International Open Design Competition

The RIBA Competitions Office is pleased to announce the launch of a new international open competition for the design of an innovative, architecturally striking educational, conference and seed production complex at the National Wildflower Centre, off Junction 5 of the M62 in the Liverpool City Region within the administrative Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley. The client for the competition is Landlife with funding of £100,000 for the competition provided by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).    

Entries are invited from architects or architect-led teams, which will be judged anonymously at the First Stage. The authors of up to six schemes will then be invited to develop their design proposals and present them to a Jury Panel at interview. Each Stage Two competitor will receive an honorarium of  £6,000.

For further information on how to enter the competition, please visit www.architecture.com/competitions| or contact the RIBA Competitions Office on +44(0)113-234-1335. The deadline for Stage One submissions is 7 January 2009.