Ideas Contests
Brazil will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and the organizers of the [Rio De Janeiro] Symbolic World Cup Structure invite participants to create an architectural symbol of the World Cup in the heart of the city. The main requirement is the project's compliance with the spirit of the World Cup.
dead-line: registration – June 30, 2013; submitting projects - 5 July 2013
open to: architects, engineers, students
registration fee: $80
awards: 1st place - $3500, 2nd place - $1700, 3rd place - $800
In many parts of the United States, the issue of protecting cities during hurricanes and minimizing the negative consequences of natural disasters is extremely acute. The task of the Stormproof competition is precisely to solve this problem in architectural ways. Despite the fact that when developing a project, the possibility of implementation should be considered, the organizers do not promise to bring the ideas of the winners to life.
dead-line: registration – August 31, 2013; submitting projects - August 31, 2013
open to: architects, designers, landscape architects and artists
registration fee: $100
awards: 1st place - $5000, 2nd place - $2000, 3rd place - $1000
Looking forward to implementation
The "Creative Moscow - creative Moscow" competition continues. The spring stage of the competition includes the development of a project-manifesto to solve the selected city-wide problem (theoretical task), and as part of a practical task, participants were asked to design an extension to the Central House of Arts for holding events and informal communication of people of creative professions.
dead-line: registration – April 19, 2013; submitting projects - April 19, 2013
open to: young architects, designers, artists, sociologists, students
registration fee: not
awards: project implementation
Mexico announced
competition for a new cultural center. The design site is located on Chapultepec Avenue, a vibrant area of Mexico City with many bookstores and cozy cafes. The cultural center should include an assembly hall, exhibition spaces, lecture halls and restaurants - a standard set for buildings of this type.
dead-line: registration – April 20, 2013; submitting projects - April 26, 2013
open to: urban planners, architects, designers and students
registration fee: $90
awards: 1st place - $35 000 and implementation is possible, 2nd place - $25 000, 3rd place - $20 000
For students only
The 2013 Seoul Urban Design Competition invites students to reflect on the issues surrounding the Jemulpo-gil highway. This part of western Seoul has been torn out of the fabric of the city and is now in need of regeneration to transform it into a comfortable and sustainable environment.
dead-line: registration – April 26, 2013; submitting projects - 5 July 2013
open to: students from all over the world
registration fee: not
awards: 1st place - $10000, 2nd place - two prizes $5000, 3rd place - three prizes $3000, 4 prize for $1000
In Brussels, the organizers of the competition for undergraduate and graduate students from all over the world set an interesting task for the participants -
design the building of the International Gastronomy Center. The project should include not only purely utilitarian rooms for cooking and eating, but also spaces for lectures, conferences and live communication, as well as a living area for participants in the culinary curriculum.
dead-line: registration – May 24, 2013; submitting projects - June 14, 2013
open to: undergraduate and graduate students in architecture and design
registration fee: for individual participants 50 €, for teams – 75 €
awards: 1st place - 3750 €, 2nd place - 1500 €, 3rd place - 625 €
Within the framework of the Architecture Festival in Lithuania, there is a competition initiated by the Kaunas University of Technology. Its goal is to revitalize the territory of the city's historical center, located between two rivers - the Neman and Neris. Participants can choose one of two categories: architectural or urban planning, and, depending on the decision made, develop a project for the renovation of urban areas of Kaunas or a concept for the development of neighborhoods near the coastline.
dead-line: registration – August 1 2013; submitting projects - August 1 2013
open to: students from all over the world (bachelor and master)
registration fee: not
awards: 1st place - 1000 €, 2nd place - 700 €, 3rd place - 500 €
For Winery
Another competition of the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art within the framework of the Design Territory project. The task of the contestants is to propose projects that can transform Nizhny Syromyatnichesky Square, which is a "portal" to the world of contemporary art, leading to the Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod and the Artplay Design and Architecture Center. Now the territory of the park is an unsettled and unsafe space, not to mention its aesthetic qualities. The participants of the competition will have to solve these problems and develop a concept for a new purpose of the territory.
dead-line: registration – 15 April 2013; submitting projects - 15 April 2013
open to: young professionals in the field of environmental design
registration fee: not
awards: 1st place - RUB 70,000
The face of the firm
Lava Ceramics Design has organized three competitions at once, in which architects and designers must demonstrate a stylish and extraordinary use of the company's products - exclusive handmade ceramic tiles.
