Introduction: The aim of this open call is to find ideas for creating a public space that is used by a variety of people in the city for different public activities. The challenge is to create a hub through a combination of major public activities including theatre, lecture rooms, exhibition
Introduction: OPENGAP organizes the tenth edition of this open ideas competition seeking for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary, proposals, committed to a strategy of implementing architecture in a natural environment. Approaches should point to find synergies between nature and the building itself. Summary: Each participant or team can propose the location of their Project. This competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around
Introduction: YAC – Young Architects Competitions launches RIYADH DREAM VILLAS, the second competition located in Saudi Arabia and inviting architects to write a new chapter of living at the edge of Riyadh’s desert by designing two immeasurably valuable architectural interventions. Summary: The cash prize of € 25, 000 will be distributed
Introduction: In this competition, participants have to design a space on the street where people view their spatial and social environments as a playground of knowledge, a place to see, touch, feel, taste, listen to, socialize with and learn from. A place where they see the world very differently and
Introduction: The City of Stuttgart and the State of Baden-Württemberg are organising an open international ideas competition in cooperation with the International Building Exhibition 2027 (Internationale Bauausstellung 2027 StadtRegion Stuttgart, IBA’27). In 2027, the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart will be 100 years old. This upcoming anniversary forms the basis for
Introduction: Call for program submissions are now open for the 19th annual Architecture + the City Festival. Festival programs currently will offer in-person and virtual experiences; programming subject to change based on COVID-19 protocols during the time event takes place. Summary: SUBMISSION PROCESS Submit a program proposal by creating an
Introduction: How can design be used to challenge the status quo, to interrupt the jargon, to disrupt and redirect ecological and socio-economic flows? LA+ Journal’s fourth international design ideas competition invites you to take an established place and design your own beneficial interruption within it. You can site your interruption anywhere and,
Introduction: TerraViva Competitions launches TACTICAL URBANISM NOW! 2021, a new edition of the architecture competition that puts the focus on the transformation of public space all over the world. Prizes up to 7.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed by, among others, Arturo Mc Clean (Miralles Tagliabue EMBT), Liz Wreford
Introduction: Jianhu (Jian Lake) acts as a cultural landmark and witnesses the development of the times, transcending itself unremittingly. Under the background of a new era, we would like to invite global planners, architects, and designers, hereby to submit your “transcending” proposals along the lakeshore, thus to create a revived, prosperous Jianhu
Introduction: “A Modern Classic” Campus — International Competition for Campus Planning Design and Architectural Schematic Design of Eastern Institute of Technology (Tentative) is calling for entries, planning to solicit campus planning design philosophies and detailed design schemes that are eco-friendly, flexible, intensive, and implementable from the world. Summary: I. Project
Introduction: This open call seeks solutions for the construction of an innovation campus in Saint-Germain-en-laye. A 20,000 m2 technology and university campus, labelled “Territoire d’Industrie” and “Grand Lieu d’Innovation” since 2019, iXcampus is a unique place of exchange between the worlds of business, research and higher education in the fields
Introduction: The City of Kerava (Finland) is organizing an international architectural competition to develop the area of the Kerava Station. The competition form is an open idea competition, and it will start in November 2021 and end in February 2022. With the help of the competition, the city will seek
Introduction: In order to imagine the Porte des Alpes territory tomorrow, the Métropole de Lyon is launching an innovative territorial foresight approach in connection with the State, the cities of Bron, Chassieu and Saint-Priest, as well as Sytral and Sepal. At the end of November, it launched an international urban
Introduction: This challenge aims to design a senior citizen co-living space; that can provide community living and help them stay connected and together in the rapidly changing urban context. The design should establish a connection through myriad different ways but what is most important is the creation of a space that
Introduction: The challenge is to design a civil protection centre that can become a shelter for town people during hurricane emergencies. It will operate as a command centre for agencies responsible for citizen protection, rescue, and management. Description: The structure must be fortified to stand against the hurricane hazards of
Introduction: The purpose of this design competition is to select a creative design plan that can establish advanced facilities for agricultural research and education and provide active responses for new demands in this rapidly changing industrial technical fusion and innovation era. Also, it should be suitable to perform a crucial
Introduction: The purpose of this design competition is to provide efficient and creative spaces for various training and self-development activities such as culture, education, experience, and physical education, and to establish a youth center as a representative building in Incheon. Description: ｢International Design Competition for Yeonsu-gu Youth Center｣ BACKGROUND &
Introduction: On behalf of Oxford University Development, we are delighted to announce this competition to find creative forward-thinking master planners and landscape designers to deliver a world-leading Innovation District with the University’s Science park, an incubator of world-changing research, at its heart. Description: “We’re looking for a stellar team to
