By Submission Date
Queen Mary University design services
Queen Mary University is seeking design services for a new framework
National Trust launches Kedleston Hall competition
Temporary installation will help attract visitors
2011 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards
To encourage excellence in the architectural design and planning of libraries, this award was created to distinguish accomplishments in library architecture
2011 Brisbane Ideas Competition
The 2011 Brisbane Ideas Competition is a forum for discussion about the future of Brisbane.
Clay Farm community centre, Cambridge
Cambridge City Council seeks a design-led consultancy team for its Clay Farm community centre project
A house for a protester
Perhaps it is questionable to start a new year thinking about protests. But in the dialectics between “No” and “Yes” a protest could also play a positive role.
Architect sought to restore House Mill in east London
The River Lea Tidal Mill Trust is seeking an architect to work on the restoration and development of its grade I listed House Mill in east London.
Architects sought for £20 million framework
London & Quadrant Housing Trust is inviting bids from architects to join an architectural framework agreement.
Designers sought for Bath arts centre
The University of Bath is seeking expressions of interest from architects to design a new centre for the arts.
Architecture on the Farm competition
Already on the map for our straw bale building, which features in the annual Open City architectural showcase, Hackney City Farm are looking to improve the Farm Shop and Information point.
Architecture pavilion competition
Insulation supplier Kingspan has opened a competition for students and architects to create preliminary designs for an architecture pavilion.
Troldtekt Award 2012
Troldtekt, Danish manufacturer of wood wool acoustic ceiling and wall tiles, is inviting students of architecture and design to submit creative and original concepts for new uses of the wood wool product.
The 100 Mile House
Participants are challenged to design a house to accommodate 4 people using only materials and systems made/ manufactured or recycled within 100 miles of the City of Vancouver
Architects invited to design Queen’s Jubilee card
Competition open to architects and students from across Commonwealth
RIBA Aedas Stephen Williams Scholarship call for entries
The RIBA Aedas Stephen Williams Scholarship 2012/13 is now open to applications from postgraduate students enrolled at a UK or International RIBA-accredited school of architecture.
Competition for Eisteddfod Architecture Pavilion
The National Eisteddfod, Design Circle and the RSAW are pleased to announce the design competition, in which the winning entry will be built at the 2012 National Eisteddfod in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Breaking Away: Changing the place of Mayo Island
The 2015 Road World Championships will bring nearly 500,000 spectators to Richmond and an estimated $135 million in revenue to the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Eisteddfod Call For Architecture Entries
Entries are invited by architects responsible for buildings or group of buildings, constructed in Wales and completed between 1 January 2008 and 14 March 2011.
Architectural Concept: The Pavilion Of Postcontemporary Curating
The Centre of Attention is seeking proposals for the re-imagining of Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire into a pavilion of postcontemporary curating.
The Retina Dance Company competition
The Retina Dance Company are on the hunt for architects and set designers to create a structure for their new touring production, Corporalis.
myMarvin Architect’s Challenge 2012
Submit your best designs featuring Marvin Windows and Doors and get a chance to showcase your work as well as see how it measures up against your peers.
Ideas Competition:San Pardo Area, Italy
Entrants are invited to submit ideas for the improvement of a residential and commercial area located in “San Pardo” district in Matera.
Hidden Clerkenwell competition
In conjunction with Clerkenwell Design Week, ORMS and Zumtobel announce ‘Hidden Clerkenwell’ - an instant competition for the observant and the quick on the draw.
2012 POSCO Steel Design Festa
This competition aims to study new possibilities for designing with steel and discover talented young architects and designers.
ADC Young Guns
ADC Young Guns is the industry’s only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creatives
72 Hour Urban Action
72 Hour Urban Action is a real-time architecture competition, where 10 international teams have 3 days and 3 nights to design and build projects in public space in response to local needs.
Conceptual Vision Plan: reSITE Festival
Designers, architects, planners, artists and students are invited to participate in an international design competition to propose a Conceptual Vision Plan and an innovative site intervention for the River Vltava, in Prague, Czech Republic.
Landscape, Architecture & Wine architecture competition
Innovative ideas are invited to encourage the tourism of wineries and to introduce wine brands to a wider public
Peru's London Pavilion
Architects and designers are invited to submit proposals for the Peruvian Stand on World Travel Market, London
Call for proposals: Les Ardoines and Vitry-sur-Seine
The Ardoines development project (300 hectares, 3 km from Paris) - one of the largest in the Greater Paris area - is moving into the operational phase.
RIBA Photo Competition: Architecture 2012
With the theme, Architecture 2012, the RIBA invites images that capture any interpretation of architecture in whatever form - the inspiring, the beautiful, the intriguing or even the bizarre.
