Category Archives: For students

Prague: Penta Real Estate – together with SUDOP and České Dráhy – invite local and foreign architects, architectural practices and teams to an open two-round international architectural and urban design competition. This aims to find the best proposal for a large-scale residential scheme in the Prague city part of Žižkov.

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We invite visionaries from all profes-sions, Architects, Designers, Engineers, and Space Enthusiasts to envision and design this near yet unseen future. The participants are to design a Lunar Experience Centre + Research Centre for the first humans 10 tourists and 5 researchers to enhance their stay on The Experience Centre will help the Space Enthusiasts visiting the lunar sur-face for the first time to understand it and draw inspiration from the surroundings.

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We want you to submit your ideas and propositions for the future of Melbourne! Melbourne: Megacity? is calling for contributors to submit material which explores the consequences and opportunities presented by the urban growth of Melbourne over the next 50 years. Submissions for this exhibition can take the form of design proposals, critical insights, practical solutions and speculative provocations for the future of the city. We are looking for a wide range of innovative, imaginative, and inventive ideas for the future of Melbourne.

The Straw Bale Ecological House competition is a contribution to the natural, sustainable and efficient homebuilding. The eco-house will be built with a modular and prefabricated system of straw bales, a green roof, a greenhouse and consequently a high level of energy efficiency.

The associations 120g and Salviamo la Rocca promote, with the support of FAI, Italia Nostra Onlus, Municipality of San Giuliano Terme, Università di Pisa – DESTEC, Confesercenti, Chambers of the Architects of Pisa and the Castle Italian Institute, an international architecture competiton for the re-use of the Ripafratta Castle, in San Giuliano Terme, Pisa.  (more…)

With less than three years before the Bicentennial celebration of the Independence of Peru, the Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Lima and the Centenario Group are proud to announce the launch of an international architecture and landscaping contest for the design of a metropolitan park in the perimeter of the Pachacamac Sanctuary in the district of Lurín, Lima.

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Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC is a two-stage design competition for small-scale, urban infill housing. The competition is organized by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY), and seeks to address the challenges associated with the design and construction of affordable housing on underutilized City-owned land.

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As our future megacities are defining themselves every day with bustling streets and soaring skyscrapers, a city still craves for many things but mostly – an identity. The 21st century from its onset is rapidly changing how we live and how we perceive the definitions of a city rampantly. ‘Urbanscape’ is the manifestation of the built environment of cities. It not only refers to the configuration of built forms but also the elements that define interstitial spaces. However, what we see today is the progression of ever-increasing skyscrapers that dominate the memories of a city, overpowering smaller elements.

Amsterdam has been one of Europe’s pioneers of architecture and design, largely because of the 17th century rings of canal houses, gabled facades, windmills and drawbridges. Modern architecture developed organically in Amsterdam between the facades of historical buildings, making it one of the finest blends between Renaissance, Berlage and the Amsterdam School. The city has a very strong cultural and artistic identity. Amsterdam is the most important cultural and artistic center to the north from Paris and between London and Cologne.

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The aim of the “Buying” competition is to develop design proposals for the shop typology, intended as a space – either material or immaterial – where goods or services are available to the public.