Finland's small wooden pavilion was designed by architect Alvar Aalto in 1956. photo: Miina Jutila
The Pavilion of Finland invites curatorial concept submissions for an exhibition at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (H&LS) Memorial Project Committee invites artists, architects, designers, multi-disciplinary teams, and other creators to express their interest in conceiving a site or sites on Harvard’s Cambridge campus for commemoration and reflection, as well as for listening to and living with the University’s legacy of slavery. We seek expressions of interest from those with investments of thought and practice in memorialization, ritual, community-building, history, and questions about the future. In particular, we are interested in creative visions that activate and make visible complex dynamics, such as: permanence and vitality; honor and rebuke; ecology and the built environment; institutional interest and the common good. We welcome submissions from individuals, collaboratives, and teams rooted in traditional or non-traditional memorial practices at any stage of their career.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House (Buffalo, New York) is pleased to announce a call for applications to its Creative Residency Program. The residency provides individuals from multiple disciplines a thought-provoking environment in which to produce new works of the imagination inspired by one of the great examples of 20th century architecture.
Miraflorinos dancing in front of the Ancient Town of Huaquis during Watch Day celebrations this June. Yanacancha-Huaquis is a 2022 World Monuments Watch site. Image Courtesy of Luis Yucra.
World Monuments Fund (WMF) invites nominations for heritage places facing urgent challenges. Every two years, the Watch selects 25 places that tell a local story with global relevance and works with communities to amplify preservation efforts through advocacy, capacity building, and close collaboration with WMF’s expert team and professionals around the world. The most competitive nominations will illuminate a place’s deep importance to the past and present while inspiring action on the most pressing issues of our time.
The Changdong-Sanggye area, situated in the northeastern metropolitan center of Seoul, Korea has been designated as an 'urban regeneration area' with the aim of creating an economic and cultural hub suitable for "2030 Seoul Plan". The goal of this competition is to develop a new concept for the complex center that integrates public transportation transit facilities, apartments, offices, and commercial spaces within District 2 of the Chang-dong urban development zone, to inspire creative designs that align with the 'Comprehensive Concept Plan for the Urban and Architectural Spaces of Seoul for the next 100 years.', and to select the optimal design that revitalizes urban regeneration and promotes residential welfare from functional, social, and economic perspectives.
Poster for Urbanarium's Decoding Density competition
Missing Middle and Mixing Middle housing forms, the subjects of Urbanarium’s previous ideas competitions, are becoming mainstream policies. Urbanarium’s next competition again explores missing middle housing, this time at the high end of that density range.
The program task of this competition is the conceptual design of the congress center with a proposal for arrangement of additional facilities along the route of the road to Dubrovnik within the given location within the part of the zone "Draženska Gora", the city of Trebinje. The congress activity is a polyvalent symbiosis of new facilities that MH “ERS“ wants to establish on the territory of the city, and they represent multifunctional economic and cultural branches that also have some quite specific benefits compared to other types of business. The congress activity combines the expanded scientific, professional, educational and commercial branch of the economy. Meetings of this type present the latest professional knowledge and achievements in a particular field, thus including the area where the meeting takes place in the map and the agenda cycle of a particular activity. The architectural and spatial framework for their realization is a hybrid facility of combined content that primarily enables hosting of congress events. The architectural features of a new complex and its content indicate future developments in the construction sector in the zone of its location; by activating the area concerned, it gains in value and becomes a desirable location for aditional attractive facilities. The idea to build a congress center at a given location is part of a broader vision of the development of "dubrovački pravac" of the western zone of Trebinjsko polje (karst field); along with the congress center, it is necessary, at the level of the urban scheme, to design a wider ensemble of additional facilities, namely: a high category hotel, a sports hall and certain public city purposes facilities.
For architects, planners and designers, cities have turned into testing canvases for solutions that lead to both short and long-term changes. The paradigm shift in the built environment switches the narrative of how the public realm approaches complex challenges related to climate, urban sprawl, mobility, housing, among others. The goal of this competition is to experiment with site-specific case studies that can work as open laboratories to test novel approaches on urban transformation. Participants have complete freedom to outline the program, the overall output and the extents of their proposal. Likewise, the size and complexity of the intervention will be defined by each team according to the needs of that specific neighbourhood, plot, city or community.
