SixtyNine Seventy has just launched The Spaces Between: An Urban Ideas Competition, inviting design teams from around the world to re-imagine the in-between spaces of Salt Lake City’s downtown, developing them into the connective tissue linking the area’s cultural amenities. Registration deadline: 23 March.
To learn more: here.
PFFF – inflatable architecture competition – is an architecture competition dedicated to architects, designers, students and engeneers focused on the design and realization of an inflatable pavilion that can embody the spirit of the FARM project.
The competition is promoted by CityVision and FARM, a contemporary active cultural and turistic center project based in Sicily that has as first mission the promotion of contemporary art and culture.PFFF was established under the FARM Cultural Camp project, which aims to carry around the world works and installations by national and international creative youth.
Participants can register at:
www.cityvision-competition.com/pfff/registration
- before the November 28th, 2011 paying via Paypal with a fee of 70€ (early registration deadline)
- before the January 9th, 2012 paying via Paypal with a fee of 90€ (late registration deadline)
The City of Lissone is inviting you to take part in the 2011 Street Furniture Design Competition (curated by Arch. Luca Molinari), by submitting designs for street furniture, such as seating, shelters, signs, containers, etc..Street furniture, if properly designed, helps enrich the experience of citizens and users of a given place.Free of charge, this design competition is open to young draughtsmen, architects, designers under 36, students (Faculties and Schools of Design, Architecture, Engineering), of all nationalities.
Prizes:
1st prize Euro 5,000;
2nd prize Euro 3,500;
3rd prize Euro 1,500;
Open until 26 September 2011. http://www.comune.lissone.mb.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/2611
Forgotten Spaces London 2011. Open to entrants across the country, the competition invited architects, artists, engineers, planners and landscape designers to nominate sites in the Greater London area and put forward proposals for its improvement. Its is supported by Qatari Diar, Ordnance Survey and Design For London with media partners the Architects’ Journal.
There were 138 entries from which the judging panel selected a shortlist of 28 schemes.
The shortlist includes a range of innovative, far reaching and practical ideas of how to put to use overlooked or forgotten sites in London. Highlights include proposals for festival firepits in Crystal Palace, artist-inhabited church spires across the City, climbing tunnels in Clapham and event spaces for Bethnal Green tower blocks.
Entries are now being accepted for By the City / For the City, a two-phase design competition for New York City designers, architects, planners, and students, that focuses on improving life in Gotham. Presented by the Institute for Urban Design (IfUD), the program is part of Urban Design Week, which will run from September 15-20 as the culmination of By the City / For the City. During the competition’s recent first phase, New York residents and visitors suggested improvements to public spaces across each of New York’s five boroughs. The second, design phase of the competition asks entrants to visualize some of those ideas. As many entries as possible will be compiled in a volume entitled the Atlas of the Possibility for the Future of New York and in the Urban Design Week festival exhibition. The Institute for Urban Design will be accepting contest entries for By the City / For the City until Thursday, July 14th. For more information, visit the IfUD online at www.urbandesignweek.org.
City Sense. The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of City-Sense, Shaping our environment with real-time data.
The aim of the competition is to promote online discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.
Open until 26 September 2011
