Exhibit: Free range, London, summer

 

Free Range is an Old Truman Brewery special project set up by Tamsin O’Hanlon to provide new creative graduates with the opportunity to showcase their work on an international level. Since its inception in 2001, Free Range has become the number one platform and launch pad for the next crop of creatives to showcase their work to both public and industry. Attracting visitor numbers to rival the largest art events, the annual Free Range exhibitions present the work of thousands of art, design students in several distinct categories including: fashion, art, graphics, photography and interior design.

Free Range is the best place to spot the latest trends and newest talents.

http://www.free-range.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.pl?yearID=18

COMPETITION: A design competition for Van Alen Institute’s New Street-Level SPace, 13 June 2013

COMPETITION: A design competition for Van Alen Institute’s New Street-Level SPace, 13 June 2013

OVERVIEW

In 2014, Van Alen Institute will celebrate its 120th anniversary, marking a major legacy of competitions and initiatives that bring innovative design ideas to civic life. Over the coming years, the Institute will refocus its attention to analyze, advise on, and activate designs, public policies, and experiences of the public realm. This year, the Institute is making its public-oriented mission central to the reinvention of its own office and event space, transforming the ground floor and lower level of its building at 30 West 22nd Street in Manhattan to house its entire organization.

• ENGAGING THE STREET

  Capitalizing on the dynamic street-level presence created by Van Alen Books — the Institute’s storefront bookstore and event space launched in 2011 — Van Alen will relocate its staff and program area from the sixth floor to a reconfigured ground floor that will function as a light and highly flexible public space accommodating exhibitions, events, offices, and a bookselling platform.

  Van Alen’s legacy as a center for design innovation, bridging architectural education and professional practice, is key to its history and growth as a cultural institution. As it embarks upon a new chapter of design advocacy, Van Alen remains dedicated to critical inquiry surrounding contemporary forms of the public realm through interdisciplinary and innovative competitions, research, consultancy, and curatorial projects in the U.S. and beyond. As the next step in the organization’s development, Ground/Work is an opportunity to reinforce Van Alen’s mission and reframe its programs by integrating all aspects of its operations in a space that is more visible, accessible, and participatory in public life, with a strong connection to the street and the city at large.

• THE COMPETITION

  Ground/Work is an occasion to embrace and support inventiveness in architectural design. Participants will need to work with maximum creativity while observing key constraints. First, designing within a strict budget is not simply encouraged but required, as the Institute consolidates its staff and programs within a smaller footprint. Second, Van Alen’s building is located in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District, and design proposals must adhere to all applicable landmarks regulations and the New York City building code. Third, consideration should be given to green design and energy efficiency, creating a space that is environmentally responsive and sustainable.

  This two-stage competition seeks submissions from designers who are up to ten years out of school. After evaluation by a jury composed of Van Alen Trustees and design professionals, as many as three individual designers or firms will be selected to compete in the second phase of the competition. These finalists will be offered a modest stipend and will have three weeks to develop their designs. Following the jury’s final selection, the winning team will have four months to complete design work and develop construction documents. Construction is expected to begin in winter 2013.

COMPETITION: 15 JULY, First International Architecture Crowdsourcing Contest, MAD PROJECT

COMPETITION: 15 JULY, First International Architecture Crowdsourcing Contest, MAD PROJECT

Mendoza Art District (MAD) is a new and creative concept, an innovative way of understanding art and its relationship to nature. Its aim is to alter our perceptive and creative approach to things.

The Province of Mendoza, Argentina, in South America, has been chosen as the privileged location to launch the first real-estate crowdsourcing project as a tribute to its winemaking heritage.

We are planning to create a unique space, a resort that will enhance the power of its surrounding natural beauty in the stunning setting of the Cordillera de los Andes and the vineyards, in one of theeight wine capitals of the world,. This traditional landscape is an essential spot for any visitor coming to the province.

The most important cities worldwide are recognized and remembered for their symbols. MAD seeks to create a trademark that combines the regional spirit with the spontaneous creations of the global man in order for it to become a representative icon of this wine producing land.

The core of the MAD Project is creative freedom. We are looking to find a radical and disruptive proposal.

The project offers several options for the participation and integration of ideas and it is open to creative people in the fields of Architecture, Design and Art.

Our first task is to organize a contest of architectural ideas and crowd design to build the first stage of the project, which comprises a restaurante, a meeting place and a work of art for both venues.

Welcome to a brand new experience.

Conceptualization

Mendoza, one of the wine capitals of the world, is our source of inspiration for a major project that celebrates its history, nature and culture and that stems from a disruptive and ground-breaking ideato create a space for architectural dialogue and new relationships.

This project represents a promise capable of establishing itself as an icon of a place and as artistic expression in communion with its surroundings. Our mission is to build a resort complex where each person searching for food, accommodation and/or viticultural experience is the protagonist, and where each component offers memorable experiences that evoke pleasant sensations, feelings and thoughts.

http://www.madmendoza.com/pages/conceptualizacion-1365812655

PRIZES

STAGE 1

US$ 1000 to each finalist

The Jury will present 10 (ten) Special Mentions.

STAGE 2

US$ 15,000 to the winning project

(restaurante and meeting place)

Should the jury select 2 (TWO) DIFFERENT PROPOSALS,

US$ 10,000 will be awarded to each of them.

http://www.madmendoza.com/pages/premio-del-concurso