01.28.08 Deadline Extended: Justice Facilities Review 2008
The AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice invites all registered architects to submit projects that represent the state of the art in justice facility design.

01.31.08 Call for Entries: Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2008
This competition, now in its 15th year, celebrates exceptional examples of contemporary American design featuring Italian ceramic tiles. An international jury looks at the overall design of the space as well as how the tiles meet their functional and technical requirements.

02.01.08 Request for Qualifications: Kunsthaus Zürich Extension
Swiss museum Kunsthaus Zürich is hosting an international competition for an extension that includes both flexible and classically designed galleries. The competition is open to all architects with a portfolio of completed work and evidence of both professional and organizational capability.

02.01.08 Call for Submissions: SRI Foundation Grants
Statistical Research, Inc. Foundation is accepting applications for two $10,000 research scholarships to be awarded to Ph.D. candidates in anthropology, history, architecture, or other fields in historic preservation. Recipients are to use data, information, reports, and documents from one or more completed historic preservation projects to pursue a substantive research topic that forms the basis for a dissertation.

02.14.08 Deadline Extended: 2008 AIA COTE Top 10 Green Projects Awards
These awards recognize the benefits of a high-performance, sustainable design approach; educate the architectural community and the public on the increased value that sustainable design provides for developers, building owners, and occupants; and acknowledge architects as experts in the creation of energy conscious and environmentally responsible design solutions. The competition will evaluate projects based on merit rather than in competition with the other submittals. Winning projects will be recognized with an AIA/COTE award certificate and acknowledged in the national press and on the AIA website.

03.03.08 Call for Proposals: NYSCA Grants
The Architecture, Planning, and Design Program of the New York State Council on the Arts is offering project grants for professionals in the design, planning, and historic preservation fields through its independent projects category. Grants of up to $10,000 will be available for architects, landscape architects, planners, designers, historic preservationists, and scholars to realize specific projects that advance the field and contribute to the public’s understanding of the designed environment.

03.19.08 Proposals: Iraqi Memorial
Iraqimemorial.org is an online call to action to artists, designers, architects, and other creative individuals to propose concepts for memorials to the many thousands of Iraqi civilians killed in the War in Iraq. The concepts will be featured in a growing online exhibition/database of proposals, which can be rated by the public as well as an international group of scholars and curators who are serving as jurors.

03.28.08 Application: 2008 NYC Student Lighting Competition: Evocative Luminance
For eight years, the New York Section of the illumination Engineer’s Society of North America (IESNY) has invited students from NYC art and design schools to participate in this competition. With the theme of Evocative Luminance, students will explore light as an art form, demonstrate light as a stimulus, and prove light is a valuable medium. The objective of this year’s design challenge is to develop a three-dimensional study of light and to show how light may be used to trigger an emotion or spark a memory. The First prize includes $3,000 in cash plus airfare and accommodation to attend the 2008 Professional Lighting Designers’ Association workshop (location to be announced).