Competitions

Exploration of contextual, cultural, and life cycle flows offers a critical lens for visualizing new housing strategies for living in the future. Among the most acclaimed speculative housing awards, the annual d3 Housing Tomorrow international competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, document, analyze, transform, and propose innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects. The 2016 competition calls for transformative solutions that advance sustainable thought, building performance, and social interaction through study of intrinsic environmental geometries, social behaviors,…

Enter our new design competition to explore and re-invent the concept of light through the use of laminate from the new Formica® Collection. Spark your design creativity, shine your light on the world of colour and forms. What does the now and the tomorrow look like when Formica Group lights the way? How can the extreme versatility of Formica® Laminate be integrated into the form and function of lighting? We challenge you to look differently at how we interpret lighting hardware, fixtures and applications for interior use using Formica® Laminate. Register by: 12-18-2015 / Submit by: 01-20-2016 View the full article

Since Tainan County and Tainan City merged, the Tainan Municipal Library can no longer satisfy the increased population. There should be a foresighted planning for the future library’s function and its role of the city. The Tainan City Government invites all domestic and international excellent teams to take part in the Design Competition for Design and Construction Supervision Service of Tainan Public Library Project, which is going to be an important construction of Tainan’s cultural development. The Tainan Public Library is going to be located in the old site of Yongkang Artillery School. The area of the construction site is over 15,000m² with the building coverage …

Is there such a thing as a perfect prison? Is it possible, even in theory, to satisfy needs as potentially contrasting as those of inmates, victims and society? Rather than avoiding prison design on moral grounds, Combo Competitions wants to encourage architects and designers to confront the issue, looking for fitting solutions to a problem that is yet to be solved. The goal of Prison Puzzle is to design an ideal prison, located in the desert of Arizona, United States. The concept should address the different interests and requirements found in inmates, victims as well as society as a whole, and the design should illustrate how architecture can shape environments and i…

KINDER relies again on the community of Desall.com to research innovative ideas. Take part in the new contest THE GAMES OF THE WORLD, exploring games, traditions and modalities regarding the way children play around the world and reinterpret these games for the KINDER brand. For more info: http://bit.ly/KJcontest Timeline Submission phase: 29th October 2015 - 27th January 2016 Client vote: from 27th January 2016 Awards €4500 Participation is free of charge and open to all creative people (at least 18 years old). The gallery of the contest is private. Register by: 01-27-2016 / Submit by: 01-27-2016 View the full article

The University Of Detroit Mercy School Of Architecture is conducting a call for entries for the 22nd edition of Dichotomy. The theme of Dichotomy 22 is Creep. Creep denotes stealth, slow contortment, an underlying feeling of unease. Creep is solid materials deforming, boundaries slinking toward each other, something inching slowly closer without notice. Creep causes us discomfort while simultaneously suggesting something darkly different, something not altogether bad, but frightening in its furtiveness. Dichotomy 22 aims to explore this dark underside of the urban, the lurking possibility of architecture, the slow inevitable crawl of progress. Dichotomy, a student pub…

The Distant Symmetry /// Symmetrical objects are composed of a balance between equal, yet opposite parts. It is not difficult to perceive symmetry when the two corresponding halves are adjacent to one another, but what if they were separated by a great distance? How can the two parts maintain a symmetrical relationship even when they are physically disconnected? What mechanism might mirror changes in one half to the other? What function or program can benefit from a remotely intertwined relationship? How can symmetry be perceived and experienced when it is not in the same space? What happens when symmetry becomes distant? Participants should explore the concept of symmetr…

WANT TO DESIGN A HOME THAT IS A LIVING WORK OF ART? OVERVIEW Design A Beautiful House Competition is a Free and Anonymous International Competition and a unique opportunity that asks all artists, architects, landscape architects, designers and students to engage in a live project. It asks participants to define ‘beauty’ and propose how this can be translated into a 'home' for a prize fund of £25,000. Individuals or multi-disciplinary teams are asked to create a ground-breaking, yet timeless proposal for a live project on a 91ha site. This project offers the opportunity to rethink the way that a home is structured, lived in and aesthetically viewed. Through this compe…

Announcement of selection The announcement aims at the selection of 12 candidates who will take part in a workshop on architectural design on scale 1:1 as a highly motivated, passionate and proficient group. The CAMPOSAZ workshop will take place from 28th August to 06th September 2015 in an area of great landscape value at the feet of the Dolomites. CAMPOSAZ consists in a free workshop aiming at designing and selfbuilding architectural objects for a landscape enhancement. It is targeted to young architects, landscape architects and designers for the purpose of gathering the processes of design and practical realization of the projects in a residential group. During th…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 04 INSTRUMENTS OF SERVICE “Instruments of Service” is a class of legally protected work products defined in the American Institute of Architects’ “A201-2007 General Conditions” as “representations, in any medium of expression now known or later developed, of the tangible and intangible creative work performed by the Architect.” In practice, instruments are any drawing, model, calculation or specification created for a client, copyrighted by the architect as a design “recommendation” and trafficked between intellectual, digital and real property. As research, everyday and experimental instruments are assemblages of tools and materials, allogr…

Three winning teams will be selected in the WARMING HUTS COMPETITION from submissions of designs for a warming hut or art installation to be located on the Red River Mutual River Trail located on the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The jury will be selecting the winning designs based on their creativity in use of materials, providing shelter, poetics of assembly and form, integration with the landscape, and ease of construction. Register by: 10-05-2015 / Submit by: 10-05-2015 View the full article

The Syndicat de l’Architecture is launching an open and anonymous ideas competition on housing in France. The competition is open to all French architects who are qualified in architecture, working alone or in a team, as well as European architects associated with an architect working in France. Participation conditions: - Pre-registration and downloading detailed documents from 30 April 2018 via the competition web site: www.lelogementenquestions.fr - Final deadline for registration: 14 July 2018 at midnight. A payment of €30 must be made on line, by transfer, or by cheque made payable to Syndicat de l’Architecture. That deposit will be refunded to any registered ap…

Space exists with time. The site is located at Sejong-daero with the area size of 1,088 m2. It is a place where the meaning has accumulated through the interweaving of space, time, and public events. This design competition attempts to augment a new temporal layer of time. The layer of time in the space will intersect with the ground's open space and underground's contemporary space, and they will coexist in a different topographical demarcation. Thus, the shaped space in Saejong-daero will shine among citizens' mind and life. On the ground, This site has been the heart of Seoul from the Joseon dynasty, via the Korean Empire to the modern and contemporary period, holdin…

The Minnesota State Arts Board requests proposals from professional public artists or artist-led teams to design, fabricate, and install a permanent, site-specific public artwork at the Century College Academic Partners Classroom Addition in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. The purpose of this request for proposals (RFP) is to commission artwork that: creates a destination by enlivening and activating the space; supports the connection between technology and liberal arts; complements existing architectural concepts; and incorporates light, multimedia, and sound elements. A detailed description of the project and instructions for completing the application are contained in the…

AWARD: Triumph Architectural Beach Hut Award (TABA) 2015 AIM: The aim of this international competition is to recognise and explore the possibility of more architectural design principles to be applied in the design of an outstanding contemporary beach hut. This competition investigates, explores and emphasises the importance of sustainable concept in beach hut design and the possibilities for experimentation with material and form in beach hut design as the world changes rapidly around us. The goal is to provide a contemporary architectural solution and re-think of the traditional Beach Hut design that is functional, feasible, repeatable, elegant and reflects the …