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 [...]

BOFFO Building Fashion will showcase design installations that push the limits of temporary architecture and retail spaces through fashion and architecture collaborations. Each will reflect the fashion brand’s image through expressive voluminous forms engaging interior space. The participants are asked to collaborate and create a space that exemplifies the aesthetic of a fashion designer while [...]

Propose a site specific installation innovating within New England building and craft traditions, using engineered lumber or heavy timber, to be realized at BSA SPACE (Atlantic Wharf, Boston, Massachusetts) as part of the major exhibition URBAN TIMBER opening February 2014. Abstract and develop a partial construction addressing at full scale, specific issues of materiality, structure, [...]

Centiva is pleased to announce the “Centiva Green School Innovation” program for public and private K-12 schools. The grant is available thanks to the generous support of Centiva. A total of $3,000.00 is available this year through a competitive grant process. The grant is intended to encourage schools to develop creative, innovative, cost effective environmental [...]

Studio SHA-HKG-SIN is a three to four-week design and research studio organized by the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture in the cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Taught by a diverse group of faculty members from the University of Hong Kong, and speakers from internationally renowned universities and independent research groups, the [...]

San Francisco today has one of the most prestigious and well equipped fire departments of the United States and the world. Every day it responds to dozens of calls and acts quickly in all its interventions to prevent the catastrophe from happening again. This elite group ensures the safety of the city and more than [...]

THE CAUSE: After Sandy, affected homeowners now face three basic options: relocate, repair, or rebuild. The combination of all three of these techniques will damage the fabric of established coastal communities. In addition to mandating resilient design, these towns need new ideas on how to maintain their current character, while still being resilient during this substantial rebuilding phase. [...]

We’re very excited to announce our new winter weather-related initiative, the Center for Outdoor Living Design, which conveniently forms the acronym COLD. The project is intended to encourage designers of various disciplines to engage more creatively with the opportunities presented by winter weather urban environments. Representations and design strategies in architecture and urban design are [...]

The 21st Congress for the New Urbanism will be May 29 to June 1 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the hometown of the Mormon grid. At 660 feet (10 chains) on a side, each block is exactly 10 acres. The size of Salt Lake City’s blocks has proven to be a challenge to its urbanism. [...]

The competition site is quite a large urban block (around 300 x 200 m), located in the very heart Belgorod. The task is to replace the low rise buildings that now occupy the site with a more dense development. Though the construction of high towers is very popular in Russia with developers, the city would [...]

In the past few decades the local food movement has grown significantly; however, local food still only constitutes less than 10% of the total food system in the United States. While farmers’ markets, locavore restaurants, and home vegetable gardens continue to grow in number, there remains a real need for systemic tools to inform the [...]

SOCIALIGHT / The 2013 edition of the CLU Foundation’s competition invites participants to consider the role of lighting in the urban areas of tomorrow. Think of the future. Imagine urban neighborhoods where there are, for example, no cars, that the territory belongs to the people and that we put value in community, natural, recreational and [...]

The sun had yet not risen when the sirens began to sound. It was the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906 and the city of San Francisco was shaken awake by an earthquake measuring 8.25 on the Richter scale. More than 30 fires were reported throughout the city as a result of gas leaks caused [...]

Redefining Briefs, Clients and Agents Throughout history, competitions have constructed a relationship of servitude between architects and the structures of economic, politic and cultural power. The competition brief has served as the initial document for the manifestation of desires either through programmatic, economic or formal needs. Often, the role of the architect has been reduced [...]

At the Lausanne-Vidy site (Switzerland), the IOC would like to: Create new headquarters for 450 staff members on one site. The volume of the planned building is roughly 70,000m3 with a ground surface area of 18,000m2. Plan for the development of an “Olympic campus” housing administrative buildings as well as possible accommodation and services. The [...]

The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department is pleased to announce the Seaholm Intake Facility Design Idea Competition. The competition is in collaboration with the Austin Parks Foundation, The Trail Foundation and AIA Austin. The competition is intended to encourage all design students, design professionals, and artists working individually or in teams to envision [...]

What to do with an ideal idea? Should totality be attacked with totality? Can geometric order be enjoyable to live in? What is there to recycle for today’s life and new utopias of the future? We invite architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and university students in these fields to take part in the TAB 2013 Vision [...]

