The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona (UIA2026BCN) announces the Call for Participants, an international and open invitation for professionals from around the world to take part in the largest global architecture event.

ASA - The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage Thailand, invites all architects, designers, students, and the general public to submit their most innovative works under the exciting theme 'Future Nostalgia in Architecture' This is your chance to win incredible prizes—100,000 Baht for the general category and 50,000 Baht for students! This is more than just an international design competition. It's an opportunity to blend the past and future in architecture, by linking society, culture, people, nature, places, and time with cutting-edge tools and technology. There are no restrictions on location or scale! Using Thailand as a case study, you'll create a new form of future nostalgia in architecture that honors the past while paving the way for the future.

Little Africa is a place of singular grandeur, where culture, memory, and resistance intertwine in every path and every narrative that is renewed. This territory has become a stronghold of Afro-Brazilian heritage, serving as a key reference in shaping Brazilian identity. To enhance its visibility, the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is launching the BNDES Little Africa Competition, both nationally and internationally. This is a historic opportunity for recognition and restitution, ensuring that the memory of the Brazilian people's formation is preserved and celebrated.

EWANE ASSETS, in partnership with CDG INVEST, is launching a call for applications for an international architectural competition for the design and development of the future Startup Campus in Casa Anfa.

Launch of the Moroccan Interior Design Awards (MIDA) – 1st Edition
Introducing the MIDA: a new stage for interior architecture and design in Morocco Casablanca, 25 March 2025. Archimedia Group announces the launch of the first Moroccan Interior Design Awards (MIDA), a biennial competition dedicated to interior architecture and design.
Long in the shadows, these professions are now enjoying remarkable growth, driven by a new generation of daring designers and a growing awareness of the importance of the living environment.
Interior architecture and design are shaping our spaces, transcending usage and revealing the identity of the places we live and visit.
MIDA is part of this dynamic, offering a new showcase for the different professions that are redefining the codes of interior design and decoration in Morocco.
A NEW STAGE FOR THE ‘MAKERS OF SPACES
In line with the Young Moroccan Architecture Awards (YMAA), the MIDA celebrates the men and women who, through their sensitivity and mastery, transform the environment in which we live on a daily basis.
This first edition will bring together architects, interior architects, designers, project developers and institutional and private players, thus affirming the fundamental role of design in enhancing living and working spaces.
AWARDS TO HIGHLIGHT THE BEST PROJECTS
With a range of 16 categories and three awards - Jury's Favourite, Audience's Favourite and the Archimedia Prize - the MIDAs will paint a striking portrait of contemporary interior architecture and design in Morocco. The aim of this initiative is to shine a spotlight on the professionals whose work is shaping the spaces of tomorrow, by offering them recognition matching their commitment.
Presided over by Lotfi Sirahal, architect and designer, the MIDA jury will bring together passionate experts to reward the talents redefining the way we design and inhabit spaces.
MIDA aims to become a benchmark event, a place where aesthetics, materials and expertise intertwine, where trends emerge, and where interior architecture is established not as a mere decorative art, but as an essential vector of well-being and emotion. This event is for all those who bring life to the places we live in, animate and share, by infusing them with harmony, character and meaning.

The Architect's Chair Competition offers architects and designers an exciting opportunity to showcase their creativity by designing a signature chair that embodies their unique architectural vision. Inspired by the tradition of renowned architects creating custom furniture as an extension of their work, this competition challenges participants to distill their design philosophy into a single, iconic piece.

The design competition of the Small Lots, Big Impacts initiative gives designers, architects, and students the opportunity to propose how small vacant lots across Los Angeles should be converted into compelling, community-oriented, resilient housing developments that make better use of land that typically sits empty or accommodates just one housing unit. We call on designers everywhere to bring their ingenuity and compassion to the Small Lots, Big Impacts design competition with proposals that advance Los Angeles' legacy of multifamily housing design and offer housing ideas rooted in equity, resilience, and sustainability.

London Festival of Architecture in collaboration with Architecture LGBT+ and Freehold, sponsored by Brookfield Properties, has launched an exciting design competition for a Pride Float to celebrate LGBTQIA+ architects at Pride in London 2025. Inviting architecture students, emerging designers, and professionals to create a float that amplifies LGBTQIA+ voices within the built environment.

Call for Art Installation Design for Pavilions of the Central Asian Countries in Xi'an Culture & Trade Hub

Calling creative minds and innovative urban and architectural design students (bachelor and master) around the world, the committee of the 4th International Design Competition is looking for smart and sustainable solutions to reimagine Nha Trang’s urban landscape!

