by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
2015 Oculus Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2015 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect in practice or by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants to hear from you! You may submit projects/topics from anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas/projects by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.
Summer 2015: AIANY 2015 Design Awards
Submission deadline: 02.06.15
Fall 2015: “Home” (In conjunction with the Housing Exhibition + Archtober)
Housing progress report/report card: whether market rate or affordable, is it living up to our expectations for design, community integration, environmental responsiveness? For affordable and low-income housing, is innovation helping us hit the number of units New York City needs? Continuing controversy about “inclusionary” housing (80/20 and such). Off-site/modular construction. BSA Housing Awards. (To include input from social scientists, urban anthropologists, psychologists, etc.)
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 05.22.15
Winter 2015: “Makers in a Digital World” or “Architecture & the Digital World”
How we present and build what we do: 21st-century visual representation, mapping, big data. Life-cycle of a building: an idea, draw it, digitize for CNC milling machines, construct, share via Instagram, etc. Cooper-Hewitt tech “pencils”; etc.
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 08.14.15
11.20.14: Call for Entries: Design Corps and the Social Economic Environmental Design Network’s Fifth Annual SEED Awards for Excellence in Public Interest Design
12.05.14: Call for Entries: Winter Stations – Reimagine Toronto’s Winter Waterfront
12.20.14: Call for Entries: Livable Cities’ International Making Cities Livable Design Awards Competition: Designing for Green, Healthy Cities
12.22.14: Request for Proposals: Empire State Development – For the Purchase or Long-Term Lease and Redevelopment of Beacon Correctional Facility
12.31.14: Call for Entries: Villeroy & Boch and ArchDaily North American Designer Bathroom Challenge
01.05.15: Call for Entries: Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize 2015
01.09.15: Call for Entries: DOCOMOMO US Modernism in America 2015
01.09.15: Call for Nominations: City & State’s Above & Beyond – Honoring Women of Public and Civic Mind
01.09.15: Call for Entries: Friends of the Upper East Side 2015 Annual Awards
01.12.15: Request for Proposals: NYC Housing Recovery Office (HRO) and NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) procure construction management, design, and contract services to assist homeowners and landlords rebuild and repair their Sandy-damaged homes
01.12.15: Call for Entries: Architectural League of New York and Socrates Sculpture Park’s Folly 2015
01.13.15: Call for Expressions of Interest: Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge Competition
01.14.15: Call for Entries: HMMD International Architecture Competitions Bangkok IAM Fashion Hub
01.16.15: Call for Entries: 2015 Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition
01.16.15: Call for Applications: Global Site Plans: Branding for Environmental Design Internships
01.16.15: Call for Entries: Arquideas International Wildlife Center
01.20.15: Call for Entries: Coverings 2015 Installation & Design Awards
01.22.15: Call for Entries: UNESCO and the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture’s Basmiyan Culture Center Design Competition
01.26.15: Call for Entries: AIA COTE 2015 Top Ten / Top Ten+ Awards
01.28.15: Call for Presentations: ASLA 2014 Annual Meeting, 11.6-9.15
01.29.15: Call for Entries: Boston Living with Water Competition
01.30.15: Call for Applications: HPD and HDC Housing Fellows 2015-2017
01.31.15: Call for Submissions: PennDesign’s SCENARIO 5 Extraction
02.06.15: Call for Entries: AIANY Design Awards 2015
03.01.15: Call for Entries: ARCHmedium’s Detroit Station for the Arts Architecture Competition
03.06.15: Call for Entries: Gowanus by Design Axis Civitas – Third International Design Competition
03.16.15: Call for Entries: Urban Land Institute (ULI) Global Awards for Excellence + Urban Open Space Award + Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Awards + Robert C. Larson Housing Policy Leadership Awards
04.30.15: Call for Entries: 2015-16 World Habitat Awards
06.01.15: Call for Entries: 9th International Costentino Design Challenge