The Bee Breeders' Affordable Housing Challenge series heads to London, tasking participants with conceiving creative solutions for the British capital's complex crisis.

This is an open call for projects and publications completed during the four years preceding each Biennial, with five categories open to the American continent and one open worldwide.

The CAF competition sought ideas proposing comprehensive habitat improvements within communities. Specifically, it aimed to improve citizens' quality of life and integrate informal settlements into the city through the conception and design of innovative, relevant, justified, and feasible proposals.

View the results of the 2018 edition.

The Espaço de Arquitetura portal, hereinafter referred to as the Organizing Entity, with the sponsorship of CS-Telhas, Love, Margres, ATZ, and Lummenn, and with the institutional support of the Fafe City Council, is promoting the DESAFIOS URBANOS’17 Ideas Competition. The Espaço de Arquitetura portal, hereinafter referred to as the Organizing Entity, with the sponsorship of CS-Telhas, Love, Margres, ATZ, and Lummenn, and with the institutional support of the Fafe City Council, is promoting the DESAFIOS URBANOS’17 Ideas Competition.

In an increasingly chaotic world, finding a moment of silence is difficult. Participants in the Bee Breeders Silent Meditation Forest Cabins competition are invited to create a space where guests can disconnect from the constant noise and distractions of the technological world and focus on silent reflection over a simple cup of tea.

Sea ice in the Arctic region is crucial for maintaining the global climate due to its reflectivity. The melting of this ice can further accelerate global warming due to positive feedback loops, where warming generates more heat as solar absorption increases. The loss of this ice sheet may represent a tipping point in global warming, triggering the 'runaway' effect of climate change.

Organized by the Sociedad Central de Arquitectos, this international competition seeks the development of a preliminary design for the Faro de la Cultura (Lighthouse of Culture), a cultural center to be located in the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood of Costanera Sur, between the ecological reserve and the former Boca Sports City.

The project’s primary objective is to stimulate integration and equitable access to facilities for all local residents, fostering community engagement.

The Municipality of Quito, through the Metropolitan Institute of Urban Planning (IMPU) and the Pichincha Architects Association (CAE-P), invites architects, urban planners, and other professionals to participate in a competition aimed at the urban renewal of the railway corridor in southern Quito.

This competition seeks to reimagine the corridor, which currently only serves the tourist train, and whose spatial, environmental, economic, and social potential remains untapped. Consequently, the competition encourages the development of proposals that integrate and acknowledge this historic infrastructure within the city, highlighting its potential as an inclusive and connective public space. The goal is to create gathering spaces and incorporate facilities, retail, and services that enhance the current use and character of each sector. Participants may even rethink the role of this corridor for various urban functions, regardless of whether the train remains in operation. The corridor spans approximately 13 kilometers and traverses areas with a significant diversity of dynamics, land uses, and levels of urban consolidation.

The Municipality of Cascais, with technical support from the OASRS, has launched the "Sommer Pavilion International Ideas Competition" for the construction of a temporary intervention in the Jardim da Parada, adjacent to Casa Sommer in the center of Cascais. Proposals may be submitted until July 13.

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INSÒLIT is a festival of ephemeral interventions in the courtyards of Palma that aims to promote the city's rich architectural heritage through creative, temporary actions.

The Municipality of Villaputzu, Italy, has launched an ideas competition on the Bologna Order of Architects platform to improve the Porto Corallo coastline. The project seeks to integrate the existing coastal road into a system of low-impact, low-speed paths. These slow-traffic routes should facilitate sustainable use of the beaches and other areas of natural, scenic, and cultural interest.

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  Exposiciones Universales: Imagina tu Pabellón Nacional

• Type

  Anuncio para Concurso de Ideas

• Website

  http://www.archstorming.com/info

• Organizers

  Archstorming

• Registration Deadline

  July 18, 2018 11:59 PM

• Submission Deadline

  July 18, 2018 11:59 PM

• Price

  40€

Since the 19th century, World Expos have served to showcase the culture, art, progress, and scientific advancements of participating nations. These exhibitions are the premier international showcase for participating countries and represent a historic event for their host nations.

