Ideas Contests
Fentress Global Challenge 2020
Participants are encouraged to imagine what airports will look like in 2100. The main prize will go to a project that meets high aesthetic requirements and has the most elaborate concept. The challenge is to design a terminal for one of 20 international airports to choose from. The desire to improve passenger service processes and ensure maximum terminal functionality is encouraged. It is also necessary to consider issues of comfort, safety, innovation.
| dead-line: | 31.07.2020 | |
| open to: | students and young architects who graduated from the university no more than 4 years ago | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | 1st place - $ 15,000; 2nd place - $ 3000; 3rd place - $ 2,000; Audience Award - $ 1000 |
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Extreme Habitat 2020: Pacific Ocean
The Extreme Habitat Challenge collects ideas for creating conditions for living in a seemingly unsuitable environment. This time we are talking about the formation of the habitat under water. The project should be designed to accommodate 6 people on the Pacific shelf.
| registration dead-line: | 03.08.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 18.08.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 25 | |
| awards: | from $ 100 |
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Hybrid city
The competition is dedicated to popularizing the use of wood in multi-storey construction on a par with or in conjunction with steel and concrete. The task is to select an existing non-wooden multi-storey building and modify any of its elements using Kerto LVL laminated timber from the Finnish manufacturer Metsä Wood.
| dead-line: | 31.05.2020 | |
| open to: | architects, designers | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | prize fund - € 20,000 |
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Tomb for plastic
The competition is dedicated to the problem of recycling plastic waste. Participants are invited to create an installation that will serve as a call to find a solution. It is important to demonstrate that plastic itself is not an “enemy”, and efforts should be directed towards its recycling and reuse. The facility can be developed for any region in the world where this problem is especially acute.
| registration dead-line: | 30.05.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 31.05.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from € 60 to € 80 | |
| awards: | prize fund - € 2500 |
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Pandemic architecture
Participants will reflect on how architecture and design can help people cope with epidemics. Ideas can be fantastic or real, represent both concepts of territorial development, individual buildings and objects, and interior solutions.
| registration dead-line: | 20.05.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 31.05.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | not |
[more] Photography and drawing
One Photo Challenge 2020
The essence of this photo competition is not just to create an image of an architectural object, but to capture the essence of a place and tell a story about the people who inhabit it. The photo can be taken anywhere in the world. The scale does not matter - it can be a general plan or some detail of the building.
| dead-line: | 01.05.2020 | |
| open to: | of all | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 35 to $ 75 | |
| awards: | two prizes of $ 2500 |
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Limitography - architectural drawing competition
Drawings dedicated to the fate and function of architecture in times of epidemics, when public spaces and streets are empty, and all life takes place outside the walls of houses, are accepted for the competition. The drawing must be accompanied by an essay describing the essence of your idea.
| registration dead-line: | 26.04.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 04.05.2020 | |
| reg. contribution: | €20 |
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Pixarra: Africa Digital Painting Contest
The competition is hosted by Pixarra, a digital art software company. The topic this time is Africa; all submitted works must correspond to it. Accepted 2d and 3d drawings made using any programs and tools.
| dead-line: | 21.04.2020 | |
| open to: | professional artists and amateurs | |
| reg. contribution: | not |
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HYP Cup 2020. Transformation of Architecture - Student Competition
The international student competition UIA-HYP Cup is held for the ninth time. The competition is aimed at finding original architectural ideas, socially oriented and based on the concept of sustainable development. Participants are invited to rethink the history of architecture and propose ways of its development, taking into account the needs of modern people.
| registration dead-line: | 30.08.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 20.09.2020 | |
| open to: | students of architecture and design specialties; individual participants and teams | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | 1st place - 100,000 yuan; 2nd place - three prizes of 30,000 yuan each; 3rd place - eight prizes of 10,000 RMB each |
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CTBUH 2020 international student competition
The aim of the competition is to form a new look at the meaning and value of high-rise buildings in modern society.
The era of skyscrapers as "sculptural works", standing in isolation from the environment, is coming to an end. Now high-rise buildings must respond to the most serious problems of the present time: the growth of the world's population, massive urbanization, climate change, environmental degradation.
The organizers of the competition invite the contestants to submit their skyscraper project. The site for design can be chosen independently, anywhere in the world, but it must be real. Height, dimensions, purpose also remain at the discretion of the participants. The project needs to reflect the context and be sure to take into account the CTBUH criteria for defining high-rise buildings.
| registration dead-line: | 13.07.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 20.07.2020 | |
| open to: | architecture students | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | 1st place - $ 3000; 2nd place - $ 2000; 3rd place - $ 1000 |
[more] Awards
World Architecture Festival - Prize 2021
The prize is awarded annually as part of the World Festival of Architecture. Architects and designers will compete in over 30 nominations. Objects eligible for the award must have been built within the last one and a half years. The best projects and buildings will be presented to the jury and the public during the festival, and the award ceremony will also take place there.
| dead-line: | 08.01.2021 | |
| open to: | architects and architectural firms, landscape designers, interdisciplinary teams | |
| reg. contribution: | £ 775 to £ 850 |
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