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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 05 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST “Conflicts of interest” are said to compromise the impartiality of research, but what would it mean to be disinterested? Ethical codes warn us that researchers’ objectivity can be corrupted by a clashing set of interests—those of funding agencies, clients and publics, as well as researchers’ self-interest in professional advancement or personal gain. If the resolution of such conflicts might typically call for avoidance, recusal or disclosure, what would such strategies mean for the design disciplines and research on the built environment? What varied interests, expressed in the form of money or other manifestations of influence, do designers contend with? Who does impartiality protect, and when are conflicts of interest productive? Issue 05 asks how researchers define an ethics of interest and disinterest across diverse structures of research funding. How do designers reify, leverage, alter or sidestep the constraints of financial support, and from what vantage points? How is the value of research assessed, and in what marketplaces? Beyond the automotive industry’s role in the Federal-Aid Highway Act or BP’s now-defunct sponsorship of the Tate Modern, even the most speculative work is governed by the economics of research. Universities shape niche publishing industries by determining tenure criteria and create new structures for commercialization as student debts escalate. Government agencies and NGOs issue grants captured from local tax bases or global markets to test ever-changing definitions of welfare, social justice and development. Even Silicon Valley-style start-ups and crowd-funding campaigns rely on licensing and liability protocols developed within the service professions. From philanthropy to profit, and from patronage to entrepreneurship, we hope to examine how researchers locate their role in directing the systemic reach of such funding structures. Register by: 09-01-2016 / Submit by: 09-01-2016 View the full article

This Contest aims to encourage innovative and outstanding designs of kitchens from talented professionals (such as interior and kitchen designers, architects, builders, and remodelers etc), artists, cooking & design enthusiasts and design students. The project scale values up to HK$1 million. Not only the finalists will receive Mia Cucina vouchers and cash worth HK$148,000 in total, winning entries from professional categories will have a chance to be built as showroom display, and receive coverage in a wide range of industry and mass publications. Register by: 07-28-2016 / Submit by: 07-28-2016 View the full article

INTRODUCTION ¨Nederland¨ is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Just as its name indicates, the territory is formed by low (neder) land (land) among which one quarter part is situated below the sea level. For many years the geography of the region has been dynamic and changing, being the only thing that remained constant, the redefinition of the territory. Some of the actions carried out were draining the territory, building large dams and ultimately, since the XVI century the gained land to the sea with polders. Generating land though public policies has its consequences in the eyes of the Dutch and their conception of collective space. Between 1948 and 1978, the architect Aldo Van Eyck, raised a series of interventions of urban regeneration of destroyed sites due to world war two. In 20 years he managed to transform more than 700 sites in children playgrounds. PROPOSAL Nowadays, Amsterdam is a consolidated global city and entirely designed for its wide architectural tradition. In this context we propose the creation of a children´s day care in the city of Amsterdam whose starting point is, once again, children playgrounds and public spaces. The strategic location is a pier ingrained to the neighborhood and reclaimed from the river in a strategic form. Today, an association organizes cultural activities, which should be preserved and enhanced generating a place to learn while playing and grow in close relationship with the water. Register by: 10-16-2016 / Submit by: 10-30-2016 View the full article

The Fragile Pattern /// Patterns are composed of repeating elements: color, form, space, light, events, etc. However, patterns themselves are essentially mental constructs, which rely on an applied set of rules. After establishing a pattern concept it is not uncommon to find flaws, inconsistencies, and complexities upon closer inspection. The original pattern unravels and is either replaced by a more nuanced pattern or it is dissolved completely. How must a pattern be regarded differently when it is known that it will eventually fall apart? What practical purpose might a temporary or shifting pattern have? How might a pattern be deconstructed through technical, environmental, or social means? What happens when a pattern becomes fragile? Participants are asked to consider a wide range of pattern types beyond graphic patterns. Submissions may be conceptual, technical, and/or artistic. Submission Details /// Entries may be conceptual, technical, and/or artistic. All graphics and text must be contained within a 4 inch diameter circle with white beyond. A submission is a single 300dpi JPG. Templates are on the website. Send submissions to PINcompetition@gmail.com and include your name, city, state, and country in the e-mail. International entries are welcome. Register by: 07-31-2016 / Submit by: 07-31-2016 View the full article

