julho 22, 2008
Como demolir um arracéus piso a piso
Links: Kajima Corporation
Via: freshome e pink tentacle
julho 16, 2008
Scotswood Expo Architectural Competition
The Scotswood Expo Architectural Competition is a new international design contest promoted by Newcastle City Council for one of the country’s largest regeneration projects. Run by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Competitions Office, the competition seeks fresh thinking in the design of new housing.
Our aim is to select six design teams to develop innovative housing designs which respond to the challenges of environmental sustainability, adaptability, new ways of living and designing beautiful buildings. The Competition seeks to develop designs for plots to create a family of demonstration houses or prototypes that will be built for the Expo event and sold on thereafter.
More Information > www.scotswoodexpo.com
Competition Timescales
* Preliminary Briefing and Pre-Qualification Questionnaire available: 9 June 2008
* Expo Competition Launch Event at Dance City, Newcastle 17 June 2008 (18.00)
* Stage 1 PQQ Submission Deadline: 16 July 2008 (12.00 noon)
* Shortlist Announced: August 2008
* Stage 2 Brief issued: September 2008
* Submission of Stage 2 Concept Design: November 2008
* Notification of Winners: December 2008
julho 15, 2008
Design Green Award
The Design Green Project is the first of its kind to honor and reward designers' creativity, from around the world, for their excellence in designing 'Green' for a better planet – in the disciplines of art, branding, environments, fashion, packaging, photography, print, design green, and now interactive.
All designers who participate in this unique competition will be part of the solution to the Global Warming Crisis by replacing one of their old light bulbs with a compact fluorescent light bulb provided by The Design Green Project. Additionally, there will be a tree planted in their name and 50% of all proceeds will be donated to the StopGlobalWarming.org fund, just for entering.
Due to incompatiablities in voltage and connections, designers who participate outside the United States will not receive a light bulb, however, a tree will be planted in their name and 50% of their entry fee will be donated to the StopGlobalWarming.org fund.
Creative Categories
Art: Paintings, illustrations, sculpture, etc.
Branding: Naming, identity, stationery packages, etc.
Environments: Retail designs, exhibits, signage, etc.
Fashion: Couture, ready-to-wear, bags, shoes, etc.
Packaging: CDs, DVDs, boxes, bags, labels, etc.
Photography: Portraits, landscapes, etc.
Print: Collateral, posters, magazines, etc.
Design Green: Eco-friendly designs with recycled materials.
Interactive: Web sites, flash presentations, etc. NEW
Designs submitted must have an environmentally friendly theme. The Design Green category must have an eco-friendly theme and use recycled materials.
Deadline
The deadline is December 15th 2008.
http://www.designgreenproject.org/award.htm
julho 14, 2008
Detail Prize 2009
Outstanding architecture not only meets high aesthetic criteria, but also fulfils its function – right down to the last detail. Only when aesthetics and technology combine to form a whole is exceptional architecture created. DETAIL's aim and raison d'être is to present these solutions to a wider audience.
Following the large International response to the 2005 and 2007 DETAIL Prize competitions and the success of the symposium at the BAU trade fair, DETAIL, in collaboration with the Bavarian Chamber of Architects and the Association of German Architects - Bavaria (BDA Bayern e.V.), will once again award the DETAIL Prize in 2009. Prizes are awarded to buildings that feature especially well-designed, groundbreaking and technically-innovative details within an outstanding overall design.
By choosing new categories, a greater emphasis will be placed on cross-sectoral connections and interdisciplinary networking. For the first time the DETAIL Prize will be expanded to include an industrial prize and an honorary prize.
The DETAIL Prize is awarded to innovative details incorporated into outstanding overall designs. The products should not only resolve technical problems but also, and more importantly, form a significant detail and play a decisive role in the overall design.
The DETAIL Industry Prize is aimed at manufacturers and developers of innovative building products and technical solutions, as well as at architects and engineers who have made use of these products. Entrants should show how their innovative products, integrated into the overall concept of a reference building, play a distinctive role and contribute to the success of the overall design.
Only projects built to completion and finished after 1st January 2004 may be submitted for the main prize and the special prizes. The exception is the special prize for students, which recognises student projects from 1 January 2004 onwards.
