The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), in cooperation with the General Services Administration (GSA), is sponsoring a design competition for a new temporary outdoor commemorative installation in Washington, DC with the goal of enhancing a prominent but underutilized public space in the city’s monumental core while fostering a public dialogue regarding the nature of commemoration [...]

LIGHTITUDE: Lighting urban areas above the polar circle What role can lighting elements play when the sun never sets or when it stays below the horizon throughout the day? Thoughts about lighting in extreme latitudes. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE THEME “The history of humanity, preferring warm and temperate countries, has poorly prepared mankind to accept [...]

The 8th edition of Meet My Project will be held in Milan, at Viale Crispi 5, from April 17 – 21. 30 design studios will present their new projects. Deadline for application: February 28th. More info here.

The OPPTA Competition 2011-2012 is an international competition, launched simultaneously in 5 sites and under a common theme to propose solutions at a technical, territorial, infrastructural or architectural level. In this first edition the chosen theme is Emergency Interventions, and the location for the convening is the American continent. It has suffered successive disasters, natural or anthropic, over [...]

Many high school cafeterias are overcrowded and dark.  They typically don’t contain enough seating options for students and are not designed to offer healthy food options.  Eating together at school is often a loud social experience, but other students may want quieter spaces to eat and study during their lunch break. Design Challenge Brief The [...]

Internationally acclaimed architect Craig Dykers will chair the jury for Washington University in St. Louis’ 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition. Dykers is co-founder of Snøhetta, an architecture, landscape architecture and interior design firm with offices in Oslo, Norway, and New York City. Major projects include design of Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, the [...]

The OPPTA Competition 2011-2012 is an international idea competition, launched simultaneously in 5 sites and under a common theme to propose solutions at a technical, territorial, infrastructural or architectural level. In this first edition the chosen theme is Emergency Interventions, and the location for the convening is the American continent. It has suffered successive disasters, [...]

Wastelands: XXXII European Architecture Students Assembly and Flow Festival are cooperatively organizing a design contest for building an intimate stage for the use of Flow Festival. The contest is open for students, postgraduates, researchers and/or equivalent non-practising-professionals of the fields related to architecture, arts and design. The aim of the contest is to create a [...]

The task is to design urban furniture (5 pieces) suitable to the environment of Hernesaari (Helsinki, Finland) and applicable for temporary use. The work should express high professional standards, serving the extensive tourist flows and focusing on public usability, visual attractiveness, continuity and the urban growth of the area. Lifespan of the furniture should be [...]

Domus, in collaboration with FabLab Torino, invites designers, architects, students and professionals to participate in an open-source design challenge: conceive a line of furniture to be used in FabLabs all around the world that can be manufactured in the FabLabs themselves. A selection of the best designs, chosen by a panel of experts, will be realised [...]

Dotting the global landscape, decommissioned military installations are leaving their mark – symbols of triumph, pride, pain and the unforeseen consequences of military aggression. These abandoned structures and ghost towns disrupt neighborhoods and split entire communities. Architecture for Humanity is hosting the 2011 Open Architecture Challenge – [un]restricted access – a design competition that will [...]

Submit a spatial response to the concept expressed in the competition’s title through a single vignette. While entries are limited to a spatial response, they can be expressed through any medium: architectural design, photography, sculpture, etc. Can you distill your ideas to a single vignette. For more information: Socio Design Foundation

National land charity the Land Trust is launching an international competition to find the most inspirational design and funding a team to create a new visitor destination and public open space at the former Cronton Colliery in Knowsley. The competition is open to multi-disciplinary design teams and is being run by the Land Trust in [...]

AZURE Magazine’s international competition celebrating excellence in design is open for submissions. Now in its second year, the AZ AWARDS program is already regarded as an important distinction for emerging and established firms. Like the magazine itself, the awards are multi-disciplinary, recognizing the contemporary inter-connectedness of architecture, landscape, interiors and product design. Submissions are open [...]

