The list of worldwide competitions below updated on weekly based. Most of them are open to international entry. Go onto each title links for more details and requirements of each competition registration. Try your Architecture...compete with all designers from all over the World...and grab the reward!Registration and submission: 30 June 2009
Tent London and The Lightbox have launched an open competition for The Art Fund Pavillion. This is a unique opportunity to design a semi-permanent pavilion that will sit alongside a RIBA award-winning building by Marks Barfield Architects. The international panel, of judges includes Wayne Hemingway and Kieran Long. The winning design will provide additional exhibition space for Woking's new gallery and museum, and will be built with funding by The Art Fund Prize, The UK's largest single art prize of £100,000. The new pavilion will be launched during the London Design Festival 2009.
Evolo: 09 SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION
Registration: 12 January 2009, Submission: 19 January 2009, Open to all Entry fee: US $50Awards: US $3,500 Jury: Not yet announced. For the 2009 edition eVolo invites architects, engineers, and designers to continue exploring on new ideas and concepts for vertical density.Skyscrapers have been springing up in fast-developing countries without careful consideration of the urban fabric, environmental effects, and quality of life.The 2009 competition calls for innovative designs for the XXI Century which takes into consideration the historical and social context, the existing urban fabric, the human scale, and the environment.There is no restriction on site, height or shape.The idea is to give the designers enough freedom to address the challenge in the most creative and innovative way.Designs must be technologically feasible and environmentally responsible.The projects should also investigate on the urban and private space as well as the definition of new programmes for a vertical structure.EligibilityAll students, architects, engineers and designers are invited to participate. It is encouraged to have multi-disciplinary teams. There is no limit on the number of participants in a team. Individual entries are accepted.
UK: DWA Architects Caring for Older People -International Student Design Competition
Launch date 5th January 2009; entries to be submitted by 6 March 2009.
DWA Architects are organizing this ideas competition, open to all architectural students. The competition is jointly sponsored by DWA Architects and BUPA Care Homes. The theme of the competition is designing for older people in 60 to 70 years time.
Italy: Metropolitan T shirt competition
Deadline 28th February 2009.
The competition is born for designs to be reproduced on T-shirts. The chosen theme for the competition is "metropolitan design", everyday uniqueness. The dominant aspect of the design, along with innovation, dedication, attention to detail, is above all the expression of your own story; all aspects that contribute to characterising the "metropolitan luxury" concept responding to the theme of the competition. Your T-shirt has to be (for someone) a symbol of uniqueness, character and an expression of his or her own values. The organizers invite designers, artists, students and architects under 40 to participate in an ideas competition focused on this interesting cultural market reality.
USA: 2009 AIA Committee on Design Ideas Competition
Registration Deadline: February 13, 2009
Submission Deadline: March 12, 2009The AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international 2009 COD Ideas Competition. In this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore the legacy of modernist design, through a concept design problem. Visit the competition Web site (http://www.aia.org/cod_ideas) for more information or to submit a project.
USA: 2009 Young Architects Forum: Foresight -Call for Entries
Competition Deadline: Wednesday, February 11, 2009Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Young Architects Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in public forums, an on-line installation, and an exhibition at the Architectural League beginning in May 2009.. A poster of the winning entries will be published and distributed nationally, as will a catalogue of winning work published by the Architectural League and Princeton Architectural Press. The Young Architects Forum is an annual competition, series of lectures, and exhibition organized by the Architectural League and its Young Architects Committee. The Forum was established to recognize specific works of high quality and to encourage the exchange of ideas among young people who might otherwise not have a forum.
USA: Great Places Awards 2009- Call for Entries
Deadline for entries is February 9, 2009.
Celebrating excellent places and how people inhabit them. Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, EDRA, the Environmental Design Research Association, in cooperation with Metropolis magazine announce the twelfth annual Great Places Awards. Unique in the ever-expanding universe of award programs, our concern is for good places and how people inhabit them. We seek entries of exemplary work, inviting participation from a range of design and research disciplines, recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one profession or field. Projects should emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design.
