Registration Deadline: Feb 4, 2025; Submission Deadline: Feb 4, 2025
The call for submissions for a new edition of the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition, organized by the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation thanks to Richard H. Driehaus and the collaboration of the Spanish Ministry of Culture through its Directorate General for Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts, INTBAU Spain, and the Spanish High Council of Institutes of Architects, is now open.
Proposals for each of the three municipalities selected in the first phase of the competition—Baltanás (Palencia), Irurita (Navarra), and La Fresneda (Teruel)—can be submitted until February 4, 2025.
In this second phase of the competition, which is international in scope, architects of any nationality are encouraged to submit architectural and urban design proposals for any of these three locations.
For each of the three sites, the authors of the winning First Prize proposal will receive a total of €12,000, and the authors of each Honorable Mention awarded by the jury will receive a total of €2,000.
Through the following link, contestants can access the necessary information to develop their proposals.
Registration Deadline: Aug 1, 2025; Submission Deadline: Aug 1, 2025
The Leicester B. Holland Prize is an annual competition that recognizes the best single-sheet measured drawing of a historic building, structure or site prepared to the standards of the National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP). The sheet may be prepared for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). The prize is supported by the Paul Rudolph Trust, the American Institute of Architects, and the Library of Congress’s Center for Architecture, Design, and Engineering. The prize honors Leicester B. Holland (1882-1952), FAIA, chairman of the AIA’s Committee on Historic Buildings, head of the Fine Arts Division of the Library of Congress, first curator of the HABS collection, co-founder of the HABS program in the 1930s, and the first chair of the HABS Advisory Board.
By requiring only a single sheet, the competition challenges the delineator to capture the essence of the site through the presentation of key features that reflect its historic and its architectural, landscape architectural or engineering significance. The Holland Prize competition is open to all those interested, regardless of experience or professional background.
The winner will receive a $1,500 cash prize and a certificate of recognition. Preservation Architect, the online newsletter of the American Institute of Architects’ Historic Resources Committee, will publish the winning drawing. Merit awards may also be given.
Each masterpiece begins with your dream, polished by your skills and hard work, fuelled by your steadfast belief in your power, and nurtured by your inspiration and desire to create a better future. IADA is here to recognize your genius, celebrate your dedication, reward your tireless journey, and inspire others with your vision and creativity. We will share your story of challenge and success with the world.
This year, our esteemed Jury Board has been enhanced with the brightest professionals, ready to uncover the stories behind your projects and select the best among them. Meet our new Jury members:
Frederick Rickmann (DNgroup, STEENSSEN Aps, DNDC, AFR, Thinking Urbans)
Yuting Zhang (Studio RE+N)
Daryl Villanueva (Bandit9 Motors)
Jiaru Lin (KMC Corp)
Larry Lim (Anchor Agency)
Alberto Dias Ribeiro (A2OFFICE)
Gloria Cabral (STUDIO 4.4)
Serhii Makhno (Makhno Studio)
Xiaobi (Iris) Pan (Amazon)
Paul Wiseman (The Wiseman Group)
IADA 2025 invites you to join a global stage where passion meets recognition. Whether you are a student, creator, professional, constructor, web designer, fashion designer, artist, or anyone who dares to dream and turn those dreams into reality, you are welcome here.
Prizes:
Certificate of Achievement
Personalized Award Logo
Winner’s personalized page
Iconic IADA Trophy
Our magnificent trophy can go to each winner.
Winner’s Banner Kit
Social Media publication
Media-Partner publication
Studio’s Spotlight
A personalized studio card with contact information will be featured on each winner’s page.
Take advantage of early registration with discounted pricing, enter by the Early Bird Registration Deadline (6th December 2024), and secure your place among the world’s most inspiring designers.
Registration Deadline: Jan 6, 2025; Submission Deadline: Jan 6, 2025
The Prem Jain Memorial Trust National Green Earth Challenge invites students of Engineering, Architecture, and Design colleges across India to tackle critical environmental challenges by developing innovative and sustainable design solutions for the built environment. With the mounting pressures of climate change, resource depletion, and urbanization, this challenge emphasizes the importance of a transdisciplinary, integrated approach. Participants will blend insights from various disciplines to create solutions that are not only eco-friendly but also socially inclusive.
