Register: OCT/20/2017, Submit: NOV/15/2017, Eligibility: Design companies, designers, students in architecture, landscape, and urban planning; individually, teams, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize (1 team) – 200,000 RMB (CNY – Chinese Yuan Renminbi) (about 28,000 USD); 2nd Prize (3 teams) – 100,000 RMB (about 14,000 USD) each; 3rd Prize (8 teams) – 10,000 RMB (about 1,400 USD) each; (tax included); Honorable Mentions – free UED magazine

City is the habitant for human. However, with global urbanization going on, city problems have been arising ever more, such as air pollution, water source shortage, traffic congestion, worse public security and urban homogenization. Decision-makers and citizens begin to reflect: can cities bear our simple and magnificent dream of a better life? Where is the future of city? And where is the future of human beings? Nowadays, Chinese urbanization is progressing in a more rational way.

Register: AUG/26/2017, Submit: AUG/27/2017, Eligibility: Everyone over 18 years old; architects, designers, students; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: 15 EUR (JUL/11 – JUL/15/2017), 20 EUR (JUL/16 – AUG/16/2017), 25 EUR (AUG/17 – AUG/26/2017), Awards: 1st Place 500 EUR, 2nd Place 150 EUR, 3rd Place 50 EUR + 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place receive per 5 sketchbooks Emílio Braga), 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: AUG/18/2017, Submit: AUG/23/2017, Eligibility: Anyone, designers, students, Fee: General 100 CAD (Canadian dollar) (about 76 USD), students 50 CAD (about 38 USD), Awards: 5,000 CAD budget for each bench (about 3,840 USD)

The Bench is an idea based design competition open to all ages and backgrounds. The challenge of the competition is to design and install a temporary structure on a street to transform the street environment to a form of public space. The challenge of The Bench 2017 is to design a seasonal seating-space along the street edge(s) defined by the competition. The competition will unfold in two phases: selection by jury and installation for seasonal use. Multiple entries will be chosen as winning entries and will be constructed for public use during the 2017 Winnipeg Design Festival. During the festival, the organizers will schedule and facilitate The Bench Talks alongside the benches and the festival grounds.

Register: AUG/03/2017, Submit: AUG/03/2017, Eligibility: Urban designers, architects; planning, policy and community specialists, landscape designers, development economists, students; multidisciplinary teams, Fee: Free, Awards: 4 shortlisted teams – honorarium of 10,000 GBP each to progress concepts

The corridor that spans Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Northampton and Oxford defines one of the most productive and fastest-growing knowledge networks in the United Kingdom. It is home to 3.3 million people and hosts some of the country’s most successful cities, as well as world-leading universities, knowledge-intensive high-tech firms and highly-skilled workers. Yet within this area significant housing and transport pressures exist: the scarcity of suitable and affordable homes, and difficulties in travelling within, and between, cities. These constraints are becoming obstacles to attracting and retaining talent and inevitably putting a break on economic growth.

Register: JAN/10/2018, Submit: JAN/30/2018, Eligibility: Students and professionals worldwide; architects, landscape architects, urban planners, engineers, designers, Fee: Students free; architects, engineers and designers 275 USD, Awards: Student and professional winners – total up to 25,000 USD

The Architecture at Zero competition challenge is to create a zero net energy bayside community education and visitor’s center, in support of the mission of the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies (RTC). This facility is San Francisco State University’s (SFSU) center for estuary and ocean science located on 53 acres of bayside property in Tiburon, California. The competition has two components. First, entrants will create an overall site plan to accommodate the program outlined below. Entrants are encouraged to highlight any energy efficiency strategies or systems shown. Second, entrants will design two buildings in detail, to indicate zero net energy (ZNE) performance. In order to demonstrate the building design and its performance, entrants will provide required documentation and may also include supplementary documentation.

Register: NOV/19/2017, Submit: NOV/19/2017, Eligibility: Architects, designers, engineers, artists, urban planners, researchers, conceivers, students, professionals; individually, multidisciplinary teams, Fee: Free, Awards: 1) “Innovation and architecture for the sea” awards – Louis Vicat: Grand Prix 7,500 EUR, Focus: “The ports of the future” 2,500 EUR; 2) “Innovation and architecture for space” awards: Grand Prix 7,500 EUR, Focus: “Solar power satellites” 2,500 EUR; 3) “Architecture and sea level rise” awards: Grand Prix 7,500 EUR, Focus: “The African coastline” – 2,500 EUR

Seize the opportunity to imagine an audacious, innovating, visionary and tangible project. Like Jules Verne, Gustave Eiffel, Arthur C. Clarke, Jacques Piccard, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Jacques Rougerie, and so on, you wish to put your passion, your talent as a creator, an architect, an engineer, or a builder along with your convictions to the service of the evolution of our society for a healthier relation between Man and Earth.

Register: AUG/04/2017, Submit: OCT/24/2017, Eligibility: Architects, urban planners, landscape architects, designers; teams – minimum of one person with Master’s Degree in the area of architecture, Fee: Free, Awards: 5 equivalent prizes – 50,000 PLN (Polish zloty) (about 11,770 EUR) gross value of each + negotiation; Honorable Mentions

The goal of the Competition is to select the best urban-architectural-landscape concept for the Central Square in Warsaw, Poland in terms of program, space, function, and architecture. Central Square is the public space that will be created between the main entrance of the Palace of Culture and Science Building and Marszałkowska Street. The Competition Design shall take into account the national, regional, and local dimension of the future square as it function as an attractive venue for various forms of activity ranging from a simple walk crossing the square, through the private spending of time by individuals, all the way to mass events.

egister: JUL/31/2017, Submit: JUL/31/2017, Eligibility: Students and professionals in the fields of landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning, urban design; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: Free, Awards: (Stage 1) 5 Travel Stipends – 1,000 USD each; (Stage 2) 3 Travel Stipends – 1,000 USD each; (Stage 3) 1st Place 10,000 USD, 2nd Place 5,000 USD, 3rd Place 2,500 USD

Detroit is working to reorganize two of its greatest assets – public land and green space. Our city has 131,000 vacant lots, over 100 abandoned public school sites, and 95 small parks under an acre, all of which require continued stewardship. Recognizing new patterns of growth in the city, we aim to act more efficiently with the public land that we have. Unlike buildings, public parks and green spaces are flexible and can be quickly repositioned without incurring large costs.