World Expos have left an impressive architectural legacy that has become symbolic of many cities and countries. Notable examples include the Crystal Palace in London (1851), the Eiffel Tower in Paris (1889), the Ferris Wheel in Chicago (1893), the Atomium in Brussels (1958), the Space Needle in Seattle (1962), and Mies van der Rohe’s German Pavilion in Barcelona (1929), among many others.

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  Convocatoria abierta para diseño de interiores Ferrero

• Type

  Anuncio para Concurso de Ideas

• Website

  http://bit.ly/FerreroDesignContest

• Organizers

  Ferrero y Desall

• Registration Deadline

  December 19, 2018 12:00 PM

• Submission Deadline

  December 19, 2018 05:55 PM

• Price

  Gratis

Ferrero and Desall invite the international creative community to propose an innovative interior design solution centered on the individual, ensuring that breaks at the company are even more relaxing and enjoyable.

The 2018 World Cup ended just a few weeks ago. It concluded an intense month that not only impacted the world of sports but also had direct repercussions on the host country's economy, tourism, and urban planning. Russia was the chosen host country. A total of 12 stadiums across 11 Russian cities were built or renovated for the tournament. But have you ever considered what happens when Olympic stadiums, World Cup venues, or other costly sports infrastructure close after the events for which they were designed? Many host local sports clubs. Others, however, become what we call "white elephants," used as parking lots, car racing tracks, or even—as in the case of Montreal's spectacular Olympic Stadium—a flu vaccination center. In "Residential Stadium: Adaptive Reuse," Archstorming aims to analyze how architecture can provide solutions for stadium design, ensuring they can be repurposed once the sporting event has concluded.

• Title

  Convocatoria abierta para diseño de librero

• Type

  Anuncio para Concurso de Ideas

• Organizers

  AlbaComponents y Desall

• Registration Deadline

  December 20, 2018 12:00 AM

• Submission Deadline

  December 20, 2018 12:00 AM

• Price

  Gratis

Metalmeccanica Alba and Desall invite the international creative community to design a new combinable, modular, and detachable bookcase for the historic brand AlbaComponents.

Rethinking is celebrating its 4th anniversary. It has been four years since the launch of our first competition, and from the very beginning, participants have requested a specific type of competition: one that rewards, both symbolically and financially, the effort required by a year of work on a final degree project. Therefore, after 18 competitions, we are pleased to present our first competition dedicated to rewarding the best final degree projects.

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Ideasforward is an experimental platform that seeks progressive ideas reflecting emerging themes. Ecological design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts, and technologies are pressing issues for the societies of the future, and the participation of the entire community is essential. In an era of globalization, where communication has been dominated by the technological revolution, there is a need to rethink cities and how humanity relates within a global world, as well as to reconsider the economic, social, and cultural patterns of contemporary societies.

New ideas competition on Desall.com: Manifattura Falomo and Desall invite you to design a system that helps consumers select the most suitable mattress based on their specific needs at retail locations.

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For its fourth exhibition cycle, Espacio Odeón has invited Alejandro Martín Maldonado and Estudio Altiplano to serve as curators. They have chosen to launch an architecture competition that examines the spatial conditions of Odeón, along with its history, present, and future.

This competition invites any individual or collective—regardless of age, discipline, nationality, gender, or political affiliation—to submit architectural proposals. We are seeking submissions that consider the building's current state in programmatic, heritage, urban, and economic terms. We invite you to envision alternative futures and new directions, and to submit proposals that radically question the spatial condition of Odeón, the contingency of the void, and the potential of its ruins.

In the context of architecture and urbanism, design competitions are academic and/or professional contests that involve developing an architectural proposal based on specific requirements defined by organizers in a brief, which is carefully planned and prepared for each theme.

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

Van Alen Institute and Broadway Mall Association are seeking emerging designers and artists for a temporary public design installation addressing the theme of “Eco-Mutualism.” The selected project will be on view March 2027–January 2028 at Mitchel Square in Washington Heights, Manhattan.