Recently, New York’s state government has been trying to legalize non-Indian casinos throughout the state. Current proposals are asking for the construction of seven “Vegas”-sized casinos throughout New York. Although lawmakers have pushed to keep the casinos out of New York City, this ideas competition aims to investigate what a casino would do to New [...]

Sponsor: Applied Computer Online Services, Hewlett-Packard, and Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco Fee: None Language: English Timeline: May 21, 2012 – Registration Opens July 15, 2012 – Design Submission Deadline July 23, 2012 – Jury and Public Voting process begins Awards: 1st Place – HP DesignJet T2300 eMultifunctional Printer (value US$8,500) 2nd Place – HP Product 3rd Place – HP [...]

The RIBA invites images that capture and interpret architecture in 2012 – the inspiring, the beautiful, the intriguing or even the bizarre. Open to all RIBA Members. Ten images will be selected as winners to be printed on postcards and sold in aid of the RIBA Education Fund. The best overall image will receive the [...]

International Design Competition to Rebuild the National Cathedral in Port-au-Prince Registration for the international architecture competition to inform the reconstruction of Notre Dame de l’Assomption, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, remains open until July 15, 2012. In the current issue of Faith&Form, Mgr Guire Poulard, Archbishop of Port-au-Prince calls on architects of the world [...]

I submitted a project to the REPEAT competition. Can I resubmit to APPLIED? Yes. Who develops the 4 short-listed projects and how will they be exhibited in the 2nd round? TEX-FAB will pay each team leader $1000 to fund the development of models and prototypes to be exhibited at the ACADIA conference in San Francisco [...]

ASID-IL 2012 Interior Design Excellence Award Competition Call for Entries 2012 competition introduces new rules and submission procedures   What: The American Society of Interior Designers – Illinois Chapter (ASID-IL) announces the 2012 Interior Design Excellence Award Competition Call for Entries.  All ASID and IIDA Illinois chapter members and registered interior designers in the state of Illinois are eligible [...]

The British had assumed control of Delhi in 1803. The then-existing city of about 125 thousand had been founded by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1639 and, over the years, the population of the Indian capital, after independence, has grown beyond the 13 million units. New Delhi had continued to lure British tourists, who found it [...]

The ONE Prize 2012 competition is powered by the idea that social, ecological, and economic struggles can simultaneously be addressed through collaborative action and innovative design. Situated in the context of a struggling U.S. economy and the tension of stagnant unemployment, ONE Prize 2012 is a call to put design in the service of the [...]

FUTURE is launching, for second consecutive year, an international ideas competition to identify the best design concepts with the challenge to develop visionary urban proposals with the intention of stimulating contemporary cities, in this case 2 different locations: Chongqing and Seville. The aim of the competition is to offer opportunities, for all architecture students and [...]

The last three decades saw significant change across social, political, and environmental registers. The conjunction of capital flows, mass urbanization and increasingly interconnected cultural and financial networks have reshaped the way we understand, produce and discuss architecture resulting in a breathless cycle of formal and aesthetic transformations. This restless appearance of change conceals an increasing [...]

NEXT LANDMARK is a contest for young architects all over the world held by Floornature, the portal of achitecture, design and design culture, to shed light on the talents of the future. NEXT LANDMARK looks at how originality and eco-sustainability, combined with creative talent, can help improve the relationship between people, architecture and land. In [...]

This year, we are seeking integrated design, planning, environmental restoration and engineering responses that address border, gateway and edge/fringe conditions in cities worldwide. Proposals should address urban sites currently facing chronic liveability challenges that are largely the result of a city’s location on a physical, political, cultural or economic border. Proposals should be implementable. In [...]

INTRODUCTION A Contemporary Art Museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. Paintings and scupltures are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, drawings, collages, prints, photographs and installation art including other artistic activities, such as performance art, land’art, web art to name a few are also regularly shown. [...]

In the last centuries we have discovered the advantages of global exchange of goods, but what if we would take a step back and see what we really need? Show us your ideas to re-think the shop, the way we consume and a city with another system of shopping culture. Everything is valuable from small [...]

