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Competition: WAF Architecture Drawing Prize 2019Subscription
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) is accepting entries for its third annual drawing prize (Deadline: 27 September)
Competition: Warming Huts 2020, 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: 30 September)
Revisit: Nueva Santa Fe Subscription
Although Rogelio Salmona’s inner-city housing to improve the lives of middle-income families in Bogotá failed to materialise in full, it set a valuable precedent in urban renewal
From the jaws of disaster: social housing solutions in MexicoSubscription
The devastation wrought by powerful earthquakes in Mexico in 1985 and 2017 spurred the architectural community to revisit social housing, but sometimes proposals were wrought for no more than media attention
Competition: Cities and Refugees GlobalSubscription
An international student ideas contest has been launched for bold interventions to help refugees living in cities around the world (Deadline: 10 August)
Competition: CTBUH 2019 International Student Tall Building DesignSubscription
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is receiving entries to its annual student competition for futuristic skyscrapers
Beyond the horizon: Casa Wabi near Oaxaca by Tadao AndoSubscription
Poised between land and sea, the architect’s scheme for the Casa Wabi art foundation explores the tension between the precision of a Japanese sensibility and the lush profusion of a Mexican coastal landscape
Competition: National Pulse Memorial & Museum – OrlandoSubscription
The onePULSE Foundation has launched an international contest for a new $45 million memorial and museum dedicated to the victims and survivors of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (Deadline: 30 April)
Preservation In New YorkSubscription
In a rare piece she wrote for the Architectural Review (August, 1962), Ada Louise Huxtable laments the architectural preservation culture, or lack thereof, in New York
Ada Louise Huxtable (1921-2013)Subscription
Ada Louise Huxtable made history as the first full-time architecture critic at a US newspaper when she joined the New York Times, and was later awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1970
Elizabeth Diller: ‘Trump is producing an activist generation’VideoSubscription
Winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2019, Elizabeth Diller, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, talks Trump, High Lines and the state of American architecture when we catch her at the Women in Architecture awards in March 2019
Competition: Ragdale Ring pop-up theatre 2019, IllinoisSubscription
An open contest has been launched to design a $15,000 temporary theatre at the Ragdale artists retreat in Illinois, USA (Deadline: 8 March)
Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986)Subscription
The architect of Pruitt-Igoe and the World Trade Center survived a life of racial discrimination and blame laid for the demise of the Modernist dream – but did not live to see the revisionist movement that asserts the underfunded Pruitt-Igoe’s fate was predetermined
Fashion victims: the preservation and evolution of the Museum of Contemporary Art San DiegoSubscription
Buildings such as Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego should not be embalmed, but pursuing fads can be equally compromising
Design Earth: ‘a drawing is an argument about the world’Subscription
In the face of unthinkable, catastrophic climate change, Design Earth’s speculative architecture means to tell new stories, to render our environmental future sensible, or legible to the senses
Clorindo Testa (1923-2013)Subscription
Architect to the National Library of the Argentine Republic and the Bank of London in Buenos Aires, the fanciful Clorindo Testa is a mainstay of modern Argentine architecture
Revisit: Biblioteca VasconcelosSubscription
Mexico City’s national lending library by Alberto Kalach + TAX allows for an unintentional plurality of inhabitation and experience
Competition: Financial Services Commission Building, MontserratSubscription
Montserrat’s Financial Services Commission is seeking an architect for its new £1.3 million headquarters in Little Bay (Deadline: 9 January)
Competition: Beam Camp Spectacular Projects 2019, USASubscription
Beam Camp in New Hampshire has launched its annual international competition for a series of $12,500 temporary installations (Deadline: 6 January)
Volcanic panache: Ampuero Yutronic, UK & ChileSubscription
Ampuero Yutronic’s black-stained Casa Hualle in Pucón, Chile, is evocative of both the volcanic stone-clad houses and the agricultural sheds of the region
Competition: Plastic WorldsSubscription
An open international ideas contest has been launched for new waste management solutions for plastics in marine environments (Deadline: 11 January)
Chef's table: Refettorio Gastromotiva, Rio de Janeiro, by Metro Arquitetos AssociadosSubscription
Fighting food waste, malnutrition and social exclusion, the Refettorio Gastromotiva brings hope to Rio’s most marginalised
Blood sugar: spectres of empireSubscription
Many of the cultural assets of Britain were paid for by slave labour on the plantations of Barbados
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
Competition: Havana MaleconSubscription
An open international ideas contest has been launched to rethink Havana’s deteriorating Malecon sea defences (Deadline: 11 September)
A law unto themselves: San Pedro prison in La Paz, BoliviaSubscription
The thriving sense of community at San Pedro prison in La Paz, Bolivia, belies the dangers to which inmate families are exposed
Competition: Climate of DissentSubscription
An open international contest has been launched for architectural installations which protest against climate change (Deadline: 6 August)
Competition: CTBUH Tall BuildingsSubscription
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is accepting entries to its annual student ideas contest (Deadline: 16 July)
Pyramid scheme: Teopanzolco Cultural Centre in Cuernavaca, Mexico, by Isaac Broid and PRODUCTORA Subscription
Placing the Aztec ruins centre stage, the Teopanzolco Cultural Centre is a dramatic landscape for performance
Frank Gehry (1929-)Subscription
Gehry’s enduring career spotlights a world that has long lain waste to the spatial conceptions and obligations of the Renaissance
Competition: HomeSubscription
An international ideas contest has been announced to reimagine a single unit of housing (Deadline: 31 July)
Plan B for Colombia: Rural schools in Antioquia by Plan:b arquitectosSubscription
As Colombia recovers from years of armed confict, a series of schools in rural areas by Plan:b is driving programmes of education, culture and community engagement
Competition: Alexander Docks, WinnipegSubscription
An open international ideas competition has been announced to rethink an abandoned waterfront quay overlooking the Red River in Winnipeg, Canada (Deadline: 24 April)
Competition: Alternative Designs for ClubsSubscription
An international contest is seeking new ideas for the future of nightclubs around the world (Deadline: 27 April)
Competition: York and Rees Street Parks, TorontoSubscription
The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation has launched an international contest for two new landmark parks overlooking Lake Ontario (Deadline: 5 April)
Competition: Pocket Seat 2018Subscription
An open international contest has been announced for innovative portable personal seating solutions (Deadline: 10 April)
Breaking the mould: Gloria Cabral, Gabinete de Arquitectura, ParaguaySubscription
Women in Architecture Moira Gemmill Prize winner 2018: combining innovations in construction techniques and materials as simple as Paraguayan brick has had award-winning results for Gloria Cabral and Gabinete de Arquitectura
Heat and dust: Paracas Museum, Peru by Barclay & CrousseSubscription
Women in Architecture Architect of the Year 2018 winner: Peru’s Museo de Sitio de Paracas, by Barclay & Crousse, is designed to blend into its harsh desert surroundings as well as withstand them
Competition: Street Seats, PortlandSubscription
An open international contest has been launched for a series of $1,000 outdoor public benches in Portland, Oregon, USA (Deadline: 11 May)
Competition: Ragdale Ring pop-up theatre, IllinoisSubscription
An open contest has been launched to design a $15,000 temporary theatre at the Ragdale artists retreat in Illinois, USA (Deadline: 9 March)
Competition: RICS Cities for our Future ChallengeSubscription
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched an international ideas contest – featuring a £50,000 top prize – focusing on major urban challenges around the world (Deadline: 31 May)
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