Architectural Competition
Extreme Housing 3rd International Architecture Competition
The Design Challenge
The 3rd International Architecture Competition presents architects with the task of creating energy efficient, single-family, detached housing that minimises climate change emissions and can withstand temperature extremes, yet is affordable to build and to buy. The winning architects will use the exceptional qualities of steel to construct their design in Cherepovet, Russian […]
White House Redux - architectural competition
The White House.
Home of the world’s most powerful individual. Universally recognized symbol of political authority. One of America’s greatest tourist attractions. Nerve-center of the world’s most complex communications system. The ultimate architectural embodiment of power. What if, instead of in 1792, that competition were to be held today? What would a White House designed in […]
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza - architectural competition
Grand Army Plaza is New York City’s greatest unrealized asset. Home to powerful architecture, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch, the elegant Bailey Fountain, the entrance to Frederick Law Olmsted’s greatest park, and a major transit hub, the sum of these parts is today emphatically less than the whole. Currently an underdeveloped public amenity, the redesign […]
Flip a strip - architectural competition
Overview
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA], Arizona, is organizing a design competition and public exhibition, Flip a Strip. This innovative project hopes to foster creative, yet pragmatic new visions for the renovation of the small-scale strip shopping plazas that line the streets of this metropolitan area—and virtually every suburban zone in the country. […]
The 99K HOUSE COMPETITION
INTRODUCTION:
The 99K House Competition seeks to:
-Broaden awareness of green building strategies applicable to affordable housing
-Generate and pu blicize examples of sustainable, affordable houses that can be built and sold for $99,000 or less
-Produce a creative, innovative design that can be replicated throughout the Gulf Coast region
-Construct an exemplary sustainable, affordable house prototype on a specific […]
CHICHEN ITZA 2008 - architectural competition
Within the context of this concept, we have been organizing Landscaping Contests in important places such as MACHU PICCHU, NAZCA and CHAN CHAN. In our desire to offer each year new and exciting locations in which to design and speculate with architecture, we have chosed one of the most enigmatic and beautiful places in the […]
Endless(s)trips Competition
The competition tries to put forward of the key territorial issues of Latin America and the Caribbean for their inclusion in the contemporary global agenda. Endless(s)trips is a competition of ideas about the urbanism potential of the massive beach tourism in the Caribbean.
Endless(s)trips is a space of reflection an proposals for rethinking the relation between […]
Portland Courtyard Housing Design Competition
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The City of Portland invites you to share your ideas on the design possibilities of housing oriented to shared courtyards. Portland is promoting courtyard housing as an additional infill housing type that can provide a quality living environment at densities higher than conventional detached housing.
This competition is part of a multi-pronged effort by […]
Parkway Iconic Bridge - architectural competition
Introduction:
The competition seeks the best designers and ideas for a new bridge to link a new industrial and residential area with an existing woodland park. Situated on the main route between the M1 and Sheffield City Centre, the bridge will become a point of reference for everyone using that route. With a life of at […]
Environmental Tectonics v2.0 - architectural competition
Introduction
The Architectural Association and the Environments, Ecology and Sustainability Research Cluster are again sponsoring an open one-stage international competition in search of innovative ideas, design projects, new techniques and research initiatives that highlight insights into contemporary directions of architecture and design relative to environments, ecology and sustainability. The goal of the competition is to […]
