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Competition: Resilient Homes ChallengeSubscription
An international contest has been launched seeking proposals for modular, affordable and resilient homes for under $10,000 (Deadline: 30 November)
Competition: Mextrópoli Pavilion 2019, Mexico CitySubscription
Arquine has reopened its annual international contest for a landmark $100,000 MXN temporary pavilion in Mexico City (Deadline: 7 January)
Competition: Warming Huts 2019, WinnipegSubscription
The Forks Foundation has once again launched its annual international contest for a series of $16,500 (CAN) outdoor art installations in Winnipeg, Canada (Deadline: 2 October)
Retrospective: Olson KundigSubscription
The work of this Seattle-based practice employs mechanisms to enhance architecture’s sense of the tactile
Competition: BetterBin, New YorkSubscription
The Van Alen Institute and The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) have announced an international contest to reimagine New York City’s iconic litter basket (Deadline: 20 September)
Competition: Pulse Memorial & Museum, OrlandoSubscription
The onePULSE Foundation is seeking concepts for a new memorial and museum dedicated to the victims and survivors of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (Deadline: 31 August)
Conventional wisdom: report AIA 2018 in New YorkSubscription
The 2018 AIA National Convention laudably focused on increasing architecture’s diversity and potential to create better cities, but the profession risks being left behind by the construction boom
Competition: Winnipeg Market LandsSubscription
An open international contest has been announced for a major mixed-use regeneration project in central Winnipeg, Canada (Deadline: 14 September)
From the archive: Phillip Exeter library in New Hampshire, USA, by Louis KahnSubscription
Built with ‘the invitation of books’, Louis Kahn’s brick masterpiece is an essay in ‘authentic monumentality’, from AR June 1974
The new normal: exercises in American citizenshipSubscription
In recent times, events in the US have raised an awareness of the connections between the built environment and questions of justice, equity and political agency
