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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 an international competition for students to create designs that facilitate intergenerational living and aging-inclusive environments. The contenders are required to come up with architectural designs that meet the needs of the old…
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…
Competition BriefIntentThe IE School of Architecture and Design is the organizer of the international competition, the MBArch Entrepreneurship Challenge V Edition 2026. The event aims at recognizing architects and designers who possess a unique blend of spatial thinking and entrepreneurial…
Competition BriefIntentThe CTBUH Awards 2026 has the goal of honoring remarkable in tall buildings, urban innovation, and related fields design. The competition appraises finished and proposed projects, which reveal technical excellence, sustainability, and architectural merit. The awards highlight the features…
Competition BriefIntent The International Architecture & Design Awards 2026 loudly proclaims itself to be a supreme prize for the world’s best architects, interior designers, and product designers, as well as for the best of all disciplines creative works. The award…
Competition BriefIntentThe Tokyo Design Awards is a competition of international stature that celebrates the excellency of design in several disciplines. It caters for architects, designers, and other creative professionals to showcase their works that are characterized by innovation, vision, and…
Competition BriefIntentThe competition dares architects and designers to choose an overused, abandoned, or neglected building and to redevelop it for a new use. It looks at the adaptive reuse of spaces below 250 square meters, giving a nod to the…
Competition BriefIntentThe Kaira Looro Architecture Competition 2026 is concerned with the designing of a Community Center meant to be in a rural setting in Africa. The contest puts forward, more or less, that architecture is a social instrument rather than…
Competition BriefIntentThe design competition is looking for something new and interesting for Kodaňská 1441 site in Vršovice which is located in Prague. The main idea is to create a new mixed place consisting of a residential area, ground floor retail,…
Competition BriefIntentThe contest invites the partakers to see the stair again as a building element. Not just a means of moving around, it can also be a way to talk about the issues of the floor, the angles, the motion,…
Competition BriefIntentThe Wheelwright Prize makes a call to the worldwide early-career architects to suggest an ambitious research project. The winner will be the individual who will show the most potential among others and whose research and inquiry in the field…
Competition BriefIntentThe competition is about the future redevelopment of a substantial brownfield site in Bratislava. The competition aims at reimagining a neglected urban segment and reenacting its role in the city’s overall structure. The entire idea is presented as an…
Competition BriefIntentThe competition challenges architects and designers to revisit the concept of luxury in hospitality through a minimalism approach. It deals with the creation of a hotel that completely expresses simplicity and at the same time, offers a very refined…
Competition BriefIntentThe Habitat Beyond Earth Competition requires the contestants to create a conceptual model of a sustainable human colony on Mars. It will look for plans that not only deal with the problems of living on the Red Planet but…
Competition BriefIntentThis contest is about the design of a floating museum which is going to be a remarkable conceptual one that will not only deal with the climate change issues but also will be an exhibition of the environmental coexistence…
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