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Call for Entries: Architecture Portfolio Competition 2026

Architerrax invites architecture students from around the globe to participate in the Architerrax Portfolio Competition. This international competition provides a prestigious platform to showcase your architectural vision, demonstrate your versatility, and gain direct exposure to leading architecture firms worldwide.

Pan-African Biennale - Open Call: Short Film

The Pan-African Biennale (PAB) is a continental platform dedicated to documenting, preserving, and projecting Africa's built environment, urbanism, and creative futures— across all 54 nations and the diaspora.
It is the founding of a long-term continental institution, built to ensure that African architects, urbanists, artists, and communities are the authors of their own spatial and cultural narratives.

Design Competition for the Prishtina City Cemetery

The Municipality of Pristina / Capital City has initiated a comprehensive and inclusive
planning process for the development of the Capital City Cemetery of Pristina,
conceived as a contemporary civic, memorial, landscape, and digital public
infrastructure of long-term importance.
The project aims to establish a new model for cemetery planning and funeral
infrastructure in Kosovo, based on:
• dignity,
• equality,
• coexistence,
• institutional professionalism,
• sustainability,
• digital governance,
• and respect for religious and cultural diversity.
The process has been developed through continuous dialogue and consultation with
representatives of religious communities, institutional stakeholders, technical experts,
and international partners.
The future cemetery complex is envisioned not merely as a burial ground, but as a
carefully designed landscape of memory, reflection, peace, coexistence, civic identity,
and long-term collective responsibility.

Call for Entries: 25th Tile of Spain Awards in Architecture and Interior Design

Showcase your project at the 25th Tile of Spain Awards

First Place, Atacama Regional Museum Competition / Máx Nuñez Arquitectos

The new building for the Atacama Regional Museum aims to be an iconic landmark, reflecting the identity of the Atacama region and its more than 16,000 years of history through regional character and architectural flexibility. 

Below, we present the first-place winning proposal by Máx Núñez Arquitectos. The design is inspired by the natural processes that have shaped the local geography: a heavy, solid volume fractured by irregular fissures, mimicking the effects of desert erosion.

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Warming Huts Competition: Arts + Architecture Competition on Ice

This call for entries is open to all architects, students of architecture, landscape architects, interior designers, artists and industrial designers who have a proven portfolio of design work. It is the intention of this competition to foster and encourage the formation of multi-disciplinary teams.

Join the 25th Andreu World International Design Contest

25 years of big ideas. Now it's your turn.

Enter the 25th Andreu World International Design Competition

25 years of great ideas. Now it’s your turn.

MA Awards 2023: Spotlighting the work of women architects in Chile

The second edition of the "MA Awards 2023" seeks to promote and highlight the work of contemporary women architects in Chile. To this end, there are two award categories: Emerging and Established. Both categories aim to identify and value architectural production in areas such as housing, public architecture, urbanism, landscape, and others. The awards seek to promote built works throughout Chile developed by women architects, thereby increasing the visibility of architecture within our territory and showcasing its diversity.

Regional Architecture Salons / SCA: Open Call

The Colombian Society of Architects (SCA), with the support of the National Professional Council of Architecture and its Auxiliary Professions (CPNAA), has agreed to revive the regional architecture salons initiative, aiming to recognize and promote the work of architects in Colombia from a regional perspective.

Call for Entries: 2025 Urban Contribution Award

The 2025 Urban Contribution Award (Premio Aporte Urbano) is an annual distinction that seeks to recognize and highlight built works and initiatives in Chilean cities that make a significant contribution to urban development and well-being.

Architectural Skins Competition: Timber Envelopes for Existing Buildings

September 22 marks the launch of the Architectural Skins competition: timber envelopes for existing buildings. This invitation from WoodArch is sponsored by the AOA (Association of Architecture Offices) and the Chilean Institute of Architects.