USA: Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition 2009
Completed submissions to be received no later than February 06, 2009.
For the 2009 edition of this annual competition, North American architects and interior designers are invited to submit domestic and international new construction and renovation projects completed between January 2004 and January 2009. A panel of design experts will judge the projects based on their creativity, functionality and aesthetic appeal. The official criterion for the jury includes: overall design of the project, innovative use of tile, tile design, quality of installation and degree that tile enhances the setting.
Slovenia: TRIMO URBAN CRASH international competition for students of architecture
The competition is running until 31 January 2009.
Architecture students of 11 European countries are invited to participate in the second running Trimo Urban Crash competition organised by Trimo, one of Europe's leading suppliers of construction solutions. Students are invited to design an object for a given location in the centre of the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. The winning project will be built and taken into permanent use on location in June 2009. The winner will also be awarded paid summer school attendance at an internationally acclaimed architectural school. This year's task is designing an urban meeting place, an information spot or an alternative cultural stage made with Trimo products.
China: 2008 Shanghai Qingpu New City West Region International Competition of Conceptual Urban Design
Submission Jan 31st 2009
Competition is endorsed by the Government of Qingpu District and Shanghai Urban Planning Administration Bureau, and organized by Shanghai Qingpu New Urban Area Construction Development Co. Ltd., and di Magazine. The aim is to collect creative ideas from all of the world for sustainable construction and development in the west region of Qingpu District, Shanghai, and to provide a basic reference for the detailed planning later.
USA: Call for Entries -Art Directors Club Awards 88
Deadline Jan 16th 2009; student deadline Jan 30th 2009.
The Art Directors Club is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. Founded in New York in 1920, ADC is a self-funding, not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to connect, provoke and elevate creative visual communications professionals around the world. It focuses on the highest standards of excellence and integrity in visual communications for the industry, and encourages students and young professionals entering the field. ADC provides a forum for creatives in Advertising, Design, Interactive Media and Communications to explore the direction of these rapidly converging industries.
USA: 2009 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition
Entry Deadline: January 30th, 2009
Metropolis magazine challenges young designers to apply their innovative talents to our energy addiction and rethink the broken models that represented 20th-century life and work. The Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition, which has been promoting activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship in design since 2003, is supported this year by sponsors ASSA ABLOY, Herman Miller, Inc., and Sherwin-Williams."We hope to see intelligent and beautiful ideas, at all scales, that bring out the humanist tendencies of young designers everywhere," notes editor in chief Susan S. Szenasy. "This socially and environmentally conscious generation is looking for ways to connect with the large issues of our time, and Next Generation® offers them that opportunity. We know that designers are great at fixing things, that they're masters of creating elegant, sustainable, and humane solutions to real problems."
USA: HH Richardson Library Expansion 'Ideas' Competition
Submission deadline: Jan. 23, 2009This is an exciting architecture, urban design and planning sketch problem. The challenge being how to add on to a historically and architecturally significant building and what strategic moves can be implemented to reinforce the library's role as the "center" of town?
UK: Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards
The closing date for entries is Friday 16 January 2009
Nationwide Building Society announces the launch of the Sustainable Housing Awards in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects. The annual ideas competition is open to all undergraduate architecture and design students. The competition aims to stimulate and reward innovative thinking about how people can live more sustainably in the future. Students are invited to present sustainable design ideas for one of three categories: existing housing, new build or community/neighbourhood.
USA: Student competition to design a campus performing arts center
Submission Deadline January 15, 2009The Architectural Commission of the United States Institute for Theatre & Technology (USITT) has announced calls for entries for its 3rd annual student Architectural Design Competition to design an "Ideal Theatre" on an academic campus. The competition is open to any U.S. or International architecture and theater student at an accredited college or university. Architecture students are asked to work with a theater student, or group of theater students, as a "Client." The client will outline a program and requirements for an ideal theater for teaching professional theater. The enrolled architecture student, or group of students, will serve as the "Design Team" on the project. Through a series of design meetings with the client, the student architectural team will design a $25 million Center for Performing Arts with 400 to 600 seats for campus productions.
