The Capital City of Podgorica has launched an international, open, single-stage, anonymous design competition for the conceptual urban and architectural design of a residential and mixed-use complex within the "Gradski Stan" (City Housing) project.
2025 Call for Nominations: PAVE Global Educator of the Year
The PAVE Global Educator of the Year Award honors and celebrates a full-time educator for their outstanding accomplishments and commitment to design education.
This international competition challenges students to design a Store-within-a-Store snacking destination for Hershey inside a grocery store. Three winners each receive $4,000, Gala travel, and $1,000 educator stipends.
The Chungbuk Art Center Construction Project aims to expand key infrastructure to lead the future of performing arts in Chungcheongbuk-do (Chungbuk). This initiative aims to strengthen its position and improve its functions as a leading provincial performing arts facility. Beyond merelyproviding a performance space, theproject aims to serve as a cultural hubthat links and enhances the region's artistic potential.
Norwich University High School Architecture Competition: Pocket Place
Architecture is about solving problems for people through the composition of light, space, and material. It is about embracing the way space can be sculpted to improve how we live.
Manchar Lake Art Residency is offering an opportunity for four emerging artists working in any medium; and one for mid-career practitioner or collective of upto three people, for a site specific installation. If you are a visual practitioner interested in indigenous communities, climate activism, and heritage, this is your chance to participate in this funded opportunity. Heritage Cell-Department of Architecture and Planning NED University (HC-DAPNED) started the documentation of the Mohanna houseboats through Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme funding in 2022. The project further grew with the support from Cultural Protection Fund–UK for restoration of 44 galiyo (houseboats), and also respond to wider concerns of ecology, environment, culture, and heritage. The art residency builds on this work, offering artists a platform to engage with these interconnected themes.
ADAM | Mediterranean Archive of Architectural Drawings seeks to investigate the practice of the architect through drawing as the privileged medium for translating ideas into projects.
Enter the Re:Form – New Life for Old Spaces #2 Architecture Competition now! 10,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: February 4, 2026
Choose a site–used, abandoned, or forgotten–anywhere in the world, and give it a new purpose!
This year there are 100 years since Rudolf Steiner died. His relevance, for us, didn't diminish. He was a brilliant non-architect who built better than many architects. How to explain it ?
The international design competition to select the architect for Finland's new Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki has concluded with the announcement that JKMM Architects has been awarded first prize. The Helsinki-based practice's proposal, known during the competition as Kumma, was chosen from 624 entries submitted from around the world. The open and anonymous competition, launched in April 2024, sought conceptual designs for a new 10,050-square-meter cultural institution to be built on the city's South Harbor waterfront. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2027, with completion and public opening planned for 2030.
The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum 2023 (c) Make Architects
The Architecture Drawing Prize (TADP), a collaboration between Make Architects, Sir John Soane's Museum, and World Architecture Festival, is now accepting entries for its 2025 competition.
Chungju Museum of Art International invited design competition
As a representative region of Chungcheongbuk-do Province, Chungju City plans to establish the Chungju Museum of Art in order to preserve and share the unique artistic value of Chungju City.
In its 10th anniversary year, the Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) invites architects, designers, firms, and photographers to submit outstanding work that advances sustainability, aesthetics, and functionality. AMP has honored projects from 81 countries, with past laureates including Zaha Hadid Architects, Tadao Ando, Elora Hardy of IBUKU, Michael Green, Sou Fujimoto, and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).
This year there are 100 years since Robert Rauschenberg was born. Should we celebrate the centennials of "avant-garde" artists ? Even more so, of a Neo-Dadaist artist ? Isn't such a celebration a little too bourgeois ?
The goal is to design a perforation pattern that transforms how natural light enters indoor spaces, blending art, comfort, and sustainability. Your idea could change users feel and interact with spaces such as classrooms, hospitals, offices, or homes.
The goal is to design a multifunctional façade system that integrates smart technologies, such as IoT sensors, sun-shading, BIPV, or embedded heating/cooling systems. Your concept should enhance sustainability, comfort, and performance by responding intelligently to environmental conditions.
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Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France by Le Corbusier, photo by Henry Plummer, The Daylight Award 2020 laureate
Daylight shapes the spaces we inhabit, guides design decisions and modulates life on Earth. The Daylight Award 2026 invites architects and researchers to nominate individuals and teams whose work with natural light is pushing the boundaries of design, science, and innovation.
As cities and communities adapt to new cultural, environmental, and social realities, architecture is taking on an expanded role in shaping spaces of resilience, gathering, and imagination. This edition of Architecture Now highlights six recent projects that span continents and typologies, from the redevelopment of post-industrial landscapes to sacred architecture, cultural pavilions, and civic hubs. Whether through mass timber innovation in Vancouver and Jülich, adaptive reuse in Ostrava, a children's pavilion in London, a spiritual centre in India, or a parametric church in Kyiv, each project demonstrates how design can bridge heritage and innovation while fostering connection, care, and community.
The House of No Waste Competition, organised by UNU-FLORES, is calling the next generation to reimagine the built environment for a pollution-free planet
The House of No Waste Competition (HØW) calls upon aspiring young architects, landscape architects, building and structural engineers, planners, builders, material and environmental scientists, product designers, and built environment professionals to engage in a global competition that tackles pressing issues of the circular economy and waste management in the built environment. The competition is organised by the United Nations University-FLORES, to mark the 50th anniversary of the UNU. Its Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and Resources (UNU-FLORES) is marking the anniversary with the launch of the HØW initiative, of which the competition is a central element.
