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Submission: February 15, 2023
Registration: February 15, 2023
Language: English
Location: Global
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Zambia has been generous host to refugees since 1966 when the Angolan revolution against the Portuguese spread to the east of the country forcing people to flee for safety in neighboring Zambia.
Almost 60 years later, Zambia is still receiving refugees from a long list of countries, with a predominance of Congolese, Burundians and Somalis. There are a total of about 105,000 refugees in camps and settlements in Zambia of which 65,000 are Congolese and 20,000 are Angolan.

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Submission: September 14, 2022
Registration: September 14, 2022
Language: English
Location: Global
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Archstorming’s new competition takes us to Mozambique, a country marked by a great number of long-lasting challenges. Although there has been a substantive increase in the household income, over two-thirds of the population still live below the poverty line.

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Submission: July 27, 2022
Registration: July 27, 2022
Language: English
Location: Siargao, Philippines
Prizes: Please see the details below
Type: Open

 

December 16 2021, Super Typhoon Rai, locally known as Typhoon Odette, made landfall in the Philippines. The storm was unexpectedly powerful, undergoing what is called “rapid intensification” the day before making landfall, which is becoming characteristic of tropical storms occurring in our warming climate. With winds of up to 195 km/h and gusts of 260 km/h, the storm was comparable to a category five hurricane when it hit.

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Submission: March 16, 2022
Registration: March 16, 2022
Language: English
Location: Senegal
Prizes: 10.000€ + Construction
Type: Open

 

Archstorming is launching a new competition in partnership with the NGO Kakolum. We will travel to Casamance, a region in Senegal marked by an identity conflict that started more than 30 years ago and continues to this day. This region, located between Gambia and Guinea-Bissau, faces several challenges, one of which is the lack of classrooms for primary and secondary school children.

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Submission: September 22, 2021
Registration: September 22, 2021
Language: English
Location: Mali, Africa
Prizes: 10.000€ + construction
Type: Open

 

Archstorming’s new competition takes us to Bamako, Mali. We will be looking for designs to build a new school in an urban context for Enko Education, a fast-growing network of African international schools that offers affordable quality education in order to provide access for young Africans to the best universities worldwide.

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Submission: May 12, 2021
Registration: May 12, 2021
Language: English
Location: Hiddi and Dillu, Ethiopia
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Archstorming is launching a new competition that will look for designs for the future schools of the NGO Abay Ethiopia, an organization founded in Spain in 2009 that operates in Walmara, Ethiopia, with the aim of fighting against poverty and promoting equal opportunities, mainly through the development of Education, Health and Community support projects in general. Continue reading

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Submission: November 25, 2020
Registration: November 25, 2020
Language: English
Location: Marsassoum, Senegal
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Archstorming’s new competition takes us to Senegal (Africa), a country with regions where only 50% of school-age children have access to education and where classrooms are often crammed with up to 80 students per class due to the limited number of structures. Continue reading

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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: March 20, 2019
Registration: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Location: Benga, Malawi
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

*The winning proposal will be built*

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Universal education, gender equality and empowering women are vital components of the mission in developing countries. Educating children helps reduce poverty and will give the next generation the tools to fight poverty and conquer disease. School also offers children a safe environment, with support, supervision and socialization. Here they learn life skills that can help them prevent diseases, including how to avoid HIV/AIDS and malaria. Children may receive life-saving vaccines, fresh water and nutrient supplementation at school. Continue reading

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Submission: November 21, 2018
Registration: November 21, 2018
Language: English
Location: New York, USA
Prizes: up to 20.000€
Type: Open

 

The 2018 Soccer World Cup ended a few weeks ago. With it ends an intense month of an event that not only affects the sports world, but has direct repercussions in the economy, tourism or urban planning of the host country.

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