TRANSITIONAL FUSION
Dallas Young Architects Forum

Type: Open
Registration Deadline: October 18, 1999
Submission Deadline: November 17, 1999
Open to: All
Entry Fee: US $35
Awards: US $4,500 total plus design contract
Jury: Unannounced

With the assistance of the Dallas Young Architects Forum, The North Central Task Force (NCTF) is sponsoring an international design competition for a proposed intermodal transit project and commemorative element near downtown Dallas, Texas, USA. The project would incorporate a new subway station portal building for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the new terminus of the McKinney Avenue Trolley and the North Central Expressway commemorative element.

For more information or to register, contact:
North Central Task Force
Design Competition Committee
c/o D/AIA
2811 McKinney Avenue
Suite 20, LB 104
Dallas, Texas 75204
USA
Website: http://www.brwarch.com/yaf/fusion  

DOWNSVIEW PARK DESIGN COMPETITION
CLC Downsview, Inc

Type: Open, International, RFQ
Registration Deadline: October 20, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 14, 2000 (shortlist Oct. 25, 1999)
Open to:All
Entry Fee:None
Awards:See below
Jury:
Kurt W. Forster,
Ydessa Hendeles,
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander,
Terence Riley and Gerald Sheff

Architects, landscape architects, other design professionals and artists are invited to submit expressions of interest in participating in a limited competition for the design of a major national urban park on the site of a former military airbase in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The objective of the competition is to promote innovative design proposals that respond to the social and natural histories of the site while developing its potential as a new landscape ­ one capable of supporting new ecologies and an evolving array of public uses and events. The design is expected to inaugurate and structure the transformation of the site while remaining open to change and growth over time. Downsview Park is to be internationally recognized as one of Canada's great urban parks. It will be a unique recreational greenspace for the people of the Greater Toronto Area, for all ages to play, learn and enjoy. It will serve as a meeting place for this and future generations to celebrate Canada, its history and physical and human diversity. It will commemorate and interpret local, regional and national cultural heritage while providing a setting for leading edge environmental practices and other innovations in technology and culture undertaken in partnership with corporations, non-profit organizations and educational institutions. Downsview Park is to be at the forefront of park design in Canada and the world.

Interested firms or teams are invited to submit Expressions of Interest, which should include:

a statement of interest and approach, which may be illustrated;   a description of the lead and supporting firms, their scope of experience, key personnel, and respective roles and expertise; and  a portfolio of relevant projects (built and unbuilt) and/or design research, including client contacts. 

Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged, drawing together expertise appropriate to the challenges and opportunities of the site and the approach being taken by proponents. While proposals could include ecologists, engineers, graphic designers and artists, the composition of teams is at the discretion of proponents. Lead consultants should be architects or landscape architects.

Expressions of interest may be submitted in either English or French.

Shortlisting should be complete by October 25, 1999. Approximately five entrants will be selected to take part in the Competition on the basis of their potential to achieve the design objectives for the Park. Each Competitor will receive an award of $100,000 (CAN) for their contribution with the Winner receiving an additional $375,000 (CAN). CLC Downsview Inc. intends to enter into a contract for professional services with the successful competitor to develop and implement the winning design.

The Competition Brief will be available after August 30, 1999. The program will ask for a design proposal for the entire competition site, a three phase implementation strategy over fifteen years, and schematic design for the first phase. Submission will be due by March 14, 2000, 4:00 pm EST.

For more information or to register, contact:
Professional Advisor
Downsview Park International
Design Competition
CLC Downsview Inc.
35 Carl Hall Road
North York, Ontario
M3K 2B6 Canada
Website: http://www.clcdownsview.ca/competition  

PALM SPRINGS SIGN DESIGN
City of Palm Springs and Palm Springs Public Art Commission

Type: Open, international
Registration Deadline: October 22, 1999
Submission Deadline: October 22, 1999
Open to: All
Entry Fee: None
Awards: US $6,500 Total
Jury: Unknown

The Palm Springs Public Arts Commission requests design proposals for entryway signage and a compatible, comprehensive, citywide signage program for parks, city buildings, local attractions and directional signals for vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Contact the competition advisor below for competition objectives and submission requirements.

For more information or to register, contact:
Diane Morgan
Public Arts Commission
City of Palm Springs
3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way
Palm Springs, CA 92262
USA
Phone: 760.778.8408

A HANDLE FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
Ghidini Pietro Bosco S.p.a. and Frames Magazine

Type: Open, international
Registration Deadline: October 29, 1999
Submission Deadline: October 29, 1999
Open to: All (professional and student categories)
Entry Fee: US$20 (30.000 lire)
Awards: 10.000.000 lire total for professionals, 3.000.000 lire for students

Jury:
Francesco Trabucco,
olfgang Berger,
Fabrizio Bianchetti,
Pierpaolo Ghidini,
Marco Ghidini

On the occasion of its 70th Anniversary GHIDINI PIETRO BOSCO S.p.a, Brozzo VALTROMPIA (BS) is holding, together with the magazine "FRAMES: the architecture of door and window frames", an international competition for the design of a new door/window handle and any accessories.

This is an industrial design competition focusing on new designs for door and window handles (and any coordinated accessories) which are capable of innovating the product image and/or the relationship with functional aspects.  There are no limits as far as materials or operating mechanisms are concerned.

The competition will award prizes to those projects and ideas which display the necessary innovation and which may also be taken up from a research or production standpoint.

The competition is divided into two categories:
Category 1 is reserved for architects, industrial designers, designers in general, professionals, and those registered as members of professional orders and/or trade associations.
Category 2 is reserved for students, schools, institutes or architectural/industrial design universities. All works entered by students must be coordinated by a member of the teaching staff.

Entries in either category may be "individual" or "group". In the latter type of entry a "group head" must be nominated so as to provide the organizers with a single reference-person for each group.

Candidates may enter one or more works as long as they are presented separately.

For more information or to register, contact:
Segreteria organizzativa:
Gruppo Editoriale Faenza Editrice S.p.A.
Via Pier De Crescenzi, 44 - 48018 Faenza (RA)
Italy
Phone: +39.0546.663488
Fax: +39.0546.660440
Email: info@faenza.com
Website: http://www.faenza.com

LAS MOBILI FURNITURE DESIGN COMPETITION
Las Mobili Furniture, University of Florence

Type: Open
Registration Deadline: October 30, 1999
Submission Deadline: October 30, 1999
Open to: All
Entry Fee: None
Awards: EUROS 11.500 total
Jury:
Representatives from Las Mobili and the furniture design field

``Designers more in touch with the `way of working". Having cherished for years the dream of a cultural event bringing designers and planners closer to the company situation, Las Mobili is happy to present an initiative which will complete the mosaic of its communicational activities: an international competition entitled "the way of working", under the patronage of University of Florence and the Light Industry Study Centre. The purpose of the Competition concerns an overview of the furniture elements in a secretarial office and leaves the participants ample choice of any one of the basic office spaces. Lighting and seating elements are excluded.