The PJMT National Green Earth Challenge this year will focus on two distinct themes:
The Arch-Eng Challenge: The Arch-Eng theme encourages Architecture and Engineering students to create sustainable design solutions that are rooted in evidence and address issues related to the environment & people. The challenge emphasizes a transdisciplinary approach, integrating the environmental, social, and technological aspects while designing the solution. Participants should bring their innovative ideas and subject matter expertise to reinvent conventional practices or provide an alternate solution to enhance efficiency.
The Design Challenge: The Design category of the PJMT National Green Earth Challenge aims to promote sustainability by transforming available materials into innovative products that benefit humanity, communities, society, and the environment as a whole. Our planet faces escalating environmental challenges, from resource scarcity to mounting waste and pollution. Designers have a unique ability to shape how products are created, used, and discarded. In this challenge, we ask you to reimagine design processes through the lens of circularity—creating innovative solutions that keep materials in use for as long as possible, minimize waste, and regenerate natural systems.
Who can participate?
The challenge is open to undergraduate students currently enrolled in architecture, engineering, or design programs.
You can participate individually or form teams of 2 or 3 members. Teams can consist of students from different batches or colleges, as long as all members meet the eligibility criteria.
Eligibility is restricted to Indian citizens.
Stages of Evaluation
First Stage: A panel of experts in the field will review all applications and rank the top solutions from four zones – North, East, South, and West.
Second Stage: The top solutions will present their submissions online to a distinguished jury in each zone. Per zone, three prizes will be awarded at this stage: zonal winner, zonal first runner-up, and zonal second runner-up.
Third Stage: The zonal winners and first runners-up advance to the third stage, competing in Delhi for the National Prize. They will present their solutions while incorporating feedback from previous stages. A national winner and national runner-up will be announced at this stage.
Awards:
The following awards* are available for both categories:
National Round:
Winner: ₹1,50,000
Runner-Up: ₹50,000
Zonal Rounds:
Winner: ₹25,000
First Runner-Up: ₹18,000
Second Runner-Up: ₹12,000
Key Dates:
13th November 2024 – Applications Open
6th January 2025 – Applications Close
1st-2nd March 2025 – Zonal Rounds: Top entries from the North, East, South, and West zone will present their ideas to judges.
28th-29th March 2025 – National Round: Zonal winners and first runners-up will compete at the Grand Finale in Delhi.
Ryohei Koike, an associate in Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) walks us through the studio’s most important competition project, the LEGO house, reflecting on the similarities between architecture and playing with LEGO. Throughout his story we learn that the world is saturated with proportions of a LEGO brick, how the project relates to Mona Lisa, Bruce
TerraViva launches the 5th edition of TACTICAL URBANISM NOW! This architecture competition challenges participants to design short-term, cost-effective interventions able to act as catalysts for larger transformations. Prizes up to 10.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed, among others, by Leonardo Zuccaro (PoliMi + COpE), Rowan Elselmy
Registration Deadline: Jan 22, 2025; Submission Deadline: Sep 2, 2025
Choose a site—used, abandoned, or forgotten—anywhere in the world, and give it a new purpose!
In a world facing urgent environmental and spatial challenges, the most sustainable solutions may come not from new construction, but from reimagining what already exists. Re:Form invites architects, designers, and innovators to embrace the challenge of adaptive reuse, working within spaces under 250 square meters to give them renewed purpose and relevance.
Participants are free to choose any existing structure—whether currently in use, abandoned, or neglected—anywhere in the world. From unused storefronts and aging sheds to underutilized garages or portions of larger buildings, each project should demonstrate the potential to transform a limited footprint into something innovative and impactful.
This competition celebrates the ingenuity required to balance sustainability, functionality, and design within an existing space. How can we rethink these structures to serve new purposes, meet contemporary needs, and make a positive impact on their communities? Re:Form is an invitation to bring fresh perspectives to old spaces, showing that thoughtful adaptation can be a powerful tool in shaping a sustainable future.
PRIZES
3 winning proposals, 2 special award recipients and 6 honourable mentions will be selected. Buildner will award a total of 10,000 € in prize money to competition winners as follows:
Registration Deadline: Mar 13, 2025; Submission Deadline: Mar 13, 2025
The eleventh annual iteration of this international ideas competition continues a tradition of calling for design strategies that benefit the collective well-being. This year, the challenge seeks innovative and environmentally responsible solutions to overcome New York City’s critical shortage of affordable rental housing. A $15,000 grand prize will be awarded to the most creative submission found by a jury of credentialed practitioners to offer desirable urban living within the means of lower income New Yorkers.
