Architecture: Research Guide

The 14 standout projects shortlisted for Don’t Move, Improve! 2025 have been shared with Bustler by organizers at New London Architecture. A public voting period will follow until it closes on February 5th, followed by the announcement of the winners and People's Choice winner on February 19th. Federico Ortiz, Head of Program for NLA, offers: "This year’s shortlist exemplifies the power of thoughtful home design to transform not just spaces but the way we live. These projects offer inspiration and practical solutions for Londoners looking to improve their homes, demonstrating that great design is accessible to all. From small-scale refurbishments to bold architectural statements, th..

The MICROHOME Kingspan 2024/25 invites participants to conceptualize an off-grid modular dwelling that would accommodate a hypothetical young professional couple. This scenario serves as the benchmark family size for the competition. The total floor area of the structure should not exceed 25 m2, thereby encouraging participants to push their creativity and innovate within these parameters. The competition challenges participants to radically rethink spatial organization, to introduce distinctive aesthetics, and to implement state-of-the-art technologies and materials. The end objective is to propel the micro home from a mere architectural form to a revolutionary genre in its own right...

If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Featured below are four briefs seeking transformative projects across architecture, interiors, and unbuilt work, exceptional works from recently graduated architects, urban planners, and landscape architects, proposals for the transformation of a historical heritage site into a start-up hub in Busan, South Korea, and exceptional designs for a new arrivals terminal at the Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania.For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.Read the full post on Bustler

The eleventh annual Winter Stations competition has revealed its selection of participants for 2025 as chosen by jury members Adam Barrett, Lily Jeon, Jon Jeronimus, Aaron Knight, and Alana Mercury.They outlined this year's theme of 'Dawn' as the "beginning of a new era" for the competition and a "fresh chapter in its creative journey", adding: "Just as the first light of morning breaks through the darkness, the exhibition will explore the moments of profound change that redefine and shape our existence, highlighting the delicate process of shedding old layers to emerge as something new."Furthermore, they say, "Dawn represents the shift from night to day, and this year, designers are in..

Discover the winning project from Buildner's first House of the Future competition: “Al Dara: Harnessing Heritage for a Sustainable Future” by Mohamed Al Mufti, Souaid Georges, and Natalie Elmir from Lebanon.The winning design was awarded €140,000 by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum in a special ceremony in Dubai.[ First House of the Future competition ]Read the full post on Bustler

The results from the Norman Foster Foundation-led competition to rebuild Freedom Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine, have been announced following the selection of winners by a jury headlined by Deborah Berke, Moshe Safdie, and Beatriz Colomina. Featuring a cash prize pool of more than $10,000 USD (around $3,000 for each Prize Winner and $1,000 for the Student Award winner), the competition "encouraged designs that respected the city’s heritage while aligning with its aspirations for renewal and progress."The Foundation adds that it "represents a pivotal step in shaping Kharkiv’s future, reflecting the city’s enduring resilience and commitment to creating a space that serves both its historica..

AIANY’s picks for the 2025 AIA New York Design Awards winners were just announced from the Center for Architecture in Manhattan. A total of 24 projects representing the very best contributions made by members to the urban environment locally and abroad were selected by a jury whose 2025 members included ICON's Melodie Yashar, Yale's Anna Dyson, and Lucas ter Hall of Studio RAP.Projects were divided into four categories (Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design), with Honor, Merit, and Citation designations given across each.Each of the winners will next be honored as part of the chapter’s April Honors and Awards Luncheon. The Center for Architecture will also be hosting an exh..

For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are featuring four calls seeking emerging and mid-career practitioners whose work focuses on the public realm, the best projects, products, and ideas from around the world, innovative artistic, inclusive, and sustainable seating solutions, and designs for an installation that will supply clean and reliable electricity and drinking water to Marou, Fiji.For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.Read the full post on Bustler

With the future in such a state of uncertainty and political relationships more strained than ever, there is one silent threat that could end up being more deadly and dangerous to humanity than a hundred pandemics: nuclear weapons. In 1945, the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II and killing well over 100,000 people, the majority of whom were civilians. The bombing of Nagasaki was the second and final time a country deployed a nuclear weapon in combat. However, it wasn’t the last nuclear explosion, as testing of controlled explosions continued for years. On the 75th anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue called on Japanese President Shinzo ..