THE FUNDACIÓ MIES VAN DER ROHE AND VUELING AIRLINES ANNOUNCE THE FIRST CULTURAL LINKING EUROPE COMPETITION The Prize will be awarded to the author who best reflects the goals of both organizations and the proposal will be used in the customization of an aircraft To mark the 25th anniversary of the prestigious European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies [...]

Are you a lighting designer, interior designer or architect? Have you created an inspiring interior with LED lighting that you can’t wait to show off, and you think you have what it takes to win our $1000 grand prize? If so, enter our competition below! You can enter in two categories – either residential or [...]

The goal of the Westside Prize Design Awards is to recognize projects, programs, policies and academic studies that demonstrate excellence in city making and community building. The Westside Urban Forum is looking for work, small, and large, built or unbuilt, that addresses the issues of planning for and building a livable future in Los Angeles [...]

Architecture must disappear. Behind the radicalism of this statement lies something crucial for the future of architecture. Architecture as a discipline should no longer think in terms of objects. Walls, facades, structures, are only modalities of architecture, but never its finality. Design comes after. After what? After situations. Architects deal with situations. Architecture should be [...]

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 [...]

The Jacques Rougerie Foundation’s ambition is to provide an opportunity for young architects and designers to stimulate their inventiveness, creativity and boldness at the service of architectural innovation. In order to do so, the Foundation is organizing for the third consecutive year, an international architectural competition, focusing on topics that are dear to us; Water [...]

The Instant House @ School is the 5th edition of an ideas competition launched by FederlegnoArredo S.r.l. for MADEexpo, in association with the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano. InstantHouse @ School invites designers to develop a new concept for a Kindergartens or Nursery schools in Milano. A multisensory environment [...]

Whooo-weee! Hard to believe that it’s already been a year but I am proud to say that it’s time for the 2nd Annual Life of an Architect Playhouse Competition!! Last years event was a spectacular success (many thanks to those who participated) and I am hopeful that we can have similar – and possibly greater [...]

The Cultural Association “Genius Loci Architettura”, in cooperation with the company “Raimondi Kitchens” with administrative headquarters in Caltanissetta (Italy) intend to promote a competition of ideas concerning the presentation of innovative formal solutions than those on the market. In particular, it relates to the proposal of new ideas that are distinguished by their originality, quality [...]

The object of the competition consist on designing a itinerant textile sunshade device in order to build it in a summer workshop at IFAC from 4 to 15 August, 2013 in Covarrubias (Spain). The programme is simple, around 70/100 square meters of an opened light shadow device. The use will be very flexible and open: [...]

Controling a bigger system calls for faster communication. A growing city demands faster transportation lines to catch up its size. Overlaying a steady transportation network on a large cityscape has been a chief responsibility for every metropolitan government. Faster connections were needed for efficiency, so they built speedy ways inside cities. Efficiency sacrificed life; the [...]

The Town Council of Calp, in Alicante, announces an international tendering for new ideas to conceive and revitalize the historical centre of the town in order to promote the restoration of the space, to improve mobility and accessibility and to improve energy efficiency. In short, as explains César Sánchez, mayor of the town ‘we are [...]

The Chicago Architectural Club and Chicago Architecture Foundation–in partnership with the Chicago Department of Transportation, the Chicago Transit Authority, and the Chicago Bus Rapid Transit Steering Committee–are pleased to announce the 2013 Burnham Prize Competition: NEXT STOP: Designing Chicago BRT Stations. This is a single-stage international design ideas competition intended to catalyze iconic, sustainable, and [...]

Call for Proposals: The City of Dreams 2013-2014 Pavilion Since Governors Island first opened to the public in 2004, the attention and interest that this new public place has received has increased exponentially. In 2012, nearly 450,000 people visited the island through its summer season to engage in a variety of arts and cultural programs, [...]

The Fondazione Frate Sole Foundation, with the desire to promote and valorize the contributions of young graduates, instituted  the European Prize for Sacred Architecture in 2013, addressing a project for a church of Christian worship, the  subject of a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD thesis. The purpose of the competition is to promote, during university education, [...]