Design Challenge: Dichterbij (a Dutch care institution that supports children and adults with intellectual disabilities) is looking for a new design for the Mikado site. Where formerly the care institution cared for about a hundred clients under intensive care, the number has now dropped to under fifty. A variety of influencing factors in the healthcare field, the relocation of residents, and the increasing age of clients, are making the building more difficult to fill. In addition, the buildings have aged and no longer satisfy the residents’ needs, resulting in a preference for placing clients at other locations. The requirement for this location is as follows: to create a design that will accommodate long-term care. The basis of the design should be healthcare 2.0, also allowing space for other functions, and not a standard healthcare concept. One is free to interpret the healthcare 2.0 concept in one’s own way, with virtually everything being acceptable. But take care! The location is in the middle of a residential area and the residents place a high level of importance on the quality of life in the village. We want to guarantee the quality of life, which means that the new design should complement its environment. So take care with the design and design with care! Register by: 10-17-2016 / Submit by: 10-17-2016 View the full article

Abbesses and Chateau Rouge are demonstrative of the great socio-economic divide currently installed in Paris. Only a few hundred metres apart, the difference between plush 'bobo' Abbesses and relatively deprived Chateau Rouge could not be more distinct. They both share a common urban element, the market. This competition proposes the design of a small intervention in either or both sites to further support these social infrastructures. But through a collective architectural response, could these two sites be brought closer together? Register by: 09-02-2016 / Submit by: 09-02-2016 View the full article

The Science Island initiative is a response to the success of international exemplar science centres, notably the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg, Germany, and the Experimentarium in Copenhagen, Denmark, all of which have popularised science through hands-on enquiry and exposition. Science Island’s perspective on three interrelated scientific themes, the Human, the Machine and Nature/Ecology, will be framed by the future: the most likely outcomes for the world, alternative scenarios, and the extent to which each of us is part of that unfolding process. The project’s overall aim is to foster and advance the development of science and culture in Kaunas, and in Lithuania as a whole. The project is being developed in cooperation with all Lithuanian universities and many leading experts in science, biomedical engineering, and biotechnology. It will be managed in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science, and municipal Departments of Education, the Education Development Centre, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) centres and other educational institutions and Non-Governmental Organisations. The 33 hectare Nemunas Island in Kaunas – with its central, accessible location, river views and green, open space – was recommended as the site for the planned National Science and Innovation Centre in January 2016 by a Working Group established by the Ministry of Science and Education. Register by: 09-16-2016 / Submit by: 09-16-2016 View the full article

A new generation of solar panels offers with it´s new colors, styles, structures and texture another aesthetic than before. How solar panels previously were an application, they are now a construction material with a distinct value that opens up new architectural possibilities. In this context it is naturally to focus on new applications and new contexts. Along with energy-producing solar panels it may be possible to a new content quality, artificial light. Thus, both solar cells and LED invisible during the day so they fall naturally into any facade, it functions as lighting in urban spaces, art decoration or information text in the dark. It is the task of the competition to launch a new development of the way we use solar panels on both the built environment and the landscape. COMPETITION TASK: the use of new colored solar cells or solar panels with LED, will be in the competition entries described in one of three contexts: • In existing buildings • In new buildings • In urban space or landscape More details will be available at the website. Register by: 08-15-2016 / Submit by: 08-15-2016 View the full article

