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Transnational Open Call: New life for fibres

New competition on Desall.com: dbt FIBRE and Desall invite you to propose new applications for semi-finished textiles, exploring fields beyond spinning and related sectors.

International competition: design a new umbrella for Perletti

New competition on Desall.com: Perletti and Desall invite you to design a new umbrella that stands out from the competition through its design and style, making it an easily recognizable product.

Architecture: Future of the Past at the Compagnie des Notaires de Paris

The Compagnie des Notaires de Paris building, located in the heart of the capital at the Place du Châtelet, is undergoing a transformation, and an architectural competition is currently underway.

Call for Ideas: Site Cloister

ARKxSITE is pleased to announce the international architecture ideas competition ‘SITE CLOISTER’ for architecture students and young professionals (≤ 40 years old).

International City Brand & Tourism Landscape Award

The National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscapers, and Conservationists of Italy and PAYSAGE (Promotion and Development for Landscape Architecture) are promoting the international "City Brand & Tourism Landscape Award" as part of the "City_Brand & Tourism Landscape" International Symposium.

Call for Ideas: Niagara Falls Pavilion

The Niagara Falls Pavilion competition seeks to reconnect people with nature, making Niagara Falls the ideal setting for new ideas. It is a space between two countries, united by a natural landscape of breathtaking beauty.

Open Call: Falmec and Desall invite you to design new products

New industrial design competition on Desall.com: Falmec and Desall invite you to design new products.

Call for Entries: Site Monastery

ARKxSITE is pleased to announce the international architecture ideas competition ‘SITE MONASTERY’ for architecture students and young professionals (≤ 40 years old).

Rethinking Notre-Dame

On the night of April 15 in Paris, television networks, social media—the entire planet, in fact—watched as the Notre-Dame Cathedral burned. Tears, horror, and shock gripped the world at the prospect of seeing the most visited monument on Earth reduced to ashes; yet, after a long night, the city preserved Notre-Dame.

2nd National Ideas Competition

The Municipality of León, through the León Municipal Housing Institute (IMUVI) and the León Municipal Planning Institute (IMPLAN), invites students, faculty, and professionals to participate in the Second National Ideas Competition: Intra-urban Housing and Park Solution. The goal is to develop a conceptual design proposal for a high-density social housing complex and a neighborhood public park within a consolidated urban area in the city of León.
Driven by the vision of redirecting how we plan and manage cities, we invite you to participate in this rethinking process by submitting conceptual proposals for intra-urban social housing. These proposals should integrate public and green spaces, utilizing best practices in architectural design, innovation, and sustainability to ensure healthy neighborhood coexistence, equal access and opportunity, freedom from discrimination, and safe, affordable, and accessible housing for lower-income groups in society.

Idea competitions: Future Cap Challenge

New industrial design competition on Desall.com: Pelliconi and Desall invite you to propose innovative concepts for a new easy-open cap, featuring thoughtful design and a refined user experience, with the goal of creating an interactive and fun product.

Call for Entries: 'Site Mausoleum'

This single-stage international architecture ideas competition invites all architecture students, young architects, and young professionals with a degree in architectural studies (≤ 40 years old) to develop and submit ideas for the design of the ‘Site Mausoleum,’ located at the Jasper Quarry, ‘Serra da Arrábida,’ Portugal.

Call for Entries: Green Coliving Center Ideas Competition

The competition calls for the conceptualization of a coliving housing project as a replicable design tool for Mexico City, serving as a framework for other cities facing challenges related to overpopulation and the high demand for quality housing.

Call for Ideas: Train to the Clouds Adventure Camp

Invite the adventurous tourist to stay by creating optimal conditions in design, functionality, pragmatism, durability, and sustainability. The overall design of the Tren a las Nubes Adventure Camp must be sensitive to the surrounding context, ensuring a harmonious coexistence that integrates the proposal into the monumental structure.

Call for Submissions: Insurgent Productions - 13th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo

The IABsp has opened the Call for Insurgent Productions for the 13th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo. Submissions for the Open Call for Entries can be made until December 15 via the 13th Biennial website.

National Preliminary Design Competition for the Argentine Center for Innovation, Conservation, Valorization, and Adaptation of the CAI Headquarters in Buenos Aires

Organized by the Sociedad Central de Arquitectos (SCA) and promoted by the Centro Argentino de Ingenieros (CAI), the call for entries is now open for the binding National Preliminary Design Competition for the Argentine Center for Innovation, Conservation, Valorization, and Adaptation of the CAI headquarters, located at Cerrito 1250 – Av. 9 de Julio – in the heart of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

Registration Open: A New Portal - Architecture and Urbanism Competition

The "Um Novo Portal" (A New Portal) Competition, organized by Minimum, is a team-based competition for students and recent graduates of Architecture and Urbanism.

Térium Caracas: Bicycle Parking Competition at the Central University of Venezuela

In the Venezuelan context, where the health crisis caused by COVID-19 has compounded difficulties with gasoline supply and the sustained deterioration of public transport systems, the bicycle has emerged as a viable and sustainable mobility alternative for citizens.

International Ideas Competition: Hillsides in San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru

The CAP RL and BIALIMA, in partnership with the Municipality of San Juan de Lurigancho, are organizing the "International Ideas Competition: Hillsides in San Juan de Lurigancho." The competition aims to create infrastructure surrounding the staircases that connect local residents.

Call for Entries: Photography Competition - Portraits of the Pandemic in Architecture

In our first photography competition, we invite all enthusiasts of the art—architects and non-architects alike—to capture what they consider most significant and striking when asked: What has the pandemic brought to the world of architecture?

National Ideas Competition for the Former Penitentiary Site in Jujuy

Organized by the Jujuy Architects' Association and promoted by the provincial Ministry of Infrastructure, Public Services, Land, and Housing, the call for entries is now open for a competition of ideas regarding the future of the current penitentiary unit in the Gorriti neighborhood of San Salvador de Jujuy, which is set to be relocated to the town of Chalicán in the southeast of the Argentine province.

Under the theme 'Architecture as a Politics of Change,' the call for entries to select the curatorial team for the XVII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism is now open.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU), in collaboration with the Higher Council of Architects' Associations of Spain and supported by the ARQUIA Foundation, has opened the selection process for the curatorship of the 17th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU). The deadline for submitting proposals is March 3, 2025.

Enter the Arquine Competition No. 27

Since 1998, Arquine has hosted an architecture competition that allows for the comparison of ideas and proposals on equal footing. As in recent editions, the Arquine No. 27 Competition invites participants to design, build, and activate a pavilion in Mexico City's Historic Center as part of the MEXTRÓPOLI Architecture and City Festival.

8th Félix Candela Award "Ehécatl"

The Félix Candela Award is a two-stage international architectural ideas competition conducted in Spanish. Organized annually by the Spanish Institute of Architecture (IESARQ), it is open to students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and design, as well as young architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and designers, participating individually or in teams of two to three members.

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