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CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: Waterfront ReConnects Design Competition

Designed for a car-centric era, Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway has long served as a street-level barrier between the city’s core and a blossoming waterfront. But, as the city recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, what if this obstacle could be re-imagined as a vital point of connection?
COMPACT LIVING: AFAIR UI 2022 Competition | Call for Entries

Compact Living: How We Live in The Future
Call for Participation to "Living Waterscapes" Summer School

We’re calling all young designers, activists, entrepreneurs and artists to take part in a one-week making summer school to explore the future of urban waterscapes in Kortrijk. During the second week of September, 25 selected participants will ideate and prototype 5 interventions that will reflect on a specific water-related territorial challenge, each one held in collaboration with a social impact enterprise.
JBC Masonry Innovation Competition

MI’s JBC Masonry Innovation Competition wants your ideas for transformative masonry design. We’re challenging practicing and aspiring architects and engineers to advance the future of masonry design and construction. $30,000 in prizes is up for grabs across 3 categories!
Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition On Ice v.2022 - Call for Entries
Out of This World: A Monument for Mars

Download the information related to this competition here.
CALL FOR ENTRIES: Design a 'FlexiPod', a Flat-pack, Sustainable Pod!

Throughout the current global circumstances, we at Arts and Creatives have experienced first-hand the challenges that architecture students and graduates are facing in maintaining design motivation and securing roles in industry. This is why we decided to launch a competition solely for young architects and architecture students with the aim to enhance skills, raises awareness of topical design issues and prepare for the next step in the architectural journey.
Call for Entries: "Sanctuary: A Place for a New Hope"
Workshop: Parametric Design using Grasshopper

Learn to create parametric designs using grasshopper 3d from this course which takes you from a Beginner to an Advanced Level. By the end of this course you'll be able to apply all the principles of parametric design and create stunning parametric designs yourself.
2021 Taipei International Design Award

The Taipei International Design Award (TIDA) 2021 is now open for entries. Our submission period is starting from today till August 10th, 2021.
#mOOO5 inclusive inhabitation [HMM]: Human Mission to Mars
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The competition is calling for all designers to explore the notion of inclusive inhabitation in interplanetary migration [Human Mission on Mars].
Submit Now: Student Summer Residential & Commercial Design Competition

The Emerging Professionals Program, by Dunn-Edwards Paints, will honor exceptional students - emerging professionals - in architecture and design this summer.
Reimagine Drawing

Mental Canvas, Inc. is a software technology company whose unique platform has reimagined drawing for the digital age by enabling creations that can be experienced outside the confines of a page or a single moment in time. Mental Canvas picks up where pen and paper leave off, taking drawing to a place it's never been. Now, we're calling on creatives to join us in redefining what it means to draw. With $100K in prizes and 18 winners, we're looking for the most impressive and imaginative scenes created with Mental Canvas Draw™.
C+S Architects and Citizenstudio to Redefine The Architectural Image of Moscow's Metrogorodok Area

C+S Architects and Citizenstudio are among the winners of the Face of Renovation competition, an initiative to redesign the architectural image of housing stock across 31 sites in Moscow. The competition sought to improve the experience of the urban environment through the renovation of urban blocks, fostering a sense of identity through individuality. In redesigning the Metrogorodok area (lot no. 13), the two architecture studios focused on overcoming the uniformity and repetitiveness of the prefab housing estate while also enriching the public space through the plasticity of the facades, the use of colours and the creation of intermediate spaces.
Call for Entries: 2 landscape and urban design projects, on new urban metabolisms

The Europan 16 topic focuses on living cities as a new paradigm, in which new kinds of synergies can be considered between the environmental, biological, social, economic, cultural and political dimensions.
This paradigm leads us to think in terms of co-evolution and interactions, and to work with regenerative project dynamics, combining metabolic and inclusive vitalities.
The italian cities of Bitonto and San Donà Venezia are looking for ideas to implement a strategic urban revitalization project and intend to start a process of implementation with the awarded teams.
Disaster Relief Shelter-Reinventing The Tents

India is vulnerable, in varying degrees, to a large number of disasters. Most of us will remember the year 2020 for the coronavirus pandemic. However, while the pandemic brought our human lives to a standstill, nature could not be reigned in.
Amidst the raging pandemic, India survived cyclones, floods, rains, biblical plagues, industrial disasters, locust attacks, and whatnot.
3D Printing Design Competition - Open Call

Submission deadline: September 6, 2021 (11:59 PM PST)
Voting Opens: September 8, 2021
Voting Closes: September 27, 2021
Winners announced: September 30, 2021
Breaking Work 3.0 - The coworking for the new normal
Office 2021 Design Challenge

The modern workplace has evolved a lot over the past few decades, and the introduction of new technologies and the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic is set to completely change how we work even more in the future.
Emerging Architects Selection & Exhibiton 2021

EMERGING ARCHITECTS SELECTION & EXHIBITION GEMSS’21 APPLICATIONS BEGIN!
Architecture Portfolio Challenge by Architerrax

Overview:
The Architerrax portfolio competition 2021 aims to provide an international platform for architecture students to showcase their designs.
A portfolio is essentially a tool used to present and demonstrate one's skills. This competition identifies outstanding students who balance academic excellence with a versatility and it helps them gain recognition amongst architecture firms globally.
Call for Submissions: The Lisbon Triennale Début Award

For the fourth time, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale presents the Début Award to an architect or a practice in order to celebrate their achievements and stimulate their career.
The Architecture Drawing Prize 2021 Open for Entries Until 1st October

Now in its fifth year, the Prize celebrates the importance of drawing as a tool in capturing and communicating architectural ideas. In the spirit of many great architects of the past, from Palladio and John Soane to Le Corbusier and Cedric Price, it's an ideal platform for reflecting on and exploring how drawing continues to advance the art of architecture today.
Call for submissions: Independent Projects for Triennale 2022

The Lisbon Triennale seeks proposals for self-financed projects that relate to the main programme of its 6th edition for the Autumn of 2022, and bear an independent and diversified character, essential for the living cultural mechanisms in the city and attentive to the liveliness of the debate around architecture.



