Intender.net is a platform for architects and by architects: a central place, where the results of architect selections are collected in a clear way and are presented side by side. Intender.net has recently been launched and calls for projects.

Many design projects are started by selections. These selections are related generally to contests, European tenders, and selections of municipalities by businesses and individuals. Frequently an architectural office is selected on the basis of a submission of three to five (preliminary) designs. After evaluating these often extensive designs the final winning choice is made.

Show and compare high-quality results
The designs for selections are rarely shown and hardly ever put together. It is therefore very difficult to compare the different design solutions and see under which conditions these designs are made. These actual and often high-quality designs are lost because no platform to present them existed until now.

For and by architects
Intender.net is a platform for architects, by architects. A central place, where the results of architect selections are collected in a clear way, are presented side by side. The platform is seeking for transparency and appealing to the pride of the design team of the high-quality work that is produced.
Intender.net uses a positive approach (by showing results), trying to create a culture in which excellent selections with remarkable results are being encouraged.

International
Intender.net is in this moment collecting mostly Dutch design contributions. Architects are being called for projects in this case. The ambition is to extend intender.net internationally shortly. Please do not hesitate email suggestions or possible contributions to intender team.

Robert Winkel : robert@intender.net
Roderick Trompert : roderick@intender.net

Intender.net is an initiative of the Dutch architects Robert Winkel and Roderick Trompert. The official launch took place in Rotterdam on April 23, 2013. This project is being supported by Creative Industries Fund NL (Sci).

Photos of launch at Stadskantoor of OMA in Rotterdam:

What’s not to miss in the Irish capital?

The first MI Tour Guide is out and available for download. This first MI Tour Guide features Dublin. Go see exemplary or innovative, hidden or spectacular buildings in the Irish capital that are not to miss! The Irish A10 correspondent, Emmett Scanlon, has made the final selection of all projects published on MIMOA based on your choices.

Download the MI Tour Guide #1 Dublin
Date of publication: March 2013  

Expected MI Tour Guides:

• MI Tour Guide #2: Barcelona
  Deadline for submission: has been closed.
  Expected date of publishing: first weeks of May.

• MI Tour Guide #3: Warsaw
  Nominate your favourite new buildings in Poland’s capital and largest city for the upcoming MI Tour Guide by uploading them at MIMOA.
    The deadline for submissions is May 8, 2013!   
  Expected date of publishing: first weeks of July
  

Read more about the MI Tour Guides here >> 

MI Tour Guide is production in a cooperation between
A10 Magazine and MIMOA.

MIMOA and A10 celebrate the launch of the new MI Tour Guide. Subsribe now to A10Magazine and get 10% discount!

In the next issue of A10 Magazine (#50 – expected beginning of March) the first MI Tour Guide will be published. Dublin is presented in this edition. Soon after the Dublin MI Tour Guide will also be available for download on MIMOA.
To celebrate the start of this new cooperation, A10 offers the community of MIMOA a 10% discount on their subscriptions.

Subscribe for 1, 2 of 3 years to A10 Magazine and get 10% discount *). VAT and postage within Europe are included)
Go to A10 > Magazine > subscribe and fill in this action code: MI10/2013/03

*) Are you a student? A10 offers a standard student discount. For this occassion you can get 10% more discount! An annual student subscription now costs only
€ 44,55 (VAT and postage within Europe are included). Go to A10 > Magazine > students and fill in this action code: MI10/2013/03. Discounts appear on the invoice that you receive after subscribing. They are not calculated in this form.

What’s the new MI Tour Guide?
The MI Tour Guides are published in A10 Magazine as well as available online on MIMOA. A10 readers and members of the MIMOA community may directly contribute to the guides. Your participation is welcome! Please suggest projects for upcoming MI Tour Guides by uploading your choices to MIMOA.

The upcoming and first issue of MI Tour Guide #1 (A10 #50 March / April 2013) is expected the first week of March.
In the next issue MI Tour Guide #2 (A10 #51 May / June 2013) we’ll feature Barcelona. Deadline for submission March 18, 2013 !

MIMOA and A10 started a new cooperation on the MI Tour Guide. Read more here. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Project Space Series 2013 – Rethinking Urbanity
Transformation of the Coffin Factory in Vienna | Vacancy in Budapest.

Wonderland invites teams from all over Europe (architects, urban planners, urban sociologist and other related fields) to participate in the call for ideas for: “rethinking urbanity”. A jury will select the teams to be invited to participate in the city development process in Vienna (AT) and Budapest (HU). The call is open to professionals and students who want to inspire, effect, and take part in determining the future of our cities. The workshops will be held in Vienna (AT) and Budapest (HU).

