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ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Arquine Competition No.23 invites you to design the meeting point in the public space, where we will keep a safe distance.

Register: JAN/04/2021, Submit: JAN/08/2020, Eligibility: Architects, architecture students; individually, teams (may be interdisciplinary with professionals or students from other disciplines – recommended with architect or architecture student), Fee: 1,250 MXN (Mexican peso), international registration: 60 USD (AUG/17 – OCT/19/2020); 1,500 MXN, international registration: 75 USD (OCT/20/2020 – JAN/04/2021), Awards: 1st Place: 100,000 MXN (around 4,492 USD) + construction, 2nd Place: 50,000 MXN (around 2,246 USD), 3rd Place: 25,000 MXN (around 1,123 USD), Mentions

In uncertain times, we ask ourselves what to do in the public space during MEXTRÓPOLI 2021. For the past five years, the Arquine Competition has called for the design and construction of a pavilion that, temporarily inserted in the city, would allow the interaction between architecture and the citizenship. We know that the pandemic has changed and will continue to change how we live, but to what extent? After twenty-two years summoning specific ideas and proposals, Arquine (Mexico City) invites you to speculate on new ways of using the public space, focused on the design of a meeting point where proximity and encounter are the mail characteristics.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

An annual award for the best visualization is seeking compelling images that tell stories of architecture, interiors, cities, and worlds that could be.

Register: DEC/31/2020, Submit: JAN/02/2021, Eligibility: Undergraduate students, graduate students (up to 5 years from completion of undergraduate or graduate studies), professionals (6+ years from completion of undergraduate or graduate studies), Fee: Undergraduate students: 25 USD, graduate students: 35 USD, professionals: 50 USD (SEP/21 – NOV/23/2020); undergraduate students: 35 USD, graduate students: 45 USD, professionals: 60 USD (NOV/24 – DEC/31/2020); discount: 10% for 2-3 images, 20% for 4-5 images, 30% for 6+ images, Awards: Overall Award: 3,000 USD; Young Designer Award: 1,000 USD; Undergraduate Award: 1,000 USD; Exterior Award: 500 USD; Interior Award: 500 USD; Honorable Mentions; Directors Choice

Designers are storytellers. They assume many roles, but common to them all is the task of telling the story of the spaces and worlds they imagine. Often, they must convey these thoughts with images. Through their images, they can shape and influence how others feel and understand their ideas. Although designers continue to be equipped with better digital tools, making it easier to create images, there is still a great deal of craft in visualization.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Through the international competition, the municipality of Rahovec, Kosovo, aims to achieve a sustainable design solution of the Central City Square.

Register: NOV/16/2020, Submit: NOV/16/2020, Eligibility: Architects, planners, urban designers, landscape designers, students from these fields; individually, (interdisciplinary) teams (with experts on environment, mobility, economics), Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize: 7,000 EUR, 2nd Prize: 3,000 EUR, 3rd Prize: 2,000 EUR, 2 Honorable Mentions, Community Prize

The International Design Competition for Central City Square of Rahovec is organized within the project Leading Urban Change in Rahovec through revitalization of the Central City Square. The project is funded by the Municipality of Rahovec, Kosovo, and implemented with the technical support of UN-Habitat. The main purpose of the project is to promote urban regeneration and sustainable urban development as well as inclusive public space by exercising transparent and innovative methods of participatory planning and design for the Central City Square of Rahovec, a strategic part of the municipal territory.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Create Ghost City Rendering that expresses an architectural form or space and the experience during Covid-19 pandemic.

Register: OCT/20/2020, Submit: OCT/20/2020, Eligibility: Architects, designers, urban planners, constructors, 3d artists, students; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: Students 35 USD, non-students 50 USD (until JUN/20/2020); students 45 USD, non-students 65 USD (JUN/21 – JUL/20/2020); students 55 USD, non-students 75 USD (JUL/21 – AUG/20/2020); students 60 USD, non-students 80 USD (AUG/21 – SEP/20/2020); students 70 USD, non-students 90 USD (SEP/21 – OCT/20/2020), Awards: students: 1,000 USD, non-students: 1,000 USD, favorite: 500 USD

Create Ghost City Rendering that powerfully expresses an architectural form or space and the experience of those that had a special condition because of Covid-19 pandemic so that it appears like a Ghost City. It can be located anywhere in the world and can be at any scale. It can take the form of a perspective, isometric projection, section, abstract or any other image format. As long as it is a computer-generated visualization that portrays a building or group of buildings in part or full. This should represent a ghost city and must be accompanied by a short description of your idea, no more than 220 words.

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Architects: Herzog & de Meuron
Photographs: Iwan Baan, Bahaa Ghoussainy, Trevor Patt

The city of Beirut lies in the heart of the developing Middle East. Having always been a cosmopolitan city, it is a focal point of the region as a cultural and geographical link between Europe and the Middle East. The history of Beirut could hardly be more diverse; remains of Phoenician, Roman, Mamluk, Ottoman and Colonial rule have shaped the city and its buildings. The design of Beirut Terraces was quite literally influenced by the layers of the city’s rich and tumultuous history. It is a history now also marked by inescapable traces of an eventful present. For generations to come, the people of Beirut will remember the assassination in 2005 of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, when a car bomb detonated in front of St. Georges Hotel. The resultant devastation is still visible as a daily reminder. Despite a scarred history, there is a clear vision to rehabilitate the area, with a master plan well under way that aims to rebuild and revitalize this part of Beirut.

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Quarteira, Portugal
Architects: Corpo Atelier
Photographs: Ricardo Oliveira Alves

Empty plots of similar shapes and sizes are aligned along a golf course, setting a frame for new urbanization of detached houses. Nothing was built. Due to the degree of uncertainty regarding future constructions, the house becomes introverted. Two white walls (almost) completely withdraw any direct contact from future neighbors, setting clear boundaries. Between them, an architectural inner landscape of cubic shapes, each arranging a single function, provides a sense of security and protection while carefully framing the distant landscape. Only a horizontal volume, containing the swimming pool, contradicts this logic projecting itself to the South, emerging from the walls to offer a possibility of volunteered exposure, for a brief moment, before returning to the house.

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: El Paso, Texas, United States
Architects: Hazelbaker Rush
Photographs: Casey Dunn

The Franklin Mountains extend into the north end of El Paso like a peninsula of rocky wilderness into the urban landscape of the city, rising 2500 feet above the Rio Grande river valley. The home site is set in the foothills of the Franklins 800 feet above the city perched just above a small canyon with unobstructed views of downtown El Paso and Juarez to the south. As the raw and rugged native landscape comes down the slope and meets the masses of the house the land starts to feel more controlled and cultivated. The steep site becomes a series of terraces that catch and slows the flow of water and the flow of life here. This mountain side oasis becomes enriched with native succulents and cacti, colorful grasses and aromatic herbs. A sustainable ecosystem on a small scale for a family that has turned a “hard” site into their sanctuary on the hillside. 

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Architects: Design Unit Sdn Bhd 

Photographs: Lin Ho Photography 

The steeply sloping site for this 7000 sf house, orientated approximately east-west, falls by 11.5 m from the road to the rear with rainforest views to the east of this 7000 sf house. The house is designed to ‘float’ over the site – touching it lightly, and allowing the natural slope to remain, heightening our awareness to & informing us about the natural site contours. Consisting 2 independent structures – a 2 storey living & bedroom block constructed of exposed structural steel supported on a ‘forest’ of irregular spaced columns that enhance the feeling of ‘floating’. This steel structure is cantilevered over a lower independent structure housing an art gallery & cinema and is constructed of off-form concrete and includes a green roof garden and swimming pool.