REVOLVE is partnering with local leaders and property owners to bring new businesses and artists to Detroit’s historic “Avenue of Fashion” on Livernois Avenue. REVOLVE is soliciting proposals from artists, pop-up and permanent businesses to transform vacant spaces and public places.  The goal of this initiative is to return the Avenue of Fashion to a [...]

The sukkah is a temporary dwelling, traditionally erected each fall in observance of the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot. Jewish texts and tradition offer a rich and complex set of parameters for sukkah design and construction. Explicitly fragile, permeable, and temporary, these shelters pose ancient questions of protection and enclosure, and of transience, displacement and [...]

The architectural model is the ultimate representation of a building’s design. More than technical drawings or sketches, the architectural model has the ability to communicate the entire concept of a building and its spatial effects. When executed with skill and care, some architectural models can be considered artwork on their own. But the architectural model [...]

The City of Tamarac, Florida, seeks an artist, designer or team to envision unique public benches for use throughout the city located west of Fort Lauderdale and adjacent to the Everglades. A $20,000 design fee will be paid to design both a covered and open bench, prepare fabrication documents and supervise fabrication.  The benches must [...]

The competition proposes the design of a portion of one of the two peninsulas that compose the masterplan Borneo-Sporenburg. Participants must define a single-family residential building, in continuity with the existing buildings, which shows the relationship between the built and the natural element. The new waterfont must therefore be composed of the new house and [...]

The 2013 Faith & Form / IFRAA International Awards Program for Religious Art and Architecture is now accepting project submissions, including those for student work. Theawards program recognizes the best in religious art and architecture, unbuilt work, and student work. All submissions must be made online on the Faith & Form website. Online project submission reduces the costs to submitters, as no binders or shipping charges are necessary. Awards submissions must be made by June 30, 2013. Judging will [...]

Not Forkchops, the popular exhibition held annually during Toronto Design Week, seeks participants for the next edition, to be held January 22 to 26. In 2014, Not Forkchops, a platform for Canadian designers inspired by a multitude of cultures, turns its attention to objects created for the perfect dining experience.

he Union of Polish Architects (OW SARP), in co-operation with PKO Bank Polski, DuPont, The Polish Green Building Council and Architizer, are pleased to announce an international competition to revitalize the existing Rotunda and create an attractive public, indoor/outdoor site around the structure, while providing a dynamic meeting place and stage for the theatre of [...]

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) today announced a strategic partnership with Make It Right, St. Bernard Project and Architecture for Humanity to launch “Designing Recovery,” an ideas competition created to aid in the rebuild of sustainable and resilient communities. The competition, which is designed to help survivors of three recent natural disasters, was announced [...]

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 5th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of SELF-SUFFICIENT HABITAT. The aim of the competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat [...]

Introduction In 1940, after years of storing and exhibiting its collection in borrowed or repurposed spaces, the Grand Rapids Public Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan moved into 54 Jefferson, one of the last projects to be funded under the W.P.A. during the Great Depression. Over the next fifty years, 54 Jefferson, with a whale skeleton [...]

We will be exploring physical remnants and selective memories, tangible and intangible reminders of a past that influence our present and future. At the same time, we will be discussing the traces that we continue to leave, both physical and digitally, and how those will affect us in the future. What are the consequences and [...]

Homemade Dessert is excited to invite you to participate in our latest architecture vision competition „Ghost Town Challenge” on Karosta, a former soviet military town about 10 km North from Liepaja city centre, Latvia. Karosta translates as War Port (or Navy Harbour). It is used to be a closed secret military town for the Russian [...]

You Fab is an international design competition and this year—for You Fab’s second year—we’re asking creators from all around the world to submit designs for items using a laser cutter and made with paper. Paper is one of those everyday essentials. It’s a familiar household item throughout the world and has long been used to [...]

At the heart of Frogtown is a vacant 13-acre parcel of land currently owned by the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation and under agreement to be owned by the City of Saint Paul by December 2013. It is the vision of the residents, the community and the City to transform this site into a new public [...]

Revitalization of the stadium “Spartak” in the historical center of Yaroslavl (UNESCO Zone). This is official competition of the Yaroslavl International Architecture Biennale. Formation of a closed space for exhibitions, festivals, fairs. Creation of a new pavilion type in the historic center of the city of Yaroslavl, on the site of the old ravine (protected [...]

