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Immortal Architecture |
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Open, International
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Registration Deadline:
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11/03/2012
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Submission Deadline:
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11/03/2012
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Open to:
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All
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Entry Fee:
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GBP4 |
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First Prize is accumulated from a portion of the entry money
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Jury:
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Tesseract
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With tight budgets and the need for quick profits most architectural projects are driven to compromise on quality and workmanship. The buildings may pull in the money today, but in 20 or 30 years what will they be like? We are in an age where we see huge developments which are just a few decades old being torn down because they aren’t fit for use any more or are publicly considered to be an eyesore, and new buildings are given predicted lifespans which many of us will outlive.
The best sustainable humanitarian projects are those which can equip communities to become self sufficient, continuing to reach out to people for generations.
We are asking you to design a building with an extremely long lifespan. The design must meet some special social need in its setting - in keeping with our interest in humanitarian architecture and design. You may want to consider how materials decay and erode over time and how this is managed or even encouraged, and how your design will remain useful and significant in centuries and perhaps millennia to come. What story will your design tell to future generations?
These competitions are pitched to get you to explore and discuss humanitarian issues, and to us that is the most important thing here. A chunk of your entry money will be going to Save the Children’s East Africa Appeal, so that your design, however abstract and absurd, will be giving a future generation a better chance.
Competition website: http://tesseractcompetitions.com/current/
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