Competitions

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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. Picasso transcended realism with cubic forms. Steve Jobs democratised the computer. Einstein’s theory of relativity changed the fundamentals of physics. Any idea no matter how big or small has power. What’s yours? It’s time to show the world. Enter our competition, show us your idea and your work could be published on TiP, Balmond Studio’s influential online ideas lab. The winner will also receive a £100 iTunes voucher and enjoy a private call with Cecil Balmond himself, one of the world’s leading thinkers on space, form and structure. The runner up will receive a £50 iTunes voucher and have their work featured on T…

UN-Habitat in collaboration with Ministry of Land, Housing & Urban Development: Urban Development Department, Kenya, is looking for creative planning and design ideas for sustainable urban development in Kenya. Students from around the world are below invited to participate in a student design competition for Kenya’s towns. Register by: 02-01-2016 / Submit by: 04-11-2016 View the full article

Now in its third year, the perFORM 2016 competition calls for architectural interns and students to design a net zero energy, mixed-use, multifamily building in Seattle's diverse Rainier Beach neighborhood. Group and individual entries will be judged based on the criteria of resourcefulness, replicability, beauty, and community response. The community opportunities identified by the Rainier Beach neighborhood's own community planning work will provide the backdrop for perFORM 2016. The perFORM jury will distribute $6,000 in cash awards, and award winners will receive publication online and in print, as well as public display of their boards in Seattle and Portland. Pro…

AIA National Photography Competition is now open to all AIA members, actively registered architects in the US and members of student chapters of AIA. The subject of the photo must be architecture. Top fourteens images will be exhibited at 2016 AIA National convention in Philadelphia, be featured in AIArchitect and be made into notecards that will be sold in outlets. Entries may be submitted in one of two ways: Images may be submitted online with application,payment and submissions online at www.aia-stlouis.org Images may be submitted via images burned on CD ROM and mailed to AIA St. Louis with payment and application. Register by: 04-01-2016 / Submit by: 04-01-201…

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…

OPENGAP organizes the fifth 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…

With a population of 3.4 million inhabitants, Berlin is the largest city in Germany and one of the major enclaves of power and culture in Europe. The division of the city during the Cold War doubled the cultural offer. Two theaters, two philharmonic and two stadiums were built generating a great amount of establishments that after the unification enrich the collective culture. Berlin is the cultural capital of the country by excellence. Despite the atrocities it suffered in the past, the city is known for its religious tolerance and multiculturalism. Today the city coexists exemplarily with different religions and cultures from all around the world. Berlin is also home…

SAVE S.p.A. and Desall.com invite you to a new architecture and design challenge, relying on your creativity to furnish and enrich the new roundabout that will accompany the travellers of the world travelling from and to Venice, through the airport hub. Timeline Submission phase: 18th December 2015 – 17th March 2016 Community vote: 17th March 2016 – 24th March 2016 Client vote: from 24th March 2016 Participation is free of charge and open to all creative people (at least 18 years old). Register by: 03-17-2016 / Submit by: 03-17-2016 View the full article

SAVE S.p.A. and Desall.com invite you to a new architecture and design challenge, relying on your creativity to furnish and enrich the new roundabout that will accompany the travellers of the world travelling from and to Venice, through the airport hub. Timeline Submission phase: 18th December 2015 – 17th March 2016 Community vote: 17th March 2016 – 24th March 2016 Client vote: from 24th March 2016 Participation is free of charge and open to all creative people (at least 18 years old). Register by: 03-17-2016 / Submit by: 03-17-2016 View the full article

The Wheelwright Prize is a $100,000 travel-based research grant awarded annually by Harvard University GSD 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. With the prize, Harvard GSD hopes encourage new forms of architectural research informed by cross-cultural engagement. We seek individual applicants who are accomplished but emerging, who are resourceful and risk-taking, and who can make the most of this extraordinary opportunity to construct a research project that will have an impact on his or her own professional development, and potenti…

The Wheelwright Prize is a $100,000 travel-based research grant awarded annually by Harvard University GSD 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. With the prize, Harvard GSD hopes encourage new forms of architectural research informed by cross-cultural engagement. We seek individual applicants who are accomplished but emerging, who are resourceful and risk-taking, and who can make the most of this extraordinary opportunity to construct a research project that will have an impact on his or her own professional development, and potenti…

Throughout history, the coast has spawned various architectural types of public infrastructure which enabled and enhanced the coastal experience. The British invention of the marine pier for instance was an architectural innovation that allowed the first coast tourists to walk on water, as it were, only without getting wet or seasick. The seafront promenade in turn was the public place to be for the well-to-do dawdler, but at the same time also an integral part of coastal defence as well as an efficient real-estate instrument along which the first prestigious ‘Grands Hotels’ could be erected. Lastly, the modern installations balnéaires in Ostend, Knokke, and Blankenber…

Throughout history, the coast has spawned various architectural types of public infrastructure which enabled and enhanced the coastal experience. The British invention of the marine pier for instance was an architectural innovation that allowed the first coast tourists to walk on water, as it were, only without getting wet or seasick. The seafront promenade in turn was the public place to be for the well-to-do dawdler, but at the same time also an integral part of coastal defence as well as an efficient real-estate instrument along which the first prestigious ‘Grands Hotels’ could be erected. Lastly, the modern installations balnéaires in Ostend, Knokke, and Blankenber…

The ground plane fundamentally influences a building's orientation and organization. Ground floors, basements, and upper floors are designed in reference to a grade. What if the ground disappeared, leaving buildings suspended in position? Without the connective tissue of streets, yards, and natural landscapes, how does the relationship between buildings change? What types of new infrastructure might be used to reconnect neighborhoods and cities? How do sections of a building reorganize when the primary datum vanishes? What happens when the ground goes missing? Participants should respond to the new condition rather than focus on the event of ground disappearing. Submiss…

What does the word ‘basic’ mean? Fundamental, critical, essential, necessary - all these synonyms illustrate the significance of its meaning. Architecturally, we often associate the term with the primitive, the vernacular, even the banal. However, we sometimes forget to take into consideration the relative and temporal nature of the term. What was considered ‘basic’ in the 1900s was a radically different paradigm from what we consider as ‘basic’ today. Wireless technology, cloud storage, cryptocurrencies, smart materials - today, we live in a much more transitory, intangible, and decentralised world. Our vital companions are smart phones. Our essential workplace is not a …

Design Challenge: This design competition is an exploration into the relationship between a physical architectural design, the virtual world, and a tangible site. Investigate the influence of the virtual world blending with physical architecture. A virtual world, built on the framework of the internet, computers, and mobile technology, exchanges information globally. This creates new ways of interacting with the built world. As the virtual and physical worlds become increasingly interconnected, how does this relationship influence physical architecture and its context? As the virtual world continues to grow at an exponential rate, are we entering a virtual epoch? …

ArtHouse Artistic Director Theaster Gates and project leadership seek qualifications from artists and designers interested in creating temporary, original, site-responsive public artwork(s) for ArtHouse, an underutilized 15,000 square foot facility undergoing renovations in downtown Gary, Indiana. The re-imagined space will be ushered by two public art commissions, Illumination and Surface, each appealing to the catalytic power of art. Applicants may submit their qualifications as early as December 1, 2015 and as late as January 11, 2016 on Slideroom at uchicago.slideroom.com. There will be two information sessions on the RFQ process. Remote video will be available …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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…