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Summary: This International Design Competition is searching for ideas for the Remodeling and expansion of the Seoul National University Cultural Center. Description: Competition title: The Remodeling and expansion of the Seoul National University Cultural Center (Bldg.#73) International Design Competition Type: International, one-stage Eligibility: Domestic and foreign architects (including corporations) Languages:
Summary: For the 2021 Chicago Prize, the Chicago Architecture Center and the Chicago Architectural Club call for new visions for the State of Illinois Center/James R. Thompson Center. Description: Designed by Helmut Jahn, the State of Illinois Center, also known as James R. Thompson Center, is facing the threat of
Summary: The goal of this design competition is to provide a setting for collaboration between students, teachers, designers, thinkers, architects, artists, and practitioners from a range of disciplines and fields in order to create and discuss conceptual design ideas that explicitly promote healthy places for vulnerable communities. It is searching
Summary: The Bank for International Settlements, situated in the heart of Basel and in the centre of Europe, acts as a regular forum for meetings of its constituency of central bankers, financial regulators and supervisory authorities. Over the last decades, the BIS has extended its presence in Basel as its
Summary: The City is launching the Sea2City Design Challenge (Sea2City) to help inform a framework and vision to guide urban development and ecological revitalization in Vancouver’s False Creek floodplain, a highly valued and constrained urban waterway in the heart of the city. Description: The innovative and exciting design challenge will
Summary: APR Awards 4th edition Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards 2022. The awards are organized by APR- a leading body of architecture press in Global. After huge success GFD Awards 2020, GFD Awards 2019, Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards 2020, World Architecture & Design Awards 2019, Urban Design & Architecture
Summary: Designregio Kortrijk is looking for 3 highly motivated and recently graduated designer-makers or creative artists to join a regional residency program in Kortrijk, Belgium. The Designers in Residence Kortrijk program is a 3-month full-time working residency from October 2021 to January 2022. Description: This year’s theme is: The future
Summary: The Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) has just announced an open international architectural competition for international open architectural project competition of the building complex of Jonušas Radvila Palace and it‘s approaches in Vilnius, Lithuania. Description: The competition calls for a vision for the revitalization and empowerment of the
Summary: This is a call for action for New York working Groups that are organized to convene Urban Design Forum fellows. In the 2021-2022 program Streets Ahead, Urban Design Forum invites architects, landscape architects, planners, developers, public officials, artists, community organizers, scholars, lawyers, journalists, and community developers to advance ideas
Summary: Fentress Global Challenge (FGC) is an annual international student design competition. This year, it calls students to create a new airport terminal concept. Entrants are encouraged to utilize forecasts for population, environmental conditions, modes of travel, and potential destinations in the creation of their concept. Description: ABOUT THE COMPETITION Despite a
Summary: The Berlin Affordable Housing Challenge is tasking the participants with creating innovative design solutions to Berlin’s affordable housing problem. Project designs should be flexible enough to accommodate different inhabitants and living situations – including families, single professionals, and couples – and provide suitable solutions for their various requirements. Description: Berlin is
Summary: In anticipation of the 2021 Conscious Cities Festival this October, we are delighted to announce an open call for submissions for the yearly Conscious Cities Anthology showcasing the diverse and impactful thinking by Conscious Cities practitioners. We are soliciting submissions from festival participants, industry professionals, the general public, and anyone
Summary: The Alleyway Project: Activating Ann Arbor’s Alleys through Art is a community outreach project presented by the A2AC Art in Public Program. It is public art, architecture & design exhibit focusing on the urban fabric that exists in the space between our city’s buildings. The intent of the exhibit is
Summary: Europan is a competition of ideas followed by implementation processes open to professionals of architectural, urban, and landscape design under 40 years of age. 9 European countries proposing 40 sites are participating in the Europan 16 edition on a common theme: Living Cities – Metabolic Vitalities / Inclusive Vitalities.
Summary: We are looking for open-minded students and young designers for the 11th edition of MEDS Silesia Revival 2021 workshops. Create an entry assignment concerning your own interpretation related to this year’s theme areas: ECOLOGY-REVITALIZATION-SOCIETY. There are no requirements on the form, content and technique. Description: DATE OF WORKSHOP: 14-29th
Summary: The City of Helsinki announces a competition that invites proposals for the redevelopment of Makasiiniranta at South Harbour, the last old harbour area to be transformed for public use in Helsinki. The initial period for participant enrollment – intended for operators in the construction, architecture and real estate industry
Summary: This is a student design competition for students from the USA. Winners will receive a stipend and have their entries showcased at the SCUP2021 Annual Conference. Description: Our world has shifted. Just over a year ago, campuses across the U.S. shuttered in response to a pandemic that disproportionately impacted
Summary: Zhiyuan Library 2021 – International charitable architectural design competition for college students, is a charitable project planning by Zhiyuan Charity. The main features of the competition ”charitable, college students and construction”, aiming at improving the practical ability of college students, through the integrated realization of architectural design to deepening
Summary: The objective of this competition is to select a specialized enterprise that is able to develop innovative, contemporary, and creative ideas, and to carry out the required services for the establishment of the development plan of the old HANGLAS site. Description: 1) About the Competition – This competition is
Summary: This ideas competition is open to anyone who believes that one of our innovative bachelor or master programs can help unlock your full potential. The general theme “Imagining Student Life at IE: Beyond the Vertical Campus” is the same for all applicants, but we’ll consider applicants to each program in
Summary: The Portland Society for Architecture (PSA) would like to invite you to visualize and test the limits of Portland’s newly adopted building code regulating the construction of accessory dwelling units. The hope of PSA is that this competition will bring to light any overly restrictive rules in the current
Summary: Students from all around the world are invited to join and to contribute their work to the renewal of the hard-pressed city. Let’s make the dream of the founders of INSPIRELI AWARDS a reality. Let’s help Beirut to be reborn again! Description: In August 2020, a devastating explosion of
Summary: Strips fulfill necessary commercial functions; we all rely on them to some extent and they are where many small businesses begin and thrive. Strip development is already changing in response to economic trends favoring online retail, not to mention the pandemic. A few such examples include food delivery and
Summary: Housing design awards is an open call for design awards of the housing projects, that must have been completed between January 1, 2014 and December 21, 2020. This is an international open call and anyone is eligible to submit. Projects by New England and New York City design professionals
