Our weekly wrap-up of new design competitions worth checking out

TUBE 8x8x300
Register/Submit Deadline: Thursday, May 7, 2020

In the city of Kunming (Capital of Yunnan Province, China), there is an evacuation passageway — which is 8m in height, 8m in width, total 300m in length — connecting several sunken entrance plazas of a big underground shopping mall. This evacuation passageway, giant in volume, center of this site, should be functioned more than just an 'evacuation tube'. How will you renovate this space? Could it be a museum, a place with pop up store or a workshop center with innovation programs? Designers and students from fields of architecture, interior design, interaction design, service design, art, etc are welcome to this conceptual competition.

Fentress Global Challenge: Airport of the Future
Registration Deadline:  Wednesday, Jul 1, 2020
Submission Deadline:  Friday, Jul 31, 2020

While the airport terminal—conceived a century ago—is a relatively new architectural typology, it has since its inception held equal importance with quintessential civic buildings: city halls, courthouses, libraries, museums, and theaters. Yet, airports are uniquely complex and they are more than just high volume transportation hubs. Increasingly, airports are also workplaces, centers of commerce, recreational outlets, and cultural resources. FGC is open to graduate and undergraduate students currently pursuing architecture or engineering degrees in an accredited university program, as well as recent graduates (within the last four years) with a degree in architecture or engineering.

CTBUH 2020 International Student Tall Building Design Competition
Registration Deadline:  Monday, Jul 13, 2020
Submission Deadline:  Monday, Jul 20, 2020

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is now accepting submissions for its 9th International Student Tall Building Design Competition, which will distribute $21,000 in prizes to exceptional projects. The goal of the competition, which is open to all students who are currently enrolled at the university level, is to shed new light on the meaning and value of tall buildings in modern society. Participants should engage with the exploration and resolution of the synergistic relationship between a tall building and its urban setting.

Moon Base 2124 - Artemis Centenary Design Competition
Registration Deadline:  Monday, Jul 27, 2020
Submission Deadline:  Tuesday, Aug 11, 2020

The Moon Base competition 2124 asks architects and engineers “What will living on the Moon in the future look like in the 100th anniversary of Artemis program?” We challenge students, architects, designers, scientists, and visionaries to propose ideas on how the lunar settlement in 2124 would be constructed. Ideas could be realistic, actually analyzing how we may live on the Moon in the next 104 year, or creative fantasies of how the Moon can serve the human race.

Some recent Bustler news highlights that you might've missed:

Grafton Architects wins competition bid to design Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design's Center for Design and Materials Innovation

David Chipperfield Architects to revive Berlin's industrial Georg-Knorr-Park into residential + commercial neighborhood

MVRDV to design terraced mixed-use development in Shenzhen

Henning Larsen to design Cockle Bay Park in central Sydney

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