Architecture Competition 2023, Design Contests, Architectural Prizes, Student Awards, Ideas
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post updated 1 April 2023
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Architecture Competitions in 2023
Recently Added Architectural Contests – listed chronologically
Holcim Foundation Awards 2023
30 March 2023, 14:00 UTC: application deadline
image from International Holcim Awards
The Holcim Awards submission platform is now open. You can enter the competition until March 30, 2023 at 14:00hrs UTC.
With a total prize pool of USD 1 million, the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction conducts the global competition to reward and shed light on real-world examples in practice that can accelerate the global movement for sustainable design.
Entering this architecture competition is free:
fill in the project summary, add sustainability details, upload images and submit your entry.
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Desert Pavilion Architecture Competition, Los Cabos, Mexico
14 April 2023 : registration deadline
29 April 2023 : submission deadline
Desert Pavilion Concursos AG360 Competition
Ideas Competition addressed to all qualified architects and architecture students in the world, as long as Spanish is maintained as the official language.
A beach art pavilion will be created as an alternative attraction for tourists to the beach in Los Cabos, Mexico. It will have spaces for temporary exhibitions and events. The Pavilion will have a Beach Club, gazebo and dock for yachts.
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Eurasian Prize 2022
The mission of the ‘Eurasian Prize’ is to advance the appreciation of architecture as a force that can transform the world, erasing boundaries between states and removing barriers between nations. The slogan of the international competition is ‘Innovation for sustainable architecture for the good of humanity’.
Current season entries will be evaluated by the world-renowned practitioners. Thanks to its reputation, Eurasian Prize has again succeeded in convening a remarkable jury, which includes the world’s best architects and designers from 16 countries: Bangladesh, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, USA.
The membership of the jury for this season’s competition includes 23 world-famous architects and designers:
Eurasian Prize 2022 competition
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Kaira Looro 2023 Architecture Competition, Africa
photo © Balouosalo
Kaira Looro 2023 Architecture Competition
The Kaira Looro 2023 theme will be the design of a Primary School for rural areas of Africa, to protect the rights of education of every child. The registration will open on 13rd January 2023. This African architectural competition is open to students and young architects as individual participants or as a team.
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Adaptive Reuse: Design Transformations for Community Healthcare
Design interventions into pre-existing sites play a critical role in global healthcare. The 2023 Epidemic Urbanism Initiative Design Competition will focus on adaptive reuse, inviting submissions that consider how pre-existing vacant, underused, or currently used sites, structures, and spaces can be transformed into healthcare settings with thoughtful, sustainable design interventions.
2023 Epidemic Urbanism Initiative Design Competition
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Design Competition for White Hart Street, Mansfield, Nottingham, central England, UK
photo © Chris Holloway, The Bigger Picture media
White Hart Street Design Competition
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Archiol Competitions for students and young professionals
New architecture competitions in 2023:
- Off the Grid Design Competition- 2023
- Sensory Architecture Essay Competition – 2023
- Life of Mars Rendering Challenge -2023
- Aural Architecture Design Challenge – 2023
- Sunlight in Architecture Design Challenge – 2023
- Building Material Essay Competition – 2023
- Into the Rabbit Hole Design Competition – 2023
- Retreat Center Design Competition – 2023
- Sensory Museum Design Competition -2023
- One Image Rendering Challenge -2023
- ADMY 2023 – Architecture Model Competition
- A3DA 2023 Award – Budding Architects – Design Competition
- A2X 2023 Award – Architecture Students – Design Competition
- A4TC 2023 – Architecture Thesis Competition
Archiol Competitions invites all the students, and young professionals to participate in these competitions.
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Architectural Awards
Offsite Construction Awards
The Concrete Centre is delighted to be sponsoring the Best Use of Concrete Technology category for another year in the Offsite Construction Awards. The 2021 entries are now open, so please ensure you submit your project or innovation by the 28th May deadline.
