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G House

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel, Architects: Axelrod Architects + Pitsou Kedem Architect, Photographs: Amit Geron

Appearing to effortlessly float above the ground, the G House advances the firm’s residential design beyond a purely minimalist approach. The G House is horizontally expressed but uses vertical space and light in surprising ways. The simply shaped residence on a small half of a dunam lot is organized along a horizontal framework which contains two living levels and a basement. The main level features copious glazing which opens to a private yard and pool; it is the entire wall of glass that creates the illusion of a floating building. The roof itself hovers above the house, separated by a slim glass window line.

Arctic Hotel

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Arctic Hotel with an area of up to 3,200 m2 and a height of up to 8 m will replace an old existing structure.

Register: JUL/11/2021, Submit: JUL/14/2021, Eligibility: Students, graduated, freelance architects, designers; individually, teams (any number of members, which can be from different countries and universities; at least one member aged 18 to 35), Fee: 65 EUR (APR/12 – MAY/16/2021), 85 EUR (MAY/17 – JUN/13/2021), 115 EUR (JUN/14 – JUL/11/2021); +22% VAT, Awards: 1st Prize: 8,000 EUR, 2nd Prize: 4,000 EUR, 3rd Prize: 2,000 EUR, 2 Gold Mentions: 500 EUR each, 10 Honorable Mentions, 30 Finalists

Some places may seem straight out of a fairy tale, but they exist in the real world. In some places, a blend of legends, landscapes, memories, creates something that cannot be described in words: something humans perceive but cannot express, something science explains but does not own. Rovaniemi is one of those places. Capital of Finnish Lapland, Rovaniemi is one of the few cities in the world located at a few kilometres from the Arctic Circle: legacy of people with colourful clothes and special traditions, reindeer farmers and sleigh builders. Rovaniemi is a place made of snow, perpetual dawns and dusks, and it is home to the dancing lights that shine in the sky during cold winter nights – the Aurora Borealis.

Europan 16 | LIVING CITIES – Metabolic Vitalities / Inclusive Vitalities

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Metabolic vitalities should help go over the opposition between city and nature, allowing mixing architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.

Register: SEP/17/2021, Submit: SEP/17/2021, Eligibility: Professionals under the age of 40 years old; graduated architects, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers, architecture students or related disciplines, artists; individually, (multidisciplinary) teams with an unlimited number of members (team members can be and sociologists, geographers, biologists; team leader must be an architect), Fee: 100 EUR, each additional site: 50 EUR, Awards: Each of 40 sites – Winner: 12,000 EUR, Runner-up: 6,000 EUR, Special Mentions; taxes included

In the conditions of the Anthropocene – a new bio-geological period where human activities on the global scale have a destructive impact on life on earth – how to face climate change and inequalities? How to imagine other possibilities to inhabit the planet Earth? The Europan 16 topic focuses on living cities as a new paradigm, in which new kinds of synergies can be considered between the environmental, biological, social, economic, cultural and political dimensions. This paradigm leads us to think in terms of co-evolution and interactions, and to work with regenerative project dynamics, combining metabolic and inclusive vitalities.

WarsawCall – Concert Hall in Poland Capital

ARHITECTURE COMPETITION

The Warsaw Concert Hall is an important cultural institution that is becoming an opportunity for urban regeneration.

Register: JUL/26/2021, Submit: JUL/26/2020, Eligibility: Graduate students, graduates, professionals; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: Individually: 10 EUR, teams: 20 EUR (APR/19 – MAY/09/2021); individually: 15 EUR, teams: 30 EUR (MAY/10 – JUN/27/2021); individually: 20 EUR, teams: 40 EUR (JUN/28 – JUL/26/2021), Awards: Winner: 1,000 EUR (excluding tax), 3 Special Mentions

Warsaw was born as a small fishing community to become, during the sixteenth century, the capital of Poland. The colors that characterize the city buildings gave the urban center a considerable reputation which was interrupted following the damage caused by the Second World War. The reconstruction that followed the conflict was so faithful that it gave the area UNESCO protection. The Jewish ghetto still preserves the damaged buildings to testify the period of persecutions; Wilanow palace and Lazienki park return a sense of austerity often celebrated by public concerts with which citizens retrace the noble musical tradition started here by the well-known composer Chopin.

