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May 2013: June Callwood Park (Toronto, 2008), to embody or pay tribute?

Toronto’s June Callwood Park Design Competition, organized in 2008, was an exercise in the redevelopment of a public community space, relaying June Callwood’s philosophy as well as dedicating the new park to her. The death in 2007 of this journalist, fervent activist, and militant of social justice left the Torontonian community grieving. The decision to honour her became the central theme of the design competition. June Callwood Park is part of a series of design competitions that target revaluing the area as well as evolving the Toronto cityscape. Can a park both embody and honour the ideas of such a personality?

editorial : Konstantina Theodosopoulos

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United States	San Francisco Fire Department Headquaters	Registration: 15-07-201 Submission: 31-07-2013	San Francisco today has one of the most prestigious and well equipped fire departments of the United States and the world. However, the department misses a central station from where one can coordinate all operations and act on those operations which require special equipment that are not available at every station, such as helicopters, boats, hydraulic presses for release victims of traffic accidents, etc. ARCHmedium proposes the creation of this fire station for the city of San Francisco that serves not only to centralize and improve the service but also as a gift and token of appreciation from the city to this department.

China	HYP CUP 2013 International Student Competition in Architectural Design: Architecture must disappear	Registration: 30-06-2013 Submission: 15-08-2013	Participants are invited to contribute their response to the radical statement “Architecture must disappear”, a reflection that imagines solutions in face of new Situations. One of the commitments of an architect is to overwhelm the observable escalation in the production of contemporary architecture by introducing new situations, dialectic situations and experiences, between inside and outside, free and available spaces in-between what is public and what is private. Competitors can choose the site for their proposal, of a maximum built surface area of 4 000 m2.

South Korea	Vertical Farm & Botanical Garden Skyscraper - Seoul	Registration & Submission: 16-08-2013	The program challenges participants to design a NEW Urban Vertical Farm and Botanical Gardens Skyscraper in Seoul City that takes into today's ever-increasing urban growth, consumption in populated cities. The design should be visually and aesthetically engaging and investigates the possibilities for urban Vertical farming communities.

Belgium	International Gastronomic Center	registration: 24-05-2013 Submission: 14-06-2013	The objective of the current International Gastronomic Center competition for architecture students is the creation of a space for cultural exchange through gastronomy.

United States	The Micro House Ideas Competition	Registration: 1-06-2013 Submission: 9-06-2013	Members of the DENVER ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE invite you to share your ideas on the design of a new housing typology, an 8 unit micro housing complex. The site, located near 3457 Ringsby Court, is across from the entrance into Denver’s well known TAXI community (www.taxibyzeppelin.com) and provides an opportunity for designers to explore and celebrate the following: Entrance identity for the TAXI Community / Public access to the river for recreation / Affordable housing design / Modularity and prefabrication / etc.

Canada	Sukkahville Design Competition	Registration: 15 May 2013 // Submission: 17 June 2013	Kehill Residential Programme invites architects, students, artists, builders and allied design professionals to submit design proposals for the third annual Sukkahville Design Competition. The aim of this open competition is to design a temporary, free-standing Sukkah to be built in Mel Lastman Square in Toronto for the holliday of Sukkot. We encourage you to re-imagine the traditional notion of Sukkah, with a contemporary design language and approach.

Australia	Gold Coast Cultural Precinct	Regristration: 15 April 2013 // Submission: 06 May 2013	The competition held by the city council of Gold Coast aims to design a landmark cultural ‘heart and soul’ on 11 hectares of the stunning Evandale site on Australia’s Gold Coast.

Italy	SMART HARBOUR	Regristration: 16 june 2013 // Submission 24 june 2013	YAC [Young Architects Competitions] invites to redesign an old dismissed harbor area in a play-area that can take advantage of the particular situation between the sea and the city. The aim is to offer tourists and citizens a modern and appealing wellness and entertainment centre.

