Competitions

GRAPHISOFT North America, makers of ARCHICAD, noted architectural firm, Kitchen & Associates and AIA West Jersey, a section of AIA-NJ invite you to answer that question. This year Philadelphia hosts the AIA National Convention, continuing its long tradition of serving as a colorful backdrop to dozens of concerts, conventions, sporting events and festivals annually. With so many wonderful venues in one historic place – the city lacks a way to welcome those various event attendees in a cohesive and effective manner. Your challenge? Position Philadelphia’s rich history in front of the millions of tourists who visit it annually by using ARCHICAD to design a temporary, m…

Described by Elizabeth I as ‘the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England’, St Mary Redcliffe is both an ecclesiastical jewel and a dynamic, living church – a beacon of positivity, helping the least-advantaged and marginalised within the city of Bristol. The church is ambitious to expand its outreach and mission activities. It is also determined to increase people’s enjoyment of the building by creating an outstanding visitor experience. The church’s development project, the focus of this design competition, will run concurrently with a wider regeneration project, The Redcliffe Neighbourhood Development Plan, which seeks to place the church – Grade I li…

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…

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…

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…

Design Challenge: What happens at the intersection of urban culture and architecture? How can the four elements of hip hop (DJing, MCing, Breaking and Graffiti) inspire the built environment? Participants are encouraged to create a sketch using mediums of their choice to depict new building forms, urban design concepts, and/or architectural products inspired by the four foundational elements of hip hop. Who's Eligible: This international competition is open to all individuals including students, graffiti artists, architects, urban planners, landscape architects, graphic designers, muralists, etc. Registration Complete the free registration form located below. Subm…

OZ, a globally acknowledged automotive brand and world leader in the production of light aluminium alloy wheels for road and racing, approaches the Desall community with an opportunity to design a new wheel that conveys the unmistakable values of the brand. For more info: http://bit.ly/OZracingContest Timeline Submission phase: 6th August – 4th November 2015 (1.59 PM UTC) Client vote: From 4th November 2015 Awards 1° €2500 Participation is free of charge and open to all creative people (at least 18 years old). The gallery of this contest is private. Register by: 11-04-2015 / Submit by: 11-04-2015 View the full article

The Dubai International Award For Best Practice 21 years of recognizing excellence in urban best practice The Dubai Municipality and UN-Habitat present the Dubai International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment. The 2017 Award comes at a critical time; with the New Urban Agenda being signed in October last year, this is a distinct opportunity to show case the most effective interventions for improving the lives of urban residents around the globe. In line with Sustainable Development Goal 11 – to make cities and communities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable – the Best Practice Award recognizes significant contributions which: Have a demons…

WHY HOME TODAY, HOME TOMORROW? We know people overwhelmingly want to stay living in their homes and communities for as long as possible. But, livability isn’t about aging. It is about comfort, convenience, safety and options throughout one’s life. Yet, people tend to buy or live in homes based on their present-day circumstances. We can start to change that… one home design at a time. To that end, this competition challenges architects, designers and allied professionals to create new standards in housing concepts so people can stay in their home as they travel through various life stages. Help alter the paradigm and re-imagine Home so it changes with a person’s needs, as …

In the digital landscape a new reality has started to shine by itself: the ubiquitous computing. A concept that is burying the common idea of machine and completely altering the role computers play nowadays. In this computational narrative, the challenge is no longer to add a new digital object to our list of tools, but to dote faculty of processing data to our domestic elements. In this regard, and unlike the desktop computation, ubiquitous computing propose natural and constant interaction among users and environment, extending its influence in all fields of human phenomena, even in the one more domestic and primary: our body.In this context, disciplines as programmi…

Indigenous Housing Competition Canada invites everyone, students and professionals, to submit ideas for remote access Indigenous Community housing in Canada. PURPOSE The purpose of this competition is to raise awareness of Indigenous Housing in Canada and improve opportunities available to design, deliver and maintain housing for remote access Indigenous Canadians. BACKGROUND There are over 600 Indigenous Communities in Canada with over 60 ethnic groups located in diverse landscapes, many with remote access. Current housing is provided by Indigenous Communities or with funding from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.…

