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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…
Competition BriefThe NY Product Design Awards 2026 is a global design contest that will take place in 2026. It will be open to all product designs, regardless of category or industry, and will award the best ones with prizes. The…
Competition BriefIntentThe NY Architectural Design Awards endeavor to proclaim the value of the above-mentioned fields, namely, architecture, interior design, urban planning, and sustainable development. The contest brings to the forefront the works that are beautiful, creative, and more.PurposeThe awards aim…
Competition BriefThe Re‑Gen Gorizia Competition 2025 is an international architecture and urban design contest, which invites participants to give their vision of a new district for the Sant’Anna area، the largest residential area in Gorizia, Italy، as a contemporary living model. The…
Competition BriefEl Concurso Arquine No.28 para el Pabellón MEXTRÓPOLI 2026 ya es la vigésima octava versión of the same international architectural contest that has asked for a design of an ephemeral pavilion for the MEXTRÓPOLI Architecture and City Festival in…
Competition BriefThe FIT Sport Design Awards is an international design competition held yearly and it is focused on sports apparel, footwear, equipment, and performance-related products. The main goal of the competition is to underline the sports design industry’s innovations, functionalities,…
Competition BriefThe 2026 Concrete Masonry Competition is an event that invites architecture students to present their designs for a future Welcome Center which will be entirely composed of concrete masonry. The competition envisions the roadside rest stop not just as…
Competition BriefThe 2026 Steel Design Student Competition is a one-of-a-kind academic architecture competition aimed at students, which highlights the creative as well as the structural use of the steel that has been the main building material. The competition demands from…
Competition BriefThe 2026 Design for Aging Competition is a challenge for architecture students to create an Intergenerational Union an environment that is supportive of aging in place, lifelong learning, and connection among the different generations, all within the campus. The…
Competition BriefIntentThe Africa International Design Awards 2026 is a worldwide recognition program launched to acknowledge the design quality connected to Africa and the African diaspora. The event is aimed at bringing together those who use their creative talents in responding…
Competition BriefIntentLight of Tomorrow by VELUX 2026 is a biennial global competition and award for architecture students. It invites the contestants to use daylight as a basic design element to consider how natural light can change the atmosphere, affect health,…
Competition BriefIntentIn 2026, the Vilnius Congress Centre Architectural Competition will be held where architects and design teams will be able to suggest a design of their liking for a new large congress centre that would be a landmark for large…
Competition BriefIntentThe prize for European urban public space of the year 2026 is a competition held every two years that gives recognition to the most extraordinary interventions in the development of public areas in European cities. It pays special attention…
Competition BriefIntentThe Museum of Emotions / Edition #8 Competition 2026 is a global call for architects, interior and industrial designers to represent emotions through architecture. The defined scenario requires the creation of a museum with two different exhibition spaces: one…
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