After the collapse of Chicago's real estate market few massive abandoned project left some scars along the Lake Michigan shore. One of the projects was a foundation for a singular 150-story condominium tower designed by an internationally-renowned Spanish architect. The tower was dreamed to become a new icon of the city. However that project is not going to be built anyway.
Now what else can be done with this important site?
That's the challenge of this competition. The participants have to generate ideas about (may be) new intervention to the place with programs proposed by themselves.
This is a single stage design ideas competition open to both students and professionals from any country.
The registration fees for entry is:
For Students: $50
For others: $90
For CAC members: $30
(Payable by credit cards or via PayPal)

The deadline of registration/submission is May 3rd, 2010.
This competition seems to be an interesting chance of brainstorming with a mixture of architecture and urban design issues along with a possibility of proposing The New Icon of Chicago.
Visit the Competition Site for details and downloadable contents.

This is a clearer view of the site:

The Second World War is one of the biggest scratches on the picture of world history. It comes with different notions to different persons and countries. Several memorials and monuments are standing around the world hosting the memories of the Second Wold War so far.

The Government of Poland is willing to put another landmark on the way of making world war memorials. They have declared an architectural design competition to make "The Museum of the Second World War" intended to become a new identity landmark of the City of Gdansk.

The competition is open to professionals from any country with professional license in their home country and at least 5 years work experience or at least one built project no smaller than 2000 SqM.
Prize: The winning project will receive 80,000 Euro.
Jury: Wiesław Bielawski, Grzegorz Buczek, Wiesław Czabański, Wojciech Duda, George Ferguson, Tomasz Konior, Daniel Libeskind, Jack Lohman, Andrzej Pągowski, Hans Stimmann, Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda

All interested participants must send a "Requests to Participate in the Competition" within 26th March, 2010
This 'request' will be checked and selected Architect or groups will get the opportunity to participate the competition. Selected architects are to submit their final design by 13th August 2010.
Find all other details in the Competition Website.

Every thoughtful design must have some kind of unrealized potentials! So don't just let your un-winning competition entries hibernate in your drawer or hard disk. There's a chance to re-submit your works in the Architizer Competition Competition 2010! You can submit any of your competition entries done in 2009 which has NOT been awarded the first prize.

The submitted entries will be judged on a general architectural merit basis, not according to criteria of the original competition. The submission is online and free. Anyone of the design team of a competition entry may submit the project crediting all the team members.

The result will be published on 19th February. The winning design will be rewarded $1500 USD cash prize and will be featured on Architizers front page.  Four special mentions will also be awarded and featured on Architizer. And the finalists will be asked to participate in an exhibition in at Relative-Space Design Showroom in New York this Spring.

The competition website is open for submission up to February 15, 2010
11.59pm EST.