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Competition BriefThe AZ Awards 2026, which are run by AZURE Magazine, is a global design competition that recognizes and praises the outstanding works of the various fields such as architecture, landscape, interiors, urban design, product design, and etc. The awards…
Competition BriefThe KCMA Design Awards 2026 is a prestigious competition for professionals to showcase their architectural and interior design skills. It also enables the use of KCMA member cabinetry in the projects. This contest will showcase the most remarkable kitchen…
Competition BriefThe Cordless Lamp Innovation Contest 2026 is an international design competition that aims to create a portable lighting solution that can function without the need of fixed electric infrastructure. The competition is open to concepts that deal with both…
Competition BriefThe INSPIRELI Awards 2026 represents the 11th edition of the annual renowned international student architecture competition, which is open to full-time and long-distance university students enrolled in architecture, design, engineering, and other related disciplines. Through this contest, students from…
Competition BriefThe Rome Design Awards 2026 is an international design competition that allows designers, architects, and other professionals to display their works in the fields of architecture, interior design, product design, furniture, lighting, and packaging even among students. The competition…
Competition BriefThe competition known as Architecture at Zero 2026 seeks design proposals that give answers to the issues of decarbonization, equity, and resilience via architectural thinking and practice. The participants will have to visualize an educational and cultural venue named…
Competition BriefThe Transcendent Design and the Space In-Between International Design Competition 2026 is a conceptual architecture competition that studies the physical limitation of design. The competition explores the transition of space which naturally occurs between a building’s form and its…
Competition BriefThe DBEW Award 2026 is an international design competition centered around the bond between design education and professional practice. The competition does not simply highlight separate objects; instead, it studies the influence of educational environments on design thinking, the…
Competition BriefThe Clothed Spaces Competition 2026 is a worldwide architectural and design contest that the Archcontest platform organizes. The brief details the mountain tent as a basic micro-architecture, a thin, short-lived, and reactive structure that is in direct contact with…
Competition BriefThe Prix Claude Parent 2026 is a worldwide architectural award that acknowledges architects whose creations are in a transgressive, critical, or visionary manner, hence the legacy of Claude Parent, a theorist and practitioner who pushed the boundaries and introduced…
Competition BriefThe international awards program called the 2026 TITAN Property Awards is set to honor the most influential through property industry sectors like property development, architecture, interior design, landscaping, lighting design, conceptual design, and many more. The main idea is…
Competition BriefThe 2026 AIASF Design Awards are held by the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter and are aimed at bringing to light the transformative achievements in the fields of architecture, interior design, and unbuilt work in the Bay…
Competition BriefThe Chicken Coop Competition 2026, which is being held by Outsider Magazine, puts an emphasis on the design of a chicken coop that is not only a shelter for the chickens or a simple building but also an architectural…
Competition BriefThe 10 Cubic Meter Challenge calls upon the most creative minds, designers, architects, artists, makers, and others, to reconsider and realize the concept of space, its meaning, and the experience one can get there, given a very strict limitation…
Competition BriefFind Fitzrovia is a quite new design competition that brings together the London Festival of Architecture and The Fitzrovia Partnership. The competition is a call for various professionals like emerging architects, designers, and artists to explore and rethink the…
Competition BriefThe Lyceum Fellowship is an enduring annual competition in architectural design for students which is a mixture of design-based research and travel experience supported by grant money. It was initiated in 1985 and its main goal is to support…
Competition BriefNext House: USA Competition 2026 is a global call for designers, architects, and visionaries to come up with the reimagined American suburban house. It also invites to think up a home where the environmental and social factors are addressed…
Competition BriefThe Commonwealth Association of Architects Competition 2026 has been set up and is an award scheme that picks up and praises excellent Architecture and single person’s contribution in the Commonwealth countries. It puts together all the major projects which…
Competition BriefInternational Excellence Awards Competition 2026 is a global contest for architects and designers that, as the name implies, recognizes the top tier of the innovative, original, and excellently designed works in the different fields of architecture and design. It…
Competition BriefThe Water Tower Competition 2025 is a global contest of architectural design that calls for the innovators to change the old Water Tower in Milanino’s Garden City into a dynamic and modern cultural center that the locals can use….
Competition BriefThe SIT Furniture Design Award 2026 is a remarkable global competition, aimed at furniture and interior design. It rewards and honors the extremely inventive solutions in furniture, the most creative use of the spaces, the best accessibility facilities, and…
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