Competitions

Register: MAY/31/2019, Submit: MAY/31/2019, Eligibility: Graduate and undergraduate students who are actively enrolled and pursuing architecture or engineering degrees, as well as recent graduates (within the last four years) with a degree in architecture or engineering; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Place 10,000 USD + event (airfare, lodging, and entrance up to 5,000 USD), 2nd Place 3,000 USD, 3rd Place 2,000 USD, 2 People’s Choice Award 1,000 USD each

Global commerce and the unprecedented demand for travel and have resulted in the proliferation of airports around the world. In their short history, terminal buildings have been criticized for employing generic architectural forms that are unapologetically disconnected from their context and cultural identity. Technical complexity and functional design have often taken precedence over quality and comfort for users.

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: FEB/04/2019, Submit: FEB/04/2019, Eligibility: Students who are currently enrolled at an interior design program or institution; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: Individually: IIDA student members 25 USD, non-members 50 USD; teams: IIDA student members 40 USD, non-members 80 USD; at least one team member must be an IIDA student member, Awards: 1st Place 2,500 USD, 2nd Place 1,500 USD, 3rd Place 750 USD

A physicians group that specializes in gastroenterology, gynecology, orthopedics, and urology, along with a local health system, will be constructing an Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. This multi-specialty ASC will support two functions – a clinic that will perform examinations and consultations as well as a surgery center. According to Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s “ASCs: A Positive Trend in Health Care,” the ASC setting allows physicians to perform many specialized and necessary tasks.

Register: JAN/29/2019, Submit: FEB/12/2019, Eligibility: Professionals, students, architects, engineers, designers, artists; individually, (multidisciplinary) teams, Fee: 95 USD (JUL/16 – NOV/20/2018), 135 USD (NOV/21/2018 – JAN/29/2019), Awards: 1st Place 5,000 USD, 2nd Place 2,000 USD, 3rd Place 1,000 USD, Special Mentions

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: JAN/07/2019, Submit: JAN/07/2019, Eligibility: Students, graduates, professionals; individually, teams with unlimited number of members, Fee: 20 EUR individually, 30 EUR teams (SEP/10 – NOV/25/2018); 25 EUR individually, 40 EUR teams (NOV/26/2018 – JAN/07/2019), Awards: Winner 1,000 EUR (excluding TAX); top three finalists – an annual subscription to the DOMUS magazine in digital format; Honorable Mentions

Sevilla (Spain), the capital of Andalusia, best interprets the life style in continuous development of the entire region. The Semana Santa and the Feria de Abril that animate the streets and squares of the city are the most representative monasteries of the year. La Giralda, Placa de Espania, the Casas de Pilatos give value to the popular neighborhoods and are recognized as valuable architectures of the world’s artistic heritage. The Metrosol Parasol, which dominates the old town, offers a privileged point of view from which to admire the city from above while remaining one of the few examples of modernity.

Register: DEC/31/2018, Submit: DEC/31/2018, Eligibility: Everyone, companies, professionals, students (until one year after graduation); individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: Companies 125 USD, professionals 100 USD, students – free (SEP/03 – SEP/30/2018); companies 150 USD, professionals 125 USD, students 30 USD (OCT/01 – NOV/15/2018); companies 175 USD, professionals 150 USD, students 50 USD (NOV/16 – DEC/31/2018); finalist judging fee: companies 350 USD, professionals 300 USD, students 100 USD, Awards: Grand Prize 5,000 USD, Gold Winner (3 prizes) 2,000 USD each, Silver Winner (5 prizes) 1,000 USD each, Bronze Winner (5%), Winner (10%)

Asia Design Prize is an international design prize among designers in the world. This competition discovers novel design concepts and ideas that will lead the future and promote them to the world. Asia Design Prize performs online screening for entries to be evaluated precisely and objectively based on designs without prejudice. Asia Design Prize began as a design contest that explores concept designs to solve social problems in Asia. Design capable of solving problems in Asia such as weather anomaly, polarization, racial discrimination, and food shortage is one of important screening categories along with industrial design, visual design, and spatial design.

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: DEC/16/2018, Submit: DEC/16/2018, Eligibility: Graduate students, graduates or professionals; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: 20 EUR PayPal, 25 EUR bank transfer, (AUG/27 – OCT/15/2018), 25 EUR PayPal, 30 EUR bank transfer (OCT/16 – DEC/16/2018); for each participant, Awards: Winner 500 EUR (excluding TAX) for each participant, 3 top finalists – annual subscription to the DOMUS magazine in digital format, Honorable Mentions

Turin (Italy) is a city of austere and rigorous nature that owes its identity to a long historical process. The first evidence of settlement dates back to the III century B.C. but it is in the sixteenth century, during the Duchy of Savoy, that there is an important process of territorial and cultural expansion. Piazza Castello, built during the ducal period, and the Mole, now home to the cinema museum, are some of the symbols of greater recognition. In this context of strong historical references we want to imagine an architecture capable of regenerating a disused site in the western area of the city.