The competition is open to graduate engineers and architects, to university students in the faculties of Engineering or Architecture who have completed the short Degree course or are at least enrolled in the subsequent year of the course, and to graduates from design, graphic design or applied arts high schools.

The participants will take part anonymously.

For more information or to register, contact:
LAS MOBILI
Premio "IL MODO DI OPERARE"
Via Nazionale 138
64019 Tortoreto
(Teramo), Italy
Phone: (+39) 800-013696,
Fax (+39) 0861.78.82.22
Email: premio@las.it
Website: http://www.las.it/

MILANO 2001, 3RD MILLENNIUM
Milan City Council

Type: Open, international
Registration Deadline: October 30, 1999
Submission Deadline: December 30, 1999
Open to: All registered architects & engineers
Entry Fee: US $120
Awards: US $88,000 Total and the commission
Jury:
Cesar Pelli,
Piero Castiglioni,
Claude Vasconi,
Kisho Kurokawa,
Arnaldo Pomodoro,
Piero Sartogo,
Giorgio Mameli
and Giuliano Zuccoli

The Milan City Council has specially requested AEM SPA to commission l'Arca, international architecture magazine, and Partners In Business Communications to launch an ideas competition open to all Italian and foreign architects and engineers registered with their respective professional associations, in conjunction, if so desired, with other artists or non-artists, to design a ``luminous sign" for architectural communication purposes to be constructed in one of the city's public spaces as Milan's own homage to the beginning of the third millennium, testifying to the scientific-artistic capacities of the society in which we live.

A homage to the material and immaterial cultural heritage of all the ethnic groups populating the city.

The public area the City of Milan has designated for the project is just in front of Milan's central station (Piazza Duca D'Aosta).

The idea is to get the world's leading designers to put forward artistic- environmental ideas of such high creative standards that the city will be intellectually projected onto the highest of international levels, thereby attracting international attention to Milan's vocation as a European city projected towards the future.

For more information or to register, contact:
l'Arca Edizioni
Competition Secretariat of Milan 2001, 3rd Millennium
Via Valcava 6
l-20155 Milan
Phone: ++39.02.325246
Fax: ++39 02 325481
Email: arca@tin.it
Website: http://www.arcadata.it 

tkts2k INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Theatre Development Fund and Van Alen Institute

Type: Open, international
Registration Deadline: September 30, 1999
Submission Deadline: October 14, 1999
Open to: All
Entry Fee: US $50
Awards: US $10,000 Total
Jury: Various design professionals

Design Competition Objective: Theatre Development Fund seeks to plan, design, and construct a ticket booth in Times Square, to serve the thousands of New Yorkers and visitors who buy more than 1.7 million tickets each year. The new structure, whether it thoroughly reinvents or reinterprets the current design, will be a design statement as memorable as the current booth.

The tkts Booth's Purpose: The booth's core function is to sell discounted day-of-performance tickets for New York theatres. The booth's broader function is to serve as a marker and resource for Broadway, the Theatre District, and all of New York's diverse performing arts.

Program Requirements Summary: The booth is an intense, spatially compact environment, with tkts staff working inside and out to sell tickets and keep the lines moving. Given that all tickets are "day-of-performance," there are non-stop demands for current information, and current tickets, much of which are provided by electronic data links, while others continue to depend on hard copy information and ticket deliveries. The booth must serve these functions for almost two dozen staff and visitors. Outside, the staff and patrons are in a busy urban environment, sharing space with passersby, street entertainers and visitors.

Key Requirements
Site Design: must accommodate the ticket-buying public that lines up by up to 4,000 people at peak hours. The site will remain Father Duffy Square, a traffic island bordered by West 47th Street, Broadway, and Seventh Avenue. Father Duffy Square is a New York City park.

Signage Design: must be interrelated with the structure, and must identify the booth from a distance, and must incorporate an effective display of information about ticket availability and cost.

Structure Design Requirements: must meet the program requirements within less than 1,000 square feet. In addition, it should be designed to allow for offsite construction and onsite assembly.

Submissions are made anonymously. They require two 30x40 inch drawings, showing how the entry meets detailed program requirements. These requirements and the final jury list will be released in late June.

For more information or to register, contact:
Van Alen Institute
30 West 22nd Street
New York, NY
Phone: 212.924.7000
Website: http://www.vanalen.org/tkts2k.htm  

International EUROPANDOM competition launch
Constructing the town in the French tropics
Ways of life and tropical architecture

Closing date for registration: 15 September 1999
Closing date for entries: 29 October 1999

The EUROPANDOM competition is aimed at architects under the age of 45 who are being asked to find innovative architectural and urban responses to the relevant problems on the following four selected sites in the French Overseas Departments.

Guadeloupe: Cour-Charneau Les Abymes
Urbanisation of an urban freeway

French Guiana: Mont-Baduel in Cayenne
Densification of a diffuse town

Martinique: Le Vauclin
Modernisation of a country suburb

Réunion: Ravine Blanche in Saint-Pierre
Enhancement of a housing estate on the coast

An ideas competition followed by implementations, EUROPANDOM, through innovative projects and a number of exemplary implementations, is an opportunity to create new openings in the field of design and production of housing in the four French overseas departments concerned..

While taking into account the constraints imposed by production in quantity needed to respond to the serious lack of social housing, is it possible to imagine other types of residential housing scheme that can be a form of transition between community tradition and urban ways of life?

How can forms of urban housing be conceived that are compact, linked to public services, and at the same time maintain a relationship with nature and the environment?

How can EUROPANDOM's urban and architectural projects be incorporated into a more open production system?

How, in the processes of conception and implementation underlying these

projects, is it possible to give impetus to co-ordination between a whole range of players:

- on an urban level, by a better insertion of housing into the town;

- on an architectural level, by a reflection on the form of housing in relation to ways of, and different forms of, appropriation;

- on a construction level, by proposing composite modes of construction?

EUROPANDOM is organised by the *French Secretariat d'Etat à l'Outre-Mer; Secretariat d'Etat au Logement; Direction de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine; Plan Urbain, Construction et Architecture, with the collaboration of EUROPAN, and in partnership with the RFO (Réseau France Outre Mer).

Information:

EUROPANDOM
53 rue des deux communes
93100 Montreuil
France

Tel: +33 (0)1 55 86 95 55
Fax: +33 (0)1 42 87 59 95
E-mail : e_pandom@club-internet.fr
Web: http://www-europan.gamsau.archi.fr

HOW's International Design Competition

Registration Deadline: September 22, 1999. For entries postmarked after the September 22 deadline date, please add $10 per entry. Entries will not be accepted after October 13.

