Rules
All participants must register to compete through the third-party event registration company Acteva. The urbanSHED Jury will only award the winning individuals or teams whose names are listed as registrants with Acteva.
Please read all submission requirements carefully. Submissions not meeting these requirements will be rejected.
Note: The urbanSHED International Design Competition sponsors are under no obligation to build, use or install any designs resulting from this competition.
ELIGIBILITY
urbanSHED is an open competition to encourage engineers, designers in architecture and related fields, manufacturers and students to enter. We encourage multi-disciplinary teams and an integrated design approach, though individuals may enter.
In Stage II, all finalists must have one team member who is a licensed, practicing architect or engineer. If a team of students reaches Stage II, the team must then include an advisor who is a licensed, practicing architect or engineer.
Every competitor, juror, consultant and other assistants involved in the organization of this competition automatically declares their compliance with the conditions and procedures set forth here by virtue of taking part in, or assisting with the process of this competition.
DEADLINE
All submissions must be received at the Center for Architecture at 536 LaGuardia Place, New York NY 10012 in Manhattan no later than 5:00pm EST, Friday 2 October, 2009. This is not a postmark deadline. Competitors must have their board submissions physically delivered to the Center’s offices by the deadline.
No resubmissions will be allowed. Only one design per registrant is permitted.
If you have any questions, you may submit them online until Thursday 24 September. Answers will be posted on this website.
LATE SUBMISSIONS
Submissions received after 5:00pm EST on Friday, 2 October will be considered late entries. Late entries will be disqualified from the competition.
ANONYMITY
Competitors will be assigned a transaction number that will serve as their registration number upon registering and paying the registration fee. Submissions may only have the registration number; submissions may not have any name or mark or number that could identify the project or competitor.
No participant may directly or indirectly reveal the identity of any design or communicate with any member of the Jury, the AIANY, the City of New York, the New York Building Congress, Downtown Alliance NYC, Structural Engineers Association of New York, and the Illuminating Engineering Society New York Chapter except as provided in this competition document. By submitting a proposal, each competitor automatically affirms compliance with the competition requirements, rules and guidelines and agrees that any violation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.
WINNER NAMES
If the winning designer or designers register as a firm or studio, the award will be issued in the registered firm or studio’s name, and all team members will be acknowledged in publications and exhibitions
SUBMISSION FORM
A copy of the printed online registration form containing the name of the registrant and ALL team members must be attached in an opaque envelope to the back of the submission board. Registrants must sign across the seal of the sealed envelope. Firms are required to list all members of the project team.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, DISPLAYS, EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Competitors, by virtue of their submissions, recognize the competition’s program as the intellectual property of the urbanSHED International Design Competition and agree that the sponsors and partners may reproduce, publish, exhibit, perform, transmit or otherwise utilize the physical or electronic materials submitted for non-commercial purposes at their own discretion and without compensation to the competitor, other than Stage II stipends.
Registrants and all team members, upon entering the competition, agree to credit the urbanSHED International Design Competition by name in any subsequent exhibition or publication of the project. The sponsors and partners reserve the right to utilize a competitor’s submission, in either or both of the competition stages for an indefinite period of time for purposes of exhibition and publication or other non-commercial purpose. Reasonable and best efforts will be made to credit the competitor for use of their submission materials for such purposes.
RETURN OF ENTRIES
Entries will not be returned, and the urbanSHED International Design Competition assume no responsibility for damaged or lost competition entries. Competitors are advised to make copies of their proposals prior to submitting them.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
To the extent that an entry is selected as a winner, the entrant grants to the City of New York and the AIANY all rights in regards to publication, exhibition, and construction of a full-scale mock-up.
To the extent that an entry is not selected as a winner, ownership of entries shall revert to the applicable submitting entrant, except that all entrants shall grant a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, exclusive license to use and/or reproduce the entry in any way, in any medium now known or hereafter devised, for any purpose, including but not limited to publications, exhibitions, and an archive of the competition. The sponsors will make reasonable efforts to credit entrants at all times.
By submitting an entry, entrants certify that the materials and ideas submitted to the competition are original and have not been previously published. Entrants additionally certify that neither their entry, nor the use thereof, violates, infringes or otherwise conflicts with any copyright, trademark or property right of any third party.
Entrants acknowledge that the urbanSHED International Design Competition partners may exhibit all competition entries in an online gallery and a selection of competition entries may be chosen for physical exhibition and/or public display.
INELIGIBILITY
Current employees of the City of New York or the AIANY may not participate in this competition. Additionally, no partner, associate, or employer/employee of a Jury member may participate. Additionally, no member of the Jury shall be eligible to compete in the competition, assist a competitor, or act in any other capacity whatsoever to advise or aid a competitor in the development or presentation of his or her submission.
The Sponsor may exclude and declare ineligible any submission which: has been delivered/dispatched after the time limit; is incomplete in its essential elements; submits in Stage I graphic or written material to the Jury which carries an identifying mark(s) of the authors; or violates any provisions of the competition description and conditions. By entering this competition, competitors will be declaring that the designs in their submission have been developed solely for the purposes of this competition and represent no infringement on any existing copyright or patent.
DISQUALIFICATION
Competitors in Stages I or II shall not communicate, in any manner whatsoever, with a member of the Jury regarding this competition prior to the public announcement of Stage II. Likewise, no member of the Jury shall communicate to a competitor any matter relating to the competition prior to the public announcement of the results of Stage II. Upon evidence of any infraction of the competition conditions, the competition advisorshall inform the competitor or juror, in writing, of disqualification,. The sponsor’s decision in this regard shall be final.
Competitors who fail to observe the provisions of these conditions shall be declared in eligible and the Jury shall be so informed by the competition advisor. The decision of the urbanSHED International Design Competition, in respect to any such disqualification shall be final and binding on all competitors.