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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 Gemmil 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)
Competition: Montello Desert Waypoint, NevadaSubscription
The Montello Foundation has launched an open international student contest for a $15,000 multi-purpose installation in the Nevada desert (Deadline: 28 February)
Competition: Black Balsam LaboratorySubscription
An open international contest has been launched for a series of pop-up Riga Black Balsam cocktail bars around the world (Deadline: 20 April)
Competition: House in Forest 2018Subscription
An open international ideas competition has been announced for innovative timber housing solutions in forested areas around the world (Deadline: 1 March)
Competition: Native American Veterans Memorial, Washington DCSubscription
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has announced an open international contest to design an $8 million USD monument to Native American servicemen and women in Washington DC (Deadline: 9 January)
Competition: Reimagine the Canals, New YorkSubscription
An open international contest has been launched for a $2.5 million USD series of initiatives to revitalise New York’s 840km-long canal network (Deadline: 5 January)
Competition: Unbox 2017Subscription
An open international ideas contest has been announced to repurpose disused shipping containers as new public spaces around the world (Deadline: 8 January)
Competition: Beam Camp Spectacular Projects 2018, USASubscription
Beam Camp in New Hampshire has launched its annual international competition for a series of $12,500 temporary installations (Deadline: 7 January)
Competition: Martin Luther King Library, Cleveland, OhioSubscription
An open international contest has been launched for a new $10 million Martin Luther King (MLK) Library in Cleveland, Ohio, USA (Deadline: 27 November)
Competition: Sandy Hook Permanent MemorialSubscription
An international contest has been launched for a permanent memorial to the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut, USA (Deadline: 15 December)
Competition: Bespoke Access AwardsSubscription
The RIBA and Bespoke Hotels have once again launched a £30,000 contest – judged by British Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson – seeking ideas to revolutionise the quality of hotel experiences for disabled people (Deadline: 27 February)
Competition: Mextrópoli Pavilion 2018, Mexico CitySubscription
Arquine has opened its annual open international contest for a landmark $100,000 MXN temporary pavilion in Mexico City (Deadline: 12 January)
Competition: National Palace, HaitiSubscription
The Republic of Haiti has launched an international contest to rebuild its ruined National Palace in Port-au-Prince (Deadline: 31 October)
Competition: Chattanooga Passageways 2.0Subscription
An international contest has been launched for a series of $80,000 street-art installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee (Deadline: 3 November)
Competition: domestiCITY, AtlantaSubscription
An open international competition has been launched for a prototype 2.9ha affordable housing development on the fringes of Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Deadline: 30 October)
Competition: Indigenous housing, CanadaSubscription
Architects Without Borders (AWB) Canada has announced an international ideas contest for new housing for remote indigenous communities (Deadline: 14 November)
Competition: Shelter 48Subscription
An open international ideas competition has been launched for innovative shelters to house survivors in the 48 hours after a natural disaster (Deadline: 11 November)
Competition: The Reconstruction of CommonsSubscription
An international student ideas contest has been launched to rethink how public spaces are used in urban areas around the world (Deadline: 18 October)
Competition: Ice Breakers, TorontoSubscription
An open international contest has been announced for a series of temporary $15,000 CAD art installations on Toronto’s downtown waterfront (Deadline: 13 October)
Competition: Warming Huts 2018, WinnipegSubscription
The Forks Foundation has reopened its annual international contest for a series of $16,500 (CAN) art installations in Winnipeg, Canada (Deadline: 3 October)
John Portman (1924-2017)Subscription
His hotels may have soft centres but the architecture of John Portman is as brutal as the late American capitalism that created it
Competition: City of Dreams Pavilion, New YorkSubscription
An open international contest has been launched for a pop-up pavilion on Governors Island in New York City (Deadline: 30 September)
Competition: The Next Parkway, PhiladelphiaSubscription
An international ideas contest has been launched for new public realm visions to revitalise the historic city of Philadelphia (Deadline: 27 October)
Iturbide Studio in Mexico City by Taller Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela CarrilloSubscription
Enclosed patios shield this studio from a narrow colonial street in a historic part of Mexico City
Punta Sirena Hotel, Chile by WMR ArquitectosSubscription
The beach hotel usually comports itself in serene and brilliant white curves, borrowing the sleekness of the ocean liner, but the surfing resort of Curanipe in central Chile is a place for less sedentary approaches to the water. In response, WMR Arquitectos have not opted to emulate the quaint traditional buildings of the town, either; their only nod to the vernacular is their use of wood, with eucalyptus and pine filling the black steel frame of their building. This takes the form ...
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