Our weekly wrap-up of new design competitions worth checking out

Beyond Cement: Towards an Alternative Vision for Chekka and Surrounding Towns
Registration Deadline: Tuesday, Oct 15, 2019
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, Jan 14, 2020

As such, this competition is an open call for planners, designers, environmental scientists, agricultural engineers, economists and other professionals to draft an intervention framework, which simultaneously answers the concept of sustainable development and the immediate needs of the people, including job opportunities and a local economy, without compromising their health, the environment and local economic resources.

Crossing The Line That Separates: AIA Phoenix Metro 5th Annual Ideas Competition
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Oct 18, 2019

The Salt River Project Utility Cooperative was created in 1903 to manage the river and did so with a series of reservoirs [Roosevelt, Apache, Canyon and Saguaro]. While this management mitigated flooding, it did not eliminate flooding. It is this potential danger, similar to the LA River, that has lead the Valley to look at The Rio not as a source of abundance, but as hazard. In time, with it’s devaluation, the one time gathering spot was either abandoned or used in a manner that reflected that hazard – dumps, gravel pits, industrial facilities, etc. [...] Today, with a new sense of awareness toward our resources, communities all along The Rio’s edge are looking at in in a whole new way. Many are asking, “What can we do to reclaim this forgotten asset?”

Hollywood Central Park - Student Design Competition
Registration Deadline: Saturday, Nov 2, 2019
Submission Deadline: Friday, Nov 8, 2019

Friends of the Hollywood Central Park (FHCP) is excited to announce an Ideas and Inspiration Event in connection with the development of the Hollywood Central Park - a mile long cap park that covers the 101 Freeway. Architecture, planning and landscape architecture students currently attending a university in Los Angeles county are invited to participate in this regional student design competition.

2020 Liang Sicheng Architecture Prize
Register/Submit Deadline: Thursday, Dec 19, 2019

Named after Chinese architect, professor and scholar Liang Sicheng, the prize is awarded to two architects who have dedicated their careers to the preservation of architectural heritage as well as the development of technological and socially responsible innovation in the field of architecture. The deadline for nominations is December 19.

Open Call: House In Forest 2020 - Wooden House
Registration Deadline: Friday, Jan 31, 2020
Submission Deadline: Saturday, Feb 1, 2020

HOUSE IN FOREST is pleased to announce its 6th annual international design competition: House In Forest 2020 - Wooden House. Entrants are challenged to conceive a new and original concept for wooden house, however not strictly limited to the style of 'full-timbered structure'.

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