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Import WB_Export BCN: Re-activate the city

The fifth edition of the Cities Connection Project is taking place in collaboration with Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures.The first part of the CCP double exhibition focuses on the re-use of existing spaces, mixed uses and reconstruction, beginning in  Wallonia-Brussels, the second part will be in Barcelona in 2019.

Call for Submissions: National Pavilion United Arab Emirates - La Biennale di Venezia 2020

Open Call For Exhibition Proposals for the United Arab Emirates Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition 2020

Architects, designers, artists, curators, historians and researchers who have worked or studied within the UAE or the MENASA region are invited to submit a Concept Proposal that avails of the Venice Architecture Biennale’s reputation as a forum for the dissemination and exchange of ideas. Proposals should advance the NPUAE mission, which is to un-earth and reflect on the untold stories of the UAE, to contextualize those stories to regional and international discourse, and to identify contemporary developments in architectural discourse within the

Call for Entries: Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob)

The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob) has celebrated the best in architectural delineation for 44 years. A Dallas classic that has received international recognition, KRob honors hand and digital delineation by professionals and students throughout the world. Averaging over 400 entries from 25 countries in the past several years, the competition’s visibility continues to grow.

The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition is the most senior architectural drawing competition currently in operation anywhere in the world.

www.krobarch.com

General


All entries must be of an architectural nature, and must be authored by one individual. Entries can be elevations, sections, or perspectives, and can be conceptual

Competition: Musical Theater in Poznan

The City of Poznań invites to participate in an open international architectural competition on development of architectural conception for seat of the Musical Theatre in Poznan.

The area of the competition is located in the western part of the city, at the corner of Św. Marcin and Skośna streets, in the immediate vicinity of the Music Academy and the railway.

The Competition will be held in polish.

Participants: team composed of an architect, acoustician and stage technologist.

Prizes (gross):

I prize in the amount of PLN 80.000,00

II prize in the amount of PLN 50.000,00

III prize in the amount of PLN 30.000,00

3 distinctions PLN 20.000,00

The participant

Call for Submissions: Request for Qualifications for Design of Thomas Paine Plaza

The City of Philadelphia’s Department of Public Property is requesting qualifications for the redesign of the Municipal Services Building’s Paine Plaza.

The City of Philadelphia is seeking a designer to give Thomas Paine Plaza a unique identity as a civic square for today’s Philadelphia.

The modernist Municipal Services Building and plaza were designed by Vincent Kling in 1961 as a symbol of a new government during a transformative era in urban planning, adjacent to City Hall on a site that had long been used as a public gathering space. Over the following fifty years, the plaza

Call for Submissions: "Vernacular" — Paprika! Volume 4, Issue 6

In the spirit of Virgil Abloh we put quotation marks around the word "vernacular." Then we replace the word with a blank and ask you to fill it in. What do they build with where you're from? What do indigenous houses look like? What methods do they prefer and who actually uses them? This issue of Paprika!, a weekly journal at the Yale School of Architecture, will probe the architectural vernacular, a concept increasingly in vogue but equally undefined.

We invite all essays and comments that reevaluate the “vernacular" in contemporary design, encouraging specific examples where possible. We also invite

Archive and Artifact: The Virtual and the Physical

This exhibition celebrates The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture's experimental and influential pedagogy by presenting undergraduate Thesis projects completed at the school over the past 50 years.

Curated from materials documented in the Student Work Collection of the school's Architecture Archive, the exhibition includes physical hand drawings, born-digital drawings, and models of 35 undergraduate Thesis projects completed between 1969 and 2018. These materials are complimented by an exclusive preview of the school's Digital Access Project, an online database of the Student Work Collection that expands the exhibition's scope. The database will allow visitors to access, via computer terminals in the

Open Competition: Sveta Nedelya Square in Sofia, Bulgaria

Sofia Municipality announces an open competition for the restoration, renovation and construction of Sveta Nedelya Square and its adjacent public spaces, aiming to create a network of public spaces while preserving their identity.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES
• continuity between historical layers and modern structure
• connect public spaces of human scale
• establish connection between pedestrian spaces
• create an accessible and safe connection between the visitors and exposed archaeological values
• enhance the accessibility
• ensure activity - at all times of the day and all year round
• create modern urban design
• economic feasibility of the conceptual solution

Schedule
• 17 September 2018
Start of the contest
• 08 October 2018
Deadline for questions
• 18 October 2018
17:30 (Bulgarian time) – Deadline

Call for Ideas: Movement

Dedicated to advancing education by conducting research regarding architecture and design within the urban environment, Calgary’s Design Talks Institute (d.talks) has launched a ‘Call for Ideas’ to ‘improve the human aspect of mobility’ as part of the d.talks ‘2018 Movement’ program. The 2018 Movement Call for Ideas seeks ideas on the human connection to place. Using the new Green Line Light Rail Transit (LRT) project in Calgary as a platform for new ideas, the call aims to rethink the present and future of transportation.