More about the category – Best Use of Concrete Technology
This category will reward the exemplar use of precast concrete in a project across any UK construction sector. Including floor and wall panels, cladding, volumetric and pod technology, pre-stressed units and formwork systems, the entrant will have used concrete as a major factor in delivering quality, factory-controlled, robust and sustainable offsite manufacture.
Special attention will be given to material performance levels and any project should clearly demonstrate how cost-predictability, economy, accuracy, transportability, speed of installation and principles of lean manufacture have been achieved.
Last year’s winners – Kier Integrated Team – New Build Prison at Wellingborough
Winners of the category in 2020 were Kier Integrated Team – New Build Prison at Wellingborough. This vast £253m project delivers 1,680 prison places and is the first in a series of schemes to reform and modernise the prison estate to make it more efficient, safer and focused on rehabilitation.
Wellingborough is the perfect blend of digital and DfMA advancement; providing direct project benefits, wider economic gains, as well as programme-wide improvements through standardisation, digital integration and MMC leaving a legacy that will transform the way the Ministry of Justice deliver future prisons.
Why enter the Offsite Construction Awards?
- Benefit from free publicity within Offsite Construction Awards promotion.
- All categories are free to enter.
- Stand out as a leader in the industry.
- Have your projects/companies assessed by a distinguished panel of industry experts and receive quality feedback and recognition for your outstanding work.
- Receive a specially commissioned winner’s trophy – giving recognition to your staff and team that their hard work is acknowledged and rewarded by the industry.
For more information, please visit www.offsiteawards.co.uk
The Concrete Centre provides material, design and construction guidance. Our aim is to enable all those involved in the design, use and performance of concrete to realise the potential of the material. The Concrete Centre provides published guidance, seminars, courses, online resources and industry research to the design community.
For more information visit: www.concretecentre.com
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Architecture Competitions in Winter 2023
APRIL
ACSA Student Competitions
5 April 2023 : registration deadlines
Registration deadlines are not until April 5, 2023 and the submission deadline is June 7, 2023 – so plenty of time for these architectural contests by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
They also encourage students to submit studio course work.
2023 Steel Design Student Competition
2023 AIA COTE Top Ten Student Competition
2023 Concrete Masonry Student Competition
More details:
2023 Steel Design Student Competition
Project Description:
The 2023 Steel Design Student Competition will offer architecture students the opportunity to compete in two separate categories:
Category I – Spiritual Space
Design “A Place for the Spirit” on a campus, welcoming to all, where members of the campus community and visitors can learn about and express spirituality. Program spaces include places for worship, meditation, learning, and fellowship. Steel is the primary material.
Category II – Open
Category II offers architecture students the opportunity to select a site and building program using steel as the primary material. This competition category permits the greatest amount of flexibility for any building type.
Organizer: The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
Category: Steel Design Student Competition
Eligibility: Because the support of AISC is largely derived from steel companies whose markets are mainly in the U.S., the ACSA/AISC Steel Design Student Competition is open to students and/or student teams from ACSA Full and Candidate Member Schools, as well as ACSA Affiliate Members Schools from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Register: by April 5, 2023 via the link: https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/2023-steelcompetition/registration-rules/
Awards & Prizes: $20,000 in cash prizes will be distributed among three winners and their
faculty sponsor(s).
Entries deadline: Submission deadline is June 7, 2023
Venue: Virtual
Price: Free
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2023 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition
Project Description:
Architects play a crucial role in addressing both the causes and effects of climate change through the design of the built environment. Innovative design thinking is key to producing architecture that meets human needs for both function and delight, adapts to climate change projections, continues to support the health and well-being of inhabitants despite natural and human-caused disasters, and minimizes contributions to further climate change through greenhouse gas emissions. Preparing today’s architecture students to envision and create a climate adaptive, resilient, and carbon-neutral future must be an essential component and driving force for design discourse.
Given their long lifespan, new buildings must be designed to address solutions to climate change and to respond to its projected impacts, well into the second half of the 21st Century and beyond. As with the COTE Top Ten award for built work by design professionals, COTE Top Ten for Students allows designs to be characterized in terms of 10 measures ranging from Community to Water to Wellness.