Entry Fee:

Single Piece: First entry $25; each additional entry, $20
Campaign (3 or more pieces in a single project): First entry $50; each
additional campaign, $45

Students
Single Piece: First entry $15; each additional entry, $10
Campaign: First entry $30; each additional campaign $25

Awards: All winning entries will be featured in the April 2000 issue of HOW, and each winning designer will receive a frameable certificate, a copy of the April issue and a $50 discount toward registration for the 2000 HOW Design Conference in Atlanta, GA. One Best of Show Winner will be profiled in HOW magazine, and will be our guest at the 2000 HOW Design Conference. (Airfare, hotel and conference registration paid by HOW magazine.)

Eligible:
Any original graphic design project created between January 1, 1998, and September 1, 1999, is eligible and the contest is open to graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, etc., from anywhere in the world.

Categories
1. Annual Reports
2. Business Collateral (brochures, catalogs, flyers, etc.)
3. Covers/Jackets (magazines, books, etc.)
4. Environmental Graphics
5. Illustration/Photography
6. Invitations/Announcements
7. Letterhead/Logos
8. Miscellaneous
9. Packaging (consumer goods, CDs, etc.)
10. Posters
11. Advertising (print, TV)
12. Editorial (spreads or total format)
13. Seasonal/Calendars
14. Student Work
15. Wearables (t-shirts, caps, etc.)

How to Enter
1. Send two samples, unmounted but well-protected. Entries for the Wearables, Posters and Packaging categories need submit only one sample. Slides must accompany entries for Packaging, any 3-D objects and Wearables, or they will be disqualified. Environmental Graphics entries should submit slides only (maximum of three slides per entry). Video entries (for TV advertising) must be in standard VHS format and should include at least three frames.

2. Type or print your entry form. Entries with illegible forms will be
automatically disqualified. Fill out the form completely. This information will be reproduced in the magazine exactly as submitted if you are selected as a winner.

3. Make two good photocopies of your completed entry form. Firmly attach one copy to the back of each sample, and include the third copy with your payment.

4. Be certain to credit all persons involved in the creation of the piece. HOW will not be responsible for incorrect or incomplete credit information.

Payment Info
Make checks payable (in U.S. funds, drawn on a U.S. bank) to
"HOW International Design Annual".
Payment must accompany entries.

Entries received without payment will be disqualified. Entry fees are nonrefundable.

Mail entry, forms, and payment to:
HOW International Design Competition
1507 Dana Avenue
Cincinnati OH 45207 USA
WWW: http://www.howdesign.com
Email: editorial@howdesign.com

Architecture for Humanity: Transitional Housing Competition

Transitional Housing for returning refugees in Kosovo
Benefiting charity: WAR Child

Submission Deadline: September 27, 1999
Open to: All
Entry Fee: US $25 (proceeds donated to WAR Child)
Awards: none. pending sponsor funding, prototype of winning entry will be built. exhibition of placed and notable entries to exhibited in New-York, London, Bucharest and Washington D.C.

Jury:
Alexandru Beldiman UAR (president) ,
Steven Holl FAIA,
Tod Williams FAIA,
Billie Tsien AIA, Elise Storck, Herb Sturz

Architecture for Humanity is an open competition to design housing for the returning Kosovars and, in this troubled world, other peoples whose homes have been similarly destroyed. The designs will act as a five-year bridge between the rubble that now blankets the landscape and the rebuilt homes of the future.

For more information or to register, contact:
http://www.archforhumanity.com

San Francisco Gate Competition

Competition Overview

To Celebrate The First Century Of Its Presence In The City San Francisco State University Is Hosting A Design Competition.

The Design Will Be Held For An Entrance To The Main Campus At Its Holloway Avenue And Nineteenth Avenue Intersection.  This Is An "Idea Competition" -The Project Is Not Intended To Be Built At This Time.

First And Second Place Winning Entries And Other Selected Entries Will Be Exhibited At The University Library From December 1, 1999, To February 28, 2000.

Entrants Will Be Notified Of The Jury's Final Deliberations After December 1, 1999.  San Francisco State University Will Retain The Prize Winning Designs. Entrants Will Retain The Copyright Of Their Entry.

The Competition Is Open--Students Of Architecture And Design Are Encouraged to Enter The Competition.

AWARDS: There Will Be A $1000.00 Prize For The First Place Entry. There Will Be A $500.00 Prize For The Second Place Entry.

Rules & Guidelines

An Unsigned, Carefully Worded Statement Of No More Than 500 Words Should Inform Jurors About Your Approach To The Design Problem. This Statement Should Be Placed In An Envelope And Attached To The Back Of Your Presentation Board (See 2 Below).

Entrants Should Submit One 30"x40" Board, Mounted Horizontally, For Their Presentation. Hand And/Or Computer Drawings May Be Used. Original Art Works Only Will Be Accepted.

Submission Information

To Ensure Anonymity Entrants Are Being Asked To Double Wrap Their Entries And Include A Sealed Envelope With Pertinent Identifying Information Inside The Second Unmarked Wrapping. Entrants Who Wish To Have Their Entries Returned Should Include The Exact Amount Of Postage Required To Mail The Repackaged Entry From San Francisco California To The Address Designated On The Registrant's Form. Postage Only/No Currency Please/Entrants Living Outside Of The United States Can Use International Mailing Coupons.

The Final Date For Registering And Submitting An Entry Is August 31, 1999
Entries Received After This Date Will Not Be Accepted For The Competition. The Jury's Deliberations Will Commence On September 7, 1999

For Further Information Regarding This Competition Call Us At:.

(415) 405-0371,
International Calls (001) 415-405-0371.
Website: http://www.hyperbore.com/sfgate/  

NEWMEDIA INVISION AWARDS 1999
NewMedia Magazine

Type: Open, international
Registration Deadline: August 6, 1999
Submission Deadline: August 6, 1999
Open to: All
Entry Fee: US $165, Non-profit or personal US $65
Awards: Publication, showcase at Invision Conference
Jury: Unknown

CATEGORIES
Competition is open to any organization or individual who has developed digital media content. This includes Web sites, titles and custom applications (see competition website for a more detailed breakdown of these categories):

ENTRY MATERIALS
If you are submitting an online/Web-site entry, you may do so online and your entry must include the following components:

1. A project description with suggested 5-minute navigation path for preliminary judging
2. URL or site location
3. Completed entry form
4. Entry fee
5. List of plug-ins required to experience site as intended by creators
6. Optional: Site downloaded onto floppy or hard disk. Choose this option if you want the judges to review your site at a specific moment in time. If you do not choose this option, the URL you submit must be available for viewing August 27–29 and September 10–11. Online entries that include a floppy or hard disk must be mailed in. Use the PDF entry form.

The project description should list entry title, project objectives, target audience and any available measurable results. It should highlight any unique features and innovations as well as provide a suggested navigation path. This information will brief the judges, so please be complete, but concise.

An entry fee of US $165 per entry must accompany the submission. Personal/Group Nonprofit and Noncommercial projects submitted in category #7 are discounted to $65 per entry. Online entry requires payment by credit card. Credit card charges will appear as HyperMedia Communications. If you prefer to pay by check or money order, enter by mail and use the PDF entry form.

