Ideas Contests
Eco chapel
The challenge for the contestants is to create a chapel and community center for Ethiopian tribes and communities in the forested area. The new facility should help preserve the existing forest and grow a new one. Also, the chapel can become a platform for exchanging knowledge and disseminating information about the problem of deforestation in the country.
| registration dead-line: | 18.05.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 02.06.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 20 | |
| awards: | from $ 100 |
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Sustainable fashion hub
The competition develops the popular topic of sustainable production and conscious consumption today. It's about the fashion industry. The pursuit of style is driving an annual increase in the number of garments produced and purchased around the world, and the garment and textile industries have a serious environmental impact. The challenge for the participants is to come up with an eco-friendly tailoring studio that could draw attention to the negative consequences of rapidly changing fashion and the need to introduce sustainable technologies into the garment manufacturing process.
| registration dead-line: | 18.05.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 02.06.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 20 | |
| awards: | from $ 100 |
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Bunkertecture
Participants should be offered ideas for shelter bunkers in the event of a nuclear war or other major disaster. It is necessary to imagine what, in principle, the bunker architecture can be. Discreet and functional, providing minimal conditions for survival, or comfortable and aesthetic.
| registration dead-line: | 11.05.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 26.05.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 20 | |
| awards: | from $ 100 |
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Apocalypse architecture
Participants need to offer ideas for creating a self-sufficient closed life support system in case humanity is on the verge of extinction. The complex should be designed to accommodate 160 people in harsh environmental conditions.
| registration dead-line: | 04.05.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 19.05.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 20 | |
| awards: | from $ 100 |
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Skyscraper city
Modern densely populated cities do not always have the possibility of horizontal expansion, so they only grow upward. Now skyscrapers cannot be perceived as stand-alone and functioning buildings on their own. Skyscrapers should set the vector for the development of cities, so they need to be designed with an eye to all urgent urban problems. The idea of such a skyscraper should be offered to the participants.
| registration dead-line: | 27.04.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 12.05.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 20 | |
| awards: | from $ 100 |
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Emergency Management Center
Participants will design an operations center to coordinate actions to eliminate the consequences of natural disasters and other emergencies in South African countries. A building with an area of up to 500 m² should be suitable for installation in different places - easy to assemble and transport. The projects must take into account the specifics of the local topography and climate.
| registration dead-line: | 31.03.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 27.04.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from € 60 to € 100 | |
| awards: | 1st place - € 5000; 2nd place - € 1,500; 3rd place - € 1000; internships in international architectural firms |
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Independent National Architectural Rating "Golden Capital 2020"
The results of the work of architects and designers for 2016-2020 are allowed to participate in the rating: buildings, projects and concepts, coursework and diploma studies, scientific developments. The nomination "Urban planning" was fixed in the rating of this year, special nominations of the past years - "ArchCult" and "HumanSpace" - moved to the main list of nominations.
| dead-line: | 15.06.2020 | |
| open to: | architects, designers, bureaus, studios, design organizations, students | |
| reg. contribution: | depends on the nomination and the date of application | |
| awards: | cash prizes for the Grand Prix awards, Gold Capital, Ranking Leader |
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Aluminum in architecture 2020
The competition involves buildings and projects that demonstrate the possibilities of using aluminum in architecture. Nominations: objects of new construction, reconstruction, transport infrastructure, small object, interior design and building elements, small forms and objects of environmental design.
| dead-line: | 01.08.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | participation is paid | |
| awards: | grand prix - 300,000 rubles |
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Glass in architecture 2020
The competition is open to objects designed or built over the past 5 years using glass and translucent structures. Non-standard ideas and innovative solutions are welcome. Buildings and completed projects are assessed separately.
| dead-line: | 07.08.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | participation is paid | |
| awards: | grand prix - 300,000 rubles |
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Research grants from GRAFT 2020
The architectural bureau GRAFT is holding a research grant competition for students and young professionals for the second year. To participate, it is necessary to propose a topic and a research plan on the topic of global warming. The work should be devoted to solving a specific problem - that is, it should not be purely theoretical in nature. The two winners of the competition will receive grants of € 3,000 for research costs.
| dead-line: | 29.02.2020 | |
| open to: | students and young professionals who graduated from the university no more than 2 years ago | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | two grants of € 3000 |
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