The Horror Within - Live Voting Now.

Every Mr. Hyde has a Dr. Jekyll lurking within.

Go here to vote!

http://www.threadless.com/submission/220086/The_Horror_Within

Also if your a digg member, you can digg this submission here.

http://digg.com/arts_culture/The_Horror_Within_Threadless_Submission

The Horror Within - Threadless Submission

This hasn't been approved yet but, the link should lead to the submission where; when/if it does get approved, you'll be able to vote.

The Horror Within - threadless

Still wondering what the best color would be.

More Random threadless ideas.

Mr Hyde gets all wet.

Puffy Clouds

Threadless Progress

Decided to do a threadless submission. Working on the theme of Jekyll and Hyde; with Hyde as a shadow and Jekyll reversed in front.

Still have a bit of design work to do and Hyde still needs a bit of work, but its getting there.

Rising Tides Competition

(http://www.dmns.org/NR/rdonlyres/658BCC74-22D0-4485-99A2-0AC5B487B3D7/1686/GhostsIMAX03.jpg)

Idea competition for San Francisco assuming sea level increases in coming years.

Deadline: June 29

http://www.risingtidescompetition.com/risingtides/Home.html

Another Potential Competition

MOBILE MEDIA-CENTRIC HABITATION AND WORK UNIT

Brief: Design and open source mobile architecture/system/machine capable of functioning in extreme as well as temperate climates and containing mass production potential.

Design is meant to be a prototype for mobile research within extreme cold environments.

Type: Ideas/Prototype/Small Scale/Modular

Due date: July 1, 2009

Register: July 1, 2009

Fee: Free

Award: €5,000

Submission: (1) Digital Board 130cm x50cm @ 150dpi min. CMYK

Multiple Submissions?: No

Teams: Yes

License: No

Website:  http://arcticperspective.org/apicall2009.pdf

Dead before it began..

image: portraits as living deads 2.0

Stymied by requirements to be licensed (perhaps a gentle nudge by fate) we've decided to potentially drop the Bering Strait competition.  Now begins the search again for a new competition or project.

We bandied about several ideas ranging from pro-bono work and expiremental graffiti style architecture to picking another competition.

What follows are a few of the ones I've found that may be interesting to try:

Intersections: The Grand Concourse beyond 100

Brief: The concourse is a 4 mile 180' wide bundle of tree lined roadways that stretches through the Bronx.  Given the recent rebirth of the Bronx area the organizers are participants to look at ideas of all scales in an effort to improve/evolve the existing concourse.

Type: Master Plan/Ideas/Urban Design

Due date: May 1, 2009

Register: April 24, 2009

Fee: $30

Award: $5,000

Submission: (4) Digital Boards 11x17 @ 300dpi

Multiple Submissions?: Yes

Teams: Yes

License: No

Website:  http://grandconcourse100.org/

2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom

Brief: "We are inviting you, teachers, students, architects and designers, to work together to design the classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide smart, safe and sustainable learning spaces. Students and teachers, here's your chance to tell the world what you need to make your classroom more effective. Architects and designers, you'll work one-on-one with students to translate those needs into better classroom design."

Type: Ideas/Classroom Design/Built

Due date: June 1, 2009

Register: May 4, 2009

Fee: $25

Award: $50,000 towards contruction of classroom, $5,000 grant for designers

Submission: (min. 4) Digital Boards 15x10 @ 200dpi, include 3D model

Multiple Submissions?: Yes

Teams: Yes (team should include a school or educators)

License: No

Website:  http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/competitions/challenge/2009

FormShift Vancouver

Brief:

"The City of Vancouver has developed Climate Change Action Plans as well as the EcoDensity Charter – policies and principles to guide greener and denser development, improve building performance, reduce carbon emissions, and improve the city’s overall livability. Vancouver was the first city in Canada to adopt The 2030 Challenge for green house gas reduction, committing each of us to reducing our collective environmental impact. Vancouver City Council has taken that commitment a step further with the stated goal of becoming “the greenest city in the world”.