Introduction: The Vancouver Affordable Housing Challenge is tasking participants with designing a solution to the city’s current housing crisis. They are encouraged to consider designs that are both flexible and capable of accommodating different unit sizes including families, single professionals and couples. Description: Vancouver is located on the west coast of Canada
Introduction: For the Milan Navigli Canal Challenge, participants are tasked with conceptualising the Milan of the future and envisioning a symbiotic relationship between the city and the Navigli canal. Projects should focus on environmentally-friendly design, mobility, and the relationships between water and urban spaces. Description: Milan has a long history of
Introduction: The underwater city of Shi Cheng is often referred to as the ‘Atlantis of the East.’ Its ruins have managed to prevail gloriously for all these centuries so its potential as a wide-open tourist destination is to be explored. The challenge is to design a tourist centre on Qiandao Lake for the
Introduction: The competition is a collaboration between RESOLVE Collective, the Royal Borough of Greenwich, and Historic England’s High Streets Heritage Action Zone programme in Woolwich and invites both groups and individuals to apply, prioritising ‘first-time designers’ and collaborations with local residents. Applicants’ physical designs will be installed across a variety
Introduction: This competition asks you to weave a new dream for Australian cities and express it in a proposal for a future Australian city of 50,000 people or more located in a regional area. Your future city proposal will consist of an overall vision and the design of a 1km2
Introduction: The SKYHIVE / Edition No 5 is the fifth annual architecture competition that searches out the latest and greatest designs for an iconic high-rise structure. Participants of the SKYHIVE Challenge are tasked with creating a concept for a state-of-the-art tower that breaks from the norm. Description: Participants are encouraged to incorporate
Introduction: Co-organised by the Urban Planning & Design Institute of Shenzhen (UPDIS), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), the international agency ARQ and curated by Non-Architecture, this competition, titled “Community 2050”, aims to gather reflections and design inputs for more sustainable and equitable progress of cities. Description: The
Introduction: Jianhu (Jian Lake) is the origin of the local Yue civilization. It has witnessed the vitality and development of the city for thousands of years. Sitting at the junction between the Keqiao urban zone and Kuaiji Mountain landscape, it features a unique blended context of “mountain, lake, city and
Introduction: Architecture of Necessity, an international triennial for sustainable community building, is held by Virserum Konsthall with the support of the Municipality of Hultsfred and the Regional Federation of Kalmar County. The call is now open! Description: What entries can be submitted? Entries can be along the whole scale
Introduction: This design challenge has been conceived by Young Leader for Active Citizenship (YLAC) and Sensing Local and is being conducted in partnership with Janaagraha, Doddanekundi Rising and Banaswadi Rising. We invite proposals to reimagine two typical neighbourhood scale public spaces in two wards of Bengaluru – Doddanekundi (ward 85)
Summary: YAC – Young Architects Competitions – and Manni Group launch GHANA INNOVATION FARM, the third edition of the Manni Group Design Award aiming to design a hub where a system of infrastructures and a training centre will share with the local population knowledge and technologies to meet their needs. Description: The
Summary: The challenge is to Build with Speed, while respecting the context, which is about anchoring design with the help of the latest technologies, processes and materials to Recraft India’s growth story. Engineers and architects have to ambitiously and courageously take up the challenge to fulfil the nation’s promises, time
Summary: Culture in every region is unique, and revival of the symbiotic relationship between culture and nature will pave the path to achieve balance in the environment. The challenge is to design a cultural centre that is built in response to the climate in the region and will function as
Summary: SUPERSCAPE 2022: The biannual prize seeks to encourage innovative and visionary architectural concepts that explore new models of living and strategies for inhabiting an urban context over a broad expanse of 30 years. Reflecting processes of change, Superscape opens a creative space for unconventional ideas meant to deliver new impulses to real-life architectural output and urban development.
Summary: The UIA, in partnership with UN-Habitat, has launched the UIA 2030Award to promote the work of architects contributing to the delivery of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development together with the New Urban Agenda. The biennial award, synchronised with the World Urban Forum, invites all architects around the
Summary: The intent of this competition is to solicit design ideas for affordable, carbon positive housing. Designers should consider the replicability of their approach in multiple neighbourhoods, cities, and/or countries. Program size could range from a micro-home to a tall building depending on the select context or solution. There are
Summary: Public/Street furniture is like the art pieces on any cityscape canvas. They add weight to any street perspective. They play a very important role in shaping up cities. After the huge success of Urban Chair, we are back with the second edition of the Urban Chair design competition and
Summary: The Budapest Development Agency announces an international architectural design contest for the renewal of the Nyugati Railway Station and its surroundings. Nyugati Railway Station is both one of the most significant railway monuments and the busiest transport hub in Hungary, the most valuable development area of Budapest’s city centre.
