Young Architects Competitions has announced new competition for architects, designers, students to design two road monuments, becoming the landmarks of the new plants of Automobili Lamborghini at the entrance of its historic plants. 

YAC collaborated with Lamborghini, the world-wide renowned Italian luxury super sports cars manufacturer, to celebrate its third model of the House of the Bull SUV 2018-will soon be leading the market as the new Made in Italy luxury icon: a supersport car among the SUVs.

The competition of Automobili Lamborghini invites all architects, designers and students to build two architectonic landmarks aimed at marking the entrances of Sant’Agata Bolognese and its plant. Two landmarks to celebrate the legend and sculpt in matter the history of speed, power and innovation.

One of the landmarks will be located at the Lamborghini museum, which is also in Sant'Agata Bolognese

Aimed at creating an internationally known intervention, Lamborghini Road Monument will soon mark contemporary architecture significantly. Moreover, it will give the opportunity to value the talent of the designers working for the House of the Bull, which is one of the most prestigious and renowned brands in the world. Lamborghini thanks all the designers who will take part in this challenge.

The plant is placed between the countryside of Bologna and the little town of Sant’Agata. It covers more than 316.000 sqm and it will be complete thanks to the new installations aimed at ease the traffic and to clearly show the accesses to a place that marked the automotive history.

The museum displays the brand's luxury sports cars and SUVs, which have been produced since 1963

According to the competition brief, the design should reflect the character and the values of Lanborghini- one of the most renowned and valued brand of the international scenario in an architectonic installation. 

The international jury is comprised of acclaimed architects including Patrik Schumacher form Zaha Hadid Architects, Fabio Novembre from Studio Fabio Novembre, Yama Karim from studio Libeskind, Nicola Scaranaro from Foster+Partners, Giuseppe Cappochin from AWN, Annalisa Trentin from UNIBO, Stefano Domenicali from Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., Francesco Dal Co from Casabella.

One of the sculptures will be placed at the entrance to the car brand's plant in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy

Prizes for the competition with € 20.000 cash prize in total:

1st prize 12.000 € + construction + 1 year subscription Casabella

2nd prize 4.000 € + 1 year subscription Casabella 

3rd prize 2.000 € + 1 year subscription Casabella

Honorable mentions “Gold” 1.000 € + 1 year subscription Casabella

Honorable mentions “Gold” 1.000 € + 1 year subscription Casabella 

10 Honorable mentions 1 year subscription Casabella 

30 Finalists 1 year subscription Casabella +All the awarded proposals will be transmitted to architectural magazines and websites + will be hosted in international exhibitions. All the finalist proposals will be published on YAC's website.

Calendar/Fees

Standard regitsration: September 5-October 2 / 75 € team*

Late registration: October 3-31/ 150 € team*

Material submission deadline: November 2

Jury summoning: November 7

Results announcement: November 21

+22% VAT. Fulfilling an “Early bird”, “Standard” or “Late” registration does not affect submission deadline.

All material and guidelines can be downloaded from YAC's website. For FAQ and other information, please visit the competition website. 

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