DESIGN BRIEF
New York City is facing its worst housing crisis in decades. To solve it means choosing sites and designs that can bring about the speedy, cost-conscious construction of affordable apartments that meet modern standards for comfort and wellbeing and are indistinguishable from those of their high end neighbors. Given these parameters, the Metals in Construction magazine 2025 Design Challenge invites students and practitioners to submit their vision for a 30-story residential tower that can be replicated on property zoned for subsidized housing.
Submissions must use structural steel framing with a curtain wall enclosure to be considered. The site selected for this speculative exercise is a lot numbered 290 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.
The waterfront property is bordered by River Street, South 1st Street, Kent Avenue and South 2nd Street. It is to be assumed that site conditions include low soil-bearing capacity and seasonal flooding.
To be eligible for the grand prize, entries at a minimum must:
Maximize structural steel’s ability to create a unique and innovative design that would be difficult to achieve with other building materials
Detail how structural steel is used for all framing elements, including thin-floor systems if employed. However, any type of floor system may be used.
Include architectural concept drawings depicting: a. Site plan showing building placement and access (parking not required) b. Cross-sectional drawings c. Elevations d. Floor plans that depict unit size and configuration, the mix of studio, one-bedroom and larger units e. Design of project components and measures to control hypothetical flood conditions f. A fire-engineering solution to provide fire protection for structural steel framing
Consider the ease and efficiency with which the structure can be built
Optimize framing for greatest design flexibility to enable uncomplicated modification or expansion to accommodate future requirements
Present a resilient, versatile, and environmentally responsible building solution
The submission process is composed of two parts:
Entrant Information – Contact information of the individual or team submitting. This will not be shared with the jury and is only for contact purposes. Enter additional team names in the “Notes” section of the My Competition Entry page. You may also paste a link to any animated visualizations in the “Notes” field.
Proposal Visualization – Up to 10 pages may be submitted to represent the proposal. This attachment should be one (1) multi-page PDF file (max. 10 pages) formatted at 11×17″ (ledger) and can include supporting backup data, calculations, and commentary to supplement the images. Do not link or embed objects. Do not include any identifying information. Links to any video or animated components may be pasted into the “Notes” field. Maximum file size is 20MB.
All materials are due by 11:59 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Once you register via this site, you or your teammates may log in and edit your competition entry as many times as you like until the deadline. This competition is sponsored by the Steel Institute of New York, which reserves the right to suspend or amend the cash award if deemed warranted by circumstances.
Registration Deadline: Jan 31, 2025; Submission Deadline: Feb 15, 2025
THE 2025 RTF ARCHITECTURE AWARDS ARE NOW OPEN.
Submit your projects and become part of an elite group that is redefining the future of architecture and design. Each submission is a step toward leaving your mark on the world. The world awaits your vision.
The objective of these awards is to raise awareness around the strategies Architects and Designers are employing to deal with the contemporary global challenges, and to bring the best of such projects into the light to inspire the next generation.
Registration Deadline: Nov 27, 2024; Submission Deadline: Apr 29, 2025
It may not be your first instinct when entering a building to consider how it makes you feel, but architecture has always had a big impact on emotions. Different spaces are designed to make its inhabitants feel different things; offices can make you feel energised and productive, art galleries can make you feel thoughtful and curious, and museums can make you feel calm and intrigued. Each of these spaces are completely different from each other and are far more than just a building.
As part of a series of annual architecture competitions, the Museum of Emotions competition is tasking participants with using architecture as a tool to bring out different emotions. They are being asked to design a museum that includes two separate halls that bring out contrasting emotions – one inducing negative emotions, and the other inducing positive emotions.
Participants are free to choose the specific emotions they incite with their designs – fear, anger, anxiety, love, happiness, laughter, etc. The purpose of the Museum of Emotions is to use architecture as the primary tool to create emotional states, through consideration of the scales of the spaces, the journey through the space, colour, lighting, and material choice.
As this is an ideas competition, participants are free to choose any site location, real or imaginary, as well as the size of their structure.
Museum of Emotions / Edition 6 is one of the Buildners’ silent competitions, in which participants must communicate their ideas without the use of any text. The design concept and thinking behind it must all be communicated solely through the use of visuals.
PRIZES
3 winning proposals, 1 special award recipients and 6 honourable mentions will be selected. Buildner will award a total of 10,000 € in prize money to competition winners as follows:
