Competitions

Artificial lighting comprises a significant proportion of total energy consumption. Even with automatic sensors, task lighting, and outdoor down-lighting, the majority of artificial light emitted never hits a single human retina. How might lights become more focused and more directly controlled by individuals? What if all fixed lights in the world were dismantled and replaced with handheld and wearable lights? How might the use of space change when light emanates from individuals? How do people relate to each other differently when light is more direct than indirect? What happens when lights become personal? Participants are encouraged to explore designs that exten…

Celtcia has announced a three part architectural design competition regarding College Green in Dublin, Ireland. To ensure the best architectural outcomes are achieved Celtcia are offering generous competition to try and find the best result for one of the most important architecture and urban design set pieces in history. This competition is open to the public. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” “We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a civic space that we can be proud of as a national civic space,” said Cuffe. “We’ve got to get it right.” Regi…

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…

The University of Oregon John Yeon Center for Architecture and the Landscape and Design Week Portland invite proposals to define, design, and bring to life Portland’s proposed “green loop”—a six-mile pedestrian/ bike urban promenade linking the city’s east and west sides. The winner(s) will receive up to $20,000 to further develop and implement schemes. Proposed by the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability in the Central City 2035 Plan, the loop offers a potentially powerful new means of thinking about and traveling through the city. Connecting the two sides of the Willamette River at the Broadway Bridges and Tilikum Crossing, the loop will link the Pearl District/ Old…

Charles Dickens described in his stories a complex atmosphere of the Victorian London. Through these stories, the reader can recreate that effervescent London that chaotically moved around the markets and theatres. His description of people and activities at night, tells us about the distances, the shadows, the dangers and opportunities of this big city. The city of London is one of the most intense and heterogeneous capitals of the world: A place where everything fits. From the dark industrial revolution to modern architecture, the city has managed to absorb the different times by accumulation and juxtaposition. Life in London has been narrated through time by a lot of E…

REPLAY, historical brand in the denim and casual wear scene, and Desall invite all creative people of the world to design a new 24-hours shoe model for men and women for a non-stop REPLAY experience, night and day. Register by: 10-20-2015 / Submit by: 10-20-2015 View the full article

The Playful Street /// Streets are serious spaces, made of hard and harsh materials. Since the proliferation of the automobile, streets have become a space to pass through, rather than places to be in and enjoy. What if having fun on a street was as important as efficiently moving cars, bicycles, and pedestrians through it? How might play, which is usually relegated to backyards, parks, and playgrounds, be integrated into the streetscape? What can be learned from existing forms of play that can be reimagined in the context of a streetscape? How might streets and sidewalks engage people of all ages in play? What happens when streets become playful? Participants are asked t…

Tainan City Government, Taiwan ROC sincerely invites excellent design teams to participate in this International Design Competition. Let’s take part in Tainan City’s key baseball construction! The budget of the Project of the Tainan Asia-Pacific International Baseball Stadiums and Training Centers is approximately NT$1,658,780,000. It is expected to provide one of the best baseball training centers and venues for international competitions for the professional, national and amateur baseball teams. Tainan will surely become the “Baseball City”. The construction site is located at the He Shun Liao Section Park Land # 39 (for arts and sports purpose), in the northeast …

TOWN MEETING HALL is the 3rd annual competition organized by AIA Vermont Emerging Professionals Network. COMPETITION BRIEF Only 35.9% of eligible voters in the U.S. cast ballots during the 2014 midterm elections*. That was both the lowest turnout and the biggest drop from a preceding presidential election since 1952*. While many factors contributed to this statistic, the role of architecture can not be diminished. Many towns hold voting and meetings in inadequate spaces, such as cramped town halls, gymnasiums, and church basements. Communities need a new platform to facilitate and celebrate civic engagement. New England already has a strong tradition of holding annual …

Fentress Architects is excited to announce their fourth annual Fentress Global Challenge. The Fentress Global Challenge is an international design competition that was created to engage students worldwide in the exploration of future design possibilities in public architecture. The competition theme changes each year to reflect current issues. For 2015, students around the globe are invited to envision The Airport of the Future. The students’ goal is to imagine the airport terminal building of the future, taking into consideration current and possible technological trends and applying them to the near future. All submissions should address design, technology, sustai…

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…

Design a food booth for the Salt Lake City Farmers Market. The booth users rotate but are all refugee entrepreneurs that have participated in Spice Kitchen Incubator, a project that helps Refugees learn how to create their own businesses involving food. The winner's design will be built and used for the Summer 2015 market. Register by: 01-28-2015 / Submit by: 02-27-2015 View the full article

Opengap invites participants to submit innovative proposals to rethink the workspace of an architect. To propose projects that addresses the architect's vision of his ideal inspiration and working space. How do you imagine the place from which other spaces are to be designed? How to address a project in which you yourself are the client? 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 4MB each. Register by: 02-18-2016 / Sub…

