Latest Architecture Competitions
House Competition : opengap Design Contest, International
5 Sep 2013 - registration closing date
12 Sep 2013 - submission deadline

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Architecture Competition by opengap
Design a house for a client that you propose
OPENGAP invites participants to explore the boundaries and paradigms of house designing. To work in innovative and visionary proposals which can both, think in a basic housing program and the relation of identity between the customer and the project.
Each participant or team will propose the client for designing a house. This will be a person of interest and inspiration for the project.
This competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic.
First Prize, 2000 Euro / Second Prize, 1000 Euro / Third Prize, 500 Euro
A House for Pink Floyd Competition, International
Organiser: ICARCH

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A House for Pink Floyd Architecture Competition
Generically entitled "A House for Pink Floyd", the latest competition launched by ICARCH (International Competitions in Architecture), in partnership with Atelierul de Proiectare (AdeP - Design Studio) Magazine, wishes to celebrate architecture in its most liberal, revolutionary state.
72HUA Derry~Londonderry Architecture Competition, Northern Ireland
27 May 2013 - registration deadline
25-28 Jul 2013 - architecture competition timeframe

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72HUA Derry~Londonderry Architecture Competition
10 Teams | 10 Sites | 10 Missions
3 Days and Nights to Design and Build
The international teams will include residents, architects, designers, artists, craftspeople, students and generally nice people. Teams will come to Derry~Londonderry armed with a passion for action, and ready to give their time and expertise to help with community needs.
All participants will live together on site, in a local school converted into a sleep-work camp, enriching the neighborhood with a multi-cultural and intense experience.
European Prize for Sacred Architecture, Europe
21 May 23.59 2013 - deadline
The deadline for the delivery of projects submitted the V edition of the European Prize for Sacred Architecture is extended until 23.59 on Tuesday, 21 May 2013. Fondazione Frate Sole
P54Jeff Ideas Competition, International
Jun 15 2013 - registration begins

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SiTE:LAB a Grand Rapids-based arts non-profit, is sponsoring an ideas competition surrounding a decommissioned Art-Moderne style natural history museum in downtown Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
54 Jefferson, once home to the Grand Rapids Public Museum, has been closed to the public since 1994. It needs a purpose. It needs your idea. In excess of $10,000 in cash prizes, including two $1,000 student prizes. Complete competition information will be available on the competition website www.54Jeff.org in early June.
Jurors will include Reed Kroloff, Director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and former editor-in-chief of Architecture magazine.
Competition submissions will be the subject of an exhibition within 54 Jefferson during ArtPrize 2013 at SiTE:LAB, winner of the ArtPrize juried award for best venue in 2011 and 2012, an exhibition seen by over 30K people.
Go t o 54Jeff.org
PLAYscapes Design Competition, International
1 Jul 2013 - Final date for registration
29 Jul 2013 - Closing date for submissions

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Building Trust International Architecture Competition
Building Trust international have just announced a new international design competition, which seeks to find exciting design proposals to transform neglected parts of cities into interactive landscapes, encouraging public engagement, community involvement and sustainable adaptive reuse. This architecture competition challenges professional and student architects, designers, engineers and artists to provide a design solution which advocates creativity and promotes outside activity, increasing socialisation.
NYIT Students Plan Design Competition to Help Coastal Communities, NY, USA
Hurricane Sandy Architecture Competition
NYIT students have announced the launch of a global design competition to help communities affected by Hurricane Sandy. The initiative, 3C: Comprehensive Coastal Communities, is part of Operation Resilient Long Island (ORLI), a grassroots committee led by architecture, interior design, and construction management students at NYIT. Their goal is to explore and develop long-term building and design solutions to aid communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Registration for the competition is free and open to the public. Architecture professionals and students from around the world are invited to participate.
Storefront for Art and Architecture Competition, International
22 May, 2013 Registration Deadline
22 Jun, 2013 Deadline for Submissions
Storefront for Art and Architecture Competition
Storefront for Art and Architecture is excited to announce the launching of Competition of Competitions, an architectural competition that dislocates the tradition of competition into radical and renewed spheres and contexts. Throughout history, competitions have constructed a relationship of servitude between architects and the structures of economic, politic and cultural power. Competition of Competitions claims that the true desires of our present society are outside of the current taxonomy of competition briefs and that architects should be participants in the construction of the questions they are asked to answer.
Architecture Competitions - Recent Additions
HYP Cup 2013 International Student Competition in Architectural Design, International
Jun 30, 2013 Registration Deadline
Aug 15, 2013 Deadline for Submissions
HYP Cup Student Architecture Competition
Topic: Architecture in Transformation
Sub-Topic: The Disappearance of Architecture
Purpose of the Competition: Architecture must disappear. Behind the radicalism of this statement lies something crucial for the future of architecture. Architecture as a discipline should no longer think in terms of objects. Walls, facades, structures, are only modalities of architecture, but never its finality. Design comes after. After what? After situations. Architects deal with situations. Architecture should be conceived as an integral part of the landscape. Glass, concrete or metal would in this case no longer be the elements that build architecture, but the territory, as it exists, as we relate to it.
International Supporter: Union of International Architects (UIA)
Zaryadye Park, International Architecture Competition, Moscow, Russia
22 May, 2013 submission of application deadline