United States	SixtyNine Seventy Competition	Registration: March 23, 2013	SixtyNine Seventy invites design teams from around the world to re-envision the circulation areas and passages of two blocks in Salt Lake City’s downtown. The entrants will prepare comprehensive ideas for these in-between spaces, developing them into the connective tissue linking the area’s cultural amenities.

China	Arcology SkyScraper - HONG KONG	Submission: April 15, 2013	The program challenges participants to design a NEW Arcology Skyscraper in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China. The design should create a new iconic Arcology skyscraper in the city.

United States	Call for Ideas: "Transportation KC" at Science City	Registration : February 25, 2013	Redesign the Rail Experience in Kansas City’s science center – Science City, to become “Transportation KC.”

Canada	GREEN LINE . Ideas Competition	Submission: 11 February 2013	This design competition aims to demonstrate the potential of the particular hydro corridor site and also to foster a discussion on public use of other similar spaces in North American cities. Imagine the electricity infrastructure as a Green Line -- a pedestrian and cycling link across the middle of the city and a public space and recreational amenity to the many neighbourhoods across Toronto that it links. (From the official web site)

Canada		Inscr.: 15 Fev 2013 Soum.:15 March 2013

United States	New Ocean Platform Prison	Inscr.:18 Fev. 2013 Soum.: 22 Fev. 2013	The aim of this International Competition is to design a New Prison afloat the Pacific Ocean, using an oil Platform as a reference structure. The design of this new Platform will include all the facilities a prison may need including cells, exercise yard, etc.. with a design that still facilitates human rights within the deemed confinement. (From the competition's web site)

Canada	Competition for the 14th International Garden Festival	Reg.: Nov 9, 2012 Sub.: Nov. 9, 2012	The International Garden Festival is preparing its 14th edition and is issuing an international call for proposals to create the new temporary gardens that will be presented from June 21 to September 29, 2013.

Italy	Green Boulevards: Parkways for the Third Millennium	Reg.: Nov. 2 2012 Sub.: Nov 15 2012	The design and cultural challenge proposed to participants is that of utilising networks of mobility to create new forms of land art or environmental art at the service of energy.

United States	Unbuilt Visions: International Design Competition	Reg.: Nov. 1 2012 Sub.: Nov. 15 2012	The competition provides an opportunity to engage with architecture, urbanism, interiors, and designed objects at the conceptual stage.

Canada	Sukkahville: a design competition	Reg.: June 1st 2012 Sub.: August 1st 2012	The aim of this open competition is to design a temporary, free-standing Sukkah to be built in Mel Lastman Square in Toronto on the eve of the holiday of Sukkot.

Canada	100 Mile House Open Ideas Competition	Reg. april 19th 2012, Sub. april 26th 2012	The competition invites participants to explore, rethink, question and experiment with new ideas that will challenge the concept of the regional house and the way we live.

International	[un]restricted access from military space to civic space	Reg. april 15th 2012, Sub. may 1st 2012	Architecture for Humanity is hosting a design competition that will re-envision the future of decommissioned military space. This is an open invite to the global design and construction community.

International	International VELUX Award 2012	Reg. march 1st 2012, Sub. may 7th 2012	The International VELUX Award encourages students of architecture to explore the theme of sunlight and daylight in its widest sense to create a deeper understanding of this specific and ever relevant source of light and energy.

Finland	Bullhorn - Cembrit Design Competition Helsinki	Reg. january 15 2012, Sub. january 15 2012	The organizers invite participants to think about transit areas and the challenges they provide. The Malmi station area in Helsinki has been selected to represent transit areas as the context for generating ideas.

United States	d3 Housing Tomorrow 2011	Reg. January 6 2012, Sub. January 20 2012	The d3 Housing Tomorrow competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects.

