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The Toronto Public Space Committee is launching a global ideas competition to imagine the future of public washrooms in Toronto. We invite you to propose design ideas for inclusive and innovative public washrooms to help advocate and spread awareness for the urgent need of a robust public washroom network in our city.
The Canadian Academy of Architecture for Justice (CAAJ) invites architecture students to speculate on issues ranging from the influx of highly addictive drugs to the suppression of Indigenous culture to an ever-increasing need for mental health care facilities in a design competition for a new community-oriented building that helps to fill a gap. This involves the selection of a site in a community of the competitor's choice, identification of the specific crisis (or crises) being addressed, and the development of an architectural or urban design solution.
Design submissions will be evaluated by a jury of justice experts, architects and industry professionals. Participants are highly encouraged to explore a wide spectrum of architectural responses from functional and practical at one end to philosophical and social at the other, including ways in which the building integrates into the community, and acts as a catalyst for building positive relationships with the community it serves.
This annual contest for architecture and design students is organized by the CCA in partnership with the Université du Québec à Montréal, the Université de Montréal, and McGill University. Participating teams will have four days to develop a proposal in response to this edition's theme, which will be revealed during the launch on 13 March. The contest is open to all students currently registered in Canadian universities as well as to recent graduates.
The City of Beaconsfield's competition for a new multi-functional cultural center is a multi-disciplinary architectural competition to provide the municipality with an architectural and public development project combining a library and spaces to support cultural activities. The project's construction budget is in the order of $17.3 M, plus taxes, and the total surface area of the main building is in the order of 2,700 m2.