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The competition for the best completed project is open to the works of architects and designers, made with the use of facade tiles, interior tiles, as well as ceramic panels by Lava Ceramics Design. In all other respects: the color scheme, the choice of the composition and the size of the tiles, the organizers do not limit the participants.
dead-line: registration – December 1, 2013; submitting projects - December 1, 2013;
open to: architects, designers, architectural and design studios
registration fee: not
awards: 1st place - 200,000 rubles; 2nd place - 130,000 rubles; 3rd place - RUB 70,000
Completed projects using exclusive tiles made at the factory according to the participant's author's sketches will be evaluated in the “Idea? Itself! . The best implemented author's project”. The main evaluation criterion is, of course, the uniqueness and originality of the project.
dead-line: registration – December 1, 2013; submitting projects - December 1, 2013;
open to: architects, designers, architectural and design studios
registration fee: not
awards: 1st place - RUB 70,000
And in the competition for the best 3d project, Lava Ceramics Design will evaluate design proposals using ceramic tiles presented on the company's website.
dead-line: registration – 15 May 2013; submitting projects - 15 May 2013;
open to: architects, designers, architectural and design studios
registration fee: not
awards: Apple iPad mini
Small forms
The organizers of the "Build a Bench for East Kowloon" competition in Hong Kong urge the contestants not to view the benches as purely utilitarian. The challenge for the contestants is to design a bench that reflects the unique and controversial image of East Kowloon, an area that combines a busy pedestrian promenade with its motley crowd and gray former industrial zones. In addition, the organizers envision the benches as a kind of symbol of Hong Kong, as, for example, red telephone booths for London. Registration for the competition ends soon, on April 1 - hurry up, but your work can be sent until 2013-30-04.
dead-line: registration – April 1, 2013; submitting projects - April 30, 2013
open to: all comers
registration fee: not
awards: 1st place - 20000 Hong Kong dollars and sales;
2nd place - HK $ 10,000 3rd place - HK $ 5,000
Also, the organizers of the competition “Time of benches for Lav-Park” offer to reflect on the innovative solution of benches and benches. The territory of the park is divided into 4 thematic zones: an area for lovers, a walking area, a recreation area for older people and a recreation area, in which copies of famous shops from all over the world will be collected. For each of these parts of the park, the participants of the competition will have to develop a conceptual solution.
dead-line: registration – April 22, 2013; submitting projects - April 22, 2013
open to: architects, designers, artists and creative people
registration fee: not
awards: 1st place - RUB 15,000, 2nd place - 15,000 rubles, 3rd place - RUB 10,000
As part of the Art-Ravine 2013. Garden City Festival of New Culture, a competition is being held to transform the urban space of Vyksa. Participants are expected to submit projects corresponding to the theme of the festival “Garden City. Transforming the Urban Environment”, related to the context and integrated into the urban space.
dead-line: registration – April 19, 2013; submitting projects - April 19, 2013
open to: all creative people
registration fee: not
awards: implementation of 5 projects, the best of which will receive 100,000 rubles.
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There are two nominations for the art objects competition “Changing the City's Lifestyle”, the task of which is to encourage students and young professionals to improve the urban environment and infrastructure on their own, as well as to change the appearance of youth forums. Thus, the participants must develop a comprehensive project to change the appearance of one of the sites in Moscow, or a project to create an object for the youth educational forum "Seliger-2013", the best of which will be implemented this summer.
dead-line: registration – May 30, 2013; submitting projects - May 30, 2013
open to: architects, designers, students and creative youth
registration fee: not
awards: project implementation, 1st place - RUB 15,000, 2nd place - RUB 10,000, 3rd place - 5,000 rubles
Another competition for the creation of small architectural forms for a youth forum. This time, they propose to develop a new architectural space and design art objects for the Baltic Artek forum. The organizers ask you to think not only about beauty, but also about the environmental friendliness and functional purpose of objects, as well as provide for mobility and ease of use.
dead-line: registration – May 30, 2013; submitting projects - May 30, 2013
open to: individual participants and teams
registration fee: not
awards: 1st place - RUB 15,000, 2nd place - RUB 10,000, 3rd place - 5,000 rubles
Photographing architecture
Homemade Dessert has organized two photo-architectural competitions at once. The first of them proposes to rethink the spaces, the function of which has changed over time under the influence of climatic, social or political factors, and to look at them in a new way through the lens of the camera.
dead-line: registration – May 10, 2013; submitting projects - 15 May 2013
open to: all comers
registration fee: $25
awards: 1st place - $1000
The second architectural photography competition focuses on color in architecture. Color performs both its usual function of creating a chromatic environment and an emotional function when it affects a person's mood and sensations. The task of the contestants is to try to convey both of these essences of color in the photographs of an architectural object.
dead-line: registration – 10 July 2013; submitting projects - July 15, 2013
open to: all comers
registration fee: $25
awards: jury prize - $ 1000 Audience Award – $500
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