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The Bangkok Artist’s Retreat competition is a case study in how to engage the public with the arts. By repurposing a brutalist department store, the projects are requested to reflect on both the history and the future of this Bangkok site. The loosely-defined program may be interpreted in many ways, and the judges placed particular

Submission: March 10, 2016Registration: March 10, 2016Language: EnglishLocation: ConceptPrizes: Publication and Trip to Captiva Island, Florida, USAType: Open   The Shivaji Competition seeks actual and impossible ideas to maintain human habitation on islands and deltas doomed by at least one meter sea level rise in the 21st century.  All entries will be submitted as animated GIFs for social media broadcast and museum exhibition.  One

Submission: March 15, 2016Registration: March 15, 2016Language: EnglishLocation: ConceptPrizes: 1st Prize: US $4,000, 2nd Prize: US $2,000, 3rd Prize: US $1,000Type: Open   What does the word ‘basic’ mean?  Fundamental, critical, essential, necessary – all these synonyms illustrate the significance of its meaning.  Architecturally, we often associate the term with the primitive, the vernacular, even the banal.