Summary: TURF – student housing design challenge is searching for a design of a student housing community that caters to their function as well as psychological needs. The main challenge to be addressed is to find ways of making the design economical but in a charming way. This housing must be designed to
Summary: The narrative of this competition design stems from revisiting the solid traditional roots and foundation as well as sculpting the community for the years to come. Designing a center that houses a network for all; a space that welcomes all and celebrates the notion of co-existence. Description: As one
Summary: Europan 16 Norway – Living Cities is on! Europan is a competition for students and young professional architects, landscape architects, and urban planners under 40 years. Description: Four exciting sites in Norway and another 36 sites in Europe. The Norwegian towns looking to the international community for exchange and
Summary: In this competition, the participants are encouraged to come up with visionary concepts to reinvent an urban hotspot for biodiversity, within and beyond urban parks – only 2 drawings, absolute freedom of scale, or program. Participants are asked to imagine a new urban model, to promote biodiversity into the
Summary: In this competition, we encourage participants to come up with visionary concepts for a green skyscraper – Only 3 drawings, absolute freedom of scale, and program dimensions. Participants are asked to propose conceptual ideas to bring biodiversity back to New York City, more specifically to Midtown Manhattan, through a
Summary: This international competition architecture ideas invites all architecture students, young architects, young professionals, visual designers, and all artists to develop and submit compelling ideas for the city of future. Express your ideas and opinions about new ways of living in the city in the post- COVID world. Description: Themes of the
Summary: The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)’s 10th Student Tall Building Design Competition culminates with the top finalists presenting for winning distinctions at the virtual CTBUH 2021 Student Design Competition on 29 September 2021. Description: The goal of the competition, which is open to all students who
Summary: The National Library of Korea is holding an International Design Competition for the National Library of Korea Data Preservation Center for 90 days beginning on April 29th. Description: The project is an adaptive re-use of the International Broadcasting Center (IBC), built for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and now
Summary: The theme of 2021 WUPENiCity International Competition on Students Course Works of Urban Design is “Intelligent JiaYuan of Future”, which requires contestants to analyze the connotation of the theme from a unique and novel perspective to carry out urban design with comprehensive and systematic professional quality. Description: “JiaYuan” is
Summary: The Antuo Hill was once the quarry for Shenzhen’s early reclamation and other major projects. The terrace left by the quarry became the unique landscape in the city center. This history is a piece of treasure in the urban development of Shenzhen. In the present context, how can Antuo
Summary: The REHVA “Healthy Homes Design Competition 2022” encourages and challenges students and young professionals working within the field of building and buildings service systems, operation, and construction to explore the theme of healthy living – and to create a deeper understanding of indoor environmental qualities as well as exploring the impact of future climate changes. The award celebrates and
Summary: In order to select a design plan with creative design and excellent functions for the construction of the Namgangbyeon Multipurpose Cultural Center in Jinju City, the “International Design Competition for the Construction of the Namgangbyeon Multipurpose Cultural Center” is announced Description: Competition name International Design Competition for the Construction
Summary: The Design Trust for Public Space unlocks the potential of New York City’s shared, civic spaces through the advancement of new research and collaborative projects. Every three years, the Design Trust launches a request for proposal (RFP), which solicits ideas to realize projects that address a key public space concern in
Summary: The aim of this open call is to obtain a plan for the Warsaw Concert Hall that aims to represent a new icon for the city center, an element of significant value that becomes a cultural incubator for the entire local community. Description: Warsaw was born as a small
Summary: The City Nature Challenge is an international global citizen science event that brings together cities around the globe in a friendly competition to observe and identify the biodiversity in their communities. The event focuses on urban areas to promote the idea that one does not need to leave the
Summary: The Competition subject consists of elaborating an architectural concept for the development of the area confined by Sibgat Khakim St., the Riviera Hotel Complex, the water of the Kazanka River and the park. Description: The architectural concept shall include:The preliminary master plan of the Designed Area with all its
Summary: The purpose of the design competition is to select a reasonable, creative, and artistic entry that meets the concept of the new Gangseo-gu government office complex. Description: The current government office building of Gangseo-gu was established in 1977 and the facilities have deteriorated somewhat over the past 40 histrorical
Summary: This competition aspires to have a realistically feasible project that will restore vitality to the district and aims to select the best proposals of an urban and landscape project relevant to the competition zone, foreseeing the establishment of a university campus with residences, study zones and laboratories, green areas
Summary: The association ZukunftsRegion Westpfalz e. V. intends to develop the area of the ‘Weiße Kaserne’ in coordination with the city of Zweibrücken and the owners. The former barracks area is centrally located in the city of Zweibrücken/ Germany (in close proximity to the Ramstein US Airbase), not far from
Summary: In the conditions of the Anthropocene –a new bio-geological period where human activities on the global scale have a destructive impact on life on earth– how to face climate change and inequalities? How to imagine other possibilities to inhabit the planet Earth? The Europan 16 topic focuses on living
Summary: The Ireland Cultural Center will establish a dialogue with the context to give new value to the history of the place. Conferences rooms, workshop spaces, and areas for debates will host meetings in continuity with the cultural influences promoted by writers and artists of the past. A place that
Summary: As an important part of the Fourth Hebei International Urban Planning and Design Competition(Tangshan), Q-city Competition themed on “Quality City”, based on various types of public space in the city, such as waterfront space, green space, and places with industrial elements of Tangshan, the Competition requests for design proposals
Summary: The design challenge is to conceive a modular solution for housing Hajj pilgrims in the city of Mina. Can there be a better alternative to the current systems of tent-based housing with a more comprehensive solution? If horizontally the tent city is landlocked; can we see a new realm
Summary: Our world is changing. Imagine Mumbai and Miami permanently underwater, hurricanes frequently clashing against Manhattan and Manila, devastating droughts in Los Angeles and London, and fires running rampant in Sydney and San Francisco. A global future like this currently occupies our imagination but inches closer to reality each day.How
