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A Crossroads for the High-Speed Rail City Chicago Architectural Club Burnham Prize The Chicago Architectural Club and the Chicago Humanities Festival announce UNION STATION 2020, an international design ideas competition for the conversion of Chicago’s Union Station into a high-speed rail hub, regional market, and meeting place. This year’s Burnham Prize competition forms part of Burnham 2.0: A Patchwork Plan for Chicago, a composite urban plan that marks the centennial of Burnham and Bennett’s Plan of Chicago . UNION STATION 2020 asks for innovative solutions for the transformation of Union Station into a center of high speed rail traffic and related programs. It is not simply a question of designing an efficient and functional transit hub. How can this intermodal node become more than a mere knot of infrastructure? What role can this project play in the reconfiguration of Chicago’s West Loop and of the city and region? How can an existing landmark building be transformed to a...

A Fundação da Juventude lançou o concurso "Mais Vale Perder um Minuto na Vida do que a Vida num Minuto! Um Desafio de Todos para uma Melhor Prática Rodoviária”. A iniciativa destina-se a estudantes do ensino superior, com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 30 anos, e atribuirá prémios entre 5.000 e 1.500 euros. O concurso nacional "Mais Vale Perder um Minuto na Vida do que a Vida num Minuto! Um Desafio de Todos para uma Melhor Prática Rodoviária” pretende sensibilizar os estudantes do ensino superior para a problemática da Educação, Segurança e Prevenção Rodoviárias, através da elaboração de trabalhos temáticos que perspectivem novas abordagens sobre esta matéria e possibilitem a sua participação activa na identificação de saídas tendentes a diminuir o número de acidentes rodoviários em Portugal e, consequentemente, as mortes nas estradas. A iniciativa dirige-...

Qualified entrants in this year's exciting challenge will compete in one of two categories: student and general/open. The general/open competition is for design engineers, hobbyists, inventors and anyone else who is not a full-time student. Designs will be judged only against designs submitted within the same category. Live EDGE's design requirements for submission are intentionally broad, so as to open the challenge to the widest range of ideas. To enter, your design must be original and innovative, use electric and/or electronic components, and positively impact the environment, such as by increasing energy efficiency or reducing carbon emissions. It is helpful to view a sample entry (pdf 286Kb) and the winning designs from 2007 . Live EDGE competition to create a design for the most innovative product that utilises electronic components and will have a significant positive effect on the environment You can register your design on the website between October 1, 2008 and J...

The Metropolitan Municipality of Quito, the Corporation for Environmental Health “Vida para Quito” and the Architects’ Association of Ecuador – Pichincha Province, are implementing the Open International Competition for Ideas in urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture for the design of Quito´s Lake Park (Parque del Lago). The Competition Site is currently the location of the Mariscal Sucre International Airport, in the cities’ north. The above mentioned Competition seeks to obtain holistic proposals that allow: the reconfiguration of the urban development policies and tendencies of the northern zone, the promotion of urban improvement processes, the solution for the limitations of northern Quito’s transversal connectivity (east – west), the reduction of environmental liabilities, the promotion of the recuperation of the landscape and urban environment, and the generation of well-being and social integration in public spaces. The lau...

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