Competition for the Transformation of Historic Spaces in Five Cities in RS

Focusing on the selection of five architectural projects, the state government launched the second stage of the Iconicidades program on April 25. The initiative will select the best proposals for transforming public spaces into hubs for the creative economy.

Registration Open for the Second Weefor ARQ Architecture Open

Registration is now open for the second edition of Weefor ARQ, an open competition to design a residential building in Curitiba. Organized by the developer Weefor in partnership with PROJETO magazine, this launch marks the start of an unusual initiative in the construction sector, which is typically dominated by competitions for public works.

Call for entries: Social interest housing design competition in Araraquara

The City of Araraquara, through the Executive Coordination of Housing and the Housing Projects Management office, both under the Secretariat of Urban Development, has opened registration for the "National Public Architectural Design Competition for Social Interest Housing." The competition aims to select designs based on pre-established criteria regarding technology, comfort, performance, and sustainability.

Submissions open for the AsBEA-RJ Sérgio Bernardes Architecture Award

Firms not associated with AsBEA/RJ (new talent) must pay a registration fee of R$ 510.00. This is a one-time fee, regardless of the number of projects submitted to the awards. Should a non-associated firm choose to join the organization, the amount paid will be applied as a credit toward their membership dues.

Registration open for the Campina Grande Central Market redevelopment competition

Architecture and urban planning professionals from across Brazil have until March 30, 2023, to register for the "National Public Architecture and Urban Planning Competition for the Redevelopment of the Central Market of Campina Grande." The complete brief and further information for candidates are available at www.concursofeiradecampinagrande.org

Registration Open for the Landscape Architecture Competition for the Redevelopment of the Surroundings of Lake Joaquina Rita Bier in Gramado, RS

The City of Gramado, in partnership with the Institute of Architects of Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul Department (IAB/RS), is promoting the National Public Landscape Architecture Competition for the Redevelopment of the surroundings of Lake Joaquina Rita Bier.

Archtrends opens registration for the “What’s Inside Matters” architecture competition for professionals and students across Brazil

Archtrends, the architecture and design portal by Portobello, has opened registration for the 3rd edition of its architecture competition. Interested participants must develop projects based on the theme "What's inside matters" and publish them on the Archtrends website between July 3 and August 7. The top 10 entries will be exhibited at Archtrends Summit 2023, an annual creativity forum hosted by Portobello, taking place at Teatro Santander in São Paulo on September 5. Furthermore, the authors will receive invitations to attend the event.

1st Construction Details Competition: Staircases - Registration Open

To celebrate our first year of providing foundational training, Basalto (a school specializing in architectural drawing) has organized a competition for executive details, aimed at reflecting on recent graphic production in light of current standards and improving the execution of executive projects. For this first edition, the theme is: STAIRS.

Submissions open for projects addressing the COVID-19 pandemic

Emergency initiatives to combat the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through architecture and urbanism are now eligible for funding from the CAU/SC. On Tuesday, May 26, the Council launched Public Call No. 01/2020, which allocates R$ 75,000 to projects benefiting families in socioeconomic vulnerability, specifically within the realms of Social Interest Housing and Education, Research, and Extension.

Call for Entries: Young Architectural Talent 2020

Architecture students submitting their final thesis projects or individual academic projects in the second semester of 2020, as well as recent graduates who submitted theirs in the first semester of 2020 or throughout 2019, have the opportunity to win awards for their work. They are eligible to participate in the second Jovem Talento da Arquitetura competition, organized by Minimum.

CBCA Undergraduate Research Grant

The CBCA Scientific Research Scholarship will provide a monthly stipend of R$ 1,000 for one year. The application and proposal submission period ends on November 28. The results will be announced on December 12.

#MuvucaNaRua Photo Contest: Submissions Open

Carnival, São João festivals, team sports, and birthday parties in public squares are examples of celebrations and gatherings in streets and public spaces that have made a full comeback in 2022, following two years of strict restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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