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Organiser: UED Magazine + UIA. 2014 marks the third edition of UIA-HYP Cup International Student Competition in Architectural Design. Exclusive annual international student competition in Mainland China sponsored by UIA (Union International des Architects).
Moved To Care International Design Competition. Building Trust international announce the winners of their latest international design competition, which sought to find design proposals for a small, either mobile or relocatable healthcare facility that promotes health and wellbeing in a safe and clean environment. This architecture competition challenged professional and student architects, designers, engineers and artists.
New ideas competition which asks competitors to propose new design solutions to improve passenger rolling stock across the GB rail network.
The FutureRailway team and the Department for Transport (DfT) in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are inviting architects, engineers and designers worldwide to consider two design challenges – 4C’s train challenge – longer-term horizon designs for rolling stock that push the envelope of what can be delivered and Next-Gen Train interiors – medium-term horizon designs for rolling stock interiors that focus on flexibility and adaptability to meet different service requirements.
Winners of the eVolo Skyscraper architecture competition, established to recognize outstanding ideas for vertical living through the novel use of building technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations.
The first place was awarded to Yong Ju Lee from the United States for his project “Vernacular Versatility”. The proposal reinterprets traditional Korean architecture in a contemporary mixed-use high-rise building.
Judging Panel’s Summary and Winners’s Announcement
1st Place:
The building design reveals critical, distinctive, high-quality, and innovative analysis of the architecture competition theme with its clarity, quality of the model, very good presentation and beautiful rendering. The material enhances the building design and the viewer can almost “feel” the material.
Dubai Architecture School Tower Competition. This was an open international architecture competition hosted by [AC-CA] to generate progressive contemporary design ideas. There are no plans for the Architecture School Tower to be built. Design Contest winners: Evan Shieh + Ali Chen, architecture students from USA
Canadian cabin design competition draws over 50 submissions from around the world. Young winner Nathan Fisher of Toronto awarded $1,000 and will see his design built on 580 acre sustainably managed forest by competition host; Community Forests International.
Community Forests International’s (CFI) panel of judges faced a larger than anticipated responsibility last week when over 50 entries from around the world poured into the organization’s sustainable cabin design contest.
EUR Architecture Competition. Italy
Escape the downtown Rome crowds and head off the beaten track to discover one of the city’s most infamous districts. The Esposizione Universale di Roma (better known by its acronym, EUR) was commissioned by Italian dictator Benedito Mussolini in the 1930s to showcase architecture that portrayed his fascist ideologies. Today, it is a thriving commercial suburb.
DuPont™ Corian® launches an international award for design creativity with dark colours
This international design award, called “Shape The Future Of Black”, is open to professionals and students in the fields of architecture, furnishing, interior design, industrial design, general design, decorative arts, engineering and similar disciplines.
International Design Competition for Architects + Architecture Students and Graduates
This international competition calls on and challenges participants to design or present a fresh concept for an Organic Skyscraper – a skyscraper that grows or changes form according to future requirement.
The skyscraper will serve as a tech city (technology and digital media centered companies) within the area. The design proposal should be one with topology that allows for the possibility to grow as the need for more space becomes necessary in the future to counter today’s ever-increasing number of city commercial skyscrapers which are under utilised.
The Wilmotte Foundation’s international PrixW competition is calling for entries from architectural students and recent graduates. For the first time since the Competition began, the prestigious PrixW will focus on a UK site. The competition invites entrants to propose a new cultural and events centre at the Tower of London, London’s most visited tourist attraction. Prix W hopes that a site with such a long and illustrious history will fire the imagination of young architects across the world.
The city of Kaliningrad’ announces an open International architectural and city-planning competitive tender for the Concept of area development in the historical center of Kaliningrad – Korolevskaya mountain and its locality
BDP has won a RIBA competition to transform Rochdale town centre, seeing off a strong shortlist which included Adam Khan Architects, Atkins, Bauman Lyons and Land Use Consultants.
The competition was launched to improve the look of the town centre and better connect the two sides of the River Roch, following plans to reopen it.
The Cushman & Wakefield consortium announces that it has been selected as the winner of the contest organized by the Russia Geographic Society and Moscow Region Government for the Masterplan and Business Strategy for the development of Park Russia. Park Russia is an ambitious tourism and cultural project on over 1,000 hectares and 30 km south of Moscow near Domodedovo airport.