Summary: Institute of Smart City and Management officially held the 2nd online international design competition. Following the great success of the 1st international online international design competition in 2019 with the theme “Future City: Smart design for the post-pandemic world”, the annual contest is held the second time in 2021
Summary: Borders are spaces of transition—thresholds between areas with different characteristics. Whether political and imposed through human agency, or natural and made manifest through geographical features, borders have been, are, and will continue to be a staging ground for civilization’s greatest challenges. As urbanization pushes human activity towards Earth’s hinterlands,
Summary: Construction of a country residential complex of 22 homes and common areas that integrates the concepts of innovation, technology, wellness, and sustainability, responding to the landscape through strategies that allow mimicry and the use of natural resources. The project must guarantee the thermal, auditory, luminous, and psychological comfort that
Summary: Vilnius city municipality, together with Lithuanian Railways (LTG), have just announced an open international architectural competition for the reconstruction of Railway Station, Central Station Square, and Public transport terminal in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania. Description: The participants will have to create an iconic and globally recognizable international
Summary: This competition seeks for home design of a community of competitors’ choice. The organizer suggests looking at areas near you with severe economic development needs that could benefit from intentional design-thinking. Description: The concept of Home means something different around the world. In some places, it’s an apartment in
Summary: This competition seeks a design solution for a hybrid museum / cultural and historical center within Tromso – a major cultural and historical hub for Norway, that has a dire requirement for a global-level cultural center that brings tourists to Tromso or Norway at large – and provides them
Summary: Capital city Podgorica announces a public call for conceptual urban and architectural design for Golootočkih žrtava Square in Podgorica, Montenegro. The main objective of the Competition is to select the best design based on the parameters and recommendations specified in Terms of reference. The conceptual design is expected to
Summary: Astrakhan has a huge potential that needs to be developed. Agglomeration creation and the development of its master plan can become one of the drivers of urban development. The master plan, obtained as a result of the open international competitive procedure, will determine the main vectors for the development
Summary: The objective of the international urban design competition is to find a viable proposal for a new mixed-use neighborhood with new homes and spaces for Prague’s booming economy as well as places for leisure and retail. High-quality public spaces should be the backbone of new Florenc with liveable streets
Summary: The Chungcheongnam-do Government intends to construct Chungnam Art Museum, an art power plant that opens up new imagination and future in Naepo New City. In order to build a world-class contemporary art museum beyond the symbol of the region, the winning proposal will be selected through an international invited
Summary: This Design Challenge offers student teams around the world the chance to design a concept for a real site in the 175-hectare Kalasatama neighbourhood near the centre of Helsinki, Finland. Description: EFL is looking for interdisciplinary, co-creative student teams who want to push the limits of creativity and bring
Summary: Nundo, n’ODS opens a category for students, whose proposals will become part of the #n’ODStudent contest. Description: Students may submit any urban or territorial proposal that demonstrates that it is possible to build a future for the natural and urban environment by achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, through the
Summary: IF it is an international platform for competitions that aims to connect ideas from different areas of society in order to help transform cities and make them increasingly self-sustaining, efficient, and green. We are looking for innovative ideas and new ways of thinking. In a global emergency period, it
Summary: Institute of Smart City and Management officially held the 2nd online international design competition]Following the great success of the 1st international online international design competition in 2019 with the theme “Future City: Smart design for the post-pandemic world”, the annual contest is held the second time in 2021 with
Summary: Korea Institute of Architects, together with the holding organization for competition Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of Korea, S. Korea, is organizing an open International Competition for the National Museum of Korean Literature, S.Korea. Description: The competition site for New National Museum is seated in # 175, Jinhwan-dong, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul,
Summary: The RIBA has launched a competition for the design of a new mosque on a site near Preston in Lancashire on behalf of a local registered charitable trust. Description: The client is looking to create a landmark, timeless building and the site is located close to the city centre
Summary: Before the lock-downs around the world, our lives were plagued by long commutes, leaving us with little time for ourselves, our families and our friends. Traffic polluted our air and smog blanketed our skylines. The pandemic hit the pause button on us. The switch to “working from home” made
Summary: A+C Designs are launching a Design and Build Competition open to all! We have partnered up with We Yone Child Foundation, a Sierra Leone based charity, which aims to improve the lives of vulnerable children and their families through quality education and life empowering opportunities. WYCF is developing a
Summary: Design “HER PLACE” an inspirational girls’ development centre that welcomes girls from Nepalese municipalities, spreading knowledge and support to rural areas and above all providing a safe environment for deeply vulnerable young women in need. Description: This project has secured funding and will be realized this year. This is
Summary: Non-Architecture Competitions aims to find unconventional and unexplored design solutions in the field of architecture. The second phase of competitions is structured in 9+1 themes: a Research Ecosystem with the purpose of exploring each theme from different perspectives. All competitions have their focus on tackling the big issues of
Summary: The purpose of the competition is to select an optimal plan to create a cultural park consisting of a complex of an exhibition and educational facilities and a columbarium to commemorate and share the pain of Sewol ferry disaster victims. The competition should also be an opportunity to contemplate
Summary: The Order of Architects in Romania (OAR) and the Cluj County Council is glad to announce the official launch of the „Children’s Hospital Cluj-Napoca” International Design Competition. The purpose of this competition is to select, in order to award the design contract, the best solution for an Emergency Clinical
Summary: The Henning Larsen Foundation is proud to announce the latest edition of its competition series this year an open international competition on the theme of Utopia in architecture. Previous competition editions have explored photographing architecture (2007), drawing architecture (2008), writing about architecture (2012), architecture and film (2015), and architecture and music
Summary: This urban design competition call for proposals for the future city base that will gather leading enterprises, headquarters of international organizations, and headquarters of “unicorn” enterprises both in China and around the world. Through the planning of underground, above-ground, output density, and development intensity, it will create an innovative place