Summary: The challenge of the competition is to design a play structure for children that can be installed in a public park. The aim is to create a structure that is inventive and would challenge the kids without any singularly functioning elements. The structure design must establish a connection or
Summary: The Urbanarium invites designers around the world to develop and present innovative solutions that enhance community vitality. Existing monocultural single-family neighbourhoods need to densify with Missing Middle housing, but that on its own isn’t enough. Those neighbourhoods also need a variety of activities to thrive. This competition asks designers
Summary: The design challenge looks for ideas to design an incremental house model that can be replicated in large numbers and grouped to create a low-income housing colony. It is a call for housing solutions that not only resolve today’s concerns and necessities, but they allow for extension, in the event
Summary: The design challenge looks at manifesting Bauhaus design principles on a bus stop. Bauhaus is an architectural movement that stands out in its characteristics, making art and functionality go hand in hand, elegantly. Standing out, with its sleek yet bold structural elements, this form of design, intended to fuse
Summary: The National Museum of Korea is an institution that oversees the preservation of state-owned buried cultural assets excavated from across the country based on the Cultural Heritage Protection Act. In addition, it has expanded its role from an institution that establishes and educates national cultural identity to a cultural
Introduction: The idea that Banja Luka should receive a quality and functional design which will articulate the existing undeveloped area in the immediate vicinity of the center of the city into a new city park proportionate to the size of the city, City of Banja Luka announce INTERNATIONAL OPEN PUBLIC
Introduction: This competition is looking for proposals to design a public town hall that will not only be a workplace for civilians, but also an interface between them and the citizens of the city. It should offer a platform for people to participate in political events. The transition from private to public access
Introduction: This competition is looking for proposals to design the model as a small self-sufficient village with a strong sustainable footprint, to make the most of the resources offered by the site. For the conception of the town you must first understand who the space is intended for and its
Summary: The aim of the competition, MINIMUM SCHOOL is to create a model sustainable school that creates a robust educational community in the remote area of Alchi, Ladakh. The school shall be built on the foundations of local culture and architecture with an aim to provide high-quality modern education. The
Summary: This international consultation aims to invite well-known design teams at home and abroad to carry out the international brainstorming for the conceptual design of Yingbin Pedestrian Bridge in the waterside area with an international vision, forward-looking thinking and innovative outcome. Description: Announcement of the International Consultation on the Conceptual Design
Summary: Drawing is a powerful medium that is not only used to record what is around us but can also be used to create an imagination for the future. Graphical representations can allow us to express our opinions and anxieties about the city and its architecture. It also gives us
Summary: We want you to design a visionary STEM Science High-School complex for TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey – similar to the NSF in the US), in Gebze, Turkey. Description: Science high-schools in Turkey are elite public boarding schools with a curriculum concentrated on natural sciences
Summary: The aim of the challenge is to understand how the physical device that measures the abstract concept of time, can be designed to be a representation of time itself. A public timepiece that stands as a philosophical and technological timestamp, could become a modern monument of timekeeping, for generations to
Summary: Concept design of Derbent Spiritual Center is a unique project of national and international interest, which symbolizes the harmony and coexistence of religions and cultures not only in the ancient City of Derbent, but as universal values of contemporary times. The project consists of the following elements: Central Cathedral
Summary: How will your idea of a Skyscraper that houses all evident typologies of today give birth to a more technologically advanced future? Design a Skyscraper for a functional community of 30,000 which is a synergy of architecture and technology. Reinvent the functions and aesthetics of the exterior that would
Summary: As a perceived lack of charging infrastructure is one of the largest barriers to EV adoption, this new design competition, The Electric Fuelling Station of the Future launched by Electric Autonomy Canada, is turning to designers and architects, hoping to enlist their help to fuel a fundamental change in
Summary: The purpose of the competition is to expand new functional planning solutions for the new educational center in Moscow for an area of 3.46 hectares, based on contemporary requirements for the educational process. The competition is organized by Level Group, the operator of the competition is Citymakers. Description: Russian
Summary: Within the framework of the Europe Housing Forum, the European Housing Innovation Awards 2021 has the objective to showcase and reward meaningful initiatives that, through innovation and collaboration, contribute to solutions for affordable housing in Europe. Description: Additionally, the European Housing Innovation Awards is inserted in the context of
Summary: Project Pardis Design Committee is calling for architectural concept design to build an Iranian Community Center (Pardis) in the Greater Seattle area. This project is part of the Alefba Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to the Iranian and Persian culture. This is a great opportunity for anyone with an
Summary: The City of Prague has launched an architectural design competition for the Vltava Philharmonic Hall in the latter half of August. This building will become a new city landmark, a heart of a future new municipal district. The Vltava Philharmonic Hall will also launch and accelerate the transformation of
Summary: Sharpen your pencils: the Infill Design Challenge 2.0 is open! Kelowna is one of the fastest-growing cities in Canada. We are looking for ways to introduce more innovative, integrated, attainable and sustainable “missing middle” housing and we want your ideas. Share your design for a chance to win $10,000!
