Competitions

A "CATHEDRAL OF SOCIALISM"

Join the next “modern conversation”: we examine the relationship between time, modernity, and architecture, searching for traces of time. We aim to reflect on the connection between the built environment and the regulation of time, whether through obvious examples like clock towers or less obvious ones such as religious and industrial buildings. What is the relationship between the regulation of time and modernity? How has the introduction of certain structures and typologies shifted our understanding of time and the way we quantify it? What constitutes architecture that is strongly connected to time, and what is truly timeless? What ruptures occur that challenge such architecture?

The stair is one of the most elemental and enduring components of architecture. It is a structure in motion—a connector of levels, a sculptural form, a spatial sequence, and a symbol of ascent, descent, and transition. It guides the body and engages the mind. It is at once practical and poetic.

Light is one of the most important factors when designing homes, and the use of natural light is vital in creating a space that feels both comfortable, inviting and practical. It could be said that lighting is a form of language that architects can use to communicate emotions in the spaces and structures they design.

NOT A HOTEL DESIGN COMPETITION 2026, the latest installment of its annual design competition for architects and creators under 40. The winning entry will receive a prize of ¥10 million JPY, and its design will be built by NOT A HOTEL (which entails an additional design fee.)

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 Research Prize, the 2025 European Research Prize, and the 2025 Robert L. Wesley Award.

The City of Toronto is launching an international design competition!

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.

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 annual award honors rising student visionaries who demonstrate creativity and innovation in consumer environment design.

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.

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.

Presenting the First Trophy of the 68th Year; NASA India CP Kukreja Design Trophy supported by Royal Institute of British Architects.

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.

THE 6TH ORDER

Choose a site–used, abandoned, or forgotten–anywhere in the world, and give it a new purpose!