This guide covers a workflow that moves from project parameters to generated floor plans, 3D perspective views, exterior design exploration, and site context visualization, using AI tools in place of preliminary CAD and rendering work.

The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has opened its entries for the 2019 Brick in Architecture Awards—now celebrating 30 years as the nation’s leading architectural design competition featuring fired-clay brick. Entries are due by Oct. 31.

With a history of stunning, innovative and unusual design, all submissions must use clay brick as the project’s primary building material.

The 2019 "Innovative Application Competition for Global Additive Manufacturing" is sponsored by the People's Government of Fengtai District of Beijing Municipality and the Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Technology. Under the theme of IN(3D) NOVATION, the competition will feature the scaled application and industrialization prospect of 3D printing in six fields, aerospace engineering, automotive design and manufacturing, digital orthopedics, urban landscape and architecture, consumer goods upgrades - shoes, and the museum cultural innovation. Last year, we hosted the 1st Innovative Application Competition for Global Additive Manufacturing successfully and 36 international teams demonstrated the technological innovation of 3D printing in four application fields.

Archinfo Finland is seeking exhibition proposals for the pavilion of Finland at the 2020 Venice Biennale. The exhibition will be situated in the Alvar Aalto-designed Pavilion of Finland in the Giardini Biennale Park.

The prizes of the Jacques Rougerie Foundation – Institut de France, are given in order to offer architects, designers, engineers, and urban planners a unique opportunity to propose innovative, audacious, and disruptive projects. Those architectural projects, based on emerging technologies, a prospective vision and interdisciplinary competences – science, sociology, climatology, geography, etc. – should elucidate current and future environmental issues. Projects must as well be mindful of the ethics of sustainability and contribute to the integration of the sea nd space in our societies: innovating materials, advanced techniques, and fundamental progress in terms of conception and building, energy saving, protection of natural resources, recycling, etc.

Competition is a part of a program for the development of one of the oldest towns in the Russian Federation — Derbent. The master plan developed by the competitors will be an important document, which will determine the direction of socio-economic and geographical development of Derbent in the medium term. Its implementation will support Derbent’s internal transformation, the integration of the town with global processes, and an improvement in the efficiency of the use of the town’s resources. Competitors will also need to develop a concept for the development of the central public space of Derbent, the town’s embankment, which runs for 12 km along the Caspian Sea.

ArchDaily, Strelka KB and Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design announce an open call for a joint award to celebrate emerging architects and new ideas that transform contemporary cities. Apply before July 10.

PURPOSE OF THE COMPETITION
The subject of the competition is the architectural design of the building of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (UL FS) in the area marked EUP RD 358, within the framework of the University Center Brdo (OPPN 65). The area under consideration is located in the western part of the city of Ljubljana, at the northern foot of Rožnik hill, which ends on the west side of the Trail of Remembrance and Comradeship (PST). The building of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is placed in a narrower area determined on the basis of a preliminary urban competition for the building of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Pharmacy. The subject of the competition is also the external arrangement of the wider competition area of the two faculties, which in certain parts exceeds the ownership boundaries.

PURPOSE OF THE COMPETITION
The subject of the competition is the architectural design of the building of the Faculty of Pharmacy (UL FFA) in the area marked EUP RD 358, within the framework of the University Center Brdo (OPPN 65). The area under consideration is located in the western part of the city of Ljubljana, at the northern foot of Rožnik hill, which ends on the west side of the Trail of Remembrance and Comradeship (PST). The building of the faculty is placed in a narrower area determined on the basis of preliminary urban competition for the building of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Pharmacy. The subject of the competition is also the external arrangement of the wider competition area of the two faculties, which in certain parts exceeds the ownership boundaries.

In partnership with Better Block Foundation, Spin is launching an open call for designers, urbanists, architects, citizens and anyone who cares about safer and more livable streets, to design an on-street parklet prototype that blends the traditional parklet, bike corral, scooter parking, and bus shelter with placemaking.