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 for the holiday of Sukkot. We encourage [...]

The Design Competition challenges landscape architects and architects to form multi-disciplinary design teams capable of delivering a large and complex project which will help shape the cultural future of the Gold Coast. But they will not be working unaided. Drawing on previous studies and planning, in October 2012, the City of Gold Coast endorsed a Vision [...]

Deep and controversial economical transformations have been hitting Europe. On one side they show a highly destructive potential; on the other side they are the key to undiscovered scenarios once unimaginable. Beneath the remains of ancient systems often lays the opportunity to write new cultures. Shipbuilding industry has been hardly struck by crisis: while great [...]

In Pursuit of Architecture: 2003–2013 A Special 10th Anniversary issue of Log Since its inception in September 2003, the journal Log has sought to present through writing the kinds of thinking and concepts that drive the making of architecture today. In Pursuit of Architecture, a special tenth anniversary issue of the magazine, will feature ten [...]

Modern city in the magnitude of it’s tasks usually forgets about the human and his essential need in privacy and comfort, his desire of harmony. We compete with cars, highways, shopping centers, with each other to find our area for the ​​rest, for a place to «park.» The task of the competition is to create [...]

Following from its successful inaugural introduction to Tent London & Super Brands London in 2012, we are delighted to open the applications to apply for a Project Space in the 2013 shows. As in 2012, the Project Space should be about anything but products. We like to punctuate the halls at Tent London with engaging [...]

Cambridge, MA – The 2013 jury of the Lyceum Fellowship will meet March 23 to review student entries from U.S. architecture schools and award over $20,000 in travel grants to individual winners. The Lyceum competition, launched in 1985 by architect Jon McKee, AIA, supports the holistic and global education aspirations of architecture students by inviting [...]

The New York office of The Trust for Public Land is issuing a an RPF for a feasibility study, framework plan, and conceptual design for the QueensWay—a potentially transformative project which will enhance quality of life in central and southern Queens, New York by reclaiming an abandoned, largely elevated rail corridor. This project is intended [...]

STORMPROOF Open International Design Competition for Building Resilient Cities CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ONE Prize Award aims to explore the social, economic, and ecological possibilities of urban transformation. This year’s competition is set in the context of severe climate dynamism. How can cities adapt to the future challenges of extreme weather? The ONE Prize is a [...]

BERKELY PRIZE TEACHING FELLOWSHIP TEACHING UNIVERSAL DESIGN DEDICATED TO ELAINE OSTROFF, HONORARY AIA, CO-FOUNDER OF ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA. The term “Universal Design” has evolved from “Barrier Free Design”, “Accessible Design”, “Transgenerational Design”, and “Adaptable Design”. It is now considered to be synonymous with “Design for All” and “Inclusive Design.” (Universal Designers & Consultants, [...]

MOVE [Traffic, transit, migration, nomadism] «When traffic delays and confusion seem hopeless, remember that men of vision are working on the problem. Actually traffic engineers are planning city streets and country highways free from stop and go… 1. Sidewalks will be elevated – you’ll walk and shop ABOVE Main Street, actually cross OVER it. 2. [...]

Members of the DENVER ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE invite you to share your ideas on the design of a new housing typology, an 8 unit micro housing complex. The site, located near 3457 Ringsby Court, is across from the entrance into Denver’s well known TAXI community (www.taxibyzeppelin.com ) and provides an opportunity for designers to explore and [...]

Homemade Dessert invites you to think critically about a space that has been re-purposed, the architecture or environment transformed from its original function to accommodate a new set of programmes or uses. Even the most successful of spaces can be subject to change over time, in relation to advancements in technologies, or evolving political, social [...]

Introduction 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 [...]

In today’s world, information is delivered through advanced technologies and is changing the way we interact with the physical world. Information is exchanged through a virtual world built on the framework of the internet, computers, and mobile technology. This changes the way we interact with the built world. How interconnected can virtual and physical worlds [...]

Description Natural systems offer architects and designers signficant potential as alternative, ecologically performative architectonic strategies. The d3 Natural Systems competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, urbanism, interiors, and designed objects. Established in 2009, the annual d3 Natural Systems competition is [...]