Summary: Invited the top design team at home and abroad to participate in this collection, the Yangtze River Delta International Medical Center will become a model of the modern health care system, the cradle of outstanding physicians and medical scientists, medical science and technology innovation and transformation applications of the
Summary: International Competition for Conceptual Design of Shenzhen Tanglang Mountain Country Park City Viewing Platform is now officially open for application. Design teams from all over the world are welcome to apply. The competition is hosted by Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality, organized by Shenzhen Park Service,
Summary: PHI is pleased to announce the launch of an international architectural competition for the design of PHI Contemporary – a cultural institution in Montreal, dedicated to exploring the contemporary through public engagement with art and culture. Description: Founded by cultural protagonist Phoebe Greenberg, PHI is an ever-evolving cultural infrastructure
Summary: Fucheng Guanlan Industrial Land Development Overall Interest Coordination Project of Meiguan Innovative Industry Corridor (Plots 01, 02 and 03) is the first land development overall interest coordination project of Longhua District, which has a total land area of about 102,400m2. The project is located at the core zone at
Summary: This competition is to create pedestrian-friendly urban milieus within the distance of 15 minutes ― the average time taken for a human being to walk 1 km ― and suggest spaces where residents can stay communicating with one another. Urban spaces can be classified into functionally purposive (commercial, governmental,
Summary: Al Salimi Real Estate Development invites to apply for designing a unique and landmark commercial strip mall and boulevard in the southern area of AlKhobar city, Saudi Arabia, to attract high-level tenants of retail shops and F&B shops, with dynamic and eye-catchy outdoor spaces such as terraces, landscape, hardscape,
Summary: The primary purpose of the design competition is to provide high-quality administrative services to 1,090,000 citizens of Goyang-si. Moreover, it aims to select reasonable, creative, and future-oriented designs for building Goyang new city hall complex that will become a physical landmark of Goyang-si and emotional landmark of citizens of
Summary: This design competition aims to remake images of an aged public housing complex that has been built in the city for more than 30 years which was isolated and avoided in the local community, and reborn as a new multi-complex that combines residential, green space and various amenities for
Summary: International open two-phase architectural – landscape design contest focuses on one of the most remarkable areal of former Butchers market from 19th century – situated near Prague city center. Purpose of competition is to find best solution for public spaces in whole area. Description: “The subject of the solution
Summary: 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
Summary: 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. Description: Are you a student or
Summary: The challenge is to design a community of 50 eco-homes. Each home in the community should be designed keeping in mind all the sustainable aspects. We invite participants to design a gated housing community where the sustainability is at the center of the entire project. “The Urban Escape” design
Summary: The advent of the year of the Ox brought destruction to the ancient village of Wongding in Yunnan, which has been recognized as important cultural countryside heritage since 2006. This competition asks to submit the best ideas and or the best case studies examples that challenge existing planning tradition
Summary: This competition invites participants to create compact living spaces where a small group of people could have everything done in one space by packing their heterogeneous lifestyle efficiently. The design would have to face the challenge in a limited area of land considering human comfort and the effectiveness of
Summary: This international Design Challenge invites students and young practitioners to work in women inclusive and interdisciplinary design teams to contribute ingenious and creative design ideas to a new interpretation of traditional oasis systems set in locations across Australia, the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. Description: In response to the climate
Summary: This competition aims to educate and raise awareness among all of us about the devastating effect of natural disasters on individuals. Natural disaster survivors may suffer more than just loss. As designers, we must b able to empathize with the feelings of the survivors. Participants are required to design
Summary: MI’s JBC Masonry Innovation Competition wants your ideas for transformative masonry design. We’re challenging practicing and aspiring architects and engineers to advance the future of masonry design and construction. $30,000 in prizes is up for grabs across 3 categories! Description: Designers have the power to help create resilient, healthy,
Summary: The Taipei International Design Award (TIDA) 2021 is now open for entries. Our submission period is starting from today till August 10th, 2021. This year’s total prize money is up to NT$ 3.8 million including NT$ 600K for the grand prize -Taipei City Mayor Award. We sincerely invite all
Summary: This is an International Consultation competition on the Project of Hot Springs Island, Xiangshan Bay, conducted on three scope levels: the research scope, concept design scope (suggested urban design and landscape design scope), and the detailed design scope (Suggested architectural design scope). This project is located in Nanlang Area,
Summary: This competition is looking for the ideas for using the former K-2 site: A plan to create a global cultural waterside city incorporating the natural conditions of Mt. Palgong and the Geumho River plan for the integrated use of the former site including society, culture, industry, economy, and environment
