We get it. It can get a little overwhelming keeping up with the dozens of new architecture competitions launching worldwide on any given week — let alone having to stay on top of the multiple deadlines for each and every one. That's why Bustler is here to help! At the end of every week, we'll share a quick selection of our newest design competition submissions that we think are worth a look, as well as some ongoing ones you might have missed the first time. Check out our latest competition recommendations below.
47th Annual Interior Design Competition and 28th Annual Will Ching Design Competition
Register/Submit Deadline: Thursday, Feb 13, 2020
The 47th annual Interior Design Competition celebrates outstanding, innovative Interior Design/Interior Architecture that encourages new ideas and techniques in the design and furnishings of interior spaces. The 28th annual Will Ching Design Competition celebrates originality and excellence in commercial design from firms with (5) five or fewer employees. Winning projects will be celebrated throughout the year and honored at the annual IIDA black-tie gala on June 7, 2020, published in an issue of Interior Design magazine, in the official press release, and featured in the Winners Brochure and on social media.
Eight Legged Marvel ( Conceptual Design )
Registration Deadline: Monday, Mar 9, 2020
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020
Even though scary to look at, spiders are one of the most impressive and well-equipped animals on earth. Bearing in mind the innumerable qualities of the spider it is up to the participants how uniquely they study and identify a quality and innovatively implement in architecture to make it better. Participants are free to choose what element of a building / structure / area / volume / landscape etc. they want to implement their idea and inspiration on.
Ragdale Ring Competition
Register/Submit Deadline: Sunday, Mar 22, 2020
Ragdale, the nationally acclaimed artist residency program in Lake Forest, Illinois, invites architects, artists, and designers to apply for the opportunity to design, build, and exhibit the 2020 Ragdale Ring, a temporary theatre to house summer concerts, performances, and events. Proposals that consider contemporary, fanciful, and functional interpretations of the original Ragdale Ring, designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1912 as an outdoor garden theatre, are encouraged.
DETAIL Prize 2020 announced – Wanted: outstanding architecture
Register/Submit Deadline: Thursday, Apr 30, 2020
The DETAIL Prize is awarded for future-oriented, innovative and authoritative projects with outstanding architectural and technical qualities. From 2 March to 30 April 2020, planners can submit projects realised anywhere in the world for all building types that are characterised by special details within a coherent overall concept
2020 Architecture & Film Symposium Call for Papers
Register/Submit Deadline: Sunday, Jun 7, 2020
The University of Cincinnati's School of Architecture & Interior Design has launched a call for papers for its 2020 Architecture and Film Symposium. Building upon the analogous relationship between cinematic processes and built form, the 2020 Architecture & Film Symposium, Of movement, explores ideas that intersect at the development of concept, context, and making in the overlapping domains film and architecture. The symposium adopts cinematic representations of the built environment as a cultural lens for interdisciplinary theoretical debate.
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Our Highlights of Architecture's Most Notable Events for Spring 2020
MODU + Eric Forman Studio's dazzling “Heart Squared” arrives in Times Square
Büro Ehring's “hidden stadium” design concept wins Staydium Competition
Have a new design competition that you want to submit? Send it directly to Bustler for review here.
Peja Culture Pavilion
Register by Wed, Dec 11, 2024
Submit by Tue, Jan 28, 2025
Show Garden Competition for Seoul International Garden Show 2025
Register/Submit by Wed, Dec 18, 2024
MICROHOME Kingspan 2024/25
Register by Thu, Dec 5, 2024
Submit by Tue, Mar 18, 2025
The Home of Shadows / Edition #3
Register by Wed, Jan 29, 2025
Submit by Mon, Mar 3, 2025
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