The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) opens a Juried competition for professional and non professional photographers worldwide: The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award. WPGA invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements are welcome to The Robert Cornelius Award. The winning images will be featured in The Photo Review, and published in the 2011 Robert Cornelius Portrait Award Calendar. The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award will consist in a cash prize of US $1000, and the winners of each category will receive a cash prize of US $300.

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Following the success of 2008 Bridge Design Competition, National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) School of Architecture would like to further the event, by offering a second design competition to foster idea dialogues among students. Building upon past experiences, NTUT hopes to enhance the platform on which global exchanges can take place. Given architecture’s recent involvement with sustainability and global warming, this competition calls for creative responses to these environmental concerns. This competition takes on an elemental perspective to architectural design and sustainability. ObjectiveEntrants are to imagine and produce creative proposals for an ecological “WALL”. The evaluation and definition of “WALL” are open to applicants’ imaginations. Entrants are free to choose or make site, real or virtual.

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