United States of America	Nashua International Design Competition	Reg. and Sub.: January 11, 2012	The Nashua International Design Competition was initiated and organized by people interested in the success of the Broad Street Parkway and the rebirth of the Nashua Millyard. This interdisciplinary competition seeks solutions to the complex challenges of the project.

Canada	re:CONNECT an open ideas competition	Reg. november 2nd 2011 Sub. november 4th 2011	re:CONNECT invites the citizens of Vancouver, to join with local and international designers to ignite discussion and dream new possibilities for the future of the Viaducts and the City's broader Eastern Core.

United-States	"Re-Shape History" Atlanta History Center Competition	Reg. July 18th 2011 Sub. August 22nd 2011	The time has come for the Atlanta History Museum to make its own leap forward and to secure new footing as the link between Atlanta’s past, present, and future. As such, the facility is seeking a physical transformation that will create a form suited to its timeless function. The Atlanta History Center seeks to re-shape its museum, to design a space that underscores the continuity between yesterday and today.

Canada	YUL-MTL: Moving Landscapes International Ideas Competition	Reg. August 26th 2011 Sub. October 7th 2011	The Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at University of Montreal (CPEUM) is launching an international urban design ideas competition for the gateway corridor linking Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to its downtown area (MTL) along Autoroute 20.

Brazil	INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR THE GENERAL URBAN PLAN OF THE RIO 2016 OLYMPIC PARK	Reg. may 2nd to july 28th	The Brazilian Institute of Architects of Brazil/Rio de Janeiro (IAB/RJ) has sign an additional partnership with the City Government of Rio de Janeiro for the International Public Competition for the Rio 2016 Olympic Park’s General Urban Plan. After the Olympic Games, new real-estate ventures will be built along the permanent sporting equipment and installations forming an area that will be a benchmark in planning and sustainability of the city.

USA	3d Natural Systems	Reg. July 15, 2011	The d3 Natural Systems competition for 2011 invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, interiors, and designed objects.

England	[LONDON] Olympic Games Information Pavilion	Reg. June 15, 2011	The aim of this International competition is to design a temporary, freestanding information pavilion within the world famous Trafalgar Square in the Heart of London during the 2012 Games. (Note: This competition is not affiliated in any way with the official London Olympic Games)

Russia	Changing the Face: Competition to Redesign Pushkinsky Cinema in Moscow	Sub. May 15, 2011	Redesigning the Pushkinsky Cinema Hall, is a chance to give this theater a design befitting its position at the center of Russia’s cultural life.

United States	Call for Submissions: Thresholds 40 "Socio—"	Sub : March 28th 2011	Thresholds 40 invites projects, ideas, and beliefs in a variety of media, including scholarly papers, visual work, and philosophical treatises, that explore the dangerous and messy theme of the socially conscious project.

United States	Global Design Competition: Redesign the Globe Cafe in Seattle	Sub : March 15th 2011	The Global Design Competition is open to individuals and organizations world-wide and aims to collect a broad variety of design solutions for low carbon restaurants by any means possible, including but not limited to reduction in the need for electricity, food product choices, localized power generation and waste energy capture and reuse.

United States	Detroit : By Design	Sub : March 14th 2011	A competition addressing shrinkage by focusing on three themes (transportation, urban centers, and urban agriculture), and by exchanging ideas and sharing our experiences with cities facing similar problems.

Canada	The International Garden Festival of Métis	Sub.: november 12th 2010	The International Garden Festival, presented at the Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens in the Gaspésie region of Quebec, is preparing its 12th edition and is issuing an international call for proposals to select designers who will create temporary gardens on the theme of the secret.

Canada	Warming Huts	Sub.: october 18th 2010	The design teams are challenged to push the envelope of design and art. The huts are to provide a space for skaters, skiers and strollers to put on their equipment, or simply to rest.

United States	L'école de demain - Concours d'architecture étudiant	Reg.: october 18th 2010	Elementary schools have simple programmatic requirements and allow for tremendous creativity within the design solution. The challenge comes in making a building that functions in the simplest way possible for the young minds of children, provides a modern workplace for the teachers and staff and promotes the spirit of its community.

