Architectural competitions play a crucial role in developing the architectural profession and in advancing the quality of the built environment. They are also an opportunity for architects to showcase their creativity and experiment with innovative or unexpected architectural solutions, be it for real or imagines contexts. This week's curated selection of Best Unbuilt Architecture highlights different competition-winning designs submitted by the ArchDaily Community.
From a spa and wellness center seamlessly integrated into the mountainous landscape of Austria to a refurbished city center that creates opportunities for social interaction in one of Bulgaria’s largest pedestrian city centers, the round-up spans various programs, scales, and attitudes toward the built or natural environment. The selected projects represent explorations in various design solutions, materials, and construction methods. They also showcase the broadness of possible responses ignited by site-specific conditions, from the volcanic landscape of Iceland, to the picturesque hills of the Kerala region in India or the lively central plaza in one of Israel’s largest cities.
Punto Zero. An object that wanted to change the world, is an exhibition curated by the students of the School for Curatorial Studies Venice. This event has been created in collaboration with Video Sound Art Milan, a festival and production centre of contemporary art, Coordinated by Laura Lamonea (artistic director and curator) and Thomas Ba (curator). The students have developed a curatorial project investigating the invisible qualities of objects. Through installations, sculptures, sound, and site-specific performative events, the visitor will have the opportunity to confront the nature of the objects that surround us. The exhibition can be visited between the 13 and 21 of May at Istituto secondario di primo grado Pier Fortunato Calvi, located between the Giardini and the Arsenale of the Venice Biennale.
Europan 17 invites interdisciplinary teams of architects, urbanists and landscapers under the age of 40 with a European diploma - and students in master in the same fields - to develop new concepts on Living Cities through its bi-annual competition.
Stories of Situated Pedagogies in Architecture and … Poster
Stories of Situated Pedagogies in Architecture and … aims to gather educators and learners who are enthusiastic about sharing their stories of situated pedagogies in architecture and other fields with an interest in critical spatial practices. We invite all to apply to this workshop call with critical responses to their personal experiences in education. We envision a playful and productive platform for communication through pre-workshop peer-to-peer reviews, round-table sessions and field trips in Istanbul, and post-workshop collaborations for publication.
City of Cantù launchs the challenge to rethink spaces, buildings and routes, to improve quality, livability, attractiveness of the urban center on the occasion the “Fulawim” project that won the New European Bauhaus.
Europan is a competition of ideas followed by implementation processes open to professionals of the architectural, urban and landscape design under 40 years of age.
The city of Alicante, capital of the province and fifth in population in Spain, has a privileged climate and an exceptional location, magnificent infrastructures and extraordinary communications. With its airport, the fifth in number of passengers in Spain, and its high-speed rail connection with Madrid, it is a technological and tertiary hub in continuous development that also houses the European Union Intellectual Property Office, trademark registration and of Community designs.
Foundations for Home-Based Work: A Comparative Perspective is a hybrid conference funded by the Cultural Research Centre, under Department of Communications and New Media and jointly held with the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, as a culminative part of a research project entitled Foundations for Home-Based Work: A Singapore Study (NUS-IRB-2021-799; Project No. A-0008463-01-00), funded by MOE SSRTG, under Principal Investigator Associate Professor Lilian Chee, and Co-Investigators Professor Jane M. Jacobs, Professor Audrey Yue, and Dr. Natalie Pang.
Create an adaptive reuse project, providing functional use that fits building topology and urban context. At the same time aiming to preserve authenticity; increase the profitability of the property complex; unite the property complex into a single concept; and integrate the territory into the urban context.
The Circle invites creative and young architects to apply for the third edition of the Emerging Architects Selection & Exhibition! The deadline for participation in GEMSS'23 is June 18th.
Hangzhou is striving to speed up the construction of the comprehensive national science center and bring about a new spatial pattern of mega-city. In this context, taking advantage of its location, position and function, Yuhang District, as the new center, is ready for making Hangzhou a world-class modern socialist cosmopolis and an urban paradigm of Chinese modernization. In order to achieve the strategic goal, build up the core image, and improve the quality of the city, this open international solicitation activity will be launched, aiming to guide the high-standard construction of the core area with international vision, forward-thinking and creative urban design.
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The Innovandi Open Challenge is a global programme which brings together tech start-ups and the world’s leading cement and concrete companies to help accelerate the next wave of innovations to achieve our net zero mission.
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) and its members understand the key role that innovation will play in unlocking a net zero future for concrete –the world’s most used material after water– which is essential to building the sustainable world of tomorrow.
On April 6, SPACE10 will introduce a global design competition to reimagine home — using AI. Over the past year, generative AI tools have enhanced imaginative and creative capabilities, allowing millions of people to visualise worlds beyond those we ever thought possible. In a first of its kind competition, SPACE10 challenges participants to apply new AI tools to future homes and cities. Regenerative Futures is part competition, part open-source research, and open to everyone. The competition encourages play and imagination to create visual concepts of future homes, communities, and cities that help address some of the biggest challenges facing everyday life.
Are you working on projects or start-ups that are aligned with the goals of the EU Green Deal? Are you looking for an opportunity to showcase your work and gain exposure across Europe? Then this call is for you!
In 2023, the Center for Architecture will launch an open call and invite up to three lab residents (individuals or organizations) to install work in an exhibition that will open in November 2023 and will remain on view through March 2024. The exhibition will be shown in the Center for Architecture’s lower-level gallery, a central space adjacent to the main lecture hall. The residents will work with a curator (TBA) who will guide them through the exhibition process and consult on content for the show. The residents will also have the opportunity to continue the dialogue around their work through public programs during the length of the exhibition and beyond. Each resident will receive a stipend of $10,000 for the duration of the residency (6 months total).
The Open Call for Edition 13 of Amsterdam Light Festival is now open! We invite creatives worldwide to submit a concept for a light artwork for the 13th edition of our festival, themed ‘Rituals’.
1. Background - Since the current Jinju National Museum is located within the Jinjuseong fortress which is designated as a national historic site, it is impossible to expand the facility which leads to difficulties in improving outdated facilities, carrying out safety control of museum collections, along with providing visitors’ convenience and expanding safety facilities. - Thus, in order to create a complex cultural space which meets the latest trends in museums that may provide spaces for exhibition, education, museum managers and children’s museum, it is planned to relocate the Jinju National Museum for providing better services to visitors and citizens.
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), wants to support the study of the design, development and implementation of a new wave of buildings, prototypes, technologies and design solutions of true ecological value that can be extended systematically to be part of the next urban future. For this reason, IAAC and Visoren offer a partial scholarship to study in IAAC’s Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings & Biocities which begins in October 2023!
The European Cultural Academy (ECA) in Venice is offering a full scholarship in 2023 to participants presenting the best project ideas for exploring architecture and the city using film and sound. The prize is a fee-paid place on our "Venicinema" course (4-15 September 2023) worth €1650. The course is led by François Penz, Professor of Architecture and Moving Image at the University of Cambridge, UK.