For more information or to register, contact:
Entries Coordinator
Phone: (650) 573-5170
Fax: (650) 573-5131
Email: invision@newmedia.com
Website: http://www.invisionawards.com

What is Shelter - A Competition

Sponsors: Shelter Resorts & The Valor Group

Type: Open, international
Registration Deadline: July 15, 1999
Submission Deadline: July 15, 1999
Open to: All
Entry Fee: $55

Awards: US$10,000 Total (Approximately)
Jury: Announced April 12, 1999

OBJECT:
As a participant in the Competition, you will submit detailed drawings for your design for a guestroom tent for the first Shelter Resort, along with rough drawings and recommendations for the organization and arrangement of a "village" that will include 30-40 of your guestrooms and structures for common use.

For more information or to register, contact:

The Valor Group, LLC
Attn: Shelter Resorts Competition
1592 Union Street, Suite 93
San Francisco, CA, 94123  USA
Email: mailto: info@shelterresorts.com 
Website: http://www.shelterresorts.com

"1999 Ermanno Piano Scholarship"

CATEGORY :: Architecture
TYPE:  scholarship grant

The ERMANNO PIANO SCOLARSHIP has been created for newly graduated architects, to give the opportunity to improve their education through a six-month-internship with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa (Italy).

PRIZE :  The amount of the grant is 10,000 $.
DEADLINE : May 31, 1999

ELIGIBILITY :  The 1999 Selection is open to architects graduated in 1998.

DOCUMENTS TO SUBMIT :
Applicants must send their CV ("portfolio" A4 size or 8½" x 11", maximum 7 pages in Italian, French or English) to

Renzo Piano Workshop Foundation
Via Rubens
29 ­ 16158 Genoa (Italy)

Documents submitted will not be returned.

Selection will be made by July 31, 1999.

Transforming the Magazzini area in Verona, Italy

Sponsor: Urban Studies and Architecture Institute

Registration Deadline: June 15, 1999
Submission Deadline: September 5, 1999
Open to: All
Entry Fee: US $150
Awards: US $5,000 First Prize
Jury: Unknown

The Urban Studies and Architecture Institute is seeking proposals for transforming the Magazzini area in Verona, Italy, which is composed primarily of abandoned industrial buildings from the Thirties.

For more information or to register, contact:
Urban Studies and Architecture Institute
10 West 15th Street
Suite 1126
New York, NY 10011-6826
Phone: 212.727.2157

7TH ANNUAL AIASF COMPUTER FORUM
AIA San Francisco

Registration Deadline: May 3, 1999
Submission Deadline: May 10, 1999
Open to: All
Entry Fee: US$60 AIA Members/$75 Non-members, Students - US$20
Awards: Public exhibition
Jury: Unknown

A showcase of computer technology in architectural design and development by Bay Area professionals and students. Prizes will include thousands of dollars worth of cutting-edge rendering and animation software.

Winning entries will be awarded prizes in the categories of:
Best of Show
Best 2D Graphic Presentation - Small Firm (8 persons or fewer)
Best 2D Graphic Presentation - Mid-Size/Large Firm
Best 3D Rendering - Small Firm (8 persons or fewer)
Best 3D Rendering - Mid-Size/Large Firm
Best Animation/Multimedia Entry
Best Student Entry

Exhibit will be on display at the AIASF Office, 6th Floor, 130 Sutter Street. May 17 - June 18, 1999, 9 AM to 5 PM

Join us at the Exhibit Opening, May 17, 6-8 PM for refreshments and Prize Awards Ceremony

The 7th Annual Bay Area Architectural Computer-Graphics Exhibit Call for Entries - Spring 1999

Presented by American Institute of Architects San Francisco Computer Forum, San Francisco AutoCAD Users Group and AIA East Bay Computer Forum

Also, display of winners planned at the AIAEB office later in the year. Web sites where winners will be displayed in July: http://www.sfaug.org/aia/  & http://www.aiasf.org

We invite you to submit computer graphics work for this upcoming exhibit at the AIA office in San Francisco! The exhibit intends to display the latest results and processes developed through meshing state-of-the-art technology with design and architecture. Take this opportunity to show off your work and gain visibility for you and your firm. All work must pertain to architecture and have been wholly or partially created by means of a computer. Firms of all sizes, individuals and students are strongly urged to participate. Upon request, a new category has been added for small architectural firms.

Submissions of computer-produced drawings, renderings, animations and QuickTime VRs will be accepted. First prizes will be awarded in the categories of Best 2D Graphic Presentation - Small Architectural Firm (8 persons or fewer where architectural services are primary business); Best 2D Graphic Presentation - Graphic Specialist or Mid-Size/Large Firm; Best 3D Rendering - Small Architectural Firm (8 persons or fewer); Best 3D Rendering - Graphic Specialist or Mid-Size/Large Firm; Best Animation/Multimedia Entry; Best Student Entry and Best of Show. Thousands of dollars worth of prizes will be awarded. Winners will also be posted on our web site. Judging guidelines will be provided to entrants. Categories may be added at the judges' discretion. Entrants in the exhibit are allowed to bring personal computer equipment only upon written approval from Roy Lew (AIASF Computer Forum Chair) two weeks prior to the Opening Reception.

Part I
Entrants to submit all of the following on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet:
1) Name(s)
2) Firm Name/Educational Institution, where applicable.
3) Address
4) Daytime Telephone
5) Fax
6) E-mail address
7) Short description of the work/project(s)/drawing(s)
8) Category entering, select one:
A - Small Architectural Firm (8 persons or fewer where architectural
services are primary business)
B - Computer Graphic Specialist(s) or Medium/Large Architectural Firm
(9 persons or more)
C - Student

Send with payment to: AIASF Computer Forum, 130 Sutter St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94104 Make checks payable to AIA San Francisco Chapter. Entry fees are non-refundable.

Part II
Board submissions must be mounted on 1/4" foam core or Gator board. Board orientation may be horizontal or vertical within parameters listed. Horizontal boards must be 28" in height, to a maximum of 60" wide. Vertical boards must be 40" in height, to a maximum of 28" wide. Include a 640x480-pixel JPG image of your display on disk or ZIP disk for web presentation. Animation/Multimedia/VR entries may be submitted on Iomega ZIP disk.

Submit to AIASF office. Include the information below on two 5"x7" unlined white cards for each submission. (Adhere one card to the back of each board or tape to each ZIP disk. The duplicate will become the display card.)

1) Name(s)
2) Firm Name/Educational Institution (where applicable)
3) City (of your address)
4) Project Name (all upper case letters)
5) Software Used
6) Hardware Used
7) Output Device
8) Paragraph description of the "process"

Boards must be picked up from the AIASF office by June 30.
Animation/Multimedia/VR entries will not be on display after the Opening Reception due to lack of available resources. The AIASF Computer Forum is not liable for loss or damage to submissions.