Indonesia	Bali Marine Research Center	Sub.: July 1st	Competition that encourage the participants to demonstrate how, through architecture, a symbiosis can be achieved between science and art, between landscape and technology.

United Kingdom	Integrated Habitats Design Competition 2010	Sub.: june 30 2010	Design competition that seeks inspiring and innovative designers who emphasise the value of biodiversity and nature in our surroundings.

United Arab Emirates	Land Art Generator Initiative	Sub.: june 4 2010	develop and construct Land Art or Environmental Art installations that have the added benefit of large scale clean energy generation.

Italy	Rome City Vision	Sub.: june 2 2010	Develop visionary urban proposals with the intention of stimulating and supporting the contemporary city, in this case Rome. Through innovative ideas and methodologies which can improve the connection between the historical, present, and future city.

France	New Nomad Habitats	Reg.: june 30 2011	Realization of contemporary nomad habitats.

Canada	Exterior lighting	Sub.: april 30 2010	Develop innovative lighting concepts within the context of an exterior public space.

Canada	Écologez 2010	Reg.: march 5 2010	Competition of integrated design for a green building with a multidisciplinary design 'charrette'.

Poland	Museum of the Second World War Design Competition	Reg.: march 26 2010	Development of the architectural conceptual design, intended to become a new identity landmark of the City of Gdansk.

Canada	GREEN SHED	Reg.: march 19 2010	Pandora Park Community Garden Design Competition that will showcase sustainable building strategies and materials.

Canada	Redesigning of the area around champ-de-mars métro station	Reg.: jan 15 2010	The purpose of the competition is to solicit explorations and illustrations of a variety of development concepts made possible by the planned covering of the Ville-Marie expressway and the potential reconfiguration of its exit ramps.

France	The Urban Center and its Accessibility to All	Sub.: apr 12 2010	It's a recurring competition, each year the Seminaire Robert Auzelle launches a theme regarding an urban topic, this year it's "the accessibility of the urban center".

Canada	Competition of ideas on the Saint-Paul d’Aylmer church	Reg.: jan 30 2010	Reconstruction from existing walls of the Saint-Paul d'Aylmer church, gutted the june 11 2009.

Canada	Ryerson Post-Secondary International Student Housing Competition	Reg.: oct 30th 09	An international competition for the design of an exemplary, state-of-the-art university residence building. Submissions are sought from students enrolled in schools of architecture and the allied disciplines.

United States	2010 USITT Student "Ideal Theatre" Competition	Reg.: nov 20 09	"What is the Ideal Theatre for teaching professional theatre"?

Canada	11th International garden festival	Reg.: nov 6 09	Create temporary gardens for the site of Les Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens.

Taiwan	Taipei Pop Music Center International Competition	Reg.: oct 19 09	A large pop music performing center in northern Taiwan with outdoor performing plaza and relevant measures.

Canada	Student Competition for the Design of a University Residence Building	Reg.: Oct 16 09	International competition for the design of an exemplary, state-of-the-art university residence building.

Canada	What Could a School of Architecture Be?	sub: May, 1 - Oct. 10 09	Student ideas competition on the qualities of an Architecture School

France	Paris 2009, a dance school for Moulin Rouge	reg.: July 31, 2009	The design of a new space incorporating the latest tendencies for the danse school and all its installations.

Canada	MUSÉE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUÉBEC, New Pavilion	competition launch: June 15, 2009	International Architecture Competition for the expansion of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec to ensure a better urban integration and appreciation of collections.

USA	AIA 2009 Ideas Competition. The American Institute of Architects Committee on Design	reg; Feb 13th 2009	Design a new house to replace the recently demolished Raymond House, the first true Modern house in New England, and one of the earliest in the United States. Submissions to this competition must follow the same program as the original house, interpret the ideals of Modernism, and follow guidelines for sustainable design.

