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The MotionShade Challenge

The goal is to design a perforation pattern that transforms how natural light enters indoor spaces, blending art, comfort, and sustainability. Your idea could change users feel and interact with spaces such as classrooms, hospitals, offices, or homes.

The MultiFunctional Façade Challenge

The goal is to design a multifunctional façade system that integrates smart technologies, such as IoT sensors, sun-shading, BIPV, or embedded heating/cooling systems. Your concept should enhance sustainability, comfort, and performance by responding intelligently to environmental conditions.

Frame Conclave 2025

FRAME is instituted as an independent, biennial professional conclave on contemporary architecture in India curated by Matter and organised in partnership with Takshila Educational Society.

Beauty is Resistance: art as antidote

Beauty is Resistance: art as antidote at browngrotta arts (October 11 - 19) explores how aesthetic creation—especially within textile, fiber, and material-based practices—serves as a form of radical defiance, cultural preservation, and political voice. In an age of political polarization, ecological crisis, and commodification, beauty might seem like a luxury—or a distraction. But for the artists in this exhibition, beauty is not a retreat from reality. It is a strategy of survival, remembrance, and resistance. Beauty is Resistance will feature more than two dozen international artists who harness the power of beauty not as escape but as agency: to mourn, to protest, to remember, to heal, and to imagine.

Badingilo National Park HQ Design Competition

African Parks, in partnership with the Government of South Sudan; Ministry of Wildilfe Conservation & Tourism (MWCT), manages Badingilo National Park as part of its mission to restore and protect Africa's natural heritage. Covering over 10,000 km², Badingilo hosts the largest land mammal wildlife migration on the planet and will act as the operational hub for several national parks in the region.
Headquarters location (coordinates): 5° 6' 26.9094" N, 31° 54' 11.6676" E, within Badingilo National Park .

Open Call: Floating Refugee Village

Premise
With rising sea levels and intensifying climate events, coastal populations worldwide face unprecedented displacement, creating a new generation of climate migrants. Traditional land-based refugee solutions are often temporary, resource-intensive, and fail to provide long-term dignity or stability. This competition challenges architects and designers to radically rethink humanitarian architecture by proposing a new paradigm: a buoyant, self-reliant community. The Floating Refugee Village is envisioned not as a temporary camp, but as a permanent, adaptable, and thriving habitat that harmonizes with its aquatic environment, offering a resilient future for those displaced by our changing planet.

UIA-HYP Architecture Students Cup 2025

One of the most prestigious Architecture Prizes in the world is back for a new edition!

Utopian Hours

Utopian Hours is the festival that tells the story of "making cities": the ideas, projects, and places that are improving urban life around the world.

Egyptian Graduation Project 3.0

Egyptian Graduation Project Competition 3.0
Organized by: We Are DESCO
Proudly Sponsored by: AEDAS

Inspire Future Generations Awards 2025

It all begins with an idea!
Active since 2021, the Inspire Future Generations Awards (IFGA) celebrate exceptional initiatives within the built environment that centre the voices of children and young people. This annual competition welcomes entries from architects, planners, local authorities, developers, and other built environment professionals who are committed to advancing participatory design with children and young people.
The IFGA recognises projects that demonstrate excellence, creativity, care, and a genuine commitment to engaging young people in shaping the spaces around them. Over the past four years, the Awards have played a key role in growing TET’s community of practice: connecting people, sharing knowledge, and fostering collaboration around inclusive and youth-centred design.
Our principal aim of running this awards programme is to open up space for young people to be heard, participate in and empowered in decisions about the environments they live, learn, and play in. By highlighting the value of participation, the IFGA helps ensure that the design of our cities and communities reflects the needs, ideas, and aspirations of younger generations. Each year the winning award entries are added to the TET Resource Bank, sharing knowledge, examples and speakers for TET Dialogues. The entries are featured in our Empowering Environment Report and winners will have space to present and reflect on their work. This year the IFGA present 16 categories spread across three sections, don’t loose your opportunity: enter for the IFGA25!

Open Call : Timber Futures Ideas Competition

Timber Futures: International Ideas Competition

Warming Huts V.2026: An Arts & Architecture Competition on Ice

Warming Huts V.2026: An Arts + Architecture Competition In Ice

Call For Ideas: Little Big Loo 2025 Architecture Competition

The 21st century began with great promise filled with ambition, optimism, and dreams of a better future. Now, twenty-five years later, we stand at a crossroads. Humanity has achieved remarkable feats: exploring distant planets, transforming healthcare, and advancing artificial intelligence and robotics. But we've also lived through defining global events, shifts that have tested our societies and systems.

Call for Entries: Beyond the Game: Adaptive Arenas for Tomorrow

Beyond the Game: Adaptive Arenas for Tomorrow

Denver Affordable Housing Challenge

The Denver Affordable Housing Challenge is an international architecture competition organized by AIA Colorado, the City and County of Denver, and Buildner. As the 19th installment in Buildner's Affordable Housing Challenge series, the competition explores how affordability and design excellence can be harmonized to create innovative, high-quality housing solutions tailored to Denver's specific context.

MICROHOME / Edition #10

The 10th edition of MICROHOME marks a special milestone in Buildner's ongoing effort to explore the future of compact, sustainable living. This edition is presented in collaboration with Kingspan, a global leader in high-performance building solutions, and Hapi Homes, a company transforming the way homes are designed and built through technology, sustainability, and prefabrication. Together, they invite architects and designers from around the world to take on the challenge of shaping the next generation of micro-living.

The Architect’s Chair #4

The Architect's Chair Competition offers architects and designers an exciting opportunity to showcase their creativity by designing a signature chair that embodies their unique architectural vision. Inspired by the tradition of renowned architects creating custom furniture as an extension of their work, this competition challenges participants to distill their design philosophy into a single, iconic piece.

Dialogue - Contemporary Design with Alvar Aalto

This exhibition presents an ongoing, cross-cultural design collaboration between Finnish interior architect and designer Esa Vesmanen and the Japanese brand minä perhonen. Within the interior of Maison Louis Carré, Vesmanen and Akira Minagawa—artist, designer, and founder of minä perhonen—integrate the influence of Alvar Aalto into their shared creative dialogue. Minagawa, inspired by Nordic design culture, shares with Esa Vesmanen a deep interest in tactile materials and craft-based techniques. Their design discussions inspired a special edition of Vesmanen's Finom lighting line, which explores the possibilities of paper-thin plywood, continuing Aalto's legacy of experimenting with wood's formal potential.