Register: Open until DEC/03/2018, Submit: DEC/09/2018, Eligibility: Students of architecture and engineering (civil, structural…) from all EU universities; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize 1,200 EUR, 2nd Prize 500 EUR, 3rd Prize 300 EUR, 3 Honorable Mentions

The main goal of the competition is to twist the visions of young professionals-to-be towards the circular economy concepts in the building sector, its new opportunities and applications. The BAMB – Building As Material Banks – project has been working on developing and integrating tools including reversible design and materials passports in order to enable a systemic shift in the building sector, where dynamically and flexibly designed buildings can be incorporated into a circular economy. Through design and circular value chains, materials, products and components used in renovations and new buildings can sustain their value over time.

Register: NOV/21/2018, Submit: NOV/21/2018, Eligibility: Architects, architecture students, engineers, philosophers, sociologists,  photographers, etc.; architect does not must be in the team, but it is recommended; individually, teams up to 4 members, *Fee: 50 EUR – 150 EUR; +VAT 21%, **Awards: 1st Prize 2,000 EUR – 10,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 1,000 EUR – 5,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 500 EUR – 3,000 EUR, 4th Prize 1,000 EUR – 1,500 EUR, 5th Prize 500 EUR; 10 Honorable Mentions

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. On this occasion Russia was chosen to host the event. A total of twelve stadiums in eleven Russian cities have been built and renovated for the FIFA World Cup. But have you ever thought about what happens when Olympic arenas, World Cup stadiums or other costly sporting venues close at the end of the colourful events for which they were designed?

Register: NOV/20/2018, Submit: NOV/30/2018, Eligibility: Professionals, students; all professions; individually, (multidisciplinary) teams up to 4 members, Fee: Professionals 25 USD, students 15 USD (until AUG/20/2018); professionals 35 USD, students 25 USD (AUG/21 – OCT/05/2018); professionals 60 USD, students 40 USD (OCT/06 – NOV/20/2018); +taxes, Awards: 1st Prize 1,500 USD, 2 Runners-up 750 USD each, People’s Choice (professionals) 500 USD, People’s Choice (students) 500 USD, 10 Honorable Mentions (6 professionals, 4 students)

Food is one of the most fundamental elements of human existence. Looking back, the way we produce, store and consume food has evolved greatly. Humans have thrived because our ancestors learnt how to gather, produce and consume food, all with their bare hands. And mankind has sustained due to these crucial elements of knowledge passed through generations. With industrialization came mass production, and with mass production came an influx of consumers – who started paying instead.

Register: NOV/09/2018, Submit: NOV/09/2018, Eligibility: Students, graduates, freelance professionals; individually, teams up to 4 members (at least one member has to be under 35); participants do not have to be experts in architecture or registered in a professional register, Fee: 60 EUR (AUG/09 – SEP/27/2018), 80 EUR (SEP/28 – NOV/09/2018), Awards: 1st Prize 1,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 700 EUR, 3rd Prize 300 EUR

Lima not only is Peru’s capital, but it also is the greatest city for number of inhabitants in Perù. Lima is undergoing a continuous change even though its biggest contradiction remains unchanged: a three meters wall that runs over ten kilometers separates people of different social states. Thus, on one side of the wall, the barren landscape dominates, showing no green areas and only a few streets. This area is barely/rarely reached with water supply and electricity, and many small houses have been manually built, up to the top of the mountain.

Register: NOV/09/2018, Submit: NOV/09/2018, Eligibility: Professionals category: designers working independently or employed by companies; Students category: students enrolled in Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees and recent graduates; individually, teams, Fee: Free, Awards: Professionals category: 1st Prize 3,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 2,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 1,000 EUR; Students category: 1st Prize 2,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 1,200 EUR, 3rd Prize 800 EUR

Porada, in cooperation with Poli.design, founded by Politecnico di Milano, announces an international ideas competition to identify new innovative concepts on different types of writing desks & dressing tables, in which the use of solid wood is prevalent (although not necessarily exclusive) and which conveys the values and the identity of the Porada brand. The wood, whether in natural-finish (preferably in finishes mainly used by the company), or lacquered, can be combined with metal, plate glass, leather, hide leather or fabric.

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.