Author: Design Critics

The leading editorial voice for Architecture Competitions, event coverage, and critical design analysis. Curated by Senior Editors Mona Mohammed & Baidaa Nouri.
  • 2026 Design for Aging Competition

    Competition BriefThe 2026 Design for Aging Competition is an international competition for students to create designs that facilitate intergenerational living and aging-inclusive environments. The contenders are required to come up with architectural designs that meet the needs of the old…

  • Africa International Design Awards 2026

    Competition BriefIntentThe Africa International Design Awards 2026 is a worldwide recognition program launched to acknowledge the design quality connected to Africa and the African diaspora. The event is aimed at bringing together those who use their creative talents in responding…

  • Light of Tomorrow by VELUX 2026

    Competition BriefIntentLight of Tomorrow by VELUX 2026 is a biennial global competition and award for architecture students. It invites the contestants to use daylight as a basic design element to consider how natural light can change the atmosphere, affect health,…

  • European Prize for Urban Public Space 2026

    Competition BriefIntentThe prize for European urban public space of the year 2026 is a competition held every two years that gives recognition to the most extraordinary interventions in the development of public areas in European cities. It pays special attention…

  • Museum of Emotions / Edition #8 Competition 2026

    Competition BriefIntentThe Museum of Emotions / Edition #8 Competition 2026 is a global call for architects, interior and industrial designers to represent emotions through architecture. The defined scenario requires the creation of a museum with two different exhibition spaces: one…

  • MBArch Entrepreneurship Challenge V Edition 2026

    Competition BriefIntentThe IE School of Architecture and Design is the organizer of the international competition, the MBArch Entrepreneurship Challenge V Edition 2026. The event aims at recognizing architects and designers who possess a unique blend of spatial thinking and entrepreneurial…

  • CTBUH Awards 2026

    Competition BriefIntentThe CTBUH Awards 2026 has the goal of honoring remarkable in tall buildings, urban innovation, and related fields design. The competition appraises finished and proposed projects, which reveal technical excellence, sustainability, and architectural merit. The awards highlight the features…

  • New Port (Nowy Port) in Bydgoszcz

    Shaping a Contemporary Urban QuarterNew Port (Nowy Port) is a residential development located on a former industrial site in the central area of Bydgoszcz. The site carries a layered urban context shaped by the city’s historic fabric and the presence…

  • International Architecture & Design Awards 2026

    Competition BriefIntent The International Architecture & Design Awards 2026 loudly proclaims itself to be a supreme prize for the world’s best architects, interior designers, and product designers, as well as for the best of all disciplines creative works. The award…

  • Tokyo Design Awards 2026

    Competition BriefIntentThe Tokyo Design Awards is a competition of international stature that celebrates the excellency of design in several disciplines. It caters for architects, designers, and other creative professionals to showcase their works that are characterized by innovation, vision, and…

  • Kaira Looro Architecture Competition 2026

    Competition BriefIntentThe Kaira Looro Architecture Competition 2026 is concerned with the designing of a Community Center meant to be in a rural setting in Africa. The contest puts forward, more or less, that architecture is a social instrument rather than…

  • THE ARCHITECT’S STAIR EDITION #3 2026

    Competition BriefIntentThe contest invites the partakers to see the stair again as a building element. Not just a means of moving around, it can also be a way to talk about the issues of the floor, the angles, the motion,…

  • Wheelwright Prize 2026

    Competition BriefIntentThe Wheelwright Prize makes a call to the worldwide early-career architects to suggest an ambitious research project. The winner will be the individual who will show the most potential among others and whose research and inquiry in the field…

  • NEW CHAPTER FOR BRATISLAVA’S BROWNFIELD 2026

    Competition BriefIntentThe competition is about the future redevelopment of a substantial brownfield site in Bratislava. The competition aims at reimagining a neglected urban segment and reenacting its role in the city’s overall structure. The entire idea is presented as an…

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