Architecture Competitions 2015, Design Contests Dates, Deadlines, Entries, Students, Prizes

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Recent Architectural Competitions in 2015

Recent Architectural Competitions from 2015 to early 2016, chronological:

AIT-Award 2016 – best in interior and architecture Competition
Registration deadline: 27 Jan 2016
Submission deadline: 3 Feb 2016
Award ceremony: 16 Mar 2016 in Frankfurt am Main

The international AIT Award – Best in Interior and Architecture 2016 – combines interior design and architecture in one price and has its focus in the architectural centres of the world (Europe, North America, Middle East and Far East) – but also includes newcomer and yet neglected regions. The AIT Award is divided in different categories: all types of architectural projects and interior spaces can be submitted. An international renowned jury of architects and interior designers will be awarding the best project in each of the categories. The competition is open to architects, interior designers and design professionals. There is no charge for entering the competition.

Superscape 2016 Architecture Competition
The architectural award Superscape 2016 is launched, now open for submissions until March 7, 2016.

The Superscape is awarded biennal to innovative and visionary architectural concepts. It focuses on the interaction of private living space with urban contexts, viewed from an interdisciplinary perspective. Superscape 2016 opens a field for visionary design suggestions and space concepts which focus on building the urban residential space of the future.

The goal is to formulate forward-thinking concepts, to question familiar residential patterns and to risk experiments in design, but also to consider their feasibility, and to check the possibility of realising them within existing building substance and existing urban structures. Supercape carries a cash value of € 20.000.

Read more about Superscape 2016 at www.superscape.at/eng

Flux Emerging Architects Design Competition

CHALLENGE
Today over 3 billion people live in urban areas, composing 50% of the world population. By 2050, it is estimated that the world population will grow to between 9 and 11 billion people, and over 70% will be living in urban areas. This means within 35 years, we will need to house an additional 3 billion people within cities by the most conservative estimates. Even if we could build large apartment complexes that house 500 people each, we would need to construct 500 buildings each day every day for the next 35 years to meet that demand.

How will the architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) industry meet the demand for affordable and sustainable buildings in this rapidly urbanizing world? At Flux, we believe technology is the answer. Based out of San Francisco, Flux develops cloud-based collaboration tools that exchange data between existing design environments, allowing for automated and parametric workflows that extend across platforms. Our mission is to spread design knowledge and improve the accessibility of design tools, in order to help the AEC industry design buildings smarter, faster, and more sustainably.

In this competition, we ask students designing in Grasshopper, Dynamo, and Excel to think about the role technology solutions can play in accelerating the building design process and increasing the innovation capital of design teams. Each registered team will submit a short video explaining your project, along with relevant design files. Submissions will be judged based on creativity, simplicity, and transferability; prizes will be awarded for a variety of submission categories as detailed in the brief.

Read the full competition brief and register at Flux Emerging Architects Design Competition

SCHEDULE
November 2: Registration opens
November 15: Early bird registration closes
December 1: Competition brief released
December 31: Registration closes
January 31: Competition submissions due
February 29: Winners announced

AWARDS
Most innovative project: 5,000 USD
Best building performance: 5,000 USD
Best digital fabrication using Flux: 1,000 USD
Best use of data harvesting with Flux: 1,000 USD
Best multi-user collaboration using Flux: 1,000 USD
People’s choice for best overall: 2,500 USD
Plus 10 Honorable Mentions: value TBD

QUESTIONS
Have a question? Send us an email at [email protected].

Arquideas Central Park Summer Pavilion (CPSP) New York competition

Central Park Summer Pavilion Architecture Competition
Participants: Architecture students and young architects
Registration: October 26, 2015 to January 22, 2016

A’ Design Awards and Competition

The International A’ (A-Prime) Design Award is the world’s largest event for design, innovation and creativity, bringing together the very best designers, architects, innovators, inventors, brands, design press and institutions from all countries across the globe under the same roof.
The international design award and competition is looking for new and original product and project submissions worldwide. Entries are open to both concept stage works as well as realized projects and products. The ultimate aim of the competition is to highlight and recognize good design works worldwide.

Architecture of Necessity Competition

Architecture of Necessity
This design contest is an international triennial for sustainable community building. Entries are accepted from professionally active individuals or legal persons such as building contractors, architectural bureaus, local government, construction firms or other companies.

