COMPETITIONS

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: FEB/01/2020, Submit: FEB/02/2020, 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 AUG/01/2019); students: 50 USD, teams of students: 75 USD, professionals: 100 USD, teams of professionals: 150 USD (AUG/02 – NOV/01/2019); students: 75 USD, teams of students: 100 USD, professionals: 125 USD, teams of professionals: 175 USD (NOV/02/2019 – FEB/01/2020), Awards: In each of the 4 categories (architectural design, product design, universal design, responsive design) Winner: 1,250 USD + Gold, Silver & Bronze Prize + Honorable Mentions; Winner of Emerging designer: 625 USD; Winner of Solarlux Choice: 1,000 USD

The ‘Design that Educates Awards’ (DtEA) recognize, showcase, and promote globally the best ideas and implementations of architecture and design that can educate.

Register: DEC/08/2019, Submit: DEC/09/2019, Eligibility: Professionals up to 5 years of experience, architects, industrial designers, engineers, landscape architects, artists, students, trainees, firms; individually, (multidisciplinary) teams with any number of members, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize: 5,000 USD + travel stipend to trade fair “Light + Building” in Frankfurt, Germany: 2,000 USD, 2nd Prize: 2,500 USD, 3rd Prize: 1,000 USD

In the modern word, complexity and uncertainty seem ever-present. How do we maintain relative order and a sense of calm? We rely on the power of interconnectivity. When different systems, processes ans people work seamlessly in conjunction with one another, this is when our towns and cities flourish. But what happens when something goes wrong? Conflict, disruption and environmental changes can leave us vulnerable, but we’re never entirely powerless. This forms the challenge of CLUE edition 05: to explore how light can help to prevent challenging situations and crisis or manage emergencies when they occur. In testing circumstances, how can we unlock the extrordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world?

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: DEC/01/2019, Submit: DEC/20/2019, Eligibility: Students, professionals, architects, engineers, designers, biologists, sociologists, companies, organizations; individually, (interdisciplinary) teams with no limit number of members, Fee: Students 25 USD, student teams 50 USD, professionals 75 USD, professional teams 100 USD (until AUG/01/2019); students 50 USD, student teams 75 USD, professionals 100 USD, professional teams 125 USD (AUG/02 – NOV/01/2019); students 75 USD, student teams 100 USD, professionals 125 USD, professional teams 150 USD (NOV/02 – DEC/01/2019), Awards: Winner: 1,250 USD; Gold, Silver and Bronze Prize: 625 USD each; tax 20% included; Honorable Mention

The subject of the competition is architectural, urban, technological, or product design that is capable of dynamic interaction with its social, natural, or built surroundings. The main focus of the competition is on solutions developed through a process of changes and adjustments. Achieving such a goal requires an interdisciplinary approach that often goes beyond typical solutions. The winning projects from the previous editions often took advantages from disciplines such as robotics, mechanics, digital fabrication, biodesign and biofabrication, computational design, materials science, bioarchitecture, social sciences, industrial design, mobility, and more.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: NOV/28/2019, Submit: DEC/08/2019, Eligibility: Students of all design disciplines (architecture, interior, product design, graphic design); individually, teams up to 4 members, institutions, Fee: Per student under institutional access (min. 20 students) 4 USD, students 20 USD; (more details on the competition website), Awards: Winner: 5,000 USD; 6 Runner-up: 1,100 USD each; 4 People’s Choice: 600 USD each; 12 Honorable Mentions: 500 USD each; (more details on the competition website)

There are moments in history when a confluence of ideas, people, and broader cultural and technological forces creates a spark. Sometimes the spark amounts to nothing more than a flicker. But if conditions are right, it can erupt into a dazzling, brilliant light that, while burning for only a brief moment, changes the world around it. The Bauhaus was one of these – a place that despite the economic turmoil and cultural conservatism of the world around it, offered a truly radical, international and optimistic vision of the future. The origins of the Bauhaus lie in the late 19th century, in anxieties about the soullessness of modern manufacturing, and fears about art’s loss of social relevance. The Bauhaus aimed to reunite fine art and functional design (applied arts), creating practical objects with the soul of design.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: NOV/21/2019, Submit: DEC/01/2019, Eligibility: Students, professionals, institutions; all design disciplines; individually, teams with unlimited number of members, Fee: Entry 20 USD, institutions 80; (more details on the competition website), Awards: Winner: 5,000 USD; 6 Runner-up (3 students and 3 professional): 1,100 USD each; 4 People’s Choice (2 students and 2 professionals): 600 USD each; 12 Honorable Mentions (6 students and 6 professionals): 500 USD each; (more details on the competition website)