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Zaryadye Park Architecture Competition
Zaryadye is a unique historic district in downtown Moscow, on the bank of Moskva river, adjacent to the UNESCO World Heritage sites at Kremlin and the Red Square. After the demolition of Hotel Russia, the site has remained abandoned for over 6 years. In late January, 2012, Prime Minister and President-Elect Vladimir Putin proposed to turn this 130 000 sq. m area into a multi-functional public park. This challenging project has the potential to become the most significant public space development in Moscow for the recent decades, likely to set a new benchmark for the quality of public space in Russia.
Arquideas Architecture Competition, Belgium
International Gastronomic Center Brussels Academic Competition
24 May 2013 - registration closing date
14 Jun 2013 - submission deadline

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Arquideas Architecture Competition
Contestants: Architecture students
Prizes: € 6,350 in cash prizes + Publication/Subscription to ON Diseño + Publication/Subscription to Future Arquitecturas + Publication/ Subscription to Yorokobu + Publication in Metalocus.
The winner or winner team's representative will be Jury member in our next architecture competition.
Architectural Challenge 2013
Architectural Challenge - committed to under 40 architects and students.

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Architectural Challenge Competition
72 hours to shape, imagine and fortify your ideas. A weekend to conceive. A chance to challenge each other, have fun and win awesome rewards! This design contest reach to increase the value of degraded town areas, which waiting just a smart idea to become likable urban places.
We choose no subject that will be built up for real. Also we focus in a short time the project period. That allow participants to go in for just creativity, and no spent so much time and crafts.
The design contest subject shall not released before the registrations end, 'cause the contest itself lasts only one weekend. Then, projects must be delivered 72 hours after the subject release.
Beyond the Grid Architecture Competition, International
Jun 7 2013 - deadline for registration
Jul 19 2013 - Closing date for submissions