Project Space is an urban laboratory which selects workshop participants through an international idea competition. Since 2010, Project Space has successfully been held in Vienna (AT), Budapest (HU), Venice (IT), Kaiserslautern (DE), Cluj (RO), Paris (FR), Mannheim (DE) and Amsterdam (NL). Young teams from all over Europe are invited to submit their ideas on how to improve urban space. The selected teams are invited to test these ideas in the cities of Vienna and Budapest. The main feature of Project Space is that citizens as well as members of the local administration are also invited to take part in the development of their city. The target of the two project spaces is to come up with suggestions for the transformation of an existing object in Vienna and to develop suggestions for an urban vacancy in Budapest. The call for ideas is open from February to March 15, 2013.
A jury, consisting of wonderland experts and local partners will select the participating teams by the end of March. The call and workshop results will also be published in the next wonderland exhibition and publication.

Schedule
January 2013: open call for ideas
15 March 2013: deadline call for ideas
25 March 2013: results of Jury
27-31 May 2013: Project Space workshop in Budapest
June 2013 (tbc): Project Space workshop in Vienna
October 2013: Publication within Wonderland Book

Rethinking urbanity in Vienna: transformation of the Coffin Factory

The aim is to develop a proposal for the transformation of the Coffin Factory in Atzgersdorf into a neighborhood for young and lively people, together with housing, a culture center and a school. One selected team will obtain the possibility of joining a workshop in Vienna, together with the various stakeholders involved in the development of the area (Urban Planning Department of the City of Vienna, investors and local politicians). The workshop will be held in mid April, in Vienna.
Project Space 2013 in Vienna is carried out in collaboration with the MA21 city development department of Vienna.

Rethinking urbanity in Budapest: Vacancy

The aim is to generate models and concepts for urban vacancies in Budapest. Two selected teams will have the possibility of joining a workshop in Budapest and develop strategies enabling experimentation with new forms of urbanity. The workshop will be held in September 2013.
Project Space 2013 in Budapest is carried out in collaboration with Kek – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center.

Submission
Participants are expected to send their proposals via email. More details and application modalities are online on www.wonderland.cx.

Further information
Contact Daniela Patti: projectspace@wonderland.cx
Phone: +43 (0) 680 32 599 06
Website: www.wonderland.cx

Wonderland’s projects are promoted by MIMOA – the online architecture guide. Do you also want MIMOA as a media partner for your event? Contact us, and hear all about our reach.

MIMOA and A10 will be working together and invite you to participate in the new MI Tour Guide.

The MI Tour Guides will be published in A10 Magazine – as familiar – as well as be available online on MIMOA. Also new: the communities of A10 and MIMOA can contribute to the Guides! Starting with the next issue of A10 (#50), readers can suggest projects for the ‘MI Tour Guide’, by uploading projects at MIMOA.

What’s not to miss in Dublin?
Since Ireland will host the presidency of the Council of the European Union this year, the first MI Tour Guide will feature Dublin. We would like to know: which exemplary or innovative, hidden or spectacular buildings in the Irish capital should be included according to you?.
Upload your own or favorite projects at MMOA. The Irish A10 correspondent, Emmett Scanlon, will make the final selection of all projects published on MIMOA based on your choices.

  Hurry, the deadline for submissions is 23 January 2013!   

More information about the MI Tour Guides will be published here > selected guides.

MIMOA and A10 started a new cooperation on the MI Tour Guide. Read also here on the A10 website. More information about this will follow soon. If you have any questions for now, please contact us.

MIMOA has renewed the advertisement possibilities!
Go to this page for more details and our new Mediakit 2013.

Win the eVolo 2012 Limited Edition Skyscraper Competition Poster by liking and/or sharing this facebook post!

eVolo has kindly made 5 copies available to raffle among our fans.
If you want a chance to win a copy of this unique publication, the only thing you have to do is like or share our facebook post.
On November 7th at noon (GMT+1) we close the competition and we will choose randomly 5 winners.

More info about the eVolo Skyscraper Competition:
Established in 2006, the eVolo Skyscraper Competition has become the world’s most prestigious award for innovative high-rise architecture. The contest recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations. Studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are some of the multi-layered elements of the competition. It is an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of dynamic and adaptive vertical communities.
The first place was awarded to Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao, and Dongbai Song from China for their project Himalaya Water Tower. The second place was awarded to Yiting Shen, Nanjue Wang, Ji Xia, and Zihan Wang from China for their project Mountain Band-Aid. The recipient of the third place is Lin Yu-Ta from the Taiwan for a Vertical Landfill to be located in the largest cities around the globe.
Among the honorable mentions there are underwater projects for ocean research, mobile skyscrapers, floating cities, and temporal buildings that attach to existing structures – proposals that offer a view of the world to come.

