April 30, 2014
by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
The Institute for Rational Urban Mobility is hosting a design competition that encourages entrants to imagine an enhanced public environment for one of the most iconic streets in the world – 42nd street in midtown Manhattan. Submit your plans to transform the street into a world-class boulevard complete with high-quality public spaces and a light-rail tram. In addition to the $10,000 winner’s prize, the jury’s top selected projects will be featured in The Architect’s Newspaper.

2014 OCULUS Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2014 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants to hear from you! Projects/topics may be anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.

Winter 2014
Emerging Skyline / Evolving Street
Submit story ideas by July 14, 2014

04.30.14: Call for Nominations: 2014 MASterworks Awards for Excellence in Architecture and Urban Design

04.30.14: Call for Artistic Proposals: Midtown Detroit, Inc. and New Economy Initiative’s Midtown Viaducts Public Art + Light Project

04.30.14: Call for Entries: Brick Building Initiative’s Fritz Höger Award 2014 for Brick Architecture

04.30.14: Call for Entries: The Brick Industry Association’s 2014 Brick in Architecture Awards

04.30.14: Call for Submissions: MIT Thresholds 43: Scandalous seeks papers and projects that provoke the idea of scandal

05.01.14: Call for Content: ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory’s Water as Ritual Symposium

05.02.14: Call for Entries: Rebirth of the Bath House, Liepaja Seaside Park in Latvia

05.06.14: Request for Proposals: Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design 2014-2015 Workshops

05.08.14: Call for Entries: Community That Works Contest

05.15.14: Call for Proposals: Archtober 2014 Building of the Day

05.15.14: Call for Entries: 1407 Broadway’s Space Forward Ideas Competition: Reimagine York Workplace

05.16.14: Call for Presentations: AIANYS 2014 Design Conference

05.15.14: Call for Submissions: Theatrum Mundi and AIANY’s Design for Free Speech Competition

05.27.14: Call for Entries: Liget Budapest International Design Competition for Five New Museum Buildings in Budapest’s Városliget

05.30.14: Call for Entries: World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2014 Awards – 28 Categories Covering All Building Types

06.06.14: Call for Entries: World Interiors News Annual Awards 2014

06.13.14: Call for Submissions: Arquideas Nature Observatory of Amazonia Competition

06.20.14: Call for Entries: Plovdic, Central Square Architectural Competition for a Contemporary Space in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

06.25.14: Call for Expressions of Interest: The Barangaroo Delivery Authority seeks submissions for the development of Central Barangaroo in Sydney, Australia

06.30.14: Call for Nominations: 2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize

07.25.14: Call for Entries: FX Magazine’s 2014 International Interior Design Awards for projects and products

08.01.14: Call for Submissions: AECOM’s Urban SOS student competition: Towards a New Industry

08.15.14: Call for Submissions: Nka Foundation’s “Reinventing the African Mud Hut Together” Design Competition

08.31.14: Call for Submissions: Terreform ONE’s ONE Prize 2014: Smart Dock

10.01.14: Call for Submissions: The Architects’ Newspaper / Institute for Rational Urban Mobility (IRUM) /Vision42 Vision42Design Competition – Reimagine 42nd Street Without Cars

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