The Forge Prize recognizes innovation in the use of steel and how it can be used to reduce design and construction time. Established by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the prize invites emerging architects to submit proposals for visionary designs that embrace steel as the primary structural component to increase project speed. The Forge Prize is intended to engage emerging architects in developing imaginative solutions that bolster steel as the 21st century building material of choice through a two-stage design challenge, culminating in a public announcement of finalists in Spring 2020.

Top 3 finalists receive $10K. Grand Prize

PREMISE

Paris, the capital of France has been inhabited since the beginning of 3rd Century BC along the banks of river Seine. It started as the hub of trading center which eventually led to its growth as a metropolis.
By mid-18th Century, it became densely populated with a cityscape that had not changed since the middle ages. Napoleon III hired Hausmann for one of the largest urban transformations. Consequently, he built the first transport network encircling Paris, transforming it from a medieval town to an industrial center of 19th Century.

This railway network, known as Petite Ceinture, initially

Ideasforward wants to give young creative people from around the world the opportunity to express new ideas of future societies through their innovative and visionary proposals.
We are an experimental platform seeking progressive ideas that reflect on emerging themes.
We want to break mental borders and put all the visions on the table.
Here, you can try an experiment, everything is possible!

AIM OF THE COMPETITION - 24H
A place where the time limit is used to stimulate your creativity.
This competition aims to present architectural answers in 24h to, social problems, humanitarian causes, or utopian themes of contemporary societies. It wants to put the creative

In collaboration with French micro-architecture-studio Atelier 37.2, the Groupe CB is launching PRIMA - a competition open to certain colleges of architecture and design across Europe.

This competition is an invitation to explore micro architecture as a bridge between design, art and architecture - using 3 materials - stone, concrete and steel.
The dead-line is February 28th, 2020.
All informations are available online on the website : www.prima-cb.com

Superscape 2020

Population growth, increasing urbanisation and social change pose new challenges for architecture and urban planning. Reflecting these processes of change, Superscape opens a creative space for unconventional ideas meant to deliver new impulses to real-life architectural output and urban development. The biennial prize seeks to encourage innovative and visionary architectural concepts that explore new models of living and strategies for inhabiting an urban context over a broad expanse of 30 years.
www.superscape.at/eng/

MIXED-USE CITY
Living, Working and Urban Production

Like the earlier industrial revolution, it is now the digital revolution that is influencing social, economic and socio-cultural processes and, hence, making increased demands

Beam Camp is a collaborative building and design summer camp in Strafford, NH that works with kids aged 10-17 to make the seemingly impossible possible. Our award-winning program has been featured in the New York Times, Wired, NPR, and designboom, and offers young people the opportunity to cultivate hands-on skills while exploring innovative thinking, design, problem solving and the creative process.

An intergalactic salvage station struck by a meteor, a solar-powered cinematic riff on a French film from 1902, a 2-story arboreal kaleidoscope: every year, Beam Camp solicits proposals for unique and spectacular large-scale projects that serve as the centerpiece

Call to all design students! This is the opportunity that you’ve been waiting for! $500 cash prize + website feature, guest blog feature & social media feature for best designs. What do you imagine as your dream home? Registration closing November 30, 2019.

1st Prize – $500 + Certificate + Feature on our guest blog/Website & social media pages

2nd Prize – $300 + Certificate + Feature on our guest blog/Website & social media pages

3rd Prize – $200 + Certificate + Feature on our guest blog/Website & social media pages

10 Honourable Mentions to be published on the official website & guest blog

The

Dear architects, Do not miss the opportunity to participate in revitalisation of one of the oldest and biggest cinemas in Europe!  THE GREAT CINEMA OF MODERN ZLÍNINTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE DIALOGUE FOR REVITALISATION OF THE GREAT CINEMA CONSTRUCTED BY BAŤA SHOE COMPANY.The Great cinema in Zlín, designed by architect František Lýdie Gahura and built by the Baťa company in 1933, was the largest cinema in Czechoslovakia, with 2270 seats. The revitalisation of this functionalist social space needs to meet the requirements of the 21st century.This is an opportunity to redesign a building representative of the modern architectural style in Czech Republic. Deadline for registration:  29.10.2019 at

Grand-Métis, Canada, 2019-10-08 -
The International Garden Festival, presented at the Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens in the Gaspésie region of Québec, Canada is preparing its 21st edition and is issuing an international call for proposals to select designers who will create the new temporary gardens that will be presented from June 19, 2020. For its 21st edition, the Festival has chosen Métissages as its theme. Continuing the exploration of new ideas and new realms, the Festival is seeking to connect designers from various fields to favour a crossbreeding of practices and professions.