FormShift Vancouver challenges you to give shape to these goals through ideas and design solutions that will help shape the future of the city. Be it by expanding upon Vancouver's traditional design solutions or offering an entirely new perspective, this is your chance to build a hypothetical form of the future, one that is in keeping with the vibrant, ecologically-friendly and sustainable city to which we aspire

Type: Master Plan/Ideas/Urban Design/Small Scale

Due date: April 6, 2009

Register: March 20, 2009

Fee: $100

Award: $6,000

Submission: (2) Digital Boards A1 Portrait @ 300 dpi

Multiple Submissions?: Yes

Teams: Yes

License: No

Website:  http://formshiftvancouver.com/

Glutton for Punishment: Vol. 57 of ..

So I found a new competition to work on after this and it looks very, very promising.

Competition brief is located here.
Due Date is between Oct. 10 and Oct. 15 2008
Competition Site is located here.

Ultimately this looks like a mixed use development that includes but isn't limited to; a hotel, the high speed rail stations, local transit stations, parking, and conference halls. All of this atop the existing historic Union Station in Chicago.

I plan on doing this one is anyone else interested?

Call Me Quixote: Venice Biennale

So there is a competition for the Australian Pavilion at the Biennale. This is an ideas competition sponsored by DiStasio in Australia. Winners receive tickets to this years Biennale in Venice.
One problem, it's due April 22nd at 5pm, in Australia. This means that given the 3 Day international first class timeline, it needs to be submitted some time around the 18th to make it in time. So I know this is completely insane but I'm going to do it, there is no entry fee other than postage for the CD. There doesn't seem to be any set number of images needed (only that they are 300 dpi and A4 (letter) sized, so I figured I'd throw together some conceptual images and send them out. Let me know if you guys are interested.

DWR Furniture Competition

DWR is hosting a furniture exhibition.

See Here for info
See Here for Submission form.

Only one entry per designer, so we can't do this one as a team but thought you guys may be interested.

TOGS Competition

I found a competition I think I'm going to do.
It's for a temporary gallery in Austin, with possibility of construction, though they don't want you to worry about an express budget or details in Phase I.

Here's the site. Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space


Due March 24th 2008


I know you guys have a lot going on but, let me know if you're interested.
I'm going to start sketching up ideas tonight.

Update: New Competition

IAaC Self Sufficient Housing.
http://www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org/

I like their program, which rightly declares that sustainable building doesn't have to have hokey 70's style design. This one should be a good one.

More Work....yea!! Rupture

I think I'm going to do this competition that is due July 23th
Lebbeus Woods is on the Jury.
If you guys are interested in doing this one with me let me know.
Competition Website

It's an entirely theoretical competition, which is a nice change of pace from these other competition with site constraints and the like.

Long Term Competition

Just Jerusalem 2050

The deadline is December 31, 2007

More Competitions

In addition to the ElMuseo one:

http://www.clevelandcompetition.com/ Deadline May 1
I like this one because it is a pretty traditional competition, meaning a building with a site, and they are looking for something monumental.


Local Green Building Competition: Design a LEED Silver Residence. Deadline May 25
http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=2133

I'm throwing these out there because if we want to do a cool one we need to find out about it with enough time to do it. I'm looking for stuff with at least a two month deadline.

Also let's keep our eye on http://www.hatchfest.org/space/
and see if they do a competition this year again.

One other suggestion is to take on a couple more people and do a real competition, (i.e. something for the 2010 olympics, real buildings, etc.) It would be fun to compete with actual firms.

Then again maybe I'm just talking crazy....

Facade Competition

via archinect

Design a temp facade for this building.


Budget is 30,000
Looks pretty simple and fun, submission requirement is to submit the image they give you with facade in place.
Deadline is April 20
I say we do it. This reminds me a lot of the PS1 comp.
Competition Page

Time to Pick the next Competition

Light Touch.
Design a interactive non invasive lighting system.
http://www.lightouch.org/index.html -- I'm planning on doing this anyway Shelter Me

Emergency Shelter Competition by Design21 http://www.design21sdn.com/designit/index.php

LifeCycle
Green building Comp. about disassembly and re-use
http://www.lifecyclebuilding.org/

WaterAId
Like Arch for Humanity comp.s Sponsored by ARUP
http://www.wateraid.org/

Kult Um's Pult
Design a desk for the new mobile environment.
http://www.moebel-design.at/start.htm

New Competitions

Here's a seattle exclusive:

http://www.aiaseattle.org/wmig2007/callforentries.htm
see the competition at the bottom of the page.