Ideas Contests
Bicycle bridge in Amsterdam
While the Netherlands can be called the global benchmark for cycling infrastructure, Amsterdam lacks a bridge across the river for easy pedestrian and cyclist travel. Contestants need to submit ideas for creating such a bridge to the jury. The format for submitting works is 3 drawings from each participant.
| dead-line: | 15.04.2021 | |
| open to: | of all | |
| reg. contribution: | from € 40 | |
| awards: | two prizes of € 1000 |
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House of Arts in Brussels
Ideas for creating an art house in Brussels are accepted for the competition, where exhibitions, workshops, various meetings and discussions will be held. The new building should delicately fit into the historical urban development, enrich it, and become one of the symbols of the city.
| dead-line: | 09.04.2021 | |
| open to: | of all | |
| reg. contribution: | from € 15 | |
| awards: | €1000 |
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Retreat in the Alps
The competition is dedicated to finding ideas for creating a space in the Alps where you can replenish life energy, improve your well-being, and get rid of stress. Such a reboot is necessary for residents of modern cities with their fast pace of life and lack of time for rest. The retreat center should serve as a place to awaken emotions and contemplate the surrounding natural beauty.
| registration dead-line: | 30.03.2021 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 31.03.2021 | |
| open to: | of all | |
| reg. contribution: | from € 60 | |
| awards: | prize fund - € 2500 |
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Cartoon house
The competition provides an opportunity to awaken a child in yourself and design a house for your favorite cartoon character. It is necessary to turn off logic and common sense, forget about the limitations existing in reality and create a dwelling to match the character and according to his needs.
| registration dead-line: | 30.03.2021 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 31.03.2021 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from € 60 | |
| awards: | prize fund - 200,000 rupees |
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Reinventing cities
The competition is dedicated to understanding the problem of climate change and finding ideas for creating sustainable cities and regions. There are two categories in the competition: student and professional. To develop a project, you need to select a specific city from the proposed list.
| registration dead-line: | 18.03.2021 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 27.05.2021 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | not |
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Imagining tomorrow's Israel
The Jewish National Fund plans to create a World Zionist Village, which will house the first Zionist educational center for adults, the campus of the Alexander Musa High School in Israel and an innovative science center. The task of the contestants is to present their vision of this village to the jury.
| dead-line: | 18.03.2021 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | main prize - $ 5000 |
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Exciting visitor center
The student competition invites participants to let their imaginations run wild and design a visitor center in any spectacular natural location in the world. The organizers do not set any restrictions.
| registration dead-line: | 28.02.2021 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 01.03.2021 | |
| open to: | students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 15 | |
| awards: | prize fund - 50,000 rupees |
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Chapel on Lake Titicaca
Contestants are encouraged to design a chapel on Lake Titicaca in Peru, a multicultural space where they can retreat for reflection or meditation. It should be a place that is friendly towards visitors from every corner of the planet, blurs the boundaries between different nations and immerses in a unique nature.
| registration dead-line: | 26.02.2021 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 28.02.2021 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 20 | |
| awards: | prize fund - $ 800 |
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Maze
The participants were asked to create an architectural labyrinth - a space with many directions of movement and dead ends, where unexpected surprises and discoveries are hidden. In projects, you can use doors, windows, stairs, mirrors and other necessary elements. It is assumed that the entrance to the labyrinth will be paid and up to three people will be able to attend at the same time.
| registration dead-line: | 30.01.2021 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 10.02.2021 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 7 | |
| awards: | prize fund - 15,000 rupees |
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House for the Spirala community
Eco-Village Spirala is a Portuguese project focused on self-development and communication with nature. The complex will consist of 20 buildings. Community members will live here and farm together. The contestants will have to design a house for meetings, gatherings and other events that will be held inside the village.
| registration dead-line: | 29.04.2021 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 03.06.2021 | |
| open to: | of all | |
| reg. contribution: | from € 80 | |
| awards: | prize fund - € 10,000 |
[more] For students
CTBUH 2020 student research project competition
The purpose of the competition is to encourage students to work on topical research questions. This year's theme is Sustainable High-Rise Buildings and Urban Habitat. Participants' projects must comply with it.
| dead-line: | 03.02.2021 | |
| open to: | students under the guidance of teachers | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | $5000 |
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New school, smart school
The competition is dedicated to the search for ideas on the formation of an educational environment that is in constant interaction with the city and its inhabitants. Participants should be offered options for organizing a flexible space that could simultaneously serve as a school, kindergarten, cultural and social center. Projects need to take into account the need to support digital learning, which is in demand today in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic.
| dead-line: | 19.02.2021 | |
| open to: | undergraduate and graduate students | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | prize fund - KRW 24 million |
[more] Design and graphics, art
Architectural illustration competition
The competition involves hand-drawn or digital illustrations depicting buildings, neighborhoods or cities that inspired the participants and caused them the most emotion.
| dead-line: | 01.03.2021 | |
| open to: | of all | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 14.99 | |
| awards: | two prizes of $ 500 |
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Connubia: furniture design competition
The task for the contestants is to propose the design of furniture products that could replenish the catalog of the Italian brand Connubia. Works are accepted in three categories: smart furniture, comfort, design for pets. Simple and functional design is preferred, with color as its soul.
| dead-line: | 31.01.2021 | |
| open to: | professionals and students | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | three prizes of € 2000 |
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ein & zwanzig 2020 - design competition
Design projects of furniture, interior items and finishing materials participate in the competition. The number of winners is 21. All projects will be presented at the Tortona Design Week in Milan.
| dead-line: | 22.01.2021 | |
| open to: | students and young designers | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | exhibition of the best projects at Tortona Design Week in Milan |
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ArchBukhta 2021 - installation competition
The competition is held within the framework of the architectural festival “ArchBukhta. Teleportation". The chosen theme will allow participants to "move" in time and space, try, create new and experiment. An innovation this year is the use of local materials in the sale of objects. Works for the competition are accepted in any format: sketches, 3d models, photographs of models. The winner will be chosen by the visitors during the festival.
| dead-line: | 31.01.2021 | |
| reg. contribution: | not |
[more] Awards and scholarships
AZ Awards 2021 - design and architecture award
The AZ Awards is an international design and architecture award organized by AZURE magazine for the eighth time. Works completed before December 31, 2020 can be submitted for the competition. Participants' projects should be modern, socially significant, technically innovative and consistent with the principles of sustainable development.
| dead-line: | 25.02.2021 | |
| open to: | students, professional architects and designers, bureaus and studios | |
| reg. contribution: | from $ 35 to $ 175, depending on the registration date and participant category |
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IE School of Architecture & Design: Entrepreneurship Scholarship
To participate in the competition, young architects and designers need to demonstrate their entrepreneurial qualities: to identify the existing problem in the architectural and urban planning industry and substantiate the possibility of building a business associated with solving this problem. In total, it is planned to select eight winners, each of whom will receive a scholarship to study at the IE School of Architecture under the Master in Business for Architecture and Design program.
| registration dead-line: | 29.01.2021 | |
| dead-line for submitting projects: | 05.02.2021 | |
| open to: | young professionals (with less than 10 years of work experience) | |
| reg. contribution: | not | |
| awards: | eight scholarships for training - from € 5,000 to € 10,000 |
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