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INTRODUCTION Berlin is Germany’s capital and cultural centre which was divided during the Cold War, but today known for its art scene, festivals, nightlife and modern architecture, such as Mies van der Rohe’s landmark Neue National galerie. The 18th century Brandenburg Gate has also become an iconic symbol of reunification of the city and Germany. It is a world city of culture, politics, media, and science with an economy based on hightech firms and the service sector, encompassing a diverse range of creative industries, research facilities, media corporations, and convention venues. Over the last decade Berlin has seen the emergence of a cosmopolitan entrepreneurial scen…

INTRODUCTION Dakar is the capital and largest city in Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the western most city on the African mainland. Cinematography is the art or science of motion picture photography. It is the technique of film photography, including both the shooting and development of the film. Cinema: A film theatre (also refered to as movie house, film house, movie theater or picture house) is a venue, usually a building or desiginated space for viewing films for entertainment. Most film theatres are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket. Senegal has a number of filmmaker…

INTRODUCTION Moscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia with 12.2 million residents within the city and 16.8 within its urban area. It is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific centre in Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city in the entire European continent. Moscow is the northernmost and coldest mega-city and metropolis in the world. By its territorial expansion in 2012 southwest into the Moscow Oblast, the area of the capital more than doubled; from 1,091 square kilometres up to 2,511 square kilometres (970 sq mi), and gained an additional population of 233,000. Moscow is situated on the Moskva River in the Central Federal Dist…

Celtcia has announced a three part architectural design competition regarding College Green in Dublin, Ireland. To ensure the best architectural outcomes are achieved Celtcia are offering generous competition to try and find the best result for one of the most important architecture and urban design set pieces in history. This competition is open to the public. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” “We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a civic space that we can be proud of as a national civic space,” said Cuffe. “We’ve got to get it right.” Regi…

The International Garden Festival, presented at the Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens in the Gaspésie region of Québec, is preparing its 17th edition and is issuing an international call for proposals to select designers who will create the new temporary gardens that will be presented from June 23, 2016. The installations selected by the jury will have a special energy and connection to the natural world. The temporary gardens will have a degree of interactivity that encourages visitors to enter with enthusiasm. The goal is to intrigue visitors with the unusual or to impress by new ways of presenting what is common. This call for proposals is open to all landscape arch…

The Chicago Architectural Club (CAC) announces the 2014 Chicago Prize Competition on The Barack Obama Presidential Library. In partnership with the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) a call for entries for the Chicago Prize Competition is taking place as of November 15th, 2015 with the announcement of the winning entries on February 3rd, 2015. The recent media coverage surrounding the announced Barack Obama Presidential Library, drawing bids from contenders New York, Honolulu, and Chicago, once again initiates the desire for speculations and projections. As the fourteenth of its kind, this civic institution will not only function to house a collection of artifacts and …

Call for Entries Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. Established in 1981 to recognize visionary work by young practitioners, the Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, lecture series, and exhibition organized by The Architectural League and its Young Architects + Designers Committee. Theme: Authenticity Historically, authenticity was contingent on the value of originality, intimating the significance of an origin. Before advancements in technical reproduction challenged this stability, an…

Call for Entries Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. Established in 1981 to recognize visionary work by young practitioners, the Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, lecture series, and exhibition organized by The Architectural League and its Young Architects + Designers Committee. Theme: Authenticity Historically, authenticity was contingent on the value of originality, intimating the significance of an origin. Before advancements in technical reproduction challenged this stability, an…

In affiliation with this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB), the Chicago Architectural Club (CAC) is pleased to announce the 2015 Burnham Prize Competition: Currencies of Architecture. A call for entries for the Burnham Prize is taking place as of June 26th, 2015 with the announcement of the winning entries on October 8th, 2015. Throughout the history of architecture, iconic images have demarcated, defined, represented or challenged the state of architecture. The crystalline form of the Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper, developed in 1921 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, inspired and spoke of an imminent future. Rem Koolhaas and Madelon Vriesendorp’s cinematic 1972 renderin…

The IIDA Student Design Competition celebrates original design and rewards individuals and/or teams whose projects demonstrate innovative, functional design solutions that have a positive environmental and human impact, while allowing emerging professionals the opportunity to showcase their work and fresh design ideas to professionals working in the field. Register by: 02-01-2016 / Submit by: 02-01-2016 View the full article

We are happy to announce 2015 SARA | NY Design Awards! Architects, Designers, Engineers, Artists, Students, and all related fields are welcome to submit! All built and unbuilt works are accepted. Visit www.sarany.org for more info. Register by: 01-26-2015 / Submit by: 02-23-2015 View the full article

We are happy to announce 2015 SARA | NY Design Awards! Architects, Designers, Engineers, Artists, Students, and all related fields are welcome to submit! All built and unbuilt works are accepted. Visit www.sarany.org for more info. Register by: 01-26-2015 / Submit by: 02-23-2015 [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Competition / 2015 Tile of Spain: Passport to Creativity / Tile of Spain View the full article