The Spring 2014 special issue of Cite entitled “The New Periphery” seeks submissions from educators and practitioners across disciplinary fields that critically examine contemporary issues in suburbia and the emerging relationship between the city center and its periphery. Submissions should focus on the appropriation and transformation of conventional suburban space and forms. We seek provocative [...]

Join IFI–The International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers to re-imagine the work place of tomorrow. This competition is open to students interested in engaging the needs of people around the world by re-framing, re-inventing and re-designing the future workplace. The theme for WING 2013 is THINK/WORK. This theme represents our need to imagine different solutions and [...]

The AA School and SIAL at RMIT announce the the call for applications for the inaugural round of Independents’ Group Fellowships, to commence in September 2013. IG Fellows will develop and prototype novel architectural ideas in collaboration with industry partners, to lead a future generation of design-led technologies for the built environment. The Independents’ Group [...]

Inside 2013 invites students and young professionals to submit a collection of their “inside” work comprised of up to three digital images. By submitting your work, we invite you to share your voice with the collective intelligence of a community of visual thinkers. The Competition is open to all design disciplines including architects, interior designers, [...]

Submit your ideas for new possibilities for what lies beneath and around Highway 280 in San Francisco.  In Spring 2013, Mayor Ed Lee announced an exploration of the potential of removing the elevated Highway 280 north of 16th Street.  The tradition of removing freeways is not a new one for San Francisco, as the City [...]

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Wates Group and Wates Family Enterprise Trust are delighted to announce the launch of an ideas competition for homes designed for the private rental market. Research has shown that an increasing number of households are renting rather than buying, with a predicted 1 in 5 UK households [...]

We spend roughly 40 hours a week at the workplace (and, who are we kidding, often far more). That’s about 25% of our weeks spent in the office – 25% of each year spent in the office – and, assuming you live about 80 years, a little less than a third of our working lives [...]

Open to Canadian-led teams of professional artists, architects, landscape architects and other urban design professionals. International competitors may also participate in these teams. The National Capital Commission (NCC), on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is inviting teams of professional artists, architects, landscape architects, and other design professionals to submit their credentials and examples [...]

OPENGAP invites participants to explore the boundaries and paradigms of house designing. To work in innovative and visionary proposals which can both, think in a basic housing program and the relation of identity between the customer and the project. Each participant or team will propose the client for designing a house. This will be a [...]

Open to students and professionals, the Seoul Metropolitan Government just launched the international ideas competition for the first step to changing the Mapo Oil Reserve Base, a relic of the industrial era. Located in Sangam, this area was once an abandoned mountain of waste, but now stands as a state-of-the-art city that leads the future [...]

The program for this competition challenges participants to design a NEW Urban Vertical Farm and Botanical Gardens Skyscraper in Seoul City that takes into today’s ever-increasing urban growth, consumption in populated cities. The design should be visually and aesthetically engaging and investigates the possibilities for urban Vertical farming communities and maximise the positive impact of [...]

Contemporary kitchen design is a balancing act between aesthetics and hyper-functionality. Miele’s full suite of kitchen appliances makes the designer’s job easy because each appliance can be fully integrated into a design or celebrated as an object. That is why Miele wants to see how their products enable the most cutting-edge kitchen design. Miele & [...]

“Your World, Reimagined” is a global design competition that asks professional and student designers to tackle an old, dilapidated, or run-down locale and redesign it for a new, improved use. Entries can range in focus from adaptive reuse to landscape reclamation or object redesign. Cash and software awards will be presented to overall and category [...]

Shelter Corporation of Japan invites under-graduate or post-graduate students at universities or at tertiary institutions (including: junior colleges, colleges of technology, and other relevant vocational schools) as of 24 November 2013, to participate in their annual Student Architectural design Competition. This year’s theme is “Re-conceiving Architecture and time” Kumiko Inui When we think about the [...]

The 2013 Otto Linne Award for Urban Landscape Architecture gives students and young graduates of landscape architecture programmes the opportunity to address current themes and challenges within their profession. The award, which is held in honour of Hamburg’s first garden director Otto Linne (1869 – 1937), promotes the professional development of young designers and planners, [...]

After a very successful first edition of the participatory book ‘What is the future of architecture?’ we are very happy to announce our decision to do it again and present – ‘What is the future of architecture? II’! The future of architecture is a participatory book project, initiated by Crap is Good. The book consists [...]