To learn more, please visit: https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/2023-cote-competition/
Organizer: The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
Category: AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Design Competition
Eligibility: An ACSA member school, faculty sponsor is required to enroll students by completing an online registration form prior to submission by April 5, 2023. The competition is open to students from all ACSA Full and Candidate Member Schools, as well as ACSA Affiliate Members Schools including international member schools. Students are required to work under the direction of a faculty sponsor. Submissions will be accepted for individual as well as team projects. Teams must be limited to a maximum of three students.
Students are invited to submit their studio projects. Entries must be buildings, but can be of any program, at any scale, in any location. Projects can be a remodel or adaptive re-use. Work should have been completed in a design studio or related class within the 2022-2023 calendar year. Projects completed in the Spring 2022 are eligible to submit, due to the competition calendar shift.
Register: by April 5, 2023 via https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/2023-cotecompetition/rules/
Awards & Prizes: $13,500 in cash prizes will be distributed among ten winners and their faculty sponsors.
Entries deadline: Submission deadline is June 7, 2023
Venue: Virtual
Price: Free
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2023 Concrete Masonry Student Competition
Project Description:
The challenges of the past few years have demonstrated the need for places for individuals in communities gather. The goal of this competition is to create a functional space within a community for gathering, play and shelter. A multi-functional building that can be used in a variety of ways is the overall goal. Think about how communities will gather in the future and design a building to meet these needs. Concrete masonry is an ideal choice for this type of building. It is durable and long-lasting, providing a pleasing aesthetic, and can be used for security and safety. Designs should identify multiple ways to take advantage of concrete masonry’s benefits to meet the needs of this new community center.
The design competition asks students to use concrete masonry products as the primary material in the design of a state-of-the-art Community Commons. This community center, both indoor and outdoor gathering spaces can be used for education, recreation, networking events and more. The Community Commons must be able to be used as a community storm shelter in case of extreme events such as tornadoes, hurricanes, or other natural disasters. Concrete masonry is a flexible, resilient and durable material, and provides vast opportunities for form, function and expression.
To learn more, please visit: https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/2023-concrete-masonrycompetition/
Organizer: The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
Category: Concrete Masonry Student Design Competition
Eligibility: Because the support of NCMA FDN is largely derived from masonry companies whose markets are mainly in the U.S. and Canada, the ACSA/NCMA Student Competition is open to students and/or student teams from ACSA Full and Candidate Member Schools, as well as ACSA Affiliate Members Schools from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico only. All published materials, websites included, associated with the ACSA/NCMA Student Competition will describe eligibility as per above.
An ACSA member school, faculty sponsor is required to enroll students by completing an online registration form prior to submission by April 5, 2023.
Register: by April 5, 2023 via the link: https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/2023-concretemasonry-competition/registration-rules/
Awards & Prizes: $20,000 in cash prizes will be distributed among the top three winners and
their faculty sponsors.
Entries deadline: Submission deadline is June 7, 2023
Venue: Virtual
Price: Free
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MAY 2023
Architecture competition for cultural centre in Tartu, Estonia
5 May 2023: submission deadline
Participants are invited to design a building for city library, art museum, event centre with multifunctional black-box and other activities supporting the cultural centre with a biologically diverse and active park and human scale public space.
Prizes:
1st prize: 60 000 Euros
2nd prize: 40 000 Euros
3rd prize: 20 000 Euros
3No. special rewards: 10 000 Euros each
Tartu Downtown Cultural Centre Competition
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Tartu Downtown Cultural Centre Architecture Competition, Estonia
5 May 2023 : submission deadline
photograph : Maanus Kullamaa
Tartu Downtown Cultural Centre Competition
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Confluence Periurban Park, Prague, Czech Republic
photo : IPR Prague
Confluence Periurban Park Prague design competition
The riverscape at the confluence of the Berounka and Vltava rivers in Prague holds enormous potential. However, this area of over 1,000 hectares has no clear landscape concept or development rules. For this reason, the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR) has launched an international landscape design competition, the aim of which is to select a team for the design of this riverscape and its long-term development as a periurban park.
