For this competition, called "Build in the Bay," Florida InsideOut magazine is asking entrants to create a vision for Pelican Island, an island originally planned for construction off of Miami Beach. Florida Insideout Magazine View full entry

Until June 2nd 2006, professional design institutions from all over the world can register as nomination bodies for INDEX: Award 2007. A handful of the nominated designs will in August 2007 receive the world's largest design award, The INDEX: Award. 100,000 € will be presented... View full entry

Move over Marcus Prize, now there's something meatier: The Urban Edge Award - $150,000 over the next 6 years. View full entry

Torchondo / Javier Sánchez-Matamoros, student at ETSAS, has a Flickr set with snapshots of the boards presented for the Library project at Universidad de Sevilla (Hadid, winner). Previous View full entry

MOBILEFEST 2006 seeks paper and presentation proposals responding to the Symposium themes: How can Mobile Technology contribute to democracy, culture, art, ecology, peace, education, health and third-sector? View full entry

AIGA and the Winterhouse Institute have just announced a $5000 award for design critics and writers: more information here. Poster-sized PDF here. These are the folks behind the excellent Design Observer... View full entry

Japanese architect Mitsuru Hamada has won the University's 2006 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition. read View full entry

Frm ArchVoices: Dear Friends, This is just a quick reminder that the deadline for the fourth annual ArchVoices Essay Competition is this Friday, March 31. Complete details are online here. The theme of this year's competition--the future of practice--is one that I hope resonates with you and... View full entry

DEADLINE: May 2, 2006 The Third Annual A|L Light & Architecture Design Awards honor outstanding and innovative projects in the field of architectural lighting. For more information about the competition and submission guidelines, visit www.archlighting.com or this PDF. View full entry

Stone Quarry Hill Art Park -- set on 104 acres of woods, ponds, wetlands and meadows with panoramic vistas of surrounding rural landscape -- is seeking proposals for site-specific installations from artists, architects, and/orlandscape architects whose work integrates notions of point of view... View full entry

4 Finalists announced and 7 honorable mentions out of 82 entries. This year's site was 100 acres in St. Louis. ULI View full entry

This year's topic asks entrants to examine our profession from a totally new angle. Entrants are asked to develop a mission statement for a new mode of practice. If traditional practice is half as uninspiring as some young (and not so young) architects make it out to be, then the profession... View full entry

Go to the absolute to vote for your favorite Mississauga 50-story condo. Previously View full entry

Architects without Borders and Hearts of Hope of South Africa has initiated an international competition called ARCHAOS. The competition is for the design of an AIDS orphanage in South Africa with the intention of raising awareness and money for the AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa. March... View full entry

Tropolism , with a jury of 6 archi-bloggers, has announced its first photo contest: Your Hidden City. What is your city's Best Hidden Place; Best Density; Best Natural/Urban Overlap; Best Unofficial Landmark; or Best Building? Take a photo of it - then upload the image to the public Flickr pool... View full entry