[MOSCOW] Circus School Competition

[MOSCOW] Circus School – Moscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia with 12.2 million residents within the city and 16.8 within its urban area. It is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific centre in Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city in the entire European continent.
Moscow Circus School Architecture Competition

New Ideas Competition ARCHITECT’S STUDIO

Opengap invites participants to submit innovative proposals to rethink the workspace of an architect. To propose projects that addresses the architect’s vision of his ideal inspiration and working space. How do you imagine the place from which other spaces are to be designed? How to address a project in which you yourself are the client?

This Opengap architectural competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic. Competitors could subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people.

Luxury Bleisure Hotel Competition
L’ARCA INTERNATIONAL, the Royal Monceau Raffles Paris and the Mondial du Batiment are thrilled to invite you to participate to their international architecture competition : LUXURY BLEISURE HOTEL COMPETITION.
More information here: http://we.tl/DPzkGO05wy
Contest rules: http://www.arcadata.com/concours/present.php

AGi architects Greeting Card Design Competition

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AGi Architects Design Competition
This design competition consists of two categories, children up to 12 years of age and adults over 18 years old. In each category, there will be five finalists in order to select only one winning design in the junior category and another one in the adults section.

Elevating Erie Ideas Competition
The creation of the Erie Canal was a paradigm shift for American progress in the 19th century, leveraging hundreds of miles of canal networks capable of generating cities out of swamps and ushering in a new era of exchange. Over a century later, what was the Erie Canal in the city has been capped over with urban development and sprawl.

We are now presented with the opportunity to reposition Erie as the vehicle for a globally relevant, ecologically turbocharged urban corridor. The Elevating Erie ideas competition seeks proposals that consider our current global biodiversity challenges in urbanized regions by developing solutions specific to the Erie Canalway Trail along Erie Boulevard East in Syracuse NY.
Website: http://www.elevatingerie.com/

6th Advanced Architecture Contest
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the FabLab Barcelona are pleased to announce the 6th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of PRODUCTIVE CITY.

The aim of the competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.

The competition is open to architects, engineers, planners and designers who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and productive cities.

Prize (Total value: 60.000, 00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme. The competition jury, which is composed of architects, professionals in a wide range of fields and directors of some of the world’s foremost architecture schools, is looking for outstanding proposals at any scale, for any city in the world on Smart Cities, Eco neighborhoods, Self-sufficient buildings, Intelligent homes, FabLabs, Urban farming or any other proposal that analyzes the phenomena of the Productive City.

The Registration is FREE, and the competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via the Internet.

6th Advanced Architecture Contest:
[email protected]
www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org/

OPENGAP Architecture Competition

OPENGAP organizes the third edition of this open ideas competition seeking for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary, proposals regarding a new concept for artistic inspiration spaces.

Participants are invited to design a place focused on the rental of spaces that motivate creativity and concentration, allowing users to focus, inspire and develop their artistic ideas.

Each participant or team will define the location of their project, however, the proposal must justify the choice of the location.

The competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic. Competitors can subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people.

The proposal submission will consist of two digital images in .jpg format, not bigger than 5MB each.

International Architecture Prize | IE SPACES FOR INNOVATION

IE School of Architecture and Design announces IE SPACES FOR INNOVATION PRIZE for young architects and designers to attract and reward young talented professionals around the word.

Participants: All young architects and designers who have finished their studies or graduate studies in 2010 or later.

Fee: There are no registration fees.

Registration: September 14, 2015 to October 30, 2015

Prizes:
– Full-time, six month, paid professional internship in Inditex, Legorreta + Legorreta or Idom UK +
– Free registration fees in the IE Master in Design for Work, Retail and Learning Environments +
– Scholarships worth € 21.750 towards the program tuition fees.

Jury:
– Martha Thorne (Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)
– Guzmán de Yarza (Director of the Master in Design for Work, Retail and Learning Environments)
– Inditex (Global fashion retail group)
– Legorreta + Legorreta (Architecture firm)
– Idom UK (Group for Engineering, Architecture and Consultancy)

Shivaji Competition: Islands, Deltas and Rising Seas

Shivaji Architecture Competition
In GIF format, the Shivaji Competition seeks actual and impossible ideas to maintain human habitation on islands and deltas doomed by the predicted sea level rise of at least one meter in the 21st century. All entries will be submitted as animated GIFs for social media broadcast and museum exhibition. One finalist will be selected to participate in the Rising Waters Confab 2016 to be held on Captiva Island, Florida, USA in May, 2016.