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Beyond the Grid is an architectural design competition that challenges students and young professionals to create beautiful, sustainable shelters that integrate “off-grid” energy, water and waste system solutions for specific, pre-selected climate zones. The primary goal of the competition is to provide a showcase for design talent and provide media exposure and business opportunities for winning contestants. The competition also aims to promote sustainability and resources conservation in the residential housing industry.
URL for registration: Beyond the Grid Architecture Competition - external link
InstantHouse @ School 2013 Architecture Competition, International
3 Jun, 2013 12 noon Deadline for Submissions
This architecture competition is promoted by Federlegno Arredo S.r.l. for MADE Expo, in association with the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano.
The focus of the 2013 contest is kindergartens or nursery schools. The competition is looking for architectural ideas relating to the many ways that children perceive and interpret the world around them through the multi-sensory experience of space and architecture.
The competition is open to Italians and non-Italians who are studying or have studied architecture, engineering and industrial design and who are eligible to compete.
All projects will be on display at MADE expo, the forthcoming international construction and design trade show at the Milan Fairgrounds Rho from 2 to 5 October 2013.
1st prize: EUR 1,500
2nd prize: EUR 1,000
3rd prize: EUR 750
Entrants must forward their design concepts by no later than 12 noon, on 3 June 2013.
Website: www.instanthouse.it
SKIN International Digital Fabrication Architecture Competition, International
Jun 30, 2013 Registration Deadline 23:59 PM EST
TEX-FAB are partnering again with ACADIA to host the exhibition of first round shortlisted projects to be judged at the upcoming Adaptive Architecture this October in Toronto.
SKIN asks designers and researchers to speculate, or if they so choose - to present existing research - on the role of the building envelope by exploring new methods to enable the performative and aesthetic qualities of a façade.
The deadline for entries is June 30, 2013.
The winning entry will be exhibited at the next TEX-FAB event in Austin, Texas, USA at UTSOA in Spring 2014.
http://tex-fab.net/SKIN/SKINCompetitionRegulations.pdf
New Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark
Danish Architectural Contest for extension of Hvidovre Hospital building
Construction: 30,800 m2
Budget: DKK 831 million (construction)
Completion: scheduled for 2018
Ref. http://www.arkitekt.se/s72279/f14027
More architectural competitions are welcome - please mail info(at)e-architect.co.uk for details
Architecture Competitions in May 2013
Architecture Competition of the Jacques Rougerie Foundation, International
28 May 2013 - registration closing date
28 May 2013 before midnight - submission deadline
The Foundation’s ambition is to provide opportunities for young architects and designers to stimulate their inventiveness, creativity and boldness at the service of architectural innovation. In order to do so, the Foundation is organizing for the third consecutive year, an international architectural competition, focusing on Water and Space.
This architecture competition, organized under the aegis of the prestigious Institut de France, aims to reward the most innovative architectural projects by delivering three awards of € 10,000 each. It is open to everyone and offers a unique opportunity for architects all around the globe to make their projects come true, or simply to reward their creativity.
Jacques Rougerie Foundation Architecture Competitions - external link
Kiruna Stadshus Architecture Contest, Lapland, Sweden
3 Dec 2012 - registration closing date
29 May 2013 - submission deadline
Kiruna Stadshus Architecture Competition
The swedish city of Kiruna - the most northerly in the country - have created an architecture competition for their city hall. Five design teams will be shortlisted.
More architecture contests are welcome - please mail info(at)e-architect.co.uk for details
Architecture Competitions in June 2013
Belgorod City Centre Architecture Competition, Russia
Open international competition for the design of an urban block in the centre of the city of Belgorod, Russia
10 May 2013 - registration closing date
3 Jun 2013 - submission deadline

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Belgorod City Centre Architecture Competition
Prize fund: 50,000 US$
The competition site is quite a large urban block (around 300 x 200 m), located in the very heart of the city. The task is to replace the low rise buildings that now occupy the site with a more dense development. Though the construction of high towers is very popular in Russia with developers, the city would like to limit the maximum building height limited to 15-20 meters. At the same time it is obvious that a certain density is required to make the project viable. The task of the competitors is to find the optimum between density and quality and offer the city a recipe for redeveloping the city center as a whole, making it at an attractive place to live and work.
Nordic Built Challenge Architectural Contest, Scandinavia
8 Feb 2013 - deadline for proposals for stage 1 of the Challenge
Jun 2013 - deadline for proposals for stage 2 of the Challenge
Nordic Built Challenge Architecture Competitions
Five architecture competitions - one in each Nordic country - arranged in two stages. Stage one is an open design competition with anonymous evaluation.
The second stage will feature the four best entries from stage one in a negotiated project development phase with team composition requirements. A winner will then be announced for each design competition.
The 5 architecture competitions are located in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden.
Stage One
Prizes: NOK 20 x 300.000
The winners of the five architecture competitions get their design built plus get entered for the overall award and prize of NOK 1.000.000.
The five individual architecture competitions are intended to demonstrate the principles of the Nordic Built Charter by refurbishing existing buildings in innovative and sustainable ways.
Smart Harbor Architecture Competition, dismissed shipbuilding area, Italian Adriatic coast
YAC - Young Architects Competitions Design Contest
14 Apr 2013 - "early bird" registration closing date
12 May 2013 - standard registration closing date
16 Jun 2013 - late registration closing date
24 Jun 2013 - (12:00 GMT) deadline for submissions of entries

