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/16/2019, Submit: JUN/04/2019, Eligibility: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 90 USD, students 70 USD (OCT/25 – DEC/04/2018); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 120 USD, students 100 USD (DEC/05/2018 – FEB/12/2019); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 140 USD, students 120 USD (FEB/13 – APR/16/2019), discount for 3+ registrations from one university/school, Awards: 1st Prize 3,000 USD, 2nd Prize 1,500 USD, 3rd Prize 500 USD, BB Student Award 500 USD, BB Green Award 500 USD, 6 Honorable Mentions

Latvia has been described as a vast, unspoilt parkland that is a tapestry of sea, lakes, and woods. With only one major cosmopolitan city, the capital city Riga, Latvia is a small country that provides its visitors and inhabitants with a vast amount of personal space. As one of the greenest countries in the world, most of Latvia is composed of fertile lowland plains and moderate hills.

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: MAR/22/2019, Submit: MAR/22/2019, Eligibility: Students of any accredited architecture school in North America; individually, Fee: 15 USD, Awards: 1st Prize 12,000 USD for 3 months travel abroad, 2nd Prize 8,000 USD for 2 months travel abroad, 3rd Prize 4,500 USD for 1 months travel abroad, Citation, Merit

The United States is a country of immigrants with a long history of receiving new arrivals. In 1886, the statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World” was officially unveiled, and between 1892 and 1954 the Ellis Island Immigration Station processed 12 million immigrants in New York City alone. Angel Island, in the San Francisco Bay, was home to the West Coast Immigration Station, which was built in 1905. Unlike Ellis Island, new arrivals were housed in barracks on the island under very difficult conditions, some for extended periods of time. Until the station’s closure in 1940, the island was seen as a mechanism to exile immigrants in geo-political limbo – there was never a Statue of Liberty welcoming them.

Register: MAR/20/2019, Submit: MAR/20/2019, Eligibility: Students of all institutions, colleges and/or universities in the field of architecture, landscape, planning, urban design; graduate/masters and undergraduate/bachelors projects completed in the calendar year 2017, 2018 & 2019; individually, teams, Fee: Free, Awards: Winner (Worldwide) – Best Master’s Thesis Project: 1,000 USD; Winner (Worldwide) – Best Bachelors Thesis Project: 1,000 USD; People’s Choice Winner (Worldwide) – Most liked/voted project: 500 USD; Best Institution for Graduation Projects (Worldwide); Best in Region (Bachelors, Masters, Most Voted – for each Region): 1. Oceania, 2. South America and Caribbean, 3. Central and East Asia, 4. North & Central America, 5. Africa & Mediterranean, 6. West & South Asia, 7. Europe and Russia

UnFUSE a part of Uni serves as a platform to create a global community of architects and designers who are pushing the boundaries of architecture discipline to enrich our built environment. At UnFUSE we promote exceptional works, ideas, experimentations in the field of architecture, landscape, urban design, society, culture and ecology.

Register: FEB/15/2019, Submit: FEB/15/2019, Eligibility: Students of architecture, interior design, urban planning, landscape architecture; Master’s students, graduates, young architects; individually, (interdisciplinary) teams, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize: 10,000 EUR, 2nd Prize: 7,000 EUR, 3rd Prize: 4,000 EUR, 2 Honorariums: 1,500 EUR each

Frei Otto is considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. Whilst his work is primarily characterised by constructive boldness and structural lightness, it equally stands for new dawnings, pluralism and freedom. The interplay of construction, poetry and visionary thinking is what makes his buildings so fascinating right up to the present day. Frei Otto was posthumously awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture for his life’s work, in 2015.

Register: FEB/05/2019, Submit: FEB/10/2019, Eligibility: Students and professionals of all disciplines, bachelor’s/undergraduate, master’s/undergraduate. Ph.D. students; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: Students 15 USD, professionals 25 USD (until NOV/07/2018); students 25 USD, professionals 35 USD (NOV/08 – DEC/22/2018); students 40 USD, professionals 60 USD (DEC/23/2018 – FEB/05/2019); + taxes; Awards: Winner 80,000 INR (Indian rupee) (about 1,130 USD); Runner-up 50,000 INR (about 710 USD); People’s Choice (1 student and 1 professional) 25,000 INR (about 355 USD) each; 5 Honorable Mentions (2 students and 3 professionals) 12,000 INR (about 170 USD) each

Urbanization, the key to the future – a good or a bad one at that? On August 2018, Kerala & some parts of Kodagu, India faced one of the worst Floods of the century, with 300+ deaths and infrastructure damages over Rs. 8,000 crores (1.1 Billion USD). Every time disaster hits, we as humans do everything in our power to suppress it, provide aid and rehabilitate. But even the most advanced prevention systems and methods fail.

