COMPETITIONS AND TENDERS SHELTERS FOR ALL


www.sheltersforall.org One in seven peopleworldwide live in a substandard and unsafe urban housing…but you could be the one to change their future. The University of Notre Dame's project Open


Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure initiative invites you to submit a proposal to the Shelters For All Competition. This Competition seeks innovative solutions to the urban housing crisis in the developing world. Individuals or teams are invited to develop and submit conceptual designs for homes that address the needs and constraints of the over one billion people that live in urban slums worldwide. Today thosewho live in urban slums suffer from


numerous vulnerabilities. Limited natural resources make it difficult to produce quality construction materials.Weak regulation, building codes and enforcement hinder community planning.Moreover,


urban unstructured settlements often lie in some of themost hazard-prone parts of theworld and are subject to hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones, earthquakes, and heavy rains/flooding. Meeting the challenge to create resilient, feasible,


sustainable, viable and scalable housing solutions for the urban poor in developing countrieswill require considerable innovation. That’swhy the University is soliciting the global community to develop creative solutions that aremindful of the environmental conditions, historical context and cultural preferences of communitieswhere the housingwill be built.While preference is given to innovative designs thatmay be applied broadly throughout the developingworld, designs that target a specific country or regionwill also be accepted. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2012. Thewinnerswill be announced on February 15, 2012.


Over one billion people live in the urban slums worldwide.


RMJMAWARDED


MOSCOWAIRPORT RMJM’s European studio has been awarded the contract to design Segment 3 of the United Terminal of Domodedovo Airport in Moscow. Itwill be designed by RMJM’s studios in Edinburgh andMoscowand will increase the airports current capacity by 16.5 million passengers a year. The third segmentwill be the same size as London Heathrow’s Terminal 5 building andwill be 254,000sqm, almost doubling the airports current size. The cost of the project construction is £262million and construction is expected to be complete in 2017.


THE PEKIN HOTEL


CAPITHETICAL COMPETITION


www.capithetical.com.au A newinternational ideas competition for a hypothetical capital city has been launched in Canberra, Australia.With total prizes in excess of AUD$100,000, the CAPITheticAL competition asks theworld’s best designers, architects, artists and thinkers to imagine what an Australian capital city ‘might’ look like if created today. CAPITheticAL is designed to provoke new


thinking about the nature of national capitals and planned cities internationally. Entrants are being asked to consider current global challenges such as climate change and urban density,while celebrating the past, present and future of Canberra. The CAPITheticAL competition is part of


the Cenetary of Canberra celebrations. It comes 100 years after the original call for design entries for a capital city for the newly federated Australian nation,which resulted in the establishment of Canberra, designed by American architectsWalter Burley Griffin andMarionMahony Griffin. The deadline for stage one entries is January 31, 2012.


GLOW COMPETITION


www. shiftboston.org SHIFTBoston, in associationwith LightBoston and the Friends ofCopley Square, are asking artists, architects, urban planners, sculptors, lighting designers, and landscape architects around theworld to create a newapproach for lightingCopley Square. Copley Square is a significant landmarek space in Boston’s


Back Bay neighborhood. Flanked byMcKimMeade and White’s Boston Public Library,H.H. Richardson’s Trinity Church, the I.M. Pei’sHancock Tower, theOld SouthChurch, and the charmingCopley PlazaHotel, the site is arguably one of themost important public square’s. Its rich history and architectural tradition create a unique urban setting that is used to host civic celebrations and public events. Lighting design concepts should highlight existing


monuments, fountains and landscaping features in the square. The judges are looking for proposals that demonstrate coordinated structural and pedestrian lighting of the entire space, rather than focusing exclusively on the architecture. Three teamswill be selected as finalists of the first round.


The selected teamswill present their concepts at theGLOW Forumevent inMarch 2012 among selectmembers of the jury, fellowdesigners, lightingmanufacturers, press and government, academic, community and business leaders. The deadline for entries is February 3, 2012.


PROJECT Woods Bagot has been appointed to restore and extend one of themost historic properties in the heart ofMoscow– the Pekin Hotel – for Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. Owner HALS- Development has instructed Woods Bagot’s lifestyle and hotel design team, headed by principals Rob Steul and Nathan Freebury, to undertake an extensive restoration programfor the historic property. The design will re-emphasise and preserve the hotel’s significant characterwhile alsomodernising it.Work will begin in December 2013.


DULWICH COLLEGE


PROJECT Dulwich College has named Grimshaw Architects as the practice who will design its new science building. The appointment is the first phase of the College’s £20million project, which aims to transform the famous independent boys’ school to mark its 400th anniversary in 2019. The design for the science building will utilise the existing 1950’s facilities and will be designed in line with the masterplan, which aims to create a recognisable design theme that will unify the campus buildings.


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