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LOOP Design Awards 2022 is now open for entries. The third edition introduces the Best Firm Awards, Special Themed Categories and Architectural Video and has a total of 110 categories.

Notting Hill Gate is set to get a refresh as a design competition invites architects, designers and creatives from across London to reimagine public space
Finalists will showcase their designs at an open exhibition in the summer
The innovative new installation could use using seating, greening, lighting, interactive elements or pop-ups to bring vibrancy to the area
Notting Hill Gate is set to get a refresh as part of a design competition inviting creative teams to reimagine innovative and attractive public space on the street.

The Swiss Government is seeking proposals from Architecture firms to provide services and management of a full design team (including all relevant engineering disciplines) related but not limited to the planning, design, bidding, construction oversight, and handover of a 20,000ft² tenant improvement renovation in San Francisco. The space is being built to house the Swiss Consulate, Swissnex, Switzerland Tourism, and Switzerland Global Enterprise. The site is located at 1535 Mission Street in San Francisco, California. More information, as well as the Q&A forum, can be accessed on the Swiss Government’s tender website: www.Simap.ch (Search keyword “B22008” or “San Francisco” under “Search” heading, top left of home page). Please register at Simap.ch to access more information and send questions regarding the RFP. Proposals are due postmarked no later than April 8th, 2022.

CFAD, Call for Architecture Drawings, is
a contest that focuses its attention on graphic
research, through reflections and themes
from current issues, literature, cinema,
philosophy and other disciplines in dialogue
with Architecture.

Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival 2022 is accepting submissions from photographers from all over the world for its exhibition program.
Submission period: February 1 to March 31, 2022.
Photographers are asked to submit 8 – 12 photographs from a particular project/series or body of work.
The theme has been left open.
Submissions must be photographic and they might also make use also of texts, graphic.
The selected six series – projects will be the material of the exhibition entitled “Portfolios:022” and forms part of the events organized by Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival.

Relationships between architects and clients - built upon expressed values, as well as their import into the final work of architecture - are typically not discussed in architectural education, rarely considered in architectural criticism or theory, and usually missing in most writing about architecture. This monograph seeks to highlight and address this deficiency. The book focuses on the process that the firm uses to help their clients to define values, and to intone them through architectural design. Exquisitely presented throughout, this volume presents a range of built and in-process works at a variety of scales, complexity, and locations, with various clients. Most of these projects have not been previously published. The projects will be documented and discussed within the context of the value proposition and design process that distinguish Pickard Chilton's approach to architecture.

Hello,
The A3- Archnet Collaborative is elated to invite you to the Opening Public Panel for the West Africa Architecture Biennale scheduled for Sunday, 20th February 2022 (12:00pm ET, 6:00pm WAT.) Register here: bit.ly/OpeningWABiennale
This inaugural edition of the West Africa Architecture Biennale themed Endangered Heritage is a follow up to our last held public panel which you attended on Friday 31 July 2020.
West Africa Architecture Biennale is an international biennale organized by the A3-Archnet Collaborative to foster and grow an academic and professional community around the intellectual preservation of under researched, underexposed, and underrecognized architecture in Western
Africa. The biennale serves as a forum to collect and share documentation of obscure and lesser-known modes and styles of architectural heritage as formal objects, in addition to studies of the cultural factors that contribute to their non-canonical attributes and status. Read More here: https://www.a3africa.org/west-africa-architecture-biennale

“Skip Forward to the Future of Design”
Computational Design: NEXT

June Jordan’s visionary practice reimagines the role of the built environment in creating just futures. Deeply committed to human rights and political activism, she used language to design a model for pedagogy and activism centered on ecology, care, and justice. While Jordan’s literary contributions reflect her work as a poet, author, teacher, and activist, what does it mean to call June Jordan an architect?

Founder of the London based studio, Níall McLaughlin Architects, and Professor of Architectural Practice at The Bartlett School of Architecture, Níall McLaughlin will present his lecture titled ‘Circling a Star’ as the first in the 2022 edition of Daylight Talks.

Affordable housing has become an increasingly dire global issue. Be it rent or homeownership, the unaffordability of homes has been on the rise. A look at U.S. Census data illustrates a sharp decline in homeownership in recent decades. Although Millennials were the most populous generation by 2019, they only contributed to homeownership at a rate of 47.9%. Contrastingly, Gen-X’s homeownership rate stood at 69%, following the silent generation at 77.8%. Trends of generational decline in homeownership are mirrored in other parts of the world, such as in the U.K. where rates have steadily dropped from 71% in 2003 to 64% by 2018. Many experts point to affordability as a large reason for this decline.

Videos

For architects and interior designers, lighting helps to demarcate areas of an interior, albeit subtly, through the intangible medium of light. A space-saving alternative to partitions and walls, lighting can informally subdivide open-plan spaces into zones devoted to different uses – a bar area in a hotel lobby, say, or the kitchen area of a living-room-cum-kitchen.

Modular lighting in particular appeals to designers seeking to delineate different zones, as it’s highly flexible. Since it can be enlarged by adding more components or made smaller by removing some, it allows rooms to be easily reconfigured to meet changing requirements.

Andreu World, Mini, Ecoalf, the General Secretariat for Innovation, and the Madrid Design Festival invite you to a special event on sustainability next Thursday, February 17.

Daylight and Architecture, a global knowledge-sharing initiative focusing on exploring the limitless potential of daylight in architecture, has announced the new series of ‘Daylight Talks’.

On September 29 and 30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in Babyn Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. This event constituted one of the largest single massacres perpetrated by German troops against Jews during World War II. Over the following two years, Germans killed upwards of 70,000 more people. Upon evacuating the city in 1943, the bodies were exhumed and burned. Babyn Yar is the international symbol of what is known today as the “Holocaust by Bullets.”

PENSARQ_ kicks off its 2022 programming with “RESONANCIAS” (Resonances) — music through space — a talk and sound performance led by Kenji Kishi, winner of the Ariel Award for sound design on the film “Los Lobos.”

AUH0545 LEARNING FROM THE COMMONS: CO-CITIES/CO-CREATING THE COMMON GOOD (Experimental course for the co-creation of cities, open to the general public and students outside the USP community)