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Tile of Spain is currently seeking architects and interior designers to participate in a free, CEU architectural excursion from February 7-14, 2015. Winners will earn 4 CEU credits for participating. We will explore architectural sites and Spanish culture. The Passport to Creativity trip also includes a visit to Cevisama, the International Ceramic Tile and Bath Furnishings Show, ceramic tile factory and booth tours and a press conference. Upload an image of yourself holding a picture, catalog or sample of Spanish Tile. You may download images from our www.tileofspainusa.com inspiration gallery for instance. Or you can stand next to a project you specified with a Tile of…

See competition website for complete details. Register by: 03-04-2016 / Submit by: 03-04-2016 View the full article

GRAPHISOFT North America, makers of ARCHICAD, noted architectural firm, Kitchen & Associates and AIA West Jersey, a section of AIA-NJ invite you to answer that question. This year Philadelphia hosts the AIA National Convention, continuing its long tradition of serving as a colorful backdrop to dozens of concerts, conventions, sporting events and festivals annually. With so many wonderful venues in one historic place – the city lacks a way to welcome those various event attendees in a cohesive and effective manner. Your challenge? Position Philadelphia’s rich history in front of the millions of tourists who visit it annually by using ARCHICAD to design a temporary, m…

The Wheelwright Prize is a $100,000 travel-based research grant awarded annually by Harvard University GSD to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional design talent, produced work of scholarly and professional merit, and who show promise for continued creative work. With the prize, Harvard GSD hopes encourage new forms of architectural research informed by cross-cultural engagement. We seek individual applicants who are accomplished but emerging, who are resourceful and risk-taking, and who can make the most of this extraordinary opportunity to construct a research project that will have an impact on his or her own professional development, and potenti…

The Wheelwright Prize is a $100,000 travel-based research grant awarded annually by Harvard University GSD to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional design talent, produced work of scholarly and professional merit, and who show promise for continued creative work. With the prize, Harvard GSD hopes encourage new forms of architectural research informed by cross-cultural engagement. We seek individual applicants who are accomplished but emerging, who are resourceful and risk-taking, and who can make the most of this extraordinary opportunity to construct a research project that will have an impact on his or her own professional development, and potenti…

Fourth edition of this international competition organized by OPENGAP, inviting participants to explore the boundaries and paradigms of house designing, inciting them to work in innovative and visionary proposals which can both, think in a basic housing program and in the relation of identity between the customer and the project. Each participant or team can propose the client for designing a house, a person of interest and inspiration for the project. This competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic. Competitors could subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people. The pr…

AIA National Photography Competition was founded to display the architectural treasures of the world through the photography of architects and those studying to be architects. We believe that the artistic photographs taken by architects are beautiful expressions of the built environment and our competition showcases those talents. The competition entries will be compiled into a presentation that will be provided to Centers for Architecture to display and show. The Fuller Award, named after the competition founder, requires that the subject of this award is architecture located in the United States. Each submission fee will cover the cost of up to five images. You m…

Winners will receive a custom copper plaque featuring an etching of their award-winning project at the 2019 awards ceremony in New York City. Following the reception, projects will be featured on the Copper Development Association’s website and promoted in various publications. Description: Architects, designers and sheet metal contractors are invited to submit their copper building projects for the 2019 North American Copper in Architecture (NACIA) awards program. The program recognizes and promotes architectural copper and copper alloy structures in North America. Eligible projects must feature a significant application of architectural copper, be located in the North A…

Ideasforward wants to give young creative people from around the world the opportunity to express their views on the future of societies through their innovative and visionary proposals. We are an experimental platform seeking progressive ideas that reflect on emerging themes. The eco design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts and technologies are compelling issues in the societies of the future and the involvement of the whole community is imperative. In an era of globalization where communication was dominated by the technological revolution, there is the need to rethink the cities and how Man relates in a global World as well as rethink the economic, soc…

Shakespeare was a poet, playwright and English actor, recognized as the greatest writer for theater in the world. He was born and died on the same day, April 23, and had an incomplete school education, having been taken out of school at a young age, due to weak economic conditions of their parents. He arrived in London poor and friendless, until be greeted by a theater company that took him. He took care of the horses of the spectators, helped the stage and acted. By the end of the XX century they were produced over 400 films based on the works of Shakespeare, and the satellites of the planet Uranus were baptized with names of characters of his plays: Miranda, Cordelia, O…

Ideasforward wants to give young creative people from around the world the opportunity to express their views on the future of societies through their innovative and visionary proposals. We are an experimental platform seeking progressive ideas that reflect on emerging themes. The eco design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts and technologies are compelling issues in the societies of the future and the involvement of the whole community is imperative. In an era of globalization where communication was dominated by the technological revolution, there is the need to rethink the cities and how Man relates in a global World as well as rethink the economic, …