Mitchell Rasor

and more serious competition 🙂 then the last one, but it might be short notice.
DEADLINE 16.09.2009, for LA up to 36yrs( or 39- they have two figures in different location) old 🙂
In recognition of Otto Linne’s 140th birthday, Hamburg would like to encourage interested participants to investigate the water-bearing hillside located between the E…[Read more]

POP.Park
that people can use to reclaim public space each and everyday of the year. POP.Parks will be public spaces produced from readily available, reclaimed or post-consumer recycled materials that will emerge from a regular, cardboard box.
POP.Parks should be no larger than 8’x15′ – the size of a regular car parking spot. The cost of building a…[Read more]

Abbey Green design competition

http://www.landscapejournal.org/index.php/news_articles/view/design_competition_for_abbey_green_barking/

A competition to redesign Abbey Green in Barking, East London, has been launched by Design for London,At stage one, shortlisted entrants will be given £5,000 to develop their designs and produce a model. The…[Read more]

REBURBIA A SUBURBAN DESIGN COMPETITON

which asks you how you would redesign the suburbs for a more sustainable future. For example, how can we transform vacant big box stories, foreclosed McMansions, and empty cul-de-sacs into vibrant, living, breathing, walkable communities? What are the energy and transportation infrastructures that we will…[Read more]

Shelter Competition:
On the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invite amateur and professional designers from around the world to enter Design It: Shelter Competition. From now until August 23, you can submit a 3-D shelter for any location in the world using…[Read more]

Lenne Prize:
http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/aktuell/wettbewerbe/lenne/en/ausschreibung.shtml

Ideas for Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China
Application deadline: 01.06.2010
Competition details: The British online garden and landscape guide Gardenvisit.com has launched an ideas competition for Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. This is the first of several competitions being held to identify a range of possible design solutions for…[Read more]

Stomwater is cool in the Sunshine State.

Hey guys! Here is a link to some presentations from a conference in Reno at the University of Nevada that talked about different stormwater and bioretention techniques. Some are really basic info but also some good overall information. The links to presentations are actually at the bottom of this page that you can scroll down to once you open the…[Read more]

It looks pretty old but I like the details and formality of it, especially as it moves between the brick wall.

check out this cool solution to getting water off the property at Duisburg-Nord/ Germany:

Thanks for starting this, Theodore! I know this is hot stuff already in engineering, but there isn’t enough information on it as applies to LA.

Asia-America gateway

http://www.bering-competition.org/

One in New York
http://grandconcourse100.org/about