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Iceland Movie Pavilion

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Design a movie pavilion in Iceland with a cinema up to 50 visitors.

Register: NOV/08/2022, Submit: DEC/12/2022, Eligibility: Architects, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, enthusiasts, companies 115 EUR, students 85 EUR (JUN/01 – JUN/17/2022); architects, enthusiasts, companies 135 EUR, students 105 EUR (JUN/18 – SEP/14/2022); architects, enthusiasts, companies 145 EUR, students 115 EUR (SEP/15 – NOV/08/2022), +4,5% VAT; discount for 3+ student registrations from one university/school, Awards: 1st Prize: 4,000 EUR, 2nd Prize: 2,500 EUR, 3rd Prize: 1,000 EUR, Vogafjos Farm Resort Favourite Award: 1,000 EUR, Buildner Student Award: 1,000 EUR + 50 EUR gift card at Archhive Books, Buildner Sustainability Award: 500 EUR, 6 Honorable Mentions

In an age of streaming services and social media, cinema is more important than ever. The unique experience of cinema is a tradition that has lasted for hundreds of years. The cinema experience means becoming fully immersed in a story, watching and reacting with others and without the distraction of phones or conversations. There’s still something unique about cinema and the theatrical experience that cannot be replicated anywhere else.

Tokyo Urban Meditation Cabins

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Design for a meditation cabin prototype that could be replicated around various spots in Tokyo.

Register: NOV/09/2022, Submit: DEC/13/2022, Eligibility: Architects, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, enthusiasts, companies 95 EUR, students 85 EUR (JUN/14 – JUL/08/2022); architects, enthusiasts, companies 115 EUR, students 105 EUR (JUL/09 – SEP/15/2022); architects, enthusiasts, companies 135 EUR, students 115 EUR (SEP/16 – NOV/09/2022), +4,5% VAT; discount for 3+ student registrations from one university/school, Awards: 1st Prize: 3,000 EUR, 2nd Prize: 1,500 EUR, 3rd Prize: 1,000 EUR, Buildner Student Award: 1,000 EUR + 50 EUR gift card at Archhive Books, Buildner Sustainability Award: 500 EUR, 6 Honorable Mentions

Tokyo is Japan’s capital city, the largest urban area in the entire country and one at the forefront of technology and industrial innovation. Though its unique location on the Pacific coast of central Honshu makes it susceptible to earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons and rising sea levels, some of the greatest devastation is being inflicted by digital devices. Increased use of digital devices, everything from computers to mobile phones, can have seriously detrimental effects on mental health. Not only does excessive screen time disrupt natural sleep cycles, too much time spent on social media can cause increased anxiety and depression.

Memorial for Witches

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Choose any current injustice or problem from the past and any place for their theoretical memorial structure.

Register: NOV/11/2022, Submit: DEC/15/2022, Eligibility: Architects, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, enthusiasts, companies 95 EUR, students 85 EUR (JUN/20 – JUL/08/2022); architects, enthusiasts, companies 115 EUR, students 105 EUR (JUL/09 – SEP/20/2022); architects, enthusiasts, companies 135 EUR, students 115 EUR (SEP/21 – NOV/11/2022), +4,5% VAT; discount for 3+ student registrations from one university/school, Awards: 1st Prize: 3,000 EUR, 2nd Prize: 1,500 EUR, 3rd Prize: 1,000 EUR, Buildner Student Award: 1,000 EUR + 50 EUR gift card at Archhive Books, Buildner Sustainability Award: 500 EUR, 6 Honorable Mentions

The persecution of women perceived to be witches took place throughout Europe and America for several hundred years. Women who were classed as witches because of their non-Christian practices were tortured and killed from as early as the mid-1400s in Europe, and roughly 80,000 witches were put to death between 1500 and 1660. Witch trials took place all over the world, but the most famous was the Salem Witch Trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. During that year, over 150 women, men and children were accused of witchcraft.

Tavertet Cliff – Edge Hotel

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Design a vernacular and sustainable eco-hotel on the cliffs of Pre-Pyrenees, near the mountain village of Tavertet in Catalonia, Spain.

