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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How does multiculturalism influence the context and how, in turn, are individual cultural identities influenced by the context? Can design generate new meanings, separating the threads that once wove individual cultures and reassembling them in a process incorporating needs, knowledge and new technologies? These are questions that inspired the contest.
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
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is pleased to announce the launch of a new design competition on behalf of Bradford 2025, inviting expressions of interest for the design of an iconic travelling performance space for Bradford City of Culture 2025.
The architecture festival Hello Wood will be back in July, bringing together designers, educators, students and young creatives from all over the world. This year the Hello Wood Festival is moving to a new, fascinating location: the “post-apocalyptic” crater of Haláp Mountain in Hungary. At this inspiring venue, participants will build for 8 days, which will be followed by a two-day music festival called Kráter. Lectures by invited renowned designers and architects (Karim Rashid, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Numen/For Use collective) will enrich the program.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Design Museum (London), have launched a design competition, in partnership with Network Rail, inviting proposals for the design of a timepiece to be used across the British rail network.
TerraViva Competitions launches RURAL HOUSING, a new architecture contest that aims to define new ways of living in the Italian countryside through the adaptive reuse of traditional “Cascina”. Prizes up to 10.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed by, among others, Danilo Sironi (One Works), Coraly Mazzucchelli (Eckersley O’callaghan), Philip Kolevsohn (ATOMAA), Franca Carassai (Campbell Cadey);
The Breton site of Exail Brest specializes in the development, production, and marketing of high-end positioning and communication equipment for underwater environments.
Europan 17 invites interdisciplinary teams of architects, urbanists and landscapers under the age of 40 with a European diploma - and students in master in the same fields - to develop new concepts on Living Cities through its bi-annual competition.
The city of Alicante, capital of the province and fifth in population in Spain, has a privileged climate and an exceptional location, magnificent infrastructures and extraordinary communications. With its airport, the fifth in number of passengers in Spain, and its high-speed rail connection with Madrid, it is a technological and tertiary hub in continuous development that also houses the European Union Intellectual Property Office, trademark registration and of Community designs.
The Circle invites creative and young architects to apply for the third edition of the Emerging Architects Selection & Exhibition! The deadline for participation in GEMSS'23 is June 18th.
Hangzhou is striving to speed up the construction of the comprehensive national science center and bring about a new spatial pattern of mega-city. In this context, taking advantage of its location, position and function, Yuhang District, as the new center, is ready for making Hangzhou a world-class modern socialist cosmopolis and an urban paradigm of Chinese modernization. In order to achieve the strategic goal, build up the core image, and improve the quality of the city, this open international solicitation activity will be launched, aiming to guide the high-standard construction of the core area with international vision, forward-thinking and creative urban design.
The Open Call for Edition 13 of Amsterdam Light Festival is now open! We invite creatives worldwide to submit a concept for a light artwork for the 13th edition of our festival, themed ‘Rituals’.
2023 Image Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize
The Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize aims to recognise the best and most innovative practices in Landscape Architecture, for build projects created worldwide from 2017 to 2022. Deadline on the 30th May 2023
The Daxi Wood Art Ecomuseum, Taoyuan is hosting the First Daxi International Wood Furniture Craft and Design Competition with a prize pool of US$49,000(NT$1.5 million). The competition aims to promote Daxi's wood furniture craft, encourage diversity and innovation in the industry, and raise international awareness of Taiwan's wood furniture. Creators from all over the world are welcome to participate.
Archstorming is launching a new competition in collaboration with the local NGO "Teach on the Beach" (TOB) to create a new Educational Center in Busua, Ghana. Teach on the Beach (TOB) enhances lives, emotional growth, and cultivates global citizenship of their students through after-school programs and volunteer opportunities.
Aiming to collect the most creative and future-adaptive urban design proposals from all around the world, the International Competition For The Urban Design Of Jiuwei International Headquarters Pilot Area in China is officially launched. Registration for the competition is now open for domestic and abroad outstanding design institutions.
Madera: Innovation for Social Architecture in Uruguay is an international architecture competition organized by the Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning of Uruguay (Ministerio de Vivienda y Ordenamiento Territorial, MVOT) and MEVIR, with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank. The competition is a call for proposals for new low-rise, single family, housing typologies using innovative wood technology. The winning proposal will be built by MEVIR in a demonstration complex of 20 units in the town of Tranqueras, in the Department of Rivera, in the north of Uruguay. The main objective of the competition is to promote and enhance the use of Uruguayan wood as a construction material for social housing, incorporating design and technological innovation, energy efficiency, and sustainability principles.
The basic legal act concerning the reconstruction of the Saski Palace, the Brühl Palace and tenement houses at ul. Królewska in Warsaw is the Act of August 11, 2021 (Journal of Laws of 2021, item 1551) on the preparation and implementation of investments in the reconstruction of the Saski Palace, Brühl Palace and tenement houses at Królewska Street in Warsaw, adopted to "celebrate the jubilee of the 100th anniversary of the rebirth of the independent Republic of Poland, to restore the historic shape of the representative space of Marshal Józef Piłsudski Square in Warsaw, destroyed during World War II, to satisfy the will of Poles and to strengthen the unity of the civic community, symbolized by the rebuilt Saski and Brühl palaces together with the complex of tenement houses at ul. Królewska, and also to complete the work of rebuilding the capital city, destroyed and demolished by the German occupiers, so that those buildings and structures that proudly expressed the sovereignty of the Polish state a hundred years ago would serve Poles both today and in subsequent generations and be a visible sign of the continuity of our history, and at the same time a testimony to a strong and modern Republic of Poland”. Reconstructed facilities must meet the requirements of the Act.
