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More than 100 teams from across Europe, Asia and North America submitted expressions of interest to create two new distinctive areas that will bring together a vibrant mix of The centrepiece will be a major public space that will welcome crowds to the south park. . . . → Read More: Shortlist announced for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Legacy Design Competitions The Trust for the National Mall today launches the official National Mall Design Competition. The 36-week contest will solicit recommendations from across the country about how to best redesign three prominent National Mall sites: Union Square, the Washington Monument Grounds at Sylvan Theater, and Constitution Gardens. “The National Mall Design Competition is the first step in the . . . → Read More: National Mall Design Competition – Rethink.Restore.Rebuild Navy Pier is the most popular attraction in Chicago, drawing nearly nine million visitors annually. Navy Pier, Inc., the newly formed not-for-profit entrusted with the redevelopment and operation of the Pier is conducting an international search for a Design Team to reimagine the Pier’s outdoor public spaces, or Pierscape. This work at Navy Pier provides the . . . → Read More: Navy Pier starts search for international design teams for public spaces The University of South Florida, in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts invite designers to participate in an international urban design competition: [re]stitch TAMPA welcomes entrants to envision a new interface between the city of Tampa, Florida and the Hillsborough River. Utilizing Landscape Urbanism as a lens, [re]stitch Tampa seeks to refocus the Hillsborough as . . . → Read More: [re]stitch TAMPA – Design Competition Suburbia Transformed 2.0, an international design competition for built and unbuilt residential landscapes sponsored by the James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design; co-sponsored by the American Society of Landscape Architects, New Jersey Chapter; and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The Competition The goal of Suburbia Transformed 2.0 is to promote and celebrate residential designs that go beyond “green” by explicitly using sustainable strategies, tactics and technologies to enrich the aesthetic spatial experience of people. ST 2.0 will assemble contemporary projects achieving this goal into an exhibition and catalogue. The emphasis is on how such sustainable landscapes can be beautiful, inspiring, perhaps profound; and serve as examples for transforming the suburban residential fabric, one garden at a time. Significantly, this year’s version invites the submission of visionary (unbuilt) work, along with built projects, thus opening up the competition to students, as well as professionals. Continue reading Suburbia Transformed 2.0 Design Competition The annual World Architecture Festival is to be held in Barcelona from 2nd to the 4th of November. Every year the Festival gives awards to designs for projects in various categories. Landscape is one of the categories and this year the shortlist contains 7 design firms from across the world including:
A Mother River Recovered–The Sanlihe Greenway MUMA . . . → Read More: 2011 World Architecture Festival Awards Shortlist announced Two design competitions – North and South will be held for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The Olympic Park Legacy Company today invited architects, landscape architects,engineers and designers to create London’s newest public space, along with two visitor centres and a major new playground. The Legacy Company will be developing a rolling programme of attractions and events both in its venues . . . → Read More: Olympic Legacy Design Competitions for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park St.Patrick's Island (Courtesy of Calgary Municipal Land Corporation) Recently, the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) has issued a Request for Qualification (RFQ) for Conceptual Design Development for St. Patrick’s Island in Calgary, Canada. Three teams will be selected and then move on to Stage 2 – A design competition with stipend resulting in the selection of . . . → Read More: St. Patrick’s Island Design Competition RFQ Moving Landscapes. The international ideas competition aims to reinvent the landscapes that highlight Montreal’s international gateway corridor linking Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to its downtown area (MTL) along Autoroute 20. The CPEUM has been commissioned by the Ministère des Transports du Québec to coordinate the competition and the underlying collaborative planning process bringing together the main public . . . → Read More: YUL-MTL: Moving Landscapes | International Ideas Competition The land art generator initiative has announced in partnership with New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation, the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition will be held for a site within Freshkills Park (the former Fresh Kills landfill) in Staten Island. “At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park will be almost three times the size of Central Park . . . → Read More: LAGINYC 2012 to be held at Fresh Kills Park |
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