design

Register: FEB/07/2019, Submit: FEB/14/2019, Eligibility: Professional designers and students with industry-specific background, design enthusiasts; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize: 60,000 CNY (Chinese Yuan Renminbi) (about 8,625 USD) (pre-tax), black-edition tea, 2.0 version tea-set; 2nd Prize (2 prizes): 20,000 CNY (about 2,875 USD) (pre-tax), golden-edition tea, travel mug with tea leaf filter (each) ; Top 10 (7 prizes): silver-edition tea, offer for practice or work in Xiao Guan Tea Group (each); Top 30; Shortlists

Tea, a leaf grown in deep forests and remote mountains is always the spiritual drink of scholars through thousands of years’ accumulation. However, it can’t be accepted by 80s and 90s young generations in China. Under the promotion of cultural rejuvenation and consumption update, tea market is changing its traditional sales mode to a more diversified, modern and younger sales mode. As a result, it is reported that young people pay more attention to tea and tea-drinking lifestyle than before and tea becomes the best substitution of coffee and soft drinks.

Register: DEC/03/2018, Submit: DEC/03/2018, Eligibility: Individuals, legal entities, designers, architects, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize 10,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 5,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 3,000 EUR

Nowadays, the Expo is no longer solely dedicated to the demonstration of industrial and technological innovations, but has become a global discussion forum aimed at finding solutions to the universal challenges of our time, such as urbanism (Expo Shanghai 2010) or food (Expo Milano 2015). The next World Expo will be organized in 2020 in Dubai under the overarching theme ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future’. This theme emphasizes the role of collaboration and partnership in contemporary society, highlighting the potential of mankind when people join to solve common challenges. The exhibition content will be organized in three sub-themes: Opportunity, Mobility and Sustainability. The sub-themes indicate the drivers of progress that continue to encourage people, organizations and nations in their efforts to create a better future.

Register: MAR/10/2019, Submit: MAR/10/2019, Eligibility: Everyone, designers, individuals, schools, universities, public and private companies, organizations, associations, students, design enthusiasts, etc., Fee: Free, Awards: Winners in each of the 5 categories (Body, Home, Work, Play & Learning and Community): 100,000 EUR

Index: Award is the biggest design award in the world, worth €500,000, and is commonly referred to as the ‘Nobel Prize of design’. The importance lies in the unique, over-arching theme of Design to Improve Life: a concept enabling design to be used as a tool to address the world’s biggest challenges and reach our biggest goals. This concept has established Index: Award as a global, inspirational design beacon. Index: Award is awarded biennially in Denmark, and has since its inauguration in 2005 received over 6100 nominations from more than 100 countries. All winners and finalists are selected by the international Index: Award Jury according to the three criteria of Form, Impact and Context, representing not only the appearance of the design but also its ability to improve life for its user.

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: NOV/23/2018, Submit: JAN/11/2019, Eligibility: Experts from the relevant fields: urban planning/design, architecture, landscape architecture, road engineering, transportation engineering; individually, teams, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize: Contract Award for Design Development and Construction, 2nd Prize: 80,000,000 KRW (South Korean won) (about 71,940 USD), 3rd Prize: 60,000,000 KRW (about 53,960 USD), 4th Prize: 40,000,000 KRW (about 35,970 USD), 5th Prize: 20,000,000 KRW (about 17,985 USD); 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th Prize: + Honorarium 30,000,000 KRW (about 26,980 USD) each; 5 Honorable Mentions: 30,000,000 KRW (about 26,980 USD) each

Gwanghwamun Square is the central space of Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea, and an iconic place that represents this country’s identity. This place was the center of dynasty politics in the Joseon period (1392-1910), and the epicenter of democratic movements in modern Korea, including the April Revolution (April 19) in 1960 and the June Democratic Uprising in 1987.

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.

RESULTS

Register: JUL/15/2018, Submit: AUG/01/2018, Eligibility: Design professionals, architects, engineers; graduates and students of architecture, design and engineering; individually, (interdisciplinary) teams, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize 20,000 USD, 4 Honorable Mentions 5,000 USD each

Cambodia (Khmer: Kampuchea, officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia) is currently experiencing something of an industrial revolution in the 21st century. Cambodia is developing to become an economic centre for manufacturing and production, graduating from the status of a Low income country to a Lowmiddle income Country in 2016. As more international companies move their production within Cambodia’s borders, the capital city located on the banks of the Tonlé Sap and Mekong River, Phnom Penh, is experiencing rapid urbanization. As low-income workers flood the city to live nearer to employment opportunities, and to pursue better living conditions, the city struggles to build infrastructure and affordable housing to support its new residents.

Register: JUN/30/2018, Submit: JUL/29/2018, Eligibility: Students enrolled in the academic year 2017/18 and graduates, who finished their studies from the year 2014 onwards in architecture, engineering, design, interior design, decoration; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: 29 EUR (up to MAY/12/2018), 39 EUR (MAY/13 – JUN/09/2018), 49 EUR (JUN/10 – JUN/30/2018), Awards: 1st Prize 2,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 1,500 EUR, 3rd Prize 1,000 EUR; Additionally 1st, 2nd & 3rd Prize: 2% of the sales of the design during the first five years; 2 Special Prizes 500 EUR each, 5 Special Acknowledgements

Following on from the work started in 2017 with the I International Competition “inHAUS LAB – Design your modular house”, Casas inHAUS (Valencia, Spain) launches this second edition where we would like to repeat the great reception that the last edition received, and increase the monetary value of the prizes.