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Theme:
Shipbuilding industry has been hardly struck by crisis: Which future to imagine for such areas? YAC invites to redesign an old dismissed Adriatic harbor area in a play-area / wellness-entertainment centre that can amuse tourists and citizens. Aim is to design a water landmark on the Adriatic coast: a space for public relations / a waterplayground / a maritime square / a skatepark / temporary housing for tourists / whatever embodies the keywords landscape, interaction, dynamic space, fresh idea.
Jury:
MARCO GAUDENZI - Gaudenzi & Associates Studio NARDO GOFFI - Pesaro Municipality City Planner Chief NICOLA LEONARDI - The Plan Director GIOVANNI LEONI - Bologna University of Bologna Architecture Department Director FRANCESCO TARENTINI - Area 17 Studio
Prizes:
4000 € Pubblication on Architecture magazines Pubblication on Architecture blogs and websites “The Plan” annual subscription Exhibition at Pesaro Municipality & at the Universities of Bologna, Santa Fè, Shanghai.
Smart Harbor Architecture Competition - external link
Sukkahville Architecture Competition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
May 15, 2013 Registration Deadline
Jun 17, 2013 Deadline for Submissions
Sukkahville Design Competition
Reimagining the Sukkah
Kehilla Residential Programme invites architects, students, artists, builders and allied design professionals to submit design proposals for the second annual Sukkahville Design Competition. The aim of this open competition is to design a temporary, free-standing Sukkah to be built in Mel Lastman Square in Toronto for the holiday of Sukkot. We encourage you to re-imagine the traditional notion of Sukkah, with a contemporary design language and approach.
Symbolic World Cup Structure Competition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
[AC-CA] Design Contest
1 May 2013 Early Bird Registration deadline
30 Jun 2013 Late Competition Registration deadline
5 Jul 2013 Closing Date for Submissions

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Symbolic World Cup Structure Competition
The aim of this International Competition is to design a free standing World Cup Structure in the heart of Rio de Janeiro during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The design should create a social space which includes a live big screenTV, an information area, a cafe, etc.
More architecture contests are welcome - please mail info(at)e-architect.co.uk for details
Architecture Competitions in August 2013
ONE Prize 2013, NYC, USA
Aug 31, 2013 Registration Deadline
Aug 31, 2013 by midnight EST: Submission Due
ONE PRIZE Architecture Competition
This year’s architectural competition is set in the context of severe climate dynamism. How can cities adapt to the future challenges of extreme weather? The ONE Prize is a call to deploy sophisticated design to alleviate storm impact through various urban interventions such as: protective green spaces, barrier shorelines, alternative housing, waterproofing technology, and public space solutions. We wish to reinvigorate infrastructure and repurpose spaces towards environmental adaptation in order to put design in the service of the community. This design contest seeks architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, artists, students and individuals of all backgrounds.
ONE PRIZE is an Annual Design and Science Award to Promote Green Design in Cities.
More architecture contests are welcome - please mail info(at)e-architect.co.uk for details
Architecture Competitions in October 2013
Armstrong international architecture student competition
7 Oct 2013 - submission deadline

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Green building competition for Architecture students anywhere in the world. This international architecture competition for students has been introduced to help celebrate ceiling systems becoming a key element of energy conservation. The contest is run by Armstrong Ceilings. Architectural students are invited to present concepts using ceiling solutions in four categories - energy savings, waste management programme, resource management and indoor air quality.
Judges include Marie-Claire Regniers, the Belgian architectural journalist; Jacques Allard, Archi-Europe CEO; Ronald Kern, architect and vice-president of the European Architecture Foundation EURAF, and Neil Shaw, vice president of marketing for Armstrong in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Winners in each design contest category receive all expenses paid trip in November 2013 to the Batimat internal exhibition in Paris to present their project.
Website: www.archiworld.com/94854/index.html.
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