Summary: This urban design competition call for proposals for the future city base that will gather leading enterprises, headquarters of international organizations, and headquarters of “unicorn” enterprises both in China and around the world. Through the planning of underground, above-ground, output density, and development intensity, it will create an innovative place
Summary: Yangtze River Delta Graduate School of the Beijing Institute of Technology project will be undertaken in order to further China’s innovation-driven development, the regional integration strategy of the Yangtze River Delta, the implementation of the “One Belt One Road” cooperation initiative, and to promote the sustainable development of the
Summary: Qianhai Shenzhen – Hong Kong Plaza is the new benchmark for the planning and construction of Shenzhen as the pilot demonstrative area of socialism with Chinese characteristics, integrating the programs of creativity, industry, humanity, and leisure of Shenzhen – Hong Kong, converging the cultural elements of Shenzhen – Hong Kong, building the urban showroom, and forming the
Summary: This Urban Design open competition aims to obtain a plan for the Cultural center in the historical city of Marrakech. The Center should be an example of a green cultural and exhibition city – where usage of energy, alternative energy and recycling and sustainable development is implemented as an
Summary: This Urban Design open call is looking for a housing development master plan solution on around 30,000 Sq. Meters. The proposal should incorporate individual or shared living units with a host of shared functions and facilities that promote holistic living and wellness. The participants should build around community living
Summary: New urbanism for nature, activity, and public space: The Tree House Park Competition calls on young architects to envision tree houses in daily urban life as a new typology bringing man and nature closer together. The Istanbul based GAD Foundation, the organizer of the competition with partners Ege Yapi
Summary: The topic of this competition is designing Innovation Hubs: Using the power of design to create commercial facilities that act as workplaces and community hubs to instill an innovative spirit in the organization and thus, build a healthy company culture. Description: With the rise in the importance of values
Summary: Non Architecture together with World Design Capital Valencia 2022 and Las Naves, is launching the Open Call for design teams for the following project: VALENCIA 360 – A GLIMPSE AT THE CITY OF THE FUTURE. What will Valencia look like in 2050? How will technology impact the built environment?
Summary: This competition is organized as an open, anonymous and international architectural and urban design competition. The competition is purely academic and its main goal is to initiate the informed debate about the new concepts and paradigms that will shape the future of cities. Description: The design challenge of this
Summary: This student design competition is part of a joint research initiative of the Concordia University Chair of Integrated Design, Ecology, and Sustainability for the Built Environment (IDEAS-BE) and the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions, Mediations of Excellence (CRC ACME) at Université de Montréal in collaboration with the Conseil
Summary: The Cultural Housing will renovate the skyline in Hamburg, Germany, to become a new symbol, an architecture capable of fitting into a constantly changing context and ready to welcome new innovative stimuli. Description: Archicontest is a place for discussion. Designers from all over the world are invited to develop their
Summary: This international one-stage architecture ideas competition invites all architecture students, young architects, and young professionals with a degree in architecture studies (≤ 40 years old) to develop and submit compelling ideas for the design of a Site Tower located in the beautiful scenery of Monsaraz, Alentejo, Portugal. Description: The
Summary: This design competition aims to provoke a new wave of urban regeneration in Beirut, Lebanon, after the devastating massive explosion in August 2020. Through the injection of smart, minor but effective urban interventions, that will be a driving motor to restoring the city’s lost identity, and help the inhabitants
Summary: As the world is slowly reopening, easing lockdown measures, everyone is adapting to the ‘new normal’, as we now call it. The pandemic has imposed major changes to our work and lifestyles, altering our views and priorities. While we cannot foresee the future, we can definitely say that the
Summary: C40 Cities, a global network of cities committed to bold climate action, has launched a pioneering competition to offer students and universities from across the globe a platform to share their vision for green and thriving neighborhoods through ideas, innovations and solutions. Description: The C40 Students Reinventing Cities Competition
Summary: ArchFrame is pleased to announce its ArchFrame Design Awards 2021. Architecture & Design Competition is inviting all Architects, Designers, Engineers, Students, and Artists around the world. ArchFrame Design Awards 2021. Is one of the world’s most prestigious award for high-rise architecture It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine Architecture design through the implementation of novel
Summary: This open call looks at an idea that each bus stand when looked at in isolation has a different urban condition they belong in, the number of people that use them, and who create a new pattern. The challenge is to design a modular bus stand system that can
Summary: Participants are to design a Tiny Library optimized for 100 users engaging multifunctional spaces for all ages with a renewed spatial experience. The Tiny Library is to be equipped with traditional reading material including modern formats like e-books, audiobooks, audiovisual books, etc.The space designed should function as a centralized
Summary: The design challenge intends to develop the neighborhood of Koundampalayam as an integral part of Coimbatore, sharing its ecological heritage with the city and its immediate neighborhood. These ideas should be tied with the basic principles of urban design, that consider environmental, social, and cultural sustainability of the neighborhood
Summary: London Based Debbie Flevotomou Architects are working on a project “THINK NATURE – St. James Mayfair – City of Tomorrow”, and is bringing together the highest calibre judges for an architectural design student competition. Description: The design competition is open to all architectural students of all levels and it
Summary: This competition is asking currently enrolled students of architecture programs to think of a multi-use public building providing justice, health and social services to the community. The competition site relates to a community of the competitor’s choice. Description: Society’s standard institutions and approaches to justice are being challenged in
Summary: The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada organize an architectural design competition initiated by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC). Description: The Block 2 site is the city block in front of the Centre Block and Peace Tower, Canada’s main parliament building. Block 2 is in the foreground of Parliament Hill, a
Summary: Archstorming is launching a new competition that will look for designs for the future schools of the NGO Abay Ethiopia, an organization founded in Spain in 2009 that operates in Walmara, Ethiopia, with the aim of fighting against poverty and promoting equal opportunities, mainly through the development of Education,
Summary: Lunawood Urban Challenge calls on all architecture and design students to re-imagine and redesign urban environments by using Lunawood Thermowood. This competition’s purpose is to highlight the vast possibilities of wood as a modern building material that helps create a healthier and more sustainable environment. Lunawood Urban Challenge 2021
Summary: The City of Culver City will implement a permanent Public Art Program for the Washington/National TOD (Transit Oriented Development) District. The Washington National TOD Gateway Public Art Program will inspire artists in the creation of world-class, aesthetically rigorous artwork(s) that respond to the natural, cultural, and infrastructural resources present
