Another international competition on designing a temporary gallery launches. It seems architects and students are getting more and more opportunity to show their most innovative ideas in small projects through these competitions. So close your facebook and start brain storming on designing something meaningful at the junction where art and architecture blend together.
Art Alliance Austin, AIA-Austin, Austin Foundation for Architecture AIA-New York collaboratively organizes a design competition entitled TOGS-2 (Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space 2). The first TOGS competition was held in last year (2008) and take a look the winning design:
This design will be constructed at the Art City Austin 2009 festival.
TOGS competition is open to all professional architects around the world and students of final years of B.Arch in accredited architecture schools. The online registration to this competition is now open and a 40 USD registration fee applies. Payments must be via online using credit cards.
Registration Deadline:
March 23, 2009Submission Deadline:
April 06, 2009All information including online registration, site information, submission requirements are available at the competition website:
CLICK HERE to visit.
(Any question or query regarding this competition should go to ‘comment’ to this news item)
A shade, plays in many ways, it may be a pavilion, may hold many functions. It may be a playful insight of innovative solutions with new materials, joineries, assembling and dissembling the pavilion. It seems to be quite exciting to design a multipurpose pavilion which will be completely collapsible as well. And which will be built in reality as per your design in a mega design festival like the Tent London Design Festival! And it will be moved to a permanent home which is a RIBA Award winning masterpiece ‘The Lightbox’.
The Tent London Design Festival has already become a major design event in Europe. This year it will be held on 24-27 September at Truman Brewery near Brick Lane, London.
The site: Red mark shows the final destination of the pavilion
The Art Fund is UK’s leading art charity. They are funding this competition of designing a multipurpose pavilion. Initially the winning design will be built in the Tent London Design Festival Venue and later it will be moved to its permanent home just beside The Lightbox, designed by Marks Barfield Architects. Lightbox is an art gallery and museum and this pavilion will provide some extra space for exhibition and other purposes. The pavilion foot print will be
35sqm (376.6 sft). And it has to be designed intended to serve as:
1. As an exhibition space
2. As a formal presentation space
3. An informal gathering or party spaceAn architecture, design and construction company named Facit will be engineering, fabricating and installing the project. So the submitted design must be designed to work using their manufacturing and construction techniques.
Eligibility: Anyone can participate; registration is open and free of cost
Deadline:
3rd March, 2009Submission: 4 A2 sheets by post.
See details in the
Competition Website,
The site,
Registration and other links:
Small urban design contribution projects are often fun to do. And these projects are full of passion enthusiasm for doing something for the public with a small in-fill in the city. Trimo Urban Crash competition is being held from 2007 and its becoming a well known competition mostly in Europe for its promise to implement the winning idea in reality. So its not just an idea, the design one conceive after enthusiastic brainstorming may come under light and be built in reality.
"Competition Eligibility: Any students of architecture or urban design may participate from any country
What to design? : Architectural installation for a real project in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Deadlines: 31st January 2009
Award: The winning design will be built and the winner will get a paid summer school attendance at an acclaimed school (Last winner attended in AA in London)"
Submission and Registration and Details: Open, online at
http://www.trimo-urbancrash.comThe Trimo Urban Crash 2009 competition will run from 1st November 2008 through 31st January 2009 across 11 countries, and is open to all students of architecture. Participating students will design an architectural installation for a real project, for a given location in the centre of the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana.
The installation solution must fulfil several conditions: it must be both, unique and must serve a public purpose. Students are invited to create an urban meeting place, an alternative cultural stage or a wireless information point. Participating students are invited to submit their projects through the competition web site
www.trimo-urbancrash.com, which serves as the focal communication point of the competition. An international jury consisting of an academic faculty and practitioners will choose an overall winner from the shortlisted projects in late February 2009. The winning project will be built and taken into permanent use on location in June 2009. Also the winner will be awarded with paid summer school attendance at an acclaimed school of architecture.
The first Trimo Urban Crash competition was held in 2007 when the overall winner – Jelena Grujic from Belgrade – was awarded with realization of her proposed solution and with attendance in summer school at the AA in London.
Here is an image of the winning design:
