Pequena África is a space of singular significance, where culture, memory, and resistance intertwine along every path and within every evolving narrative. This territory has established itself as a bastion of Afro-Brazilian heritage, serving as a benchmark in the construction of Brazilian identity. To enhance its visibility, the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) is launching the BNDES Pequena África Competition, open to national and international participants. This represents a historic opportunity for recognition and reparation, ensuring that the memory of the formation of the Brazilian people is preserved and celebrated.
ARCHLAND, a firm specializing in the organization of architecture competitions, is honored to present its most significant competition to date. This initiative will enable the Choquequirao Citadel to achieve World Heritage status and be recognized as Peru's second archaeological wonder, following Machu Picchu, within the tourism circuit. This circuit will be part of the proposal and included through the competition itself, promoted to reach over 5,000 architects worldwide to address and promote this remarkable site.
Reactivando Hitos stems from the need to revitalize potentially underutilized urban spaces. The inaugural edition focuses on the Plaza de Toros in Quito, Ecuador.
The competition aims to encourage a documentary and artistic perspective on architecture in Santa Catarina and will offer cash prizes to the top entries.
Aerial photos showing the intervention area of the four locations
The Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition is an international contest aimed at promoting the practice of architecture and urbanism that preserves and continues local traditions, contributing to the creation of a more beautiful, coherent, sustainable, and socially inclusive urban structure.
The goal of the competition is to design a one- or two-story prototype that acts as a sculptural element within its environment. It should be adaptable to beaches, parks, and plazas, serving as a landmark and safety point for tourists in major cities worldwide, while adding value to both natural and urban settings.
Ideasforward is an international competition platform that aims to connect ideas from different areas of society to help transform cities and make them increasingly self-sufficient, efficient, and ecological.
The objective of this design competition is for participants to develop a planning and design proposal for the "Metropolitan Forest" in Madrid, incorporating connectors, facilities, and intervention zones to bring this project to fruition.
Projetar is the first ideas competition portal for students and young professionals in Brazil. Our purpose is to contribute to professional growth through competition, providing opportunities for creative practice, skill development, and visibility at the beginning of one's career. Over the past 8 years, we have launched 36 competitions and received more than 3,000 projects from participants across the country and abroad.
The competition calls for the conceptualization of a floating housing prototype (FLOATING HOUSE) that functions as an independent unit. Through its design, it should be capable of forming a cluster of 10 units, adding value to the natural environment. The site is located on the Caribbean coast, on the island of Holbox, Mexico.
Open House Madrid announces the 2nd edition of the City Awards, which recognize the most innovative, social, and engaged proposals that will shape the future of cities.
Registration for the Ideas and Practices Competition: City, Housing, and Health extended to August 3rd
Registration for the Ideas and Practices Competition: City, Housing, and Health has been extended until August 3. Launched on July 1, the competition aims to promote Technical Assistance for Social Interest Housing (ATHIS) as a strategy to address Covid-19.
The Quechua Architecture Competition (Q.A.C.) invites all participants to take part in a new challenge: to develop and present a project that explores diverse fields of thought and design. This time, the challenge is "CUICOCHA Mirador."
These are small creative challenges that we will launch regularly. We are talking about projects, illustration, photography, sketches, design, video, or other media, all of which share architecture as a common thread. Here, you will test all your skills and discover some you didn't know you had! It’s your time!
"Habitar a Quarentena" (@habitaraquarentena) is a collaborative project that seeks to gather insights through accounts and photographic records of the various experiences of living through this period of isolation via Instagram.
The Uyuni Salt Flat Shelter competition seeks to foster a reconnection with nature and with the human experience within solitude. Acceleration, instantaneity, immediacy, technologization... Daily human life has been subsumed by synchronous devices such as the clock and the mobile phone, resulting in a stressed society that has lost all trace of its biological temporality and its shared life with the environment. Here, on the salt flat, all technology disappears. Total computerization is not possible.
The Rio de Janeiro Department of the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB-RJ) has opened registration for the 58th Annual Awards—Road to the Centenary and the 37th Architect of Tomorrow Award. The former aims to recognize the intellectual and professional production of the Department's members, while the Architect of Tomorrow is dedicated to honoring academic work produced in architecture and urbanism programs across the state of Rio de Janeiro. The winning final graduation projects in the eight categories of the Architect of Tomorrow award will also compete for the Grandjean de Montigny Award, sponsored by CAU/RJ.
This is an open call for projects and publications completed during the four years preceding each edition of the BAQ. Over its twenty-one editions, the Biennial Competition has received more than 7,000 entries and has recognized contributions to the practice of architecture, urbanism, landscape, theory, and architectural dissemination.
IF is an international competition platform that aims to connect ideas from different sectors of society to help transform cities, making them increasingly self-sufficient, efficient, and ecological. We are looking for innovative ideas and new ways of thinking. In a time of global emergency, it is increasingly important that we think globally.
As part of its outreach activities, Empresas Melón is organizing this competition to invite individuals over the age of 18 residing in Chile—who are not currently or formerly affiliated with any of the company's divisions—to participate in the creation of a logo for the product "FullColor," in accordance with these terms and conditions.
ARKxSITE is pleased to announce the 'SITE MIRADOR' international architecture ideas competition for architecture and landscape architecture students and young professionals (≤ 40 years old).
Given our current reality, CoRe aims to channel the experiences and sentiments of this coronavirus-induced quarantine through literary expression. To that end, the organization is launching:
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