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.

The 8th {CURA} Prize continues the initiative of hosting idea competitions on themes aligned with current discussions in architecture, the city, and society, with a focus on contemporary Brazil. In a national and global context facing the many consequences of the global climate crisis, this year’s competition theme is Collective Housing for the 21st Century.

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 competition seeks to conceptualize a coliving housing project as a replicable design tool for Mexico City, serving as a model for other cities facing challenges related to overpopulation and the high demand for quality housing.

Following the success of our inaugural challenge last year, SkyCity is pleased to invite architects, designers, artists, engineers, scientists, restorers, digital nomads, craftspeople, and anyone with big ideas from around the world to participate in the SkyCity Challenge 2019: The Future of Housing. Current construction methods are impacting our environment by depleting limited resources and relying on outdated techniques. We believe that, with today’s technology, we can create far more sophisticated housing solutions that will revolutionize the future.

Concursos AG 360 announces the "Alpine Hostel 2019" International Ideas Competition, which will take place from January through April 2019.

The competition calls for the conceptualization of a coliving housing project as a replicable design tool for Mexico City, serving as a framework for other cities facing challenges related to overpopulation and the high demand for quality housing.

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.

The "Um Novo Portal" (A New Portal) Competition, organized by Minimum, is a team-based competition for students and recent graduates of Architecture and Urbanism.

To celebrate our 2nd anniversary at Basalto Lab, we are launching an executive detail competition aimed at reflecting on modes of graphic representation and fostering investigation into executive projects. For this second edition, the theme is Roofs! And to make it even better, the first-place winner will receive a paid internship at the multidisciplinary architecture firm KS AA!

For the fourth time, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale presents the Début Award, aimed at an individual or studio in the early stages of their architectural career, to celebrate their work and boost their professional trajectory.

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.

What kind of city do we want? How can ephemeral activities within a plot of land inspire the creation of unique, identity-driven urban spaces?

Call for Articles and Cover Design Competition for Revista Ímpeto No. 11.
Revista Ímpeto is an annual publication organized by the Tutorial Education Program (PET) of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Alagoas. It features informative and reflective texts related to architecture and the city. In 2021, the eleventh edition of Ímpeto is structured around a thematic track, which aims to contribute to the debate on the theme: "Healthy Cities: urgencies, perspectives, and confrontations," and an Open Track, a space dedicated to diverse publications in architecture, urbanism, and related fields.

INVITATION TO BID RFP No. 17880/2020

Contracting Entity: United Nations Office for Project Services - UNOPS
Method: National Public Tender - RFP No. 17880/2020
Funding Source: International Technical Cooperation Project BRA/14/2020

Objective: Contracting a specialized and qualified firm to conduct geotechnical studies, planimetric and cadastral surveys, and to develop reference executive architectural and engineering designs for a male socio-educational detention facility in the municipality of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The call for papers for all sections of the second issue of the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism is now open until March 15, 2021.

The IABsp has opened the Call for Insurgent Productions for the 13th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo. Submissions for the Open Call for Entries can be made until December 15 via the 13th Biennial website.

The Triennale is seeking proposals for self-funded projects that engage with the core programming of its 6th edition, to be held in 2022. These projects should showcase the independent and diverse production essential to the city's vibrant cultural mechanisms and demonstrate an interest in the lively debate surrounding architecture.

In our first photography competition, we invite all enthusiasts of the art—architects and non-architects alike—to capture what they consider most significant and striking when asked: What has the pandemic brought to the world of architecture?

This project is located at Plot 19-05-04 in Development Unit 19 of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone. Utilizing a design-general-contracting model, this is a full-process design project. Centered on the comprehensive implementation of compulsory education and guided by principles of humanism, technology, low-carbon development, and green ecology, the project aims to establish a benchmark-setting, modern public nine-year integrated school.

Project Name: Full-Process Design for the Mawai Unit 19 Nine-Year Integrated School Project
Project Location: Qianhai is situated in the core area of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, on the west side of the Shekou Peninsula in the western part of 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 regional economic development axis and the coastal functional expansion belt. This project is located at Plot 19-05-04 in Development Unit 19 of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone. The site is bounded by Qianwan River West Street to the northeast, Haicheng Street to the northwest, Yihai Avenue to the southeast, and Mawai First Road to the southwest.

Submission Deadline: December 06, 2021, 18:00

Universities are critical centers for the production of knowledge and innovation, and since the Triennale's inception, we have involved these institutions in the program of our most iconic event. Schools from around the world are invited to participate in the central program of the 6th Lisbon Architecture Triennale in 2022.

On September 21 at 6:00 PM, Escola da Cidade is hosting a conversation between alumni, current members of the school (students, faculty, or coordinators), and prospective students interested in our undergraduate program in Architecture and Urbanism. This free, online event will explore various perspectives on education and career paths in the field. Participants will receive a full application fee waiver for the 2022 admissions process.