Architecture goes beyond the buildings themselves, making them functional public art installations that have strong impacts on both people and the environment. Our architecture is the reflection of our era, our aspirations, and our values.
Novecento Two-in-One Lighting System is the new design competition by Novecento and Desall. Creative talents are invited to submit proposals for a versatile and modern LED lamp that can be installed both as a flush ceiling light and a pendant light. The lamp should be intended for large-scale distribution and must be designed for private indoor spaces, acting as a piece of furniture even when not in use (lights off). Participation is free of charge.
Design a new concept of small-scale architecture with the sixt annual MICROHOME competition. Enter the MICROHOME / Edition #6 Architecture Competition now! 7,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: June 16, 2023
The sixt annual MICROHOME architecture competition is part of the Buildner's Small Scale Architecture Appreciation Movement, which hopes to highlight the fact that bigger isn’t always better. With great design and innovative thinking, small-scale architecture could change how this and the next generation view residential property.
Archisource presents the Drawing of the Year 2022, the annual, international standout drawing competition - open to all and free to enter! With over £30,000 GBP ($35,000 USD) worth of prizes, the Drawing of the Year celebrates the very best imagery created by professionals and students around the world. This year all entries will receive a free Affinity V2 Universal Licence!
Enter the Portugal Elderly Home Architecture Competition now! 10,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: April 19, 2023
People are living longer than ever before, as a result an aging population is struggling to find a place to live out their golden years. While there are of course often concerns about healthcare and support, there are a huge number of factors that affect older generations that aren’t always considered. Many in the older generation struggle to adapt to the changes in their lifestyle. They’re not able to do everything they used to, they’re not working or interacting with their community as much, and of course many will be dealing with the loss of loved ones.
"Plug-in City" is no longer a concept. Hackcity seeks to develop a brand-new city using the autonomous skateboard chassis technology. We invite all forward-thinking talents in urban design to co-build a better future smart city.
The international entries are called to a design contest - Hackcity, 100 Moving Pixels, to design a modular smart city with 100 Moving Spaces (L4 autonomous robobuses).
TerraViva Competitions launches WILDLIFE PAVILIONS, a new architecture contest that aims to explore the potentialities of “Torbiere del Sebino” Reserve (Iseo, Italy) in order to come up with creative design proposals focused on nature. Prizes up to 7.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed by, among others, Zhang Ke (ZAO/standardarchitecture), Alessandro Bonizzoni (Fosbury Architecture), Jan van Dijk (Van Dijk Architects), Nicola Russi (Laboratorio Permanente);
We are told that the Modern Dream came from European colonial powers that transported their model of industrial progress to colonial cities such as Hanoi, Vietnam through a “mission civilisatrice.” However, modernity was and continues to be a malleable dream. Taken up by colonialists and Vietnamese nationalists alike over the course of the 20th century, industrial development tied city (re)building to socio-economic restructuring and nation-building within the context of Vietnam’s emergence on the world stage. The industrial paradigm was not only a mode of production, but created new urban publics of laborers and consumers, from colonial subjects to a modern and self-sufficient "new Vietnamese people" in the post-independence era.
Enter the Office Design Challenge / Edition #2 Architecture Competition now! 7,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: May 4, 2023
The modern workplace has evolved a lot over the past few decades, and the introduction of new technologies and the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic is set to completely change how we work even more in the future.
Design interventions into pre-existing sites play a critical role in global healthcare. The 2023 Epidemic Urbanism Initiative Design Competition will focus on adaptive reuse, inviting submissions that consider how pre-existing vacant, underused, or currently used sites, structures, and spaces can be transformed into healthcare settings with thoughtful, sustainable design interventions. Many communities rely on the adaptive reuse of spaces designated or constructed for other purposes to fulfill community healthcare needs, whether it is a former school repurposed as a vaccination clinic in western Canada, a house converted into a women’s health center in Kenya, or a field transformed into a temporary hospital comprised of tents and outbuildings in Bolivia. Global health crises, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic, create an urgent need to transform existing buildings and sites for both ongoing community care and emergency treatment. This adaptive reuse is the theme of the 2023 EUI Design Competition.
Archstorming, in support of the NGO PROVS and UNHCR, is launching an architecture competition in Mayukwayukwa, the oldest refugee camp in Africa. Working in the field of emergency architecture, the competition will be looking for designs for a new Sustainable Development Center to be built in the camp, a space where refugees will be able to carry out projects in areas such as health, education or construction. Special attention will be paid to the use of sustainable materials and easy-to-build construction techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling refugees to use the method learned when building their own houses. You can register today here.
The Merit List [TML] is an initiative by Matter and supported by Takshila Educational Society to recognise projects of critical relevance in the context of contemporary architecture of India.
ACA's 9th International Design Competition 2022 with the theme, “Building Envelope”. The building facade has acted as a major factor in manifesting environmentally conducive spaces and improving overall performance of the built form. While conventional architecture is known to have employed passive control techniques; contemporary buildings have used active or semi active controlling methods. The competition calls for entries that have a strong focus on creating sustainable and environmentally viable prototype that is sensitive to the candidate’s own heritage & culture and geography. Entries will be judged based on the solution proposed and how sensitively the issue has been addressed.
On September 24th, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova launched the International Architecture Design Competition for the Rehabilitation of The National Philharmonic of Moldova – ”Rising Philharmonic”. Rising Philharmonic is an architectural competition open to all international architects and architecture bureaus.
Dobrich is a city in the eastern part of Bulgaria, situated in the Eastern part of Europe. A city with a population of about 80,000 people, it aspires to building a central urban environment of modern, global standards. Pleasant, comfortable, safe and attractive, it prides itself in involving its citizens in defining its vision for development.
The transformation process must take into consideration not only the economic, social and cultural realities, but also the unique historical past and traditions of the city. Specific “urban heritage” must be the starting point for the development of an urban policy. By transforming the city we are indirectly transforming the lives of its citizens, and this is a process in which they cannot be indifferent.