The 2015 Road World Championships will bring nearly 500,000 spectators to Richmond and an estimated $135 million in revenue to the Commonwealth of Virginia. As seen in other host-cities, large scale events can lead to disposable buildings and post-event dead zones in the urban environment. How can Mayo Island capitalize on the existing success of [...]

Pruitt Igoe Now is an ideas competition launched by a non-profit organization of the same name. The subject is the 57-acre site of the long-mythologized Pruitt and Igoe housing projects in St. Louis, Missouri, USA — a site whose future is intertwined with emerging ideas about urban abandonment, the legacy of modernism, brownfield redevelopment and [...]

We are asking you to design a building with an extremely long lifespan. The design must meet some special social need in its setting- in keeping with our interest in humanitarian architecture and design. You may want to consider how materials decay and erode over time and how this is managed or even encouraged, and [...]

AIA St. Louis presents the 2012 AIA National Photography Competition. The top fourteen (14) entries will be exhibited at the 2012 AIA National Convention in Washington, DC. In addition, images for the 2014 Engagement Calendar (approximately 52 images), published by Universe, will be selected from all submitted entries and will include the fourteen (14) award [...]

Zog’s Dogs (www.zogs-dogs.com), a hot dog restaurant located in Downtown San Francisco, is accepting applications for the 3rd annual artistic fellowship at their restaurant. Zog’s Dogs is a strong supporter of artistic endeavors, and creative proposals that reimagine the hot dog, the restaurant experience, and food in general, are encouraged. Proposals that utilize the company [...]

The bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle. It is designed for pedestrians and cyclists, rather than vehicular traffic. Footbridges complement the landscape and can be used decoratively to visually link two distinct areas or to signal a [...]

Call for Entries Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in public fora, an on-line installation, podcasts, and in an exhibition in June 2012. [...]

Wall Street to Main Street is a collaborative art project linking Occupy Wall Street and the rest of America, via the small town of Catskill, NY.  The Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) has focused its energy on the need for justice for the 99%. This project, Wall Street to Main Street, offers a platform for [...]

Competition format The competition is being arranged as an open two-stage international architectural competition. Those persons interested in participating must register on the registration form via the competition webpage (link). From the entries submitted in Stage 1 the jury will select 6-8 entries that they have judged the best for further development in Stage 2. [...]

With this competition, Urban Omnibus seeks to advance its dedication to redefining the culture of citymaking by inviting writers to interpret a system that influences so many aspects of urban life, and yet is rarely considered in evocative or creative non-fiction writing. How does the Manhattan street grid determine your experience of the city? How [...]

From unforeseen endings come dramatic beginnings. Plat 3.0 invites projects, images, essays, and manifestos, which explore the discursive opportunities that emerge in the wake of collective disruption. In a time characterized by rapidly shifting conditions and perpetual crises, contingencies and opportunities to innovate emerge. Such moments lay the ground for radical change. Free from the [...]

THE COMPETITION The past few years have seen an exciting rise in the fascination with robotics. Simultaneously, the ability to develop and build robots capable of complex and experimental applications has become easier and more accessible to the general public. From hardware like Arduino to open source programming like Processing, there now exist inexpensive and [...]

DESCRIPTION This design competition is open to all students, architectural professionals, and artists. The aim of the competition is to further and expand a dialog about green thinking in Asia. The competition site is located in Shanghai, China. Entries will be evaluated upon design merit, quality of sustainable ideas, and the impact proposal will have [...]

The AIA New York Chapter announces a competition for the redesign of the Medal of Honor. Conferred by the chapter since 1914, the award recognizes an architect or firm of architects for distinguished work and high professional standing. The design competition is open to any architect, sculptor, artist, or student. The specifications of the proposed [...]

New Practices New York, a biennial competition since 2006, serves as the preeminent platform in New York City to recognize and promote new and innovative architecture and design firms. The juried portfolio competition is sponsored by the New Practices Committee of the AIA New York Chapter and honors firms that have utilized unique and innovative [...]

We are inviting artists and architects, as well as other individuals and collectives, to join the Culburb project. Six locations in Central Europe, representing different forms of suburbia, have been chosen as places for action. In each locality, five acupunctures will be realised. By acupuncture treatment, we understand actions which have long-term impact created with [...]

