Summer is a great time to spend your valuable free time thinking about why you shouldn't be doing prison work, the best was to display art in Calgary next year, how to make that damn life jacket just a bit more comfortable and just what to do about an abandoned, hundred story reinforced concrete pyramid in North Korea. Somewhere in your Keitai City lifestyle there must be a competition for you.

A selected list of available competitions with final submittal dates.

 

 

 

30 August 2005
  Ryugyong Hotel
In the capital of North Korea (Pyongyang), there is a 105 story (330m high), reinforced concrete hotel that was never quite finished... (read more)
 
   
30 August 2005
Prison Design Boycott Campaign
Sponsored by the ADPSR (Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility), this competition imagines a poster that speaks to architects, specifically telling them that accepting prison work is not helping make the US prison system any better... (read more)
   
1 September 2005
PeepShow 2006
This year (or more accurately, next year) Artcity in Calgary is all about TRANSarchitecture (apparently all you have to do there is to think of any word that starts with trans and then capitalize it)... (read more)
   
7 September 2005
Revitalization of Gwangbok Street and PIFF Plaza, Busan
There is a fee for entering this one ($80 USD), but also a nice prize ($30,000 USD) if you win. The competition calls for a revitalization of a historic street in Busan, including reconfigurations, street furniture, public art, new facades and signage... (read more)
   
26 September 2005
DoCoMo International Design Competition: Keitai City
Imagine a world where everyone is always connected to work and life by an omnipresent cell phone, now imagine that cell phone is called a keitai... (read more) 
   

19 September 2005

IAAC Self Sufficient Housing
You might want to think about entering this one. All you have to do is come up with a great idea for sustainable housing... (read more)  
   
15 December 2005
Life Jacket Design Competition
The US Boat Owners Association is looking for a better life jacket and who is to say that you're not the one to design it... (read more)
 
     
 
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Competing Globally in Architecture Competitions
by G. Stanley Collyer
(2004) Academy Press

If you're entering all those competitions and still trying to win, then maybe it's time to give this book a try....
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