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This worldwide contest challenges the imaginations of the designers, architects, and inventors to alter the street trade in cities. The main problem to be tackled is the embodiment of the vendors’ daily lives in practical, functional, and human-centered furniture that…
The CLASSICS Small Luxury Design Award 2026 is an international design competition aimed at designers to come up with handkerchief designs. A premium handkerchief brand with a long history in Japanese craftsmanship and a quality legacy that goes back to…
The Living Ruins II contest has assigned designers the task of envisioning the ghost town of Dereiçi in Turkey as a vibrant outdoor museum. Although the village has been deserted, it still possesses tremendous cultural and historical significance. The aim…
The Home Within Reach competition invites architects, students, designers and thinkers to think of new ways for affordable and dignified housing. The challenge will deal with the areas of accessibility, space utilization, cost and human-centered design. The theme of the…
The LIV Hospitality Design Awards have been established to honor the absolute best in the architectural and interior design fields, specifically for the hospitality sector. Amazing “living” and “eating” spaces all over the globe have been acknowledged by the awards….
The AlUla Design platform has opened its doors for global designers to take part in an extraordinary creative challenge that is at the intersection of heritage and innovation. The three-day designathon and the design award bring together storytelling, craft, and…
Design Unlimited is proud to announce the winners of the highly anticipated Digital Heritage Museum international design competition. After a rigorous evaluation process led by an esteemed panel of architects, designers, and sustainability experts, the top projects have been selected…
The Design Discovery Awards provide a recognitional platform for outstanding design in the various fields, like architecture, interior design, landscape design, and more, on a global scale. Their objective is to discover and promote original, innovative works as well as…
The competition is an invitation to architects and designers to break their restraints and create a whole new world through the lens of a specific country’s architecture. The first step for the participants is to select a nation and after…
The French Fashion Awards entice the world’s exceptional designers and creatives to exhibit their works that are not only fashionable but also innovative and cultural. The competition’s main focus is to give recognition to the ideas that push the boundaries…
The French Design Awards are an annual event that honors exceptional creativity in a number of fields, such as architecture, interior design, product design, fashion, packaging, and landscape, as well as user interface and experience. The Awards serve to acknowledge…
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…
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