The Rotch Travelling Scholarship is an annual two-stage design competition that results in one person, deemed the Rotch Scholar, traveling the world for eight months studying architecture — and we pick up the tab. In the first stage of the selection process, a weekend-long preliminary design competition is held. Finalists from this competition go on [...]

Socrates Sculpture Park and the Architectural League invite emerging architects and designers to apply for the opportunity to build and exhibit a full-scale project around the theme of an architectural Folly. This residency was established to explore the intersections between architecture and sculpture and the increasing overlaps in references, materials, and building techniques between the [...]

ARQUITECTUM has decided to choose one of the most interesting themes in popular culture in order to consider one of the most attractive aspects of modernity: space platforms. That is why we are pleased to be able to invite designers, Graduates and Professionals throughout the world to participate in the ideas competition “STAR WARS®: LUNAR [...]

It’s a temptation as designers to just think of clever ways to make homeless people more comfortable and safe, and last year we saw many great and provocative entries along that theme, but this year we are looking beyond that to how homeless people can ultimately be rehabilitated. The solutions for rehabilitation are very often [...]

ARRIVAL TO MALMI TRANSIT AREA SOLUTIONS UTILIZING FIBRE CEMENT The organizers invite participants to think about transit areas and the challenges they provide. The Malmi station area in Helsinki has been selected to represent transit areas as the context for generating ideas. The station areas and their surroundings are a mixture of different residential, commercial [...]

Gastronomy is without a doubt one of the largest economic activities in the world. With the appearance of new restaurants like the Bulli by Ferran Adria among others, a new concept of cooking has been born, where investigation and research have become key to understand the present and future of gastronomy. From ArchMedium we will [...]

Design inspired and imaginative architecture using Italian Ceramic Tiles Enter the 2012 Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition Win $15,000 in prizes and a trip to Italy The Italian Trade Commission and Confindustria Ceramica, the Association of Italian Ceramics, are proud to announce the 2012 Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition Call for Entries. The competition, now in its 19th [...]

Jury  Toshiko Mori Gregg Pasquarelli Lisa Phillips Annabelle Selldorf Robert Somol and the Young Architects and Designers Committee Emily Abruzzo Dominic Leong Michael Loverich Architectural League Program Director Anne Rieselbach Call for Entries Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical [...]

Competition Summary The OPPTA Competition 2011-2012 is an international idea competition, launched simultaneously in 5 sites and under a common theme to propose solutions at a technical, territorial, infrastructural or architectural level. In this first edition the chosen theme is Emergency Interventions, and the location for the convening is the American continent. It has suffered successive disasters, natural or [...]

anonymous.a architectural competition is aimed at small structures that CAN be built! Every year we are organizing a series of 4 architectural competitions that will conclude in an annual exhibition of all 12 winners held in the year’s winning structure. (More info in the download section) The challenge of this competition is to design a [...]

Exploration of contextual, cultural, and life cycle flows offers a critical lens for visualizing new housing strategies for living in the future. The d3 Housing Tomorrow competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects. The competition calls for [...]

The 2011 Competition is ON! We are now accepting applications from designers, architects, dreamers, thinkers, chicken keeping fanatics, farmers, carpenters and everyone else with a good coop design. This year’s challenge is a little different… For more information: The Poultry Project

Why a competition dedicated to the design of a chair? Because it represents an icon throughout time. The chair covers different periods in time and diverse historical moments. However certain details remain unchanged and they hide under the design of an object which appears simple only on the surface. Design, technological innovation, comfort, functionality and [...]

The purpose of this competition for students of architecture is to provide ideas for creating a coworking Building (COB), in the city of Madrid, Spain, focusing on collaborative approaches, flexibility, connectivity, accessibility, sustainability and energy efficiency. As a result of the application of new technologies significant changes have been produced in work spaces. Long distances [...]

