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Competition BriefWorld Architecture Competitions 2026 – Last Light is a design contest which requires participants to create new lighthouse designs which function as living spaces that people can use throughout their lifetime. The competition allows participants to investigate architectural design…
Competition BriefKimball International Makers of a Better Future 2026 is a professional award program organized by the IIDA Foundation in partnership with Kimball International. The program recognizes practicing designers and architects who integrate future-oriented thinking into their design practice, with…
Competition BriefThe IIDA Campus Center Awards 2026 honor exceptional work produced by all active IIDA Campus Centers. The awards showcase educational programs and activities which enable students to participate in their studies and develop their skills while serving the community…
Competition BriefThe International Interior Design Association uses its IIDA Chapter Awards 2026 as a professional recognition program. The awards recognize local chapters success which they achieved through their design programs and community outreach efforts and architectural design projects. The best…
Competition BriefThe Anna Hernandez/Luna Textiles Award 2026 serves as an annual recognition program which the IIDA Foundation administers. The award recognizes a woman who has founded a commercial interior design or product design company and who creates substantial value for…
Competition BriefThe ET CONTEST Beyond Underground 2026 invites designers to transform the former Sos Enattos mining site in Sardinia, Italy. The challenge requires architects and landscape designers to develop solutions that harmonize with the Einstein Telescope scientific infrastructure while maintaining…
Competition BriefThe IIDA 2026 Student Mentoring Program is a professional development initiative that pairs interior design students with experienced design professionals. The program enables students to gain practical knowledge about their field while establishing professional contacts in the commercial interior…
Competition BriefThe IIDA 2026 Will Ching Design Competition stands as an international design competition which recognizes exceptional commercial interior designs from companies that employ ten or fewer workers. The competition evaluates architectural work which designers finished after 2023 and examines…
Competition BriefThe IIDA 2026 Interior Design Competition represents an open international competition which showcases interior design and built architectural work that has been created since December 2023. The competition evaluates how designers use innovative solutions to address spatial difficulties through…
Competition BriefOpenair Suites is an international architecture competition that invites designers to create a new type of rural accommodation which will be built in the agricultural area that surrounds Mount Etna in Sicily. The participants must create two suite prototype…
Competition BriefThe ACSA 2026 Timber Competition asks architecture students to create an original timber building design which needs to fulfill three requirements: it must meet sustainability goals, and it must show structural design transparency, and it must exhibit environmental operational…
Competition BriefThe Davidson Prize is an annual design ideas competition that asks multidisciplinary teams to rethink the home and its role in contemporary life. The 2026 theme for the competition requires teams to find new methods for including play elements…
Competition BriefThe Great Reclamation is a bursary-based design competition that asks students to reconsider the future of land currently dominated by car parking and road infrastructure. The competition focuses on everyday sites such as local car parks or streets which…
Competition BriefThe ACSA 2026 COTE® Top Ten for Students Competition evaluates student design work which demonstrates climate change solutions and environmental sustainability practices and social equity design principles. The competition evaluates academic studio projects which show sustainable design methods that…
Competition BriefIntentThe Saint-Gobain Architecture Student Contest 2026 focuses on an urban regeneration project in Belgrade Serbia. The students must develop a sustainable plan according to the environmental requirements of the Sava River industrial site. The design needs to create sports…
Competition BriefIntentDesigners must create a proposal for a Mass Timber Innovation and Design Center which will be built in Vancouver Canada. The project needs to create architectural designs which will enable timber research activities together with public exhibition and educational…
Competition BriefThe LIT Entertainment Awards 2026 is a competition on a global scale that rewards the best and most imaginative advertising and communication in the creativity department across all types of the media including the traditional ones (films, TV, etc.),…
Competition BriefThe LIT Advertising Awards is a global acknowledgment program for creativity and talents in advertising, brand communication, digital media, and design. The challenge throws light on the very best of campaigns, imaginative strategies, and daring visual works in all…
Competition BriefThe Erich Mendelsohn Brick Architecture Award is an international accolade that highlights the most creative and sustainable uses of brick in architecture across the globe. It takes place every three years and has gained a reputation as one of…
Competition BriefThe “Mureș Parks, Târgu Mureș, The Hippodrome Park, Municipal Park, Turbinei Canal Green-Blue Ensemble” International Design Competition has been initiated by the Municipality of Târgu Mureș and the Romanian Order of Architects (OAR), Mureș Territorial Branch of OAR as…
Competition BriefFrame the Future! LA’s Housing Manifesto + Poster Showdown is an open design competition and a public exhibition that dares to challenge all designers, architects, and artists plus writers, students, and any other creative thinkers to convert the audacious…
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