Background In the current context of economic, urban and environmental challenges the Festival aims at the comprehensive development of innovative ideas of the organisation and the development of the coastal space, including solution of individual tasks, in particular: - modern environmental, urban and architecture and design development of coastal and island areas; - creation of ecologically safe recreational area; - raise awareness of the development prospects of coastal and island areas among the government, municipal and community organisations. - comprehensive development of water tourism and creation of its infrastructure; - promotion of active lifestyle; - promoting the introduction of new innovative technologies in the development of the coastal areas; - attracting attention of investors, designers, constructors, producers of materials, products and technologies to new ideas of the coastal space development. In light of this challenges the problems of leisure and habitation in immediate vicinity of the coastlines are the most acute and topical, as the coastal areas are the primary and irreplaceable value for the city, its residents, tourists and business. The competition is organised in order to use the equal creative competition to receive proposals for the improvement and development of the waterfront of the Seaside boulevard along the coastline of the Baku bay. The competition is open. Certified architects (creative teams of architects) complying with the programme and the terms of the competition and registered as participants of the competition shall be allowed to participate. The participants shall be eligible to attend all events organised during the "Eco-Shore" Festival. The Objective The objective of the competition is to receive architecture and urban planning ideas that meet the requirements of the competition programme. The competition is held with International Participation. The main object of the competition participants is to suggest an original conceptual solution demonstrating a contemporary and innovative approach to the complex development of the coastal territories with elements of public and tourist infrastructure. The participants shall propose functional zoning and the principles of area improvement for active public use and recreation. An indicative nomenclature of buildings to be accommodated in the designed area should be developed, an easy access for maintenance of technical services as well as an adequate number of parking places both for cars and tourist buses should be provided. The Programme The competition shall be held under the single terms and conditions that are developed by the competition organizers. The terms and conditions are mandatory for all participants of the competition. The Terms and Conditions The design shall fully disclose the author's intent and convey the main idea. The competition designs should be fulfilled in computer-graphics ( bitmap file JPG or TIFF, 200 dpi, the file size of no more than 25 Mb, with no compression) and sent by e-mail fully configured and prepared for display on 80 (height) x 100 (width) boards, not more than three pieces of horizontal position, with a layout diagram for boards enclosed thereto. The boards should contain planning solutions, scheme of functional zoning, elements of coastal area improvement and landscape design, an explanatory note, and other project proposals. The Rules for Submission of Entries and their Evaluation For the purposes of anonymity the projects should be submitted under the mottos (six-figured code), height 10 mm, placed in the right upper corner of all materials submitted for the competition. The entries must be accompanied by a motto envelope containing information about the author or a group of authors (names of authors, tel. number, address, passport data and percentage distribution of the prize between the authors’ team members). The Organizers shall have a right to exclude from consideration the following entries: - Non-conforming with the Programme requirements and competition terms; - Those with deliberately broken anonymity. The terms of competition provide for the following awards: One First Prize - USD 2000 One Second Prize - USD 1500 Two Third Prizes - USD 750 The authors of awarded projects may be invited to participation in design and implementation of the Seaside boulevard development and the waterfront area improvement. The Jury and Organizers of the competition have the right to award special prizes for individual achievements and appropriate solutions. The competition promoters have a right to provide their own prizes and awards. The projects that received the awards and special prizes will be published in the mass media of information partners. The Composition of the Jury Award entries will be evaluated by a Jury comprising leading Azerbaijan, Russian and international architects. The full composition of the Jury will be make public during the opening. The Chairman of the Jury shall be elected at the first session by a simple majority. Jury members shall not be eligible to participate in the competition. Decisions of the jury shall be recorded in minutes signed by all the members of the jury, participated in the meeting. In the event of a tied vote the Chairman of the i jury will have the casting vote. Registration of participants shall be made till July 15, 2016 by completing the registration form at the link The organizers undertake to make (display) exhibition materials (boards, banners) of the entries. Files with works must be sent to the file sharing hosting (eg www.wetransfer.com or any other). The link received shall be sent to the following e-mail address: moskvarch@mail.ru with all contact data and motto number of the project. Dates for submission of entries: Publication of the programme and the terms of the competition: 13 May 2016 Deadline for Registration of participants: 15 July 2016 Deadline for questions from participants: 25 July 2016 Deadline for replies to questions: 30 July 2016 Deadline for the reception of entries: September 7, 2016 Opening of the exhibition of competitive projects: September 22, 2016 Jury session: September 23, 2016 Summarizing and the announcement of results of the competition: September 24, 2016. TERMS OF REFERENCES 1. The design shall take into consideration the existing urban context, including transport network. 2. The design shall include: Master Plan Master plan shall be submitted in scale 1:2500 Layout plan for buildings and structures at the site of the recreation area. Perspective views of the site, its fragments and photomontage The participants must present at least 5 characteristic pictures from at least five observation points. Possible functions: -public spaces; -sports facilities; -recreations and leisure; -retail; -café and restaurants; -hotels and boarding houses; -infrastructure for public and personal vehicle; -parks and landscaping, including winter gardens. 3. The contents of the project The required composition of the design - overall appearance (fragment, axonometric projection or perspective); - master plan; - explanatory note describing main ideas of the project (no more than 3000 characters); - basic engineering-and-economical data (cost-performance characteristics): - Functional circuitries Initials materials: 1. Situation plan 2. Photo fixation of territory 3. The scheme of graphical presentation of the project 4. Bulvar Musabiqe Application form Register by: 07-15-2016 / Submit by: 09-07-2016 View the full article

