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SKYHIVE 2021 Skyscraper Challenge

SKYHIVE 2021 Skyscraper Challenge

The task is to create a concept for the tower.

Register: APR/23/2021, Submit: MAY/28/2021, Eligibility: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 60 EUR, students 50 EUR (NOV/18 – DEC/17/2020); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 80 EUR, students 70 EUR (DEC/18/2020 – JAN/29/2021); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 100 EUR, students 80 EUR (JAN/30 – APR/23/2021); discount for 3+ registrations from one university/school, Awards: 1st Prize: 3,000 EUR, 2nd Prize: 1,500 EUR, 3rd Prize: 500 EUR, Archhive Books Student Award: 500 EUR + 50 EUR Archhive Books gift card, BB Green Award: 500 EUR, 6 Honorable Mentions

The SKYHIVE 2021 Skyscraper Challenge is the fourth annual architecture competition which searches out the latest and greatest designs for an iconic high rise structure. Participants of the SKYHIVE Challenge are tasked with creating a concept for a state-of-the-art tower that breaks from the norm. Participants are encouraged to incorporate new technologies and materials in their designs, as well as unique aesthetics and spatial organisations. Special consideration is also given to designs that implement innovations in sustainable systems, as well as those that look to solve economic, social, and cultural problems through the establishment of new architectural methods.

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Site Tower

Site Tower

Competition for the design of a Site Tower located in the scenery of Monsaraz (Alentejo), Portugal.

Register: MAY/03/2021, Submit: MAY/08/2021, Eligibility: Architecture students (undergraduate, graduate, master, PhD), young architects and professionals (≤ 40 years old); individually, (multidisciplinary) teams up to 4 members (architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists), Fee: 60 EUR (JAN/21 – MAR/22/2021), 80 EUR (MAR/23 – APR/23/2021), 100 EUR (APR/24 – MAY/03/2021); +23% VAT, Awards: 1st Prize: 2,000 EUR, 2nd Prize: 1,000 EUR, 3rd Prize: 500 EUR, 7 Honorable Mentions

The Site Tower is a secluded landmark, a place to capture the history of the site and engage with the landscape and beautiful scenery of the Alqueva Lake, Portugal. Mediating between exterior and interior spaces from the ground to the emptiness above, it is an embodied experience of light and air through movement and places of rest; a contemplative journey through memory, time and place. The village of Monsaraz and the great lake of Alqueva are significant landmarks located within a remarkable territory; a beautiful landscape where the remains of the rural hermitage nestled amongst rolling hills with sporadic vegetation and slate stone are notable natural features within this setting.

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Vertikal Habitat 2021- Urban Housing Tower

Vertikal Habitat 2021- Urban Housing Tower

Opengap invites participants to face the design of an urban housing or mixed-use tower.

Register: MAY/11/2021, Submit: MAY/18/2021, Eligibility: Architects, architecture students, designers; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: 35 EUR (JAN/04 – FEB/02/2021), 60 EUR (FEB/03 – MAR/02/2021), 90 EUR (MAR/03 – APR/14/2021), 110 EUR (APR/15 – MAY/11/2021); +21% VAT, Awards: 1st Prize: 2,000 EUR, 2nd Prize: 1,000 EUR, 3rd Prize: 500 EUR, Mentions

To work on avant-garde, innovative and visionaries promoting new ideas on how to better manage the growing density of cities with designs that contribute to communities and allow a self-sufficient future. The competition invites to design a tower that responds to the current social and environmental needs of cities. Calling for high-rise housing proposals that break paradigms and provide new architectural solutions at a local and global level. The only limitation that arises in terms of the dimensions of the project is that the tower must be at least 20 stories high. There are no limitations regarding the maximum height or the total square meters of the project.

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SKYHIVE 2020 Skyscraper Challenge

SKYHIVE 2020 Skyscraper Challenge

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Register: MAY/17/2020, Submit: JUL/02/2020, Eligibility: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies, students; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: Architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 90 USD, students 70 USD (NOV/11 – DEC/17/2019); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 120 USD, students 100 USD (DEC/18 – FEB/14/2020); architects, designers, enthusiasts, companies 140 USD, students 120 USD (FEB/15 – MAY/17/2020); 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 Skyhive 2020 Skyscraper Challenge is the third annual architecture competition which searches out the latest and greatest designs for an iconic high rise structure. Participants of the Skyhive Challenge are tasked with creating a concept for a state-of-the-art tower that breaks from the norm. Participants are encouraged to incorporate new technologies and materials in their designs, as well as unique aesthetics and spatial organisations. Special consideration is also given to designs that implement innovations in sustainable systems, as well as those that look to solve economic, social, and cultural problems through the establishment of new architectural methods.

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