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Submission: June 7, 2023
Registration: April 5, 2023
Language: English
Location: Washington, DC
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: student competition

 

The challenges of the past few years have demonstrated the need for places for individuals in communities gather. The goal of this competition is to create a functional space within a community for gathering, play and shelter. A multi-functional building that can be used in a variety of ways is the overall goal. Think about how communities will gather in the future and design a building to meet these needs. Concrete masonry is an ideal choice for this type of building. It is durable and long-lasting, providing a pleasing aesthetic, and can be used for security and safety. Designs should identify multiple ways to take advantage of concrete masonry’s benefits to meet the needs of this new community center. Continue reading

Submission: August 30, 2022
Registration: August 29, 2022
Language: English
Location: Global
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open
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Since the beginning of time Humans have been fascinated with gravity-defying megastructures that have dominated the skies leaving a mark for civilizations to come. From the Burj Khalifa to the Empire State building, skyscrapers have been rightly viewed asa strategy to engineer more sustainable cities by emphasizing compact urban spaces.

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Submission: May 3, 2022
Registration: May 2, 2022
Language: English
Location: Manchester, UK
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

The focus of this architecture competition is to blend the facility’s exteriors with the cityscape but make the interiors disconnected from the city or even reality. The built form must be able to connect with the people, through its form, layout or spaces. Sustainable strategies must be employed to create a pure and natural environment inside the centre. The material palette must be selected consciously to suit the needs of the comfort of the occupants and aid a calm ambience for meditation activity. Noise must be managed for silent interior spaces.

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Submission: February 28, 2022
Registration: February 28, 2022
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see detail below
Type: Interior Design and Architecture

 

The challenge is to capture and show a story of Indian Architecture through a material palette and using chips that are available on Material Depot. The palette can be themed by encapsulating an Indian Architect OR a less known building OR an architecture movement/era OR Vernacular Architecture from a particular region OR a mix of these OR an entirely different facet that speaks to you.

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celebrating indian architecture

Submission: March 15, 2022
Registration: February 25, 2022
Language: English
Location: Anfeh, Lebanon
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Saying a final goodbye is never easy. Farewell is a painful and personal gesture. Thus, the design of the cemetery must respond in a consoling and sensitive way. Architects, Landscapers, Urban  planners, students and enthusiasts are called to search for a new creative design approach, and interesting innovative environmentally friendly ideas for green spaces, and submit designs for a sustainable cemetery located in Anfeh, Lebanon. The new cemetery would need to include facilities for a small chapel, and a reception hall for condolences.

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cementary challange by ctrl alt design

Submission: June 1, 2022
Registration: June 1, 2022
Language: English
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Ideas, design

 

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) calls its 9th Advanced Architecture Contest as a global reflection to rethink human settlements at a time when our natural environments and the human habitats are more clearly intertwined. The planet is immersed in a fast process of urbanization while we are simultaneously facing a serious climate crisis that must be addressed. We look to the model of Biocities, cities that follow the principles of ecological principles in order to promote life and biodiversity, to provide us with potential design solutions. How can we reimagine our cities as Biocities, capable of creating an ecologically attuned and reciprocal relationship with nature?

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design for biocities

Submission: May 22, 2022
Registration: April 17, 2022
Language: English
Location: Euralille, France
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: 72H competition

 

The “Carpark Futures Competition” invites young architects under 40 years old, from all over the world, to think about the architectural, technical and environmental potential of a revaluation of underground car parks. How to transform underground parking spaces to fit contemporary societal evolutions? How can architecture respond to the challenges of future mobility and urban density?

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car park futures competition

Submission: May 12, 2022
Registration: May 06, 2022
Language: English
Location: Global
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

The participants are to design a prototype of a micro-housing unit that reflects the personal needs and culture of the residential community chosen. A suitable aggregation of these micro-housing units should be done in an urban context.

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MICRO HOUSING 2022

Submission: April 15, 2022
Registration: April 15, 2022
Language: English
Location: Hong Kong
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

In this competition, we encourage participants to come up with visionary concepts for a drone port – only 3 drawings, absolute freedom of scale or program. Participants are asked to propose conceptual ideas for new architectural typologies in relation to air mobility, specifically in the city of Hong Kong, through the design of an urban drone port.

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hong kong drone port

Submission: January 18, 2022
Registration: January 17, 2022
Language: English
Location: Lazdona, Latvia
Prizes: $24000
Type: Open Competition

 

This challenge aims to create a lodge in Latvia which will act as a space that gives the travellers a chance to experience the local and natural context through its design. The lodge will be working as a space that offers the basic comfort that the travellers need while also transcending this function by offering a close connection with the natural context through public recreational spaces that’ll create a form of engagement of the locals with the travellers in one place.

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