Taking place across the city of Toronto January 19-28, 2024, the annual DesignTO (https://designto.org/) Festival is a city-wide celebration of design's role in creating a sustainable, just, and joyful world. Featuring a wide range of events, exhibitions, and installations, the Festival showcases the best of local and international design. If you're interested in contributing an Independent Project (https://designto.org/independent-projects-call/), participating as a Host Venue, or submitting to one of the DesignTO curated projects, now's your chance!
Trnava, the regional vision-having city of 62,000 inhabitants, launches an international two-stage urban design competition of an unprecedented scale across Slovakia. From the point of the history of the city ̓s development, this is a game-changer to be setting a new standard with respect to the preparation of The Land-use plan.
responding to the challenges posed by climate change effects in Mediterranean cities and their built environment
As part of the celebration of the Day of the Mediterranean 2023, the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) is organising a student competition on Urban Design entitled “Urban Solutions to Climate Change in the Mediterranean”. Undergraduate/Graduate students in relevant Schools/Departments, based in any of the 43 UfM Member States can participate. However eligible proposals must be located in one UfM Member States around the Mediterranean (see below for details).
From its inception in the 1980’s the Passive House standard has been influenced by building sciences and climate vernaculars developed throughout the centuries and from around the globe. Drawing from the many lessons of regional building design the Passive House Institute has provided a robust climate adaptive and versatile building process. Based on the meticulous calculations of the site and local climate, the standard promises a universal level of low environmental impact, occupant well being, and resiliency. These responsive buildings are uniquely prepared for a rapidly changing world, anywhere in the world.
The Glasgow Institute of Architects have launched an ideas competition encouraging the re-use of the existing Cumbernauld megastructure, and opposing the demolition approach proposed by the local authority.
Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism of Montenegro has announced an International Competition for a conceptual architectural design of a primary school in City Kvart in Podgorica.
Calling all creative, design-driven minds! We have an opportunity tailor-made for you. We're searching for a spectacular design to mark the entrance to Metal Park - a stunning new community center celebrating the innovative spirit of the metal industry.
Eden Project aims to give space and visual representation to goals. It seeks to explore the ‘essence’ of pursued destinies, the tangible ‘collapse’ of imagined goals, and the tools employed in the realms of work, life, and thought to achieve them. Karl Kraus once argued: ‘Origin is the goal’.
Globally, the construction sector accounts for approximately one third of total material consumption, contributing to a threefold increase in global resource extraction since 1970. The circular economy offers a solution to eliminate 35% of construction waste, reduce pollution and circulate materials and assets at their highest value. It is also an essential enabler to decarbonization.
PORTUSplus – published by RETE, International Association for the Collaboration between Ports and Cities – is an open-access journal, peer reviewed and indexed, dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of themes concerning the relationship between ports and cities and urban waterfronts.
Iris Ceramica Group, world leader in the design of innovative solutions and of unique ceramic materials, is promotingthe international contest “Local Cultures in Global Settings”, curated by UAE Modern, fostering knowledge of a multitude of unique roots and identities, with Dubai as a symbolic place of global discourse. Dubai is not only a thematic focus but also the final destination of the international contest, for which the winners will be announced during the Dubai Design Week.
GAD Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of an international architecture competition that calls on young architects from around the world to envision a new natural environment based on living in a scenic and magical landscape. Re-Imagining Cappadocia as an Eco-District competition seeks to extend design insight into architecture embedded and in harmony with the Cappadocian landscape as the focus of Eco-District design.
In partnership with Make Architects and Sir John Soane’s Museum, World Architecture Festival (WAF) announces the call for entries for the seventh edition of The Architecture Drawing Prize, sponsored by Iris Ceramica Group. Launched in 2017, the Prize was established to celebrate and showcase the art and skill of architectural drawing.
Fushan Ecological Greenway Design / Qingdao Tengyuan Design Institute Co.,Ltd. Image Courtesy of A' Design Award
The world-renowned A' Design Award & Competition has opened its Call for Early Submissions to all those who would like to submit their designs in advance for the 2023-2024 period. The annual award recognizes designs in over 100 competition categories which are voted on by an international grand jury panel of scholars, journalists and design professionals. With a mission to inspire and recognize good design around the world, the A' Design Award is an all-rounder competition that seeks to promote the best of the many design professions and practices.
https://www.archdaily.com/1002746/call-for-early-submissions-a-design-award-and-competition-2023-2024Daniela Porto
