SuburbiaTransformed 3.0

The James Rose Center is pleased to announce its third international Residential Design Competition/Exhibition. of Suburbia Transformed 3.0 is to promote and celebrate residential designs that go beyond “green” by explicitly using sustainable strategies, tactics and technologies to enrich the aesthetic spatial experience of people. ST 3.0 will assemble contemporary projects achieving this goal into a travelling exhibition and catalogue. The emphasis is on how such sustainable landscapes can be beautiful, inspiring, perhaps profound; and serve as examples for transforming the suburban residential fabric, one garden at a time.

DEADLINE
February 18, 2014 Entry Form and fee due

See the Surburbia Transformed 3.0 website for more information.

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Lots of Possibility Design Competition

Louisville Metro Government has launched “Lots of Possibility” Design Competition  to address issues of vacancy, blight and abandonment in its community. There are several thousand vacant lots throughout the city – of which approximately 450 are owned by Metro Government and/or the Landbank Authority, Inc. and available for redevelopment. The objective of this competition is to not only engage the community and solicit innovative, affordable and replicable ideas to return these vacant lots into productive use – but also to provide seed funding to see the ideas through implementation.

DEADLINE
1st Round Entries due: 24 February, 2014

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SLANT design competition | Transition

With this, our fifth SLANT competition you are being invited to submit a design for a public space/park which will be designed to incorporate, in part or in whole, the concept of “Transition” and contestants will be free to interpret this concept as they please.

Transition effect us all most days of our lives and it can be found in many different areas of  our interests and activities. Politics, the Arts, Technology, History, Geography, Geology, Society, Family, Religion… these are just some of the areas that can express and experience transition, but you have a free hand in selecting your own area of interest on which to base your concept and design.

DEADLINE
Closing date for receipt of completed designs is 28 February 2014

Full details on www.slant.eu

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WORLD LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE is NOT associated with the organisation, running, or judging of these competitions. Any questions should be sent to competition organisers

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SUBMITTING A COMPETITION

Submit your competition to [email protected]