The University of Notre Dame’s project Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure initiative invites you to submit a proposal to the Shelters For All Competition.  This Competition seeks innovative solutions to the urban housing crisis in the developing world. Individuals or teams are invited to develop and submit conceptual designs for homes that address [...]

The public images of cities tend to be defined by the iconic photographs with which their buildings, neighborhoods, skylines and vistas are represented, even though the views portrayed in these stereotypical images are frequently at odds with the life of the city and the reality of what occurs in them. In this exhibit we are [...]

With its third annual competition, SMIBE continues to bring together a growing body of moving image stories about the built environment. We hope the competition will become a forum for the exchange and discussion of persuasive issues about the built world. For this competition, SMIBE welcomes moving image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain our [...]

SHIFTBoston is asking artists, architects, urban planners, sculptors, lighting designers, and landscape architects around the world to envision a NEW approach to activating Copley Square with lighting or glowing installations. We are looking for proposals which will make Copley Square one of the greatest squares in the world to visit at night. Awards: Three teams [...]

The Social, Economic, Environmental Design Network launches the 2nd Annual SEED Awards for Excellence in Public Interest Design to showcase and promote design projects that help create socially, economically and environmentally healthy communities. SEED projects: Advocate with those who have a limited voice in public life. Build structures for inclusion that engage stakeholders and allow [...]

The competition seeks complex, multidisciplinary design responses from a broad spectrum of innovative designers. Dialogue and publication of competition entries will be used to promote vigorous discussion about place-based and replicable innovation in public space design, including a public showcase of the most inspiring entries. The competition is a two-phase process. In Phase 1, the [...]

The Blue Award is a biennial, international student competition and awards projects addressing the topic of sustainability in the academic fields of architecture, regional planning and urbanism. The economical, cultural and social dimensions of sustainable development should be equal in significance to the classical problems of technique and function. The competition is an open invitation to future-oriented and sustainable [...]

DESIGN COMPETITION FOR A FAMOUS MIT SCIENCE PROFESSOR! This is a call for participation! The Design Competition for a MIT Science Professor is seeking design concepts for a home renovation and remodeling project.  PROBLEM: Early 1950’s construction. Need more living and storage space. 2nd floor has steep roof with cathedral ceilings that severely constrains usable [...]

Architecture and theatre students are invited to participate in USITT’s Sixth Annual “IdealTheatre” Student Design Competition.  The competition encourages architecture students to work with young theater artists to explore the emotive power of space, how space can aid storytelling, and how it can be manipulated to achieve a dramatic purpose. The design of the space itself should form the environment of the play, supplemented [...]

PFFF is an architecture competition dedicated to architects, designers, students and engeneers focused on the design and realization of an inflatable pavilion that can embody the spirit of the FARM project. The competition is promoted by FARM, a contemporary active cultural and turistic center project based in Sicily that has as first mission the promotion of contemporary [...]

Tired of the heat? That’s cool, so are we. Know what’s even cooler? Designing your own Winter Wonderland. It’s almost time to ice the eaves, so bust out your spatulas and floorplans, round up the worker elves, and let the merry making begin! Join ArCH and our partners, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, C2 Creative, and Houston [...]

Brief description: ARCHITECTURE AT ZERO is an international open ideas competition with a focus on the specific challenges of creating urban zero net energy (ZNE) buildings. The competition seeks creative and feasible approaches to urban ZNE building to broaden the conversation around how a site zero net energy project will be approached now and in the future. Further, it seeks to raise the [...]

CUBE Cultura starts its 2011 calendar with the creation of a mural painting and sculpture/installation acquisition prize. Both pieces selected within the CUBE Cultura ArtPrize 2012 will become part of acclaimed Spanish architect Carme Pinós newest Guadalajara (México) based project, Torre CUBE 2. CUBE CULTURA its offering an acquisition prize of 5,000 USD for the winner in the category of sculpture / installation and 3,000 USD for the winner [...]

The “Ecological Lodge” to be designed is meant to be a new worldwide prototype model of lodge housing, its main purpose being the enjoyment of the landscape and environment, not the level of comfort it brings. Within this scheme, the “Ecological Lodge” is more a place to be, rather than a place to be in: [...]

