Professionals, professors, and students are invited to participate in the Third National Ideas Competition, organized by the Municipal Housing Institute of León (IMUVI León) in collaboration with the León Architects Association (Colegio de Arquitectos de León A.C.).
The objective is to develop a conceptual proposal for a social housing condominium in the Las Américas neighborhood in León, Guanajuato.
This meeting, continuing the previous Latin American and National gatherings, aims to bring together architecture professionals, academic departments, educators, researchers, and students to continue debating and deepening the understanding of professional practice in habitat transformation processes.
Concursos AG 360 announces the "Alpine Hostel 2019" ideas competition, which will take place from January to April 2019. The project calls for the creation of an alpine shelter and a viewpoint on the slopes of the Nevado de Toluca, Mexico, intended to promote ecotourism development in the area. The entire site development must be based on sustainable and environmentally friendly principles.
BID CitiesLab 2019 is a university competition aimed at finding creative solutions and innovative ideas for urban problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), involving students, university professors, and young professionals from the region and Spain. It aims to serve as a seedbed and incubator for young talent in urban issues through a network of universities, offer direct experience to enhance real plans and projects, and promote a participatory space that challenges the discipline's paradigms.
As in previous editions, the Latin American Architecture Biennial (BAL) aims to showcase the work of emerging professionals in Spain, thereby helping to promote their practice both in Spain and in their home countries.
BAL 2019 will take place over the course of one week in Pamplona, Spain, combining a variety of events linked to different geographic regions. The program will feature exhibitions, lectures, and roundtables that provide a global overview of the current state of Latin American architecture. Following the event, the BAL will be exhibited in Barcelona and Madrid, as well as at BIAU 2021, and may also be presented in participating countries upon request.
The National Ideas Competition "Buenos Aires and the River: North Waterfront Park" has been open since October. Organized by the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires, the competition aims to strengthen the relationship between the urban and natural environments through a comprehensive project that revitalizes and elevates the 7.6-kilometer stretch of the city's northern coastline.
Do you live in Ibero-America? (includes Spain and Portugal) Can you build a lamp out of a pipe? Have you transformed an old piece of junk into a vintage nightstand? Do you see a magic wand where the rest of your family sees a simple screwdriver? If you answered "yes," then you are a "doer" or a DIY enthusiast, and we would like to invite you to travel to Expo F 2018, the International Construction Materials and Tools Fair (Panama, September 20-22).
The Mayor's Office of Santiago de Cali, the Municipal Planning Department, and the Colombian Society of Architects – Valle del Cauca (SCA Valle) invite you to participate in the Public Competition – Av. Sexta Urban Design Preliminary Project.
The international ideas competition "Mercado Modelo Montevideo: Thinking the 21st-Century City" aims to explore urban planning options for an area located at the geographic center of Montevideo.
In light of the planned relocation of the old market, the Mercado Modelo de Montevideo presents a historic opportunity to innovatively reimagine the future of the urban sector it occupies and its surroundings. This includes its large urban structures, public spaces, residential fabric, facilities, and services, as well as its extraordinary potential for transformation and the conservation of its tangible and intangible heritage.
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the first National Meeting of Urbanists of Tomorrow (ENUM), to be held on October 8th and 9th at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile. This meeting is organized by graduates of the Master’s in Urbanism program and sponsored by the Department of Postgraduate Studies and the Postgraduate School of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the same institution.
In the 1990s, Medellín was known as one of the most dangerous cities in the world due to a series of economic, social, and violent issues driven largely by drug trafficking and conflicts between communist guerrillas and paramilitary groups. Fortunately, today, things have changed. Thanks to the collaborative and comprehensive work of planners, urban designers, and policymakers, Medellín has taken a major step forward in reclaiming previously neglected areas of the city. The city has become a true laboratory for urban innovation and transformation, driven by sustained planning processes, inclusive policies that encourage participation, and successful institutional innovation schemes.
The Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize is an initiative by the company Simon, curated by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe since its inception in 2016 to commemorate Simon's centenary. Since then, architecture firms from over 23 countries—including Mexico, Poland, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, and Spain—have participated in the competition, reaffirming its international relevance. In the previous edition, the prize featured 220 nominated projects.
NEAUMA is launching an artistic competition centered on the creation of a tile.
The competition seeks progressive housing projects to be integrated into the KeObra Calculator, providing estimated budgets, material lists, estimated construction timelines, and the necessary plans to begin construction.
The "Scenic Garden and Pavilion" ideas competition aims primarily to reorganize and comprehensively recover the area known as the "ecological parking lot," facilitating the integration of the Centro Cultural del Bosque (CCB) into the Chapultepec Forest itself. In other words, the project seeks a design that incorporates reforestation, architecture, and landscape for this territory—currently a parking lot—which must be reintegrated into the urban forest and contribute to strengthening the performing arts ecosystem represented by the CCB. The project includes the design of a Scenic Pavilion as a permanent space featuring non-intrusive, harmonious architecture that blends with the forest environment, creating an interconnection point between the performing arts ecosystem and the visual arts ecosystem toward the Zoo and the Museum of Modern Art.
The Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Universidad de los Andes and the construction firm Prodesa S.A. have been working together since 2005 to promote quality housing in Colombia. This shared interest led to the creation of the Housing Observatory, a space for reviewing, discussing, and evaluating urban and rural housing projects built nationwide.
On Wednesday, June 22, at 5:30 PM, the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA), the Colombian Society of Architects National Presidency (SCA-PN), and the Colombian Architects (AC) initiative invite all architects in the country and their colleagues to learn about the "1x1 Colombia 2022 Collection" Open Call.
CBCA Opens Registration for Architecture and Engineering Student Competitions with R$ 10,000 Prize