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post updated 17 May 2025

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We feature the latest Architecture Competitions from around the world, updated daily to weekly.

Free Architecture Competitions in 2025

Recently Added Architectural Contests on e-architect – listed chronologically:

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Recently added on e-architect:

MAY 2025

Dedalo Minosse Prize for Architecture

21 May 2025: Registrations Deadline

International Prize For Commissioning A Building.

Entries for the 13th edition of the Dedalo Minosse Prize for Architecture are open until 21 May 2025:

Dedalo Minosse Prize for Architecture 2025

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Sirius Master Plan International Architecture Competition

31 May 2025: Submission Deadline

The competition is aimed at the strongest architectural bureaus. This design contest aims to create a world-class advanced scientific, technological and educational environment immersed in a unique water-climatic national park.

Sirius Master Plan International Architecture Competition

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JUNE 2025

Tiny Library 2025 Competition

12 June 2025: Registrations Deadline

20 June 2025: Submissions Deadline

We introduce the latest architectural contest by this team of young enthusiastic architects and founders of the international architecture and design magazine called “Volume Zero”.

The Volume Zero platform exhibits numerous innovations by architects and designers from all over the globe. This architecture and interior design magazine represents the vanguard of future-forward design.

Under this initiative, the team have come up with New-Age International Design Competitions. After successfully hosting 25 international architecture competitions, they now host the 26th edition of their Architecture Competitions, Tiny Library 2025. This design contest aims to encourage the creative imagination of young designers and students from around the globe to explore their creative limits.

The architectural competition challenges its participants to rethink and re-imagine the idea of the Library as a 21st-century self-learning and educational incubation space that not only sheds light on conventional means of knowledge but also encourages its users to interact, share ideas, and grow together.

Participants are required to design a Tiny Library optimized for 50 users with engaging multifunctional spaces for all ages and spatial experience. Entrants need to choose a site in a rural or remote context for the building design proposal. It should be located where they feel accessibility to knowledge may change the existing circumstance and the structure should not exceed 300 sqm of built-up area.

This architecture contest aims to encourage the creative imagination of young designers and students from around the globe to explore their creative limits.

The schedule:

15 May 2025: Early Bird Registrations deadline

12 June 2025: Standard Registrations deadline

20 June 2025: Closing date for Submissions

28 August 2025: Announcement of winners

Tiny Library 2025 Competition

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Europan 18 competition

29 June 2025: Submissions Deadline

17 November 2025: Results

Design contest Youtube video: E18 competition

Europan 18 competition has 47 European sites in 12 different countries.

Europan is a thematic competition of ideas / projects of architecture, urbanism and landscape, followed by implementation processes.

It is a tool for European cities and urban actors to find and develop innovative strategies for their sites in transformation.

Europan is a platform for young professionals of urban, landscape and architectural design under 40.

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Kaira Looro 2025 Competition for Nursery Schools in Africa

(May 15, 2025: Late Registration deadline)

June 10, 2025: Submission Deadline deadline

Kaira Looro 2025 Competition

The lack of quality educational facilities in many rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa poses a significant barrier to children’s development. Education plays a crucial role in nurturing cognitive skills, emo-tional growth, and social abilities, preparing them to face life’s challenges with resilience and crea-tivity. However, in many of these regions, children are deprived of these fundamental opportunities due to the absence of safe and stimulating environments.

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OCTOBER 2025

Beyond the Game: Adaptive Arenas for Tomorrow

Architecture Competition from Ethos Empowers

Title: “Beyond the Game: Adaptive Arenas for Tomorrow”
Organizer: Ethos Empowers

Theme/Focus: Participants are challenged to design multi-purpose arenas that are flexible, adaptable, and reversible—spaces that can transform, relocate, or disassemble as needs change. The design should cater to both,large events and small gatherings, ensuring seamless functionality, accessibility, and sustainability.
Eligibility: The competition is open to all currently enrolled Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students, as well as young professionals from the fields of Architecture, Planning, Civil Engineering and Design who graduated in 2023 or later, across the globe.

October 16 2025: Registration Deadline

October 29 2025: Submission Deadline
There is no registration fee
Prizes: Cash Prizes for the top three winners:

1st: ₹ 75,000/-
2nd: ₹ 50,000/-

3rd: ₹ 25,000/-
Top 10 entries to be published on our website.
Top 3 winners get free entry to ARKANCE IN BIM for Design Program (120 hours) worth Rs. 80,000/-

All participants who have submitted the entries will get a discount voucher of 40% on the BIM for Design Program.
E-Certificates for all participants who have submitted competition entries.
Website: https://ethosempowers.com/ideace/events/designaddvance2025

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DESIGN CONTESTS ARCHIVE

Architecture Competitions Archive

Past Architecture Competitions – selection:

Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Competition
Location: London, England, UK
Deadline: 20 January 2025
Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Competition

PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity — U.S. Pavilion Exhibits
Location: Venice, Italy
Deadline: January 17, 2025

The 4th Quadrant of Victory Square International Architectural Competition
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
4th Quadrant of Victory Square Prague Competition

City of The Future Competition
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
£10k Prize
City of the Future Urban Design Competition, Belfast

YAC Competition
YAC Competitions

Some Key Older Design Contest featured on e-architect:

Central City Square of Rahovec Architecture Competition

Camden Highline Architecture Competition

Winter Pavilion London Architecture Competition

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