Introducing the Architect's Chair Competition, an exciting opportunity for architects and designers to showcase their versatility and creativity by designing a signature piece of furniture. Inspired by the long-standing tradition of iconic architects creating custom furniture as an extension of their architectural work, this competition challenges participants to distill their design approach into its core components and represent their unique style in a single piece of furniture – the architect's chair. Throughout history, renowned architects such as Charles and Ray Eames, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, and Arne Jacobsen have successfully designed iconic chairs that embody thei..

It may not be your first instinct when entering a building to consider how it makes you feel, but architecture has always had a big impact on emotions. Different spaces are designed to make its inhabitants feel different things; offices can make you feel energised and productive, art galleries can make you feel thoughtful and curious, and museums can make you feel calm and intrigued. Each of these spaces are completely different from each other and are far more than just a building. As part of a series of annual architecture competitions, the Museum of Emotions competition is tasking participants with using architecture as a tool to bring out different emotions. They are being asked to desig..

Zaha Hadid Architects, alongside Serbian architectural studio Bureau Cube Partners, has been selected as the winner of the Nikola Tesla Museum design competition. The anonymous design contest sought architectural and urban conceptual designs for a new museum dedicated to celebrating visionary engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla. Located in Belgrade, the museum is situated within the historic Milan Vapa Paper Mill. The proposal includes the renovation of the site, which was originally constructed in 1924 and served as the nation’s first modern factory. The design team’s adaptive reuse of the roughly 144,236-square-foot structure aims to preserve its industrial heritage while upgrading its ..

Buildner presents the third edition of the Home of Shadows architecture competition. This event continues to highlight the crucial interplay between light and shadow in creating functional and inviting living spaces.Light is one of the most important factors when designing homes, and the use of natural light is vital in creating a space that feels both comfortable, inviting and practical. It could be said that lighting is a form of language that architects can use to communicate emotions in the spaces and structures they design.As such, shadow plays as much a role in influencing the feel of a space as light. The harmony between light and shadow allows architects and designers to cr..

Six selected pavilions have been chosen for construction along the Nestaweya River Trail in Winnipeg as part of the latest Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition on Ice. Since its launch in 2009, the open competition has attracted entries from across the globe, with winning schemes constructed towards the end of each January.  The 2025 selection of huts seeks to “represent fun and warmth, while also speaking to issues such as climate change and homelessness,” according to the organizers. The winning schemes range from a colorful grain elevator to a balled-up beaver to a half-sunken car, and from a single-person home to a gift wrapped with a bow. Details on the six..

The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) 2025 competition is now open, inviting architects, designers, and creatives to participate in shaping a sustainable future for Marou Village, Fiji. This global competition seeks visionary proposals for a permanent destination artwork that generates renewable energy, ensures access to clean water, supports local tourism, and addresses the climate resilience needs of the community. An Opportunity to Lead Change The competition calls for designs that merge regenerative energy and water solutions with the cultural and natural beauty of Fiji’s landscape. With no entry fees, the competition is open to everyone, and submissions are due by May 5, 2025. Two ..

