Active Competitions
| USGBC 2010 Natural Talent Design Competition: Small, Green, Affordable Presented by Salvation Army’s EnviRenew Initiative The U.S. Green Building Council wants you to help rebuild New Orleans sustainably and affordably. USGBC’s 2010 Natural Talent Design Competition, presented Salvation Army’s EnviRenew Initiative, is challenging Students and Emerging Professionals to design a small, green, affordable, LEED Platinum home for elderly residents of the Broadmoor neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans has seen a lot of reconstruction and regeneration, but the job is far from done. This is your chance to help rebuild a city the right way and change lives forever. |
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Final Registration Deadline: May 31, 2010 Sponsored by: U.S. Green Building Council and the Salvation Army’s EnviRenew Initiative |
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Winners Announced!
| The Community Prize Create an entry with a purpose and really win the Design It: Shelter competition In honor of Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday, Google SketchUp partnered with The Guggenheim Museum to launch a competition to design a simple shelter. While it is a great creative initiative, it could go one step further by challenging participants to design with purpose. Architecture for Humanity is upping the ante by urging entrants to add a social component to the competition and asking them to select a community that could utilize the developed design to improve their living standard. |
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Submission Deadline: August 23rd Sponsored by: Architecture For Humanity Award: $500 and a custom-made Moleskine Folio by Rickshaw Bagworks |
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| The First Annual Kids' Digital Design Contest Design Aquatic: "under/over/within" The First Annual Kids' Digital Design Contest is a digital design competition for ages 0-15. With the help of parents, the goal is to provide a venue for kids to demonstrate, develop and reveal their capacity for creative three dimensional thinking using the digital modeling tool SketchUp (free to download, simple to learn, and amazingly difficult to put down). The inaugural theme is: "under/over/within" and features an intertidal aquatic site. Applicants are asked to challenge the idea of structure and permanence with a design by thoughtfully engaging an aquatic/intertidal site which is at once constantly changing due to factors that are both man made and of a natural consequence. Age based judging ensures fair competition and lots of cool prizes. Media sponsor: The Architects Newspaper. Prizes provided by Google Inc. and the California Academy of Sciences. |
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Submission Deadline: September 15th Entry Fee: Free Hosted by: Architect Mason Kirby Inc. Award: Age group winners: SketchUp Pro Educational license. First 100 entrants: youth pass to California Academy of Sciences |
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 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge invited the global design and construction community to collaborate with primary and secondary school teachers and students to create smarter, safer, and more sustainable learning environments. |
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2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Challenge Winner |
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Previous Competitions
| Discarded Dreams: Used Mattress Design Competition
Every year in the U.S. 40 million mattresses get thrown in the trash. They often end up in landfills because they cannot be broken down and their component parts are hard to utilize. Discarded Dreams was an open international design competition for students and professionals, asking participants to create innovative ways of converting used mattresses into useful products. |
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Helix by Nicole Knox and Grace Dalman Helix addresses the negative effects of noise on a person’s health |
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Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sleep by RHWL students A design that aims to regenerate the abandoned mattress into a fluid landscape |
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Silk City by Romulus Sim A model of sustainable urban agriculture through the collaboration of discarded mattresses and silk production. |
| Judges Choice: Chairtress by Nicole Jui, Brad Sherman, and Nicholas Skari Judges Choice: Dream on by Rafael Roldao |
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| 2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge: Digital Inclusion The 2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge invited the global community to help address the digital divide. It challenged design professionals and others to develop not one but many solutions for building sustainable, multi-purpose, low-cost technology facilities for those who need them most. |
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Africa Challenge: SIDAREC Nairobi, Kenya A media lab and library will serve a staff of 7 and 250 youth First Place: The Global Studio Second Place: Duvivier Architects Third Place: KBAS |
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Asia Challenge: Nyaya Health Sanfe Bagar, Nepal A clinic to serve a staff of 10 health care workers and 7,700 beneficiaries First Place: Max Fordham, LLP Second Place: Emre Can Yilmaz Third Place/Founders Award: Studio Wikitecture |
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South America Challenge: Kallari Association Napo Province, Ecuador A chocolate factory and satellite technology to serve over 5000 individuals First Place: Igor Taskov, Fernando Pagan, ChunSheh Teo, Heather Worrell Second Place: zerOgroup Third Place: HdlT Collaborative |
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| Sportables Challenge Nothing connects kids like the power of play. In areas of great need are opportunities to use sports as a catalyst for social change. Where resources are scarce, products can be distributed to deliver vital services. In many parts of the world sporting activities, especially local and traditional sports, are being incorporated into a variety of programs geared toward helping youth address a broad range of issues affecting their lives. | |||||
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Toby R. Keeton A compact module that provides incentives for participants to take ownership in a community resource |
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Joseph Ng & Tino Chow A compact cart creatively organizes and dispenses supplies while also harnessing solar power. |
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Chunsheh Teo The flexible, adaptable system provides many configurations for various retail, educational and community events. |
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| OUTREACH: Mobile Health Clinics to Combat HIV/AIDS The statistics are staggering. It is estimated that three-quarters of the world’s AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs, testing facilities or even basic preventative health care. One of the major factors inhibiting medical professionals in Africa from treating this disease is the inability to access vast areas of the continent with adequately equipped medical facilities. | |||||
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KHRAS A robust and quick deployable system provides a flexible and expandable setup |
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Brendan Harnett Michelle Myers Breaks health care facilities down into their smallest constituent parts for ease of transportation. |
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Heide Schuster Wilfried Hofmann Addresses temporary and long term medical services of a community |
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Other Competitions
| Transitional Housing for Returning Refugees in Kosovo (1999) |
| Siyathemba Youth Sports Facility and HIV/AIDS Outreach Center (2004) |
| Shelter in a Cart: designboom social awareness award (2006) |
Nominations
| Design Like You Give A Damn 2 Nominate a project that improves the lives of others | |
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Nomination Deadline: September 1 Sponsored by: Architecture For Humanity Award: First nominator of an included will be credited in the book. |
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