The competition is open to architects, structural engineers, interior designers and landscape architects around the world who are authorised to use these professional designations. The special award for students is open to graduates and students of the corresponding fields.
Deadlines
Public notification of award - 1 April 2008
Submission deadline - 14 July 2008
Jury meeting - 14 October 2008
Awards ceremony and exhibition - 14 January 2009
All entries to be submitted by: 14 July 2008, 4 pm (CEST)
http://www.detail.de/Plus/Wettbewerbe/En/DETAILPreis2009/Index
julho 06, 2008
Arquitectura Portuguesa. Fernando Távora - Curso de Verão
O Curso promove o encontro com a arquitectura de Fernando Távora e a memória de lugares, de coisas e de sinais que lhe foram significativos, no Porto, na região de Entre Douro e Minho e em Coimbra, considerando a paisagem construída urbana e rural, aspectos da arquitectura e da arte popular e erudita, da cozinha tradicional portuguesa. Dias longos de Verão, viagem, estada nos sítios, as obras…
Também a visita a lugares e outra arquitectura portuguesa.
As palestras contemplam a leitura da obra, sob diferentes pontos de tematização, e propõem acentos de debate:
* Fernando Távora, o movimento moderno, em Portugal, após o 1.º Congresso Nacional de Arquitectura, Lisboa 1948, a Escola do Porto
* Habitar, a casa, outros programas de edificação
* Planos de Urbanização
* Reabilitação de espaços urbanos
* Permanência, continuidade e transformação de edifícios, conservação e restauro
* O estudo da arquitectura popular: o Inquérito à Arquitectura Popular Portuguesa (1955)
* A história da arquitectura e da arte portuguesa
- Vasco Fernandes (Grão Vasco), a pintura quinhentista
- O Renascimento coimbrão, a igreja e o convento de Santa Cruz,
Nicolau Chaterrene e João de Ruão
- Nasoni, o Barroco do Norte de Portugal
* Pensar e desenhar
* A viagem
* Fernando Távora e Álvaro Siza Vieira
O curso tem incidência no domínio da arquitectura, tanto a nível de formação como de abertura a uma especialização, mas reveste-se igualmente de interesse no âmbito mais geral da cultura portuguesa. Dado que a obra de Fernando Távora permanece incontornável na actualidade do seu contributo disciplinar, a análise de algumas das intervenções, proposta no curso, abre a possibilidade de reflexão e aprofundamento do estado da arte dos problemas em causa.
Data de Realização: 6 a 11 de Julho de 2008
Organização: Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Arquitectura
Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável - Curso de Verão
A urgência de se estabelecerem estratégias de desenvolvimento, baseadas num conceito de sustentabilidade, que implica uma ligação forte e equilibrada entre três pilares fundamentais - Sociedade, Economia e Ambiente - é o motor principal deste curso. É neste âmbito que as conferências do Rio e Rio+10 e o seu impacto na política do ambiente à escala planetária, na União Europeia e em Portugal, se reverão e debaterão.
O Protocolo de Quioto e os seus mecanismos (comércio de emissões, mecanismos de desenvolvimento limpo e implementação conjunta) serão também discutidos, visando uma melhor compreensão dos caminhos possíveis para atingir os compromissos assumidos, cujo prazo se aproxima rapidamente.
A análise, ilustrada com exemplos concretos e inovadores, do papel das comunidades locais e do poder político no ordenamento do território complementará a visão que se pretende fornecer. A aplicação de Directivas europeias na área do Ambiente afigura-se também fundamental para conseguir apreender quais as estratégias de desenvolvimento que se perspectivam para o século XXI.
Finalmente, este Curso procura associar-se à celebração da década das Nações Unidas sobre Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (2005-2014), assumindo o seu objectivo prioritário, isto é, a construção de um mundo onde todos tenham a oportunidade de beneficiar de uma educação de qualidade, permitindo a aprendizagem da cidadania com base em valores e estilos de vida que possibilitem um futuro sustentável e uma transformação social positiva.
Data de Realização: 6 a 11 de Julho de 2008
Organização: Universidade de Aveiro