The 2010 World Architecture Festival will take place in Barcelona from 3-5 November 2010 featuring 5 awards sections, 42 categories and covering 100+ building types.

WAF 2010 is now accepting entries. Visit the WAF 2010 Website to find out more about the awards and download the comprehensive entry guide for more detailed information

New for 2010
World Architecture Festival has teamed up with the organisers of the Art and Work Awards to introduce a new award aimed at encouraging and celebrating the relationship between art and architecture.

Any scheme designed to display art of any sort should be entered for the WAF Awards in the normal way, but will automatically be entered for this additional award (at no extra cost).

All entries will be exhibited and all shortlisted entrants will present their work live at the festival in front of world class architect judges which include this year include the famous Japanese architect Arata Isozaki leading the Super Jury plus Barry Bergdoll, John Patkau, Matthias Sauerbruch, Stefan Benisch and Kjetil T Thorsen.

This competition concerns the development of the architectural conceptual design of the building to house the Museum of the Second World War in Gdask, intended to become a new identity landmark of the City of Gdask, and the conceptual site landscape design commensurate with the nature, status, and location of the site.

The purpose of this competition is to arrive at the architectural concept of the building to house the Museum of the Second World War in Gdask, appended with the site landscape design, that will be best in terms of its city-planning, architectural, functional, aesthetic, and operational aspects, and recognise the site’s nature, status, and location, and to obtain recommendations from the competition jury with respect to awarding the public contract to the winner of the competition.

Timeframe:
26 Jan ‘10- Competition announcement
26 Mar ‘10- Submission of the requests to participate in the competition
29 Mar ‘10 - Opening of the requests to participate in the competition
6 Apr ‘10 - Notification of qualification for participation in the competition and
invitation to submit the entries
13 Aug ‘10 - Submission of the competition entries
1 Sep ‘10 - Resolution of the competition, publication of the competition results

Awards
Total value of awards: 200,000 EUR
1st prize: 80,000 EUR

The competition participant whose entry is awarded the first prize by the competition jury shall further be awarded with the invitation to participate in the public contract award proceedings to be held under the single-source procurement procedure and concern detailed elaboration of the competition entry, consisting in the development of the design documentation (i.e. the building design appended with the site landscape design and the comprehensive construction design) for the Museum of the Second World War.

The awarding entity shall award the prize money to maximum three competition entries; it can also award pecuniary distinctions.

Competition language
The Competition shall be held in the Polish language.
The Requests to Participate in the Competition and the declarations from the Competition Participants shall be submitted in the Polish language.
The Competition Entries shall be produced in the Polish language, though their submission in the English language shall be permissible.

The Regulations of the Architectural Competition together with all the appendices are available in English.

For more information please visit the competition website.

Architectural Travel Fellowship

Applications are invited for the Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship for Study at the British School at Rome. The Fellowship was set up in memory of the architectural historian and critic Giles Worsley who died in cancer in 2006 at the age of 44.

Each year the fellowship is awarded to an architect or architectural historian, who will spend three months (October to December) at the British School at Rome studying an architectural topic of their choice. The proposed project should be an end in itself rather than a means to an end. Travel, accommodation and board and a monthly stipend on £700 will be provided. Each fellow will be required to deliver a public presentation on their return.

Applications are invited for the 2010-11 Fellowship. Applicants must have British nationality or have been living and studying in Britain for at least the last three years. Normally applications should have recently completed a post-graduate qualification. Please apply by January 31st 2010 to:

The Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship
British School at Rome
c/o The British Academy
10 Carlton Terrace
LONDON
SW1Y 5AH

Please enclose a CV, a statement of 5-700 words indicating the subject of your proposal and your suitability for the Fellowship and the names and addresses (including email) of two referees. Please ask the referees to send a reference in support of the application to the same address by the same date.

Applications will be considered by a panel consisting of a RIBA representative, a British School representative and one other, appointed by Giles' family. Their decision will be announced at the end of March 2010.

