SketchUp 2025 introduces new tools and enhancements aimed at improving how architects and designers visualize, collaborate, and communicate their work.
This release brings more realistic materials and immersive environments, making it easier to create compelling visual representations of architectural models. These visualization updates are available across SketchUp for Desktop, Web, and iPad, as well as in LayOut and 3D Warehouse, allowing for a consistent experience across platforms.
Finding the right job—or the right candidate—within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry can be a real challenge. As the sector evolves, professionals and companies alike are looking for more effective ways to connect, collaborate, and grow. AECO Space is a job and networking platform tailored specifically for AEC professionals. It offers a space for both employers and talent to engage in a more efficient, industry-specific hiring and networking process.
EDGE Architecture Festival Budapest (EDGE Fest) is Hungary's first international architecture festival, organized by Építészfórum, Hungary's leading architectural online magazine. Taking place on 3–4 July 2025 at Dürer Kert, the festival highlights progressive, forward-thinking architectural topics within a global context.
Gyumri Market and Culinary School. Winning proposal by Mooradian Studio (2024)
The TUMO Center for Creative Technologies announces an Open Call for a Landscape Studio to support an ongoing architectural project for Gyumri Market and Culinary School. The project aims to revitalize the historic food market of the Armenian City of Gyumri, establishing a unique culinary school in the heart of it, surrounding it with restaurants and shops, and forming an iconic Public and Culinary Garden in its courtyard.
We’d love for you to join us for a conversation exploring the significance of the MoMA exhibition of Latin American Design "Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980" and its contemporary relevance, featuring ArchDaily founder David Basulto in conversation with leading Latin American designers: Matteo Fogale, Rodrigo Bravo, Alexandra Arias.
The 2025 Big International Design Competition – Public Space Design Project 2 is hosted by Busan Metropolitan City and Design Council Busan. This two-stage international competition aims to discover and promote outstanding public designs that contribute to the creation of an attractive and sustainable Global Hub City, Busan.
Camposaz, in collaboration with Bivio980, is organizing a self-build workshop in Monastero, a small hamlet in the municipality of Cessapalombo (MC). The project aims to design and construct a few wooden installations that enhance the surrounding landscape and create shared spaces for community gathering.
Goldreed Industrial Design Award (GIDA) 2025 The Goldreed Industrial Design Award (GIDA) is a prestigious international design competition, now in its sixth edition. Promoted by the Xiong'an Future Industrial Design Institute, this award honors projects and companies pushing the boundaries of design and innovation, recognized for their global reach. GIDA focuses on core values such as leading new industrial development, creating a new way of social life, and fostering harmonious development between humans and nature. This year, submissions are accepted across diverse categories including Manufacturing Equipment, Biomedical Science, Digital Technology, Transportation, Public Services, and Future Scenario. This opportunity offers global exposure, professional network expansion, the chance to integrate into the thriving Xiong'an ecosystem numerous opportunities for considerable monetary recognition!
Enter the Kinderspace: Architecture for Children's Development #3 Architecture Competition now! 10,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: November 26, 2025
Introducing the Kinderspace: Architecture for Children's Development competition / Edition #3, an architectural challenge dedicated to crafting innovative educational spaces that enhance early childhood learning. As young children navigate their formative years, the environment in which they learn plays a pivotal role in their cognitive, emotional, and social development. Traditional educational settings often do not fully cater to the dynamism of early childhood, potentially stifling creativity and exploration.
BuildFest 2 lineup poster, featuring installations by Princeton University, Cornell University, Rice University, and others.
"Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival 2025: Build Fest 2 – Peace Rises" will bring together faculty and student teams from universities across the United States to construct interactive wooden art installations on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock festival. Over the course of five days, participants will live and work on-site—where legendary performances by Jimi Hendrix and Joan Baez once took place—spending their days fabricating, assembling, and installing large-scale works, and their evenings immersed in cultural programming, including concerts, exhibitions, and pop-up events.
Enter the The Architect’s Stair #2 Architecture Competition now! 7,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: July 24, 2025
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.
Enter the Hospice - Home for Terminally Ill #5 Architecture Competition now! 10,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: November 26, 2025
Introducing the fifth edition of the Hospice – Home for the Terminally Ill Competition, an evolving architectural ideas contest dedicated to crafting sanctuaries for those grappling with terminal illnesses.
This book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti. It also explores the architects of the Mataroa mission, who played a vital role in the cross-fertilisation between France and Greece, and the role of travel to Greece for architects during the 19th century.
Buildner, in collaboration with building materials manufacturer Kingspan, has announced the winners of the MICROHOME Kingspan Edition with a 100,000 EUR prize fund.
Aluminum recycling plays a meaningful role in reducing emissions and conserving resources in the built environment. With the introduction of Loop 80, a certified alloy composed of 80% recycled content, Alumil continues its efforts to lower the environmental impact of architectural materials.
Following the 2023 launch of Loop 60, the first certified 60% recycled aluminum for architectural systems, Loop 80 represents a step forward in material efficiency. Certified by TÜV AUSTRIA, the increased recycled content reflects both technical progress and a stronger alignment with circular economy principles in product development.
