Ideas and Concepts Contests
Life in society
Source: rethinkingcompetitions.com Contestants will have to transform one of the central quarters of the Spanish city of Ornachuelos. The challenge is to create a comfortable living space where private and public life are closely linked. It is necessary to supplement the buildings already existing on the competition site with new ones, to provide competent functional content and to pay special attention to the common areas.
| dead-line: | 17.03.2017 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | before February 3 - € 40; from February 4 to March 3 - € 70; from 4 to 17 March - € 90 | |
| awards: | 1st place - € 3000; 2nd place - € 1000; 3rd place - € 500 |
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What is "home"?
Source: asacompetition.com Home is not only an architectural concept. It serves as a roof over your head and at the same time is the embodiment of comfort, family values and traditions. The task of the competition is to give an up-to-date definition of the word "home". After all, the lifestyle of a modern person, the growing density of the population of cities, a high level of migration and other factors have probably made their own adjustments to this concept. The best works will be presented at ASA Expo 2017 in Bangkok.
| dead-line: | 15.03.2017 | |
| open to: | of all | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | 1st place - $ 4000; 2nd place - $ 2000; 3rd place - $ 1000; three $ 500 incentive prizes |
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Dencity Competition - third annual competition
Source: shelterglobal.org Sometimes the urbanization process proceeds so rapidly and the population density grows so rapidly that cities simply cannot adapt in a timely manner to the changing reality. As a result, disadvantaged areas and slums are emerging. The aim of the competition is to find and celebrate new ideas that can help solve the problem of unplanned urban growth through architecture. There are no restrictions on the scale of the object, the place of design or the functional program.
| dead-line: | 24.04.2017 | |
| open to: | professionals and students; individual participants and teams up to 4 people | |
| reg. contribution: | before March 13 - $ 55; from March 14 to April 24 - $ 80 | |
| awards: | 1st place - $ 3000; 2nd place - $ 1500; 3rd place - $ 750 |
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TAB 2017. Contest of concepts
Source: 2017.tab.ee The competition is held within the framework of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale. Participants are required to create a development model for Tallinn using the example of the Paljassaare Peninsula. It is necessary to establish relationships between the natural landscape of the territory and the artificially created infrastructure here. Any kind of simulation is encouraged, from abstract digital computing to real-world experimentation. Proposals should be in the form of short videos.
| dead-line: | 25.04.2017 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | 1st place - € 4000; 2nd place - € 2000; 3rd place - € 1000 |
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New KenCada Academy Campus
Source: kencadaiic.com Participants are requested to submit ideas for a new campus for KenCada. The building should be designed to educate 236 children. In addition to classrooms, projects should include a library and a computer room, a playground, space for various events, a dining room and other functional areas. The main task is to offer a design that can increase the efficiency of the educational process.
| registration dead-line: | 01.03.2017 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 15.03.2017 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | three prizes of 2000 Canadian dollars |
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2017 Buckminster Fuller Competition
Source: bfi.org Each year, the Fuller Challenge jury awards the participant who submitted the best project a $ 100,000 prize for the further development and implementation of his idea, which has the potential to solve any of the pressing problems of humanity. The projects of the contestants must be thoughtful, designed for future development, environmentally friendly, realizable, withstand rigorous testing by experience, and easily reproducible.
| dead-line: | 31.03.2017 | |
| open to: | architects, urbanists, designers, artists, engineers, students | |
| reg.contribution: | standard registration - $ 100; for non-profit organizations - $ 50; for students - $ 25 | |
| awards: | main prize - $ 100,000 |
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Camboo. Bamboo pavilion
Source: buildingtrustinternational.org The winning project will be implemented to serve as the centerpiece of the Cambodia Bamboo Festival. The pavilion must have an original design, protect from the sun and rain, have a light structure, and be suitable for further use elsewhere. The main task is to demonstrate the possibilities of using bamboo, which is traditionally considered a "poor" material, in modern architecture.
| registration dead-line: | 03.03.2017 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 17.03.2017 | |
| open to: | of all | |
| reg. contribution: | until February 5 - £ 50; from February 6 to March 3 - £ 75 | |
| awards: | implementation of the winning project |
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Memorial plaque to Ilya Chernyavsky
Photo courtesy of SMA The competition is held as part of the program of preparation for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the architect Ilya Zinovievich Chernyavsky. The task of the participants is to create a project of a memorial plaque for the house where the architect lived, with the inscription “The outstanding Soviet architect Ilya Chernyavsky lived in this house from 1955 to 1994”. The author of the best project will receive the right to implement it.
| registration dead-line: | 10.03.2017 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 14.03.2017 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | implementation of the winning project |
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Radical Innovation Award 2017
Source: radicalinnovationaward.com The award recognizes the best innovative design solutions in the hospitality industry. The participants will have to develop an original concept of the hotel and submit it to the jury, which consists of industry leaders. Projects by professionals and students are evaluated separately. The winners will be determined by an audience vote during the awards ceremony in New York, to which all finalists are invited. Both unrealized and implemented projects within the last one and a half years are accepted for participation.
| dead-line: | 22.04.2017 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | for professionals - $ 200; for students - free | |
| awards: | for professionals: 1st place - $ 10,000, 2nd place - $ 5,000; prize for the best student project - $ 1500 and a trip to New York |
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Landscape Europe-Asia 2017
Illustration: land.souzpromexpo.ru The competition will be held within the framework of the exhibition Landscape Architecture and Design. Improvement and greening of the city. Vacation home . Both projects and completed objects can participate. The aim of the competition is to identify interesting ideas and innovative solutions in the field of landscape design. In addition to the jury, visitors to the exhibition will take part in the discussion of the works.
| dead-line: | 01.03.2017 | |
| open to: | designers, architects, builders | |
| reg. contribution: | for professionals - 2500 rubles; for students - 1500 rubles |
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Dedalo - Minosse International Building Customer Awards 2016/17
Source: dedalominosse.org The award recognizes the customers who collaborated most consistently and fruitfully with their architects in creating a quality piece of architecture. The assessment criteria will be social and economic sustainability, compliance with the Design for All principles, the use of natural lighting, environmental sustainability, preservation of the environment, landscape and historical heritage, the use of new technologies and materials. Projects must be completed between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2016.
| registration dead-line: | 24.03.2017 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 23.06.2017 | |
| open to: | private and public customers | |
| reg. contribution: | not |
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