Summary: Tamayouz Excellence Award invites architects and designers to submit their ideas for a safe and comfortable space for homeless girls that supports their health, educational and psychosocial needs and helps them to achieve their own potential. Participants are asked to design a sanctuary for homeless underage girls, as well
Summary: The waterfront Reconnects Design Competition is calling for ideas on how to create more welcoming and accessible connections to Toronto’s Central Waterfront. Applications are open to Canadian professional artists and/or designers in the hope to get a broad range of applicants who are seeking an opportunity to test, discover
Summary: Shenzhen 28th Senior High School is located at the intersection of city and nature. On the one hand, it faces a quiet and wide lake as well as a forest park. On the other hand, it borders an urban area which is in urgent need of renewal. Now, the
Summary: An Open International Competition for the development of an architectural and planning renovation concept for the city of Norilsk up to 2035 was announced by the TASS information agency. The competition was initiated by the city administration and the Norilsk Development Agency (ARN). The operator is CENTERLab, an international urbanist laboratory.The competition participants will be given a particularly challenging task: they will need to take into account the unique geographical location of Norilsk, as well as its climatic characteristics, historical development features, and the new vision for its territory. Description: Norilsk is currently seeing active development both as a worldclass metalworking hub and a skill, knowledge, and research center in the Arctic. The mission is to evolve from the concept of a monocity, where the entire community works in a single industry. Norilsk wants to expand its specialization by supporting business, creativity, and tourism. PARTICIPANTS Professional organizations in the field of integrated development of territories and urban planning, architecture, design, development of concepts for the development of public spaces, master planning, operating in Russia and capable of attracting specialists in the field of economics, finance, content programming
Summary: The Europan 16 topic focuses on living cities as a new paradigm, in which new kinds of synergies can be considered between the environmental, biological, social, economic, cultural, and political dimensions.This paradigm leads us to think in terms of co-evolution and interactions, and to work with regenerative project dynamics,
Summary: Sirius, the first federal territory in Russia, is initiating the competition for an urban design concept of its 7,5-kilometer long seafront promenade. Sirius is the first federal territory in Russia located on the Black Sea coast. Sirius aims to become an innovative, technological, educational, and tourist center of the country. Description: This competition is organized
Summary: The Global Challenge is a competition that recognizes the best community projects and helps accelerate their development. We select the most impactful initiatives, promote them amongst our global network of partners and connect them through meaningful collaborations. Description: WHAT TO SUBMIT Eligible projects must be collective spaces: community learning,
Summary: Archstorming’s new competition takes us to Bamako, Mali. We will be looking for designs to build a new school in an urban context for Enko Education, a fast-growing network of African international schools that offers affordable quality education in order to provide access for young Africans to the best
Summary: We are hosting a master plan concept design competition for architecture firms and talented individuals. The competition is open to everyone without registration fees with a prize pool of MNT 55 million (~ USD 19,200). Description: The “INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL PARK” project’s architectural design competition is hosted by Ikh Uilsiin
Summary: The mayor of Mariupol is inviting local and international architects, urbanists, landscape architects and interdisciplinary teams to put forward a bold and contemporary design framework for the reconstruction of the Mariupol Central Shore, a centrally located territory stretching for 2.75 kilometers along the Sea of Azov, with total area
Summary: This year’s edition of the Lagos Architecture Competition is asking you to design creative architectural solutions to the problem of plastic pollution. The premise of your project should be inspiring and present something new for the city of Lagos. There should be coherence between your original concept/idea and your final output and
Summary: We invite you to participate in a LARGE – SCALE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, the main task of which is to DEVELOP AN ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT OF a RECREATIONAL AREA in a cottage village. THE PRIZE FUND IS 1,000,000 rubles. Young professionals and students can take part in the competition along with
Summary: The main task of the contestants is to offer an original conceptual solution, demonstrating a modern, innovative approach to the integrated development of the coastal areas of Ulyanovsk with the elements of public and tourist infrastructure. Description: The aim of the contest is to obtain architectural and urban planning
Summary: This International Design Competition is searching for ideas for the Remodeling and expansion of the Seoul National University Cultural Center. Description: Competition title: The Remodeling and expansion of the Seoul National University Cultural Center (Bldg.#73) International Design Competition Type: International, one-stage Eligibility: Domestic and foreign architects (including corporations) Languages:
Summary: For the 2021 Chicago Prize, the Chicago Architecture Center and the Chicago Architectural Club call for new visions for the State of Illinois Center/James R. Thompson Center. Description: Designed by Helmut Jahn, the State of Illinois Center, also known as James R. Thompson Center, is facing the threat of
