Enter the Spirala Community Home Architecture Competition now! 10,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: APRIL 29, 2021
There is a growing modern trend of people abandoning their lives in large cities and opting instead to live in smaller communities. These intentional communities are an evolution of the utopian colonies and communes of the past, where individuals shared resources and responsibilities in equal measure. In the US alone the number of intentional communities has nearly doubled in recent years, with 1,200 communities registered in 2016.
In this competition, we ask participants to design a cycling bridge in the context of Amsterdam, an effective connection over the river Ij for pedestrians and cyclists – 1 design expressed in 3 drawings.
The “72h Axo Battle” is a design competition developed to explore the creative potential of architectural design through one of the most iconic architectural drawings: the axonometric projection. You have 72 hours to develop a proposal that responds to the program contained in the extended contest brief, which will only be available when the battle starts. This Axo battle is titled “….. Water Parks”. The title is only a preview of the complete theme of the competition. More will be explained in the extended brief that will be available on 19th February 2021.
Enter the Toronto Affordable Housing Challenge Architecture Competition now! 6,000 € in prize money! Closing date for registration: APRIL 22, 2021
Toronto is among the ten most expensive major housing markets in the world, and housing prices are predicted to rise again in 2020 by almost 10%, according to the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board.
The fast pace of 21st century has led to a very distorted work-leisure balance among urban settlers. This has caused numerous lifestyle-related mental and physical issues like stress, depression and other chronic ailments. This has shifted the focus on wellness and its importance in leading a happy and fulfilling life. We are getting aware and more conscious of the fact that wellness is more than the absence of disease and is a careful holistic balance of the mind, body and spirit. The dialogue has been initiated and we can see an upsurge in the wellness tourism sector, as people demand for a more accessible and wholesome experience.
Millions of people around the world are thinking about how they can radically change their lives for the better. Could living in a tiny house be one of those ways?
Near the ocean and the Hossegor Lake, Caroline and Charl are currently owners of a 1700sqm plot and want to build a 300sqm passive house to live as sustainable as possible. As a historical touristic area, the Landes county suffers from the urban sprawl and the lack of sustainable buildings necessary to change mindsets.
The Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival, BARQ. Festival is a film festival aimed at vindicating films on architecture as a specific genre and at deepening the relationship between architecture and the seventh art. Cinema uses architecture to show and create worlds that explore social realities, and architecture uses cinema to encourage reflection on the most current issues regarding the spaces we inhabit.
The trade & commerce across the works are bustling despite the pandemic push. The innovation of shipping containers is somehow the only way cross-border trade happens especially in the case of waterways. Trade previously had been much organic package sizes, but now the size definitions help not the only manufacturer to anticipate their capacity and cost, but it has boosted logistical speeds tremendously.
Calling for Entries for a 200+ Unit Residential Development in the City of Brantford, Ontario (Canada). This is a REAL project which will be going through development approvals and construction. This project offers a total professional contract value of $55,000 CAD. Opportunities for Structural Design, Interior Design and 3D Rendering. Students and Professionals all welcome. Participation is completely FREE. This could be a career setting opportunity.
Competition “Le Festival des Cabanes” The hut Festival 6th Edition Architecture contest open to architecture students and architects Applications accepted from January to April 10th 2021
2021 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers | Housekeeping
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2021. If COVID-19 restrictions are required, the exhibition and lectures might shift to a digital format. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000.
We are delighted to announce that the RSA Open Exhibition of Architecture is returning once again this spring as part of the 195th RSA Annual Exhibition. On view from 4 April – 9 May 2021, the exhibition will showcase a diverse range of contemporary art and architecture from our Royal Scottish Academicians, plus artists and architects carefully selected from online open submissions.
Archisource presents ‘Drawing of the Year 2020’, back for the second year to celebrate the talent of students and young professionals and the extensive variety of drawings that are created around the world each year! We are looking for the outstanding drawings in four categories with the aim of showcasing the different types, styles and functions of a drawing.
Being architects and designers, we are always asked to design places that suit humans in every way possible. We are asked to make spaces that are human interactive and those that suit their consciousness the best. But can you design a space that challenges the person's senses and makes him reconsider where he is and what is he doing?
Ground Up is the award winning graduate student journal of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Today’s rapidly changing world calls for entrepreneurs who question the status quo and are able to leverage people, resources, and processes to produce dynamic solutions. As spatial design activities and the global construction industry experience unprecedented transformation, there are endless opportunities for those with the courage to stand up and take them.
Courtesy of Las Salinas and AOA (Chilean Architecture Offices Association)
The international call for proposals aims to find an architecture office to design the new Las Salinas Urban Park (Parque Urbano Las Salinas), a beach-side complex in the city of Viña Del Mar, Chile. The project seeks to transform the area into a multifunctional green space for the future neighborhood with a high standard for its residents. The objective is to project a large park which will become an important integration project for the city: an open space for public use and accessible for everyone - a place for social, cultural, sporting and educational gatherings.
https://www.archdaily.com/953092/call-for-proposals-design-an-urban-park-in-chiles-coastal-region-of-vina-del-marAD Editorial Team
UNESCO, the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and the Iraqi Sunni Endowment, have committed to reconstruct and rehabilitate the Al Nouri Complex in Mosul with the generous financial support of the United Arab Emirates. In order to do so, UNESCO organized an international design competition for selecting a winning design entry to rehabilitate this important site destroyed by conflict in 2014.
https://www.archdaily.com/950756/call-for-entries-reconstruction-and-rehabilitation-of-mosuls-al-nouri-complexAD Editorial Team
ArchDaily is looking for a motivated and highly-skilled architecture-lover to join our team of interns for Winter/Spring 2021! An ArchDaily Content internship provides a unique opportunity to learn about our site and write engaging, witty, and insightful articles. This internship can also open up a career path at ArchDaily, in fact, many of our editors have been part of that program.
https://www.archdaily.com/951096/call-for-archdaily-interns-winter-spring-2021ArchDaily Team
EDRA Great Places Award 2021 calling for entries now!
The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) is happy to announce the 2021 Great Places Awards in collaboration with the Project for Public Spaces (PPS).
“The day you die is the day you come back home, The day you walk across the threshold That is the judgement day.”
The idea proposes an imaginative typology of a terminal space that permits the transfer of souls to either heaven or hell. The design concept explores various different theories of philosophy and expresses it through proposing a creation of an imaginative typology for all belief systems that serves as an arrival space for all souls before they embark on their journey of afterlife.
