This year’s Industrial Design Trophy invites students to design futuristic, sustainable products or spaces that merge art, technology, and ecology. Centered on the theme Catalyse, the competition challenges participants to imagine how design can shape life in 2035 and beyond where culture, technology, and sustainability coexist. It’s a call to create innovative, human centered solutions that inspire change and redefine the future of design.
The 68th Year Writing Architecture Trophy invites you to explore, express, and expand your architectural imagination by rethinking what it means to be an architect today.
Supported by The Architect’s Diary, this platform is for every thinker, observer, and storyteller of architecture. It’s time to Catalyse Conversations through Words!
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Each month, Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) curates a new self-guided trail, inviting Angelenos to explore the city’s rich architectural heritage. These immersive experiences highlight significant homes, hidden gems, and the designers who have shaped Los Angeles' built environment.
The College of Architects of Nuevo León presents the latest edition of the Nuevo León Architecture Biennial (BANL) for the 2024-2026 biennium. Held for the past 46 years, it is the first and longest-running architecture biennial in the country, continuing its legacy as a reference point at the regional and national levels, and as a curated selection for various international forums.
Beit Beirut Urban Observatory invites you to the opening of Beirut al-Marfa'.
Back in the City After Eight Years
Event on Friday, 7th November 2025, 12:00 Noon (UTC+0)
Artificial Kreativity presents Kreative Talks with Peter Murray OBE
Kreative Talks are the stories behind the creatives and how they are shaping the world.
Deconstruct a Landmark
Open Call for Students and Young Professionals
Nineteen perspectives on intervention in historical-artistic heritage. Featuring fourteen international lectures.
23rd Heritage Conference - Palimpsest: Present Memories
November 20–23 · Logroño · La Rioja
The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) announces the Spanish national premiere of the documentary Forested Future, directed by Petr Krejčí. The screening will take place on November 6, 2025, at Cinemas Girona in Barcelona, as part of the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival (BARQ). The film follows the individuals and communities whose lives are intertwined with trees, finding hope in the traditions of harmonious forest management and the regenerative power of nature.
The School of Design at Universidad Diego Portales is pleased to invite you to the opening of session 2 of the project "Contemporary Design Discussions: Projections," a space for meeting, reflection, and forward-thinking regarding contemporary design practices.
The ground we walk on is composed of layers of history buried over time: infrastructures, vegetation, animals, and human beings who inhabited these territories form a collection of sedimented layers and historical deposits that combine with geological layers from deep time. This interrelation between the artificial and the geological is especially evident in the forgotten infrastructures buried beneath our cities. How can we unearth both the memory and the material evidence of these? And what does this tell us about what we have collectively forgotten?
Are you a professional in the contract sector? If so, don't miss The Design Room Marbella 2025, an exclusive product exhibition taking place on Thursday, November 6, at the Hard Rock Hotel Marbella.
Buildner has announced the results of its international architecture ideas competition, Architect's Stair, and the launch of its third edition.
The event invited designers to reflect on one of architecture's oldest and most symbolic elements: the stair. Beyond its functional role as a connector of levels, the stair was positioned here as a medium of architectural storytelling—an invitation to explore ideas of procession, sequence, space, and form.
For this first edition, participants were asked to conceptualize a stair not as a technical solution but as an expressive artifact—an embodiment of their design sensibility and architectural values. There were no constraints on site, scale, material, or program. Instead, designers were challenged to reimagine the stair as a sculptural, poetic, and even philosophical construct—one that could provoke, question, or elevate our understanding of vertical space.
Colors can define atmospheres, shape spatial perception, and translate ways of being, memories, and collective affects. Consequently, understanding them has become an essential part of contemporary creative and constructive processes. Behind every shade lies a field of research that bridges sociology, psychology, aesthetics, and technology, connecting color to broader cultural shifts and revealing how it can serve as a tool for reading and expressing the present.
Buildings must change faster than they were built to. Shifting tenant needs, tightening climate policies, and rising office vacancies expose the cost of static stock: waste, noise, downtime, and—in the worst case—stranded assets. The consequence is clear: buildings across typologies must be designed to adapt over time. The inaugural Adaptable Building Conference (ABC), taking place on January 22, 2026, at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, brings the industry together to turn adaptability from principle into practice.