This urban design competition has been arranged by Klaksvík Town Municipality located in the northern part of the Faroe Islands. This brief is the basis of the urban design competition for the town center in Klaksvík and the competition outline is arranged by Klaksvík Municipality in cooperation with Selmar Nielsen Arkitektur and the competition conditions of Arkitektafelag Føroyar. The competition is open to all. Proposals are due by 27th April 2012 at the latest.

Over the last 200 years, Klaksvík has grown from five settlements of a mere 100 people to a modern town of 5000 inhabitants. The large and swift population growth was triggered by the growing fishing industry, which led to the development of the areas along the shore for industrial purposes. The central part of town is virtually undeveloped and with a recent landfill in the center area, where the shore used to be, you are now invited to enter the contest for providing Klaksvík with a masterplan for a new town center.

This contest was initiated so that Klaksvík may take advantage of the untapped resources that lie in the town’s center. The ideas generated by this contest are to be used for the creation and arrangement of Klaksvík’s town center, which will be comprised by new residential and commercial areas, offices, public institutions, and leisure areas; as well as all the services that citizens can expect from a town center. The winning entry will be used as the basis for new building regulations and for inspiration for new construction work in Klaksvík’s center.

Jantje Beton organiseert, samen met Elba media, de Gemeente Den Haag en de BNSP, een ontwerpwedstrijd voor inrichters van de openbare ruimte: architecten, stedenbouwers, landschapsontwerpers en planologen.
De beperkte ruimte in stedelijk gebied vraagt om creatieve oplossingen en multifunctioneel gebruik van de openbare ruimte. Jantje Beton pleit voor een goed ingerichte openbare ruimte: een buitenruimte waar letterlijk en figuurlijk ruimte is voor kinderen. Dat betekent dat ze er kunnen spelen en dat ze er mogen spelen. Vanuit die visie organiseert Jantje Beton deze ontwerpwedstrijd in het Regentessekwartier in Den Haag, een dichtbebouwd gebied. We zijn op zoek naar uitvoerbare ideeën om de openbare ruimte op een uitdagende manier kindvriendelijk te maken.

The Peter Joseph Lenné Award of the state of Berlin is a competition of ideas for garden and landscape architecture and for the planning of open space and landscape. The procedure is targeted especially at young landscape architects, planners, scientists, architects and artists who are being trained or are employed in the aforementioned specialist fields. The award is intended to support the professional development of young persons, and to foster new ideas and planning approaches in the design and planning of open spaces.

The prize has been awarded since 1965. The award is offered for the three sections of Garden and Landscape Architecture (A), Municipal Green Space Planning (B) and Landscape Planning including nature conservation (C), each with one task. Two draft plans in DIN A 0 format as paper printout and one CD with the print versions of both plans as a pdf file are required for one piece of work. The focus is on the drawing presentation. Until the award jury have made a decision, the procedure will be treated as an anonymous competition. There will not be a preliminary inspection of contents of the contributions submitted. The language of the competition is German, and English will also be accepted.

The Museum of Architecture and Design is proud to announce the international Call for Entries for the 23rd Biennial of Design – the international exhibition and BIO Design Awards competition. The curators of this year’s exciting 23rd edition of BIO are Margo Konings and Margriet Vollenberg, of Organisation in Design.

Organisation in Design is a studio specialised in the organisation of all aspects of design for designers, design studios and other design related companies. They guide projects, are involved with various curatorial and advisory activities surrounding design exhibitions. They are the press office of, for example; Atelier Ted Noten, Maarten Baas, Kiki van Eijk, Studio Makkink & Bey and Joost van Bleiswijk, and they do project based PR for international museums, galleries and design events. They acts as an intermediary and are engaged in managing the business interests of several designers and design studios. Organisation in Design is best known for Ventura Lambrate: www.venturalambrate.com

Under the theme Design Relations, BIO 23 will focus on fresh new ideas and explore how design relates to the social, the sustainable, and the cultural, while displaying crossovers between culture and commerce, crafts and industry. Curators will select the works to be exhibited from the entries received. The BIO 23 exhibition will be held from 27 September to 11 November 2012 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Giulio Cappellini, Sven Jonke, Sophie Lovell, Jimmy MacDonald and Vasa J. Perović will award the best design works exhibited. BIO Gold Medal, BIO Green Award, BIO Honourable mentions, Award for a Student Work will be bestowed at the opening ceremony of the Biennial on 27 September.

The Henning Larsen Foundation is launching an international competition on writing about architecture – the third in a row of architecture competitions. The first was about “photographing architecture”, the second about “drawing architecture” and the third – “Time and Space” – focuses on “writing about architecture”.

Photos, drawings and texts challenge architecture. They can be a branch of art or a piece of architecture in themselves, or they can communicate an idea or a dream. The dream is the focus of attention in this competition. An old, blurred photo, a sketch or a piece of writing can sometimes evoke thoughts and images stronger and more fascinating than those found in today’s architecture projects. Texts have the ability to evoke images inside us. The hope of the competition is that an essay, a poem, a fairytale or another kind of text will provide inspiration for architecture that creates dreams about time and space that could be.

Competition entries can be submitted in either Danish or English. The entries will be evaluated on the basis on their description of space and spatiality and whether they offer something new to the genre – writing about architecture. Previously published texts and texts about architecture created by Henning Larsen Architects are not accepted for evaluation.

Competition entries should be submitted in a closed enveloped marked ”Time & Space” to Henning Larsen Architects, Vesterbrogade 76, 1620 København V. Deadline for submission is 12 March 2012. The winners will be announced on 20 August 2012 – with a first prize of €10.000, a second prize of €5.000 and two third prizes of each €2.000.

The judging committee consists of Professor, architect Henning Larsen; CEO, architect Kent Martinussen; Chief Editor, architect Martin Keiding; architecture writer, historian of ideas Christian Bundegaard and architect Troels Troelsen.

At ArchMedium we would like to propose a project that will help us rediscover our primitive instincts. We want to create a bond again with Mother Nature. We want to reestablish the ancient connection between Man and the glories of His planet. This is an experience that too frequently eludes us in our contemporary, urban lifestyles.
What we want to create is a Northern Lights observatory located in one of the most extreme latitudes inhabited by Man, surrounded by lush, endless forests and nature in its purest form. A place where one can retreat for a few days to completely disconnect from the daily routine and plunge headfirst into a world of observation, relaxation, and learning.

Prizes:
5000 Euros in Chash
Publication of the project in the TC Cuadernos magazine and WA+wettbewerbeaktuell.
1 year subscription to the ON Diseño magazine and an exhibition at the Architecture University of Barcelona (ETSAB) and the Aalto University of Helsinki.