This guide covers a workflow that moves from project parameters to generated floor plans, 3D perspective views, exterior design exploration, and site context visualization, using AI tools in place of preliminary CAD and rendering work.

Concéntrico begins its 2025/2026 season by reinforcing its role as an Urban Innovation Laboratory, a collective creative space that explores how architecture, design, and art can transform urban life.

Competition Theme: Rural Residential Architectural Design
Competition Objective: To contribute to rural revitalization, inherit regional culture, reclaim the beauty of rural nostalgia, and reshape ecological living environments.

I. Project Background
The prosperity of the countryside is the foundation of national prosperity. In just a few years, China’s rural development has progressed rapidly—from the "New Rural Construction" and "Beautiful Countryside" initiatives to the current "Rural Revitalization" strategy. The central government has placed unprecedented importance on rural development. Because rural landscapes best reflect regional cultural characteristics and the level of local civilization, China has long been committed to developing the rural economy and improving the lives of farmers, leading to profound changes in the rural landscape. However, given the diverse backgrounds of rural areas across the country and the accelerating pace of urbanization, higher demands have been placed on rural construction. Avoiding the "cookie-cutter" phenomenon—where cities look the same—and preventing it from extending to the countryside is a complex and urgent task. It is essential to tailor development to local conditions and create unique rural landscapes.

Zhuhai’s countryside boasts both picturesque natural scenery and enduring, widely celebrated stories. With its wealth of natural and human resources, the area possesses immense potential. Yet, due to rapid development and a lack of experience, the rural landscape of Zhuhai is being tested, and some resources have already suffered varying degrees of damage. To elevate Zhuhai’s rural development, fully express its rural character, and ensure the successful inheritance of its regional cultural context, we are launching this "Zhuhai Rural Residential Architectural Design Competition" nationwide. Through this competition, we hope to mobilize forces from all sectors of society to conduct targeted research on Zhuhai’s rural housing and collect outstanding design proposals. This will contribute a remarkable chapter to the rural revitalization strategy and further enhance the beauty of Zhuhai’s countryside.

The Félix Candela Award is an international architectural ideas competition conducted in Spanish, held in two phases. It is organized annually by the Spanish Institute of Architecture (IESARQ) and is open to students of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and design, as well as young architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and designers, participating either individually or in teams of two or three.

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In its aim to launch new formats that respond to urban transformations, Concéntrico presents three open calls—"Objetos en la ciudad" (Objects in the City), "Tercer paisaje" (Third Landscape), and "Picnic en el viñedo" (Picnic in the Vineyard)—to participate in the festival in Logroño. The new edition will be held from June 19 to 24, 2025.

The international design competition seeks to shape the new central space in Sant Feliu, Barcelona. The goal is to solicit urban proposals for the space that will be freed up once the railway tracks are placed underground. Sant Feliu must leverage this urban project as a catalyst for the city's transformation.

The Institut Ramon Llull has released the guidelines for selecting a curatorial proposal for Catalonia’s participation in the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2020, as part of the Eventi collaterali program. The event will take place from May 23 to November 29 of next year, with Hashim Sarkis serving as artistic director.

The Ministry of Housing and Urbanism (Chile), through the Metropolitan Park of Santiago, invites entries for the design competition and tender for a new aviary at Cerro San Cristóbal.

The Ministry of Education of Ecuador, through the New Educational Infrastructure Project Management office, is currently implementing the "Support for Quality and Inclusion in the Ecuadorian Education Sector" program, funded by the French Development Agency.

Consulting firms are required to have a minimum technical team that enables them to meet the specified deliverables and experience parameters outlined in the Request for Expressions of Interest.

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Archstorming is collaborating on this new competition with His Hands On Africa ("HHOA"), a non-profit organization founded in 2016 that aims to address the lack of dental services in developing countries. The chosen location is Rwanda, a small country in the heart of Africa.

The "Straw Bale Ecological House" competition is a contribution to natural, sustainable, and efficient construction.

Des-Adarve aims to be a gateway, open to the public, to explore the iconic spaces of the city of Tudela through participation and contemporary art, while simultaneously highlighting its architectural and cultural heritage.

The Ministry of Education of Ecuador, through the New Educational Infrastructure Project Management office, is implementing the "Support for the Quality and Inclusion of the Ecuadorian Education Sector" program, funded by the French Development Agency.

The Ministry of Education of Ecuador, through the New Educational Infrastructure Project Management office, is currently executing the "Support for the Quality and Inclusion of the Ecuadorian Educational Sector" program, funded by the French Development Agency.

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The international Architecture and Design festival of Logroño, Concéntrico, is establishing a new collaboration for this edition with the Métropole de Rouen Normandie (France) and its monumental art biennial, La Forêt Monumentale.

Archstorming has launched the Tulum Plastic School, a competition seeking designs for a school built from recycled plastic in Tulum. The winning proposal will be constructed, and a cash prize of up to €20,000 will be awarded to the winners.

The Calli Competition is now open. The theme addresses a social issue common to major cities worldwide, where we frequently observe that urban polarization leads to a decline in quality of life, resulting in saturated transportation systems, high rental costs, and long commutes to work.

“The machine is invented to respond to specific needs. Once in existence, the operator can far exceed its original capabilities: by breaking the rules imposed by the machine itself, creative results emerge that were unimagined before using the machine, before breaking its rules.”

The competition aims to recognize the value of interior workspace design and distinguish interior design interventions that impact how people interact, while supporting companies in their strategies to elevate their operations to a new and improved way of working.

· INTRODUCTION ·
The social catastrophe in Latin America has its epicenter in informal settlements.
Latin America, the most urbanized and unequal region in the world, is home to 104 million people living in informal settlements. Here, one in four urban residents lives in a slum, shantytown, favela, or encampment, in conditions of poverty. While not invisible, these populations are often rendered invisible, forced to survive on their own terms while facing constant rights violations and the exhausting test of their resilience.

Archstorming is collaborating on this new competition with His Hands On Africa (“HHOA”), a non-profit organization founded in 2016 that aims to address the lack of dental services in developing countries. The chosen location is Rwanda, a small country in the heart of Africa.

This project is located in the Qianwan Area of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. It will be delivered through a design-led general contracting model, encompassing full-process design services. The project is centered on the comprehensive implementation of the compulsory education curriculum, with a focus on humanities, technology, low-carbon practices, and green ecology, aiming to establish a benchmark-setting, modern public nine-year integrated school.

Project Name: Full-Process Design for the Qianwan Unit 10 Nine-Year Integrated School Project
Project Location: Qianhai is situated in the heart of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, on the west side of the Shekou Peninsula in western Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. Located on the east bank of the Pearl River Estuary, it borders Hong Kong and Macao and sits at the intersection of the Pearl River Delta's primary economic development axis and the coastal functional expansion belt. This project is located in the Qianwan Area of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone. The site is bounded by Qianwan 4th Road to the south, Kechuang 1st Street to the east, Kechuang 3rd Street to the west, and Chengxin 3rd Street to the north.

Registration Deadline: December 13, 2021, 18:00

The International Tender for the Design of the Relocation and Construction Project for the Longgang District Nursing Home is now open for pre-qualification applications. We invite outstanding design teams from around the world to participate in this tender.

Since 2010, MEDS (Meetings of Design Students) has been held every summer. It is an international architecture and design workshop that takes place in different European countries. This year, the workshop will be held in Zaragoza, Spain.