Ideas

OPEN CALL: VARES SPRING RESIDENCY 2026

ET CONTEST is an architectural design competition
inviting ideas, visions, and proposals for the architectural
and landscape transformation of the former mining site of
Sos Enattos, in Sardinia. The site is one of the candidates to
host the Einstein Telescope (ET), a cutting-edge European
scientific infrastructure set to become the world’s most
advanced third-generation gravitational wave detector.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama (MAC Panamá) announces the launch of an international architecture competition for the design of its new building, a milestone in the institution’s history and in Panama’s cultural projection within the Latin American context.

We, a group of ten hens (in collaboration with Outsider Magazine), are launching an architectural competition. We need a new chicken coop. Our living standard has not changed significantly for centuries: a few planks, some straw, and the simple logic of “keep it covered and closed so the fox can’t get in.” While people debate living, sustainability, structure, materials, light, and microclimate, hens remain stuck in a kind of pre-modern era—which, let’s be honest, does not reflect well on the progress of architecture for animals.

Call for Entries: Rifat Chadirji Prize 2026: The Right to Landscape
Reclaiming Land and Sustaining Lives in Sahl Al Khiam, Lebanon

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The acceleration of climate change has amplified the scientific urgency to study Earth’s polar regions. Traditional research stations are often permanent, carbon-intensive structures with significant logistical and environmental footprints. This competition challenges architects and designers to envision the next generation of scientific outposts. We seek a paradigm shift towards a mobile, modular, and sustainable architecture that can be deployed, reconfigured, and removed with minimal impact on the fragile Arctic ecosystem. This new model must prioritize energy self-sufficiency, operational resilience in extreme conditions, and the psychological well-being of researchers living in prolonged isolation, thereby enabling more agile and responsible scientific exploration.

1. Overview:

THE HOUSE OF RETICENCE
A HOUSE FOR SIGURD LEWERENTZ

The House of Death and Life

About Competition
A Sports Park will be designed as a sustainable space with courts, pedestrian walkways, and spaces suitable for holding outdoor festivals and concerts. Its prime location could serve as a fan fest for World Cups.

The Kingspan MICROHOME 2026 invites architects and designers to pause and reconsider what is truly essential. In a world of constant expansion — of cities, technologies, and ambitions — this competition asks a simple question: Can less be more?

Buildner’s Unbuilt Award 2026, celebrating its third edition, honors the boundless creativity and visionary spirit of architecture. The competition shines a spotlight on the significance of unrealized designs, celebrating bold ideas and imaginative visions that, even without being built, capture the essence of innovation and exploration. It offers a global stage for architects and designers to showcase their most daring concepts, challenge conventional thinking, and inspire the future of the built environment.

The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona (UIA2026BCN) launches the UIA International Emerging Workshop, the Congress's special format designed for students and young practitioners to engage in a real-time laboratory led by twelve recognised emerging architectural practices.

Calling all architects, urbanists, engineers, artists, and makers to design dignified, affordable, and aspirational inclusionary housing in Cape Town. This competition invites you to reimagine four underutilized public sites, currently government parking lots, as vibrant places to live. You will be challenged to integrate affordability and location, respond to spatial inequality, and develop real-world solutions that could shape Cape Town’s housing future. This is your opportunity to shape the city, reclaim public land, and design homes that bring people closer to opportunity, dignity, and belonging.

Architecture at Zero is a design competition for decarbonization, equity, and resilience, open to students and professionals worldwide. It serves to engage the fields of architecture, design, engineering and planning in the pursuit of sustainable design.

Introduction

MAUNSELL FORTS : Future Living on Water, UNITED KINGDOM