USA: 09 Skyscraper Competition - eVolo
Registration deadline: 12 January 2009:
The 2009 competition calls for innovative designs for the XXI Century which takes into consideration the historical and social context, the existing urban fabric, the human scale, and the environment. There is no restriction on site, height or shape. The idea is to give the designers enough freedom to address the challenge in the most creative and innovative way. All students, architects, engineers and designers are invited to participate. It is encouraged to have multidisciplined teams. There is no limit on the number of participants in a team.
UK: Competition to find perfect green space for Astley Village
The submission deadline is January 7th 2009.RIBA has launched a two stage competition to find a design team, who will help deliver a landscaping/environmental improvements scheme for Astley Village in Chorley, Lancashire. The competition is being organised on behalf of Places for People, one the UK's largest property maintenance and regeneration companies and is open to all practising architects, landscape architects, town planners and urban designers.
UK: National Wildflower Centre International Open Design Competition
The deadline for Stage One submissions is 7 January 2009
The RIBA Competitions Office announces the launch of an international open competition for the design of an innovative, architecturally striking educational, conference and seed production complex at the National Wildflower Centre in the Liverpool City Region. The client for the competition is Landlife with funding for the competition provided by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA). Entries are invited from architects or architect-led teams, which will be judged anonymously at the First Stage.
Egypt: International Competition for Urban design of Ramses Square, Cairo
Deadline for submission 1st Jan 2009
Ramses Square which is of important historical and urban value needs to be redeveloped in order to meet with the existing urban and traffic conflicts, therefore the Egyptian Government decided to issue an international planning & urban design competition in order to reach the best solution of the Square in the light of a comprehensive planning vision of Cairo City Center which is of great historical, urban and cultural value. The ministry of Cultural affairs has commissioned the National Organization for Urban Harmony (NOUH) to tender this competition in line of the guidelines and regulations of the Union of International Architects (UIA) and other relevant local agencies and authorities in Egypt. The Competition aims at producing an urban design plan for Ramses Square within a comprehensive vision for the city center of Cairo. It is open to all architects, planners and urban designers, either individuals or teams.
UK: Avenue Campus Competition
Closing date for first stage submissions is 17 December 2008.
The University of Northampton is running a design competition for architects to plan future developments at its Avenue Campus on St. George's Avenue in Northampton. The aim is to enhance the site's leading role as a centre for Arts and Applied Sciences education and research. Two stage competition open to all professional architects registered with the Architects Registration Board (ARB) or an equivalent EU registration authority.
USA: National Bus Shelter Design Competition, Art Rocks!
The deadline for submissions is December 12, 2008.
The Athens Area Arts Council (AAAC), in partnership with Athens-Clarke County and Athens Transit, announce YOU, ME AND THE BUS II; a national design competition for bus shelters in Athens, Georgia. The project aims to enhance the public transportation system and improve quality of life in Athens by integrating utilitarian public services with artistic ingenuity and inspiration.
USA: Greenworks, Santa Fe
Submissions Due: December 12, 2008
The City of Santa Fe and Enterprise Green Communities are sponsoring Greenworks, an open design competition in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The objective of the competition is to design a multi-unit, residential housing compound on a 1/4 acre city-owned vacant lot in downtown Santa Fe that will provide a designated number of affordably-priced homes. Lessons learned from Greenworks will contribute to the advancement of land use policy, green building standards, and an effective community input process for the City of Santa Fe, suitable for replication in communities across the United States.
Canada: Architecture Competition for the New Montréal Rio Tinto Alcan PlanetariumProposals for the first phase to be submitted by 3 p.m. on December 11th 2008.
Request for Proposals in two phases -architects from Montréal and around the world are invited to submit anonymous, unremunerated architectural concepts. A nine-member jury will examine the proposals and recommend five of them, on the basis of pre-established criteria. In phase 2, the finalists will form multidisciplinary teams to develop and fine tune their concepts and submit them to the same jury. The new Planetarium, with a gross surface area of roughly 8,000 m?, will be built on the Olympic Park site, next to the Biodôme, and will have to meet LEED platinum standards. The winning team will be announced next spring.
