Register: SEP/06/2018, Submit: NOV/26/2018, Eligibility: Professionals from diverse fields, landscape architects, architects; individually, teams, companies, Fee: Free, Awards: Winner: Contract for Schematic Design and Construction Document – about 800,000,000 KRW (South Korean won) (about 715,720 USD); each of the 5-7 teams – about 40,000,000 KRW (about 35,785 USD), VAT included

Columnar jointing area near Jungmun Daepo Coast is an important geological heritage in Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, created from basaltic lava erupted into the sea approximately 250,000 years ago. It is also a vestige of the local culture as residents appropriated this area for agricultural purposes until 30 years ago, which is unusual for Jeju. Currently, however, not only is it difficult to observe the beautiful landscape of the area but also the potential of the landscape is yet to be fully realized. The park parallel to the columnar jointing is far from fulfilling its role as an entrance into the geological heritage site; furthermore, developments in the surrounding areas are threatening the contextual landscape narrative that connects oreum, the cone-shaped accumulation of volcanic material, to the shore.

Register: APR/03/2019, Submit: MAY/22/2019, Eligibility: Students from ACSA member schools around the world; students must to work under the direction of a faculty sponsor from ACSA member school; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize: students 10,000 USD, faculty sponsor 7,000 USD; 2nd Prize: students 8,000 USD, faculty sponsor 5,000 USD; 3rd Prize: students 6,000 USD, faculty sponsor 4,000 USD; Honorable Mentions

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce “Timber in the City 3″: Urban Habitats Competition for the 2018-2019 academic year. The competition is a partnership between the Binational Softwood Lumber Council (BSLC), ACSA and the School of Constructed Environments (SCE) at Parsons School of Design. The program is intended to engage students, working individually or in teams, to imagine the transformation of our existing cities through sustainable buildings from renewable resources, offering expedient affordable construction, innovating with new and traditional wooden materials, and designing healthy living and working environments.

Register: SEP/30/2018, Submit: OCT/05/2018, Eligibility: Students registered in a spatial design (architecture, interior, landscape, urban) and/or an exhibition design programs; individually, teams with unlimited number of members, Fee: Free, Awards: Winner – total budget of up to $1,500 CAD (Canadian dollar) (about 1,150 USD)

Trans Plan is an international student design competition organized by A2G (Architecture Gallery at the Faculty of Architecture University of Manitoba, Canada). The competition is open to all students registered in a spatial design (architecture, interior, landscape, urban, and so on) and or an exhibition design programs. The challenge of Trans Plan 2018 is to design an immersive installation that evolves throughout the duration of the exhibition. The winning entry, selected by the jury, will be installed at A2G for public viewing for 50+/- days in the fall of 2018. Can space evolve through its contextual and environmental agency? Can we devise an atmospheric and/or spatial evolution? Can we stage evolutive conditions as the main experience of a space?

Register: SEP/25/2018, Submit: SEP/30/2018, Eligibility: Architects, students, engineers, product designers, thinkers, companies, organizations; no professional qualifications are necessary, Fee: Indian nationals 900 INR, international participants 20 USD (AUG/01 – AUG/25/2018); Indian nationals 1500 INR (Indian rupee), international participants 30 USD (AUG/26 – SEP/15/2018); Indian nationals 2400 INR, international participants 40 USD (SEP/16 – SEP/25/2018, Awards: 1st Prize 50,000 INR (about 730 USD), 2nd Prize 30,000 INR (about 435 USD), 3rd Prize 20,000 INR (about 290 USD), Top 10 (except top 3 winners) 5,000 INR (about 70 USD) each, Top 3 Special Recognition and Awards for the teachers or mentors, Top 30 shortlist, People’s Choice Award 5,000 INR (about 70 USD)

The growing issue of homeless people around the world is one that needs to be tackled on a war footing. As our cities grow, each of them are occupied by a diverse narrative of migrants who make the city their home. A third of all urban dwellers worldwide – 1.2 billion people – lack access to safe and secure housing.

