Competitions

For this competition, we want entrants to focus on the use of access flooring in the retail environment and how raised floors can simplify wiring, cabling and operations of a retail facility. The use of access flooring should be architecturally significant and integrated into the design of the space, as well as highly functional and beneficial. The winning entry(ies) will be based on which submissions best illustrate not only the use of access flooring in a retail store, but how this type of system improves the design, construction and operation of the retail store. The Competition Entries will be accepted from students in the fields of: Architecture, interior desig…

TRENDS Excellence Awards for Architecture & Design 2017 is India's premier design competition for professionals, brought to you by Home & Design TRENDS magazine (India). Categories are spread over architecture, interior design, product design and visual design. Entries are open to all architects, interior designers, product designers, graphic designers and photographers. The submitted works can be located anywhere around the world. However, the firm must be based in India. A first-of-its-kind in the country, these awards are an endeavour to bring forth the best in architecture, interior design, concepts, forms, and practices in India. Submit entries online at …

Shelter is pleased to invite architects, planners, students, engineers, designers, thinkers, NGOs and organizations from all over the world to take part in the first annual Dencity Competition. Rapid world growth and urbanization is not allowing cities to adapt and provide for their inhabitants. Towns are quickly growing into cities, and some of the densest places in the world are comprised of makeshift homes, otherwise referred to as slums. Furthermore, already overcrowded cities have to absorb people leaving their rural hometown in hope of job opportunities. There are currently over 1 billion slum dwellers in the world. This number is expected to reach 2 billion b…

Education can be expensive, so we’re sending three students to some of the biggest conferences completely free of charge. Enter now for a chance to win a conference pass and hotel stay to LDI 2015, ASLA, or Greenbuild! http://www.vectorworks.net/conference-pass Register by: 09-07-2015 / Submit by: 09-07-2015 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 …

AIM: The aim of this international ideas competition is to recognise the architectural and design principle involved in designing a high quality tree-house and the role they sometimes play in shaping our ideas of low-cost, low maintenance and sustainable architectural design in many world communities. This competition investigates, explores and emphasises the importance of sustainable concept in Treehouse design as they become ever more popular, more intricate and more commercial. PROJECT: The program is to design an original Contemporary Treehouse pod, capsule or series of pods with the vision of being located on the proposed ‘The Garden Bridge’ across the river Tha…

We are happy to announce 2015 SARA | NY Design Awards! Architects, Designers, Engineers, Artists, Students, and all related fields are welcome to submit! All built and unbuilt works are accepted. Visit www.sarany.org for more info. Register by: 01-26-2015 / Submit by: 02-23-2015 View the full article

AIM: The aim of this international ideas competition is to recognise the architectural and design principle involved in designing a high quality tree-house and the role they sometimes play in shaping our ideas of low-cost, low maintenance and sustainable architectural design in many world communities. This competition investigates, explores and emphasises the importance of sustainable concept in Treehouse design as they become ever more popular, more intricate and more commercial. PROJECT: The program is to design an original Contemporary Treehouse pod, capsule or series of pods with the vision of being located on the proposed ‘The Garden Bridge’ across the river Tha…

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,…

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…

The Archiprix Portugal 2015 competition presents the best graduation projects in the fields of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, submitted in 2014 to Portuguese Universities. The Archiprix Portugal award was established in 2012 by the Archiprix Foundation (Rotterdam) and Sierra Henriques Foundation (Lisbon) involving plurally and independently the Portuguese "Ordem dos Arquitectos" and the teaching body of the participant schools. All further information on the competition and the international Archiprix network are available on the website: www.archiprix.pt Register by: 02-01-2015 / Submit by: 02-16-2015 View the full article

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

FIM LAM and Desall are reinventing the bike with the new Velocity contest, looking for a ultralight, foldable, portable and with a very captivating design. Increased commuting needs, growing traffic along with high fuel prices and environmental concerns, call for new solutions to the mobility needs of a raising number of people throughout the world. “...I wish I could just drive my bike from the parking place to the metro, get on the metro then get out and drive my bike to office. It would save me time and money. I would pay serious money for this, ... but there is no real bike that folds. There are only some ugly and small foldable bikes...” Actual statement from metro p…

This is a competition about rethinking the filling station: As the automobile became a highly celebrated and desired part of western society during the first half of the 20th century, the filling station followed closely behind as the architectural counterpart of this new phenomenon that was changing the world. However, as car ownership exploded around the world, the novelty started to wear off, and filling stations were soon regarded as a source of income rather than the celebration of a bright future. The fall from grace was further solidified when it became clear just how much of a negative impact the car had on the environment. Since then, the filling station has be…

OPENGAP organizes the fourth 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. 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 the world interested in the topic. Competitors could subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people. The proposal submission consists of two digital panels in .jpg format, not bigger than 5MB each. Register…