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Black and White Photo Awards 2025

Black and White Photo Awards 2025

OverviewThe Black & White Photo Awards 2025 continues its legacy of celebrating exceptional talent in monochrome photography. This year’s competition features five thematic categories:Photographers from around the world are invited to showcase their creativity and compete for a prize pool…

AR Emerging Awards 2025

AR Emerging Awards 2025

OverviewLaunched in 1999, the AR Emerging Awards recognize young architects and celebrate the architectural stars of tomorrow. These awards were established as a response to prestigious lifetime achievement honors like the Pritzker Prize, offering early recognition to emerging talents and…

The Social Hub: Reimagining Community Spaces

The Social Hub: Reimagining Community Spaces

OverviewDiscoverArch, in collaboration with IIA Kapurthala Chapter and IGBC, invites architecture students to participate in The Social Hub competition. This challenge encourages students to rethink and redesign community spaces to foster inclusivity, accessibility, and sustainability.Participants can choose from a range…

Tiny Travelers Big Adventures

Tiny Travelers Big Adventures

OverviewChicco invites designers to reimagine child-friendly solutions to “Tiny Travelers Big Adventures” that offer comfort, practicality, and versatility in limited-space environments. The challenge is to design innovative products that help children during everyday activities such as mealtime or sleep, particularly…

Zgraf 13

Zgraf 13

OverviewThe Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Art (ULUPUH) invites designers and visual artists to participate in the International Exhibition of Graphic Design and Visual Communications – Zgraf 13. This prestigious event will take place from June 10 to June…

Best House in The World Competition

Best House in The World Competition

OverviewCasas inHAUS launches the Best House in The World competition, an international architectural competition that seeks to reward the best pre-construction residential projects. The competition is open to architectural studios, professionals, and designers worldwide who have a real residential project…

Decentered City – Multispecies Design

Decentered City – Multispecies Design

OverviewDearq Journal invites researchers, academics, and professionals to contribute to the upcoming issue “Decentered City: Multispecies Design.” This edition seeks to challenge conventional urbanization models and advocate for interspecies urban environments that recognize ecological crises, restore natural processes, and decentralize…

DUBAIURBAN ELEMENTSDESIGN CHALLENGE

DUBAIURBAN ELEMENTSDESIGN CHALLENGE

OverviewThe Dubai Urban Elements Challenge is an international architecture and urban design competition launched by Buildner in collaboration with Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and the Dubai Government. With a total prize fund of €500,000, this competition invites architects,…

Nepal School Project: Designing for Resilience

Nepal School Project: Designing for Resilience

OverviewIn response to the devastating 2024 monsoon season and the 2025 Tibet earthquake, Archstorming, in collaboration with Karmayog Foundation and Nepal Rising, has launched the Nepal School Project: Designing for Resilience. This international architecture competition invites architects, designers, and students…

Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize 2025

Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize 2025

The Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize is among the most prestigious awards in landscape architecture, celebrating outstanding built and planned projects worldwide. Since 1999 (Europe) and 2008 (internationally), the prize has remained independent and non-commercial, recognizing innovative contributions to the…

AJ Architecture Awards 2025

AJ Architecture Awards 2025

The AJ Architecture Awards 2025, presented by The Architects’ Journal, return for their eighth consecutive year, celebrating outstanding architectural achievements across 16+ categories. The awards recognize projects in housing, health, wellbeing, workplace, cultural spaces, and more.The competition is open to…

Drawing of the Year 2025

Drawing of the Year 2025

Archisource presents the sixth edition of the Drawing of the Year Awards 2025, an international competition celebrating excellence in visual representation across architecture, art, and design, in collaboration with D5 Render and HP.The competition is free to enter and open…

International Busan Design Award (IBDA)

International Busan Design Award (IBDA)

OverviewThe 2025 International Busan Design Award (IBDA) is a globally recognized competition celebrating innovation in industrial design. Organized by Busan Metropolitan City and Design Council Busan, the competition provides a platform for designers worldwide to showcase their work and gain…

Bethel Woods Art & Architecture Festival 2025

Bethel Woods Art & Architecture Festival 2025

OverviewThe Bethel Woods Art & Architecture Festival 2025 invites designers to explore the theme of fire—both as a gift and a burden—reflecting humanity’s responsibility in harnessing emerging technologies. The competition seeks innovative designs that foster community, craft, and ecological balance…

COTAA #2 – Exploring the Concept of the Double in Architecture

COTAA #2 – Exploring the Concept of the Double in Architecture

The concept of the double has long intrigued and unsettled philosophers, psychologists, and artists, emerging as a site of tension between self and other, reality and illusion, truth and distortion. The double is a paradox—identical yet different, a reaffirmation yet…

European Award AHI 2025

European Award AHI 2025

The seventh edition of the European Award AHI is now open, celebrating excellence in architectural heritage intervention across Europe. This prestigious biennial event has become a reference in the field, recognizing outstanding projects that shape the future of heritage conservation…

ASA Experimental Design Competition 2025

ASA Experimental Design Competition 2025

ASA Experimental Design Competition 2025 invites architects, designers, students, and creative thinkers to submit their most innovative works under the theme “Future Nostalgia in Architecture.”Organized by the Association of Siamese Architects (ASA), this competition explores how architectural design can bridge…

Young Designers Open Call (YDOC)

Young Designers Open Call (YDOC)

OverviewThe Young Designers Open Call (YDOC), organized by reSITE for Manifesto Market, is an opportunity for emerging architects and designers to bring their ideas to life. The competition offers participants the chance to design and implement their concept in a…

Open international competition for the development of a master plan for scientific and technological districts of Sirius Federal Territory

Open international competition for the development of a master plan for scientific and technological districts of Sirius Federal Territory

OverviewA prestigious international competition has been launched to select the best master plan for the scientific and technological districts in the Sirius Federal Territory. This two-stage competition invites professional organizations specializing in urban planning, architecture, and master planning, along with…

WA Awards 50th Cycle

WA Awards 50th Cycle

The WA Awards 10+5+X has opened submissions for its 50th Cycle, inviting architects, interior designers, and students worldwide to participate. This renowned online architecture awards program stands out for its inclusive and innovative evaluation process, making it a unique platform…

Core77 Design Awards 2025

Core77 Design Awards 2025

The 2025 Core77 Design Awards are now open for submissions, inviting designers, teams, organizations, and students to showcase their best work. With a strong reputation in the global design industry, these awards celebrate outstanding creativity, innovation, and impact across multiple…

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