By now, you’ve likely heard about real-time rendering for architectural visualization and how it’s changing the way designs are presented. With real-time rendering, you can edit your design and see the changes updated instantly, at full quality, and you can produce animations and panoramas in minutes instead of days. Real-time rendering also opens the door to immersive experiences like 360° videos and virtual reality.
Manni Group and YAC - Young Architects Competitions launch Xi’An Train Station, a competition of ideas to design a new rail terminal that will define the meeting point between East and West in the city where the famous Terracotta Army was found. A cash prize of €25,000 will be awarded to the winning projects selected by an internationally-renowned jury featuring: Dong Gong (Vector Architects), Ben van Berkel (UNstudio), Antonio Cruz (Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos), Volkwin Marg (GMP Architekten), Patrik Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects), Stefano Boeri, and many other distinguished professionals. The competition is promoted by Manni Group with the participation of ROCKWOOL, Renolit, Dow and Tata Steel as sponsors.
The Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Architects (NLAA) is hosting Architecture Week from October 5 to October 11, 2019. This year will mark the third edition of Architecture Week for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The NL Architecture Week includes many activities that promote architecture and create a venue to engage the public in a discussion about the future of our built environment.
Open Tender for Development of the General Plan for Ganja city
The State Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Committee) invites the bidders to an open tender for Development of the General Plan for Ganja City based on the order # 225 s, dated April 01, 2019 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic “The State order of the urban development works financed from the state budget for 2019”.
Invitalia, the national development Agency, is a governmental body that has been appointed for the implementation of the Program for Environmental Rehabilitation and Urban Regeneration of the Bagnoli area on the western border of Naples. Bagnoli covers about 2.5 square kilometres and hosted one of the largest European steelworks plant, which shut down in 1993.
Seoul Housing & Communities Corporation is announcing the design competition for "Seoul Compact City International Design Competition" to reconnect the disconnected areas and the development and revitalize through the multi-level complex on the Bukbu expressway.
Governor Cuomo welcomes artists, architects and designers to submit proposals for a memorial honoring the victims of Hurricane Maria to stand as an international symbol of the resilience of the Puerto Rican community.
Los Angeles is a privatized city that has historically lacked public open space, ranking 66th in the country. Within its 4,751 square miles sprawl, there are too few places for people to congregate and recreate, especially along light rail and bus rapid transit lines, which offer a new way to experience the city.
eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the 2020 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations; along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.
On the occasion of the book release of Claude Parent: Visionary Architect (Rizzoli New York), we are pleased to invite you to discover the exhibition Claude Parent: Visionary Architect held at SCI-Arc’s Kappe Library, celebrating French architect Claude Parent’s work. This exhibition includes a full-scale ramp installation based on the architect’s own oblique apartment interior, and presents a selection of never before seen original drawings and sketches, as well as photographs of iconic projects and publications on Parent's work.
Many challenges underline the urgency of reconsidering dominant approaches to development, land use, and the institutional framework that governs them, in addition to the political context, which requires a novel and creative counter-approach in Chekka and Surrounding Towns in North Lebanon.
As such, this competition is an open call for planners, designers, environmental scientists, agricultural engineers, economists and other professionals to draft an intervention framework, which simultaneously answers the concept of sustainable development and the immediate needs of the people, including job opportunities and a local economy, without compromising their health, the environment and local economic resources.
Days of Oris is an international architecture convention organised by Oris magazine and the Oris House of Architecture. The two-day event has been held since 2001. It presents the most significant names of the architectural and cultural scene and gathers more than 2000 visitors every year.
Days of Oris 19 will be held in Zagreb from 19 to 20 October 2019, at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall.
Aarhus School of Architecture proudly announces the seventh joint venture competition: Drawing of the Year 2019.
We invite architecture students from all over the world and call for drawings that demonstrate their ability to dream and create drawings that inspire for change.
7ZNAIL is a space for design, art, and architecture. Our hallmark is creating exhibition spaces in unconventional and timeless contexts, establishing a hub for the development of creative visual experiences. The space focuses primarily on the visual work of creatives, designers, visual artists, architects, collective projects, and new media, fostering an environment for exchange, exhibition, and promotion that connects with new audiences. It is open to contemporary creatives, hosting varied, transient, and dynamic exhibitions with the goal of generating mobility and circulation within a space centered on creative dissemination and promotion.
Created to be one of the largest events on the Brazilian architectural calendar, DOMO brings together established professionals from the country and prominent names in global architecture to discuss the design and function of facades in architectural projects.
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The International Workshop "Habitar o Centro" (Living in the Center) begins this Thursday and runs through September 30th, as part of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team (R/UDAT) program. The event aims to discuss alternatives for revitalizing the Gamboa area in Rio's Port Zone, ensuring it becomes a high-quality residential neighborhood once again. The opening ceremony will take place this Thursday, the 26th, at 7:30 PM at the IAB-RJ headquarters (Beco do Pinheiro, 10, Flamengo) and is open to the public.
NAVER Corp. is South Korea’s largest web search engine, as well as a global ICT brand that provides services including LINE messenger, currently with over 200 million users from around the world, the SNOW video app, and the digital comics platform NAVER WEBTOON, the result of which NAVER stores and manages a wide array of user data. Since the advent of the internet, advances in telecommunication and smartphone technology, and other new technological developments in the IT industry have triggered explosive levels of data production and direct consumption, all of which has led to an increase in NAVER’s IT infrastructure as well.