Storefront for Art and Architecture is making a call for submissions for projects and strategies that offer a new, creative and productive way of spatial occupation for public demonstrations and actions in cities throughout the world. Gathering expertise from the various acts of civil occupation throughout the world during the last months, we ask architects, [...]

The project’s goal is to provide an ensemble of cultural, scientific, and recreational services for the area around Guadalajara’s civic hospital. Having in mind the historical essence of the site, the proposal consists of restoring the adjacent park to its original state as a botanical garden for medicinal plants. The garden will be complemented with [...]

The merging of different aspects of high quality architecture in sustainable building structures is the primary goal of teaching and research activities at the Department for Building and Environment at the Danube University Krems. Here daylight is a key component. To highlight the special importance of natural light on architectural qualities, the Department for Building [...]

Trends in space travel are currently being shifted from government expedition and flexing of technological prowess to a commercial endeavor. Space tourism is projected to expand rapidly in the next decade creating a highly profitable new leisure activity. The Virgin Galactic Spaceport will be completed in the next year as well as several other similar [...]

Design challenge: The Nashua International Design Competition was initiated and organized by people interested in the success of the Broad Street Parkway and the rebirth of the Nashua Millyard. This interdisciplinary competition seeks solutions to the complex challenges of the project. With the development and construction of the long-awaited Broad Street Parkway and the new [...]

Building projects continue to proliferate at a global scale in spite of the economic climate. Architectural concepts are being incorporated by a variety of discourses. Ever-expanding arrays of spatial practices are considered within the bounds of the discipline. Is architecture becoming ubiquitous? Or think about the same circumstances a different way: Architects are constructing ephemeral [...]

Initiated by the City-Region Studies Centre, University of Alberta, Strip Appeal is an ideas design competition intended to stimulate creative design proposals for the adaptive reuse of small-scale strip-malls (or mini-malls). In many neighborhoods across North America, small 5-8 store strip-malls, once anchors of local retail activity, have become today’s suburban blights: envisioned as community [...]

Up’s In Down’s is a multidisciplinary group effort to seek and direct the attention of an observer to alternate aspects of current day built interventions. The 6th Street Container in collaboration with local architect Vanessa Estrada, AIA brings UP’s in Down’s to Miami’s art and design community. This exhibition seeks to affirm that an optimistic [...]

Videotect, an annual video competition designed to spark public dialogue on a vital built-environment issue, returns this fall and winter with a fast-moving topic: sustainable transportation and its enhancement through quality design. What’s your favorite way to get around, and why? How can buildings and public spaces support sustainable transportation options? And why should we [...]

Submissions are due January 16, 2012. The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA New York Chapter, is pleased to announce its fifth biennial ideas competition, The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections. Please join us at the Center for Architecture, September 27 at 6:00 pm to help us celebrate its launch. The Harlem Edge/Cultivating Connections competition will [...]

This competition seeks to explore how one can create water sensitive spaces with a sense of place. We will do this by learning, developing, and testing the informed, intuitive, and technical languages of design – worked through urban context, architectural typologies, scientific credibility and experiential relationships. We will research, disseminate, interrogate, and pursue ideas through [...]

[re]stitch TAMPA welcomes entrants to envision a new interface between the city of Tampa, Florida and the Hillsborough River. Utilizing Landscape Urbanism as a lens, [re]stitch Tampa seeks to refocus the Hillsborough as a SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, and ECOLOGIC spine for Tampa. Currently, Portions of Tampa’s River walk have been realized. Developments such as Curtis Hixon [...]

The public mostly perceives architecture as only a visually aesthetic and functional practice, yet the buildings they most revere in the world exist in a set of social, political, and historical contexts that affect the public’s perception of what they are. Architects have also cultivated this professional persona because we tend to reinforce aspects of [...]

Individuals and organisations interested in participating in the 2012 World Habitat Awards for innovative and sustainable housing solutions have the chance to submit their projects until the 1st of November 2011.  The award is globally recognised and, besides attention and media coverage, the two winners will receive a prize of £10,000 each.  To enter the competition a concise summary [...]

