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INFO POINT ::: Competition for architects under 35

[ XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture TORINO 2008 ]

The Jury of the Competition INFO POINT, composed of George Kunihiro (Japan), Ruben Mutiso (Kenya), Maria Theodorou (Greece), Paola Salerno (Italy) and Domenico Bagliani (Italy), has met on 25 April in Torino and awarded the prizes.
View the full list of winners and participants.


This ideas competition, in a single stage, is organised in the framework of the UIA  Congress Turin 2008, illustrating the theme: transmitting architecture.
The aim is to create a UIA information point in the city of Turin, a place, dedicated to urban democracy where people can meet, relax.
To be designed as a public house for architecture, info point will be usable both day and night, when open and closed. Of a maximum surface of 100 M2, it will be built of recyclable eco-friendly materials and be equipped with communication technologies.

The competition is open to architects worldwide, who are less than 35 years of age at the time of registration. The entire procedure will be on-line on internet. All the competition documents, programme and regulations may be downloaded on the competition web site.

Registration takes place at the same time as the electronic transmission of the project file, format pdf on the competition web site.

The competition language is English.There is no registration fee.

 

 

Official date and hour
09/05/2008 - 

Calendar

25 January 2008
::: Deadline for sending inquires

01 February 2008
::: Deadline for replies to the inquires

17 March 2008 – 16:00 UTC
::: Opening of the period for activation, by the participants, of the telematic procedure for registration and simultaneous transmission of the documents

25 March 2008 – 16:00 UTC
::: Closing of the period for the activation by the participants of the telematic procedure for registration and simultaneous transmission of the documents

28 March 2008
::: Adjudication

10 April 2008
25 April 2008
::: Announcement of the results

30 Jun – 3 July 2008
::: Exhibition of the projects in Torino

02 July 2008 during the XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture Torino 2008
::: Prize giving ceremony

Announcements

The Jury of the Competition met in Torino the past Friday 25th April. After that, the technical secretariat has completed the solution of the anonimity of the projects; the UIA secretariat is now checking for the regularity of the selected participants. At the end of this process, the final list will be announced through the WEB site.
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The technical specification of the competition document is now available on the Documents section of the Web site.
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Due to the large amount of questions received by the Organizers and the following delay in publishing the answers, the registration and submission time has been postponed from 4-11 March to 17-25 March 2008.

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New suggested materials 
by St Gobain are available 
in the "Documents" section
on the web site.