Chesa Futura

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: St. Moritz, Switzerland, Architects: Foster + Partners, Kuchel Architects (collaborating architect), Photographs: Nigel Young

Chesa Futura (‘house of the future’ in Romansch) fuses state-of-the-art computer design tools with centuries-old construction techniques to create an environmentally sensitive apartment building. Although its form is novel, it is framed and clad in timber – one of the oldest and most sustainable building materials. In Switzerland, building in timber is particularly appropriate in that it follows traditions developed and refined over centuries. The building’s larch shingles respond naturally to exposure to the elements, changing colour over time to a silver-grey, and should last for a hundred years without the need for maintenance.

Kitesurf School Lençois Maranhenses

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

The project may a compact module or a dispersion of small buildings be on earth, in the sky, buried or flying.

Register: JUN/15/2021, Submit: JUN/15/2021, Eligibility: Architects, architecture students, related professions; individually, teams up to 8 members (can be architects, architecture students, artists, philosophers, photographers; from different universities and countries), Fee: Individuals: 35 EUR, teams: 45 EUR (APR/05 – MAY/04/2021); individuals: 45 EUR, teams: 60 EUR (MAY/05 – MAY/25/2021); individuals: 65 EUR, teams: 85 EUR (MAY/26 – JUN/15/2021); +21% IVA, discount 30% for every 10 teams, Awards: 1st Prize: 1, 500 EUR + 2,000 EUR Grant for Master’s degree MArch Valencia, 2nd Prize: 1,000 EUR, 3rd Prize: 500 EUR, 10 Honorable Mentions

We are facing a miracle, a real miracle, a unique landscape and changeable with every season. This landscape is born of two rivers, Parnaíba and Preguiças. They drag sand and sediment from the interior of the continent to the Atlantic Ocean, this sediment are deposited on the 70 kilometres of coastline. Durin dry season, above all, in the months of October and November, the north-east wind transports the sand up to 48 kilometres in land from the earth, sculpting crescent-shaped dunes that reach 39 metres height and extend as far as the eye can see. Under bird´s eye view, this place, with the name “Lencços Maranhenses”, refers to the “Sabanas de Maranha” o “Maranha sheets”.

Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022 (TAB 2022) – Installation Program Competition

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

The installation should work as a functional and active public space in front of the Museum of Estonian Architecture.

Register: APR/22/2021, Submit: APR/22/2021, Eligibility: Graduated architects; individually, teams with least one architect, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize: 15,000 EUR for design and build + TAB 2022 exhibition participation, 2nd and 3rd Prize: TAB 2022 exhibition participation

The Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2022, which takes place from September 07th – October 31st, 2022, has presented its Installation Programme Competition “Slowbuilding”. Competition challenges participants to develop creative designs for a temporary outdoor installation in the heart of Tallinn, Estonia. As a counterpoint to the prevailing trends towards high-speed industrialized construction, the curators invite proposals that explore the relationship between technology and slowness. Slowness is a useful framework for thinking about design and construction in a world of finite physical resources and exponentially increasing computational capacity.

Floating Home

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Architects: i29, Photographs: Ewout Huibers

Floating home by i29 architects is part of Schoonschip, a new floating village of 46 households that aims to create Europe’s most sustainable floating community. Based on an urban plan by Space&Matter, over 100 residents moved into and revitalized a disused canal and established themselves a living on the water. The location has a strong industrial past but today it is one of the most rapidly changing city parts of Amsterdam transforming into a more multi-functional living area. The new floating neighborhood is intended to be an urban ecosystem embedded within the fabric of the city: making full use of ambient energy and water for use and re-use, cycling nutrients and minimizing waste, plus creating space for natural biodiversity.

Shift House

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Tokyo, Japan, Architects: APOLLO Architects & Associates, Photographs: Masao Nishikawa

Surrounding the site in the outskirts of Tokyo is lush green and a slow-paced environment. The building was commissioned by a family composed of the husband who manages an insurance company, the wife who works as a patternmaker and their two children. It was planned as a SOHO, with a space for the yoga classes run by the wife added to the house. The distinguishing exterior consists of a wooden volume covered with a luminescent wall sitting on top of a base made of exposed concrete engrained with the texture of Japanese cedar.

Genmab Research Building

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Utrecht, Netherlands, Architects: Cepezed, Photographers: Lucas van der Wee

Recently the opening of the new premises of biotech company Genmab took place at the Science Park Utrecht. The new head office of Genmab, which has branches in Copenhagen and Princeton – New Jersey, is an integral design of Cepezed and Cepezed interior. The new building has been designed on the basis of an open work culture and intensive interaction, also with external parties. With a high sustainability score and ample daylighting, the new building offers a comfortable, healthy and inspiring (work) environment for employees and visitors.