Summary: The goal of this design competition is to provide a setting for collaboration between students, teachers, designers, thinkers, architects, artists, and practitioners from a range of disciplines and fields in order to create and discuss conceptual design ideas that explicitly promote healthy places for vulnerable communities. It is searching
Summary: The Bank for International Settlements, situated in the heart of Basel and in the centre of Europe, acts as a regular forum for meetings of its constituency of central bankers, financial regulators and supervisory authorities. Over the last decades, the BIS has extended its presence in Basel as its
Summary: The City is launching the Sea2City Design Challenge (Sea2City) to help inform a framework and vision to guide urban development and ecological revitalization in Vancouver’s False Creek floodplain, a highly valued and constrained urban waterway in the heart of the city. Description: The innovative and exciting design challenge will
Summary: The Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) has just announced an open international architectural competition for international open architectural project competition of the building complex of Jonušas Radvila Palace and it‘s approaches in Vilnius, Lithuania. Description: The competition calls for a vision for the revitalization and empowerment of the
Summary: Fentress Global Challenge (FGC) is an annual international student design competition. This year, it calls students to create a new airport terminal concept. Entrants are encouraged to utilize forecasts for population, environmental conditions, modes of travel, and potential destinations in the creation of their concept. Description: ABOUT THE COMPETITION Despite a
Summary: Europan is a competition of ideas followed by implementation processes open to professionals of architectural, urban, and landscape design under 40 years of age. 9 European countries proposing 40 sites are participating in the Europan 16 edition on a common theme: Living Cities – Metabolic Vitalities / Inclusive Vitalities.
Summary: Zhiyuan Library 2021 – International charitable architectural design competition for college students, is a charitable project planning by Zhiyuan Charity. The main features of the competition ”charitable, college students and construction”, aiming at improving the practical ability of college students, through the integrated realization of architectural design to deepening
Summary: The Portland Society for Architecture (PSA) would like to invite you to visualize and test the limits of Portland’s newly adopted building code regulating the construction of accessory dwelling units. The hope of PSA is that this competition will bring to light any overly restrictive rules in the current
Summary: Students from all around the world are invited to join and to contribute their work to the renewal of the hard-pressed city. Let’s make the dream of the founders of INSPIRELI AWARDS a reality. Let’s help Beirut to be reborn again! Description: In August 2020, a devastating explosion of
Summary: This competition aspires to have a realistically feasible project that will restore vitality to the district and aims to select the best proposals of an urban and landscape project relevant to the competition zone, foreseeing the establishment of a university campus with residences, study zones and laboratories, green areas
Summary: The association ZukunftsRegion Westpfalz e. V. intends to develop the area of the ‘Weiße Kaserne’ in coordination with the city of Zweibrücken and the owners. The former barracks area is centrally located in the city of Zweibrücken/ Germany (in close proximity to the Ramstein US Airbase), not far from
Summary: In the conditions of the Anthropocene –a new bio-geological period where human activities on the global scale have a destructive impact on life on earth– how to face climate change and inequalities? How to imagine other possibilities to inhabit the planet Earth? The Europan 16 topic focuses on living
Summary: The Ireland Cultural Center will establish a dialogue with the context to give new value to the history of the place. Conferences rooms, workshop spaces, and areas for debates will host meetings in continuity with the cultural influences promoted by writers and artists of the past. A place that
Summary: As an important part of the Fourth Hebei International Urban Planning and Design Competition(Tangshan), Q-city Competition themed on “Quality City”, based on various types of public space in the city, such as waterfront space, green space, and places with industrial elements of Tangshan, the Competition requests for design proposals
Summary: Institute of Smart City and Management officially held the 2nd online international design competition. Following the great success of the 1st international online international design competition in 2019 with the theme “Future City: Smart design for the post-pandemic world”, the annual contest is held the second time in 2021
Summary: Construction of a country residential complex of 22 homes and common areas that integrates the concepts of innovation, technology, wellness, and sustainability, responding to the landscape through strategies that allow mimicry and the use of natural resources. The project must guarantee the thermal, auditory, luminous, and psychological comfort that
Summary: Vilnius city municipality, together with Lithuanian Railways (LTG), have just announced an open international architectural competition for the reconstruction of Railway Station, Central Station Square, and Public transport terminal in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania. Description: The participants will have to create an iconic and globally recognizable international
Summary: This competition seeks a design solution for a hybrid museum / cultural and historical center within Tromso – a major cultural and historical hub for Norway, that has a dire requirement for a global-level cultural center that brings tourists to Tromso or Norway at large – and provides them
Summary: Capital city Podgorica announces a public call for conceptual urban and architectural design for Golootočkih žrtava Square in Podgorica, Montenegro. The main objective of the Competition is to select the best design based on the parameters and recommendations specified in Terms of reference. The conceptual design is expected to
