2026 Design for Aging Competition
Competition Brief The 2026 Design for Aging Competition is an international competition for students to create designs that facilitate intergenerational…
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Africa International Design Awards 2026
Competition Brief Intent The Africa International Design Awards 2026 is a worldwide recognition program launched to acknowledge the design quality…
Light of Tomorrow by VELUX 2026
Competition Brief Intent Light of Tomorrow by VELUX 2026 is a biennial global competition and award for architecture students. It…
Vilnius Congress Centre Architectural Competition 2026
Competition Brief Intent In 2026, the Vilnius Congress Centre Architectural Competition will be held where architects and design teams will…
European Prize for Urban Public Space 2026
Competition Brief Intent The prize for European urban public space of the year 2026 is a competition held every two…
Museum of Emotions / Edition #8 Competition 2026
Competition Brief Intent The Museum of Emotions / Edition #8 Competition 2026 is a global call for architects, interior and…
MBArch Entrepreneurship Challenge V Edition 2026
Competition Brief Intent The IE School of Architecture and Design is the organizer of the international competition, the MBArch Entrepreneurship…
CTBUH Awards 2026
Competition Brief Intent The CTBUH Awards 2026 has the goal of honoring remarkable in tall buildings, urban innovation, and related…
New Port (Nowy Port) in Bydgoszcz
Shaping a Contemporary Urban Quarter New Port (Nowy Port) is a residential development located on a former industrial site in…
International Architecture & Design Awards 2026
Competition Brief Intent The International Architecture & Design Awards 2026 loudly proclaims itself to be a supreme prize for the…
Tokyo Design Awards 2026
Competition Brief Intent The Tokyo Design Awards is a competition of international stature that celebrates the excellency of design in…
Re:form – New Life for Old Spaces / Edition #2
Competition Brief Intent The competition dares architects and designers to choose an overused, abandoned, or neglected building and to redevelop…
Kaira Looro Architecture Competition 2026
Competition Brief Intent The Kaira Looro Architecture Competition 2026 is concerned with the designing of a Community Center meant to…
URBAN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION KODAŇSKÁ 1441 2026
Competition Brief Intent The design competition is looking for something new and interesting for Kodaňská 1441 site in Vršovice which…
THE ARCHITECT’S STAIR EDITION #3 2026
Competition Brief Intent The contest invites the partakers to see the stair again as a building element. Not just a…
Wheelwright Prize 2026
Competition Brief Intent The Wheelwright Prize makes a call to the worldwide early-career architects to suggest an ambitious research project….
NEW CHAPTER FOR BRATISLAVA’S BROWNFIELD 2026
Competition Brief Intent The competition is about the future redevelopment of a substantial brownfield site in Bratislava. The competition aims…
ELEVATING ELEGANCE – The Minimalist Hotel Challenge 2026
Competition Brief Intent The competition challenges architects and designers to revisit the concept of luxury in hospitality through a minimalism…
Architecture That Reveals the Truth: The National Holodomor-Genocide Museum in Kyiv
Each year, at the end of November, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932–1933, which…
HABITAT BEYOND EARTH – The Mars Colony Dreamscape Challenge 2026
Competition Brief Intent The Habitat Beyond Earth Competition requires the contestants to create a conceptual model of a sustainable human…
AQUATIC HORIZONS – Designing the Floating Museum 2026
Competition Brief Intent This contest is about the design of a floating museum which is going to be a remarkable…