The aim of this International competition is to design an iconic and Alternative Car Park Tower in the heart of Hong Kong. The new tower will include several possibilities for events such as concerts, art exhibitions, fashion shows, ceremonies dinners, cinematic projections, etc. More information at: [Hong Kong]

Water scarcity is both the history and the future of the American west. Re-thinking water use, particularly in the face of climate change, will be central to the region’s survival. The work exceeds the grasp of a single discipline, and touches all dimensions of the way people live and work. Sustaining the US West in [...]

The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition is an international delineation competition open to everyone and is the most senior architectural drawing competition currently in operation anywhere in the world. All entries must be of an architectural nature, and must be authored by one individual. Entries can be elevations, sections, or perspectives, and can be conceptual [...]

The Zagreb Society of Architects is launching the fourth and the last competition for this year’s Think Space cycle – Moral Borders. For this year’s annual cycle, the main theme connecting all four competitions is Borders Devised by Hrvoje Njiric, founder of Zagreb based njiric+ arhitekti, the architectural studio of international fame and visiting professor [...]

Description For new Fall fashions and back-to-school shopping, ‘pop-up’ retail shops are the hottest trend. These small, temporary shops are bringing fashion and an urban edge to under-utilized and vacant spaces. This challenge is to design a quickly constructed or prefabricated, free-standing shop of no more than 200 square feet. Context Flat-ground, appropriate for a [...]

Here is a chance to redefine the very basic concept of space. The challenge is to take 20 square inches of “real estate” and let your ideas run wild. Each entry is limited to only 20 square inches of space, but multiple entries are allowed. (1$ per square inch for the total of $20) Your entries will share [...]

The Capital Region of Denmark hereby announces a design contest for a Master Plan comprising New Hospital and New Psychiatry Bispebjerg. The goal is to develop a Master Plan for disposition and development of the present hospital area in order to establish new and modern settings for the future general hospital and psychiatric facilities servicing [...]

The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA New York Chapter, is pleased to announce its fifth biennial ideas competition, The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections. Please join us at the Center for Architecture, September 27 at 6:00 pm to help us celebrate its launch. The Harlem Edge/Cultivating Connections competition will explore the redevelopment of the decommissioned [...]

Kyiv City State Administration and Kyiv Central Agency for Urban Planning, Architecture and Urban Design are launching a Competition for the best concept of reservation and development of Kyiv islands. The Aim of the Competition to suggest the best concept of reservation and development of Kyiv islands Main Objectives of the Competition to draw the attention [...]

CIVITAS is calling architects, landscape architects, urban planners, students and artists to generate dramatic and original concepts for the east side’s waterfront park, jump-starting a process that aspires to the transformation of the entire East River pedestrian experience. Through the design-ideas competition, we hope to establish greater equality with other New York City waterfront parks by [...]

re:CONNECT challenges the public and design community to give shape to the future of these two specific areas and scales of the city, while also providing a platform for less confined thinking through a ‘wildcard’ category. Here are the three categories in more detail: 1. Connecting the Core (“THE BIG SCALE”) – this component of the [...]

BEAM SEEKS PROPOSALS FOR 2012 PROJECTS You supply the plan and vision. We’ll supply 100+ energetic campers and staff and 700+ acres of forest, mountain and lakes as studio, canvas and workshop. Submit your proposal today to be one of Beam’s 2012 Project Masters. THE PROJECT Every year Beam commissions unique large-scale collaborative Projects that [...]

Submit a spatial response to the concept “Translucent Justice” through a single vignette. While entries are limited to a spatial response, they can be expressed through any medium: architectural design, photography, sculpture, etc. Can you distill your ideas to a single vignette. For more information: Socio Design Foundation

Fentress Global Challenge is an annual international competition created to engage students worldwide in the exploration of future design possibilities in public architecture. For 2011, students around the globe are invited to envision the Airport of the Future. The competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students actively enrolled and pursuing an architecture or engineering [...]

