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Bays West International Design Competition
Dezeen Competitions: The Bays West International Design Competition seeks exciting new proposals to redefine Sydney's urban space. The competition is a two-stage process that aims to generate bold, innovative, place-led and deliverable ideas that deliver long-term public value. Organiser: Bays West Delivery Authority (…
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International Design Competition Launched for Sydney's Newest Waterfront Neighbourhood
The White Bay Power Station precinct and Glebe Island, two key sites in one of the last major redevelopment sites on Sydney's inner harbour, are the focus of a new international design competition launched by the New South Wales Government. The open, two-stage Bays West International Design Competition seeks a design-l…
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International Furniture Design Competition Asahikawa 2027
Dezeen Competitions: the 2027 edition of the International Furniture Design Competition Asahikawa asks participants to create presentation boards to spotlight their innovative wooden furniture designs. This is the 13th edition of the competition, which focuses on originality, quality and functionality. Organiser: IFDA…
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CDM Digi Fab Competition 2026 by CAINZ × KOKUYO × VUILD
Theme “Living with Children” We are looking for proposals such as: ・Furniture or woodwork products that ignite children's creativity and encourage independence. ・Designs that help children experience the joy of saying, “I did it myself.” ・Furniture that reduces everyday family stress and enables…
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Call for Entries: Architecture Portfolio Competition 2026
Architerrax invites architecture students from around the globe to participate in the Architerrax Portfolio Competition. This international competition provides a prestigious platform to showcase your architectural vision, demonstrate your versatility, and gain direct exposure to leading architecture firms worldwide. A…
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Pan-African Biennale - Open Call: Short Film
The Pan-African Biennale (PAB) is a continental platform dedicated to documenting, preserving, and projecting Africa's built environment, urbanism, and creative futures— across all 54 nations and the diaspora. It is the founding of a long-term continental institution, built to ensure that African architects, urba…
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Design Competition for the Prishtina City Cemetery
The Municipality of Pristina / Capital City has initiated a comprehensive and inclusive planning process for the development of the Capital City Cemetery of Pristina, conceived as a contemporary civic, memorial, landscape, and digital public infrastructure of long-term importance. The project aims to establish a new mo…
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MVRDV Wins Competition to Design Shift Embassy in Rotterdam
MVRDV has won the international design competition organized by the social enterprise Shift to design the Shift Embassy, a new cultural destination planned for Rotterdam 's developing Waterkant district. Conceived as a hybrid of architecture and landscape, the proposal, titled Rotterdam ROCKS! combines exhibition space…
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Museum of Emotions – Edition Nine
Dezeen Competitions: participants of Buildner's latest competition are tasked with submitting concepts for a museum that evokes one positive and one negative emotional reaction. This is the ninth edition of the organiser's Museum of Emotions contest, a "silent competition" in which entrants are not permitted to use tex…
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The Architect's Chair – Stockholm Furniture Fair Edition
Dezeen Competitions: Buildner presents the sixth edition of its competition, The Architect's Chair, which seeks submissions for chairs informed by legendary designs. The winner of the competition will have their design showcased at an upcoming edition of the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Organiser: Buildner Competition: Th…
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Warming Huts Competition: Arts + Architecture Competition on Ice
This call for entries is open to all architects, students of architecture, landscape architects, interior designers, artists and industrial designers who have a proven portfolio of design work. It is the intention of this competition to foster and encourage the formation of multi-disciplinary teams. The huts or install…
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Enter the 25th Andreu World International Design Competition
25 years of great ideas. Now it's your turn. Registration for the Manufacturing the Future International Design Competition remains open, and there is still time to enter. This edition presents a unique challenge: to design a chair and/or a table that reimagines what furniture can become—sustainable, innovative, and de…
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Open Call: Reimagine the Adriatic Waterfront at Marina Opatija
M3 Monaco's Smart & Sustainable Marina Rendezvous competition returns for its sixth edition with an open-architecture Call for Ideas centered on Marina Opatija, on Croatia's Kvarner Bay. This article sets out what the competition asks of designers: a focused, high-impact intervention built around three required buildin…
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Vancouver Tall Challenge
Dezeen Competitions: the Vancouver Tall Challenge seeks proposals that explore how architecture can contribute to Vancouver's vibrant city while responding to its identity as a "city in nature". Buildner encourages entrants to develop bold yet thoughtful proposals, which reconsider the relationship between "height, pub…
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New Life for Old Spaces: Buildner Reveals Re-Form Winners as Edition 3 Opens
Buildner has announced the results of its Re-Form: New Life for Old Spaces , second edition, an international ideas competition examining the adaptive reuse of small-scale existing buildings. The competition invited architects and designers to propose transformations of used, abandoned, or overlooked structures with an…
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The Quiet Tower
Dezeen Competitions: Buildner's latest competition, The Quiet Tower, invites architects and designers to rethink an observation tower on Latvia's remote Livonian Coast. Proposals should outline the tower as "more than a viewing platform" while spotlighting the architecture's relationship with the landscape. Organiser:…
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New York High Falls Riverfront Market
Dezeen Competitions: Buildner's New York High Falls Riverfront Market competition challenges designers to rethink a new civic destination within High Falls State Park in Rochester, New York. Proposals should present a contemporary riverfront market at the Smokestack Portal site — one of the future entry points into Hig…
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Portugal Long Table Restaurant
Dezeen Competitions: entrants to this contest are challenged with the adaptive reuse of a horse barn in Portugal, creating a restaurant and accompanying guest houses. The successful concept will prioritise slow living, and its architectural style will be one of minimalism, clarity and natural influences. Organiser: Bui…
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Valli Wine Tasting Room
Dezeen Competitions: Buildner's latest competition, Valli Wine Tasting Room, is seeking submissions for an extension of a small-scale wine tasting room. The proposals should be simple and take environmental responsibility into consideration. Organiser: Buildner Competition: Valli Wine Tasting Room Judges: yet to be ann…
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IE Immersive Design Competition: Rethinking the Elevator Experience
Dezeen Competitions: The IE Immersive Design Competition tasks designers with redesigning elevators into immersive spaces. The competition aims to reflect the values of the Master in Design for Immersive Experiences and XR – a course that explores the relationship between spatial design, immersive interaction, storytel…
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