AIA North Carolina Urban Housing Design Competition, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

The competition winners are to be announced in May 2016.

AIA North Carolina Housing Design Competition

Tapio Wirkkala Rut Bryk Foundation International Idea Challenge

The Tapio Wirkkala – Rut Bryk Foundation is pleased to announce an open international concept competition for the future Foundation archive. The aim is to create a new type of conversational, international design center.

The idea challenge is organized by the Tapio Wirkkala – Rut Bryk Foundation in cooperation with the Finnish Association of Architects and EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art.

More information at http://wirkkalabryk.fi/juhlavuosi/ideas-competition/.

28 March 2016: registration deadline

The material deadline is 4 April 2016, and the winners will be announced in June 2016. The prize of the idea challenge is 20 000 €, which the jury will distribute as they see best. There will be at least two prize recipients, and a maximum of five.

Suncheon International Competition for Architectural Ideas, South Jeolla Province, South Korea

DACC advise the revision of the competition brief resulted from the consultations with UIA and the client, the City of Suncheon. This revised architecture competition brief has been officially approved by UIA and can be downloaded on the competition website.

■ Revised Eligibility

▪ Registered and non-registered architects who are allowed to practice in their home countries.
▪ Students majoring in architecture or related fields as a team advised by an architecture professor or a practicing architect.
▪ Although there is no limit to the number of members in a team, duplicate registration is prohibited.
▪ Multidisciplinary teams are encouraged The leader of the team must be an architect.
▪ If participants choose to submit as a team, each team must appoint a representative.

※ In order to ensure fairness in the competition, anyone who is a member or is directly in association to the competition, the organizer, the jury, the organization committee, or the technical committee, is not eligible to participate.

■ Revised Timetable

Feb 29, 2016: Competition launch
Mar 23, 2016: Closing date for inquiries
Mar 25, 2016: Answers to inquires (to be notified on the competition website)
Apr 15, 2016: Closing date for Registration
May 25, 2016: Closing date for Submissions
Jun 3 – 5, 2016: Jury Deliberation
Jun 6, 2016: Announcement of results on the competition website

Mid-July, 2016: Award Ceremony and Exhibition

Architecture Competition Website: http://www.siac.kr

Interior Scholarship Student Competition

Submission deadline: May 13th, 2016

For the sixth time AIT together with Sto Foundation initiate the Interior Scholarship. All students in the discipline of interior architecture who are enrolled at a European university and are at least approaching the end of their second year may apply. The total scholarship fund amounts to 21,000€. Each of the scholars will receive up to 580 € per month for a period of one year.

Further information available at www.ait-architektursalon.de/stipendium

AIT ArchitekturSalon|Stipendium
Vogelsanger Straße 70, 50823 Köln
Fon: +49 – (0)221 – 299 41 50 1 / [email protected] / koeln.ait-architektursalon.de

Interior Scholarship Student Architecture Competition

Nodeul Island International Design Competition, Seoul, Korea

Competition title : The International Competition of Masterplan and Space/Facility Design for Nodeul Dream Island

Seoul Metropolitan Government holds an international competition in order to establish a Music-led cultural complex until 2018, in which domestic and oversea specialists from various fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, etc. can participate.

Seoul Metropolitan Government established a program for present including necessary facilities and the scale considering citizen participation and publicity for the realization of proposed operation program. Additional program would be prepared for the future.
It is expected that creative and various design would be proposed through this competition.

Eligibility : All professionals in architecture, landscape, and urban design can enter in this competition. In the case of joint application, a team can have up to five(5) members at maximum.
Registration : 2016. 02. 29. ~ 05. 06. 17:00
Questions Posted by Entrant : 2016. 03. 14. ~ 18. 17:00
Answers Posted by PA : 2016. 03. 25.
Briefing Session on Site : 2016. 03. 31.
Submission of Entries : 2016. 05. 27. 10:00 ~ 18:00
Technical Evaluation : 2016. 06. 14.
Main Evaluation and Selection : 2016. 06. 15. ~ 17.
Announcement of Winners : 2016. 06. 20.
Award Ceremony : 2016. 07. 07
Exhibition : 2016.07.04.~17.
Client : Seoul Metropolitan Government
(The times are based on Korean Mean Time and the schedule is subject to change.)