Art is timeless. However, the mediums to show art in the physical realm are quite outdated. Theatres helped in the past in a generation when television and internet were yet to gain traction. In today’s world if people are not coming to view art (because of many factors), can’t art forms reach out to people? Can architecture and technology help us to reach out audiences in a way that appeals in today’s age? A Bioscope is a device (also referred as theatre in a box), which gave an audio visual experience portably.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: NOV/21/2019, Submit: DEC/01/2019, Eligibility: Students, professionals, institutions; all design disciplines; individually, teams with unlimited number of members, Fee: Per student under institutional access (min. 20 student) 4 USD, students 20 USD, professionals 25 USD; (more details on the competition website), Awards: Winner: 5,000 USD; 3 Runner-up (2 students and 1 professional): 1,500 USD each; 4 People’s Choice (2 students and 2 professionals): 500 USD each; 14 Honorable Mentions (7 students and 7 professionals): 250 USD each; (more details on the competition website)

Since the origin of the Olympics in 1896, sports events have gained massive popularity worldwide. These events are big for all countries and a matter of great pride and responsibility for the host nation. It gives the host a chance to reflect upon their cultural values & promote tourism. Huge sums of public money are invested in organizing these events, out of which a major chunk is invested in preparing the venues for sports events to be witnessed by a global audience.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: NOV/17/2019, Submit: NOV/27/2019, Eligibility: Students, professionals, institutions; all design disciplines; individually, teams with unlimited number of members, Fee: Students 20 USD, professionals 25 USD, institutions (minimum 20 students) – per student 4 USD; (more details on the competition website), Awards: Winner: 5,000 USD; 3 Runner-up (2 students and 1 professional): 1,500 USD each; 4 People’s Choice (2 students and 2 professionals): 500 USD each; 14 Honorable Mentions (7 students and 7 professionals): 250 USD each; (more details on the competition website)

The definition of crime is culturally subjective. This subjectivity used to help us define law and punishment in a more rational manner in the past. Today, this subjectivity placed against pacing time and increasing globalization is not easy to rationalize anymore. We see this in many walks of life where assets like gold which used to be the driving force of an economy. Where trade and even countries were valued based on how much gold reserves they had in the past. In today’s context, trade depends on technology and the currency here is information.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: NOV/01/2019, Submit: NOV/11/2019, Eligibility: Graduate (master and PhD students) and undergraduate students of architecture, landscape, civil engineering and related disciplines; individually, (multidisciplinary) teams, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize 50,000 JPY (Japanese yen) (about 455 USD), 2nd Prize 30,000 JPY (about 275 USD), 3rd Prize 10,000 JPY (about 90 USD), 7 Honorable Mentions

The NPO Asian Institute of Low Carbon Design (AILCD) is pleased to invite students from all over the world to take part in the 9th AILCD International Student Design Competition. The theme of this year is “Less is MOji – REboot the City”. The competition asks the students to re-design the urban landscape and to make a proposal for a low carbon urban project. Urban shrinkage should be considered as a real problem for targeted Mojiko area and the city of Kitakyushu, Japan. You can choose the whole area of Mojiko or only one specific part, for example 2 or 3 sites within the same competition site area as the site for your proposal. All proposals should contain one or more of below features:

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: NOV/01/2019, Submit: NOV/29/2019, Eligibility: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 90 USD, students 70 USD (MAY/29 – JUN/28/2019); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 120 USD, students 100 USD (JUN/29 – AUG/02/2019); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 140 USD, students 120 USD (AUG/03 – NOV/01/2019), 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