Your incomplete projects could be exhibited at MIPIM, The International Property Market in March 2010. With just 2 weeks left to send in your entries for the 2010 Mipim AR Future Projects Awards, make sure you don’t miss out on this opportunity to see your designs on an international stage.

The MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards are for unbuilt or incomplete projects spanning across eight categories. The awards have been running since 2002 and take place at MIPIM, the international property market, which will attract over 20,000 delegates to Cannes between 16-19 March, 2010.

With a strong focus on creativity, these awards are a chance to showcase schemes that are examples of fine architecture, but have also responded to the clients development brief, and considered the way in which they will impact and contribute to the community around them. With architectural awards and recognition commonly focusing on current projects and designs, the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards provide a unique and exciting perspective.

The awards offer an unrivalled opportunity for exposure as all entries are exhibited at MIPIM and published in the official MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project catalogue, which is distributed to all MIPIM delegates on registration in Cannes. Winning entries will be presented at a prestigious ceremony.

To enter:
1. Go to www.mipimarfutureprojects.com
2. Choose your category and read the criteria
3. Register your details to generate a unique reference number
4. Send in your entry before the closing date of 20 November 2009.

The Saltire Society Housing Awards, Scotland’s oldest housing awards scheme, has announced its 2009 winners at a ceremony at Glasgow’s Lighthouse on 10th November 2009.

Architecture and Design Scotland Chairman Raymond Young presented plaques to this year’s two greatly contrasting winning projects: the multi-million pound ‘Quartermile’ redevelopment of Edinburgh’s old Royal Infirmary site by ‘Armadillo’ architects Foster and Partners; and a more modest private house in rural Dumfries and Galloway by Simon Winstanley Architects.

The short-listed projects for 2009 were (in practice alphabetical order):
 
New housing, Straiton, Ayrshire (ARPL Architects);
“Quartermile” Phase One, Edinburgh (Foster and Partners);
Residential Care Home, Bingham Dr., Edinburgh (Ian Springford Architects); 
Sycamore House, West Linton (ICOSIS Architects);
Pollock Street, Mossend (Lanarkshire Housing Assoc); 
New Housing at Lasswade Road, Edinburgh (Lee Boyd Architects); 
Mews Cottage Development, Glasgow (Michael Gilmour Associates); 
MacIver House, Evanton (Neil Sutherland Architects); 
Affordable Coastal Housing, Gunsgreenhil (Oliver Chapman Architects); 
Moore Street Housing, Glasgow (Richard Murphy Architects);
Black Shed, Dunvegan, Skye (Rural Design); 
Bank Street, Plockton (Rural Design); 
Deepstone, Portling (Simon Winstanley Architects);
Mitchell Street, Leith (Smith Scott Mullan Associates);
Bolstyle Road, Kirkmichael (Thomson Dawes incorporating the Alistair Murdoch Partnership);  
Extension to house, Newhaven Rd, Edinburgh (W T Architecture).

There wa an obvious emphasis on sustainability throughout this year’s entry, with a full suite of private and commercially developed housing and innovative master-planning represented.

For further information visit the Saltire Society website.

The 2007 award was made to University of Strathclyde. The award will be made to three Fourth Year students selected for the study the architecture of public buildings. The first award was made to Eilidh Henderson, Martin Tarnawski and Andy McKewan to support their trip to Chile for the first semester of 5th year. SCALA asked the students to provide a report on the building of their study and prepare a brief article for inclusion in the SCALA magazine.

SCALA are hopeful that this award will help to raise the awareness of the importance of high quality public buildings and to forge close links between the public and private sectors.

In accepting the award Prof. Gordon Murray, Head of the School of Architecture, said, "We welcome this new award and commend SCALA for their support. It is important that the profession in all its facets supports the development of talented students-tomorrows architects. This award is also an opportunity to focus on both the work of local authority architecture departments, at one time the major employer of that talent, and their continued contribution to Scotland's built environment."

More info: www.scala.org.uk