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Design Competition: The Leading Edge Student Design CompetitionThe Leading Edge Student Design Competition seeks to support and enhance the study of sustainable and energy-efficient building practices in Architectural Education.Now in its 13th year, they invite students and instructors of Architecture and Design to use the competition as a framework to explore the use of new materials and strategies for building, and the integration of aesthetics and technology for high-performing, cutting edge architecture.
International Bamboo Building Design CompetitionBamboo Technologies of Maui has launched the first International Design Competition for Structural Bamboo Buildings.Some of the winning entries will be chosen for manufacture by the world's premier builder of international building code approved bamboo homes.The competition is open to architects, builders, designers and students anywhere in the world.See Also National Design AwardBoora:BOORA Architects Win National Design AwardBOORA Architects, the design firm for the Arts of Collin County performance hall, has received its first Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture from the American Institute of Architects (AIA).The honor was awarded to BOORA for its design of an innovative temporary theater for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's (PICA) second annual Time-Based Art (TBA) festival held in September 2004.
BOORA Architects has a long resume of notable cultural arts design experience, most recently the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona; the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Mondavi Center for the Arts in Davis, California.However, the firm's pro-bono work on this modest venue for PICA has captured the greatest attention among the national design community.On top of the design award, the temporary theater has won an Honor Award from the NW & Pacific Region Chapter of the AIA;
On The Other Hand See The Design Plan:Some of the plan's details had been filled in -such as the design for the glass-enclosed Lynda and Stewart Resnick Grand Entrance Pavilion and accenting the campus with bright colors -and there was one tangible change: the streamlining of a plan to hang brightly colored fabric scrims and banners along Wilshire Boulevard.Piano originally had said these screens would offer unity to a campus widely regarded as confusing and disparate."In reality," Piano conceded, the plan "was a bit too complicated and expensive' and might have hidden or obscured the
"The design plan for the Harley-Davidson Museum and its site incorporates striking urban design elements and engages the surrounding water and green spaces," said Museum Director Stacey Watson.
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