CCoI/IAF Competition: CRAFTITECTURE - A Pavilion for Electric Picnic’

The competition will realise the design and build of a re-usable temporary structure at Electric Picnic 2011, the annual arts-and-music festival held in Stradbally, Co. Laois. Joint submissions are invited from Architects and Craftsperson teams and must represent equal input into the design and development of the pavilion.

The briefing document and further details are available from www.architecturefoundation.ie

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Slow - architecture and sustainability

SARC –an architectural research collective - is looking for expressions of interest in the participation in a canal-based travelling educational programme on the above theme to take place on the Barrow Navigation travelling from Monasterevin to Waterford from May to July 2011.
Selected participants will be asked to develop the theme of Slow – architecture and sustainability in relationship to a project and the process of design. Participants should have the enthusiasm and experience to communicate their project as part of a teaching process to schoolchildren.
Expressions of Interest should take the form of a written document of not more than 300 words with accompanying illustrations and clearly demonstrate your intended response and method of communicating to a younger generation.
Your document should be sent to SARC c/o Solearth, Daintree Building, 62 Pleasants Place Dublin 8- before 30th January 2011. Further information can be found on the website: www.slowarchitecture.ie

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Kevin Kieran Award

The award is a partnership between the Arts Council and the OPW to offer an emerging architect the opportunity to develop a research project worth €50,000 over two years and to design and run a building contract for the OPW. For further information on this specific award, contact Aisling McKone, Architecture Assistant on: Phone: +353 1 6180253 Email: aisling.mckone@artscouncil.ie
Previous recipients:
2009 - 2011: Orla Murphy
2007 - 2009: Stephen Roe

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