Forward-thinking. Experimental. Bold. Progressive. Innovative. Once recognized for their defining characteristics, significant modernist sites around the world are victims of physical deterioration of materials, perceived obsolescence, and public apathy. These threats repeatedly result in inappropriate alterations or demolition. With many modern buildings too young to qualify for landmark designation and protection, the need for preservation is urgent. In 2008, we launched the biennial World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize to recognize the individuals and organizations that preserve our modern built heritage through innovative architectural or design solutions. At-risk modern buildings can and do remain sustainable structures with vital futures; visionary architects, designers, planners, and community leaders play a paramount role in ensuring those futures. The prize is a component of our Modernism at Risk initiative, which supports the preservation of modern architecture through advocacy and conservation projects. Both the prize and the Modernism at Risk initiative were launched with the support of founding sponsor Knoll. Register by: 07-15-2016 / Submit by: 07-15-2016 View the full article

Annual International BIM Competition hosted by BCA to promote BIM adoption and technology. 4 days' event with sharing sessions at BIMSG.ORG For details and registration, please refer: http://bimsg.org/bim-events-2/scpw-2016/international-bim-competition-2016/ For Sharing sessions, please refer: http://bimsg.org/bim-events-2/scpw-2016/ibc-sharing-sessions/ Register by: 07-31-2016 / Submit by: 09-09-2016 View the full article

Presented by StorefrontMB in partnership with the Winnipeg Trails Association, the “BENCHmark” trails-based placemaking and design competition launches, offering Winnipeggers a place to rest while enjoying our growing trail network. Designers are invited to submit proposals for the design of a permanent bench along the Bishop Grandin Trail - Winnipeg’s longest multi-use trail. We are looking for designers to help us make / celebrate places that embody physical literacy, add refinement to the art of traveling and provides a place to sit, read, discuss and exchange. Register by: 07-06-2016 / Submit by: 07-06-2016 View the full article

The Architecture at Zero 2016 competition challenge is to create a zero net energy student housing project at the San Francisco State University campus. The competition has two components. First, entrants will create an overall site plan to accommodate 784 housing units, student services, dining center, childcare facility, and parking, detailed in the Challenge Program. Entrants are encouraged to highlight any energy efficiency strategies or systems shown, especially ones that apply to a district scale. Second, entrants will design one building, in detail, to indicate zero net energy (ZNE) performance. In order to demonstrate the building design and its performance, entrants will provide required documentation and may also include supplementary documentation. Register by: 09-30-2016 / Submit by: 10-28-2016 View the full article

This design competition is organized by the AIA Utah Young Architects Forum and the Utah Committee on Urban Design, in conjunction with the Weber County Library, as well as many other groups invested in the vitality of the Ogden community. We are architects, urban planners, landscape architects, designers and elected representatives who have a passion for restoring the vibrancy and identity of this community. Ogden is a unique city that balances an urban lifestyle and incredible access to a variety of outdoor recreation opportunities within minutes of its downtown core. What began as a railroad town is currently undergoing a successful endeavor to rebrand itself as the next outdoor mecca of the Intermountain West. However, there are underutilized areas of the community that have yet to be incorporated into this new vision: Lester Park is one of these spaces. The reVIVE design competition will collect ideas from around the world to explore how Lester Park can build off of the momentum of the community’s vision and promote its evolution through design. The entrants’ task is to prepare comprehensive design ideas for the park that will revive one of Ogden’s public spaces and honor the community’s rich history. Register by: 06-15-2016 / Submit by: 08-15-2016 View the full article

