New Competition! - ELES

So the new Slovenian competition is for Elektro Slovenija (ELES), a "state-owned electricity transmission company of Slovenia. It is an only power transmission system operator in Slovenia." [wikipedia].

It's for their new business complex in Baricevo, which is here:

There's a bunch of competition material which I'll upload but in the meantime this is probably the most useful of the briefs:

http://familyarchitects.com/public/FAMILY_ELES_C_PROJECT_TASK.pdf

Kaohsiung Port Competition

This could be a good competition to do after the pool booklet is done and while we are shopping it around.

We would have to team up with a licensed architect.
The competition website doesnt seem to be working yet (bad sign?) but keep checking.

Port of Kaohsiung Passenger Transport District: Port and Cruise Service Center

Category: International
Type: Open, two-stage
Registration Deadline: 08/30/2010
Submission Deadline: 08/30/2010
Open To: Licensed Architects
Entry Fee: None
Awards: US $50,000 each 2nd stage finalist, design commission to winner
Jury: Hitoshi Abe, Maximiliano Fuksas, Hisao Kohyama, Shengfong Lin, Victor Y. Su, Yuan L. Tsai and Minghung Wang
Email: barry-cheng@umail.hinet.net
Website: http://www.pncsc.com.tw

More info at Death By Architecture

Europan Entries Are Online

http://www.europan.no/E10

Go to Trondheim / Entries.

Results will be announced January 18th.

Maribor General Maps

Drava River Competition

In Maribor, Slovenia

From the site:

The Municipality of Maribor, together with the Union of Architects of Maribor and under supervision of UIA and ZAPS (Slovenian Chamber for Architecture and Spatial Planning), calls for :
The international, public, anonymous, single-stage architectural ideas competition for the arrangement of the river Drava area in the central part of the city. The aim of the competition is to acquire the most suitable proposal/outline scheme for the central stage of the European Capital Of Culture - Drava river 2012, Maribor and for urban regeneration of the city in the next twenty years.

The design solution is divided in three competition areas (GROUPS):

1. The embankment of river Drava between the Water tower and the Judgment tower on the left bank, and the natural Embankment of the river in the area between the Studenška brv (footbridge) and the railway bridge on the right bank of the river;
2. The most suitable design project solution of a footbridge across the river Drava;
3. The most suitable design project solution for the new building of the Maribor Art Gallery.

REGISTER: January 4, 2010 / 150 EUR
DUE: February 26, 2010
PRIZE: 30,000 - 40,000 EUR

Dallas Boards

Lots of good stuff here, son. Just needs to get polished up.

Failed Athens

This didn't work out so well, at least not for the project we were designing for, so scrapped it a few days before the submission and went camping instead.

Eilat Boards

The final boards for Eilat as prepared by HQ and dudes.

Dallas Peaks

We are totally lagging on posting our submission to the Dallas Re:Vision competition that ended a few months ago. Its a good project (haha aren't they all!) and I think we actually managed to solve the task of providing for 100% of the site's energy. It's very hard to do! Covering a building in grass or vegetables does not, surprisingly, fix the earth.

Hot air balloons on the other hand. I mean, global warming->more hot air->more balloons, right?. Im pretty sure that's how it works.

Eilat City Hall

We just finished a city hall project in Israel that we worked on with HQ / Erez Ella and friends. We didn't win, though um coincidentally a local architect who used to be partners with the head judge did. Competitions are the best! (they are not the best).