Ladakh is a cold desert in India. Lying in the Great Himalayan Region, it has the mighty Karakoram Range in the North and in the south, it is bound by the Zanskar mountains. The area is remote: the main road linking Ladakh with the rest of India is cut off by snow for six months or more each year. It is one of the least populous areas of India and is largely rural in nature. The capital city of Leh is the biggest and only urban center in the greater Ladakh region. This is a high-altitude desert environment where water is precious. Agriculture and human settlements depend on water from snow melt, which flows towards the Indus River.
Design a Museum of Snow by the 3rd of November. Give us your boldest, most unique idea, and you might win a sixth month, fully-paid internship at the prestigious architecture office WXCA in Warsaw, Poland.
Graphic by Gary Polk & Jungjae Suh (Winners of Alternate Realities 2020)
After an overwhelming response to the first edition, theCharette is thrilled to announce the second edition of ‘Alternate Realities’ - the world’s most experimentative architecture competition!
Open Call: A Kiosk for the Future, www.outsider.si
The competition seeks answers to the question: what is the purpose of the modern kiosk, and how should it be designed as a modern architectural facility?
European Housing Innovation Awards are part of the Europe Housing Forum. The main objective of this contest is to showcase and reward meaningful initiatives that contribute to solutions for affordable housing in Europe.
Presentation skills are just as important as designing; one of the best mediums to present your architectural designs is through rendering. Architectural rendering aims to create life-like experiences of the buildings before they are built. Rendering aids the designer to convey his or her ideas, an image that represents the designers' imagination most realistically. Why you should take this Challenge? • To showcase you’re rendering skills. • To challenge yourself, create a single image that represents your design thought process. • To be able to create a single image that displays briefly and smartly a bundle of ideas. • To present the idea of 'Quality over Quantity'
eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the 2022 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations; along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.
Design with Nature Contest: Responsive Cities 2021
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) with the Advanced Architecture Group and the BUILD Solutions project partners are proud to announce the Design with Nature Contest, a global platform to experiment and rethink urban environments in response to today’s global challenges.
The focus of this competition, the fifty-block area east of downtown Los Angeles known as Skid Row, contains one of the largest stable homeless populations in the United States. Established in the 1930s during the Great Depression, Skid Row’s population has ranged over the years between 4,000 to 8,000 inhabitants with the 2019 population count being 4,757, an 11% increase over the previous year. Given the impact of Covid-19, the Skid Row population is expected to not only significantly increase in the coming months but to be critically at risk due to health concerns. Lacking the ability to afford personal protection supplies and inability to maintain social distancing, the occupants of Skid Row are one of the most susceptible populations in Los Angeles and southern California.
Construction is the most obvious reward for an architectural project, but very often in order to make things buildable, architects have to sacrifice innovation and creativity and surrender to business as usual. Non Architecture launches an award to honour those projects that didn’t take that approach and are unbuilt and unbuildable, either because they were designed to stay as such, or because their innovative charge brought them into the realm of the unpractical. We want to reward their innovative and experimental character with an award, organized in 4 categories – Urban, Landscape, Architecture and Aspatial.
How do we define “home”? Although our ideas about home are constantly being rethought, the careful examination of “home” has recently come to the attention of architects and nonarchitects alike. In recent times, almost everyone has had to confront their perspective of “home” as these spaces have evolved to incorporate so many aspects of our daily lives.
Recreate Concrete Outdoor Picnic Furniture Public Space Design Competition visual
Public Space Design Competition, “Recreate Concrete Outdoor Picnic Furniture” is the second international open competition of ideas to reveal talents and fresh ideas that can benefit to the community sponsored by leading precast concrete company URBASTYLE : www.urbastyle.com
This Open Call of ideas invites architectural ideas/visions/concepts/solutions/proposals at any scale, that respond to any topical issues plaguing Nigeria's development. These include but are not limited to : COVID-19, Insecurity, Restructuring, Power Supply, Traffic, Flooding etc.
FlexiPod: Your Space, Anywhere Everywhere. Image by Lola Tartakover (Arts and Creatives ltd))
Throughout the current global circumstances, we at Arts and Creatives have experienced first-hand the challenges that architecture students and graduates are facing in maintaining design motivation and securing roles in industry. This is why we decided to launch a competition solely for young architects and architecture students with the aim to enhance skills, raises awareness of topical design issues and prepare for the next step in the architectural journey.
Join us in reimagining drawing for the digital age. With $100K in cash prizes and 18 winners, we’re calling on creatives to take drawing to a place it’s never been.
Mental Canvas, Inc. is a software technology company whose unique platform has reimagined drawing for the digital age by enabling creations that can be experienced outside the confines of a page or a single moment in time. Mental Canvas picks up where pen and paper leave off, taking drawing to a place it's never been. Now, we're calling on creatives to join us in redefining what it means to draw. With $100K in prizes and 18 winners, we're looking for the most impressive and imaginative scenes created with Mental Canvas Draw™.
India is vulnerable, in varying degrees, to a large number of disasters. Most of us will remember the year 2020 for the coronavirus pandemic. However, while the pandemic brought our human lives to a standstill, nature could not be reigned in. Amidst the raging pandemic, India survived cyclones, floods, rains, biblical plagues, industrial disasters, locust attacks, and whatnot.
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