Summary: Astrakhan has a huge potential that needs to be developed. Agglomeration creation and the development of its master plan can become one of the drivers of urban development. The master plan, obtained as a result of the open international competitive procedure, will determine the main vectors for the development
Summary: The objective of the international urban design competition is to find a viable proposal for a new mixed-use neighborhood with new homes and spaces for Prague’s booming economy as well as places for leisure and retail. High-quality public spaces should be the backbone of new Florenc with liveable streets
Summary: The Chungcheongnam-do Government intends to construct Chungnam Art Museum, an art power plant that opens up new imagination and future in Naepo New City. In order to build a world-class contemporary art museum beyond the symbol of the region, the winning proposal will be selected through an international invited
Summary: This Design Challenge offers student teams around the world the chance to design a concept for a real site in the 175-hectare Kalasatama neighbourhood near the centre of Helsinki, Finland. Description: EFL is looking for interdisciplinary, co-creative student teams who want to push the limits of creativity and bring
Summary: Nundo, n’ODS opens a category for students, whose proposals will become part of the #n’ODStudent contest. Description: Students may submit any urban or territorial proposal that demonstrates that it is possible to build a future for the natural and urban environment by achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, through the
Summary: IF it is an international platform for competitions that aims to connect ideas from different areas of society in order to help transform cities and make them increasingly self-sustaining, efficient, and green. We are looking for innovative ideas and new ways of thinking. In a global emergency period, it
Summary: Institute of Smart City and Management officially held the 2nd online international design competition]Following the great success of the 1st international online international design competition in 2019 with the theme “Future City: Smart design for the post-pandemic world”, the annual contest is held the second time in 2021 with
Summary: Korea Institute of Architects, together with the holding organization for competition Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of Korea, S. Korea, is organizing an open International Competition for the National Museum of Korean Literature, S.Korea. Description: The competition site for New National Museum is seated in # 175, Jinhwan-dong, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul,
Summary: The RIBA has launched a competition for the design of a new mosque on a site near Preston in Lancashire on behalf of a local registered charitable trust. Description: The client is looking to create a landmark, timeless building and the site is located close to the city centre
Summary: Before the lock-downs around the world, our lives were plagued by long commutes, leaving us with little time for ourselves, our families and our friends. Traffic polluted our air and smog blanketed our skylines. The pandemic hit the pause button on us. The switch to “working from home” made
Summary: A+C Designs are launching a Design and Build Competition open to all! We have partnered up with We Yone Child Foundation, a Sierra Leone based charity, which aims to improve the lives of vulnerable children and their families through quality education and life empowering opportunities. WYCF is developing a
Summary: Design “HER PLACE” an inspirational girls’ development centre that welcomes girls from Nepalese municipalities, spreading knowledge and support to rural areas and above all providing a safe environment for deeply vulnerable young women in need. Description: This project has secured funding and will be realized this year. This is
Summary: Non-Architecture Competitions aims to find unconventional and unexplored design solutions in the field of architecture. The second phase of competitions is structured in 9+1 themes: a Research Ecosystem with the purpose of exploring each theme from different perspectives. All competitions have their focus on tackling the big issues of
Summary: The purpose of the competition is to select an optimal plan to create a cultural park consisting of a complex of an exhibition and educational facilities and a columbarium to commemorate and share the pain of Sewol ferry disaster victims. The competition should also be an opportunity to contemplate
Summary: The Order of Architects in Romania (OAR) and the Cluj County Council is glad to announce the official launch of the „Children’s Hospital Cluj-Napoca” International Design Competition. The purpose of this competition is to select, in order to award the design contract, the best solution for an Emergency Clinical
Summary: This urban design competition call for proposals for the future city base that will gather leading enterprises, headquarters of international organizations, and headquarters of “unicorn” enterprises both in China and around the world. Through the planning of underground, above-ground, output density, and development intensity, it will create an innovative place
Summary: This urban design competition call for proposals for the future city base that will gather leading enterprises, headquarters of international organizations, and headquarters of “unicorn” enterprises both in China and around the world. Through the planning of underground, above-ground, output density, and development intensity, it will create an innovative place
Summary: Yangtze River Delta Graduate School of the Beijing Institute of Technology project will be undertaken in order to further China’s innovation-driven development, the regional integration strategy of the Yangtze River Delta, the implementation of the “One Belt One Road” cooperation initiative, and to promote the sustainable development of the