Register: AUG/31/2018, Submit: AUG/31/2018, Eligibility: Students, graduates 2017/18 and students of master’s studies in the field: interior design, product design, interior decoration, fashion, art and design; students of universities or schools in UK, Fee: Free, Awards: Winner 30,000 GBP (Pound sterling), 5 Category Winners 1,000 GBP each, Visionary Tutors

In collaboration with recognised SBID universities, with the support of industry members, competition sponsors and our partner, Be Open Think Tank, students across the creative industries are invited to enter the SBID student design competition by submitting their end of year project and propose a Course Leader as Visionary Tutor 2018 in the aim of winning the coveted prizes. SBID created this equal opportunity across their membership and industry to bring imagination, collaboration, education and business together to improve, celebrate and create great minds and amazing outcomes.

Register: OCT/09/2018, Submit: OCT/10/2018, Eligibility: Students and professionals of any discipline, no professional qualification requirements; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: 60 USD, Awards: 5 Winners 4,000 USD each, 10 Honorable Mentions

LA+ Iconoclast asks you to redesign New York’s Central Park, which has been fictionally devastated by eco-terrorists. Central Park is arguably the canonical work of modern landscape architecture. Its aesthetic and socio-political ideals of health, beauty and democracy underpin the profession of landscape architecture, which Olmsted first named, to this day. Writing of the park in 1973, the artist Robert Smithson claimed that Olmsted “combined both art and reclamation in Central Park in a way that is truly in advance of his times.” But what would Olmsted do today? What will you do? This competition asks that you redesign Central Park, starting, as Olmsted and Calvert Vaux did, from scratch. In doing so this competition seeks to explore the following questions:

Register: OCT/31/2018, Submit: OCT/31/2018, Eligibility: Natural and legal persons, professionals and students in the field of architecture and interior design; individually, teams, Fee: Free, Awards: Architecture: (Realization) 1st Place 2,500 EUR, 2nd Place 1,200 EUR, 3rd Place 800 EUR; (Concept) 1st Place 1,000 EUR, 2nd Place 600 EUR, 3rd Place 400 EUR; Interior: (Realization) 1st Place 1,600 EUR, 2nd Place 800 EUR, 3rd Place 600 EUR; (Concept) 1st Place 1,000 EUR + CAD Decor 2 (value 1,900 EUR), 2nd Place 600 EUR + CAD software (time limited license – value 55 EUR), 3rd Place 400 EUR + CAD software (time limited license – value 55 EUR); prizes without TAX

We cordially invite you to participate in this year’s edition of the competition for the best project or realization: LUG Best Project Contest! Design a building, façade or interior, illuminate it with LUG and FLASH&DQ luminaires and win attractive prizes! Take part in the competition in one of the categories:

Register: OCT/31/2018, Submit: NOV/10/2018, Eligibility: Professionals and students in the field architecture, planning, interior design, product design, other design, animation; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: Categories 1 and 2 – Indian nationals: single 700 INR (Indian rupee), team 1,800 INR; international students: single 25 USD, team 50 USD; Category 3 – Indian nationals: single 1,000 INR, team 2,400 INR; international participants: single 25 USD, team 50 USD, Awards: In each category (1, 2 or 3): 1st Prize 30,000 INR (about 436 USD), 2nd Prize 15,000 INR (about 218 USD), 3rd Prize 5,000 INR (about 72 USD), 5 Honorable Mentions

We are a group of students and professionals from various fields of art and design who believe that our classrooms and studios can be spiced up a little to make them more interesting. We are concerned about the current generation of students of fine arts and design who end up suppressing their creative talent and talent in the race for marks and jobs.

Register: SEP/13/2018, Submit: SEP/18/2018, Eligibility: Design professionals, architects, structural engineers, civil engineers, students; individually, teams, Fee: Professionals 50 GBP (Pound sterling) (about 56 EUR), students 25 GBP (about 28 EUR); +VAT, Awards: Winner 20,000 GBP (about 22,454 EUR)

The Footbridge Design Ideas Competition is seeking design concepts to further improve the legacy of rail pioneers and enduring examples of their footbridge designs across the UK rail network. In launching the competition Network Rail is seeking to re‐affirm its commitment to good design across the nation, and the delivery of excellent ordinary. Given that it is unrealistic to think that a one‐size‐fits‐all approach is appropriate given the context of Network Rail’s national footbridge portfolio, the aspiration is to generate a catalogue of appropriate footbridge designs affording greater flexibility in addressing sites across the country.