The eVolo 2012 Limited Edition Skyscraper Competition Poster showcases 620 innovative projects submitted to the eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition.

You didn’t win or wish to order more issues of this publication?
Visit the eVolo webshop here.

Content Selection and Quality.

Managing content by creating Mi guides
The Mi guide offers visitors a simple selection tool. It adds external projects to a guide, prints a booklet or downloads as a PDF. Since the launch of the first version of the Mi guide it has proved to be a very popular tool and has created a rise in visitor numbers. This feature could develop into something bigger, creating a sub-community around the development of the Mi guides. It can achieve a higher level than just contributing, because people are able to compile a list based not on what they have submitted, but on what they think is important to experience.

Creative use of Mi Guides
We noticed a new creative use of the Mi guides: people collecting content based on other, special preferences, not related to geographic location. They are compiling reference guides, with projects all made out of the same material or categorized in the same discipline (for example all housing). Some architecture firms even started publishing their own portfolio and urge their clients to download it from their personal profile page on MIMOA. This phenomenon prompts a new interesting question: How can on-line databases help architects to archive their work by promoting the exchange of information, and vice versa?

Turn community into content
Selecting projects for a Mi guide is actually also a form of “voting”. But voting isn’t the only mechanism for collecting feedback. We can run tests to see what buttons people click on and check our statistics to see which projects are viewed most, where visitors come from and where they go. Many users question whether MIMOA is really ‘Web 2.0′, with an editing panel behind all publications. Fortunately they forget the other features that turn community into content – “fortunately”, because whenever the visitor is unaware that he’s using these tools, they prove to work best. MIMOA is a convincing example of how to fuse these two strands, combining metadata and social networking.

The Web truly is a medium that can measure, monitor, track, and segment the marketplace with a rigor and intensity that force an editorial refocus. That’s great. That’s what responsiveness and innovation should be all about.

Text from “Lessons Learned: We Still Don’t Get the Web”, article published in Wired
04.29.97, Author: Michael Schrage

Photo by Daici Ano, of the Jurgen Lehl Boutique in Tokyo
To see all posts in this series on ‘how we did it’, type ‘MIMOA: the story’ into the search bar on top, or click on this category.

Bid on over 70 original hand sketches by the world’s TOP architects and designers, who love architecture for humanity.

The I Love Architecture Charity Auction starts today, June 19 2012 at 4PM (PDT)!
Over 70 contributions from 50 of the world’s top architects and designers are being auctioned. Proceeds will support Architecture for Humanity. Help them reach their fundraising goal of $150,000 by June 30.

Contributions from: Frank Ching • DJ Spooky • Jeanne Gang • Frank Gehry • Michael Graves • Fumihiko Maki • HWKN • J. Mayer H. • Steven Holl • Bjarke Ingels • Michelle Kaufmann • Kengo Kuma • Daniel Libeskind • Andrew Luck • Richard Meier • Renzo Piano • Alysia Reiner • Kevin Roche • Richard Rogers • Moshe Safdie • SHoP Architects • Paolo Soleri • Michael Van Valkenburgh • Tod Williams + Billie Tsien • Zoka Zola and many more

what: I Love Architecture Charity Auction
when: June 19 – 29, 2012
where: eBay (register here)

Place a BID

Read here more about Architecture for Humanity.

The I Love Architecture Auction is promoted by MIMOA – the online architecture guide. Do you also want MIMOA as a media partner for your event? Contact us, and hear all about our reach.

Sunday May 13, MIMOA opens the exposition of architecture photographer Dirk Verwoerd in World gallery Dara in Amersfoort.

"Ogenschijnlijke perspectieven" – modern architecture from Valencia to Rotterdam, from Bangkok to Groningen
With the exposition "Ogenschijnlijke perspectieven" (Apparent perspectives) the Dutch photographer Dirk Verwoerd shows his specialty: architecture photography. Dirk has extensive experience with projects for various international clients. The endless travel, different cultures and spheres of the world are his main inspirations for the art photography. Moreover, Dirk is one of the most active contributors on MIMOA. At the moment of writing he has added over 360 photos to 146 projects!

Grand opening exposition:
Sunday May 13, 15.00 uur
by MIMOA, Naomi Schiphorst & Mieke Vullings

Location:
Dara wereldgalerie
Grote koppel 5
3813 AA Amersfoort

Everybody is welcome, admission is free!

This exhibition is part of the International Photography Biennale GRID 2012. In a series of exhibitions, events and workshops in Amersfoort is dedicated to photography.

More information, visit the websites of:
Dirk Verwoerd
Dara Wereldgalerie
International Photography Biennale GRID 2012