For more information or to register, contact:
AIA San Francisco
Phone: (415) 362-7397
or Roy Lew, email lew@techstrategy.com

THE MILLENIUM PLAZA - AT THE CROSSROADS
Village of Wheeling, Illinois USA

Type: Open, one stage
Registration Deadline: March 1999
Submission Deadline: March 1999
Open to: Residents of North America
Entry Fee: $90US

Awards: $10,000US First Place and the right to enter negotiations with the client for the realization of the design

Jury: Unknown

The competitor's design proposals will illustrate through site designs, sketches, and the development plans a new entrance and gateway into the Village. The proposals will include a variety of design components and physical features suggested by the Village that will be woven together to create exciting and memorable spaces responding to pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Winning design elements, themes and ideas will be repeated at the corners and throughout the area to create an overall theme.

The Village of Wheeling, Illinois is located northwest of downtown Chicago. The competition site lies at the eastern entry to the Village at the junction of Milwaukee Avenue and Dundee Road. The area is famous as ``Restaurant Row." It is composed of the three corners of the crossroads, and a variety of other sites. Together they will be integrated into a design that will include a new Millenium Plaza. The combined design of these three sites will provide visual, physical and symbolic features that will create a memorable entry for Wheeling.

For more information or to register, contact:
The Wheeling Design Competition
Jim Grabowski
Wheeling Village Hall
225 West Dundee Road
Wheeling, IL 60090
Phone: 847-459-2600
Fax: 847-459-9692

WEI COMPETITION
Cornell University's Work & Environment Initiative

Registration Deadline: March 22, 1999
Submission Deadline: April 12, 1999
Open to: All
Entry Fee: $150 Professionals - $80 Students
Awards:$10,000US Total (separate student and professional competitions)

Jury:
Sim Van der Ryn,
Peter Lowitt,
Justin Bielagus,
Michael Krause,
Suzanne Gianniani-Spohn,
Timothy Hayes,
Jon Feinstein

The design challenge is two-fold:
first, create a site design for an  eco-park utilizing the existing road and utility ROW while creating a  design that embodies the eco-park concepts;
second, design a flexible "green" light industrial/office building that will fit into the larger eco-park for around $30/sf utilizing the New England Pricing Guide.

Description of the Project
Cornell Work and Environment Initiative (WEI) is conducting a national  design competition for the Town of Londonderry, New Hampshire. The  design competition is for a site design of an eco-industrial park and for  a 25,000-sf flexible industrial space.

The Town of Londonderry, New Hampshire has plans to build an   eco-industrial park in their community. The eco-park will be the first  built entirely with private investment. While the developers of this  site wants to build an environmentally sensitive industrial park, they  are concerned with the cost per square foot.

The project design should include a site-plan for an eco-industrial park  utilizing the existing road and utility right-of-ways and for a 25,000-sf   flexible warehouse (meaning a multi-tenant space that could be carved  into four separate leasable spaces). Features should include an office  in the front, loading docks in the rear with 22-24' clear height. The  office component can be designed to share services (such as, conference  space, lunch rooms, copy rooms).

For more information or to register, contact:
Maile Deppe
Research Director
Work and Environment Initiative
105 Rice Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-5601
Phone: 607-254-5466
Fax: 607-255-8207
Email: mad23@cornell.edu
Website: http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/wei/designcomp/WEI/default.html

EQUITY AND ECOLOGY
Sponsor: H.O.P.E.S., University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts

Type: Open
Open to: Students and design professionals in all fields
Registration Deadline: March 26, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 26, 1999
Entry Fee: $25 (with submission)
Prizes: US$1000 to be shared by 3 winners

Jury:
Michael Hough,
Maya Lin,
Francesca Lyman,
William McDonough,
David Orr,
Michael Singer

Objective:
Participants should emphasize specific relationships between equity and ecology while considering problems at all scales and exploring approaches to a more equitable culture. Submissions could range from a design of urban gardens in the inner city to a poem honoring a local community effort. From a sculpture protesting the destruction of the ecosystem to a high-density co-housing project. Entries should clearly convey design concepts through visual and written material.

Submission guidelines:
All entries must be accompanied by a concise written explanation describing the entry and related to the issues of equity and ecology. Explanations are limited to 200 words. Previous work that addresses this theme is encouraged as well as new design work. Entries should be no larger than 24"x36" (2 boards maximum) and should be suitable for hanging on a wall surface. For three-dimensional entries such as sculptures or models, please submit images mounted on the 24"x36" format.

To enter:
Submit the following information: name, address, phone, email, fax ,etc in a sealed envelope (No names on the front of the entry)
Mail your entry to:
Design Challenge
University of Oregon
School of Architecture and Allied Arts
H.O.P.E.S., Lawrence Hall
Eugene, OR 97403-5249

5th OISIAI Architectural Competition: World Theatre in Prague 1999

Sponsors: The International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre  Architects and Technicians (OISTAT)

Type: International, open, one-stage, ideas
Submission Deadline: March 15, 1999
Eligibility: Open to architects and students of architecture, and where   possible to teams teams including practitioners or students of scenography   and stage technology.

Entry Fee: $15 US
Jury: 5 international members

Awards: 1st $5,000 US,
2nd $1,500 US,
7 additional prizes of $500 US each

Challenge:

The competition uses a real site which forms part of a Theatre Center in Prague in the Czech Republic. The brief, included in the competition conditions, explains what contestants are required to design while at the same time leaving many decisions to the participants themselves. The competition has been set up to offer architects the opportunity to use their creative talents to find a solution to the problem of designing a building for public performances. Competitors are asked to design an attractive theatre building with an inspiring theatrical environment offering exciting opportunities to all those involved on the creative side of the performing arts: actors, singers, dancers, stage directors, scenographers and musicians.

For more information or to register, contact:

General Secretary of the OISTAT
Competition 1999
P.O. Box 117
7550 AC Hengelo
Netherlands

The 9th SXL International Residential Design Competition
Shinkenchiku-sha

Type: open, international
Registration Deadline: March 15, 1999
Submission Deadline: April 12, 1999
Registration Fee: None
Open to: All
Awards: 3,050,000 Yen Total
Jury: Kan Izue and more.

Theme: A House for Goethe

For more information or to register, contact:
The 9th SXL International Residential
Design Competition
Shinkenchiku-sha
2-31-2 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-8501, Japan
Phone: 81-3-3811-7107

100% Rubber Design Competition

For designs, either conceptual or finished items, which incorporate rubber in some way.

The thinking behind 100% Rubber:
Rubber has been around a long time. We see lots of rubber objects everyday. Yet over the years it has developed a schizophrenic image. On the one hand, utilitarian: rubber gloves, car tyres, wellington boots. On the other, fetishist: from the mildly naughty to the frankly outrageous. We decided it was time that the image of rubber had a makeover.

