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A+C Designs are launching a Design and Build Competition hospitable all!We have partnered up with We Yone Child Foundation, a Sierra Leone |African country|African nation”> Sierra Leone based charity, which aims to enhance the lives of vulnerable children and their…
IF it’s a world platform for competitions that aims to attach ideas from different areas of society so as to assist transform cities and make them increasingly self-sustaining, efficient and green. We are trying to find innovative ideas and new…
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia – IAAC, wants to support the event of the sector of urbanism, urban planning, and concrete design by advancing technologies for the formation of the longer term urban environments. For this reason, IAAC…
PREMISE Before the lock-downs round the world, our lives were suffering from long commutes, leaving us with little time for ourselves, our families and our friends. Traffic polluted our air and smog blanketed our skylines. The pandemic hit the pause…
The RIBA has launched a competition for the design of a new mosque on a site near Preston in Lancashire on behalf of a local registered charitable trust. The client is looking to create a landmark, timeless building and the…
Introduction Presentation skills are even as important as designing; one among the simplest mediums to present your architectural designs is thru rendering. Architectural rendering aims to make life-like experiences of the buildings before they’re built. Rendering aids the designer to…
Deadline: Midnight (BST) on Tuesday 1 June 2021 4 Prizes of £1000 The Drawing Matter Trust is pleased to announce the return of the Drawing Matter Writing Prize. The competition invites participants to carefully check out drawings and to think…
PREMISE ‘To live is to travel.’ Humans are nomadic by instinct. In the broader evolution of humankind through time, the notion of settling right down to make home and hearth is comparatively a recent phenomenon that has created more problems…
PREMISE Medieval times saw the increase of guilds that governed the functioning of artists, architects, and other professions. Those were times when art was considered elite and complicated . The work done by these artists was valued and helped put…
INTRODUCTION: Have you ever imagined what the architecture of Africa would appear as if today, if the good civilizations of Egypt, Timbuktu, Mali, the Dogon, Zulu, Yoruba, and thousands of other African empires had continued to develop and evolve in…
PREMISE Our perception of leisure travel is changing in some ways thanks to many reasons lately. A trend shift where people now avoid crowded destinations against more peaceful solitude like places isn’t a surprise. Call it an epidemic risk or…
New Generations may be a European platform that investigates the changes within the architectural profession ever since the depression of 2008 by analysing a number of the foremost innovative emerging practices at the ecu level, providing a replacement space for…
The Chungcheongnam-do Government intends to construct 「Chungnam Art Museum」, an art power station that exposes new imagination and future in Naepo New City. In order to create a world-class contemporary art museum beyond the symbol of the region, the winning…
This Design Challenge offers student teams round the world the prospect to style an idea for a true site within the 175-hectare Kalasatama neighbourhood near the centre of Helsinki, Finland. EFL is trying to find interdisciplinary, co-creative student teams who…
INFORMATION Layers of Design is launching a fresh and exciting competition which will check out developing temporary design solutions for people experiencing homelessness, a problem that’s present all around us. There are numerous reasons people become homeless. Many homeless people…
International Competition for the National Museum of Korean Literature, S.Korea (http://www.nmkl-compe.org) 1. Promoter -The holding organization for competition is Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of Korea, S. Korea. -The competition is Organized by Korea Institute of Architects. 2. The…
Submission: April 25th, 2021 23:59 GMT Registration: April 25th, 2021 23:59 GMT Language: English Location: Tromso, Norway Prizes: $2000 USD Type: Open for All (Students and Professionals) PREMISE – About Tromso Tromsø, a city in northern Norway, may be a…
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Project Colette along side the The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia wishes to support this new generation and help them propose a replacement sustainable architecture and urbanism capable to face the challenges of our century. For 2021,…
Unconventional / Unorthodox / Unlikeness / Breaking the grid / Different / Alternative / Outside the box / Countercultural. HERETIC is anything or anyone who doesn’t conform to a longtime attitude or principles. What happens when architecture is demolished and…
Vilnius city municipality, along side Lithuanian Railways (LTG), have just announced an open international architectural competition for reconstruction of railroad station , Central Station Square and conveyance terminal in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania. The participants will need to…
GRAND PRIZE: $1000 Brief The concept of Home means something different round the world. In some places, it is a n apartment during a tall tower and in others it’s a stucco building by alittle road. Whichever option describes your…
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