Krammer's derive - on Architecture, Design and Communication

lic cinema suckerPUNCH competition

this open international design ideas competition challenges entrants to create a large scale center to celebrate cinema. movie theaters are currently fighting for a dwindling audience that has been seduced by the access to films at home and online, as well as by advances in television screens and home projection.

2011 Hot Dog Stand Fellowship

Zog’s Dogs (www.zogs-dogs.com), located in Downtown San Francisco, is accepting applications for the 2nd annual artistic fellowship at their restaurant. Zog’s Dogs is a strong supporter of artistic endeavors, and creative proposals that reimagine the hot dog, the restaurant experience, and food in general, are encouraged. Proposals that utilize the company website, or the internet medium in general, are also encouraged.

UNIVERSAL DESIGN COMPETITION

The AIA Young Architects Forum (YAF) and the AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international 2011 YAF/COD Ideas Competition.

In this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore the concept of Universal Design as well as their overlap with values of social and environmental sustainability.

Winners will be announced and will have their work exhibited at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2011 National Convention and Design Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 12-14, 2011. Selected entries will be displayed on the AIA website.

• For Complete Submission Details, Download the 2011 Ideas Competition Call for Entries (PDF)

• View the complete Submission Site Walk Through (PDF)

• Visit the Submission Site to Submit Now!

Find more info on:  http://www.aia.org/professionals/groups/yaf/AIAB086876

Public Design Festival 2011, Milano - Call for projects

Call for projects for Public Design Festival edition 2011 (deadline January, 31st)

We call young designers, architects and project makers from all over the world to submit ideas, projects, solutions and services to work on public space in our city.

After two editions of Duepercinque Competition, the call for projects for Public Design Festival changes its structure. We are not asking for parking lot- size projects anymore (2x5mt), we are looking for site specific projects, to distribute all over the city of Milan, from the city centre to the suburbs. Services, urban furniture and solutions for a better quality urban living. We are looking for projects that may last after the event.

We will concentrate on four main areas of town that we wish to shape with public interventions:

• in Garibaldi, the big empty space of Cavalcavia Bussa
• in Lambrate the unfriendly places near the station and the biggest sheltered open space in town, under the bridge of the ring road in Via Rubattino
• in Porta Romana the open spaces of Cascina Cuccagna, a farmstead from the 18th century in the city centre of Milan
• the square in front of Cadorna Railway Station, heart of the city, place where the audience of Salone del Mobile can meet the people of Milan

Read the call for projects
Read the description of the places