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Submission: March 15, 2022
Registration: February 25, 2022
Language: English
Location: Anfeh, Lebanon
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Saying a final goodbye is never easy. Farewell is a painful and personal gesture. Thus, the design of the cemetery must respond in a consoling and sensitive way. Architects, Landscapers, Urban  planners, students and enthusiasts are called to search for a new creative design approach, and interesting innovative environmentally friendly ideas for green spaces, and submit designs for a sustainable cemetery located in Anfeh, Lebanon. The new cemetery would need to include facilities for a small chapel, and a reception hall for condolences.

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cementary challange by ctrl alt design

Submission: December 28, 2021
Registration: December 27, 2021
Language: English
Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Prizes: $6000
Type: Open

 

The challenge of the competition is to design a chapel on the grounds of the Whitby Abbey inspired by the church on-site, but suited to the 21st-century context. In the past, replication of the forms and beliefs of religion was widely practiced. But the present is enamored with technology and advancement, the way of representation can be more cerebral and convoluted. How do we embed religion in buildings of today?

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