Website : http://nodeul.org

MAKE BUILDINGS BETTER, London, UK

If we are to prevent catastrophic global warming, buildings need to perform better.

BSRIA and Designing Buildings Wiki are running an ideas competition to improve the performance of buildings in use.

The architecture competition is very simple to enter. You don’t need to write an essay, we are just looking for ideas, which might only take a paragraph, or even a sentence to explain. The more innovative and far-reaching the idea the better.

The winner will receive £500 worth of BSRIA membership, training or publications, and along with 4 runners-up, will be featured in the July edition of BSRIA’s Delta T magazine and on Designing Buildings Wiki.

This architecture competition closes on Wednesday 18 May.

To enter, go to the Make Buildings Better page on Designing Buildings Wiki (www.designingbuildings.co.uk/make_buildings_better)

London Internet Museum Design Competition

Registration deadline: was May 4

Bee Breeders architecture competition organisers are running the London Internet Museum architecture competition; it is a chance for architecture enthusiasts to use creative designs to connect current generations with both the past and the future. Participants are tasked with submitting ideas for an internet museum which shows both the history of the internet, as well as acting as a platform to discuss and workshop its future.

The internet has made connecting with others around the world infinitely easier, and it was this concept of connection that drew us to select the now-closed North Woolwich Old Station Museum in east London as the proposed competition site. What was once a hub for the city’s North London line, the Old Station Museum has been abandoned and fallen into disrepair.

Registration for the London Internet Museum architecture competition is open now until the May 4.

More information can be found on http://londoninternetmuseum.beebreeders.com/

Secret Life Design Competition, School of Architecture, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

The Secret Life of Buildings: A Call for Objects – architecture competition open to architects + designers

Registration Deadline: May 2, 2016

Submission Deadline: extended to May 20, 2016

This is a call for works of art or design that (i) might fairly be called ‘objects’ by the nascent philosophies of Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, and that (ii) will throw light on architecture as a peculiar set of objects, phenomena, ideas, relations, connections, skills, materials, obligations, and operations.

The Secret Life of Buildings Architecture Competition

Venice Re-Creation Centre Competition
Ctrl+Space – Architectural Competitions are organizing and hosting:

Venice Re-Creation Centre Competition
This is a single stage Ideas Competition with the aim of identifying the best proposal for a Cultural Building Refurbishment in Lido Island – Venice, Italy.
A total fund of 5000€ in prize money will be awarded to winning entries and awards of merit. To all the awarded proposals, online promotion will be made through specialized websites and blogs.
Feb 19 – First Stage Registration deadline – 40€
Apr 9 – Second Stage Registration deadline – 60€
Apr 30 – Final Stage Registration deadline – 90€
Apr 30 – Final Project Submission deadline

Bangkok Artists Retreat Design Competition

BANGKOK ARTISTS RETREAT

THE VIDEO: http://vimeo.com/154247045

Bee Breeders architecture competition organisers have launched their latest architecture competition for the Bangkok Artists Retreat. This competition looks to revitalise an area of Bangkok’s Old Town and repurpose one of the city’s notable landmarks -the Nightingale shopping mall – as an artists retreat.

Bangkok has long been a haven for artists, with a unique vibe and culture, and a low cost of living, it is a popular location for artists to travel to in order to get inspired. A new artists retreat could reinvigorate some of the city’s tourism that has been lost due to recent political and social unrest.

Registration for the Bangkok Artists Retreat architecture competition is open now until the 24th February 2016.

Winners will be announced on the 23rd March 2016, in the meantime more information can be found on http://bangkokartistsretreat.beebreeders.com

Bangkok Artists Retreat Architecture Competition

Ugandan LGBT Youth Asylum Design Competition

For the Ugandan LGBT Youth Asylum architecture competition, Bee Breeders architecture
competition organisers were inspired by the work of multi award-winning filmmaker, and Ugandan
LGBT activist, Kamoga Hassan. This competition seeks to generate ideas for a youth centre that
can support the local LGBT population in what is a strict and dangerous society for LGBT
individuals.

The Ugandan LGBT Youth Asylum should offer practical and psychological support for those youth
most affected by the country’s strict anti-gay laws. The work of the brave filmmaker Kamoga
Hassan, whose projects highlight just how dangerous it can be for LGBT individuals living in this
East African country, highlights why an LGBT youth centre is so important.