Fort Collins, Colorado is a city on the rise, with a rapidly-growing population, a thriving local arts, music and craft brewing scene, and a stunning natural setting at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. But it has a problem: the BNSF railway has left behind a legacy that is a nuisance to many: a right-of-way that shares Mason Street, a major downtown route, with automobile, bicycle and pedestrian traffic. Enormous diesel freight trains rumble down the street multiple times a day, causing traffic delays, safety concerns and prompting patrons at nearby sidewalk cafes to plug their ears in dismay. How can the design of the public realm be improved for the residents and businesses of Mason Street? How can we mitigate the impacts of the train traffic, while acknowledging and celebrating its place in Fort Collins' history and the unique urban condition it creates? We’re looking for bold, visionary ideas that will transform this largely neglected strip into a downtown destination. It’s time to go “Off the Rails” and think big! Please see the competition website for information about the competition, our nationally-renowned design jurors, cash prizes and more. Register by: 07-29-2016 / Submit by: 07-29-2016 View the full article

Launched in 2011, the ITAD Competition aims to reach out to students – the leaders of tomorrow, in sustainable developments and raise awareness in the areas of sustainability and mitigating climate change. The ITAD Competition encourages students to explore vast realms of knowledge revolving around sustainability, and provides a platform for them to showcase their innovative sustainable design ideas. Register by: 06-10-2016 / Submit by: 07-08-2016 View the full article

The Invisible Skyline /// Skylines are symbols for the cities above which they hover. Yet, the majority of buildings in cities lie well below the pinnacles of skyscrapers. Are skylines appropriate billboards for cities when most of population lives, works, and shops in the bottom few stories? What if a skyline, while still physically there, was invisible above ten stories? How does the function of a skyline change when it can no longer be seen? What might be the functional or political purpose of hiding a skyline? How might architecture, technology, or natural phenomena hide such a large mass of buildings? What happens when a skyline becomes invisible? Participants are asked to submit concepts that hide a skyline from view, rather than physically remove it. Submissions may be conceptual, technical, and/or artistic. Submission Details /// Entries may be conceptual, technical, and/or artistic. All graphics and text must be contained within a 4 inch diameter circle with white beyond. A submission is a single 300dpi JPG. Templates are on the website. Send submissions to PINcompetition@gmail.com and include your name, city, state, and country in the e-mail. International entries are welcome. Register by: 05-31-2016 / Submit by: 05-31-2016 View the full article

The Best Home Competition takes place once a year in cities around the world. It is a two stage Ideas and design-built competition with the aim of identifying innovative proposals for new free standing Residential houses that will be built immediately.The competition is both a race that pushes the boundaries of the concept of house design and an opportunity of exposure. The competition is open to anyone worldwide including designers, architects, landscape architects, artists, engineers, and students and all professionals in areas related to architecture. We invite you to create innovative solutions to tackle the challenges presented, with the winning designs demonstrating a high degree of expression and creativity in fulfilling new ideas for housing, addressing innovation, sustainability, efficiency, and aesthetic. The entire concept of the competition revolves around the selection among cutting edge, futuristic residential home designs that reflect and are adapted to modern days, those that includes elements of comfort, energy balance, aesthetic, practicability, and efficiency, all geared towards a futuristic concept of residential home building. Register by: 06-06-2016 / Submit by: 06-18-2016 View the full article

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 proposal submission consists of two digital panels in .jpg format, not bigger than 4MB each. Register by: 09-06-2016 / Submit by: 09-14-2016 View the full article

We see opportunities for collaboration for art and architecture students and NuPath. We would love to engage the students in a potential competition project of creating sculptures to the name of those who were part of NuPath. The project is to design a single sculpture or installation that could be dynamically multiplied on site. The outdoor space is located on the back green space of the building, located in 147 New Boston Street in Woburn, MA and it is currently being planned as the Outdoor Sculpture Park . With the innovative and creative ideas from art and architecture students, we can help memorialize people that were part of the NuPath family. NuPath is a company that would like to build a relationship with the artist or designer. The prizes include a $1,000 award and a feature on NuPath's website. The idea also can have the possibility of being built in later phases. Register by: 06-30-2016 / Submit by: 06-30-2016 View the full article

Dear students, The international competition for students in architecture, Archi-World® Academy III 2015-2017, is back on track. The topic this year is “Responsible Future Architecture”, and again students can win a traineeship in one of the 12 prestigious offices managed by our jury members. Be part of this extraordinary opportunity : register to Archi-World® Academy and send us your best student projects and write with Archi-World® Academy the first pages of your professional life ! The deadline for presenting projects is 30 September 2016. Winners will be invited to attend the awarding ceremony taking place on 18 January 2017 in Munich during the International exhibition BAU in the presence of the jury members. Complete information about Archi-World® Academy is available on http://www.awacademy.org/ Good Luck!!! Register by: 09-30-2016 / Submit by: 09-30-2016 View the full article