How will we work in 2020? Rapid and dramatic changes are remaking how we work. The tools we work with have changed and continue to evolve at a break-neck pace. The modern office is adjusting to the “work everywhere” approach. Today systems thinkers who explore all facets of sustainability, accessibility, material innovation, and technology shape [...]

rdAGENTS, Rice Design Alliance’s young professionals group, will host its third annual Anything That Floats competition on Saturday, June 22 at Sesquicentennial Park. The event challenges participants to build a device that can float a short distance along Buffalo Bayou using discarded building materials. This event was originally scheduled for Saturday, May 4th, but was [...]

Architecture at Zero 2013 is a zero net energy design competition open to students and professionals worldwide, engaging architecture, engineering, planning students and professionals in the pursuit of energy efficient design. The challenge is to create a design for a new, roughly 150 unit mixed-use residential apartment building located in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San [...]

With this new competition, we are prepared to build upon the significant progress being made in Lower Manhattan. Take the HELM will help attract critical high-growth industries to the area, and ensure Lower Manhattan remains a global center of innovative business activity for decades. In addition to significant mass transit and an active 24/7 neighborhood, Lower Manhattan’s [...]

Now is the time for architects to embrace change and be leaders for change. Architects are poised to seize the moment to design for a preferred future, and to recognize that change is permeating throughout the profession, in positive ways small and large. Change—both collectively as a profession and individually as architects—is essential in three [...]

ONE Lab Summer 2013 on Productive Cities, in collaboration with IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia), 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 is designed for students who wish to engage with [...]

Fentress Global Challenge is an international competition created to stimulate students worldwide in the exploration of future design possibilities in public architecture. In its third annual competition, students are invited to envision Fentress Architects’ concept of Upcycled Architecture, defined as the art of redesigning an existing structure for purposes other than those for which it [...]

Generically entitled „A House for Pink Floyd”, the latest competition launched by ICARCH (International Competitions in Architecture), in partnership with Atelierul de Proiectare (AdeP – Design Studio) Magazine, wishes to celebrate architecture in its most liberal, revolutionary state. The competition will ambitiously focus on creating a typology of architecture inspired by the dictum “Architecture is [...]

Broadway is considered Newburgh’s Main Street. It’s quite sad since many storefronts are dilapidated and run down. The City is now accepting proposals for it’s storefront improvement program from qualified architectural firms. Qualified firms shall submit four (4) copies of the proposal to the James Slaughter, City of Newburgh, Planning and Development Department, 83 Broadway, [...]

African countries are facing an enormous challenge in the child development sphere: With over 140 million children scattered across Africa, the future of the continent is at stake. Several research projects have found that integrated and well-coordinated Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs help countries maximize the effectiveness of their investments in children. This international design [...]

The James Dyson Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. It’s run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to inspire young people about design engineering.

RESIDENCY SUMMARY: The 5-month residency will begin in mid to late September (negotiable start date) of 2013 and run through February of 2014. The resident will receive a $5,000 stipend to be paid out over the course of the residency in connection with the achievement of specific milestones. OVERVIEW: Public Knowledge and Eyebeam are seeking applications from [...]

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is the world’s leading centre for social sciences. Founded in 1895, the LSE is one of the largest colleges within the University of London and has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence nationally and internationally. This is an unusual UK university; few university institutions in the [...]

Expressions of Interest are invited for a new design competition on behalf of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to create a new central London HQ – replacing their existing New Scotland Yard building. The new HQ, to be called Scotland Yard, will involve the redevelopment of the existing and [...]

Which city is the most fun? Building Trust International aims to answer that question by seeking professional and student proposals to “turn a neglected forgotten part of your city into a PLAYscape.” Building Trust will pursue funding and planning for the winning design in the professional category, while the winner in the student category will [...]

Homemade Dessert is excited to invite you once more to participate in our architectural photography competitions. This time we would like you to think about COLOR in architecture.Color has a tremendous influence on human emotions. As Picasso once said, colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions. Although, and while perception of color is somewhat [...]

PROJECT: The program for this international ideas competition challenges participants to design a new Contemporary Bridge to carry pedestrians over the River Spree in Berlin. The new footbridge should create a new Icon or landmark in Berlin, considering that there are a number of existing Bridges form in this area of the city and its [...]