As technology advances continue to transform mobility, considerations of sustainable, economic, inclusive and accessible options for urban

IMAGINE Launch at Co-Liv Summit, Paris

SPACE10 and Urgent.Agency present IMAGINE, a publication and podcast exploring the brave new world of shared living. To celebrate the release, we’re launching IMAGINE at Co-Liv—the world’s first international co-living conference, taking place in Paris in mid-October.

ABOUT IMAGINE
From exclusive articles and interviews to thought-provoking ideas and case studies, IMAGINE investigates both prevailing trends and best practices in the exciting new field of shared living. As part of that, SPACE10 has also produced a four-episode podcast which takes listeners on a whistle-stop tour of the shared-living landscape and features interviews with architects, anthropologists, designers and urban planners.

Together, the publication and podcast

AERIAL FUTURES: The Next Frontier

A public event will be held to kick off World Space Week at AIA Houston on the evening of Thursday, Oct 4 as part of the AERIAL FUTURES: The Next Frontier think tank taking place in Houston between Oct 4-5, 2018.

Expanding Houston’s reputation as Space City, USA, Ellington Airport’s conversion into the Houston Spaceport will reiterate the city’s role as a front-runner in the space race of the 21st Century. As the most urban-centered commercial spaceport to date – Houston Spaceport is within a 15-minute drive of the central business district – this development will serve as a detonator in

SHARE Budapest 2018 International Architecture and Engineering Forum

SHARE Budapest 2018 highlights
SHARE Budapest 2018 will gather exceptional speakers from 12 countries: Hungary, Romania, United Kingdom, Slovakia, France, Albania, Thailand, Sweden, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Denmark and Italy. Some of the lecturers and their focus for the event:

• John Bulcock / Design Unit, MYS: ‘Factory in the Forest’
John Bulcock is a UK registered architect. After starting his own London based practice, his work was selected for the 40 under Forty RIBA exhibition for young architects. Traveling to India in the early 1990’s to both join Balkrishna Doshi in Ahmedabad and to study the work of, in particular, Le Corbusier, Khan and Bawa,

The City of Dreams 2019 Pavilion Design Competition

FIGMENT has teamed with the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects NY Chapter (AIANY) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to host a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion in Lighthouse Park on Roosevelt Island, the City of Dreams Pavilion. The 2019 pavilion will be our ninth City of Dreams Pavilion, and our first on Roosevelt Island.

The City of Dreams Pavilion will be a gathering place for people to meet, learn about the arts programs on Roosevelt Island, enjoy a performance or lecture, and enjoy this temporary structure.

Call for Entries to Honolulu Connects: Culture and Performing Arts Corridor

Registration is free up until October 22, 2018 at 23:30 HST. After this date and time registration is $20.

Call for Entries: Emergency Housing in Paraguay

ARCHSharing, in collaboration with TECHO Paraguay, proposes the «Emergency Housing in Paraguay» contest. A contest that propose to response to the lack of access to housing in Paraguay, the aim is to offer residents a building that responds to the emergency situation while guaranteeing their dignity and their right to a suitable home. The laureate will have the opportunity to build his/her project with the humanitarian association TECHO Paraguay.


THE COMPETITION

Paraguay is a country located in the heart of South America,Its economy is essentially dependent on agriculture and cattle. With exports reaching the entire world, its economy has grown steadily

Ice Breakers 2019

Ice Breakers is an annual art and design competition open to international submissions for art installations to be exhibited along Toronto's Queens Quay neighbourhood. Up to four submissions relating to this year's theme of "Signal Transmission" will be selected.

Prizes:
Four prizes of $3,500 CAD with an additional $1,500 CAD for travel allowance.

Deadline: October 22nd, 2018

For more information, please visit our website: http://icebreakers.winterstations.com

Call For Submissions: The AJ Specification Awards

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Introducing the new AJ Specification Awards

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The Architects’ Journal’s new AJ Specification Awards celebrates successful collaborations between suppliers, manufacturers, and architects.

The awards celebrate how exceptional working relationships between architects and suppliers and manufacturers lead to successful projects, showcasing standout examples of the creative use of products and materials in making great buildings.

Be it to find solutions to particular design challenge, or simply to bring joy to a project, the intelligent integration of products into the design process – from the taps in a bathroom to the finishes on a façade – is an aspect of architecture that the AJ has long championed.

Days of ORIS 18

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.