The properties that have always made rubber so useful - flexibility, toughness, water resistance - are just as valid today as they have always been. And as manufacturers of rubber flooring we knew of lots more benefits. Incredible colour potential, burn-resistance, softness and warmth plus a lovely tactile quality. We were also finding that more and more designers were using our flooring material for applications other than flooring - on walls and columns, on furniture and other surfaces.

So that's how it started. A design competition seemed a good way to get contemporary designers thinking about rubber in a new light. We're also not averse to having a little fun. Lots of design competitions take themselves very seriously, and we didn't want that. We encouraged entrants to be as creative, witty, off the wall as they liked. Quite honestly, we were astounded with the reaction. Clearly we struck a nerve. We had over 200 entries from all over the world, not just the UK. Our original intention had been to display just the winner and finalists on our stand at this year's 100% Design exhibition. But we found ourselves with so much wonderful material that we decided to allocate a much bigger proportion of the stand. We selected about 40 of our favourite entries and created both a static exhibition and a multimedia presentation (our stand is next to the bar, so we always have a great captive audience). A lot of the entrants came to see the stand. For many of them it was the first public display of their work, and they were delighted. The display attracted lots of interest generally, from the public and the press, and we received a number of specific enquiries about particular designs which we hope will lead to positive outcomes for the designers.

Naturally, because it went so well, we are planning to run the competition again this year.

Magazine links:
run in conjunction with FX magazine, the UK's leading contemporary design title

Categories for entry:
· Interiors and artworks
· Products
· Fashion, textiles, jewellery, accessories
· Furniture and lighting

Organiser's name: Dalsouple

Cost of entry: free
Deadline: 31 March 1999

Prizes: One overall winner will receive £1000 plus a Dalsouple floor for a room in their home. Category winners will receive a specially commissioned Dalsouple award. Winners will be exhibited on the Dalsouple stand at the 100% Design show in London, September 1999.

Judges:
Tim Gaukroger, Managing Director, Dalsouple UK:
Aidan Walker, Editor FX Magazine,
Jim Hamilton, Graven Images Design Consultancy;
Nicholas Winton, jewellery consultant, former Managing Director Theo Fennell.

Notes:
Dalsouple are specialist manufacturers of rubber for floors and other surfaces. Entries do not have to use Dalsouple material - any form of rubber will do. Entries may use a tiny amount of rubber incorporated in a larger design, or be made entirely of rubber. The competition will be judged on creativity, innovative design, functionality and aesthetic appeal. Entrants are encouraged to let their talents run wild and feel free to have some fun!

Contact information for entry forms:
Dalsouple, PO Box 140, Bridgwater,
Somerset,
England
TA5 1HT.
Tel +44 (0)1984 667233.
Fax +44(0)1984 667366.
E-mail PR@Dalsouple.com

1998-99 ACSA/OTIS INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN COMP.

Category : Architecture and Urban design
Type: One phase ideas competition
Organizer: Otis Elevator Company and ACSA

Registration Deadline: March 8, 1999
Submission Deadline:April 12, 1999
Open to: Upper level students (third-year or above)
Entry Fee: Zero $
Awards: $4,000 grand prize plus travel to Rome
Jury: To be announced

Info:
Throughout the course of modern urban development, one hallmark of a thriving urban core has been the existence of stable residential areas in proximity to the downtown commercial, civic, and cultural centers.  Flourishing cities have retained a rich residential mix of generations and incomes, in part because of policies and amenities that have kept the city attractive to them, as well as the existence of diverse and readily available housing integrated with the urban infrastructure.

The mutual dependence among residents, businesses, and their civic and cultural institutions is a central fact that binds them into cohesive communities. Without this close connection, disposable income migrates away from the central core, depriving the city center of necessary resources and resulting in an ultimately unsustainable quality of life. At the same time, housing created independently of supporting infrastructure often lacks essential services, leading to untenable communities disconnected from the previously existing socio-economic network. As a consequence, in many cities, real communities disappear, leaving a city devoid of social cohesion in their place. On the other hand, vibrant urban centers have housing opportunities for people of all incomes and land use plans that facilitate employment, education, culture, recreation, public transportation, and retail.

With this in mind the competition calls for a housing design that takes into account the competing interests of any urban setting: integrated land use, optimum density, compatibility with existing infrastructure, environmental impact, affordability, contextual appropriateness, preservation, and above all, social need. The underlying theme of the competition calls for a solution that actively engages the social and economic context of its urban setting; in short, a design that redefines the aspirations of your city.

The competition will challenge students from all regions of the world to propose urban development schemes integrating mid-rise housing (five stories and taller) within an existing urban infrastructure, emphasizing mixed-use potential and the socio-economic and physical needs of the resident population in the students region. Design solutions that look at master planning as well as the development of specific plan elements are encouraged (though not required); this may take the form of two-tiered programs over the course of one or two semesters, or a more integrated exploitation of multi-disciplinary teamwork.

For more information or to register, contact:
John K. Edwards
ACSA/Otis Elevator Company Student DesignCompetition
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1735 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006 USA
Phone: 202-785-2324
Fax: 202-628-0448
Email: edwards@acsa-arch.org
Website: http://www.acsa-arch.org/activities/studdesign.html

Operation [Interface ] - Quebec / France / WWW

Competition for the selection of the designer of the first ephemeral exhibition museum uniting two built spaces in Montreal and Paris ( installed in June 99 ), by a virtual space on www.operationinterface.org

Zone Architecture with
CCA / IFYA- France / Tektonik.com / Kubos.org / Ifa / Centre de Design UQAM

Registration Deadline: March 1st, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 1st, 1999
Program posted on: January 3rd 1999

Open to: International and multidisciplinary teams lead by French or Quebec designer/architect

Entry Fee: $50CAN / 200FF
Award: 15 000$CAN in honoraries for built work

Jury:
Robert Lepage , multimedia artist, Quebec, Canada.
Lise Anne Couture, arch., www.asymptote.net , New York
Isabel Herault, architect, France.
Serge Clement, photographer, Quebec
Gilles Saucier, architect, Quebec
Jean-Guy Chabauty, designer, Quebec
Randy Cohen, architect, Quebec
Yves Nacher, architecture critic, France

Purpose:
Selection of the designer of a mediatic bridge that will serve as an ephemeral museum of contemporary architecture. The winning design will be built in the Shaughnessy House of the Canadian Center for Architecture Montreal ) and l'Espace Callot of l'Institut francais d'architecture. Both spaces will be linked by a virtual museum set at www.operationinterface.org

The [Interface] will host an on-line exhibition of photography that will evolve from the 9th of june until the 24th of June 1999 thru the daily updates of 8 photographs and posted manifestos by artists of the world reacting to the exhibited projects.

Sponsors:
This event is part of the official program of
"Les Printemps du Quebec en France".

The architectural concept is an original idea of N.O.M.A.D.E. transfered onto a Zone Architecture media project aiming to promote contemporary architecture from Quebec and France.