Cruise tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the 21st century. In 1997, 8.5 million passengers traveled in a cruise and it is estimated that in 2014 this will increase to more than 21 million. Cities and merchants receive significant benefits through their exploitation, but it is often unknown the environmental impact and social inequality it generates. 48% of cruises around the world are held in the Caribbean. Puerto Rico is the most important Caribbean destination, receiving 1.3 million visitors a year. The port of Old San Juan is among the 20 largest in the world. Despite being the busiest port in the Caribbean, the current port infrastructure is insuffi…

BABEL Attention to all visionary artists, architects, engineers, 3D designers and model makers: Wide Open Arts will host a curated booth of imaginary towers in our upcoming Outsider Art Fair | NYC (Jan 21-24 2016). Submissions are open to all. All received designs that adhere to the dimensional and structural criteria will be evaluated and the best designs will be 3D printed and displayed in the curated space at the Outsider Art Fair NY 2016. The project and space will be curated by independent artist and curator, Leah Gordon. We are in search of contemporary, modern and ancient towers; industrial or religious; fantastical or utilitarian; brutalist or gothic...fro…

The Harvard Graduate School of Design is pleased to announce the third edition of the Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 travel-based research grant awarded annually to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional design talent, produced work of scholarly and professional merit, and who show promise for continued creative work. By opening the prize to applicants from all over the world, Harvard GSD hopes encourage new forms of research informed by cross-cultural engagement. We seek individual applicants (no teams or firms) who are accomplished but emerging, who are resourceful and risk-taking, and who can make the most of this extraordinary opportunity—to have …

The neighborhood of Shoreditch remained, until the decade of the last century, on the edge of London. Only in the Nineties knows a definite revival, after a steady decline, which had marked the history of the Twentieth Century. In Victorian times the area lived the greatest splendor with the increase of the music hall and shows that echoed in the theaters of the West End were destroyed during the bombings of World War II. A process of social rebirth was deployed by artists and intellectuals who arrived in Britain, they chose this area to stay, given the low cost of rent. It has become today one of the most cool, allowing middle and upper classes to return and recover many…

What does it mean to build? Traditionally, building has been defined as the assembly of parts or materials toward the creation of a whole. While to build is often perceived as an Apollonian pursuit, to destroy appears to be its Dionysian counterpart. Understanding that our built environment is the product of many forces, it can dialectically be reduced to the tensions between creation and destruction, addition and subtraction, and erection and demolition. In a design culture focused on the superlative (the tallest, the newest, the priciest), in which destruction is often perceived of or produced by an act of violence, the processes of removal appear as secondary concerns …

It gives us immense pleasure to invite you to participate in the Student’s Design Competition 2014. A platform for student’s to showcase their understanding of design and its implementation. "Student’s Design Competition 2014" has been conceptualized and organized by fensterbau frontale India. Through this competition, we wish to encourage students pursuing graduation or post-graduation to put forward their views on sustainability and retrofitting by the means of the competition. Competition Brief: Buildings are the amongst the largest energy consumers of the world. In India, we have a great legacy of following sustainable building traditions, intrinsic to the archite…

KONSTRUKT is a competitive assembly that endeavours to recognize and honour niche aesthetic design to simple functional innovation, from Student to Architect or Civil engineer. It is their first ever chance in Eastern India to showcase their skills and get accolades from the stalwarts. Register by: 03-16-2016 / Submit by: 03-16-2016 View the full article

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…

We all are running at a reckless speed in our lives as a whole. From Low speed to 4G, from cart to supersonic jets, from a lifetime of learning principles to learn in 24 hours’ tips, the speed seems to be the only motto in our lives, whether right or wrong. Thus, understandably we spend a lot of time in travelling, especially with the city full of traffic and boring waits at signals. The competition invites ideas from the young mind to create a traffic island for the perplexed and confused citizen which may offer the symbolic representation of the speed itself or aim to create a contrasting solemnity we all may actually need. Options are open to 2 (max) members’ UG or D…

CALLING: artists, makers, visual thinkers, students and practitioners of design, urbanism, architecture, landscape, planning and other allied disciplines. Images and techniques that portray the process of revealing design in all its forms are invited for a peer-reviewed exhibition and publication. Think Fast explores the role of ambiguity and deconstruction in design imagination, intent and contemporary representation. The interdisciplinary collection of work selected for exhibition will travel to at least three academic venues: Ball State University, Kansas State University and Parsons The New School for Design. The exhibition and subsequent publication will collect u…

Duravit USA is looking for the most intriguing and beautifully crafted bathroom designs. In its third year, Duravit is asking designers and architects to submit an unbuilt designs for their personal bathroom. Utilizing Duravit products lines, with an emphasis on Cape Cod, ME by Starck, and L-Cube Collections, designers have an opportunity to win over 10,000 dollars of Duravit product. Register by: 09-25-2015 / Submit by: 09-25-2015 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…