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Through the Tiny House 2025 Architecture Competition, you will be able to get a new perspective on what home means to humans. The promoters of the competition, designers and architects, challenge us to think of living units that are not…
The Ecological Design Challenge calls for designers, architects, engineers, and creative minds to make a fresh, new portrayal of a basic building element in our world as part of eco-friendly inventions. The contest revolves around pieces of site furniture, mostly…
The Maunsell Forts competition dares architects and designers to envision the historic forts anew in the North Sea, which are dead remnant structures of World War II and have become deserted. The forts, which were constructed during the war as…
The NOT A HOTEL Design Competition 2026 is open to architects and designers below the age of 40 for the purpose of coming up with a completely new hospitality concept in Yakushima, Japan. The competition also presents an opportunity for…
The Municipality of Burgas in collaboration with the Burgas 2032 Foundation has opened up an international architecture competition for Park Zone 3, a project located in the middle of Burgas, Bulgaria. The main objective is to convert the central so-called…
The Hardware InnovMetal Award competition is going to celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2025. Previously known as the China Hardware Products International Design Competition, this event has developed into a global competition that is all about hardware innovation. It is…
The Superior Design Award contest is a global call for all creators to display their artworks with the late characteristics of creativity, innovation, and quality. This yearly contest prizes the best design achievements, giving awards to the ideas that mix…
The Asia Design Prize 2026 is an event that recognizes and rewards the design which connects Asia and the rest of the world. It promotes the design innovation, richness of culture, and the creative legacy. All designers regardless of their…
The London Urban Retreat contest is open to the ideas of architects and designers that will be presented on the famous Haggerston Baths located in East London. This derelict bathhouse from the early 1900s is legally protected because of its…
The New Zealand Nature Retreat competition is really a test, a challenge to the architects and designers equally to present their perfect retreat on the far-off Antipodes Island. The location is one of the most isolated in New Zealand, which…
The Architecture for Health Student Award calls for master-level students to enter their thesis projects on the subject of health through architecture. The competition is meant to bring engaged design thinking in healthcare architecture, urban planning, and landscape planning, and…
After conflict, societies are court to a monumental task of not only rebuilding their physical infrastructures but also their communities. The Built Proposal Mariupol post-war memorial architecture competition flying architects and designers for a post-war memorial and reconciliation center in…
Architects and designers are invited to submit their visions for a mountain stopover in the Swiss Alps by the Alpine Refuge competition. The retreat will cater to the needs of the travelers, hikers, and athletes as a place to rest,…
The Student Project Awards 2025 competition is an event where young architects are showing off their qualities to the world. It is a worldwide stage for showing architectural students’ academic works as design statements that engage real-world issues with originality…
The World of Transport competition has opened the floodgates for architects and designers to document their imagination through a conceptual design of a new visitor attraction in Ostrava that will spread over more than forty thousand square metres. The goal…
This competition invites architects, designers and visionaries to rethink construction and demolition waste as a resource rather than a burden. With over one third of global solid waste generated by the built environment, the challenge is to develop architectural proposals…
In the countryside of Senegal, thousands of children abandon their studies after primary education as there are no secondary schools nearby. The Djilakh village, with a population of more than four thousand, has two primary schools but unfortunately no secondary…
The 6th Order competition is open to architects and designers who will create a new classical order that is beyond the traditional five. It requires coming up with a sixth that redefines architectural expression as the competition proceeds to the…
The W Awards 2026 not only honor but also celebrate the remarkable contributions brought about by women and non-binary persons in the architectural world. They are the ones behind such achievements as the creation of stunning buildings or even the…
The Iceland Slow Sauna contest of cooperation between sauna and greenhouse is a challenge to the architects and designers to come up with a solution that could be easily combined. The venue is at Lake Mývatn, a volcanic place that…
Podgorica, where Montenegro’s government locates, is getting ready for Zlatica Park-Forest’s full transformation into a colorful and eco-friendly urban oasis. The tree planting is one of the measures in the greening process that will not only add to the appeal…
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