Ideas competition for hypothetical national capital
Brisbane Airport Corporation working in association with City Lab is pleased to announce BNE: Making Connections: an architecture and urban design competition for Brisbane Airport that is open to all registered Australian architects.
FROM THE COUNCIL:
2010 entries are now open and will close on 8 October 2010.
2010 marks a change in process whereby most of the entry submission will take place online, with entrants only sending hard copies of 2 x A2 sheets and drawings.
The annual program is open to architects, graduates, students and other built environment professionals. A prize pool of $3000 is offered.
The AA Prize for Unbuilt Work is an Architecture Australia inititaive. The 2010 Prize is presented in partnership with ISIS.
A fascinating look at all of the 46 shortlisted entries for the 1912 competition to design Canberra, provided by the National Archives. Entries by Eliel Saarinen and Berrnard Maybeck are included.
The February 2009 fires in Victoria have re-written the rules about bushfires. Many of the fires registered heat above 1,200 degrees Celsius and wind speeds of more than 120 kph, leaving very little in their wake. This is unprecedented.
The HOUSE re-GROWTH Pod is a permanent and cost effective housing unit which can assist in the rebuilding of the fire devastated town-ships of Victoria. The robust pre-fabricated concrete structure has been designed to be built upon, but in the short term acts as a habitable starting point for the building of a new home.