Competitions

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: 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: DEC/15/2017, Submit: DEC/15/2017, Eligibility: Graduate students, graduates or professionals; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: 15 EUR PayPal or 20 EUR bank transfer (AUG/28 – SEP/29/2017), 20 EUR PayPal or 25 EUR bank transfer (SEP/30 – NOV/24/2017), 25 EUR PayPal or 30 EUR bank transfer (NOV/25 – DEC/15/2017), Awards: 1st Prize 500 EUR (excluding TAX) for each participant, Honorable Mentions

The Acropolis is the symbol of Athens, an imposing rock spur used in archaic times as a defensive bastion. In the 7^th century its militaristic area became the place to celebrate the gods: the construction of the Parthenon, the Propilei, the Eretteo and the Temple of Nike Athena are worth the UNESCO heritage site. The agora, on the other hand, represented the commercial and political hub of the city where all the most important Greek philosophers were.

Register: DEC/06/2017, Submit: DEC/14/2017, Eligibility: Architects, designers, architecture students; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: 35 EUR + VAT (AUG/22 – SEP/19/2017), 60 EUR + VAT (SEP/20 – OCT/17/2017), 90 EUR + VAT (OCT/18 – NOV/14/2017), 110 EUR + VAT (NOV/15 – DEC/06/2017); VAT = 21%, Awards: 1st Prize 2,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 1,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 500 EUR, Mentions

The pace of urban life, information overload, visual and noise pollution, invasive advertising and other external factors constantly overstimulate our senses altering and distorting our perception of reality. Nowadays it is difficult to find an evocative space for inspiration, which is not only an aesthetically pleasing site, but also psychologically and emotionally neutral, where it is possible to concentrate, clear the mind, the consciousness and the artistic sensibilities.

Register: DEC/06/2017, Submit: DEC/06/2017, Eligibility: Architects, architecture students, philosophers, sociologists, photographers, etc; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: 40 EUR + VAT (AUG/21 – SEP/27/2017), 60 EUR + VAT (SEP/28 – NOV/01/2017), 80 EUR + VAT (NOV/02 – DEC/06/2017); VAT 21%, Awards: 1st Prize 4,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 1,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 500 EUR, People’s Choice Award 200 EUR, 10 Honorable Mentions

Since the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), the world has witnessed some of the worst examples of barbarism and cruelty in recent history. Massacres of entire populations and mass escape of refugees have to be added to the deliberate destruction of much of the historical and cultural heritage of the earliest civilizations. However, the real catastrophe that is shocking the world is the human drama experienced by hundreds of thousands of people escaping from the continuing attacks on cities in Iraq and Syria and the destruction of their homes.

Register: NOV/30/2017, Submit: NOV/30/2017, Eligibility: Architects, designers, civil engineers, landscape architects/designers, structural engineers/designers, urban planners, urbanists, students; individually, teams up to 7 members, Fee: Free, Awards: Prize fund 12,500 EUR – Grand Prize (85% of the fund), 3 winners in categories (15% of the fund), 20 participants in shortlist

Augmented reality provides us with new research field of architecture. Now you do not need architectural models. We can see the building as it is with all the details. At the same time, it remains virtual model. These properties are augmented reality give us new opportunities. For example, we can compare the buildings from different regions of the world, from different eras in the same scale. We can make collections of buildings, unimaginable compositions. These new aspects give the researcher of the architecture an unexpected tools and fundamentally unattainable points of perception.

Register: NOV/29/2017, Submit: NOV/29/2017, Eligibility: Everyone, students, graduates, freelance architects, designers, artists; individually, teams (with no maximum number of members, but least one above 18 years old), Fee: 40 EUR (AUG/28 – OCT/01/2017), 50 EUR (OCT/02 – NOV/05/2017), 60 EUR (NOV/06 – NOV/29/2017), Awards: 1st Prize 1,500 EUR, 2nd Prize 400 EUR, 3rd Prize 300 EUR

The world is in the palm of our hand thanks to technological and digital developments of the past two decades. Fast internet, new devices and applications have made us more self-reliant and give us more instant control of our own lives. This also goes for healthcare, a field in which the development of new tools and systems has taken a rapid pace. New products and services assist medical professionals and simplify the lives of clients and patients, enabling them to live their lives more independently.