Summary: The idea behind the competition is to refine the apartment architecture in India & develop new feasible concepts. Description: From the very beginning of its existence human being have always been involved in the process of adaptation from the consequences created by its own. Among such one of the
Summary: The challenge is to design a concept stadium for national and international events in a small city, such that the setup could be used/reused for many purposes beyond sports. The sheer culmination of many facilities and building services makes a stadium an ideal box to serve many functions beyond sports. E.g. A public
Summary: Arquine summons to project the meeting point in the public space, where keeping a safe distance, we will meet. In uncertain times, we ask ourselves what to do in the public space. For the past five years, the Arquine Competition has called for the design and construction of a pavilion that,
Summary: eVolo Magazine is announcing submission for its eVolo 2021 Skyscraper Competition, the most prestigious competition for High-rise Architecture inviting all architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part. Description: The competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs,
Summary: The design challenge is to conceive new product design interventions resulting in more like a speaking product reflecting the roughness of post-war materials and the echoes of its culture, that delivers the society a message. Description: Physical & conceptual exploration of continuous products that come out of rubble such
Summary: Brussels is the political seat of Europe; it houses buildings of high institutional value that reaffirm the vocation of an intermediary to which it is possible to trace the reasons for the foundation in which the city was a link between Cologne and Bruges. The Grand Place, a UNESCO
Summary: This competition is co-initiated by Jiaxing City Construction Investment Co., Ltd. and the international design competition platform – Young Bird Plan. The built architecture of various times in cities represents the background at that time when the users of the land tried to create the blueprint for their cities’
Summary: The goal of the competition is to obtain ideas for a representative center of the Slovak University of Technology (STU) in Bratislava. It should include the STU innovative science center, educational, social, multi-purpose, and leisure spaces such as interiors, exteriors, and part of the rector’s workplaces. Description: The STU
Summary: The secret of Copenhagen is open for the world to discover, and 2023 marks this special moment that has a chance to open it for the rest of the world. The competition brief here is to design an Athenaeum for Architecture at Copenhagen, that resonates with the evolving trends of
Summary: The “72h Axo Battle” is a design competition developed to explore the creative potential of architectural design through one of the most iconic architectural drawings: the axonometric projection. You have 72 hours to develop a proposal that responds to the program contained in the extended contest brief, which will
Summary: Our world is changing fast, while ambitions and challenges match in importance. In this context, design can play a huge role. How do we imagine the world to be? What range of possibilities we haven’t discovered yet? What’s a Non Architecture for a World in crisis? In 2020 we
Summary: This open call invites participants to face the design of an urban housing or mixed-use tower. Description: To participate in this competition means to work on the avant-garde, innovative and visionary proposals promoting new ideas on how to better manage the growing density of cities with designs that contribute
Summary: In this competition, we ask participants to design a cycling bridge in the context of Amsterdam, an effective connection over the river Ij for pedestrians and cyclists – 1 design expressed in 3 drawings. Description: The Netherlands are renowned for their popular biking culture, which made the country a
Summary: The SKYHIVE 2021 Skyscraper Challenge is the fourth annual architecture competition that searches out the latest and greatest designs for an iconic high-rise structure. Participants of the SKYHIVE Challenge are tasked with creating a concept for a state-of-the-art tower that breaks from the norm. Description: Participants are encouraged to
Summary: The large district town of Erding northeast of Munich is facing a planning challenge that will have a formative influence on the future of the city: the conversion of large parts of the Erding air base, which was previously used by the military, into civilian use. Description: The starting
Summary: The Phoenix Prize seeks for architectural excellence, and to evoke innovative minds, worldwide, to rebuild the Port of Beirut and bring it back to the people, revamped, and recaptured. It aims at creating innovative and groundbreaking ideas that redefine the magnetic aura of the city, and evolving it from
Summary: Calling for Entries for a 200+ Unit Residential Development in the City of Brantford, Ontario (Canada). This is a REAL project which will be going through development approvals and construction. This project offers a total professional contract value of $55,000 CAD. Opportunities for Structural Design, Interior Design and 3D
Summary: This design competition aims to realize a city model with a pleasant living environment under the theme of the “street-centered shared city” in order to create a dwelling environment that meets the future image of “Suwon Dangsu District 2.” It is to suggest the urban and architectural methods to
Summary: ‘Design for Sustainable Cities’ is an international student competition, being held by BE OPEN and Cumulus. It is open to students and graduates of all art, design, architecture and media disciplines of universities and colleges worldwide. The competition aims to encourage creation of innovative solutions, by younger creatives, for more
Summary: Today, 18 global cities including Buenos Aires, Paris, Washington D.C., and Delhi have launched Students Reinventing Cities, a pioneering competition that will enable students and universities from across the globe to share their vision for a green and just reinvention of our cities. In a first of its kind, the
Summary: In this competition, we ask you to come up with a visionary concept for a Visitors center. When generating a vision for the center within a spectacular place, it is essential that each proposal emphasizes, respects and celebrates the site, while providing visitors with a unique experience. The Visitors
Summary: Located in the desert city of Be’er Sheva, Israel, this 21 acre village will serve as an eco-system of Zionist engagement including Jewish National Fund’s high school abroad, a program for post-college graduates to pursue yearlong internships at leading high tech companies, and an Adult Education Center to convene
Summary: Sejong Smart City National Model City would like to create a world-class Korean-style smart city based on the fourth industrial revolution new technology by designing it from the planning stage around the happiness of citizens. Description: The Korea Education and Research Information Service has been designated as a specialized
Summary: In this unprecedented moment of global crisis, we have the opportunity to collectively rethink the values, agendas, and practices guiding the design of our built environments. As countries converge on drastic social control measures that aim to combat the Coronavirus pandemic, the fundamental infrastructures of every societal function system
Summary: Shenzhen BGI Hospital is a municipal public hospital. The construction is invested by the municipal government, and the hospital will be operated by Shenzhen BGI Life Sciences Research Institute. Tender for Shenzhen BGI Hospital Schematic Design and Architectural Design Development is under preparation and will be launched in late-December.