This project is a reality because those sponsors are involved:
CCA, Ifa, Centre de Design de l'Uqam, Solotech multimedia inc.,
Tektonik inc., Kubos.org.

Competition director:
Jean Beaudoin, Zone Architecture, N.o.m.a.d.e.

For more information or to register, contact:
Operation [Interface]
c/o Zone Architecture
www.operationinterface.org  
( English version 3rd of January 99 )

e-mail : info@operationinterface.org

1998-99 DuPont Benedictus Awards - International Student Design Competition:
Designing the Future: A High School for the 21st Century

Sponsor: Dupont

Registration Deadline: March 1, 1999
Submission Deadline: March 19, 1999
Eligibility: This competition is open to upper-level students in ACSA   member schools in the United States and Canada who are: in the third or fourth year of a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture; a Bachelor of Science in Architecture program; third, fourth, or fifth year in a Bachelor of Architecture program; or in a Master of Architecture program. Upper-level architecture students in Europe, Asia, and South America are also invited to enter.

Awards: Cash prizes totaling $15,000 will be awarded to winning students, faculty sponsors, and their schools. Winning students will receive $5,000 for first place, $2,500 for second place, and $1,500 for third place, as well as $500 honorable mentions at the discretion of the jury. Winning and selected entries will be exhibited at the National AIA Convention in Dallas, Texas in May, 1999, and published in a competition summary booklet to be produced by the AIA.

Challenge:
DuPont is pleased to announce the seventh in a series of competitions on the innovative use of laminated glass. This competition will challenge architecture students to design a high school for approximately 2,000 students on a given site or on a site of their choosing. The competition will encourage faculty to include the study of safety glass as a building material and address the use of this material in a theoretical design problem. As security, access, natural daylighting, and a response to environmental concerns are becoming more significant considerations in the design of educational facilities, the use of laminated glass is most appropriate and highly encouraged. Product resource material will be available to all schools that register. Students will be challenged to address architectural issues while exploring the various uses and applications of laminated glass as a building material. Criteria for judging will include the innovative, successful, and creative use of the material  in  >the design solution, resolution of architectural and functional criteria, >and environmental concerns.

Each entrant must have a faculty sponsor, and entries will be accepted for team as well as individual entries. Submissions are to be principally the product of work in a design studio or related class. All schools and students wishing to participate must submit registration forms to the AIA.

Download the Program Brochure at:

http://www.e-architect.com/pia/benedictus/98intro.asp 

After downloading the brochure, print out the program materials.
Fax the registration form to (202) 626-7425.

To mail registration form and to submit materials, or for more information, contact:

The AIA Center for Building Performance
Attn: DuPont Benedictus Awards
1735 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006, USA
phone: (202) 626-7446 or 7445
fax: (202) 626-7425
email: vierras@aiamail.aia.org or stjohnb@aiamail.aia.org

Dallas Young Architects/Associates Forum Design Competition
Sponsor: Dallas Young Architects

Type: open, international
Registration Deadline: March 1, 1999
Submission Deadline: April 21, 1999
Registration Fee: $35 US
Open to: Students, interns, and professionals in ALL fields of design

Awards: $1500 US Total and 3 honorable mentions
Jury: unknown

The diverse Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas is the site of the 1999 Dallas Young Architects / Associates Forum Design Competition.

Entrants are asked to create an architectural intervention within this context that will enhance the qualities of this downtown neighborhood. The design should explore the relationships between architecture and other art forms, between architectural principles and artistic issues. The multiple layers of duality presented in this program call for a design that 'seeks out' the in-between ­ that which lies between the events and non-events, between sound and anti-sound, and between the edges of the street.

"...the static notions of form and function long favored by architectural discourse need to be replaced by attention to the actions that occur inside and around buildings..." --Bernard Tschumi

For more information or to register, contact:
YOUNG ARCHITECTS / ASSOCIATES FORUM
DESIGN COMPETITION COMMITTEE
c/o D/AIA
2811 McKinney Avenue
Suite 20 LB-104
Dallas, Texas 75204
Fax: 214.871.2324
Website: http://www.brwarch.com/yaf

SAVE D.A.D (LOS ANGELES DOWNTOWN ARTS DISTRICT)
The Alliance to Preserve D.A.D. and Action:Space

Type: Open, international
Registration Deadline: February 20, 1999
Submission Deadline: February 20, 1999
Open to: All individuals or teams
Entry Fee: $20US
Awards: $1,000US Total
Jury: Kim Abeles, Robert Harris, Michael Rotondi, Julius Shulman and more,

The Alliance to Preserve D.A.D. and Action: Space are pleased to sponsor SAVE D.A.D.-an urban design competition for strategies and ideas which would enhance the creative energies and lives of artists and businesses in the Downtown Arts District (D.A.D.). The intent of this competition is to explore and present imaginative development alternatives to a proposed LAUSD central warehouse on a 11 acre site (update on progress coming soon) located within the artists community. This central warehouse has been envisioned as a massive 250,000 sq. ft. plus concrete tilt-up structure, operating 24 hrs. each day, and would require partial or whole demolition of the historic   Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe house located on eastern border of the site. Local residents have pointed out that the noise and traffic generated by such a project is incompatible within D.A.D., and would lead to certain destabilization of the community and surrounding residential and business areas.

Spiritually and historically, the area is the origin of commerce in Los Angeles, from the early fruit groves and vineyards, to the cradle of early Los Angeles industries of soap, brick and light manufacture. The area has always welcomed a variety of immigrants from around the world. During the past few decades this multi-cultural milieu has drawn artists and others seeking space and a creative atmosphere to live. At one time considered blighted and uninhabited, today the Downtown Arts District grows as a diverse urban village.

For more information or to register, contact:
Voychek Szaszor
Action:Space
734 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://www.ladad.com/design.html

1999 SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHIC DESIGN (SEGD)

category: graphic design [ ! ]
type: Design Awards Program

Deadline for entries: January 29, 1999;
Late deadline: February 5, 1999.

Entry fee:
Fees for single entries are $75 for members/$95 for non-members per project;
multiple entries of three or more submissions are $60 for members/$80 for non-members per project.

subject:
The design competition honors the best in environmental graphic design and includes work such as wayfinding projects, exhibit graphics and identity programs. In previous years, the program has recognized such projects as the Getty Museum Wayfinding System, Los Angeles; The Newseum in Arlington, VA by Ralph Appelbaum Associates; and the Gratefish Storm Drain, a conceptual project by San Francisco-based design firm Mauk Design.

Winners in this year‚s competition will be announced at a presentation awards ceremony at the Cincinnati Omni Netherland Hotel on May 22, marking the close of SEGD's annual conference.

For more information:
contact the SEGD office at 202.638.5555
or email: SEGDOffice@aol.com

Braun Design-Prize 1998

Field: Industrial design
Type: Two stage selection process based prototype project presentation
Organizer : Braun AG

Eligibility:
You must be a student of design or technology (with emphasis on precision-technology/instruments) or have completed your studies no more than three years ago.
Prize: A total of $50,000.00 in prize money will be awarded.
Deadline of entry: January 31, 1999
Registration Fee: Unknown

Requirement:
1. You describe your product in German or English, with particular attention given to the innovative nature of the design, the solution concept, and, where applicable, information concerning the teamwork process.