Register: NOV/11/2017, Submit: NOV/11/2017, Eligibility: Architects, designers, artists, students, academics, thinkers, visionaries; individually, (multidisciplinary) teams up to 4 members, Fee:  60 GBP (Pound sterling) (JUL/11 – JUL/31/2017), 80 GBP (AUG/01/2017 – OCT/31/2017), 100 GBP (NOV/01 – NOV/11/2017), Awards: Winner 2,000 GBP, Runner-up 400 GBP, 6 Honorable Mentions, The People’s Choice Award 100 GBP

For this challenge, we focus our attention on natural disasters by looking at the concept and definition of shelter in their immediate aftermath and by posing the question: how can architecture and design help protect, shelter and save lives when they strike? Natural disasters kill thousands of people a year. Typically, the biggest killer isn’t the actual event itself, but the hours following the event.

Register: JAN/23/2018, Submit: FEB/06/2018, Eligibility: Architects, students, engineers, designers, artists; individually, multidisciplinary teams, Fee: 95 USD (JUL/10 – NOV/14/2017), 135 USD (NOV/15/2017 – JAN/23/2018), Awards: 1st Place 5,000 USD, 2nd Place 2,000 USD, 3rd Place 1,000 USD

Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.

Register: SEP/30/2017, Submit: SEP/30/2017, Eligibility: Architects, students, engineers, designers, artists, philosophers; individually, (interdisciplinary) teams up to 3 members, Fee: Indian nationals 1500 INR (Indian rupee), foreign nationals 60 EUR (JUL/01/2016 – AUG/31/2017); Indian nationals 1,800 INR, foreign nationals 80 EUR (SEP/01 – SEP/30/2017); discount for 5 teams from one architecture school/university, Awards: 1st Prize 100,000 INR (about 1,355 EUR), 2nd Prize 60,000 INR (about 815 EUR), 3rd Prize 40,000 INR (about 540 EUR), 10 Honorable Mentions

Paris and the entire country of France is world-famous for its cuisine, with a non-xhaustive list of delicacies and culinary systems. The culinary reputation of Paris is very rich, cultured and diverse. French food culture, according to UNESCO, is important for ‘bringing people together to enjoy the art of good eating and drinking’ and the power to create ‘togetherness, the pleasure of taste, and the balance between human beings and the products of nature’.

Register: OCT/09/2017, Submit: OCT/09/2017, Eligibility: Professionals in the field: design, architecture, urbanism, landscape, civil engineering, industrial engineering, informatical engineering, business, finance, management; undergraduate/graduate students; multidisciplinary teams up to 10 members, Fee: 75 USD, Awards: In each context – 1st Place 4,000 USD, 2nd Place 2,000 USD, 3rd Place 1,000 USD, 20 Special Mentions, 3 Honorable Mentions

This competition wants to obtain international ideas for the future of 3 areas of the Mexican State of Guanajuato. We are looking for local solution, but with an innovative and global vision about this strong topic of the Sustainable Tourism for Development. The United Nations have declared the 2017 the year of the Sustainable Tourism for Development and the UN agency UNWTO (United Nation World Tourism Organization) is participating to the 10 YFP with the Sustainable Tourism Programe.

Register: OCT/15/2017, Submit: OCT/15/2017, Eligibility: Architecture students, young architects that have graduated within the last 3 years; individually, teams, Fee: 30 EUR (DEC/05/2016 – JAN/24/2017), 90 EUR (JAN/25 – JUN/29/2017), 120 EUR (JUN/30 – OCT/15/2017), Awards: 1st Prize 3,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 2,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 1,000 EUR, 10 Honorable Mentions, 30 Finalists; possibility of internship at juries’ offices

The IS ARCH Awards are international awards targeting students of architecture. Our aim is to provide a platform for debate surrounding the architecture solutions that students contribute within the framework of their university studies. The competition aims to boost avant-garde trends and to recognize new research that emerges from universities. It also provides students’ work with an opportunity for international projection that extends beyond the traditional relationship between students and their lecturers.

Register: OCT/21/2017, Submit: OCT/22/2017, Eligibility: Designers, architects, professionals, students; individually, (interdisciplinary) teams up to 4 members which can be from different countries and universities, Fee: 55 USD (JUN/07 – JUL/08/2017), 75 USD (JUL/09 – AUG/12/2017), 95 USD (AUG/13 – OCT/21/2017), Awards: 1st Place 5,000 USD, 3 Runner-up Awards 1,000 USD each, 10 Honorable Mentions, Directors’ Choice Award

Since the Cold War, one of the most challenging and urgent tasks facing governments around the world has been the disposal of transuranic nuclear waste. As a by-product from nuclear weaponry production, transuranic waste is not only harmful, but also boasts a formidable decay process lasting thousands of years. To address this issue, millions of barrels of highly radioactive waste have been buried in repositories deep beneath the earth’s surface. One such disposal site is the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, United States.