Summary: Tender for Conceptual Design, Schematic Design and Design Development (Guiwan Coastal Section and Qianwan Coastal North Section) of Qianhai Stone Park is now officially open for application. The registration period is December 16th – 23rd, 2020. Design teams from home and abroad are welcomed to participate in this design bidding.
Summary: The competition is looking for design proposals for the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT). The SIAT will develop four characteristics: integration of science and education, integration of industry and education, cooperation between Guangdong-Hong Kong -Macao and internationalized education, as well as innovation of system
Summary: The international call for proposals aims to find an architecture office to design the new Las Salinas Urban Park (Parque Urbano Las Salinas), a beach-side complex in the city of Viña Del Mar, Chile. The project seeks to transform the area into a multifunctional green space for the future neighborhood
Summary: Competition is searching for a development concept of Tarkhanovo park in Yoshkar-Ola. The concept should include landscape, urban development, planning, volume-space and architectural solutions for the Competition Territory and correspond to the Competition Technical Requirements. The competition territory is Tarkhanovo park, divided into two parts by Shoya river, that amounts
Summary: The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) is announcing the 2021 Great Places Awards in collaboration with the Project for Public Spaces (PPS). The GPA awards seek to recognize work that combines expertise in design, research and practice; and contributes to the creation of dynamic, humane places that engage our
Summary: The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) is announcing the 2021 Great Places Awards in collaboration with the Project for Public Spaces (PPS). The GPA awards seek to recognize work that combines expertise in design, research and practice; and contributes to the creation of dynamic, humane places that engage our
Summary: The campus will aim to maintain an active student base of 120 to 160 students at any given time, so spaces should be designed to serve the needs of such a community. It will have a built-up area, without counting outdoor spaces, of approximately 3900 m2. Description: After putting
Summary: The Streets for People Challenge is an initiative of the Smart Cities Mission of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and ITDP India Programme. The Challenge inspires cities to reimagine their streets as public spaces through the lens of economic regeneration, safety, and child-friendly interventions, in order to
Summary: This student competition aims to find redesign solutions to reconstruct the villages of their choice on the same site. You are invited to watch the competition introduction video! Description: In 1948, at least five hundred and sixty Palestinian cities, towns, and villages have been totally depopulated by Israel in 31
Summary: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP Serbia) invites interested bidders to submit their application for prequalification for the Design competition and subsequent full design services for the Belgrade concert hall. Description: More details on the applicable procedure, as well as on how to participate and submit the application, are available
Summary: Low-Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles is a $100,000 design challenge asking architects and landscape architects to imagine appealing and sustainable new models of low-rise, multi-unit housing. Description: Participants in this competition may enter in any or all of the following categories. Fourplex: Assuming a 50-by-150-foot lot, submit a design that
Summary: THE URBAN ADAPTATION COMPETITION challenges architects and students from around the world to find a way to create multi-use buildings which can adapt to the changing needs of the urban community. Entrants are asked to select a centrally-located empty plot in a city area and develop an innovative modular
Summary: The Face of Renovation is an open international contest for the development of architectural solution concepts of buildings under the program of housing stock renovation in Moscow. Description: We invite Russian and international teams of architects with relevant experience in volumetric-spatial design. The competition features 31 sites; they will
Summary: YAC –Young Architects Competitions–, BT Group, and Marina di Loano launch LEISURE HARBOR, a competition of ideas aiming to re-design one of the 10 most important marinas of Europe. Description: Regardless of one’s origins, everyone is somehow fascinated by harbors. The sound of the siren, the pungent salty smell in fall foggy nights,
Summary: This design competition aims to obtain creative and sophisticated design works with an international sense to establish The Library of SONGDO International City as an intellectual and cultural symbol of the Songdo citizens for progressing as an international city. Description: The purpose of this competition is to re-organize to
Summary: We are at a delicate stage in our relationship with our ally to the south, Mexico. The destructive and divisive security wall that stands at this time has the potential to overwhelm an important but fragile friendship between the ordinary citizens of the United States and Mexico. Especially in
Summary: Toronto is among the ten most expensive major housing markets in the world, and housing prices are predicted to rise again in 2020 by almost 10%, according to the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board. The reason housing prices in Toronto are so disproportionate to household incomes is mainly due
Summary: Tiananmen Square or Tian’anmen Square is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, located near the city’s Central Business District and named after the eponymous Tiananmen (“Gate of Heavenly Peace”) located to its north, which separates it from the Forbidden City. The square contains the Monument
Summary: The international competition for the conceptual master plan and Phase I architectural design of Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone (Nanshan) Hi-tech Industrial Park (hereinafter referred to as Industrial Park) is calling for entries, combined with the industrial development positioning and key direction of Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone, providing guidance and
Summary: Under this premises, “Q-Village · Gangtou” International Young Designer Competition is ready to activate rural spaces with the power design and innovation efforts, thus educating and enhancing the fun features of rural built spaces. Description: In response to the rural revitalization strategy, Gangtou Village, with its inherent Lingnan cultural
Summary: The challenge of this competition is to propose a language centre for the province that focuses on preserving and propagating the varied languages that existed historically and are now extinct or on the verge of getting extinct. Description: Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. It’s a former colony and then
Summary: CREA TALENTS is an open&free; Architecture Ideas Competition, sponsored by The Economic Development & Culture Committee. The objective of the competition is to provide maximum freedom to the participants to engage the project without constraints in the most creative way. Description: With beautiful scenery and many wineries, Huailai, one
Summary: The third edition of the cultural project Re-use Italy promotes an international architecture competition on the reuse of the “Fallen-church” (“Chiesa Diruta” in Italian), a forgotten church in southern Italy, Grottole (Matera), and faces the issue of the abandonment of small towns in Italy, together with local organizations, among
Summary: The competition is posing the question: How can architecture be used as an important tool to imbibe the ancient culture of China in the 21st-century eco-city? The design challenge is therefore to propose a Cultural Center for Sino Singapore Tianjin Eco-City that aims to encourage citizens to keep the culture of
Summary: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest teaching hospitals in the country, a regional and national centre for specialist treatment, a world-renowned biomedical research facility, a leading clinical trials research unit and also the local hospital for the Leeds community. The Hospital has recently published a tender
Summary: The Metals in Construction magazine 2021 Design Challenge is a competition to generate ideas for creating an environment suitable for affordable rental housing over a portion of NYC’s Sunnyside Yard situated between Queens Blvd and Honeywell Street. This site is Phase 1 of the plan as proposed in the Sunnyside Yard Master Plan
Summary: This international design ideas competition—the first in the CBDX series—asks, What does a city for all look like? How does it operate and function? How can it come into being? What place, structure, thing, system, process, or relationship must be forged to engender a more just and equitable ‘city
Summary: Counter-territories is an international urban and art competition and project with a research orientation to encourage local architects, artists, researchers and creative practitioners to work and network with international architects and professionals, to re-read and critically understand the current planning and geographic situation of our cities and territories by
Ladakh Ecological Development Group (LEDeG) under ‘Liveable Leh’, a project funded by the European Union and supported by BORDA (Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association) and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), is currently working towards achieving an inclusive, resilient and liveable Himalayan city. The main focus of the project is to mitigate Climate Change and also to achieve Sustainable Development Goals 6 (clean water and sanitation) and 11 (sustainable cities and communities). As a part of this initiative, LEDeG is launching a Global Design Competition on solutions to resolve problems in high-altitude towns, under Work Package 4.8 of the Liveable Leh project.