Project name: Architectural Scheme Design of North Area (Section 2) of International Collaborative Innovation Zone of The Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone Project location: Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province Deadline for pre-qualification application: 17:00 on December 26, 2023
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At the center of the new edition of the biennale svizzera del territorio (October 4th and 5th, 2024), to promote its participatory spirit, have been launched two important calls:
Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the 2024 Architectural League Prize competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2024. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000.
Enter the MICROHOME Kingspan Edition Architecture Competition now! 150,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: 29 April, 2024
The MICROHOME Kingspan Edition invites participants to conceptualize an off-grid modular dwelling that would accommodate a hypothetical young professional couple. This scenario serves as the benchmark family size for the competition. The total floor area of the structure should not exceed 25 m2, thereby encouraging participants to push their creativity and innovate within these parameters.
Best in Design is an international contest for young designers. There are not only financial rewards from 200 € up to 1 500 € in the game, but it’s also a great opportunity to get a feedback, to compare yourself with young designers from all around the world, to show people what you can do and maybe to start your career. The only thing you need to enter the contest is your talent and courage
🔖 One building, any kind of drawing, a single illustration! The RE-DRAW Competition is back! In it’s sixth edition the building you will have to digest to create a completly new illustration is The Villa Savoye, designed by Le Corbusier. How would you represent this iconic building?
As 2023 comes to an end, the future of our landscape is filled with visionary imaginations as a result of a year of forward-thinking design competitions. From revitalizing historical gems to designing new buildings, these global contests have pushed innovation further in the architecture industry. In fact, with each new competition, the boundaries of our living were challenged, reimagining what the future may accommodate or encourage.
This past year has been a showcase of architectural innovation, with award competitions surpassing the boundaries of traditional industry. Winning designs feature a deep embodiment of cultural heritage, communal aspirations, and environmental stewardship. In fact, the three categories of competitions that established firms participated in were cultural landmarks, mixed-use towers, and master plans. In each category, the winning design reimagines what these concepts stand for in 2023 and beyond, designing not just new buildings but new ways of living.
The biannual International VELUX Award for Students of Architecture returns for its 2024 edition, inviting students from all over the world to innovate on the theme of daylight in architecture, specifically, to envision the "Light of Tomorrow." This broad theme has encapsulated the award since its launch in 2004. Since then, over 6,000 projects from 130 countries have been submitted that adopt an open-minded, experimental approach to daylight in the built environment.
CHYBIK+KRISTOF has won an international competition to design a multifunctional tower as a significant part of Tirana’s evolving landscape. The structure is situated in the heart of the capital city’s culture hub within the New Boulevard, reflecting a shift in Tirana’s urban development. With its distinctive red concrete silhouette, it aims to create a new landmark, signaling the commencement of various other projects outlined in the masterplan.
Saint-Gobain Transparence 18.0 - Art and Science of Building Responsibly
Saint-Gobain Transparence is India's Biggest Design Competition for students of architecture and design. For the past 18 years, Saint-Gobain in association with Ethos has been striving to provide a platform for aspiring designers to showcase their ingenuity on topics in design relevant to our times as well as apt for the future. Participate in Saint-Gobain Transparence 18.0 Architecture Category this year and win a chance to represent your country in the Global Architecture Student Contest in Finland, Europe.
Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property of Montenegro has announced an International Competition for a Conceptual Architectural Design of the Hospital Facility within “Danilo I” General Hospital Complex in Cetinje (Montenegro).
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One-of-a-kind inclusive community grounded in neurodiversity, India Autism Center (IAC) is a multidisciplinary non-profit organization for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other related conditions. The competition site of 3000 sq ft (built up of 4500 sq ft) is located within the campus, an integrated 39-acre community neighborhood, currently under construction at Sirakole, West Bengal.The project is envisioned to create an inclusive community - with the provision of residential, educational, vocational, clinical, and recreational services as well as employment avenues.
