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Submission: June 13, 2022
Registration: May 15, 2022
Language: English
Location: Senegal
Prizes: Please check the details below
Type: Open

 

Kaira Looro Architecture Competition is a design contest open to students and young architects with aims to discover new talents and to adopt sustainable architecture models for humanitarian purpose to improve life conditions in developing countries. The challenge of 2022’s edition is to design a ‘Children’s House’ in Senegal, as a warm and welcoming place where activities aimed at preventing child malnutrition can be carried out in a rural environment. The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow; allowing them to develop properly is essential in order to build a better future.

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kaira looro 2022 children's house

Submission: June 17, 2020
Registration: June 17, 2020
Language: English
Location: Tanzania
Prizes: 10.000€ + Construction
Type: Open

 

Tanzania suffers from a terrible shortage of good quality and affordable housing. So dire is this shortage that the nation currently carries a 3 million housing deficit coupled with a 200.000 unit annual demand. Over seventy percent of its urban residents live in unplanned and unserviced informal settlements.

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african house design competition

Submission: August 01, 2017
Registration: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Location: Africa
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

The Community Planning & Design Initiative Africa challenges you to design prototypes of contemporary African architecture, that reflect the culture, aesthetics, materials and sustainable environmental elements for developing communities in today’s Africa. This competition is the perfect opportunity for professional architects, students, urban planners, visual artists, engineers, interior designers, and all built environment professionals to join in writing the final chapter in the book of contemporary architecture – The African Chapter. Continue reading

africa architecture competition

Submission: June 31, 2017
Registration: January 01, 2017
Language: English
Location: Africa
Prizes: $10,000 is cash prizes
Type: Open

 

The Community Planning & Design Initiative Africa (CPDI Africa) is a culture-inspired, research-based, design-build competition, created to inspire the development of successful neighborhoods and communities on the continent, with modern African architecture that is both culturally and environmentally sustainable. Believing that the redevelopment of Africa’s built environment should be as it has always been, built as a collaborative effort between the community members and designated master builders, CPDI Africa engages participation from the design community in Africa and the Diaspora at large, for the accomplishment of its vision.

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