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Competition BriefThe Anna Hernandez/Luna Textiles Award 2026 serves as an annual recognition program which the IIDA Foundation administers. The award recognizes a woman who has founded a commercial interior design or product design company and who creates substantial value for…
Competition BriefThe ET CONTEST Beyond Underground 2026 invites designers to transform the former Sos Enattos mining site in Sardinia, Italy. The challenge requires architects and landscape designers to develop solutions that harmonize with the Einstein Telescope scientific infrastructure while maintaining…
Competition BriefThe IIDA 2026 Student Mentoring Program is a professional development initiative that pairs interior design students with experienced design professionals. The program enables students to gain practical knowledge about their field while establishing professional contacts in the commercial interior…
Competition BriefThe IIDA 2026 Will Ching Design Competition stands as an international design competition which recognizes exceptional commercial interior designs from companies that employ ten or fewer workers. The competition evaluates architectural work which designers finished after 2023 and examines…
Competition BriefThe IIDA 2026 Interior Design Competition represents an open international competition which showcases interior design and built architectural work that has been created since December 2023. The competition evaluates how designers use innovative solutions to address spatial difficulties through…
Competition BriefOpenair Suites is an international architecture competition that invites designers to create a new type of rural accommodation which will be built in the agricultural area that surrounds Mount Etna in Sicily. The participants must create two suite prototype…
Competition BriefThe ACSA 2026 Timber Competition asks architecture students to create an original timber building design which needs to fulfill three requirements: it must meet sustainability goals, and it must show structural design transparency, and it must exhibit environmental operational…
Competition BriefThe Davidson Prize is an annual design ideas competition that asks multidisciplinary teams to rethink the home and its role in contemporary life. The 2026 theme for the competition requires teams to find new methods for including play elements…
Competition BriefThe Great Reclamation is a bursary-based design competition that asks students to reconsider the future of land currently dominated by car parking and road infrastructure. The competition focuses on everyday sites such as local car parks or streets which…
Competition BriefThe ACSA 2026 COTE® Top Ten for Students Competition evaluates student design work which demonstrates climate change solutions and environmental sustainability practices and social equity design principles. The competition evaluates academic studio projects which show sustainable design methods that…
Competition BriefIntentThe Saint-Gobain Architecture Student Contest 2026 focuses on an urban regeneration project in Belgrade Serbia. The students must develop a sustainable plan according to the environmental requirements of the Sava River industrial site. The design needs to create sports…
Competition BriefIntentDesigners must create a proposal for a Mass Timber Innovation and Design Center which will be built in Vancouver Canada. The project needs to create architectural designs which will enable timber research activities together with public exhibition and educational…
Competition BriefThe LIT Entertainment Awards 2026 is a competition on a global scale that rewards the best and most imaginative advertising and communication in the creativity department across all types of the media including the traditional ones (films, TV, etc.),…
Competition BriefThe LIT Advertising Awards is a global acknowledgment program for creativity and talents in advertising, brand communication, digital media, and design. The challenge throws light on the very best of campaigns, imaginative strategies, and daring visual works in all…
Competition BriefThe Erich Mendelsohn Brick Architecture Award is an international accolade that highlights the most creative and sustainable uses of brick in architecture across the globe. It takes place every three years and has gained a reputation as one of…
Competition BriefThe “Mureș Parks, Târgu Mureș, The Hippodrome Park, Municipal Park, Turbinei Canal Green-Blue Ensemble” International Design Competition has been initiated by the Municipality of Târgu Mureș and the Romanian Order of Architects (OAR), Mureș Territorial Branch of OAR as…
Competition BriefFrame the Future! LA’s Housing Manifesto + Poster Showdown is an open design competition and a public exhibition that dares to challenge all designers, architects, and artists plus writers, students, and any other creative thinkers to convert the audacious…
Competition BriefThe MAC Panamá International Architecture Competition 2026 is a challenge issued to architects and different professionals in the world to come up with new designs for the headquarters of the MAC Panamá museum. The contest is looking for new…
Competition BriefThe Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship 2026–27 is a nine-month visiting teaching and research fellowship for faculty, which will be held at the School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). The fellowship allows the young designers to not only…
Competition BriefThe Premios ARQUITECTURA 2026 award scheme, created by the Higher Council of Architects’ Associations of Spain (CSCAE), values architectural excellence and encourages the good influence of architecture, city planning, and professional practices on society and the environment. This is…
Competition BriefAIA Los Angeles Residential Architecture Awards 2026 are to be held as the festival of the best residential designs in a wide range of scales and types. They pick work from the smallest to the biggest firms and has…
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