To halt the physical and social deterioration of the former "Bronx" sector and create conditions for the center's consolidation as a hub for economic, creative, cultural, and social development, the Mayor's Office—as part of the Bronx Creative District project, led by the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation (FUGA) and implemented through the Bogotá Urban Renewal and Development Company—has published the draft Terms of Reference for the procurement of detailed studies and designs, as well as the management and acquisition of permits and licenses for comprehensive interventions in two Cultural Interest Assets (BIC) that will form part of the Bronx Creative District.

📍 ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION 🏠

For nine consecutive years, the Interceramic Award for Architecture and Interior Design has promoted architecture and interior design by distinguishing works that best reflect originality, composition, structure, harmony, conceptualization, and all those attributes that contribute to the realization of any architectural or interior project.

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Through its cultural project Pensarq_ and in collaboration with Espacio EMA, TAQ Arquitectura has created Mini Arquis at Home, a free online architecture activity for children aged 3 to 9, designed to be completed at home, from any country, at any time. The premise of the activity is to highlight the importance of architecture listening to what children have to say about their spaces, as they also inhabit and claim them as their own; for them, architecture can serve as the framework for their memories, play, and education.
The activity consists of two parts; Mini Arquis can choose to complete one or both. The first part involves creatively answering a short series of questions about their thoughts on their home and how they have felt spending more time in it. The second stage is to build a model of your ideal home. There are no rules; you can use whatever you find at home. The goal is to have fun, recycle materials, and enjoy quality family time while reflecting on how children perceive and experience their homes.
Participants may choose to complete either of the two activities. Supervising adults should document the work through video or photographs—the participant's face does not need to be visible—and email the files to pensarq@taqarquitectura.com to be featured in a gallery of all the Mini Arquis projects. The deadline for participation is May 31, 2020.
The first 20 children to submit their responses will receive a digital copy of the book Pedro Perfecto Arquitecto.
This initiative will be promoted in countries including Spain, Italy, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and others.
Visit www.miniarquis.com to participate and learn more.

ENVOLVENTE is a concept representing everything that shelters and makes visible the final idea of a work—that skin that comforts and wraps the building and the space itself. It can be rigid, permeable, light or heavy, flexible, evocative, and avant-garde. As the face shown to the world, the envelope is ultimately the most plastic and pure expression of architecture.

Through this photography competition, Nuestras Arquitectas aims to focus and refocus on images that have been hidden and overshadowed, restoring the deserved recognition and prominence to women architects.

To advance the National Public Architecture Competition for the design of Integral Development Sports Space (EDDI RETO) prototypes, the Ministry of Sport, with the advisory support of the Colombian Society of Architects (Bogotá D.C. and Cundinamarca chapter), launched a call for entries on October 15, 2020, inviting architects to design a new model of recreational and sports infrastructure.

Design Week Mexico invites you to participate in the sixth edition of Inédito, which will take place at Espacio CDMX from October 9, 2020, to February 8, 2021. In this new reality, design will be more important than ever.

The 19th Academic Competition for Schools of Architecture, organized by the Universidad Intercontinental (UIC), will focus on the urban regeneration of the Corredor del Carmen in the Historic Center of Mexico City (CDMX).

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The Abierto Mexicano de Diseño is an international festival that gathers and celebrates the design community in Mexico every year, in all its breadth and diversity. It focuses on promoting, exhibiting, supporting, and disseminating Mexican design.

The architectural output from Peruvian universities is vast and valuable; therefore, we believe it is necessary to launch an open call to showcase the best final degree projects produced by these institutions.

Academic proposals can be true intellectual and critical works. The goal of this open call is to ensure they do not remain hidden, gathering dust on shelves, and losing the opportunity to generate real change in our cities and in how we inhabit and think about our spaces.

IF is an international competition platform that aims to connect ideas from different sectors of society to help transform cities, making them increasingly self-sufficient, efficient, and ecological. We are looking for innovative ideas and new ways of thinking. In a time of global emergency, it is increasingly important that we think globally.

As part of its outreach activities, Empresas Melón is organizing this competition to invite individuals over the age of 18 residing in Chile—who are not currently or formerly affiliated with any of the company's divisions—to participate in the creation of a logo for the product "FullColor," in accordance with these terms and conditions.

With a national and international call for entries, the search begins for those who will design the Las Salinas Urban Park, a space of the highest standard for the city of Viña del Mar that will transform into a multifunctional green area within the future neighborhood. This large park, situated in a strategic location, aims to become a significant project of integration—a space accessible to all and a hub for social, cultural, athletic, and educational gathering.

ARKxSITE is pleased to announce the 'SITE MIRADOR' international architecture ideas competition for architecture and landscape architecture students and young professionals (≤ 40 years old).

Given our current reality, CoRe aims to channel the experiences and sentiments of this coronavirus-induced quarantine through literary expression. To that end, the organization is launching:

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The new Archstorming competition takes us to Senegal, Africa. In some regions of the country, only 50% of school-age children have access to education, and classrooms are often overcrowded with up to 80 students due to a lack of infrastructure.

It is said—perhaps closer to myth than reality—that when Mies van der Rohe interviewed a candidate to join his studio, he would subject them to a peculiar test. He would lead them to a drafting table, provide them with the necessary instruments—rulers, compasses, squares, triangles, pencils, erasers, and so on—and ask them to arrange these elements within the confined field of the drawing board.

Beyond the romantic content often ascribed to its political-social aspect, resistance is an ambivalent condition. Because it depends on an external entity, it is not an autonomous condition; that is, it only appears in relation to an outside. It does not exist without something to resist. It is an opposition to forces that, as such, implies taking a stance from which that opposition is exercised. Thus, there can be resistance to aspects as disparate as the status quo or change.

The objective is to convert a traditional residential building into a co-living space.

XILOFOR invites architects under 40 to consider the kitchen as a creative case study, exploring how post-COVID-19 kitchen furniture can help develop new spatial scenarios that will influence its design.

The Quechua Architecture Competition invites all participants to take part in this one-week challenge and develop a project that explores diverse fields of thought and design. The challenge for this edition: "Shadow Pavilion."

The Endless Dollhouse Project is an initiative that seeks to bring visibility to the narratives we hold regarding the domestic sphere through playful visual compositions resembling dollhouses. This is an opportune moment to learn interesting things about ourselves, our world, and our relationships with it through the representation of the domestic within the most popular traditional game: the dollhouse, which, in its ancestral symbolic background, serves as a representation of the social and distinctive traits of an era.

The Mieres Polytechnic School at the University of Oviedo, through its Transport Engineering Department, is launching an international ideas competition for university students to solicit proposals for resolving urban and territorial challenges associated with the evolution of transport networks.