A unique design awards program, the 2013 George Matsumoto Prize recognizes excellence in recent single-family Modernist residential design in North Carolina by architects or designers both in and outside the state. Submissions are being accepted starting today. Now in its second year, the Prize is named for George Matsumoto, FAIA, a founding member of the [...]

Come up with the most outstanding ideas on how to make the Airport Business Hub not only a great place to work at, but one that also offers all the services and recreation opportunities you could wish for. The external architecture and floor plans of the office building are already under construction. The design proposals [...]

George Smart, Executive Director of Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), has announced the 2013 George Matsumoto Prize to recognize excellence in recent, single-family, Modernist residential design located in North Carolina. Submissions are being accepted now. Now in its second year, the Prize is named for George Matsumoto, FAIA, a founding member of the NC State University [...]

LOOKING FOR INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR THE URBAN FRINGE OF VIENNA Apply with a realized/unrealized project of yours and get exhibited in the wonderlab exhibition at Architekturzentrum Wien in Vienna / AT. You will also obtain the opportunity of being selected to participate in wonderland’s first architect in residence program, where you will apply your skills [...]

Transform Kansas City, a collaboration between the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance and the Kansas City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Young Architects Forum, is asking for submissions that illustrate transportation related or affected ideas or solutions. No matter your background or experience, all are being called to submit your ideas on transportation, [...]

Van Alen Institute is pleased to announce the launch of Ground/Work, an international architecture competition seeking innovative designs for a new street-level venue to house the Institute’s work space and public programs. Since 1982, the Institute has occupied the sixth floor of its building at 30 West 22nd Street in Manhattan, where a diverse program [...]

Ground/Work is an occasion to embrace and support inventiveness in architectural design. Participants will need to work with maximum creativity while observing key constraints. First, designing within a strict budget is not simply encouraged but required, as the Institute consolidates its staff and programs within a smaller footprint. Second, Van Alen’s building is located in [...]

54 Jefferson, once home to the Grand Rapids Public Museum, has been closed to the public since 1994. It needs a purpose. It needs your idea. Over $10,000 in cash prizes, including two $1,000 student prizes. Complete competition information will be available early June. Competition submissions will be the subject of an exhibition within 54 Jefferson [...]

70 years ago Life magazine published Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map. With an undistorted projection of the Earth’s surface, ability to be easily reconfigured and transform from a 2-D map to a 3-D globe, the Dymaxion Map (patented in 1946) was a cartographic breakthrough and its iconic design has inspired generations since. In celebration of the [...]

The program for this international ideas competition challenges participants to design a temporary Floating Pavilion for the Biennale in Venice to serve as a showcase space or Architectural piece in its own right. The temporary floating Pavilion should create an exciting and visually strong structure that  is fit for the Biennale in Venice.

The University of Virginia School of Architecture would like to invite you to submit your visions for the future of water to be considered for inclusion in the upcoming book entitled WATER INDEX.   This book will catalogue the world’s most promising and provocative visions for the future of water and civilization.  This is an open [...]

This is an open call, two-stage international design competition workshop for architects, artists, engineers, innovators, scientists and related disciplines to imagine the future mobile event pavilion. reSITE, in cooperation with Vodafone, the Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP) and Balmond Studio are proud to announce dPAV: 2.5 Days in Prague workshop competition. Under the leadership of [...]

The sixth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE–, opens in May 2014 in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. The Dutch landscape architect Dirk Sijmons is the curator and the theme is Urban by Nature. IABR–2014–Call for Projects– The IABR calls for best practices from all over the world to support and substantiate [...]

“Get out your cameras: today we are announcing the Remodelista & Gardenista Considered Design Awards, in which we honor our readers’ domestic spaces and design acumen. Ten readers will win a hand-wrought iron Symi Lantern in black matte finish with a hand-stitched leather handle from Casamidy, one of our favorite purveyors of stylish goods for [...]

The program for this international ideas competition challenges participants to design a new Contemporary Bridge to carry pedestrians over the River Spree in Berlin. The new footbridge should create a new Icon or landmark in Berlin, considering that there are a number of existing examples of great bridge forms in this area of the city [...]

Around the world, emerging architects are furthering the discipline through innovative, experimental, thought-provoking work. The Lisbon Triennale Millennium BCP Début Award celebrates the achievements and encourages the career of these promising younger generations of architects, offering a prize of 5,000 euros. Solo practitioners and studios under 35 are eligible for the Début Award and can [...]