Summary: Qianhai Shenzhen – Hong Kong Plaza is the new benchmark for the planning and construction of Shenzhen as the pilot demonstrative area of socialism with Chinese characteristics, integrating the programs of creativity, industry, humanity, and leisure of Shenzhen – Hong Kong, converging the cultural elements of Shenzhen – Hong Kong, building the urban showroom, and forming the
Summary: This Urban Design open competition aims to obtain a plan for the Cultural center in the historical city of Marrakech. The Center should be an example of a green cultural and exhibition city – where usage of energy, alternative energy and recycling and sustainable development is implemented as an
Summary: This Urban Design open call is looking for a housing development master plan solution on around 30,000 Sq. Meters. The proposal should incorporate individual or shared living units with a host of shared functions and facilities that promote holistic living and wellness. The participants should build around community living
Summary: New urbanism for nature, activity, and public space: The Tree House Park Competition calls on young architects to envision tree houses in daily urban life as a new typology bringing man and nature closer together. The Istanbul based GAD Foundation, the organizer of the competition with partners Ege Yapi
Summary: The topic of this competition is designing Innovation Hubs: Using the power of design to create commercial facilities that act as workplaces and community hubs to instill an innovative spirit in the organization and thus, build a healthy company culture. Description: With the rise in the importance of values
Summary: Non Architecture together with World Design Capital Valencia 2022 and Las Naves, is launching the Open Call for design teams for the following project: VALENCIA 360 – A GLIMPSE AT THE CITY OF THE FUTURE. What will Valencia look like in 2050? How will technology impact the built environment?
Summary: This competition is organized as an open, anonymous and international architectural and urban design competition. The competition is purely academic and its main goal is to initiate the informed debate about the new concepts and paradigms that will shape the future of cities. Description: The design challenge of this
Summary: This student design competition is part of a joint research initiative of the Concordia University Chair of Integrated Design, Ecology, and Sustainability for the Built Environment (IDEAS-BE) and the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions, Mediations of Excellence (CRC ACME) at Université de Montréal in collaboration with the Conseil
Summary: This international one-stage architecture ideas competition invites all architecture students, young architects, and young professionals with a degree in architecture studies (≤ 40 years old) to develop and submit compelling ideas for the design of a Site Tower located in the beautiful scenery of Monsaraz, Alentejo, Portugal. Description: The
Summary: This design competition aims to provoke a new wave of urban regeneration in Beirut, Lebanon, after the devastating massive explosion in August 2020. Through the injection of smart, minor but effective urban interventions, that will be a driving motor to restoring the city’s lost identity, and help the inhabitants
Summary: As the world is slowly reopening, easing lockdown measures, everyone is adapting to the ‘new normal’, as we now call it. The pandemic has imposed major changes to our work and lifestyles, altering our views and priorities. While we cannot foresee the future, we can definitely say that the
Summary: C40 Cities, a global network of cities committed to bold climate action, has launched a pioneering competition to offer students and universities from across the globe a platform to share their vision for green and thriving neighborhoods through ideas, innovations and solutions. Description: The C40 Students Reinventing Cities Competition
Summary: ArchFrame is pleased to announce its ArchFrame Design Awards 2021. Architecture & Design Competition is inviting all Architects, Designers, Engineers, Students, and Artists around the world. ArchFrame Design Awards 2021. Is one of the world’s most prestigious award for high-rise architecture It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine Architecture design through the implementation of novel
Summary: This open call looks at an idea that each bus stand when looked at in isolation has a different urban condition they belong in, the number of people that use them, and who create a new pattern. The challenge is to design a modular bus stand system that can
Summary: Participants are to design a Tiny Library optimized for 100 users engaging multifunctional spaces for all ages with a renewed spatial experience. The Tiny Library is to be equipped with traditional reading material including modern formats like e-books, audiobooks, audiovisual books, etc.The space designed should function as a centralized
Summary: The design challenge intends to develop the neighborhood of Koundampalayam as an integral part of Coimbatore, sharing its ecological heritage with the city and its immediate neighborhood. These ideas should be tied with the basic principles of urban design, that consider environmental, social, and cultural sustainability of the neighborhood
Summary: London Based Debbie Flevotomou Architects are working on a project “THINK NATURE – St. James Mayfair – City of Tomorrow”, and is bringing together the highest calibre judges for an architectural design student competition. Description: The design competition is open to all architectural students of all levels and it
Summary: This competition is asking currently enrolled students of architecture programs to think of a multi-use public building providing justice, health and social services to the community. The competition site relates to a community of the competitor’s choice. Description: Society’s standard institutions and approaches to justice are being challenged in
Summary: The challenge is to design a concept stadium for national and international events in a small city, such that the setup could be used/reused for many purposes beyond sports. The sheer culmination of many facilities and building services makes a stadium an ideal box to serve many functions beyond sports. E.g. A public