The Palladio Awards Program is designed to honor outstanding achievement in traditional design. The program recognizes individual designers and/or design teams whose work enhances the beauty and humane qualities of the built environment through creative interpretation or adaptation of design principles developed through 2,500 years of the Western architectural tradition. For more information: palladioawards.com

The City of Sebastopol, together with The Redwood Empire Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and a group of local business sponsors, is hosting The Core Project, an international design competition to generate innovative ideas for renewing the city center. A small town with a population of approximately 8,000 people, Sebastopol is the [...]

PROPOSED PROJECT: Sang is a rural township in Northern part of Ghana, 50 kilometers from Tamale. Our plan is to construct the structures that make up the SangArtsVillage by maximum use of local labor, earth and other materials from the environment. Specifically, the construction process and materials is vernacular involving cob, natural plaster, and grass [...]

Zephyr, innovators of design-forward range hoods, is hosting the Inspire My Kitchen Design Contest (IMKDC ) open to homeowners, architects + designers and remodelers. Entries must show a Zephyr range hood in a new construction or renovation project and are submitted at:  http://www.inspiremykitchen.com/.

The goal of this competition is to design new prototypes for urban park furniture including a picnic table, trashcan, and bicycle rack that are either separate elements or a single hybrid design element. These prototypes are intended to be installed along the waterfront of Long Wharf Park in the City of New Haven, CT for [...]

The Un-Competition Project.  Invent a project, design it, and post your design on our Facebook page, with a 60 second video. We want to hear how you came up with your project, what your design is, and how you are going to get it built.  So, no, there is no competition brief, and no, we’re not going [...]

The Competition   The goal of Suburbia Transformed 2.0 is to promote and celebrate residential designs that go beyond “green” by explicitly using sustainable strategies, tactics and technologies to enrich the aesthetic spatial experience of people. ST 2.0 will assemble contemporary projects achieving this goal into an exhibition and catalogue. The emphasis is on how [...]

The City of Cincinnati has been expanding and improving its public transportation system over the last several years. The potential of combining a streetcar with the existing Metro Bus presents an opportunity to rethink the purpose and design of street-side shelters throughout Cincinnati’s urban neighborhoods. Choose a stop or proposed stop along a metro route [...]

Roofs are spaces on the way of desertification. Do the rooftops deserve any usage? This competition requires a functional and architectural consideration of any kind of roofs (flat roofs, sloped, gabled, rooftops… on towers, houses, blocks, urban centers …) The management of the space, usage, program or other new possibilities, are the main factors.-What uses [...]

RIBA Competitions is pleased to announce the launch of a new Invited Design Competition on behalf of Bird College, Sidcup. Expressions of Interest are sought from architect-led design teams with exceptional design skills for the redevelopment of the College’s facilities. Bird College is an internationally renowned provider of education and professional training in dance, music and [...]

The National Park Service and the Van Alen Institute invite colleges of architecture, landscape architecture and related disciplines to participate in a design competition to look at the visitor experience of the future. “The iconic national park visitor centers born in the 1950s and envisioned as the park gateway may not serve that purpose for [...]

Algae Competition objectives are to create an open source collaboratory that expands and shares a vision for algae in our future with design ideas for algae production landscapes, sustainable and affordable algae production systems (APS) for food, feed, energy, nutrients, water remediation, carbon capture and fine medicines, and superb new algaefoods. The Competition is open to everyone, anywhere in the world: algae enthusiasts, architects, builders, designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, [...]

INTERSECT: What Happens When Transportation Corridors and Cities Collide? For the sixth consecutive year, this international competition challenges students in all disciplines to focus on a real-world urban design problem. In the spirit of the competition’s namesake, Edmund N. Bacon (head of Philadelphia’s City Planning Commission from 1949-1970), the program focuses on encouraging multi-disciplinary, visionary [...]

The competition invites designers, architects and students to investigate new ideas and concepts for an object or system, that could simply store shoes. It should be a functional, well-designed piece of furniture to store footwear or shoes. FYS starts as a way of solving a problem present in many houses and young people’s living areas. Nowadays, we have many [...]