Room18 Design Competition has as its subject the designing of the interior of a bedroom in a Greek four-star urban hotel of a total area of 18 – 24m2. We are looking for ways of creatively re-interpreting and transcending the formal specifications in a response to the likely wishes and expectations of the contemporary traveller. Register by: 06-27-2016 / Submit by: 07-04-2016 View the full article

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, social and cultural patterns of contemporary societies. The young creatives and thinkers are a precious commodity that we value a lot and so we want to give them voice, because we believe in their value and their ideas and because together we can change the world. AIM OF THE COMPETITION - 24H A space where the time limit is used to stimulate your creativity. This competition proposes give responses in 24H to the social problems, climate changes, humanitarian causes and sociologic problems of the contemporary societies. Commitment, perseverance, inspiration and hard work are the necessary bases to develop a proposal that meets the premises that will be released regularly in the brief of the competition. We challenge you to prove your talent in 24 hours! There are a period of registration on the competition, when it end, started the 24H competition! You have 24H to develop a proposal that responds to the program contained on a brief that you only know on the same day that start competition. Take the risk! FRAMEWORK UTOPIA A perfect construction shouldn't remain imperfect just because it does not take place. The Utopia of life is more about the lack of action than the lack of will. Wills are easy. Utopias are complex but not impossible. Everything has a beginning, like a house has its first brick, and the great utopia of the world is to imagine the walls, way before they are built; Is to fall in love with a garden, having just seen a single flower. Is to imagine a picture, by only have seen a reflex of it and believe that what you see is the absolute truth. We are all Utopia, within the untouchable horizon. Register by: 06-04-2016 / Submit by: 06-05-2016 View the full article

IT’S LIQUID ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS AWARD 2016 International students are invited to present their architectural and product design projects to have the chance to be featured on It’s LIQUID website, presented in BORDERS 2016, It’s Liquid Art and Architecture Festival and to take part in the first workshop of VAA – Venice Architecture Academy in May 2016, in the same period of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. Projects could be realized and not realized, about all sides of Architecture and Design, from interior design to urban planning, from residential and commercial spaces to public spaces, from the spoon to the city. All students are invited to take part in the festival submitting their projects following these guidelines: – Board 01: project concept and plan/plans – Board 02: front views, sections and perspective drawings – Board 03: HD Renderings – Project description (in English and Word Format, max 3 pages) – Project credits (project name, student’s name/surname, school, CV/biography and e-mail address) Boards’ size is A3 (420 mm × 594 mm), 200 dpi. Boards must be submitted in .jpg format and wide not less than 1600 px. All projects can be presented with many boards (max of 10 boards), containing at least the requested drawings and renderings. Video-architecture works, photos of installations and scale models can be submitted too. Submissions can be the work of an individual or a group and there is no age limit. Interdisciplinary teams are also encouraged to enter the competition. The project must be sent via Wetransfer to: lucacurci@lucacurci.com It’s LIQUID will select all works received and will publish the selected ones on its official Facebook page on April 22, 2016 in order to be voted! As soon as the images of your projects are uploaded on It’s LIQUID Group Facebook page, follow these steps to win the Contest: 1. like It’s LIQUID Group Facebook page 2. share the contest link on your profile 3. invite your friends to like It’s LIQUID Group Facebook page and to like your works Projects with the greater number of “like” will be the PUBLIC VOTE winners. Winning projects need to reach a minimum of 100 likes. Public vote will be closed on May 1, 2016. Winners will be announced on May 9, 2016. We will send a newsletter to announce the PUBLIC VOTE top 3 and the SELECTED WINNER. Good luck and make sure you and your fans complete all the steps. We will check if the winners and their fans followed all the steps. The organization has the right to moderate and confirm the final public vote score. Register by: 04-15-2016 / Submit by: 04-15-2016 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, mobile visitor center from shipping containers. You can use as many containers as you want. Make them portable, self-contained and interactive. Give the containers a way to respond to the various sites in which it could be situated. A total of $3,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners. Register by: 04-30-2016 / Submit by: 04-30-2016 View the full article