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Architecture Competition: Winter Stations 2022What is Winter Stations?Winter Stations is a single-stage international design competition held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Participants are tasked with designing temporary winter art installations which incorporate existing lifeguard towers spaced strategically across the city’s…
Architecture Competition: Camp Out – RV hotel design challenge.Brief: Design an RV (Recreational Vehicle) parking hotel for tourists. They can park their RV for a certain period of time during their visit, and use the communal spaces, designed on the…
Architecture Competition: Arena – Open air theatre design challengeEntertainment is a competitive industry that tries to adapt to every obstacle that comes it’s way. It also relies on consumers to embrace these as a way to escape the limitations of…
Architecture Competition: Ashore – Eco-sensitive pier design challengeA pier is sometimes functional like a place to get on and off boats, or many times recreational like a viewpoint or an eating area, and this gives us an opportunity to rethink its environmental standing.Can piers…
Architecture Competition: Art Omi: Architecture Residency Open CallThe Art Omi: Architecture residency program is first of its kind in the nation, inviting 10 early- to mid-career architects from around the world to develop their work during a full two-week residency…
Architecture Competition: Steedman Fellowship 2021: Disruption2021 Theme: DisruptionWe are living in disruptive times as we live out the Anthropocene, defined by climate crisis driving unprecedented current and future weather extremes and an ongoing global pandemic, alongside centuries of systemic racism in…
Architecture Competition: Open Call: Design Innovation Competition 2021DI 2021 is open to both conceptual proposals, as well as realized projects by young designers, entrepreneurs, and tech professionals worldwide. The goal of DI 2021 is to identify promising projects and/or start-up…
Architecture Competition: PT DESIGN AWARDS 2021PT Awards is organized jointly by the China Furniture & Decoration Chamber of Commerce, OPPEIN Group, and OPPEIN Italian Design Institute;Co-organized by the International Federation of Interior Designers (IFI); And supported by International Habitat Interior Design Association (IHIDA), International…
Architecture Competition: The Electric Fuelling Station of the FutureAs a perceived lack of charging infrastructure is one of the largest barriers to EV adoption, this new design competition, The Electric Fuelling Station of the Future launched by Electric Autonomy Canada,…
Architecture Competition: Call for Entries: Architecture Competition to Reuse the Lake Chapel in San Lorenzo Nuovo, ViterboThe fourth edition of the cultural project Reuse Italy promotes an international architecture competition on the reuse of the “Lake Chapel”, a small octagonal church on the…
Architecture Competition: ArchDaily’s 2021 New Practices Open Call Closes Sunday, November 7From social, racial, economic inequity to virtual, immersive environments, the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping trends and pushing societies to discuss how we will live together in the future.In this context, architecture has…
Architecture Competition: Call for Entries – Renewal of Budapest Railway Station and its surroundings – International Architectural Design ContestThe Budapest Development Agency announces an international architectural design contest for the renewal of the Nyugati Railway Station and its surroundings.Nyugati Railway…
Architecture Competition: Architecture Residency: Applications OpenThe Art Omi: Architecture residency program is first of its kind in the nation, inviting 10 early- to mid-career architects from around the world to develop their work during a full two-week residency on Art…
Architecture Competition: Pocket Home – A tiny abode amidst the dense concrete jungleBrief: Design a modular pocket housing on an urban residual plot of land in a dense urban city.The solution proposed must be modular and temporary since the land…
Architecture Competition: 2021-22 Wood Design & Building Awards: Call for SubmissionsThe Wood Design & Building Awards program recognizes design teams that are passionate about celebrating wood as a safe, strong, and sophisticated building material. Projects submitted to the Wood Design…
Architecture Competition: The open international competition for development of an architectural concept for the Galiasgar Kamal Tatar State Academy TheatreOn October 12, a jury meeting of the open international competition for development of an architectural concept for the Galiasgar Kamal…
Architecture Competition: UIA 2030 Award : Call for SubmissionsThe UIA, in partnership with UN-Habitat, has launched the UIA 2030 Award to promote the work of architects contributing to delivery of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development together with the…
Architecture Competition: Open Call for Students and Young DesignersA + C Freelaners is a young multicultural studio of freelance architects that is committed to breaking down barriers through technology, using it as a tool to connect us from different parts…
Architecture Competition: Open Call: Resurrect Syrian Migration (Refugee Shelter Design Challenge)PREMISEDuring the 2010s, the European migrant crisis, also known as the European refugee crisis, saw a substantial rise in the influx of refugees and migrants into Europe. The word is…
Architecture Competition: The Urban Rhetoric_ Issue 5_March 2022_ City in DilemmaTHEME:Far away from the hustle-bustle of the city, where the less privileged, native residents of the city move, are the underdeveloped urban fringe zones, which have no access to the…
Architecture Competition: Child Play – A Play Structure for a Public ParkDesigning for kids is not an easy task. The design process is undertaken by adults, with children being the end-users and therefore, it is a huge responsibility to deliver…
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