Our open design competition seeks to find well designed homes for the elderly or homeless within some of the World’s richest countries. The growing rate in single occupancy households has led to increased numbers of young and elderly people affected by poverty being forced to live in substandard living conditions and in the worst cases [...]

In partnership with New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation, the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition will be held for a site within Freshkills Park (the former Fresh Kills landfill) in Staten Island. The design brief, to be released January 2012, will be similar to that of the 2010 edition. LAGI 2012 [...]

The project for the new Intermodal Train Station in Tirana intends to meet the requirement for an overall renewal of the city, in terms of comprehensive revision of the rail and road mobility. The new pole is intended to become the hub of exchanges and therefore to have the ability of connecting both the urban [...]

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is pleased to announce its 2nd Annual International Student Tall Building Design Competition to be held in conjunction with the CTBUH 9th World Congress Shanghai 2012. The goal of the competition is to shed new light on the meaning and value of tall buildings in modern [...]

Sukkahville 2012 Design Competition, Reimagining the Sukkah Kehilla Residential Programme invites architects, students, artists, builders and allied design professionals to submit design proposals for the second annual Sukkahville Design Competition. The aim of this open competition is to design a temporary, free-standing Sukkah to be built in Mel Lastman Square in Toronto on the eve [...]

Sukkah Arbor is a regional ‘Design-Build’ competition, open to anyone, and expressly reaching out to architects, architectural students, builders and ecologists. Sukkah Arbor will have three phases: All submitted designs must be built in accordance with Halacha (Jewish Law). Designs will be judged by a select Jury of experts and based on criteria including: (sustainability, [...]

Creative Minds challenges you to explore multiple options for documenting and presenting your response to a design concept. Each month’s concept can be answered with ANY kind of design response – architectural design, product design, landscape design, entertainment design, or any creative response. This is a charette-style competition, so all drawings do not need to [...]

This competition asks you to illustrate how the life of your building will unfold through time – over an hour, day, year, decade, or perhaps a century. Your submission should demonstrate the integration of time in your design proposal by highlighting how it will accommodate the different types of change described in the competition brief. [...]

MassChallenge is the world’s largest startup accelerator and competition. Each year we accept 125 high growth startups into our program and give them free office space in out 25,000 sq ft office as well as connects entrepreneurs with the resources they need to launch their companies. MassChallenge seeks the expertise and creativity of the global [...]

The next installment of THE DESIGNATED SKETCHER contest series is on its way! To keep it simple, we are asking for something you’re already working on: A Shot of your Model For initial registration, this is limited to a single shot of a model you’re currently working on and should be what you consider your [...]

Speculative narrative and the potential of imagination are important factors in creative production. It is considered that a multitude of small stories are the “quintessential form of imaginative invention”. Speculation through narrative offers an apparatus through which we may investigate the concept of ‘reality’. Immersed within our current understandings, speculation is influenced by our contemporary [...]

Title: EXHIBITION01 An open competition for the design of an architecture exhibition Type: Open, international, anonymous, awards – one category Eligibility: All Fee: approx. USD115 (early registration) / USD165 (late registration) Timetable: 03 June 2012 – Registration deadline 21 June 2012 – Submission deadline Brief Summary: This competition seeks to encourage suggestions and solutions to the elusive combination between [...]

The Fentress Global Challenge is an annual international competition created to engage students worldwide in the exploration of future design possibilities in public architecture. For the Second annual competition, students are invited to envision the Workplace of the Future. Workplace research confirms that space management is a powerful tool. Office environments designed to deliver optimal [...]

New York City, March 30, 2012 – FIGMENT, one of Governors Island’s key cultural partners, has teamed with the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to sponsor a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion for the [...]

Modern Atlanta (MA) is pleased to announce the second annual MA Prize competition. The 2012 MA Prize entries will be carefully selected by a prestigious international jury of practicing designers and scholars and will be displayed at this year’s MA12 “Design in Human Week” in Atlanta. This year the prize calls for designers to submit [...]

