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In 2047 India will celebrate a hundred years of independence. While there will be various parameters to measure the nation’s progress, the yardstick that will ultimately define our country’s ‘development’ in the most succinct terms is already emerging and shaping itself in the most transformative of ways – the rural landscape. 70% of India’s population – roughly one-tenth of humanity – live in the villages. Isn’t it logical then to assume that their ability to offer fulfilling lives to their inhabitants is germinal to India’s future as a great global power?

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Kindergarten Rehabilitation in Bolivia is a competition open to all students and young architects from all over the world. For this fourth edition ARCHsharing collaborate with the humanitarian NGO TECHO Bolivia to build a nursery in an underprivileged neighbourhood of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The Kindergarten will accommodate more than 500 children. To meet that challenge, the rehabilitation of an old school and an extension will be necessary.  The winning project will be built by our partner TECHO Bolivia.

Extreme Habitat Challenge 2019 is thrilled to invite architects, designers, engineers, student fraternity, and visualizers from around the globe to take part in the world’s first ever Sahara Habitat Challenge. The Extreme Habitat Challenge (EHC) is one of the world’s most coveted competitions for habitat design.

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​YAC – Young Architects Competitions ​and Arte Sella launch “Calamity Atelier”, a competition of ideas to regenerate the greatest and most prestigious art park in the world which was heavily damaged by an unprecedented storm last October. A total prize of 15,000 € will be awarded to winners selected by a well-renowned international jury that features, among the others,​ Sou Fujimoto, Kongjian Yu (Turenscape), Patrick Lüth (Snøhetta) e Michele De Lucchi.

Ideasforward wants to give young creative people from around the world the opportunity to express their views of the future of societies through their innovative and visionary proposals.
We are an experimental platform seeking progressive ideas that reflect on emerging themes.

The SKYHIVE 2019 Skyscraper Challenge is the second annual architecture competition which searches out the latest and greatest designs for an iconic high rise structure. Participants of the SKYHIVE Challenge are tasked with creating a concept for a state-of-the-art tower that breaks the norm.

YAC – Young Architects Competitions ​and  Mothe Chandeniers​ launch “Common Ruins”, a competition of ideas aiming to breath a new life into an astonishing castle in France. A cash prize of € 20,000 will be awarded to winners selected by a well-renowned jury made of, among the others,​ Anish Kapoor, Rudy Ricciotti, Edoardo Tresoldi, Dagur Eggertsson, Alfonso Femia, Aldo Cibic, Marco Amosso (Lombardini 22), Luca Dolmetta (LD+SR  architetti​). (more…)

The small port town of Pavilosta is located on the western coast of Latvia, at the mouth of the Saka river in Courland. Known for its long sandy beach and idyllic Baltic Sea waters, the town is a popular tourist destination, and is populated with seafaring locals from tenacious fishermen to some of the world’s toughest windsurfers. (more…)

The subject of the competition is the “Science centre” complex and a survey solution of the wider area. The new “Science Centre” in Ljubljana (Slovenia, EU) will be a demonstration building aimed at promoting and popularising science, research, technology, innovation and learning through experiments and demonstrations of the achievements of science, economy and culture. (more…)

By its dictionary definition, a hotel is ‘an establishment providing accommodation, meals, and other services for travellers and tourists.’  This is a basic idea and perception of what a hotel is at the present. However, the competition encourages participants to debate the course of hospitality in the future or as we can put it, ‘WHAT CAN A HOTEL BE ? (more…)