2010 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work  

The AA Prize for Unbuilt Work AA Prize for Unbuilt Work seeks challenging, inventive and rigorous speculations on the futures of architecture.
Sustainable Futures

The 2010 theme is Sustainable Futures.

• How might we make “sustainable” buildings, environments and practices in 2020? In 2050?
• What will appropriate, responsible architecture be?
• Are there opportunities in this to rethink and revitalize architecture and the contribution it makes to the community?

Over the centuries unbuilt architectural projects have provided opportunities for speculation and experiment. They have been vital tools for projecting possible futures. Now we are asking Australian architects and built environment professionals to use unbuilt proposals as a means of imagining architecture in a “post-carbon” world, and in an environment that has undergone major climate change.

Downloads are available here .

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An Ideal City - The 1912 Competition to Design Canberra  

A fascinating look at all of the 46 shortlisted entries for the 1912 competition to design Canberra, provided by the National Archives. Entries by Eliel Saarinen and Berrnard Maybeck are included.

Bustler  

Listings of architecture competitions and events, mainly North Ameican and European.

Cleantech Corridor & Green District Competition  

The Southern California Institute of Architecture and The Architect’s Newspaper have launched the Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor and Green District Competition. The competition asks architects, landscape architects, designers, engineers, urban planners, students and environmental professionals to create an innovative urban vision for Los Angeles’ Cleantech Corridor, a several-mile-long development zone on the eastern edge of downtown LA.

The competition, which offers more than $11,000 in prize money, is presented with the Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles and the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA), which established the Cleantech Corridor. It asks entrants to move beyond industrial uses- creating an integrated economic, residential, clean energy, and cultural engine for the city through architectural and urban strategies. Crucially, this competition will provide an open ideas forum for provocative, even revolutionary, new visions of LA’s urban fabric and infrastructure.

Professional and student competitors are also asked to consider the work already completed by the Urban Land Institute’s Advisory Service Panel for the Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor which is sponsored by the CRA/LA and the Department of Water and Power.

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Death by Architecture  

Grand Daddy of Archi competition sites, the relaunched Death by Architecture is looking pretty strong. Up to date with listings from around the planet.

Regrowth  

The February 2009 fires in Victoria have re-written the rules about bushfires. Many of the fires registered heat above 1,200 degrees Celsius and wind speeds of more than 120 kph, leaving very little in their wake. This is unprecedented.
The HOUSE re-GROWTH Pod is a permanent and cost effective housing unit which can assist in the rebuilding of the fire devastated town-ships of Victoria. The robust pre-fabricated concrete structure has been designed to be built upon, but in the short term acts as a habitable starting point for the building of a new home.

The units are prefabricated, delivered and connected to services rapidly allowing families to begin the process of re-building without displacement from their communities. Taking this as the starting point for the design process for the new house to begin the competition invites architects and designer to propose how this pod can form part of their proposed design using a minimum of one per scheme.

DATES

Announcement of competition: Friday 27th March 2009

Submission date for entry: Friday 24th April 2009 (5pm)

Announcement of short-list: Friday 1st May 2009

Announcement of winners: Tuesday 8th May 2009

Publication of re-growth booklet : June/July 2009