Summary: Developers behind the £8bn Thamesmead Waterfront project – Peabody and Lendlease – have launched a major international competition to find a masterplanner to work on the 100-ha scheme. Description: Titled “Town of Tomorrow” firms are being invited to enter the competition where the JV partner and organisers Colander Associates
Summary: The challenge of this competition is to develop design ideas for reuse of the Crook Point Bridge structure and two adjoining parcels of land. Description: The Crook Point Bascule Bridge is a steel railway drawbridge that once connected Providence’s Fox Point neighborhood to the City of East Providence across
Summary: YAC – Young Architects Competitions – and FITT launch FITT FUTURE HEADQUARTERS, a competition of ideas aiming to design the new and innovative headquarters of FITT. The cash prize of € 20, 000 will be distributed to the winning proposals selected by an international jury panel composed by Audun Opdal (3XN), Emmanuelle Moureaux,
Summary: The Order of Architects in Romania (OAR) and the Municipality of Cluj-Napoca officially announce the launch of the „East Park Cluj-Napoca” International Design Competition. The design competition aims at selecting the best project for The Cluj-Napoca East Park, for the award of the design contract. The new arrangement will
Summary: The challenge is to design a rejuvenation centre which resurrects a youthful appearance to the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant instalment in Chernobyl (currently within Ukraine). Description: After its’ inception in 1972 and commission in 1977 – On April 26, 1986, a sudden surge of power during a
Summary: On September 29th, 2020 TIF-‐HELEXPO SA launched an international open call for the pre-qualification to participate in the “International Architectural Design Competition for the Thessaloniki ConfEx Park”. The invitation aims to attract architects with the highest degree of competence, creativity, innovation, and commitment. Description: The architectural competition aims at
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece, EuropeCategories: Master Plan, Public buildings, Park, Landscape design1st Prize: 50.000 €Submission deadline: November 13, 2020, 11:30 PM (Prequalification)Language: EnglishOrganizers: TIF-HELEXPO S.A. Summary: On September 29th 2020 TIF-‐HELEXPO SA launched an international open call for the pre-qualification to participate in the “International Architectural Design Competition for the Thessaloniki
Location: Shenzhen City, China, AsiaCategories: Master Plan, Public buildings1st Prize: 2,000,000 RMBRegistration deadline: November 2, 2020, 12:00 PMSubmission deadline: December 31, 2020, 03:00 PMLanguage: EnglishOrganizers: Engineering Design Management Center of Bureau of Public Works of Shenzhen Municipality Summary: Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall is now open for pre-qualification application.
Location: Prague, Czech Republic, EuropeCategories: Master Plan, Public buildings1st Prize: 3,000,000 CZK Submission deadline: January 12, 2021 05:00 PMLanguage: EnglishOrganizers: Správa železnic, státní organizace Summary: Competition call is looking for the architectural design proposal for the purposes of future construction of new headquarters of Správa železnic in Prague. Description: The
Location: United States, specific location to be announcedCategories: Housing, Student competition1st Prize: 20,000$Registration deadline: November 02, 2020 12:00 AMSubmission deadline: April 12, 2021, 12:00 AMLanguage: EnglishOrganizers: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Summary: HUD PD&R invites teams from accredited educational institutions in the United States to participate in its
Location: Woodruff Park, Atlanta, USACategories: Urban revitalization, Master plan1st Prize: 5,000$ (each team in the first-round selection) Submission deadline: November 23, 2020, at 04:00 PMLanguage: EnglishOrganizers: Central Atlanta Progress, City of Atlanta Summary: Central Atlanta Progress, in partnership with the City of Atlanta, has issued a call for architecture and
Location: Detroit, Michigan, USACategories: Urban revitalization, Master plan1st Prize: 10.000€Registration deadline: December 20, 2020, at 11:59 PMSubmission deadline: December 23, 2020, at 11:59 PMLanguage: EnglishOrganizers: YAC – Young Architects Competitions Summary: CYAC –Young Architects Competitions– and Manni Group launch DETROIT WATERFRONT DISTRICT, a competition of ideas aiming to shape a new skyline
Location: Leeds, England, EuropeCategories: Square, Urban RevitalizationRegistration deadline: October 27, 2020, at 12:00 PM (First phase)Submission deadline: October 27, 2020, at 12:00 PM (First phase)Language: EnglishOrganizers: Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Summary: Balfour Beatty and Leeds City Council are seeking a multi-disciplinary design team to redevelop Leeds City Square
Location: Podgorica, Montenegro, EuropeCategories: Master plan, Landscape designSubmission deadline: December 14, 2020, at 12:00 AMLanguage: EnglishOrganizers: Capital city Podgorica Summary: Podgorica, capital city of Montenegro has launched an International Competition to select best conceptual design for one of its most important spaces – Morača riverfront. Description: The main objective of
Summary: Entrusted by the People’s Government of Xiuzhou District, China Eco-City Research Institute is inviting qualified applicants to participate in the international open soliciting for the conceptual design scheme of the key Hudang Area of the Integration demonstration Area of The Yangtze River Delta (Xiushui New Area). Description: The designers
Summary: The aim of the competition is the development of counterproposals in which the heritage values of Ontario place are safeguarded and enhanced while taking the public into consideration. Description: The idea is to program the site as a public asset. No condos or privatized development; rather, we want to engage the