Open Agenda is an annual competition aimed at supporting a new generation of experimental design and critical enquiry in Australian architecture. Open to recent graduates, Open Agenda provides a new platform for discussion and is focused on developing the possibilities of speculative design research in architecture and the built environment. Each year three exceptional proposals [...]

The Competition invites entrants to submit projects for a Kindergarten for children aged 3 to 6. The location is Via Ugo Betti, Milan (Italy). The project may encompass a single building or several buildings, and the architecture should fit the surrounding area and ideally form a bridge between the neighbourhood and the children. The design [...]

The building envelope and the transition between what is outside and what is inside presents the most complex and fundamentally linguistic element of architecture today. The form and performative capacity of what we might call the activated envelope is foundational and presents a dialogue the building has with itself and that of its context. A [...]

The Design Exchange is excited to announce the inaugural EMERGING DESIGNER COMPETITION, an amazing national competition that seeks to provide an unparalleled opportunity for emerging Canadian designers to gain recognition and exposure, while celebrating the immense and diverse design talent in Canada!

The European Hotel Design Awards, taking place on 19 November 2013, celebrate exceptional hotel design and architecture, honouring the work of industry leading architects, designers, hotel owners and operators. These established awards, in their 16th year, demonstrate the future of hotel design and why it is so very exciting and innovative – a true cause [...]

The CoD+A Awards were established to celebrate design projects that demonstrate the most successful integration of commissioned art into an interior or architectural space. The Awards recognize the importance of collaboration, and honor the design and art professionals whose collective imaginations create the public and private spaces that inspire us. Each entry must feature at least one site-specific work of [...]

AIA Detroit’s Committee on the Environtment has extended their deadline for the Urban Chicken Coop Competition! You now have until May 20th to submit your designs for an innovative approach to chicken coops and chicken raising. Why chickens? Believe it or not, chicken keeping in urban areas is a fast-growing trend as a result of [...]

The advent of cutting-edge technologies enables new building typologies. Just as steel, elevators, and air conditioning have changed the built environment, Sunbrella performance fabric, with its 50 year history of innovation, has changed how we think about shade. While the protection and practicality of fabric shade structures contribute to comfort and reduce interior heat gain, [...]

The Public Policy Lab has formed a partnership with the New York City Department of Education’s Innovation Zone (iZone) and the Office of School Enrollment to explore opportunities for improving the high-school admissions process. The New York City Department of Education is the largest school district in the country, with more than 1.1 million students [...]

As in many fields, it was the Ancient Greeks who laid the foundation for gastronomy as a science by creating the earliest collections of recipes and also by developing a gastronomic culture that later spread throughout the Mediterranean, becoming the basis for today’s Western cuisine. Hunting and fishing, as well as agriculture and raising livestock, [...]

Accepting submissions from April 4 to May 3, 2013, the Franchise is an open call for 500-word proposals for group shows that take place anywhere in the world outside of New York City. One of apexart’s two curatorial open calls, the Franchise asks for submissions for exhibitions that examine a specific idea or theme. Exhibitions [...]

A survival pod is an essential piece of Greenpeace equipment. Our survival pods are used to occupy ships, oil rigs, ports and other strategic locations as we take non-violent direct action against environmental threats. A pod can keep a small team of activists warm and dry as they face extreme weather and violent opposition like [...]

The 2013 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship has launched and is inviting applications from schools of architecture around the world. A £6,000 grant will be awarded to one student by a panel of judges which includes Lord Foster and the President of the RIBA. Students from all RIBA or CAA validated degree programmes from Schools [...]

The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) invites design-driven cities to bid for the World Design Capital (WDC) 2016 designation. Applications are currently being accepted following the official opening of the 2016 bidding process on 29 November 2012. The World Design Capital, a biennial designation awarded to cities in recognition of design achievements [...]

KERB Journal is an annual Landscape Architecture publication presenting works from cross-disciplinary fields produced by the RMIT University School of Architecture and Design in Melbourne, Australia. As a progressive design journal we focus on contemporary Landscape Architecture issues from an international and national perspective. This year Kerb Journal is celebrating 21st year of publication. We are currently seeking [...]

You must have heard that being a contemporary architect in Rome is sort of a mission impossible. But honestly, who has never thought of challenging this commonplace as a way to truly feel as an architect? That is, without having to care about critics and insults from the token intellectuals. If you are one of [...]