Iceland is a small Nordic island country situated between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. With a population of less than 333,000, it is the most sparsely populated country in Europe, with the majority of that population living in the capital Reykjavik and the surrounding areas. Iceland was first settled on in the year 874 AD, when Norwegian chieftain Ingólfr Arnarson became the first permanent settler on the island. In the centuries to come, many more Norwegian settlers followed, as well as settlers from a few other Scandinavian countries.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: OCT/31/2019, Submit: NOV/01/2019, Eligibility: Everyone; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: 25 USD (JUL/01 – JUL/15/2019), 35 USD (JUL/16 – AUG/15/2019), 45 USD (AUG/16 – SEP/30/2019), 50 USD (OCT/01 – OCT/31/2019), Awards: Winner: 1,000 USD, Runner: 750 USD, 3 Qualifiers: 250 USD each

With the migration of the population working today to the cities from towns and villages to acquire basic security of livelihood and not investing on their lives for the long term (depreciating because of the ‘grind’) due to various social stigmas associated with not owning a home; create this rat-race. Cities being an economic platform which is constantly growing every day – equity of housing has become an issue as they turn more and more severe/unaffordable every day. Affordable housing is one of the measures taken by the government but is not enough considering the vast number of people pooling into the city every day to look for means of the livelihood for their family.

Register: OCT/29/2019, Submit: NOV/15/2019, Eligibility: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 90 USD, students 70 USD (MAY/23 – JUN/25/2019); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 120 USD, students 100 USD (JUN/26 – JUL/30/2019); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 140 USD, students 120 USD (JUL/31 – OCT/29/2019), 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

Iceland’s thermal springs are a popular tourist attraction as well as a traditional pastime for locals. Often located in remote locations across the Nordic island, these springs are an idyllic rest stop for those visiting Iceland. The Iceland Thermal Springs Guest House architecture competition, in a partnership with the Vogafjós Farm Resort, is searching for designs for an extension to their property. Competition participants are tasked with creating an exclusive guest house addition to the resort that would have the capability of functioning as a separate facility in the case of high-profile or celebrity guests visiting.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: OCT/27/2019, Submit: NOV/06/2019, Eligibility: Students, professionals, institutions; all design disciplines; individually, teams with unlimited number of members, Fee: Students 20 USD, professionals 25 USD, institutions 80 USD (MAY/15 – JUN/14/2019); students 25 USD, professionals 35 USD, institutions 100 USD (JUN/15 – OCT/27/2019); (more details on the competition website), Awards: Winner: 5,000 USD; 3 Runner-up (2 students and 1 professional): 1,500 USD each; 4 People’s Choice (2 students and 2 professionals): 500 USD each; 14 Honorable Mentions (7 students and 7 professionals): 250 USD each; (more details on the competition website)

The 21st century has seen the most rapid shifts in how we live – what we do, driven by technologies and will continue to steer at a similar pace. From a time when humans were doing most of the work by hand, innovation led to the formation of tools, making our work efficient. The same tools were used to build machines that made work even more effortless for us. Robots are now the next big thing happening where machines could do almost everything; even build themselves.

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: OCT/25/2019, Submit: NOV/22/2019, Eligibility: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 90 USD, students 70 USD (MAY/20 – JUN/21/2019); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 120 USD, students 100 USD (JUN/22 – JUL/26/2019); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 140 USD, students 120 USD (JUL/27 – OCT/25/2019), 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

The first annual MICROHOME architecture competition is part of the Bee Breeders Small Scale Architecture Appreciation Movement, which hopes to highlight the fact that bigger isn’t always better. With great design and innovative thinking, small-scale architecture could change how this and the next generation view residential property. For the MICROHOME 2019 architecture competition, participants are invited to submit their designs for a micro home – an off-grid modular structure that would accommodate a hypothetical young professional couple (which will be used as an example family size throughout the competition series).

Register: OCT/22/2019, Submit: NOV/19/2019, Eligibility: Everyone, architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 90 USD, students 70 USD (MAY/16 – JUN/18/2019); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 120 USD, students 100 USD (JUN/19 – JUL/23/2019); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 140 USD, students 120 USD (JUL/24 – OCT/22/2019), 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

Iceland’s volcanic landscapes are captivating and enchanting, with many filled with mythological stories, and the black lava fields in the north of the country are no exception. The Dimmuborgir site near Mývatn Lake and Hverfjall volcano takes its name from the Icelandic word for Dark Castles or Dark Cities, and was formed some 2,300 years ago by a massive eruption that created the unique features and bleak landscape.