Summary: The subject of the Competition is the design of the new Brno main train station (Czech Republic), including roofing and platform design, interior layout design, location of the main passenger hall, facade of railway buildings, appearance of the railway body, design of bridge structures and related public spaces in
Summary: The aim of this student competition is to design a 1,500 square foot event pavilion near or within the Estate House footprint to have a unique relationship with the designed landscape that can enhance the visitor experience and provide a platform for community, family gatherings, and celebrations inviting new and
Summary: The purpose of the competition is to find a solution for the new Sara Hildén Art Museum building that is architectural of high-quality and meets the set aesthetic, functional, technical-economic, and sustainable development goals in a balanced manner. Description: Works included in the Finnish and international modern and contemporary
Summary: The competition covers the immediate urban area of Dupont Circle (the exact scope is at the discretion of each participant) and takes place at two scales — macro and micro — that must be interwoven through concept and design. We encourage entrants to thoroughly read and research the history
Summary: The vision for the competition project is to build Contemporary, efficient, well designed attached villas (townhouses) in Ash Shatti Sharqi, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Our main goal is to provide the buyers with an extraordinary, smart living space that satisfies their needs and allows them to live comfortably. Besides, being
Summary: The competition participants are asked to develop a new vision for the Thompson center, as a creative hub in the center of Chicago. Description: It is quite clear that the Center’s original ambition to create a truly grand civic space was a mismatch with its limited function from the
Summary: Close to the city center of Copenhagen, a new city district (brownfield urban development) is planned by a property development department of the Danish state railways (DSB Ejendomsudvikling A/S) and a real estate company owned by the Danish State (Freja ejendomme A/S). Description: Being in the early stages of
Summary: Participants are asked to design a multi-activity youth complex and a public plaza in Almedina, creating a youthful cultural strip and a public platform that can host various cultural and social events. The Youth House, the plaza and their integration with each other and their surrounding context should inspire
Summary: Competition seeks a design of a space that acts as a vessel in reviving the destructed neighborhoods and encouraging inhabitants to come back. A space that respects the past, responds to the present and incorporates the possibility of a bright future for Syria. Description: The cost of war cannot
Location: Suncheon Cityhall, South Korea, AsiaCategories: Master Plan1st Prize: Priority negotiation rights for working design and construction documentsRegistration deadline: September 29, 2020 05:00 PMSubmission deadline: December 04, 2020 05:00 PMLanguage: EnglishOrganizers: Korea Institute of Architects Summary: The design competition aims to select a creative design plan for reflecting the status
Location: Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, USACategories: Urban Revitalization, Urban VoidPrize: 20.000,00$Registration deadline: Oct 12, 2020 15:00 GMTSubmission deadline: Oct 27, 2020 15:00 GMTLanguage: EnglishOrganizers: COMMUN Summary: Challenge is to rethink a disused 4000 sqm railway shed into space for culture, art, and public relationships. Design that retrieves collective memories and
Location: Podgorica, Montenegro, EuropeCategories: Renovation, Square1st Prize: 30.000,00€Submission deadline: October 30, 2020, at 04:00 PMLanguage: Montenegrin, EnglishOrganizers: Capital City Podgorica Summary: The fundamental objective of the competition is the selection of the best conceptual urban and architectural design of Independence Square in Podgorica. Description: Participants of the Competition are expected
Location: Rahovec, Kosovo, EuropeCategories: Renovation, Square1st Prize: 7.000,00€Registration deadline: November 16, 2020, at 23:59 GTM+2Submission deadline: November 16, 2020, at 23:59 GTM+2Language: EnglishOrganizers: Municipality of Rahovec, UN-Habitat Summary: The International Design Competition for Central City Square of Rahovec is organized within the project Leading Urban Change in Rahovec through the
Location: Riga, Latvia, EuropeCategories: Park, Urban Revitalization1st Prize: 17.000,00€Submission deadline: October 12, 2020, at 05:00 PMLanguage: Latvian, EnglishOrganizers: SIA “DG31 Summary: Competition search for spatial development vision with the master plan concept for the competition territory showing the prospective development stages of “Zunda Park” in Riga, Latvia. Description: The Competition
Location: Melbourne, AustraliaCategories: Housing1st Prize: 3.000,00€Registration deadline: November 2, 2020 at 12:00 PMSubmission deadline: December 8, 2020 at 12:00 PMLanguage: EnglishOrganizers: BEE BREEDERS Summary: Competition is searching for a design of a pilot-phase concept for affordable housing within Melbourne, which can be easily rolled out to increase the capacity of
Location: Krasnoyarsk, RusiaCategories: Park, Renovation1st Prize: 900,000,00R + 1,800,000RRegistration deadline: September 24, 2020 at 12:00 AMSubmission deadline: October 19, 2020 at 12:00 AMLanguage: EnglishOrganizers: Agency for Strategic Development CENTER Summary: The two-stage competition is aiming to assist the renovation of the Gorky Central Park in one of the Russian major
Summary: The Penang Bay Ideas Competition is about the rethinking of Penang’s Urban Core in a critical moment in the Age of Disruption. Description: Penang, a mid-sized city in northern Malaysia is using the pandemic downtime to scale up its efforts to prepare for the future. It has a multitude
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