competitions in australia
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 .
Enter Now!
2010 entries are now open and will close on 8 October 2010.
2010 marks a change in process whereby most of the entry submission will take place online, with entrants only sending hard copies of 2 x A2 sheets and drawings.
The annual program is open to architects, graduates, students and other built environment professionals. A prize pool of $3000 is offered.
The AA Prize for Unbuilt Work is an Architecture Australia inititaive. The 2010 Prize is presented in partnership with ISIS.
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.
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
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