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The evolution of architecture is often dependent on the evolution of technologies. Embracing new technologies in designs sets the new paths to architecture. R + D award program highlights on the invention and application of technology in design.
The awards honor innovative materials and systems at every scale—from entire buildings and complexes to HVAC and structural systems to curtain-wall and ceiling-panel assemblies to discrete building materials such as wood composites and textiles.

Eligibility: The R+D Awards are intentionally open to building technologies of all types in order to encourage the broadest possible dialogue among architects, engineers, manufacturers, researchers, students, and designers of all disciplines.

Jurors: Blaine Brownell, Christopher Genik, Andres Lepik
Deadline: May 29 2008

 CLICK HERE to REGISTER ONLINE. CLICK HERE to read more or DOWNLOAD the pdf entry form.

The World Architecture Festival 2008
The World Architecture Festival is a yearly event for global architecture. The festival will highlight the international nature of today’s architecture comprising one of the largest international award program for architects worldwide. It will be a three-day-event from 22nd to 24th October 2008 in Barcelona, Spain.
This mega festival will also be celebrating the regional roots of architecture from all around the world. Besides the award program the festival will also include:
__ thematic exhibition, ‘Creativity, Capacity, Responsibility’
__ live ideas charrette for architecture schools
__ architect-nominated product showcase
__ city tours and social events
__ networking

WFA Claims to be the Largest Architectural Award Program in the World
The 2008 awards are for buildings completed between 1 January 2007 and 20 June 2008. Buildings in any country, by architects of any nationality, are eligible for entry.
International juries will shortlist the best entries in 96 building types, grouped into 16 categories. All shortlisted architects will present their work to live juries and audiences at the Festival, competing against each other to become category winners. Category winners will compete against each other in front of a super-jury, to win the ‘best in show’ prize, the first architectural Prix de Barcelona.

The Schedule:
Entries opened: 15 April 2008
Entry deadline: 20 June 2008
Shortlist announced: September 2008
Winners selected live at the Festival: 22-24 October 2008
Anyone may register into the mailing list of WFA website to get updates.

Get every details here: http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com
ArchSociety will be keeping you updated about this event as well. All eligible architects are encouraged to participate in this prestigious award program and the mega event.

Sir Norman Foster often shows us the new dimensions in architecture achieved through outstanding technologies. It gives us a fresh enthusiasm to think beyond our conventional boundaries of thinking about ‘architecture what it can be’.
On July 6, 1998, Hong Kong opened its new international airport 16 miles out at sea. But first, engineers had to build not only the largest passenger terminal on earth, but a whole new island to hold the airport, and miles of tunnels, bridges and roadways to connect it to the mainland.
The passenger terminal of this airport claims to be the world's largest enclosed space with 70 moving walkways stretching more than two miles, a pilotless electric train, 150 shops and a 1,100-room hotel.
The airport’s twin runways, each more than 2.3 miles long, can support up to 49 flights per hour. The airport handles 45 million passengers a year nowadays, but that figure can be nearly doubled to 87 million!
The flat island housing Hong Kong International Airport was actually two mountainous islands when construction began. But the mountains were pulverized and their rocks recycled to fill 1.5 miles of sea now connecting Chek Lap Kok and Lam Chau. A whole new six-lane expressway, utility and rail corridor hugs Lantau Island’s rugged coast. Like many of the new projects, it required extensive blasting and land-filling to build.

So the visual story of planning and building this master piece work of architecture and engineering would worth to see for sure. AIUB (American International University, Bangladesh) Department of Architecture arranges the opportunity for you to experience the thrill in movie screen through the Documentary on ‘Extreme Engineering : Building Hong Kong’s Airport, Architect: Norman Foster’ directed by Jennifer Lorenz.

When: at 16:00 BST, Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Where: AIUB Auditorium (Campus – 1) [Lane opposite to Iqbal Center], H# 58/B, R# 21, Kamal Ataturk Avenue, Banani, Dhaka – 1213, Bangladesh.
Contact No. : +88 01911353043

[ArchSociety Correspondence with AIUB: Ar. Arefeen Ibrahim, Asst. Professor & Program Coordinator, Dept. of Architecture, AIUB; Few information is taken from Discovery Channel, photography by NEO]