Ideas Contests
Yoga house on the cliff
Participants are encouraged to design a meditation house to be built at the Vali di Moses yoga retreat in Portugal. The already existing yoga house there is designed for 18 guests. Now there is a need to create another one, twice as spacious. The best projects will get a chance to be implemented.
| registration dead-line: | 12.11.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 17.12.2020 | |
| open to: | of all | |
| reg. contribution: | from € 60 to € 110 | |
| awards: | prize fund - € 10,000 |
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Overlay spaces
Participants need to offer options for overlaying virtual and real space - scenarios that await all of us in the future. The contestants' imagination is not limited by anything. Overlay can be playful (for example, you can overlay the world of a fantasy game on an ordinary living room), cultural (for example, combining two streets from different cities), etc.
| registration dead-line: | 02.11.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 17.11.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 20 | |
| awards: | from $ 100 |
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Symbiotecture
The task of the competition is to design an archaeological park on the territory of the Rio Tinto ore deposit in Spain. The project should be a hybrid of architecture and nature, demonstrate an example of organic interaction between an artificially created structure and the natural environment.
| registration dead-line: | 02.11.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 17.11.2020 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 20 | |
| awards: | from $ 100 |
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Revitalizing the city
Ideas of any format and scale for the transformation of modern cities, implementation of sustainable development scenarios are accepted for the competition. Participants can choose a city of their choice, identify one of its problems and try to solve it in their project by means of architecture and design.
| registration dead-line: | 28.09.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 05.10.2020 | |
| open to: | of all | |
| reg. contribution: | £ 45 to £ 90 | |
| awards: | prize pool - £ 2100 |
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Hyperloop Desert Campus
Participants are expected to provide ideas for a Hyperloop test facility in the Nevada desert. The building should embody the wildest dreams of innovation and speed. It should become a refuge for science, a place where the impossible becomes possible.
| registration dead-line: | 20.09.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 23.09.2020 | |
| open to: | students and young architects (up to 35 years old) | |
| reg. contribution: | from € 60 to € 110 | |
| awards: | prize fund - € 15,000 |
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Transplant Center in Cluj-Napoca
The transplant center project should become not only a symbolic example of the architecture of medical institutions, but also a successful example of embedding a modern building in a historical context. In addition to the building itself, the contestants will have to work on the adjacent territory. The winner will receive a contract for the further development of the project.
| dead-line: | 28.08.2020 | |
| open to: | architects, architectural bureaus | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | 1st place - a contract for the further development of the project; 2nd place - € 60,000; 3rd place - € 30,000 |
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Ecotourism development in Russia
The purpose of the competition is to identify pilot territories for the development of ecological tourism in terms of creating tourist and recreational clusters within the framework of the integrated development of specially protected and adjacent natural areas, contributing to the development of small and medium-sized businesses, the growth of employment and incomes of the population of the regions of the Russian Federation, the development of rural areas, interaction between public authorities, entrepreneurs and local residents. The result of the competition will be the creation of 10 pilot tourist and recreational clusters. Applications are accepted from regional multidisciplinary teams. It is planned to admit 30 applicants to participate in the program.
| dead-line: | 10.07.2020 | |
| open to: | interdisciplinary teams | |
| reg. contribution: | not |
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ATY 2020 - architectural thesis competition
The competition is held by the Charette portal. You can submit for consideration theses completed no earlier than 2017. The best projects will be published in the Charette magazine.
| registration dead-line: | 30.07.2020 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 31.07.2020 | |
| open to: | architects who defended their dissertations in the period from 2017 to 2020 | |
| reg. contribution: | not |
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Seoul Garden Festival 2020 - Invitation to Participate
The competition aims to select five participants for the Garden Festival to be held in Seoul in October. The goal is to demonstrate the possibilities of using urban gardens as a link between disparate areas. The projects will be implemented, and their authors will receive cash prizes.
| dead-line: | 17.07.2020 | |
| open to: | landscape architects | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | 1st place - 12 million won; 2nd place - 4.8 million won; 3rd place - three prizes 2.4 million won |
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