Peepshow Pavilion Design Competition
The Peepshow Pavilion design competition is part of the annual Artcity
celebration held in Calgary, Alberta, taking place this year from
September 8-17, 2006. Peepshow has grown into a very successful
international competition; last year, over 80 submissions from 15
different countries around the world were received.
Artcity is a celebration of contemporary visual art, architecture and
design, held every September in Calgary. Artcity opens possibilities for
conversations, debates and realizations about how and what artists,
architects and designers do and how they see and shape the world around
us. By programming underused, neglected and temporary spaces, the
festival enters into environments where the public live and work,
reshaping and redefining Calgary's everyday landscape.
Promoting visual art, design, and architecture through a creative street
presence for visual art, the annual juried Peepshow competition
commissions the design and construction of one pavilion every year.
These temporary Artcity pavilions, scattered throughout Calgary's
downtown core, create a dialogue among designer, artist, and viewer,
encouraging discourse into the fine art and the urban relationships that
evolve around them. Artcity began presenting exhibitions in the Peepshow
pavilions in the fall of 2002, and previous winning entries will be
constructed and programmed as temporary art pavilions during Artcity
2006. Winning entries from the past few years have been submitted from
Canada (2001), Portugal (2002), USA (2003), and Mexico (2004), and USA
(2005).
For more information, please visit
http://www.art-city.ca