The Permanent Form /// Everything that is designed and built will eventually be destroyed. By weather, wear, or war, built form eventually returns to its elemental state. Objects made of durable materials may last longer, but will not last forever. What if everything that was built became permanent? How might the process of design change when all objects, once fixed and formed, could never be altered or moved from its location? With finite material and space how must designers adjust to planning for the extreme long-term? How might future generations adapt inconvenient forms from the past to meet contemporary needs and functions? What happens when form becomes permanent?…

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…

Cartasia, the international paper Biennale, is looking for artists and designers from around the world to collaborate and create works of art, exhibitions and performances, following the theme chosen for the next edition: Chaos and Silence. Cartasia takes place in the beautiful city of Lucca between August and September 2018. Register by: 12-14-2017 / Submit by: 12-14-2017 View the full article

In affiliation with this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB), the Chicago Architectural Club (CAC) is pleased to announce the 2015 Burnham Prize Competition: Currencies of Architecture. A call for entries for the Burnham Prize is taking place as of June 26th, 2015 with the announcement of the winning entries on October 8th, 2015. Throughout the history of architecture, iconic images have demarcated, defined, represented or challenged the state of architecture. The crystalline form of the Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper, developed in 1921 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, inspired and spoke of an imminent future. Rem Koolhaas and Madelon Vriesendorp’s cinematic 1972 renderin…

NewArchitecture's 30 under 30 is our annual ranking of the most influential young people in architecture—for the first time, 100 percent brand new. We are looking for disruptors, innovators, rebels (and, yes, unicorns)—that truly represent the emerging superstars of the architecture industry. Register by: 02-15-2016 / Submit by: 02-15-2016 View the full article

FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, an independent, not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to preserving the architectural legacy, livability, and sense of place of the Upper East Side, seeks entries for our 2015 Annual Awards. Each year, FRIENDS awards outstanding achievement in preservation, architecture, and advocacy on the Upper East Side. Awards will be presented in the spring during our 2015 Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony. The award categories are flexible and can vary each year. Among other areas of accomplishment, previous winners have demonstrated excellence in Restoration, Rehabilitation, Design, and Stewardship. Entries for ar…

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 [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

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

Walls are definitive surfaces of separation, both physically and visually. As an intentional division, walls define two sides with little room for interpretation. What if the characteristics of the division varied depending on one's distance from a wall? What if a wall was more opaque at a distance and more transparent up close? How might the perception of the 'other side' be dynamically affected by a wall? Why might walls obscure and reveal different views, sounds, or ideas? What happens when walls are nearsighted? Participants are encouraged to explore a variety of wall types including: building, free standing, political border, etc. Submission Details: Submissions ma…

Architects, interior designers, landscape architects, researchers and students are invited to submit works planned or written since 2011. PowerPoint or PDF presentations, not exceeding 5mb, should include a short explanatory text describing the project, location, purpose, its uniqueness and date of completion. Project of the Year Competition is international and runs in six categories: buildings, not-yet-built projects, interior design, landscape architecture, student works and research contributing to architecture.. Extra credit will be assigned to creativity, feasibility, climate and environmental awareness. Projects reaching final stage will be published in a s…

AIA National Photography Competition is open to architects registered in the U.S., Associate members of AIA and members of AIAS. Entry fee covers the submission of five images to submit on a CD. Multiple entries can be submitted on the same CD with completed entry form and payment. Images must capture an element of the built environment, and the subject of Fuller Award for $200 must be architecture in the U.S. Winning images will be displayed at the 2015 Convention in Atlanta and all images will be placed in a powerpoint presentation available to all Chapters for an exhibition. To enter, visit http://www.aia-stlouis.org/photo_contest.asp. Deadline is April 1, 2015. Reg…

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…

Call for Entries Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. Established in 1981 to recognize visionary work by young practitioners, the Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, lecture series, and exhibition organized by The Architectural League and its Young Architects + Designers Committee. Theme: Authenticity Historically, authenticity was contingent on the value of originality, intimating the significance of an origin. Before advancements in technical reproduction challenged this stability, an…

In the digital landscape a new reality has started to shine by itself: the ubiquitous computing. A concept that is burying the common idea of machine and completely altering the role computers play nowadays. In this computational narrative, the challenge is no longer to add a new digital object to our list of tools, but to dote faculty of processing data to our domestic elements. In this regard, and unlike the desktop computation, ubiquitous computing propose natural and constant interaction among users and environment, extending its influence in all fields of human phenomena, even in the one more domestic and primary: our body.In this context, disciplines as programmi…