Register: JAN/30/2023, Submit: JAN/30/2023, Eligibility: Students, designers, artists, creators, Fee: 39 GBP (Pound sterling) (JUL/01 – AUG/31/2022), 69 GBP (SEP/01 – NOV/30/2022), 89 GBP (DEC/01/2022 – JAN/30/2023), Awards: 1st Prize: 1,000 GBP, 2nd Prize: 200 GBP, Public Favourite: 100 GBP voucher, Honorable Mention: 100 GBP voucher

How can humans occupy spaces that inspire harmony with the natural environment? What can we, as designers, do to accomplish this and create architecture that avoids destruction of the natural world while also benefitting our environmental impact? We now live in a world where architecture takes valuable resources and causes destruction of the natural environment. We are looking for a design scheme that builds a connection between humans and nature and gives back to our natural surroundings, rather than only taking from them.

Videogame Architecture

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Design a new building or level within the context of an existing videogame or translate favourite videogame into a real-life building.

Register: OCT/31/2022, Submit: OCT/31/2022, Eligibility: Anyone, designers, architects; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: 40 EUR (JUL/01 – JUL/31/2022), 55 EUR (AUG/01 – AUG/31/2022), 70 EUR (SEP/01 – SEP/30/2022), 85 EUR (OCT/01 – OCT/31/2022); +22% VAT, Awards: 2 Winners: 1,000 EUR each, 6 Honorable Mentions, 6 Editorial Picks, up to 35 Finalists, Nonaverse Winner (Non Architects Pro), Special Prize

In this competition, we encourage participants to come up with a visionary concept for a video game Architecture – only 2 drawings, absolute freedom of scale or program. Participants are asked to either design a new building or level within the context of an existing videogame or translate their favourite videogame into a real-life building. Make sure you understand the videogame you’re working on and what are the strong logics behind it and turn them into a tool to design your own architecture piece.

Brace Building

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Seoul, South Korea, Architects: LIFE Architects, Photographs : Kyungsub Shin, Wan Hur

The site was too small to build a building commonly referred to as a building. Besides, it had to setback 3m from the building line because of the aesthetic zone. In this situation, we began to take a closer look at the site. In order to fully utilize this site as an economic logic, it had to go up high but narrow. That made the building vulnerable to lateral forces, and the size of the columns exceeded the size we usually imagine. The site was so small that we couldn’t put such huge columns. We were considering a structural engineer, and we got the idea that if we made a column with a brace, we would be able to secure structural stability while getting a sense of openness.

Tree House

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Lake Austin, Texas, United States, Architects: Ryan Street Architects, Photographs: Cate Black

When one Austin family sought to create a tree house on their property, they looked to their own daughter’s artwork for design inspiration. The project started out as a backyard playhouse for the couple’s two daughters-but then it took off and went above and beyond everyone’s wildest dreams. The family had worked with Ryan Street Architects on their main house, so they enlisted the Austin firm to bring their young daughter’s sketch to life. “That sketch became one of the first key inspirations,” says project manager Jeremy Ristau.

Romsdal Folk Museum

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Molde, Norway, Architects: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, Photographs: Erik Hattrem, Søren Harder Nielsen, Quentin Desfarges

The Romsdal Folk Museum is an architectonic attraction and a treasured landmark that embodies the history and identity of the entire region. Our intention in this project was to let the structure signal its meaning and function through an architectural expression and the use of local materials. The scale of the building refers to the urbanity and morphology of the town. The overall layout of the museum grounds the connections to the town by linking different surrounding areas in an overall plan where all circulation is linked in a unified structure. The project conveys an open and progressive attitude that makes diverse utilization possible.

Industrial Designer House

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Tokyo, Japan, Architects: Koji Tsutsui Architect & Associates, Photographs: Masao Nishikawa

In a quiet residential area in metropolitan Tokyo resides the Koji Tsutsui Architect & Associates constructed Industrial Designer House. The client required that that the house be not only private in nature but also in coexistence with the client’s feelings for his life’s work, industrial design. Along the process of putting together the requirements, it became clear that the client wished to have: an indoor garage for his beloved vehicle; a study with a view to the car; a living/ dining space where his treasured industrial products will be displayed; and completely separated guest room and bed room for sleep.

Harbour Club

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Architects: LEVS architecten, Photographs: BeemFlights

Project Harbour Club in Amsterdam’s quickly developing eastern neighborhood Cruquiuseiland is finished. The complex volume is a collage of old and new buildings and an unconventional program. There are the left-over industry-sized wine silos that have been turned into rooftop villas. Then there is the club at the heart of the new building, sound-proofed and structurally isolated to such an extent that it was possible to build apartments directly above it. Finally, there is the original building from 1901, neatly encapsulated by the new building and topped up with a green roof.