnar Awards program was created by Garrett Thornburg in 2007 to honor the memory of architect Jeff Harnar, known for his groundbreaking design in contemporary architecture in New Mexico. The deadline to apply is Monday, March 11, 2024.

361BIT Presents "PRESENCE The Experience Centre", International Architecture Competition.

GRAND PRIZE: $1,000

Competition Abstract
The Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA) in Greenwood Village, CO seeks conceptual design proposals for its Design and Build Competition from art, architecture, design and other creatively focused USA based collegiate students, teams, and/or classes. This year’s theme is Land Art: Celestial Architecture. The design brief launches 11/30/23 with full competition details. Additional support resources will also be announced at the competition opening on January 5, 2024.

The aim of the Competition – to obtain creative ideas and proposals on how to respectfully preserve the burials of the Great Cemetery, its cultural-historical and natural values for future generations, how to implement the sustainable development of the territory and how to use the potential of the existing green infrastructure as a biologically diverse and unique landscape on the European scale, in order to improve the quality of the urban environment and the accessibility of the Great Cemetery to residents and guests of the city of Riga.

Competition Overview 

The Martin House Creative Residency Program is a project-based residency that provides creative individuals a designated time and space to develop new works of the imagination inspired by one of the great examples of 20th century architecture. The primary goals of the program are to:

The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), in partnership with Emerald Development, are pleased to announce the opening of the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for design teams interested in the North Boulder Creative Campus project located at 4401 and 4481 Broadway in Boulder, Colorado. The RFQ is open from January 29, 2024, with submissions due by March 15, 2024.