OK, sorry got to this one a bit late. The Boral Design Award 2012 is now open. The brief is to repurpose an existing city-fringe commercial building into a small mixed-use or medium density residential development. The existing building is basically a standard brick box, so the possibilities seem quite interesting.
If you want to give it a go, you had better hurry. Entries close 1st March!
The Boral Design Award 2011/2012 is now open, with a focus on adaptive reuse. The concept of the competition is to investigate ways of repurposing existing urban fringe commercial units into medium density residential or mixed-use developments. The $34 000 prize pool will be shared across three categories – Professional, Emerging Professional and Student.
Entries are due March 1, 2012.
For more info check out www.designawards.boral.com.au
You can vote for the winner of the People’s Choice Award as part of the Australian Timber Design Awards here. The entries are all listed on the front page without the archtects name, so its anonymous. There are some beautiful buildings in there – vote now!
For those like me who are super jealous of the winners of the Dulux Study Tour who are having an amazing jaunt around Europe, you can now follow their adventures via their blog. blog
They are in Barcelona at the moment, and must be nearly at the end of their adventure.
Happy travels. I assume the Perth delegate Carly Barrett will let us know about her journey soon.
The Advantage Foundation, assisted partly by a grant from the Waste Authority’s Community Grants Scheme, has established the RetroBuild Competition where four teams of uni students and tradies will join forces to upgrade four Perth homes to make them more sustainable. The homes will then be sold with all profits going to a charity. The four houses are currently building identified and the competition should begin in October. I’m hoping there will be some professional input from architects, as there are many of us who have experience in retrofitting existing buildings for sustainability and it would be great to see this recognised, and utilised.
Design Against the Elements is a global architecture and urban planning competition to design a new disaster-relief community. Inspired by recent climatic catstophes, specifically tropical storm Ondoy (Ketsana) in the Philippines. The design will include disaster-resistant housing and community facilities which concentrate on the triple-bottom line to create a more equitable future. The winning entry will get built as a prototype eco-village in Minila. Sounds like an interesting competition…registrations close September 24.