Métissages has historically had negative connotations.

Arquideas is pleased to inform you of the launch of the new international competition called Rural Tourism Accommodation (RuTA) Vietnam.

This competition is for students and young architects and you could win up to € 6.375 in economic prizes and several free subscriptions to the most internationally renowned architecture magazines.

The objective of the present competition consists in proposing lodging for tourists that come to this rural area of the country looking for the beauty of its landscape. A place where nature and rural world, with the help of the rice terrace fields, play a key role in facilitating rest for

FuturArc Prize 2020 asks how an Asian city might restore a human-nature balance.

TASK
1) Pick a city in Asia. This may be the city you live in or one that you are familiar with.
2) Evaluate the loss of natural habitats and ecosystem services.
3) Understand the impact of this loss on the well-being of humans and other species.
4) Propose new elements and networks that will invite Nature back and restore ecosystem services.

This year, you decide the scale and boundary of the intervention. Your proposal can be at the city-scale; it can be a retrofitted neighbourhood; or it can be a prototype for

"Free"
Do you have exciting ideas of bringing about a change in the design of future cities with the concept of sharing to sustain? Here's your chance to share your design of a resilient and sustainable dwelling, coupled with today's technical know-how, quality of life and modern comforts.

Stand to walk away with SGD 5,000 worth of cash prizes and have your designs showcased nationwide.

Submit your designs here now: https://lnkd.in/fzgm4nq

Submissions close on November 5, 2019.

PREMISE

With globalisation, the way food is made available to us has transformed enormously. Fine dines of the world to QSRs of the world, food has evolved extensively. Fine dines continue to refine their cuisine and QSRs have become more commercial. Additionally, food trucks and delivery services are gaining more popularity everyday. It is a resource-intensive industry and all these ways have revolutionised the interaction between the chef and the consumer.

Apart from these, there also exist small food joints that are not commercial. Yet, these eateries continue to remain the heart and soul for serving good quality local cuisine or

We are proud to present the Nickl Foundation's Architecture for Health Students' Award .
The award recognizes master students who have excelled in a thesis on Architecture for Health.

This is intended to promote working in the field of
healthcare architecture or architecture & urbanism for health
and to encourage students in their motivation to engage in this important topic

Projects can be submitted from the fields of
• Architecture • Master planning • Urban planning.

The work should have a strong relation to current health care issues.
In addition to designs for hospitals, healthcare buildings and residential buildings for people with

ShopSmart on Redchurch is an ideas competition that will explore ways that placemaking and technology can bring character, activity, community and economic success to Redchurch Street in Shoreditch, London.

The brief invites new ways of thinking about the connection between retail technology and the public realm. Entry is free and we are open to submissions from students or professionals - we want creative thinkers from all industries, including architecture and urban design, landscaping, lighting, artists, tech etc.

The judging panel is chaired by Sir Peter Cook. Five shortlisted entries (individuals or teams) will received £1,000 and there is the potential for

HOUSE IN FOREST is pleased to announce its 6th annual international design competition: House In Forest 2020 - Wooden House. The competition is designed to challenge and seek the creativity with ideas and concepts in architectural design, as well as landscape design and site planning. The aim of this competition is to promote our ideas of protecting the forest and its environment, as well as focusing on urban design problems, while simultaneously raising awareness of the sustainability.

This year’s competition focuses on wooden houses, an extraordinary architectural style with traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, prefabricated wooden structures or creative

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant
$25,000

Deadline: Friday, November 1st 5:00 pm (EST)

The Center for Architecture is now accepting for applications for the 2019 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant. The grant provides single or multiple awards of up to $25,000 for early to mid-level architects who wish to further their personal and professional development through travel. Originally conceived as a fund to provide architects with the experience of a European Grand Tour, recipients now explore unique travel research topics around the world. Recent topics include the study of architecture in Siberia, post-revolutionary architecture in Cuba, and a survey

Although the field of architecture likes to think it is cutting-edge, adamantly liberal, and on the forefront of history, we still look towards the compulsive tendencies of the glorified visionary, their revolutionary thoughts, illuminating process, and iconic vision. 

Open Tender for Development of the General Plan for Ganja city

The State Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Committee) invites the bidders to an open tender for Development of the General Plan for Ganja City based on the order # 225 s, dated April 01, 2019 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic “The State order of the urban development works financed from the state budget for 2019”.

The tender will be held in one stage based on the Quality