Register: NOV/29/2017, Submit: DEC/20/2017, Eligibility: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 90 USD, students 70 USD (MAY/11 – JUN/21/2017), architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 120 USD, students 100 USD (JUN/22 – SEP/13/2017), architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 140 USD, students 120 USD (SEP/14 – NOV/29/2017); discount for 3+ registrations from one university/school, Awards: 1st Prize 3,000 USD + free admission to Global Tall Building Studio – Design Workshop in Dubai, 2nd Prize 1,500 USD, 3rd Prize 500 USD, BB Student Award – 500 USD, BB Green Award – 500 USD, 6 Honorable Mentions

The Skyhive Skyscraper Challenge is looking to create an iconic high rise structure for an office tower with state-of-the-art facilities. Winning entries will be showcased in their Global Tall Building Studio Design workshop in Dubai.

Register: NOV/22/2017, Submit: NOV/22/2017, Eligibility: Full-time undergraduate or graduate students of architecture, landscape, urban design, or related program; individually; citizens or permanent residents of the USA, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize 1,000 USD, 2nd Prize 500 USD, 3rd Prize 250 USD

The General Services Administration (GSA) invites students in architecture, landscape, and urban design programs to envision a design intervention that activates the New San Francisco Federal Building plaza. Winning ideas will also address the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture, building tenant needs for the facility, community goals, feasibility, and will also achieve the best value for the American taxpayer through good design. The intervention may take the form of physical renovation of the plaza, programming new use(s), and/or some other means of transformation designed to activate public space.

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: NOV/19/2017, Submit: DEC/04/2017, Eligibility: Architecture (and related fields) undergraduate students; graduate, masters, and PhD students who obtained undergraduate degree less than 3 years ago; young professional architects who graduated less than 10 years ago; individually, teams (interdisciplinary – photographers, artists, philosophers, etc.) up to 6 members, Fee: 60,50 EUR (AUG/07 – SEP/24/2017), 90,75 EUR (SEP/25 – OCT/22/2017), 121 EUR (OCT/23 – NOV/19/2017), (VAT included), Awards: Students – 1st Prize 2,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 1,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 500 EUR, 10 Honorable Mentions; Young architects – 1st Prize 2,000 EUR, 3 Honorable Mentions

During the boom economic years in Spain the employment, opportunities and wishful thinking thrived. The banks would finance more than 100% of the home purchases and facilitated the purchase operations over the rental transactions.

Register: NOV/14/2017, Submit: NOV/14/2017, Eligibility: Everyone, professionals, designers, students; individually, multidisciplinary teams, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize 5,000 CAD (Canadian dollar), 2nd Prize 3,000 CAD, 3rd Prize 2,000 CAD

The purpose of this competition is to raise awareness of Indigenous Housing in Canada and improve opportunities available to design, deliver and maintain housing for remote access Indigenous Canadians. There are over 600 Indigenous Communities in Canada with over 60 ethnic groups located in diverse landscapes, many with remote access. Current housing is provided by Indigenous Communities or with funding from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. Housing demand can exceed supply causing overcrowding.

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: NOV/06/2017, Submit: NOV/11/2017, Eligibility: Architecture students (undergraduate, graduate, master, PhD), young architects, professionals with a degree in architecture studies (everybody ≤ 40 years old); individually, (multidisciplinary) teams up to 4 member (architecture students, young architects, professionals, landscape architects, urban designers, artists), Fee: 60 EUR + VAT = 73.80 EUR (JUL/20 – SEP/25/2017), 75 EUR + VAT = 92.25 EUR  (SEP/26 – OCT/26/2017), 90 EUR + VAT = 110.70 EUR (OCT/27 – NOV/06/2017); VAT 23%, Awards: 1st Prize 2,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 1,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 500 EUR, 7 Honorable Mentions

This is an international architectural design competition for the Site Theatre located on a site promontory near the Fortress of Baleal, in Baleal, Peniche, Portugal.