Submission: February 24, 2014
Registration: February 21, 2014 ($80)
Language: English
Location: Dubai, UAE
Prizes: 1st Prize € 3.500 2nd Prize € 1.700 3rd Prize € 800
Type: Open competition for architects and architecture students
International ideas competition to design an Architecture School Tower in Dubai that offers an alternative environment for studying and training to become an Architect within this global city. This competition hopes to achieve the following:
- Encourage and reward design excellence on a large scale which integrates function, structure, detail, etc..
- Increase research for design of “vertical” education environments or structures.
- Generate discussion and ideas about educational buildings together with the employment of sustainable design consideration.
- Offer students an opportunity to experience the best education through the use of the most functional pedagogical tool of which this tower will form an integral part.
Dubai is the largest city and the main port of the United Arab Emirates (before the federal capital Abu Dhabi). Located on the Persian Gulf, is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, and has over one million inhabitants.
The city has emerged as a cosmopolitan metropolis that has grown steadily to become a global city standing tall as a business and cultural hub of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region as a whole.
