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World Challenge 2006

The World Challenge is back and looking for nominations for projects that make a real difference to local communities. World Challenge 2006, brought to you by BBC World and Newsweek, in association with Shell, aims to find individuals or groups from around the world who have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level. It could be you or someone you know.

Nomination Stage
You can nominate your project from 06 March until 04 June 2006. Entries must be received by 5pm (GMT) 04 June 2006.

One of the 2005 finalists:
A new method of recycling plastic waste in Ukraine for indestructible roof tiles.

SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENTS INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

Competition Theme: iXp | Information Exchange Prototype
(Details Forthcoming)

Call for projects

PRINTED and MODELED EXHIBITION and VIDEO PROJECTION
Samples due: May 05, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: May 26, 2006
Final Submission due: August 25, 2006
General Note: Workshops and Panel Proposals & Samples of Work should
be submitted by e-mail and by surface-mail (Work Samples) to:

Gregory A. Luhan, RA (E-mail: galuhan@uky.edu)
Assistant Professor of Architecture
University of Kentucky
College of Design-School of Architecture
Pence Hall
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0041

More information > http://www.acadia2006.org/projects.html

The Spaces International Design Competition

SPACES offers a unique showcase setting for students from design schools around the world in which they can compete against one another for international recognition, gifts from sponsors and a cash prize. Over the course of the competition, the selected candidates will have many opportunities to display their design skills and techniques to TV viewers, industry professionals, developers and retailers from around the world. The designers will be required to complete a variety of challenging tasks utilizing all design mediums; interior, fashion, home décor, urban-living, furniture, accessories, etc.

3. Entry Submission Period. Entry Submissions shall commence on March 1, 2006 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST), and shall continue in duration through to June 30, 2006 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Late entry submissions will be subject to an additional fee. *Late entry submissions shall commence June 1, 2006 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST), and shall continue through to June 30, 2006 at 11:59 p.m. EST. (“the deadline”).

More information > http://www.spacesinternational.com/comp1a.html

Call for papers

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) seeks abstracts for papers focusing on strategies for employing design to dramatically increase the economic and social performance of affordable housing. The submissions are for a June 2006 forum entitled AFFORDABLE DESIGN: Convening the Conversation, funded by a grant from the Fannie Mae Foundation. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a complete paper by May 15 that will frame Convening the Conversation. Authors of completed papers will receive an honorarium, and one author will be invited to participate in the forum.

Now to April 15, 2006

More Information > https://www.acsa-arch.org/faculty/affordablehousing.aspx

1st TAP design contest

The objective of the company is to invite the Designers, who will want to participate at the initiative, to present new ideas which are also innovative and original. The contest is opened to both professionals as well as students , who wish to express their own creativity in a project which will then become reality, with a production in series.

Now to May 30, 2006

More information > http://www.webert.it/news.php?news=1&tipo=concorso

My Chair

Even though the function of a chair as an aid to sitting has not really changed over time, its design has evolved in parallel to society. It has reflected the developments in technology, architecture, and industrial design. Furthermore, chairs have been a social, aesthetic, and symbolic statement. Chair design has been a declaration of attitudes, ideas, and viewpoints. During the XX Century there were some chair designs that succeeded to reflect the society of their time. Some of the best known examples are Charles and Ray Eames's molded plywood chairs, Alvar Alto's No. 41 Chair or Marcel Breuer's B3 Chair. Their highly innovative designs responded both to ergonomics and manufacture processes. As our society has changed we are looking for a chair design that succeeds in communicating the XXI Century personality. This is an open competition to design a chair, sofa, or stool that reflects our time. My chair is a reflection on style, trend, attitude, and culture.

Now to May 08, 2006

More information > www.luvodesign.com

2005-06 ACSA/AISC AQUATIC CENTER

Aquatic Center. The 2005–2006 ACSA/AISC competition will challenge students to design an aquatic center. The facility will be a steel frame building with at least one long span steel structure. The program will contain a natatorium, locker/shower facilities, staff offices, recreational facilities, and other services to enhance the quality of the community. Winning students, their faculty sponsors, and schools will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000.

SCHEDULE
Registration Deadline: February 8, 2006
Submission Deadline: May 24, 2006
Winners Announced: June 2006
Summary Publication: Fall 2006

More Information > https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/steel.aspx

International Design Competition

This competition is aimed at fostering innovative ideas relevant to the development of urban structures integrating photovoltaic (PV) systems and technologies. The main novelty in this competition is that the ideas should not only have a technological potential but also a business potential and is to be developed by architects, engineers and designers with interests in new energy concepts for the built environment, either university teams and/or entrepreneurs.

IN+ Center for Innovation Technology and Policy Research

Now to June 10, 2006

More information > www.lisbonideaschallenge.com.pt

Open Competition: AA/ Environments, Ecology and Sustainability Research Cluster

The Architectural Association and the Environments, Ecology and Sustainability Research Cluster together with supporting organizations are sponsoring an open one-stage international competition in search of innovative architectural methodologies and design-related research working towards an ever-evolving understanding of environments, ecology and sustainability. The aim of the competition is to locate new projects that consider the larger contextual issues of environmental change while formulating critical and informed responses. The competition welcomes submissions that absorb new design methods, tectonics, materials, spatial organizations, social structures, formal within their conceptual and proposed frameworks, and/or political parameters that engage with complex environmental and sustainable parameters.

Now to August 07, 2006

More Information > www.aaschool.ac.uk/clusters/ees.shtm

International Bamboo Building Design Competition

Bamboo Technologies of Maui has launched the first International Design Competition for Structural Bamboo Buildings. Some of the winning entries will be chosen for manufacture by the world's premier builder of international building code approved bamboo homes. The competition is open to architects, builders, designers and students anywhere in the world. This competition has been created to develop new award winning designs for bamboo buildings, raise awareness of the use of certified structural bamboo for building code approved structures, and introduce architects, designers and builders to working with bamboo as a structural material. There are design categories for different types of bamboo buildings, and winners will be chosen in each design category, such as family housing, urban buildings, emergency shelters, commercial buildings and even treehouses.

Now to December 12, 2006

More Information > www.bamboocompetition.com/

INTERNATIONAL KITCHEN + ENVIRONMENT DESIGN COMPETITION 2006

‘your way to coway’
.. imagine your life - design your living

01 - the subject
participants are requested to submit their designs and concepts for one
or more of the three categories:
a – THE KITCHEN OF TOMORROW (future kitchens)
b – CONVERGENCE OF SPACE (one environment for cooking - dining - living)
c – KITCHEN APPLIANCES (what might be brought to the market in the next 10 years)

02 – awards
the designers of 12 winning entries will be granted with cash prize awards
- # 1 first prize Euro 8,000
- # 2 second prizes Euro 5,000 each
- # 3 third prizes Euro 3,000 each
- # 6 honorable mentions Euro 1,000 each

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05 – registration deadline
application registration will be accepted through june 05th, 2006

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08 – deadline for submission of entries
works can be submitted through june 15th 2006.

More information:
http://www.designboom.com/bussel2006.html - Rules, registration and submission
http://www.bussel.co.kr/
http://www.woongjin.com/eng/index.aspx