Competitions

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

INTRODUCTION Moscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia with 12.2 million residents within the city and 16.8 within its urban area. It is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific centre in Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city in the entire European continent. Moscow is the northernmost and coldest mega-city and metropolis in the world. By its territorial expansion in 2012 southwest into the Moscow Oblast, the area of the capital more than doubled; from 1,091 square kilometres up to 2,511 square kilometres (970 sq mi), and gained an additional population of 233,000. Moscow is situated on the Moskva River in the Central Federal Dist…

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…

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…

You cannot step twice into the same river, and if there is anything constant, that is 'change'. Attempting to provoke students to explore and expand the idea of the impermanence in our landscapes, and to look at landscapes through the lens of temporality, recognizing their inherent relation with natural processes, hence time, which is always in a transient mode... Announcing the 2016 Landscape Foundation Students' Design Competition — “Landscape: Change is the only constant”. Open to all spatial design and art students in India. Also open to students in Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myammar and Sri Lanka. Register by: 10-10-2016 / Submit by: 10-10-2016 View the …

OPENGAP organizes the fourth edition of this open ideas competition seeking for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary, proposals regarding a new concept for artistic inspiration spaces. Participants are invited to design a place focused on the rental of spaces that motivate creativity and concentration, allowing users to focus, inspire and develop their artistic ideas. Each participant or team will define the location of their project, however, the proposal must justify the choice of the location. The competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic. Competitors can subscribe individually or…

The Open Call is open to professional architects, artists, designers and students of architecture schools of member states of the International Union of Architects (UIA). This Open Call is characterised, firstly, by a general interest in urban planning, involving issues of open towns, green spaces and generally issues that relate to the following pairs: town-nature, nature-humans. It is, in other words, related to the ascertainment that today the historical and traditional town centres exhibit a generally degraded image. A typical example of such an area is the Open Call’s study area, the Municipal Garden, located in the central core of the town of Pafos. With the obvious…

Started in 2009, Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition on Ice has been melding world-class design and art with Winnipeg’s famous winters. The competition has seen entries from across the globe and caught the attention of international architecture publications and awards, as well as admiration from newspapers such as the New York Times. Warming Huts is an open competition, endorsed by the Manitoba Association of Architects. Proposals for the competition are submitted online at www.warminghuts.com. Once entries are submitted, a blind jury selects designs that best “push the envelope of design, craft and art.” Nearing the end of January, competition winners tra…

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 …

Duravit USA is excited to launch its 2016 Designer Dream Bath Competition, which takes on a special meaning this year as the company celebrates its 20th anniversary. The fourth annual competition invites designers and architects to re-imagine their own bathroom to feature a range of Duravit's top collections and design solutions: Darling New with the innovative C-Bonded vanity/washbasin, P3 Comforts, Duravit Rimless Toilets, ME by Starck, DuraStyle, Happy D.2, L-Cube, Stonetto, and Light & Mirrors. The winner will receive up to $10,000 in product to help realize their design dreams. For the second time, the competition also features a Built category, in which designer…

The Best Of Design Awards is a unique project-based awards program that showcases great buildings and building elements. Entrants are invited to submit completed works in 26 categories. The BoD jury will judge entries based on several criteria—strength of the presentation, evidence of innovation, creative use of new technology, sustainability, and, most importantly, good design. The Best Of Design Awards is open to U.S. and international architects, but projects submitted must be located within the United States. Winners and Honorable Mentions will be published in a new booklet and will also be featured on our website, where they will reach national and international au…

Goals: Using method of competitive selection to determine the best project proposals of public space organization by adapting it to needs of children under a specified list of areas within the central part of Ivano-Frankivsk. Ensure the creation of environment for quality rest and recreation of differently aged children. Create modern, qualitatively new objects in the city. Allowed participants are qualified specialists or architecture students as well as landscape design, architectural environment and urban development students from around the world. Selection criteria — compliance with the requirements for children’s playgrounds; — creativity and novelty of i…

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 …

Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant Deadline The application deadline for the LeBrun Grant is November 1st by 5:00 pm EST. Award Single or multiple awards totaling $15,000. Purpose To further the personal and professional development of an architect in early or mid-career through travel. Travel plans should be focused on a selected topic of interest to the individual, rather than a part of a larger humanitarian or institutional endeavor. If appropriate, the winner may be asked to present at the Center for Architecture upon return. Eligibility Applicants must be U.S. citizens with a professional degree in architecture as well as practicing, either licensed or unlic…

Innovative Minds design competition is an exploration into the relationship between a site specific physical architectural design and the virtual world. Investigate the influence of the virtual world blending with physical architecture. The virtual world is built on the framework of computers, the internet, mobile technology and other mediums, which enhance how information is exchanged and how we perceive our surroundings. This framework changes the way we interact with the built world. How interconnected can virtual and physical worlds become and how does this relationship influence physical architecture and its context? Virtual designs continue to evolve through the use…

CLUE is an international lighting competition open to all lighting applications and spaces named Community Lighting for the Urban Environment – CLUE. It is therefore with great pleasure and enthusiasm that I am sending you the details of our Edition 02 of CLUE competition under the theme: LIGHTIUS LOCI - SPIRIT OF LIGHT. OUR MISSION CLUE - Community Lighting for the Urban Environment has set itself the goal of encouraging and challenging young designers such as students (University & Colleges) and emerging Professionals (<5 years in their profession) to develop innovative lighting concepts for interior and exterior spaces, stimulate challenging ideas and recognize…

Around 10,000 participants from 204 nations are expected to descend in Brazil, unleashing fierce competition and rivalries. It is going to be a make or break event for the city of Rio de Janeiro, which has got the privilege of being the first South American city ever to host the Olympics games. It is estimated that around half a million fans and supporters are expected to grace the event in Rio, making it hard for the city officials to control the proceedings. Olympics have always been a backdrop of raw emotions, intense rivalries, passion and sportsmanship between individuals. The games are a total fan fiesta, where supporters from all over the world converge together an…

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…

The AIANH Emerging Professionals Design Competition was created to provide an opportunity for interns and young architectural professionals to strengthen their design skills, gain recognition, and assist a community with their design challenges. It is open to all New England architectural interns and architects within five years of registration. Participants do not need to be members of AIA. We are also proud to announce this year we are welcoming in contributions from planners in the New England area. Planners wishing to participate should be either an intern, or be AICP licensed less than 5 years. The 2016 design competition is a open ideas competition regarding an In…

This open ideas competition forms part of a wider research project and seeks designs which encourage and facilitate cultural exchange and integration between immigrant and native communities. Spain’s Costa del Sol has been permanently transformed by the construction boom of the late 20th and early 21st century and its abrupt end with the European financial crisis. Inward looking private residential complexes and commercial facilities sprawl incoherently to form communities inhabited predominantly by immigrants from Northern Europe. The financial crisis brought almost all construction to an abrupt halt. Abandoned structures remain on the periphery of the sprawl as if monum…

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…