The National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Designers, and Conservators, together with PAYSAGE – Promotion and Development for Landscape Architecture, promote and organize the CITY'SCAPE AWARD International Design Competition within the International Symposium CITY'SCAPE. Landscape project for life and climate. This initiative aims to attract excellence in international landscape architecture and award the best projects. The recognition seeks to promote and explore new possible balances in spaces designed to foster dialogue between architecture and landscape, aspiring to create synergies between built environments and nature for new territorial dynamics within sixteen proposed thematic categories:
• CATEGORY A – Urban Forestry and Landscape Redevelopment of Urban Spaces
• CATEGORY B – Drosscape: Landscape Redevelopment of Former Industrial Areas
• CATEGORY C – Street Landscape & Slow Landscape: Slow Mobility, Bike Lanes, Traffic Calming
• CATEGORY D – Parks and Gardens of Historical, Artistic, or Landscape Interest
• CATEGORY E – Brand & Landscape: Landscape Design for Industrial, Retail, and Brand Identity Locations
• CATEGORY F – Landscape for Wellbeing and Care: Landscape Integration of Hospitals, Healthcare Facilities, and Healing Gardens
• CATEGORY G – City Sport & Play: Sports Areas, Play Spaces, and Leisure Areas in the Landscape
• CATEGORY H – Urban Furniture: Innovative Products and Technologies for Urban Furnishings
• CATEGORY I – Tourism Landscape: Landscape Design for Tourism
• CATEGORY L – Energy Landscape
• CATEGORY M – Hi-Tech Landscape: Green Roofs, Vegetated Covers, and Green Walls
• CATEGORY N – Landscape in Light: Lighting Design for Landscape Enhancement
• CATEGORY O – Landscape Green Company: Product Innovation, Processes, Start-ups, and Patents
• CATEGORY P – Digital Landscape: Software for Landscape Experience
• CATEGORY Q – Research on Landscape Design
• CATEGORY R – Initiatives for the Promotion and Enhancement of Landscape

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Call for submissions: Launch of the thirteenth edition of Dedalo Minosse International Prize for commissioning a building.
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UDL Thesis Publication 2025

Buildner, in collaboration with the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and Dubai Government, has officially launched the Dubai Urban Elements Design Challenge, an international architecture and urban design competition featuring an impressive total prize fund of €500,000. The competition invites architects, designers, urban planners, and visionaries from around the world to propose innovative, human-scale urban elements that will help define Dubai's evolving identity.

The Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award (YEATCA) is open to artists under 30 who were born in one of the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

How do buildings establish and engage with territories? How do temporalities manifest themselves in buildings? How do architects deal with multiple temporalities and territorialities? How do buildings live and die?

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Design Doha Biennale returns for its second edition from April 16 – June 30, 2026, expanding its presence across Doha and reinforcing the city’s position as a global hub for design, creativity, and cultural exchange.
As we embark on this next chapter, Design Doha invites curators to submit exhibition proposals that spotlight the region’s rich cultural heritage and pioneering design talent. Selected exhibitions will be presented across various venues in Doha, contributing to a dynamic and inclusive dialogue on contemporary design in the region and beyond.

The Master in Collective Housing (MCH), in collaboration with TC Cuadernos, a renowned architecture magazine, has announced the second annual call for research grants. This grant, aimed at supporting architecture thesis or research projects, offers up to €6,000 to help transform the work into a published book.

In Decentered City: Multispecies Design, a “decentered approach” implies redistributing agency in spatial production, challenging conventional urbanization models and envisioning new ways of inhabiting the world, acknowledging the ecological crisis and fostering interspecies urban environments.

DiscoverArch, in collaboration with IIA Kapurthala Chapter and IGBC, invites architecture students to design socio-cultural spaces that foster community interaction, cultural exchange, and personal growth.
Participants can choose projects like museums, memorials, libraries, convention centers, spiritual centers, or multi-purpose community spaces. Designs should promote inclusivity, accessibility, and sustainability, addressing community needs while integrating with the cultural, historical, or environmental context.
Create spaces that inspire growth and collaboration, becoming catalysts for positive change.

→ Residency period: May 27 - June 30, 2025
→ Application deadline: March 30, 2025
→ Stipend, travel support and production budget available

Archisource presents the Drawing of the Year Awards 2025, the sixth annual, creative imagery Awards - free to enter and open to all! The Awards are the ultimate accolade in visual representation across architecture, art and design in collaboration with D5 Render and HP. There is over £125,000 GBP ($150,000 USD) in prizes to be won, with the top 250 entries receiving Affinity V2 Universal Licences and D5 Render 180 Day PRO Licences! Top works will also be showcased at the major London Exhibition in July 2025.

For this edition, the foundation will grant two fellowships of up to €75,000 each and invites prospective fellows from around the world to apply in partnership with a host institution. The proposed courses should preferably begin in 2026 (or shortly thereafter) and revolve around the 2025 OBEL Award theme: Ready Made. The aim is to foster deeper exploration, development, and dissemination of knowledge on this key topic within the built environment.