2. The work should be presented on posters in A2 format (approx. 40x60cm) suitable for display. A design model with a construction draft is a prerequisite for entry in the competition. Please submit one to several photographs of this prototype (13x18cm). In addition, drawings illustrating the written description should be included. Please do not send in any audio- or videotapes or CD's!
To ensure complete anonymity, do not mark your name anywhere on entry panels, models, etc. Please mark the back of all subsequent competition materials with your participant's number noticed on your entry form. This number will be your personal identification.

3. Please fill out and sign the enclosed form in which you will declare that your work is free of copyright/patent infringement. Additional forms can be requested. Any entries which do not fulfill all requirements will be excluded from the competition.

Jury:
Peter Schneider (Design Department, Braun AG),
Albrecht Jestdt (Research and Development, Braun AG),
Harry Asada (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA),
Mai Felipe-Hasselbarth (Barcelona Design Center).

Subject :
Cooperation: Technique and Design
Braun AG invites you to participate in the international competition for the 1998 Braun Prize - and with a new theme this year: Team achievement of young designers and engineers is the focus of the twelfth annual competition - the interface between technology and design in the development of innovative products. Giving expression to new ideas, finding a better way, being attentive to people and their needs - the Braun concept of design is oriented toward real quality in consumer applications. This calls for both creative as well as technical expertise; talent that can bring about a lasting improvement in the relationship between mankind and the products that serve them. As sponsor of the Braun Prize, Braun AG wishes to promote all product ideas for technological consumer goods: Products which serve people in their daily lives on the job, in school, at home, as well as in sports and recreation. Software products and screen-design will, however, not be considered.

For more info:
Braun AG
Postfach 1120
61466 Kronberg
ATTN: Braun Preis
WWW: .

HOUSING THE NEXT 10 MILLION
AIA California Council

Registration Deadline: January 31, 1999
Submission Deadline: May 21, 1999

Open to: All
Entry Fee: $75 (More for late registration)

Awards: 5 prizes of up to $20,000US each

Jury: Unknown

The AIA California Council is pleased to announce the development of an innovative open ideas competition, beginning November 1998. The goal of the competition is to explore ways for California's Central Valley to absorb another 10-14 million residents by the year 2040 through the design of new habitation models that are less land intensive and which will also support urban design implementation tools. The results of this competition will be used to help local decision makers deal more effectively with the enormous projected growth of California's Central Valley in a manner that conserves the rich ecological and agricultural assets of the Valley -- one of the world's great resources.

The Competition's challenge is to find ways to accommodate the additional 10-14 million people with new housing and development types while recognizing the changing demographics and socio-economic realities of the Central Valley. The Competition will enable decision makers, developers, property owners, and the public to understand the consequences, opportunities and trade-offs of current growth models and to become aware of the potentials of alternative development patterns that use land more efficiently within the context of California's physical, cultural and political environment.

The Competition Schedule calls for the Competition to begin in January 1999 with submissions due in late May 1999 to coincide with the annual conference of the Great Valley Center to be held on May 26 & 27, 1999, in Sacramento where the public exhibit and Jury Review will be conducted. A registration fee of $75.00 (US) will be required to enter the Competition. This fee may be waived upon request of an instructor whose class is planning to enter the Competition (one waiver per class).

Competition Registration Forms will be available in November 1998.

For more information or to register, contact:
William H. Liskamm,
FAIA, Competition Advisor
Website: http://www.aiacc.org/central valley/index.htm

12th Koizumi International Lighting Design Competition
Sponsor: Koizumi Sangyo Corporation

Type: Open, international
Registration Deadline: January 31, 1999
Submission Deadline: February 20, 1999
Open to: All
Registration Fee: None
Awards: 2,100,000 Yen Total
Jury: Kenji Ekuan and others

Theme: Lighting Ecology

For more information or to register, contact:
Koizumi Sangyo Corporation
3-3-7 Bingo-cho, Chuoku
Osaka, 541-0051
Japan
Phone: 81-6-262-1369
Fax: 81-6-262-1490
Website: http://www.koizumi.co.jp//designcompe.htm

SCALE : Young Architects Forum
Sponsor: Architectural League of New York

Registration Deadline: February 1, 1999
Submission Deadline: February 1, 1999
Open to: Residents of United States, Canada and Mexico that are ten years or less out of architecture school (no students)
Entry Fee: $20 US
Award: $1000 US
Jury: Frank Lupo, Donna Robertson, Bernard Tschumi, Jody Pinto, Karl Jensen, Victoria Meyers, Yoshiko Sato

Theme:
The abstraction and perception of scale are primary to the design and experience of architecture. Concepts of scale may be understood through proportional relationships but are also informed by immeasurable sensations, phenomena and events. As technology increasingly fosters the creation of virtual worlds, experience and perception are, potentially, increasingly disembodied.

Does this realm of dematerialized experience also affect our understanding of scale? What are the critical issues which pertain to scale and its possible modes of representation?

How do your methods of design affect the possibilities for scale in your work?

Submission requirements:
The competition theme is given as a basis for young architects and designers to reflect upon their work. A written statement not to exceed 250 words is requested, which defines and considers the work. A single portfolio, which may include several projects, must be submitted in a binder no larger than 11"x14". The binder may no contain more than thirty double-sided pages. Models, slides and transparencies are not acceptable. Videos must be in VHS format and no longer than five minutes.

Eligibility:
Entrants may submit work done independently, or as an employee, or as a teacher. Work completed for fulfillment of course requirements at academic institutions is not eliglible. Work done as an employee must be accompanied by a letter from a principal in the firm stating that the entrant can be given sole credit for the work submitted.

For more information or to register, contact:
Anne Rieselbach
The Architectural League of New York
457 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Phone: (212) 753-1722
Website: http://www.archleague.org

"International Furniture Design fair Asahikawa '99 Competition"

Catégorie: design de mobilier
Type: appel de projets
Organisateur: International Furniture Design fair Asahikawa Organizing
Committee

Éligibilité : diplômés en architecture lors des 10 dernières années
Premier prix : 30 000 $

Fin des inscriptions: 20 janvier 1998
Sujet: Mobilier de bois.

Info:
International Furniture Design fair Asahikawa Organizing Committee.
IFDA office: 10-chome, 2-jo, Nagayama, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, 079-8412 Japan.

Phone: 81-166-47-0655
URL: http://www.arc-net.co.jp/kodoka/shoukou2/ifda.html  
E-mail: ifda@arc-net.co.jp 

"International Furniture Design fair Asahikawa '99 Competition"

Field: Design
Type: International Competition
Organizer: International Furniture Design fair Asahikawa Orga