Europan is a competition of ideas followed by implementation processes open to professionals of the architectural, urban and landscape design under 40 years of age.

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.

Foundations for Home-Based Work: A Comparative Perspective is a hybrid conference funded by the Cultural Research Centre, under Department of Communications and New Media and jointly held with the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, as a culminative part of a research project entitled Foundations for Home-Based Work: A Singapore Study (NUS-IRB-2021-799; Project No. A-0008463-01-00), funded by MOE SSRTG, under Principal Investigator Associate Professor Lilian Chee, and Co-Investigators Professor Jane M. Jacobs, Professor Audrey Yue, and Dr. Natalie Pang.

Create an adaptive reuse project, providing functional use that fits building topology and urban context. At the same time aiming to preserve authenticity; increase the profitability of the property complex; unite the property complex into a single concept; and integrate the territory into the urban context.

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.

Following the success of the first two editions of the "Jaime Lerner Scholarship," IAAC, in collaboration with Redes, is launching the third edition. This year, the scholarship is open to professionals from all Latin American countries to study our Online Master in Cities: The Next Urbanism for the 2023/2024 academic year. Through this initiative, IAAC reinforces its commitment to supporting young architects in their efforts to specialize and contribute effectively to improving the cities in their respective countries.

The 4th edition of the Peña Ganchegui Prize for Young Basque Architecture is now open, featuring a cash prize of €6,000.

The city of Alicante, the provincial capital and the fifth most populous city in Spain, boasts a privileged climate, an exceptional location, magnificent infrastructure, and extraordinary connectivity. With its airport—the fifth busiest in Spain by passenger volume—and its high-speed rail connection to Madrid, the city is a continuously developing technological and service hub that also hosts the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the registry for EU trademarks and designs.

To recognize the sustained efforts of thousands of individuals and organizations working within the public and private sectors, as well as citizen movements, on high-impact initiatives that benefit the country's cities, Lima Cómo Vamos is launching the call for entries for the 5th City Award for Urban Leadership.

The Dewan Award For Architecture returns and Invites Architects and Designers to Submit Their Ideas to Develop Basra Waterfront and Dakeer Island.

Videos

🔖 One building, any kind of drawing, a single illustration!

The call for academic papers for the upcoming 20th issue of rita_ magazine is now open. The call invites submissions in Spanish or Portuguese from faculty, graduate students, and professionals holding a master’s or doctoral degree.

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. 

Videos

The Innovandi Open Challenge is a global programme which brings together tech start-ups and the world’s leading cement and concrete companies to help accelerate the next wave of innovations to achieve our net zero mission.

The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) and its members understand the key role that innovation will play in unlocking a net zero future for concrete –the world’s most used material after water– which is essential to building the sustainable world of tomorrow.

The EMPORIA award guidelines encompass ephemeral works applied to museums, exhibitions, trade fairs, shareholder meetings, points of sale, festivals, sporting events, as well as conceptual and experimental architecture. The common denominator is that the architectural work must be ephemeral and executed for projects within Mexico.

Talca has uploaded a multi-million dollar tender for the restoration of the Central Market to the public procurement portal. The project has a budget of over 17 billion pesos for this historic national monument. Mayor Juan Carlos Díaz, along with Regional Governor Cristina Bravo, met this morning with the market's tenant board to announce the timeline for this process.

Kengo Kuma and Associates have just been awarded second place in an architecture competition to design the expansion and renovation of the Egyptian Museum in Torino, Italy. It served for many decades as the primary civic space in Turin, with its public areas closed off from the rest of the city. Kengo Kuma’s proposal aims to recreate the public plaza, a city center covered by a thin glass canopy. Founded in 1824 and is the oldest museum for Ancient Egyptian culture, the Egyptian Museum in Torino held a competition earlier this year and received entries by Pininfarina Architecture, Carlo Ratti Associati, and Snøhetta. The winning project by OMA / David Gianotten and Andreas Karavanas will transform the museum into a cultural space, creating one covered courtyard and a series of connected urban rooms within the existing settlement.

+ 3

In its second edition, the TAC! Urban Architecture Festival will transform its host cities, València and San Sebastián, into sites for innovation and experimentation in public space.

Videos

Archstorming has launched a new competition in collaboration with the local NGO "Teach on the Beach" (TOB) to create a new Educational Center in Busua, Ghana.

Project Name: Open Tender for Schematic Design of Shenzhen Polytechnic (Shenshan Campus, Phase I)
Project Location: Chishi Town, Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone
Application Deadline: 17:00, May 6, 2023

The IAAC-Colette Industry Scholarships

Are you working on projects or start-ups that are aligned with the goals of the
EU Green Deal?
Are you looking for an opportunity to showcase your work and gain exposure across Europe? Then this call is for you!

In 2023, the Center for Architecture will launch an open call and invite up to three lab residents (individuals or organizations) to install work in an exhibition that will open in November 2023 and will remain on view through March 2024. The exhibition will be shown in the Center for Architecture’s lower-level gallery, a central space adjacent to the main lecture hall. The residents will work with a curator (TBA) who will guide them through the exhibition process and consult on content for the show. The residents will also have the opportunity to continue the dialogue around their work through public programs during the length of the exhibition and beyond. Each resident will receive a stipend of $10,000 for the duration of the residency (6 months total).

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’.