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The 4th Quadrant of Victory Square International Architectural Competition, Prague, Czech Republic
photo source : ONplan, photo: Libor Fojtík
4th Quadrant of Victory Square Prague Competition
An international two-round architectural competition under the title “4th Quadrant of Victory Square” was announced by the City of Prague and the site developer the Fourth Quadrant company. Leading architecture studios are encouraged to apply and design a mixed-use development of 100 000 m2 on Victory Square, Prague’s third largest public space, gateway to university campus and the centre of Prague 6 District.
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City Of The Future Competition
No date confirmed as yet:
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
£10k Prize
image from design contest organiser
City of the Future Urban Design Competition, Belfast
Take Back the City Coalition is launching an international competition for architects, planners and urban design consultants to submit a design to transform Belfast’s largest publicly owned site. With the potential for 950 gentle density homes in the area of highest social housing need in Belfast, entrants are being encouraged to submit design concepts to help transform the site formerly occupied by Mackies, once one of West Belfast’s largest employers.
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The Drawing Board Competition
The Drawing Board is an international competition for architecture students held every year by Rohan Builders and Mindspace Architects.
What is The Drawing Board Competition?
The fundamental goal of this work is to provide a platform for students to grasp the crucial role played by architecture in determining the way communities grow. It was conceived as an attempt to provide architectural students with real-world design issues in real-world settings.
There are two phases to the competition. Students are required to submit their design presentations online in the first phase. In the second stage, the top eight entries, as determined by a panel of judges, are given the opportunity to present themselves in person to an architectural jury. Soumitra Ghosh, Naresh Medappa, Bijoy Ramachandran, Rahul Kadri, Sanjay Patil, Prasanna Desai, Rahul Gore, Takaharu Tezuka, Bijoy Jain, Neelkanth Chhaya, Peter Stutchbury, and Rupali Gupte have all been a part of this initiative in the previous years.
Response to this competition in the last six years has been very inspiring, with over 5000+ students registering from 500+ colleges from 40+ countries, including India. To learn more about us, please visit www.thedrawingboard.in or follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/thedrawingboard.in/.
Why do we do this?
Thoughtful and sensitive architecture has been the soul of all our delivered projects. The goodwill and credibility that ROHAN has built over the past 29 years has been heavily dependent on all our architects. With this initiative, we intend to do our bit to facilitate and encourage young minds in the field of architecture and shall always remain grateful to everyone for their support.
TDB 2022
This year’s design challenge is in honour of Ar. Charles Correa, an architect who is known across the globe.
Rohan Builders and Developers Pvt. Ltd.
1 Modibaug, Ganeshkhind Road, Near Agriculture College,
Shivajinagar, Pune – 411016. Maharashtra (India)
Tel.: +91 20 71017362 Cell: +91 703090 7309
[email protected] | www.rohanbuilders.com
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YAC Competition
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Arquine Competition No.23 Pavilion
Arquine call out for design of a meeting point in the public space, keeping a safe distance.
Architecture Competitions 2020 Archive
Past Architecture Competitions – selection:
Q-Village Architecture Competition
Photodemic Architecture Photography Competition
Central City Square of Rahovec Architecture Competition
Camden Highline Architecture Competition
Winter Pavilion London Architecture Competition
eVolo 2021 Skyscraper Competition
eVolo Magazine invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the 2021 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture.
eVolo 2021 Skyscraper Competition
Alternate Realities 2020 Architecture Competition
Render Battle Architecture Competition
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Architecture Competitions Links
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Reuse the Roman Ruin: Piscina Mirabilis Design Competition, southern Italy
The second edition of the cultural project Reuse Italy promotes an international architecture competition on the reuse of Piscina Mirabilis, a Roman reservoir located in the countryside of Naples.
Reuse the Roman Ruin: Piscina Mirabilis Design Competition
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