InstantHouse Temporary Housing launches the 4th edition of an ideas competition created by FederLegno Arredo, the Politecnico di Milano and MADEexpo. Designers are invited to envision environmental, social and economic opportunities in temporary housing, which specifically address the scientific community within Politecnico di Milano’s Sustainable Campus project. The competition explores potential innovative solutions derived from [...]

“The British had assumed control of Delhi in 1803. The then-existing city of about 125 thousand had been founded by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1639 and, over the years, the population of the Indian capital, after independence, has grown beyond the 13 million units. New Delhi had continued to lure British tourists, who found it [...]

The most important wine producers have tried in recent years to introduce their brands to a wider public, not only through advertising their products directly but also through unique architecture designed by internationally Known architects. This is the case of the Dominus Winnery in the Napa Valley, California designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Bodegas [...]

We invite artists, architects, and all those who seek justice to submit proposals for a speculative monument to memorialize the Chicago Police torture cases. Over 100 African American men and women were tortured by white Chicago police officers and forced into giving confessions under former Commander Jon Burge. These memorial projects will serve as a [...]

FIGMENT, one of Governors Island’s key cultural partners, has teamed with the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to sponsor a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion for the 2013 summer season on the [...]

To showcase the new Andersen® Exterior Trim System, the company is launching a contest for architects and designers to render and submit an original building design using Andersen exterior trim as a building component. Now through May 18, 2012, applications are being accepted. Entrants must submit an original building design with four (4) elevations[MD1] rendered [...]

Nemesis Group promotes an international competition for design ideas for the improvement of a residential and commercial area located in “San Pardo” district in Matera, conceived with environmental protection, saving energy and territory development criteria. This competition intends to determine the exact relationship among architectural, structural, technological and environmental values. This competition aims to gather [...]

Architecture Studio Sinestezia is launching an international one-stage architectural competition to design Boka Artist Residence . Boka Artist Residence is envisioned as a stimulating place for all forms of activities, which includes theory, visual arts, architecture, design, literature, music, new media, cultural production, as well as science. Place that will encourage a dynamic intercultural exchange [...]

The Congress for the New Urbanism and the City of West Palm Beach are pleased to announce an open design competition, AuthentiCITY, in conjunction with the Congress for the New Urbanism’s 20th annual Congress in West Palm Beach, Florida. Bringing the world’s foremost minds in urban design, planning, architecture, engineering, and policy making together gives [...]

Sixth Annual  R+D Awards New technologies are revolutionizing the process and product of architecture. To celebrate advances in building technology, ARCHITECT magazine announces the sixth-annual R+D Awards. The awards honor innovative materials and systems at every scale—from HVAC and structural systems to curtainwall and ceiling-panel assemblies to discrete building materials such as wood composites and [...]

The Architecture Foundation of BC promotes BIG IDEAS that recognize sustainable design, architectural merit and innovation in order to advance the knowledge and practice of the design of sustainable buildings in British Columbia.The AFBC invites the participants of this competition to explore, rethink, question and experiment with new ideas that will challenge the concept of [...]

Creative Minds is a monthly, charette-style competition.  This competition challenges you to explore multiple options for documenting and presenting your response to a design concept. Each month’s concept can be answered with ANY kind of design response – architectural design, product design, landscape design, entertainment design, or any creative response.  You are not limited to [...]

PoolPlay /a summer academy by ar2com/ Musicians, dancers/actors and architects improvise a theatre play in a swimming pool within two weeks in lovely South Tyrole. Facts what: a summer academy for musicians, architects and dancers/actors when: 09/09/2012 – 23/10/2012 where ? Innichen, South Tyrole – Italy money: 850 EUR including tutors, week-end excursion, food and [...]

Socio-Ecological Exploration of the Future Metropolis: ONE Lab Summer 2012 on Future Cities will address the emerging discipline of global urbaneering by assembling a wide range of innovators from fields as diverse as architecture, material science, urban design, biology, civil engineering and media art. ONE Lab provides a unique opportunity for students to learn from [...]