Register: SEP/22/2018, Submit: SEP/23/2018, Eligibility: Everyone over 18 years old; architects, designers, students; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: 20 EUR (AUG/01 – AUG/07/2018), 25 EUR (AUG/08 – SEP/12/2018), 30 EUR (SEP/13 – SEP/22/2018), after the competition start 50 EUR, Awards: 1st Place 500 EUR, 2nd Place 150 EUR, 3rd Place 50 EUR, 7 Honorable Mentions

Ideasforward wants to give young creative people from around the world the opportunity to express their views on the future of societies through their innovative and visionary proposals. We are an experimental platform seeking progressive ideas that reflect on emerging themes. The eco design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts and technologies are compelling issues in the societies of the future and the involvement of the whole community is imperative.

Register: OCT/30/2018, Submit: OCT/31/2018, Eligibility: Architects, architecture graduates, students, engineers; individually, (interdisciplinary) teams up to 3 members, Fee: Indian nationals 1500 INR (Indian rupee), foreign nationals 60 EUR (AUG/01 – SEP/30/2018); Indian nationals 1,800 INR, foreign nationals 80 EUR (OCT/01 – OCT/30/2018); discount for a minimum of 5 teams from one architecture school or university, Awards: 1st Prize 1,00,000 INR (about 1,300 EUR), 2nd Prize 60,000 INR (about 780 EUR), 3rd Prize 40,000 INR (about 520 EUR), 10 Honorable Mentions

“When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.” With each passing year and subsequent technological advancement, man is becoming more and more apathetic about the natural ecosystem he was once an indispensable part of. There has been unprecedented destruction of nature and its key elements like forests, foliage, wildlife and marine habitats in order to satisfy the whims and fancies of the human race.

Register: DEC/16/2018, Submit: DEC/17/2018, Eligibility: Designers, architects, professionals, students; individually, (interdisciplinary) teams up to 4 members which can be from different countries and universities, Fee: 55 USD (JUL/23 – SEP/10/2018), 75 USD (SEP/11 – OCT/29/2018), 95 USD (OCT/30 – DEC/16/2018), Awards: 1st Place 5,000 USD, 3 Runner-up Awards 1,000 USD each, 10 Honorable Mentions, Directors’ Choice Award

By 2025, waste produced by cities around the globe will be enough to fill a line of rubbish trucks 3,100 miles long every day. (World Bank Group) Waste is a global issue common to all urban areas. The world now creates more than a billion tons of garbage a year, which it incinerates, buries, exports, and recycles. As major cities expand so must their ability to reverse wasteful tendencies and begin living more efficiently and sustainably. Until recently in Lagos, the Nigerian megalopolis handled its waste by relocation.

Register: NOV/05/2018, Submit: NOV/05/2018, Eligibility: Designers and professionals in the fields of the built environment; multidisciplinary teams, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize 8,000,000 CLP (Chilean peso) (about 10,840 EUR), 2nd Prize 2,000,000 CLP (about 2,712 EUR), 3rd Prize 1,000,000 CLP (about 1,355 EUR), 3 Honorable Mentions; included taxes, fees and services for international transactions

This call for ideas considers water landscapes, specifically rivers, as mediators in the formation of a harmonic and dynamic balance between cities and nature. A river restoration approach (considering fluvial geomorphology) should be adopted in order to “re-enliven the river” and as a lens from which to reinforce and understand natural systems for design adaptation. The competition focuses on the Andalién River in Chile, the settlements it crosses and proposed growth areas in zones of risk and ecological value.

Register: OCT/15/2018, Submit: OCT/15/2018, Eligibility: Professionals, companies, architects, designers, students, entrepreneurs, universities/schools; individually, groups, Fee: Companies 800 EUR, professionals 500 EUR, start-ups (within 5 years after starting a business) 300 EUR, universities/schools (groups) 200 EUR, students 100 EUR, Awards: Winner 2,000 EUR; the realization and construction of a winning house in Japan is planned

Since its foundation in 1919 in Weimar, “Bauhaus” is not just the name of Walter Gropius’ legendary school of building – it also stands for unprecedented ideas as well as for having the courage to create the future while considering present global and social issues. The initial purpose was to create a school of building which would achieve a total work of art through its interdisciplinary ways. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Bauhaus, Universal Design will be hosting the architecture competition “The Small House of Universal Design Award” in 2019.