The City of Hudson, NY is seeking the services of a qualified professional design firm to provide design and construction phase services for the renovation of Promenade Hill Park, considered the Country’s oldest public park.

The Institut Ramon Llull has released the guidelines for selecting a curatorial proposal for Catalonia’s participation in the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2020, as part of the Eventi collaterali program. The event will take place from May 23 to November 29 of next year, with Hashim Sarkis serving as artistic director.

The competition aims to recognize the value of interior workspace design and distinguish interior design interventions that impact how people interact, while supporting companies in their strategies to elevate their operations to a new and improved way of working.

The Houston Endowment Headquarters International Design Competition is a global search for an outstanding design team of architects and landscape architects for the philanthropy’s new headquarters.

Oymyakon is famous as one of the Poles of Cold and is on the list of inhabited places with the most extreme conditions for human life. The notorious cold of Yakutia attracts tourists from all over the planet, including world celebrities. Oymyakon has already seen visits from Hollywood actors Tom Hardy and Ewan McGregor.
The Competition will bring together Russian and international experts in the fields of architecture, design, and development of tourism clusters, in order to uncover the potential of Oymyakon as a world center for extreme tourism. The results of the competition will be presented at the Fifth Eastern Economic Forum, which will be held on September 4–6, 2019.

The Prix de Genève is an international award and comes with a CHF 30,000 prize.

The prize aims to encourage innovation and research in the fields of architecture, construction, urban planning, landscape architecture and engineering.

It is open to students and professionals working in these fields, from Switzerland and around the world.

The international design competition seeks to shape the new central space in Sant Feliu, Barcelona. The goal is to solicit urban proposals for the space that will be freed up once the railway tracks are placed underground. Sant Feliu must leverage this urban project as a catalyst for the city's transformation.

The National Fund for the Arts (Fondo Nacional de las Artes) is calling for entries for the 2019 Heritage Competition. The initiative aims to support processes of valorization and revitalization, establishing the necessary conditions for Argentina's cultural heritage to thrive and yield new results in the future. Submissions will be accepted until Thursday, May 30, 2019.

Emaar Development is hosting an International Open Design competition for the Design of The Landmark at the heart of the ambitious new world-class mixed-use waterfront development Dubai Creek Harbour. The Development is a 5.6 Million sqm site and is expected to have 48,500 residential units with a population of 175,000 residents, when completed.

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If skylines around the world are looking too much the same, is this because the new and important buildings are done by the big names (designers) from far away and not by the locals or the opposite is true? Not only skyscrapers but, museums, civic center, concert halls, bridges, libraries, opera houses all give cities part of their identity.

Archstorming has launched the Tulum Plastic School, a competition seeking designs for a school built from recycled plastic in Tulum. The winning proposal will be constructed, and a cash prize of up to €20,000 will be awarded to the winners.

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Archstorming is launching Tulum Plastic School, a built project competition aiming to design an art school with recycled plastic in the mexican town of Tulum. The winner proposal will be built, and also a cash prize of up to € 20,000 will be awarded to winners.

Interceramic, a leading company in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of ceramic floors, wall tiles, and installation materials—as well as the commercialization of bathroom furniture, whirlpool tubs, kitchen sinks, and faucets—is committed to promoting architecture and interior design. The company recognizes works that best reflect originality, composition, structure, harmony, conceptualization, and all attributes contributing to the realization of any architectural or interior project. With this in mind, the Interceramic Award is reinventing itself for its eighth edition with the following objectives:

In support of his Green New Deal and climate and energy agenda, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has launched The Buildings of Excellence Competition, which aims to accelconsumption and per capita carbon emissions in a manner which can be replicated at scale. Selected projects are eligible to receive up to $1,000,000 in direct funding, as well as support for initiatives focused on broad marketing and public awareness.

“The machine is invented to respond to specific needs. Once in existence, the operator can far exceed its original capabilities: by breaking the rules imposed by the machine itself, creative results emerge that were unimagined before using the machine, before breaking its rules.”