Modern Atlanta (MA) is pleased to announce the second annual MA Prize competition. The 2012 MA Prize entries will be carefully selected by a prestigious international jury of practicing designers and scholars and will be displayed at this year’s MA12 “Design in Human Week” in Atlanta. This year the prize calls for designers to submit [...]

MOINOPOLIS is an international laboratory of thoughts on spatial matters and operates as an exchange platform. It explores contemporary issues related to society, culture, art, new technologies, urbanism and architecture and initiates new impulses for discussion by bringing together a diversity of creatives and researchers throughout various disciplines. ISSUE 1/2012 – SPACE & TIME The [...]

In May of 2012, from 1st till 9th, in Yaroslavl, in a picturesque place on the bank of a pond, not far from the Volga-river an architectural bureau «Narodnij architektor» and an information portal www.cih.ru, with the support of the department of Architecture of Yaroslavl State Technical University will spend WORKSHOP devoted to a social [...]

Over the last 200 years, Klaksvik has grown from five settlements of a mere 100 people to a modern town of 5000 inhabitants. The large and swift population growth was triggered by the growing fishing industry, which led to the development of the areas along the shore for industrial purposes. The central part of town [...]

Propose an action or a decision for Revealing and Staging the Landscape of large Metropolises! Proposals presented on an A3 landscape page and send to contest@ateliers.org before April 20th. Results on April 30th. 1st prize 300 euros, 2nd prize 200 euros, 3rd prize 100 euros. For more information: Ateliers

On behalf of the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture (MoIC), representing the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and supported by the Government of the United States of America and the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, S.E.E. | office for architecture and design is pleased to announce and promote the International Architectural Ideas Competition [...]

About the Norden Fund The Deborah J. Norden Fund, established in 1995 in memory of architect and arts administrator Deborah Norden, awards a total of up to $5,000 annually in travel/study grants to students and recent graduates in the fields of architecture, architectural history, and urban studies. For a list of past winners, click here. The [...]

CLOG is looking for text and graphic contributions for its fourth issue, CLOG : RENDERING. As information is distributed and consumed at an increasingly rapid pace, one of the most effective (or at least pervasive) ways to communicate architectural ideas is through renderings. Typically a perspectival image that can be understood without any knowledge of [...]

Call for Submissions: Pinup 2012 invites students of all design disciplines to submit a collection of their work comprised of up to nine images. The competition is free to all students. The proliferation of device culture, social networking, and cloud technology are changing the way we work, and connect on a daily basis. For designers, [...]

The Robert Silman Fellow will spend the first 6 months in private practice at Robert Silman Associates prior to starting a 6-month position as the Robert Silman Fellow for Preservation Engineering at the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Washington, DC headquarters. This 6-month term as an employee of the National Trust will be under the [...]

Event Details Overview We seek research proposals that actively connect academia, the profession and the fabrication industry in the Continuing Research category and in the Speculative Proposal category new start-up projects. As this is a “design to fabricate” competition, TEX-FAB will match our network of fabricators and consultants with the projects that best manifest research [...]

Awards First prize – $1 million (contingent on the execution of property transfer agreement to the winning team) Second, third, and fourth prizes of $40K, $20K, and $10K respectively. Building and Site The property to be redeveloped includes 11 acres, 882,000 square-foot hospital facility, and 760-car parking garage on historic Olmsted circle in Buffalo, NY. [...]

Troldtekt, the well-known Danish manufacturer of wood wool acoustic ceiling and wall tiles, is inviting students of architecture and design to submit creative and original concepts for new uses of the wood wool product. Proposals do not have to be just about acoustics but rather innovative and unusual ideas. The Competition, to be judged by [...]

ONE Lab: Future Cities Summer 2012 will address the emerging discipline of global urbaneering by assembling a wide range of innovators from fields as diverse as architecture, material science, urban design, biology, civil engineering and media art. Discover your ideas for the future metropolis with nine TED Fellows and nearly 40 internationally recognized scientists, researchers, renowned designers [...]