Great-Britain	Caring for Older People International Student Design Competition. RIBA & DWA Architects	reg. March 2nd 2009	The objective of this competition is to seek ideas from you as to how you think the care home of the future may look. There are no restrictions, for instance, your submission may consider the larger design issues or maybe the smaller ones, or all of them.

France	Be-TWIN Ideas competition	deadline April 15th 2009	EcologiK and "Architectures à vivre" journals along with GDF/Suez, Hager announces the Be-TWIN ideas competition. Two town houses and a bookshop with a very low ecological footprint and a neutral energetic balance.

Japan	FOUR SQUARE HOUSE	nov. 28th 2008	Shinkenchiku International Residential Competition 2008 (Chair Rafael Moneo). Four Square House Design Problem: Homage to John Hejduk

Canada	THINK TORONTO	sept. 22nd 2008	Think Toronto : An urban design ideas competition for the next generation of city builders. Spacing magazine invites people — 35 years old or younger — with creative ideas on how to improve Toronto’s public space to take part in thinkToronto, an urban design ideas competition that will help celebrate the magazine’s 5th anniversary in December 2008.

Switzerland	RESEARCH DESIGN COMPETITIONS	now on line	How many school projects have been published in recent years? Who produces the most competitions in Switzerland? Find an answer in this database designed by scholars at ETH (Zurich)and by the Société des ingénieurs et des architectes suisses (SIA). Free of charge!

Japan	AKICHIATLAS	now on line	L.E.A.P is pleased to welcome the new japonese website (also in english) on international competitions. (Registered users only)

Italy	International Ideas Competition for Students	deadline : march 27th 2008	In the framework of the UIA Congress Turin 2008. Based on the congress theme, Transmitting architecture, competitors are invited to design a TOTEM, an architectural object for communication, information and exchange to be located in one of the following three types of environment: a social context: poverty; a natural context: ecology; an urban context: metropolis.

Italy	International Ideas Competitions : Infopoint for the UIA congress, Torino	deadline : march 11th 2008	Open to young architects under 35 to design an infopoint in Torino during the International Union of Architects meeting.

Netherlands	International architectural design competition for the construction of the permanent premises for the International Criminal Court - ICC - in The Hague	registration : april 1st 2008	20 teams will be selected to design proposals for an exceptional program on an exceptional site (72000m2).

United States	San Francisco Fire Department Headquaters	Registration: 15-07-201 Submission: 31-07-2013	San Francisco today has one of the most prestigious and well equipped fire departments of the United States and the world. However, the department misses a central station from where one can coordinate all operations and act on those operations which require special equipment that are not available at every station, such as helicopters, boats, hydraulic presses for release victims of traffic accidents, etc. ARCHmedium proposes the creation of this fire station for the city of San Francisco that serves not only to centralize and improve the service but also as a gift and token of appreciation from the city to this department.

China	HYP CUP 2013 International Student Competition in Architectural Design: Architecture must disappear	Registration: 30-06-2013 Submission: 15-08-2013	Participants are invited to contribute their response to the radical statement “Architecture must disappear”, a reflection that imagines solutions in face of new Situations. One of the commitments of an architect is to overwhelm the observable escalation in the production of contemporary architecture by introducing new situations, dialectic situations and experiences, between inside and outside, free and available spaces in-between what is public and what is private. Competitors can choose the site for their proposal, of a maximum built surface area of 4 000 m2.

South Korea	Vertical Farm & Botanical Garden Skyscraper - Seoul	Registration & Submission: 16-08-2013	The program challenges participants to design a NEW Urban Vertical Farm and Botanical Gardens Skyscraper in Seoul City that takes into today's ever-increasing urban growth, consumption in populated cities. The design should be visually and aesthetically engaging and investigates the possibilities for urban Vertical farming communities.


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