Current competitions

In partnership with the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and The Landscape Institute (LI), the British Homes Awards invites submissions for a two-stage open design competition from members of The Landscape Institute and Landscape Institute Registered Practices. This competition offers the opportunity to showcase innovative, sustainable design for the new landscape to be created for the Phase 2 expansion of the BRE Innovation Park at Garston, Watford.

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Find out more about the BRE Innovation Park

Reinvent Infrastructures

Registration/: 6 March 2009
Submission: 29 April 2009

THEME:
The understand of the infrastructure term must be relative to the structures that support a urbanized society, so we ask to participating architects make a reinterpretation of one or a combination of the 5 (five) infrastructure topics listed below:
1. Mobility: Roads, the street.
2. Resources supply: Water, energy.
3. Wastes: Organics, non organics, pollution, wastewater.
4. Communication and energy grids: Internet, broadcasting, power grids.
5. Flood management systems: global warming.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Seeking designs for a mobile cultural space

Registration/Submission: 15 March 2009

CitySpinning has opened a competition for designs of a mobile cultural space in the form of a human powered vehicle which is light, configurable, collapsible, extensible and made with grown or recyclable materials as far as possible.

The competition is a part of the POROUS CITY project, which is an effort of seeking out alternative cultural spaces. Spaces ‬which are living, ‬are in the midst of us,‭ ‬are textured with inconsistency, are more open,‭ ‬welcoming and approachable.

Gimme Shelter: A National Ideas Competition for Urban Shade Structures

Register: Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Submit: Thursday, April 30, 2009

WELLESLEY ROAD AND PARK LANE, CROYDON INTERNATIONAL URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION

Submission: 18 March 2009

The aim of the competition is to appoint a designer to develop a complete regeneration solution for the area of Wellesley Road and Park Lane with adjacent plots

Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space 2 Competition

Register: 23 March 09
Submission: 09 April 2009

4th IABR Squat City Competition

Register: 27 March 09

Maxmix Cities: Celebration of Cities 3

Register: 5-15 May 09

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ARCHITECTS: BIENNIAL BARBARA CAPPOCHIN PRIZE 2009

Submission: 30 June 2009

The prize is open to architects worldwide or multidisciplinary teams led by architects. Works can belong to any of the following categories:
• Public or private residences
• Commercial, administrative, or mixed use buildings
• Public facilities (educational, cultural, sports, leisure or health care)
• Landscape architecture