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.
Claude Parent – Visionary Architect, exhibition and book discussion at SCI-Arc
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.
The event's objective is to discuss alternatives for the Gamboa area, in Rio's Port Zone, to once again be inhabited by the population with quality of life.
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.
The BLL Awards for Architecture & Design comes from “Bringing light to life” which is the slogan of VELUX world brand for roof windows, which distribute daylight and fresh air into buildings through the roof. The idea of the Awards is to popularize good architecture, from architects and designers across countries in the CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) region, which demonstrates the effective distribution of daylight into buildings and the utilization of the space under the roof elements. It is a platform to showcase the work and products of architects and designers to a global audience. This year is the 6th edition of the BLL Awards, and is now open for entries. Seven countries from the CEE region are included – Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Turkey.
Customization, within the context of interior architectural design, is a resurfacing topic among cross-disciplined design firms focused on interior architecture. Since the reemergence of the Localism trend, individuals and organizations increasingly seek one-of-a-kind experiences, objects, and spaces that can help deepen their connections to their communities.
In October 2018, the second edition of the Wood and Architecture exhibition, organized by the Universidad San Sebastián School of Architecture in Puerto Montt, was held in the main hall of the Puerto Montt Historical Museum. The exhibition featured work resulting from an invitation to ten young Chilean architecture firms to participate in a small wood architecture brief: a mountain shelter for a Patagonian national park. The images, plans, and models from these exercises in wood exploration, alongside models, drawings, and photographs of various expressions of woodworking by students and faculty of the USS School of Architecture, were visited by more than 3,500 people.
Reactivating Territories exhibition: Terceira Margem method | Design: Julia Sá Earp
Terceira Margem focuses on creating projects that can Reactivate Territories—that is, articulating the experience of building with the Earth itself, with the autonomy of inhabitants, and with experiences that can animate their bodies, whether human or otherwise.
AFFR (Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam) is the world’s biggest international platform for films about the city and architecture. In this eleventh edition, the festival is once again programming a stunning selection of works about current themes related to society and the city. Broader and more topical than ever, the programme includes world premieres and films never previously screened in the Netherlands.
Encuentro Helvex 2019 aims to create a convergent space for design, innovation, and architecture. As the first event of its kind in Mexico, it features a series of plenary sessions led by renowned experts in these fields. The goal is to foster dialogue and participation among various working groups to propose solutions to industry challenges, with a focus on sustainability and global benefit.
The World Urban Forum (WUF) is the world’s premier conference on urban issues. It was established in 2001 by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies.
On September 27th, at 7:00 PM, the launch of "8 Reactions for the Aftermath" will take place, organized by ENTRE and coordinated by Ana Altberg, Mariana Meneguetti, and Gabriel Koslowski.