With this competition contestants are being invited to submit a design for a show garden which, if selected will become part of SlantFest, our new on-line garden festival for summer 2013. The theme for this festival is “Evoking Memories” and you will be free to interpret this theme as you please. This is an open [...]

We’re dedicated to inspiring and rewarding creative thinking through a series of artistic challenges. The Mystery Build Art Contest is about being resourceful and inventive. You’ll exercise problem-solving skills to use materials in surprising ways, while creating a work of art and competing against other artists nationwide. Mystery Build is offering $15,000 in cash awards [...]

New York City’s Center for Architecture offers up to $2,000 award for student-edited architecture journals. The award was founded to encourage student journalism on architecture, planning and related subjects, and to foster regard for intelligent criticism among future professionals. The award is not intended as a prize for individuals, but is intended to support the [...]

Modern Atlanta, affectionately referred to as MA, is pleased to announce the third annual MA Prize competition. MA Prize 2013 entries will be carefully selected by a prestigious international jury of practicing designers and scholars and will be displayed at this year’s MA13 “Design in Human Week”. This year, MA Prize highlights bold and innovative [...]

SKIN is a two-stage international design competition established to foster the deeper developments within the field of computational fabrication. We are soliciting design proposals that further existing research, by enabling prototyping at a larger scale or full scale, and proposals to jumpstart new research and design concepts into a first prototype. Choice of project location, [...]

The Connected City Design Challenge will build awareness of urban design solutions capable of shaping Dallas forward, develop a more refined and specific strategy for connecting our downtown and river, and assist in securing future public and private investment. By empowering both designers and citizens, The Challenge will work to realize integrated solutions that improve [...]

FAR ROC is structured as a two-part design ideas competition that will explore best practices and innovative strategies for the planning, design and construction of resilient and sustainable developments in waterfront areas. The competition aims to provide ideas and the basis of a master plan for the sensitive development of Arverne East, an 80+ acre [...]

The James Dyson Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. It’s run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to inspire young people about design engineering.

Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city of Brazil, the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper. This makes it the 6th largest in the Americas and 26th in the world. The 2014 FIFA World Cup which is an international association football tournament [...]

The building envelope and the transition between what is outside and what is inside presents the most complex and fundamentally linguistic element of architecture today. The form and performative capacity of what we might call the activated envelope is foundational and presents a dialogue the building has with itself and that of its context. A [...]

April 16, 2013, New York – The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), the development team of L+M Development Partners, The Bluestone Organization, and Triangle Equities, along with the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIA New York) and Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise) today launched the two-phase “For a [...]

Organized by ORLI (Operation Resilient Long Island), a student-led grassroots committee of architecture, interior design, and construction management students from New York Institute of Technology, the 3C Comprehensive Coastal Communities Competition aims to catalyze the discussion of rezoning towns that are vulnerable to coastal storms. The post-Sandy rebuilding process has already begun, yet there are [...]

Camelot. The legendary castle of King Arthur. The very word reeks of magic. It’s where, in the midst of the Dark Ages, Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table fought to save Britain from hostile barbarian armies. It’s where, when all hope was lost, when three of Britain’s four major cities had already been [...]

EWNS Art Project is a newly established european organization, based in Paris area, France, that focuses on encouraging emerging and established artists and strives to meet the developing needs of all artists, at all career stages. The vocation of EWNS A Project is to be a window for the international art scene by presenting a [...]

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We are opening the period for the submission of projects to take part in the 8th edition of eme3 Festival to be held in Barcelona from June 27th to 30th at Fabra y Coats while the exposition will remain open until July 30th with a program of activities. According the eme3 philosophy to provide every [...]

The goal of this competition is to identify a transcendant design experience for the Filmmaker Lounge. Emphasis on the word EXPERIENCE. Film Independent is seeking bold, creative, audacious ideas to augment a well conceived floor plan. Once a winner is announced in April, he or she will work closely with Film Independent to create an [...]

Floornature.com, architecture, design and project culture portal announces the second international contest for young architects: NEXT LANDMARK 2013, introducing a new category dedicated to architecture photography and taking the winners to Helsinki Design Week.  

Thank you for your interest in “Redesigning Detroit: A New Vision for an Iconic Site,” an “Ideas Competition” sponsored by “Rock Ventures LLC” and promoted by “Opportunity Detroit”. Opportunity Detroit is the branding campaign initially created by Rock Ventures LLC to change the conversation about and the image of the city of Detroit, and to [...]