April 20: final deadline for registration

The announcement of the winning designs, and the recipients of the $5,000 prize fund, will be announced on May 18, 2016.

More information can be found on http://ugandanlgbtyouthasylum.beebreeders.com/

Non Architecture Competition

Organization: Non Architecture Competitions

Title: Sleeping – Alternative designs for hotels

Non Architecture Competition

Registration Deadlines: 31 March, Early registration (45 euros). 30 April, Regular registration (60 euros).

Submission Deadline: 1 May

Prizes:

3 winners (1000 euros prize), 14 honourable mentions, 50 Finalists. All selected projects will be published in the Non Architecture competition book.

Fee: 45,00€

e-architect offer a 10% discount on the subscription fee when you enter.

Click on the link below and hit the ‘Have a Discount Code?’ button and type ‘earchitect’:

Sleeping – Alternative designs for hotels : Non Architecture Competition registration

Konstrukt : Design and Innovation Awards 2016
Registration Starts from: February 06, 2016
Submission Deadline: March 16, 2016

KONSTRUKT is a competitive assembly that endeavours to recognize and honour niche aesthetic design to simple functional innovation, from Student to Architect or Civil engineer. It is their first ever chance in Eastern India to showcase their skills and get accolades from the stalwarts.

For more details, visit: www.konstrukt.con.in

AA Architecture Competition
Design Competition for the new central academic facility at Hooke Park. Open to AA Community.

11 Dec 2015 Registration deadline

An Ideas Competition The AA community is invited to take part in an ideas competition for the new central academic facility at Hooke Park. A design and learning strategy is sought that will inform the design development and construction of Wakeford Hall:

AA Hooke Park Architecture Competition

University of St Andrews Music Centre Architecture Contest
The University of St Andrews has announced a design competition for a new music centre

Practical and cost-effective proposals demonstrating both ‘flair and innovation’ are sought for the new facility which will be located on historic Queen’s Terrace.

The project will create a new home for the university’s music centre which is currently based inside the iconic 1828 Younger Hall on North Street.

The Music Centre provides facilities for enjoying music in all its forms to all sections of the St Andrews community. Situated in the Younger Hall, the largest public auditorium in the area, we offer facilities and opportunities for individual and group practice, tuition and performance, concert-going and formal academic training.

University of St Andrews Music Centre Architecture Competition

NOA South America 2014

Nature Observatory of Amazonia Contest
Contestants: Architecture students and young architects
Register: April 11, 2014 to June 13, 2014
Prizes: € 6,375 + Free digital subscription to AV Proyectos and Tectonica-online + Publication in
Plataforma Arquitectura, Future Arquitecturas, ARQ ediciones, Pedacicos Arquitectonicos and Taller al Cubo.

City-County Building Plaza Design Competition

Submission: May 28, 2014
Registration: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Location: Indianapolis, USA
Prizes: 1st Prize $ 15.000 ; 2nd Prize $ 7.500 ; 3rd Prize $ 2.500
Type: Open competition for architects in two stages.

International architecture competition seeking a final conceptual design that would be implemented on an existing 1.94 acre open space on the City-County Building Property also known as the City-County Building Plaza (CCB Plaza).

Where is Indianapolis’ Millennium Park experience? Downtown Indianapolis features several unique public spaces, but none of these spaces offer a full interactive experience.

The new CCB Plaza should serve the residents, employees, and visitors from Market East and downtown Indianapolis. The space should be flexible enough to draw in a young family as well as a retiree. This space should be mentioned in the same breath as other popular urban parks including Millennium Park (Chicago, IL), Jamison Square (Portland, OR), The Yards (Washington D.C), and City Garden (St. Louis, MO). More specific goals and recommendations will be featured in the Design Submittal Document that will be released in accordance with the Timeline.

The design team whose winning design is selected will receive $15,000 (2^nd Place – $7,500; 3^rd Place – $2,500) and will then be the preferred professional services provider for a full engineering/design contract (upon obtaining available funding) with the Indianapolis-Marion County Building Authority (IMCBA)

This competition is a two-stage competition. During the first stage, minimum qualifications from design teams will be requested. The second stage is the design submittal.

Kinmen Passenger Service Center International Competition, Taiwan

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Kinmen Passenger Service Center Architecture Competition