Register: APR/27/2018, Submit: APR/30/2018, Eligibility: Anyone; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: 30 EUR (FEB/01 – FEB/15/2018), 45 EUR (FEB/16 – MAR/15/2018), 60 EUR (MAR/16 – APR/15/2018), 75 EUR (APR/16 – APR/27/2018), Awards: 3 Winners 1,000 EUR each, 9 Honorable Mentions, Finalists

The aim of the “dancing” competition is to develop design proposals for the nightclub typology, intended as a place to experience entertainment in relation to music: listen, perform, dance. The participants are asked to create innovative and unconventional projects on this theme, questioning the very basis of the notion of a club. Recently a series of new initiatives have emerged in relation to music entertainment and dance. While festivals and morning discos have extended the duration of musical events over the limited span of one night, silent discos and flash mobs exceeded the boundaries of the club, reinventing the way and the place where music events were occurring.

Register: MAY/07/2018, Submit: MAY/14/2018, Eligibility: Architects, designers, architecture students; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: 35 EUR (JAN/05 – FEB/02/2018), 60 EUR (FEB/03 – MAR/02/2018), 85 EUR (MAR/03 – APR/13/2018), 100 (APR/14 – MAY/07/2018); +21% VAT, Awards: 1st Prize 2,000 EUR, 2nd Prize 1,000 EUR, 3rd Prize 500 EUR, Mentions

The main function of an Interpretation Centre is to promote a creative learning environment, seeking to reveal to the visitors the significance of cultural or historical heritage of the object exposed, in order to increase consciousness and motivate its effective conservation. They are designed to cover four basic functions: research, conservation, promotion and enhancement of the object they are dedicated to. Interpreting is the art of presenting to the public an entity; to inform, entertain and motivate knowledge.

Register: JAN/28/2018, Submit: JAN/28/2018, Eligibility: Professionals, architecture and design students; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: 20 USD (OCT/25 – NOV/19/2017), 25 USD (NOV/20 – DEC/24/2017), 35 USD (DEC/25/2017 – JAN/20/2018), Awards: 1st Prize 500 USD, 2nd Prize 200 USD, 3rd Prize 100 USD, 3 Honorable Mentions

Have you ever seen an amazing house in an architecture magazine or a movie and been awestruck by its beauty, its location, or its simplicity? Be it Bilbo Baggins’ house in The Hobbit, or Tony Stark‘s stunning Malibu home in the Iron Man; be it the solitary Falling Water amidst the nature by Frank Llyod Wright, or a house in a beautiful European town like Mykonos; there is a lot of great architecture when it comes to houses.

Register: DEC/15/2017, Submit: FEB/02/2018, Eligibility: Designers, company; individually, teams; only to U.S. legal residents 18 years of age or older, with valid U.S. mail and email addresses; Fee: Free, Awards: Grand Prize 25,000 USD, 2nd Place Prize 5,000 USD (popular vote)

Park Avenue, one of the world’s premiere thoroughfares, is traditionally known for its tall buildings that are home to Fortune 500 companies. The medians of Park Avenue, or the “centerlines,” are traditionally characterized by plantings and periodic sculpture installations. Park Avenue medians represent a traditional element of New York City but also provide an opportunity for reinvention. Other areas of New York City, such as the High Line, have successfully transformed into an exciting destination for city dwellers and visitors alike.

Register: FEB/05/2018, Submit: FEB/20/2018, Eligibility: Any professions, designers, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, participants aged 18 – 40 years (younger than 18 and older than 35 years can participate in a team whose leader has 18-35 years), Fee: 25 USD (until DEC/05/2017), 35 USD (DEC/06/2017 – JAN/05/2018), 60 USD (JAN/06 – FEB/05/2018), Awards: Winner 1,500 USD, 1st Runner up 1,000 USD, 2 x 2nd Runner up 500 USD each, 10 Honorable Mentions

“Urbanscape” (urban landscape) is the representation of physical built environment of our city. It not only refers to the configuration of built forms but also the elements that define the interstitial space. In today’s urban landscape timelessly rising skyscrapers have overpowered the smaller yet equally important elements in our city. Through the “Urbanscape” theme we are exploring the urban furniture that enriches the built environment and improve the quality of interstitial space.

Register: 06/26/2017, Submit: 06/26/2017, Eligibility: Students of architecture, design or related disciplines, graduates in the last 10 years, Hong Kong residents, Fee: Free, Awards: Winner 250,000 HKD (Hong Kong dollar) (about 32,165 USD), Commendation Award – 2 short-listed entries per 100,000 HKD (about 12,865 USD) each

To inspire innovation and help nurture new architectural and design talent in Hong Kong, the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority has launched the Hong Kong Young Architects & Designers Competition – a new competition to design an iconic Temporary Pavilion in the West Kowloon Nursery Park. The winning pavilion will be built on a waterfront location that offers spectacular harbour and sunset views, and the selected design should offer an inviting, informal public space to enhance visitor experience while also providing an informal space for talks, workshops and small performances.