Competitions

The 2018 BDA Prize (Charlottesville: Identity & Design) seeks proposals for a site-specific work of public art that will successfully embody the values and aspirations of a diverse community. We seek proposals from artists, architects, designers, and citizens that will offer ideas for an artistic, cultural, social, political, or ecological foundation that our community may build upon for the future. For more information, please visit http://bdaprize.bdarchitects.com/. Register by: 02-22-2018 / Submit by: 02-23-2018 View the full article

Dear All, We are launching the 2016 Cities in Asia Summer Programme, and we would like to seek your support in disseminating this information on your website. Should you need to paste in a blurb on your website, please use the following paragraph: This credit-bearing HKU course was established in 2010 to focus on urgent architectural and urban issues confronting Asian cities today. It is an immersive course designed to expose students to daily learning activities including lectures, seminars, studio crits, field work, firm visits, and design reviews. The nature of work ranges from critical reading of texts, individual assignments, to design and research collaborations.…

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…

The Community Planning & Design Initiative Africa (CPDI Africa) is a culture-inspired, research-based, design-build competition, created to inspire the development of successful neighborhoods and communities on the continent, with modern African architecture that is both culturally and environmentally sustainable. CPDI Africa engages participation from the design community within and outside Africa, for the accomplishment of its vision. PRIZES -First Prize $5,000.00 cash prize. Best Design Recognition, and prototype chosen for the design-build project. Major feature in AMADi publication and documentary. -Second Prize $2, 000.00 cash prize. Major feature in AMADi …

The Community Planning & Design Initiative Africa (CPDI Africa) is a culture-inspired, research-based, design-build competition, created to inspire the development of successful neighborhoods and communities on the continent, with modern African architecture that is both culturally and environmentally sustainable. CPDI Africa engages participation from the design community within and outside Africa, for the accomplishment of its vision. PRIZES -First Prize $5,000.00 cash prize. Best Design Recognition, and prototype chosen for the design-build project. Major feature in AMADi publication and documentary. -Second Prize $2, 000.00 cash prize. Major feature in AMADi …

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…

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…

Annual International BIM Competition hosted by BCA to promote BIM adoption and technology. 4 days' event with sharing sessions at BIMSG.ORG For details and registration, please refer: http://bimsg.org/bim-events-2/scpw-2016/international-bim-competition-2016/ For Sharing sessions, please refer: http://bimsg.org/bim-events-2/scpw-2016/ibc-sharing-sessions/ Register by: 07-31-2016 / Submit by: 09-09-2016 View the full article

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

Design Exchange, Canada’s Design Museum, is pleased to announce the fourth year of the CONNECT: EnAbling Change Post-Secondary Design Competition. This competition invites college and university students from across the province to submit projects exploring design concepts that are accessible to everyone, and help remove barriers for people with disabilities. Students are invited to submit projects that illustrate the idea of design for all: In that the design of products and environments is usable by all people to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation. The competition is open to all Ontario post-secondary students studying in all design fiel…

Design Exchange, Canada’s Design Museum, is pleased to announce the fourth year of the CONNECT: EnAbling Change Post-Secondary Design Competition. This competition invites college and university students from across the province to submit projects exploring design concepts that are accessible to everyone, and help remove barriers for people with disabilities. Students are invited to submit projects that illustrate the idea of design for all: In that the design of products and environments is usable by all people to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation. The competition is open to all Ontario post-secondary students studying in all design fiel…

Following ROOM18, Domés International Review of Architecture, launches the International Design Competition COOK8. COOK8 has as its subject the design of an interior dining space for 8 people, of an area of 24 - 30m2. The space must include: - A preparation area (conservation, readying, preparation, cleaning, storage of foodstuffs and utensils) - A consumption area - A hygiene area (WC and washbasin, together or separate). The aim of the competition is the formulation of new ideas on the design of a meeting-place for people on the occasion of the preparation and consumption of food as means of socialisation. What is looked for is the creative re-interpretation and o…

For a second year the Costa del Sprawl ideas competition seeks creative solutions to improve the social, urban, and architectural situation in some of Costa del Sol’s sprawling neighbourhoods. This year’s competition is focused on the theme of ‘identity’ and invites participants to imagine a piece of architecture, whether building or space, which could be adopted as a model of contemporary vernacular architecture specific to the area of Riviera del Sol, and act as a precedent for the future planning and development of the neighbourhood. Andalucía contains an exciting variety of vernacular and contextual architecture which has grown throughout its tumultuous history and wi…

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…

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 study of natural systems offers architects and designers significant potential as a platform for alternative, ecologically-performative design strategies. The d3 Natural Systems competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, urbanism, interiors, and designed objects. Established in 2009, the annual d3 Natural Systems competition is an established voice in alternative architecture and one of the most notable awards in speculative, performance-based design. It recognizes exemplary ideas that redefine design as an ecological proje…

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…

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…

After receiving over 350 registrations from 50 different countries at last years inaugural Dencity Competition, Shelter is pleased to invite back architects, planners, students, engineers, designers, thinkers, NGOs and organizations from all over the world to take part in designing for a better city. 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. Th…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

THE THIRD EDITION OF THE EMERGING DESIGNER COMPETITION Design Exchange, in partnership with RBC Foundation, is now accepting applications for the 2017 Emerging Designer Competition. This exciting national competition seeks to provide an unparalleled opportunity for emerging Canadian designers to gain recognition and exposure, while celebrating the immense and diverse design talent in Canada. The overall winner will be awarded $10,000 and be partnered with a curatorial mentor and exhibition designer who will provide support in the development of an exhibition to be featured at Design Exchange that will open in November of 2017 and run through to Toronto’s internationally…

What is Distribute hack ? Time Inc, NBBJ, and PowerToFly have partnered to host a global hackathon in Seattle, New York, and London. Teams will compete to invent the future of the distributed workplace; building products to encourage collaboration, connection, and culture flow. Prizes will include in-kind tech donation and an installation of the winning work. Three Challenges: 1. Create virtual water-cooler technology that allows distributed teams to connect in meaningful ways. 2. Design experiences that allow culture to flow across locations by creating globally accessible collaborative environments. 3. Provide a personal connection to remote workers by giving them a s…