The good collaboration of organizers and the international composition of the jury, have contributed to enhancing the credibility of the competition and the participation of 95 teams from 34 countries and 5 continents. The Bulgarian participants were 21; participants from India – 5, UK – 5, Italy –  4,  Iran – 4, Russia – 4, Romania – 3, Ukraine – 3, Georgia – 3, Philippines – 3, Hong Kong – 3, Indonesia– 3, Ethiopia – 3, United States – 3, Sweden – 2, Spain – 2, Hungary – 2, China – 2, Colombia – 2, Peru –  2, Japan – 2. Projects also have betrayed and teams from Germany, Greece, France, Belarus, Kosovo, Poland, Lebanon, Egypt, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, and Venezuela. In this aspect the competition had a serious success. Comments on the pages of the contest were entirely positive. There was gratitude for the chance young architects through the contest to learn a lot about the topic – “this great ocean” (Yassaman Abzade).

The competition gave its response to a contemporary understanding of the form, of the profile of its creators, of the public attitudes to the subject (the audience award).

Anonymous contest was targeted to architects under the age of 35 years and students. Initial intentions were to put an even lower threshold of age – 29 years. The competition confirmed the classic dependence according to the results of the accumulated experience.

Commenting on this restrictive condition, set by the organizers of the contest, in fact, we explain one of the important intentions – to be opened an opportunity for the expression of the young in the profession. It is known that under the conditions of crisis worldwide, finding a job, the improvement in practical tasks, impingement of stimulating the imagination themes, are increasingly slipping and zipping circumstances for novice professionals. This support was the first specific objective of the contest.

The essence of the task has indeed giant dimensions. The principal difficulty emerges from the combination of several important requirements. To create both functional and unique impact form. To achieve modularity. To use concrete material prepared in laboratories for innovative technology of Devnya Cement. The material as an important shaping factor should be applied in the context of the Sea Garden of Varna. The application of innovative and yet unknown material was the second specific objective of the race.

The third specific objective was by contributing to the urban environment of Varna (a basic aspiration of the Varna Design Forum) to achieve enrichment of the creating of forms globally.

Rositsa Nikiforova, Christo Topchiev

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Dear Academic Officer / Dear Professor,

2014 will be the year of LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIa [1]’s 14TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION, _FUNDAMENTALS_ [2], directed by REM KOOLHAAS [3] (June the 7th-November the 23rd, 2014).

La Biennale considers its International Architecture Exhibition a place where UNIVERSITIES, ACADEMIES OF FINE ARTS, RESEARCH CENTRES and UNIVERSITIES OF APPLIED SCIENCES can plan and carry out educationally significant and rewarding activities for their students, and it intends
to offer them particularly favourable attendance and participation conditions.

Beside its customary policy of discounts and special education activities for Institutes of Higher Learning, La Biennale has devised “BIENNALE SESSIONS [4]”, a SPECIAL PLATFORM for groups of 50 OR MORE UNIVERSITY PARTICIPANTS (students and faculty members), ready to become affiliated to the 14th International Architecture Exhibition.

BIENNALE SESSIONS [4] offers students and faculty members from affiliated institutes unique attendance and participation conditions, thanks to the following benefits:

* SPECIAL PASSES granting access to the Exhibition for 3 CONSECUTIVE DAYS, for 20.00€ per person;
* the possibility to ORGANISE A WORKSHOP, SEMINAR or PRESENTATION in a space located in one of the Exhibition venues, including free basic technical equipment and assistance;
* the possibility to HAVE PACKET LUNCHES for 7.00€ at the Exhibition snack areas and restaurants, during their visit;
* help with finding a convenient accommodation with La Biennale’s affiliated operators;
* free RESERVATION AND ATTENDANCE of possible COINCIDING CONFERENCES and other events organised by La Biennale’s Architecture Department;
* DISCOUNTS AND SPECIAL ATTENDANCE CONDITIONS for possible coinciding festivals organised by La Biennale’s Dance, Music, Theatre and Cinema sectors;
* a special PROMOTION AND COMMUNICATION PLAN, including a mention on La Biennale’s website and links to websites of participating universities.

I am glad to send you this first information about BIENNALE SESSIONS, which is being sent to general secretariats of Universities and Art Academies worldwide, and to invite you to join the programme, by replying with a sign of interest. More formal communications may then follow.

With my kindest regards,

Valentina Borsato

Head of Education and Promotion

La Biennale di Venezia

_Info and affiliation_

_Ph (39) 041.2728.382_

_biennale.sessions@labiennale.org___

Links:
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[1] http://www.labiennale.org/en/Home.html
[2] http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/news/25-01.html
[3] http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/director/
[4] http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/news/18-11.html

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The 22^nd INTERNATIONAL URBAN PLANNERS EXIBITION was held in November, in Nis, Serbia. Our Forum presented the Master Plan of the city of Varna under the “Structural plans” section. Together with a theme covering the water front of Varna and the link of the port to the Asparuhovo and Galata neighbourhoods under the “Student Projects” section, the thesis of Nikola Malinov, under the instructions of Prof. D.Sc. Arch. Ivan Nikiforov, was presented.

We received a special invitation for participation at the XXII Review Competition for diploma projects of all Senior Architectural Schools of Ukraine, during the period 30 Oct – 1 Nov, in Odessa. VDF sent 3 diploma projects of students from the VFU “Chernorizets Hrabar”. The jury assessed with first degree honors all three projects as follows:

• In the category “Urbanization” the diploma project “The missing link” of Nikola Malinov, under the instructions of Prof. D.Sc. Arch. Ivan Nikiforov and

• the diploma project for the South coast of Varna Lake of Dobromir Krastev, under the instructions of Prof. D.Sc. Arch. Ivan Nikiforov and Ph.D. Stancho Vekov, in the same category and

• In the category “Public works” the diploma project “Museum of Underwater Archaeology” of Raya Daskalova, under the instructions of Ph.D. Arch. Rositsa Nikiforova.

The Rectorate of the Odessa State Academy of Construction and Architecture expressed in a letter special thanks for the participation and congratulations for the high professionalism of the presented diploma projects.

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