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Submission: January 4, 2022
Registration: January 3, 2022
Language: English
Location: Chicago, United States
Prizes: 24000$
Type: Educational Building

 

The challenge is to design an outdoor art school that explores the intensity of architecture to direct experience through multi-sensory design interventions. The place will be an informal institute that will offer to learn to aspiring artists. It will be a meeting hub for artists across the city, for networking and exhibition of their works. The center must consist of open or semi-open spaces for conducting outdoor classes.

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art garden

Submission: November 24, 2020
Registration: November 09, 2020
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Product Design Competition

 

Cities have been a culmination of all the good things we desire to be in a comfortable habitat. This culmination has brought access to not only services but this vast human-to-human network that eventually lead to evolving as knowledge hubs. This pandemic, however, has changed the fundamental perception of a city in many ways and especially the density it offers.

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new dencities post pandemic competition

Submission: December 15, 2020
Registration: November 30, 2020
Language: English
Location: Milan, Italy
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Digital facades on buildings have become an attractive way to grab eyeballs on a magnificent scale in the current day and age: the building becomes the canvas and sophisticated technologies allow for impactful narratives to be effortlessly relayed on to a huge audience, multiplying the intended user group and the media’s message manifold. Continue reading

prima facie competition

Submission: November 10, 2020
Registration: October 26, 2020
Language: English, Chinese
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Vietnam after the second world war faced a series of battles lead by their leader Ho Chi Minh for decades. This was to free the country from Japan, and subsequently the French Colonization. Their freedom struggle from foreign colonization was successful in 1986. The country had been through turmoil for decades and was in a state of great disparity. After 1986, Economic and political reforms under Đổi Mới, launched in 1986 itself, transformed the country’s economic status for the following years.

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vietnam architecture competition

Submission: November 10, 2020
Registration: October 26, 2020
Language: English, Chinese
Location: Rustenburg, South Africa
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

The country of South Africa has been renowned worldwide for its mineral wealth, both in diversity and its sheer abundance. Among the many resources originating from Africa’s mineral fertile soil, South Africa provides roughly 80% of the world’s supply of precious metal, contributing to billions in the nation’s GDP. However, the human cost of the mining of platinum over decades at the end has been extraordinary, serving as a microcosm of the entirety of the problems associated with the mining industry the world over.

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habitat design competition

Submission: August 18, 2020
Registration: August 03, 2020
Language: English
Location: El Giza, Egypt
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

As the world urbanizes, the challenge to manage waste becomes more acute, as more people means more garbage. While large cities are struggling with their waste management strategies, people of Manshiyat Naser are mastering the ‘resist throwaway culture’. The Zabaleen -a derogatory term for garbage pickers, collects waste from the Egyptian capital, Cairo and carry it back to the neighborhood. It is remarkable to see that the Zabaleen recycles almost 90% of the collected garbage.

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tinker project

Submission: August 18, 2020
Registration: August 03, 2020
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Extreme Habitat Challenge 2020 is pleased to invite architects, designers, engineers, the student fraternity, and visualizers from around the globe to take part in its third edition of Extreme Habitat Challenge: Pacific. The Extreme Habitat Challenge (EHC) is one of the world’s most coveted competitions for habitat design. It recognizes exceptional ideas that redefine habitat design through the implementation of innovative ideas, techniques, construction, visual, programmatic and futuristic organizations through architecture as a tool. Continue reading

Submission: August 18, 2020
Registration: August 03, 2020
Language: English
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

The popularity of the theatre plays and opera shows created a new typology of structures called “Opera Houses” across Europe. They became the cultural center of a city housing legendary artists and performers.

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opera by the sea

Submission: August 11, 2020
Registration: July 27, 2020
Language: English
Location: Bangladesh
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

Recent times have witnessed a shift in humanity like never before, more than 70 million people around the world are displaced from their homes. Fleeing their countries entirely due to persecution, war or violence, almost 25.9 million of these are seeking asylum in other countries, becoming refugees. Continue reading

re imagine playground competition

Submission: August 11, 2020
Registration: July 28, 2020
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

The realm of entertainment, its notions, responsibilities, and media of representation are a constantly transforming landscape. Within that, there is no sphere broader than that of films to encompass that fully. Cinema, a medium considered to be an immensely accessible and influential one, has come a long way, both in its production and exhibition. From moving images on celluloid constituting the first minute-long films, to the first feature-length film, the introduction of sound, colour, 3D, and later computer-generated imagery, to entirely machinated and highly sophisticated projection systems on the largest screens possible today, the display of films have been on an ever-upward curve. Continue reading

cinema futurismo