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City Palace - Udaipur, India by Maharana Udai Singh

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Latest Architecture Design Competitions

PARIS 2009, New Dance School for the Moulin Rouge

Submission deadline: 10/08/2009

Open to: Architects

The “PARIS 2009″ Competition, proposes a reinterpretation of “the new Moulin Rouge”, the most famous cabaret in the world and a symbol of what is an important aspect of Parisian life.

London Bridge 800: Design an Inhabited Bridge

Submission deadline: 25/06/2009
Open to: architects and students of architecture

Old London Bridge was an inhabited bridge and the ideas competition asks today’s designers to imagine a new version of the inhabited bridge to mark the 800th anniversary of the opening of the first London Bridge in 1209AD.

Pamphlet Architecture 30: Investigations in Infrastructure

Submission Deadline: 01/07/2009
Open to: All

At a time of new government leadership committed to investing in the United States’ infrastructure, architects, engineers, and artists should propose new directions for transportation, energy, and agriculture at a continental scale.

Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition

Submission deadline: 03/08/2009
Open to: Architects

This year’s competition is for a new type of community gathering place that should be neither a conventional community center of the type commissioned by local governments, nor a completely informal space of the type that appears spontaneously. It should be a place where residents can gather to meet their fellow citizens and enjoy a richly fulfilling sense of community.

A Red Ribbon for Caltanissetta Square

View of the Great Square of Caltanissetta

Dario Cottone and his firm recently won an international design competition for The Great Square of Caltanissetta (La Grande Piazza di Caltanissetta).

The firm's website describes:
"The elements involved in the architectural creation of the new urban space are: the red ribbon, which generates and characterizes the spatial location of the new city itself becoming an instrument to be used by citizens of Caltanissetta, the needles of light, and for those who report stresses, such as "matches lit in the dark ", the different areas and the seating system, which moves parallel to the tape defining its nature in different areas, the system of green, which interact in a dependent or independent of the tape."