Smarthomes 2012
The competition challenges architects to design Tomorrow’s SmartHome to achieve Code Level 5, with a design that allows occupants to maintain a 21st century lifestyle as they grow older.
Branding Lab: High Street Design Competition
Waltham Forest Council has just launched the Branding Lab design competition for students and recent graduates.
The Strand Quadrangle: King’s College London Design Competition
Expressions of Interest are sought from architects or architectural practices for the redevelopment of the Quadrangle and its associated buildings at the College’s historic Strand Campus in London WC2.
Model Shots!
The next installment of the Designated Sketcher contest series is on its way! To keep it simple, we are asking for something you’re already working on: A Shot of your Model.
URBAN ANIMAL: 2012 Animal Architecture Awards
Animal Architecture wants your ideas about how synanthropic design can reshape, expand and redefine the context of urban thought and space.
RIBA launches design competition for King’s College
Architect sought for redevelopment of college’s Strand campus
Adaptable Futures
This competition asks you to illustrate how the life of your building will unfold through time - over an hour, day, year, decade, or perhaps a century.
Home: International design competition
This open design competition seeks to find well designed homes for the elderly or homeless within some of the World’s richest countries.
Sukkah Arbor Competition
Sukkah Arbor is a competition to re-envision the Sukkah, a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot.
InstantHouse: Temporary Housing
Designers are invited to envision environmental, social and economic opportunities in temporary housing, which specifically address the scientific community within Politecnico di Milano’s Sustainable Campus project.
This Is Not a Gateway: call for submissions
Submissions are sought from a lived knowledge/experience perspective, as well as from the widest range of disciplines.
d3 Natural Systems 2012
The annual d3 Natural Systems competition for 2012 invites the exploration of nature-based influences in architecture, interiors and designed objects.
Nominations open for RIBA President’s Medals
Student awards will be judged by leading architects and academics
RIBA launches competition to redesign pylon
Judging panel includes energy and climate secretary Chris Huhne
Floating Cinema Competition
An open call to architectural and design practices to design the next phase of the acclaimed Floating Cinema project
Inspiration Hotel: spaces for artistic creation
This open ideas competition seeks innovative, cutting-edge and contemporary proposals for a new concept for artistically inspirational spaces.
Design a New Contemporary Bridge over the Seine River
The program challenges participants to design a new contemporary bridge over the Seine river in Paris.
Aalto University Expansion: Campus 2015
Aalto University Properties Ltd has arranged a competition to design Aalto University’s Otaniemi central campus and its main buildings.
Architecture Foundation launches playground competition
Design team sought for east London site near Olympic Park
New Islington Site Life competition launches
BD’s sister title has Property Week has teamed up with developer Urban Splash to launch a competition for a vacant site within the New Islington development in Manchester.
Mystery Build 2012
Entrants must create an original work of art or creative object, construction, experiment, video, concept or other creative presentation, using ONLY the Mystery Build Kit and its contents as the materials for the entry.
Spark: Spaces
“Spark:Spaces,” is focused on Architecture, Interiors, Urban Design and Landscape-work that has been built (produced, realised or in pre-production).
Spark: Concept
Calling architects with a great proposal, car designers with a bright ideas or brilliant students with a grand thesis
Architecture Foundation aims to light up Willesden High Road
Architects and designers invited to submit ideas for animated advent calendar
Architecture Foundation launches beehive design competition
The Architecture Foundation has launched an international competition to design urban beehives.
Total Housing: Apartments
The city is resurgent after years of suburban supremacy, but new technologies and socio-economic shifts have made traditional models for urban housing obsolete.
"Play for All" Innovation Design Competition
A great opportunity to design a playground and win the chance to fly to Thailand see your design built.
RIAS launches Kelpies design competition
Architects asked to design internal space for vast horse-head sculptures
Competition Type
Expression of Interest
Call for proposals: Les Ardoines and Vitry-sur-Seine
The Ardoines development project (300 hectares, 3 km from Paris) - one of the largest in the Greater Paris area - is moving into the operational phase.
Peru's London Pavilion
Architects and designers are invited to submit proposals for the Peruvian Stand on World Travel Market, London
Open
Home: International design competition
This open design competition seeks to find well designed homes for the elderly or homeless within some of the World’s richest countries.
RIBA
RIBA Photo Competition: Architecture 2012
With the theme, Architecture 2012, the RIBA invites images that capture any interpretation of architecture in whatever form - the inspiring, the beautiful, the intriguing or even the bizarre.
Student
The Retina Dance Company competition
The Retina Dance Company are on the hunt for architects and set designers to create a structure for their new touring production, Corporalis.