The Young Architects Forum of Atlanta (YAF Atlanta), a program of the American Institute of Architects Atlanta, is pleased to announce the third Annual competition entitled 10Up. We’re calling on young designers to step up to the 10Up challenge! This year Modern Atlanta (MA) and YAF Atlanta are teaming up with Atlanta Beltline Inc. to [...]

Do you have a design idea that’s destined to be a future live/work staple? We teamed up with the go-to source for modern classics, Design Within Reach, to mix business with pleasure in our first-ever Live/Work Design Contest. Together we’re on the hunt for the “classic of tomorrow” worthy of joining the ranks of the [...]

We seek research proposals that actively connect academia, the profession and the fabrication industry in the Continuing Research category and in the Speculative Proposal category new start-up projects. As this is a “design to fabricate” competition, TEX-FAB will match our network of fabricators and consultants with the projects that best manifest research through computational fabrication [...]

The University of South Florida, in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts invite designers to participate in an international urban design competition: [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 [...]

CityVision Architecture Competition is an annual competition held by the homonymous magazine of architecture CityVision Magazine that invites architects, designers, students, artists and creatives to develop urban and visionary proposals with the aim of stimulating new ideas for the contemporary city. All through innovative ideas and methodologies that can improve the connection between the historical, [...]

The Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn (OSA) is a nonprofit that improves and creates parks in Williamsburg/Greenpoint in partnership with community groups, elected officials and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation. OSA’s nonprofit affiliate, OSA Presents (OSAP), provides arts and cultural programming in North Brooklyn parks. OSAP is responsible for producing the nationally [...]

The Young Architects Forum of Atlanta (YAF Atlanta), a program of the American Institute of Architects Atlanta, is pleased to announce the third Annual competition entitled 10Up. We’re calling on young designers to step up to the 10Up challenge! This year Modern Atlanta (MA) and YAF Atlanta are teaming up with Atlanta Beltline Inc. to [...]

The CONNECT EnAbling Change Post-Secondary Design Competition is a provincial, post-secondary design competition that will emphasize the importance of universal design principles across all disciplines. The competition will be divided into 6 categories: Architecture, Landscape/Urban Design, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Fashion Design/Apparel. Students will be asked to submit projects that illustrate the [...]

McHale Teaching Fellowship: Magda Cordell McHale and John McHale were participants in the London-based Independent Group who, after moving to America to work with Buckminster Fuller, went on to study the impact of emerging technologies on the future of human societies. This research was continued at SUNY Buffalo after Magda McHale joined its design faculty. [...]

Established in 1926 by architect Martin Roche, this award gives a student the opportunity to independently study architecture abroad. The recipient will be selected on individual merit as evidenced by tour and independent study plan, strength of faculty recommendation, academic background, personal and professional achievements, character, integrity and general indication of future promise in the [...]

The Architecture Foundation of BC promotes BIG IDEAS that recognize sustainable design, architectural merit and innovation in order to advance the knowledge and practice of the design of sustainable buildings in British Columbia. The AFBC invites the participants of this competition to explore, rethink, question and experiment with new ideas that will challenge the concept [...]

After a successful inaugural launch last year, Core77 – the world’s first online design resource – is now accepting entries for the Core77 2012 Design Awards. With progressive categories, professional and student entry fields, globally distributed juries, in-depth video testimonials, live jury announcements and a unique trophy that honors teamwork, the Core77 Design Awards continues [...]

OPENGAP organizes this open ideas competition seeking for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary, proposals for indoor, non-commercial leisure spaces. Participants are invited to submit their proposals for a new type of indoor public space that respond to the present social needs, integrated in an urban site. Each participant or team will define the location of their Project. [...]

Competition purpose and goal: to obtain a quality urban design concept that meets all the functional and economic criteria required to create a new and modern segment of the city centre, while both adding value to the wider urban area and providing a reminder of the historical development of the site. The site area should [...]

Hackney City Farm is pleased to announce our first Architecture on the Farm competition. Already on the map for our straw bale building, which features in the annual Open City architectural showcase, we are looking to improve our Farm Shop and Information point. This is the first thing visitors see when they walk in the [...]

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 [...]