Castelo de Abrantes Design Competition

Castelo de Abrantes design competition Portugal

The Portuguese city of Abrantes and the national Association of Architects launch the International design competition “Castelo de Abrantes”. The architecture competition aims to qualify and enrich the Abrantes Castle surroundings.

Warsaw Sports Park Competition, Poland

Warsaw Sports Park Competition 1st

Warsaw is a city under a considerable pressure for change. Stark political system change and enormous economic uplift have left several public spaces and relevant buildings to the will of speculative developers.

Blueprint Competition Genoa

Blueprint Competition in Genoa

Two months after the presentation in Genoa, there is great interest in Blueprint Competition, an international ideas competition for the redevelopment of areas of the former Trade Fair site owned by the City of Genoa and SPIM – the company for valorizing the City’s real estate holdings.

Coffee Cup – Starter Homes in UK

Coffee Cup Starter Homes

Self-Build on a Shoestring competition: the design of a starter home which incorporates used and non-recyclable coffee cups as both construction and insulation has been shortlisted for a national building award.

Radical Innovation Award 2016 Competition

Radical Innovation Award 2016 Competition

Winners in the Radical Innovation Award 2016 competition, a hospitality concept incubator seeking to challenge the hotel industry with progressive thinking in design and operations.

Winter Stations Design Competition 2017

Aurora Borealis Winter Stations Design Competition 2017

Architectural competition open internationally to architects, artists, designers and landscape architects to submit concepts for temporary artwork installations on beaches in Toronto: lifeguard stations serve as the armature for the designs.

Tristan da Cunha Design Competition

Tristan da Cunha island

Tristan da Cunha architectural contest won by Brock Carmichael Architects: RIBA architecture competition sought design ideas to create a more self-sustainable future for the Island community of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.

University of Central Lancashire in Preston

University of Central Lancashire in Preston student centre

Hawkins\Brown wins University of Central Lancashire campus gateway competition – RIBA competition to design a new circa £60 million student support centre and civic square for the UCLan in Preston, Lancashire.

Masdar Design Competition, Abu Dhabi Contest

Masdar Plaza near Abu Dhabi by LAVA

Design: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture – giant umbrellas, with a design based on the principles of sunflowers, provide moveable shade in the day, store heat, then close and release the heat at night in the plaza of a new eco-city in the United Arab Emirates.

July 22 Memorial Sites: Utøya + Oslo, Norway

Utøya Memory Wound memorial design by Jonas Dahlberg

Utøya ‘Memory Wound’ memorial design by Jonas Dahlberg abandoned? Norwegian government offers to replace controversial Utøya memorial to appease local residents. The memorial to commemorate the massacre on the island in 2011 has proved divisive

Metropolitan Opera House in Busan by moh

Metropolitan Opera House in Busan

Design: moh architects. The new ‘Busan Metropolitan Opera’ sits at the intersection point of the two bridges leading up to the competition site, tying the Opera into the city fabric while at the same time interweaving it with the picturesque waterfront promenade.

Regent Street Shop Window London Facades

Regent Street Shop Window

KSR Architects collaborated with KTBS Ltd on the design and the display lumination with Lighting.London. The forest parts like a stage curtain to unveil 7 For All Mankind’s brand new b(air) jeans mysteriously floating in the centre of the display.

Bridge for Salford Design Competition

Salford Meadows Bridge

Design: Tonkin Liu with Arup. This footbridge will not progress without further funds. The proposed new pedestrian bridge across the River Irwell won a Royal Institute of British Architects competition in 2014.

Drawing of the Year 2016: Architectural Contest

Drawing of the Year entry by Mark Thomas Smith

Aarhus School of Architecture, schmidt hammer lassen architects, VOLA, and Danish Arts Foundation proudly announce the fourth joint venture competition Drawing of the Year 2016. This year’s theme is Habitation.