GAB Report library
Competitions
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Architecture at Zero 2020 Winners
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2020 Architecture at Zero Competition
The 2020 Architecture at Zero competition, now in its ninth year, was conceived as a response to the zero net energy targets set out by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) in the 2008 report, California’s Long Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan. In this report, the CPUC set out four “Big Bold Energy Efficiency Strategies”…
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The Hague Leads the Way to Creating Cities of the Future
With Socio-Technical City, UNStudio – in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experts – has created a new urban vision for the ‘Central Innovation District’ (CID) test site in The Hague. The CID test site covers a 1 x 1 km area in the centre of The Hague. Currently the test site is a major…
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Reinventing the Toilet
Since 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has sponsored the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, providing grants and investment to researchers around the world. Last week, the Foundation along with global innovators, development banks, corporate partners, sanitation utilities and governments hosted the first Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing. The Reinvent the Toilet Challenge challenges innovators to…
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Making Water From Air
Architects are often trained as generalists who think about problems globally. Leave it up to an architect and his team to come up with a smart solution to address a critical global water crisis – the severe lack of accessible and clean potable water throughout the world. Congratulations to architect David Hertz and inventor Rich Groden…
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Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge
The winners of the sixth Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge have been announced by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. This is the final competition in a series of six global Challenges, which invited designers, sustainability professionals and students to re-envision and redesign products for the circular economy in accordance with the Cradle…
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AEC Hackathon 5.0 San Francisco Bay Area
The What: AEC Hackathon 5.0 San Francisco Bay Area goes to Oakland, California this year. The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon was created to give those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the opportunity to collaborate with cutting edge technologies as well as with its developers and designers. The first AEC Hackathon took place…
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Student Competition: INNOVATION 2030
Climate change is the design challenge of our time. Architects play a critical role in addressing both the causes and effects of climate change. Design is the key to producing a built environment that adapts to projected climate impacts, protects inhabitants during unanticipated stresses, and produces no greenhouse gas emissions. INNOVATION 2030 is a student…
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Competition: #GetYourGreenOn Interior Design
SFC’s #GetYourGreenOn Interior Design Competition deadline is June 23rd. This competition was launched in 2016 by Sustainable Furnishings Council to advocate for sustainable and healthful homes, to connect with SFC members, to show the connection point of the members – the residential home – and most importantly to debunk the myth that to furnish the…
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Student Competition: Czech Off-Grid Houses
What more could a successful project wish for? Attention and continuity! Project Czech Off-Grid Houses has launched its second year of operations this February through a visionary architectural competition targeted at students of major Czech universities. Hundreds of architecture students are expected to come up with a detailed draft plans for evolutionary off-grid housing systems. The…