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: FEB/01/2019, Submit: FEB/02/2019, Eligibility: Everyone, professionals, architects, designers, students;  individually, (multidisciplinary) teams with unlimited number of members, Fee: Students: 25 USD, teams of students: 50 USD, professionals: 75 USD, teams of professionals: 125 USD (until NOV/01/2018); students: 50 USD, teams of students: 75 USD, professionals: 100 USD, teams of professionals: 150 USD (NOV/02 – JAN/01/2019); students: 75 USD, teams of students: 100 USD, professionals: 125 USD, teams of professionals: 175 USD (JAN/02 – FEB/01/2019), Awards: In each of the 3 categories (architectural design, product design, universal design): Winner 1,500 USD & about 10 Honorable Mentions; Emerging designer (additional prize for students): 500 USD; about 50 Finalists; Solarlux Choice

The Design that Educates Awards (DtEA) investigate the educational potential of architecture and design. The ability to communicate the implemented solutions and features is the main theme of the awards.

Register: JAN/30/2019, Submit: JAN/31/2019, Eligibility: Everyone, architects, students, engineers; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: 60 EUR (OCT/01 – DEC/31/2018), 80 EUR (JAN/01 – JAN/30/2019); student discounts if a minimum of 5 teams register from one architecture school or university, Awards: 1st Prize 1,500 EUR, 2nd Prize 1,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 500 EUR, 10 ‘Editors Choices’

By its dictionary definition, a hotel is ‘an establishment providing accommodation, meals, and other services for travellers and tourists. This is a basic idea and perception of what a hotel is at the present. However, the competition encourages participants to debate the course of hospitality in the future or as we can put it: ‘What can a hotel be?” The aim of this competition is to question the very notion of a hotel and confront the stereotypes and conventions of this building typology. The competition encourages the participants to explore new possibilities and come up with innovative and unorthodox solutions that can enhance and change the boundaries of hotel architecture.

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/16/2019, Submit: JAN/16/2019, Eligibility: Architects, architecture students, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize 4,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 2,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 1,000 EUR, 5 Honorable Mentions

No one can define beauty in simple terms, nevertheless, we know that its experience is often identified with certain qualities. Mathematicians – who, unlike architects, never stopped believing in the role of beauty – knowingly, and comfortably list surprise, significance, clarity, profundity, or ambiguity, as some of its characteristics, and they point out that when order takes over disorder, ‘all falls into place’. This pleasing moment is something that architects are familiar with too and it is a well-known step towards beauty. In our time, beauty is not a singular idea, as plurality prevails, hence we are looking for new architectural beauties. The task is to create a neighbourhood of shared and private habitats to live and work in. Indoor and outdoor places for people of all ages to learn, play and grow.

Register: JAN/15/2019, Submit: JAN/25/2019, Eligibility: Students, professionals, architects, designers, engineers; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: Indian participants 2,000 INR (Indian rupee), foreign participants 75 USD (OCT/13 – DEC/15/2018); Indian participants 2,800 INR, foreign participants 95 USD (DEC/16/2018 – JAN/15/2019), Awards: 1st Prize 2,000 USD, 2nd Prize 1,200 USD, 3rd Prize 800 USD, 5 Honorable Mentions, 10 Special Mentions

The world is growing at a break-neck speed today and with rapid urbanization, information and technology, it is demanding a constantly changing human intellect. To face these transformations, the upcoming generations need to be moulded in a way that they can cope efficiently with the variations. Education can help initiate this change by altering the mindsets and outlook of people around the world. Over the last decades, education has evolved into a vital necessity for people belonging to all facets of the ever-changing world.

Register: JAN/11/2019, Submit: JAN/11/2019, Eligibility: Professionals, architects, designers, students, enthusiasts; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee:  60 GBP (SEP/11 – OCT/08/2018), 90 GBP (OCT/09 – DEC/27/2018), 120 GBP (DEC/28/2018 – JAN/11/2019); student discount 10%, Awards: Winner 2,000 GBP (Pound sterling), Runner-up 400 GBP, 6 Honorable Mentions, The People’s Choice Award 100 GBP

Our latest challenge is an effort to fight plastic waste in our waters by focusing on rivers and oceans. Plastic pollution in our oceans is one of the biggest environmental problems we are facing today on our planet. It is no longer an occurrence reserved to isolated pockets of our earth, but rather a booming global phenomenon. We invite creatives and visionaries from all around the world to join in and fight plastic pollution through raw creativity, imagination and talent. We are now witnessing the exponential growth of a world-wide plastic epidemic, as our planet is becoming covered in man-made waste. Every year, we produce over 300 million tonnes of plastic.