Anyone wishing to enter the competition must register. Only submissions from parties who have obtained the free RFP documents from the Direction de l'approvisionnement will be considered (all documents are in French only). The Direction is located at 9515, rue Saint-Hubert, Montréal, Quebec, H2M 1Z4. Regular office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. Candidates may submit questions in writing to the Professional Advisor for the competition, architect Louise Amiot, by fax (418 692-5447) or e-mail: (lasbarch@qc.aira.com).
USA: Discarded Dreams: Used Mattress Design Competition
Deadline for registration and submission: December 5th 2008
Architecture for Humanity and Rubicon National Social Innovations invite entrants to create innovative ways of converting used mattresses into useful products. The competition aims to encourage entrants to form groups capable of creating a consumer product, instructions detailing how to make the product, and a plan for production on a larger scale. Entrants must create designs that take into account the volume of mattress waste generated each year. Groups are encouraged to utilize local resources, including existing manufacturing facilities and other waste products. The winner/winners will be invited to collaborate with Rubicon to design and execute a method of collecting and converting the mattresses into their value-added product, and potentially distributed for commercial use. This would be a unique opportunity to help an emerging social enterprise develop a product line with 100 percent reclaimed materials, create green-collar jobs, and support individuals in moving out of poverty.
UK: Refurbishment of Roof Terraces at the RIBA Headquarters Building, Portland Place, London
Deadline for receipt of Expressions of Interest Thursday 4 December 2008
Designers are invited to submit Expressions of Interest for the redesign of three roof terraces at the RIBA Headquarters building at 66 Portland Place, London. The objective is to design and create simple sustainable architectural garden terraces that will compliment and enhance 66 Portland Place. The aspiration is to commission a work of quality and originality that will create a signature project in the context of the fine Grade II* listed 1930's building, designed by George Grey Wornum.
UK: River Soar Foot and Cycle Bridge Competition
Deadline for receipt of expressions of interest is Thursday 4th December 2008.
Organised by the RIBA Competitions Office, this new competition seeks suitable architect or engineering-led teams for the design of a new foot and cycle bridge crossing the River Soar in Leicester. The project vision is to stimulate the regeneration of the Abbey Meadows area of the city and to connect the proposed Leicester Science Park and the adjacent National Space Centre, with the residential development to be carried out at Wolsey Island on the opposite bank of the River Soar.
USA: 2009 International Architecture Awards
Deadline for 2009 submissions is 1st Dec 2008.
The Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, in association with Metropolitan Arts Press and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, are organising the 2009 International Architecture Awards to honor the most outstanding contemporary architecture designed and built throuyghtout the world.
UK: International Urban Design Competition for the regeneration of Wellesley Road and Park Lane in Croydon
Submission of Expression of Interest with pre-qualification questionnaire: 1st Dec 2008
The London Borough of Croydon invites designers to meet the challenge of transforming a one kilometre length of the main route that punctures the heart of Croydon from an urban motorway into an environmentally friendly destination in its own right. Practices operating in fields of urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning and transportation are especially welcome. Two stage urban design contest; jury members include Will Alsop, Joanna Averley, Ricky Burdett and Jon Rouse.
UK: Make Me a Home -Northshore International Competition
Competition Closes 1st December 2008.
A 23 hectare site with over a mile of south facing riverside frontage along the River Tees, immediately adjacent to the eastern edge of Stockton-on-Tees town centre. The Northshore Development Partnership Ltd (aka Urban Splash and Muse Developments) is working closely with Tees Valley Regeneration and English Partnerships to create homes, offices, shops, hotels, bars, restaurants, cafés, leisure facilities and a new extension of Durham University's Queens Campus, all tied together with lots of lovely public space. We've got the Masterplan, beautifully crafted by Ryder Architects and Grant Associates, and now we need you to bring your own little piece of magic to the plans. Make your mark. Make your own home sweet home.
Competition Source Links:
http://www.arplus.com/competition/competiton.htm
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