The overlooked contribution of Paul Rudolph, Luis Fry, Sr., and John Welch to campus life at Tuskegee University will come into focus soon via a new exhibition hosted in New Haven by the Yale School of Architecture. Their seminal work together over nine years to culminate the space known now as the Tuskegee Chapel in 1969 forms the subject of The Tuskegee Chapel: Paul Rudolph X Fry & Welch curated by Class of 2010 Yale SoA grad Helen Brown Bechtel in partnership with academics and researchers from Tuskegee and MIT.Read the full post on Bustler

The nominees for the 2025 Créateurs Design Awards have been announced ahead of a special ceremony to be held in Paris on Saturday, January 18th. Joining the previously announced Andree Putman Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Norman Foster and Le Prix Charlotte Perriand Award winners from SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) were the 14 category nominees (three of which are for Architecture). The CDA says each uniquely elicits the "global outlook of creativity,  blending tradition with innovation" with Lina Ghotmeh's critically popular new workshops for the Hermès brand outside of Paris leading the field as perhaps the best-known example.Others, in..

As we wrap up our 2024 highlights on Archinect and Bustler, we present a countdown of the year's most popular competitions. From hundreds of architecture and design contests listed here, these were the top 10 competitions based on reader popularity.Read the full post on Bustler

The field of architecture is filled with annual awards and accolades conferred to those who shape the present and future built environment through practice, research, and teaching.This past year has proved another full one in terms of such honors. From brilliant curators to champions of labor rights, sustainability, and social justice to academics and students, those recognized for their unique contributions to architecture and the built environment are truly deserving as the faces, lifeblood, and inspiring future of our profession.Below is our curated selection of some of the most notable award-winning architects, designers, and academics from this past year in chronological order. Rea..

With 2024 in the rear window (don't miss Archinect's Year in Review series with the biggest stories), now is a good time to look forward to the upcoming architecture and design events in the new year.From the roster of current and upcoming events listed on Bustler, here is a brief curated selection of recommendations worth seeing this January.UPCOMING EVENTSRead the full post on Bustler

A Grand Prize winner and four Excellence honorees have just been named at the culmination of the first-ever NOT A HOTEL design competition called by the Japanese vacation stays platform. The competition is aimed at architects and creators under the age of 40 interested in selling their speculative designs for a secluded retreat located at the foot of Mt. Asama, Japan. The Grand Prize entry will be realized and later put for sale on the market as the next accommodation in the four-year-old brand's rather luminous portfolio of high-end designs, which includes names like BIG and Sou Fujimoto. A total of 620 entries from 23 different countries were submitted from around the world ..

The results from the new Buildner UNBUILT Award contest have been shared with Bustler. The inaugural competition gives architects a platform to showcase their unrealized work. Winners shared an incredible €100,000 ($104,000 USD) cash prize.Buildner states: "By honoring unbuilt ideas, we celebrate the purest form of creative exploration, unbounded by practical constraints. These designs push the boundaries of architectural thought, inspiring new approaches to form, function, sustainability, and innovation while serving as catalysts for advancing architectural discourse and future projects."Neri&Hu’s co-founder Lyndon Neri and Mecanoo's leader Francine Houben led the eight-member jury ..

Zaha Hadid Architects has won the pitch to design the Zhejiang Shaoxing Shangyu District Cao’e River Culture and Art Centre, a central component of a new cultural quarter in Shaoxing, China. The ambitious project will feature a 1,400-seat grand theater, a 500-seat multifunctional hall, an arts and education center, a conference center, a heritage museum, and a digital art gallery, all spanning an expansive riverside site.Read the full post on Bustler

This edition of Bustler's curated picks of noteworthy architecture and design competitions features four calls seeking designs of new soccer stadium for Czech club, FC Baník Ostrava, outstanding kitchen designs, exceptional projects by North American designers who showcase inventive uses of Italian ceramic tiles in their work, and innovative student-driven proposals that aim to accelerate green urban redevelopment.For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.Read the full post on Bustler

A winner has been crowned in the international competition to deliver a new welcome pavilion and public realm design at the British Museum’s north and south entrances. The London-based Studio Weave emerged from a shortlist of five teams that was announced in October. Joining them for the project are Wright & Wright Architects, Webb Yates Engineers, Tom Massey Studio, and Daisy Froud. The museum expects construction to be ready by spring 2026.Read the full post on Bustler

The 2024 AIA|LA Design Awards winners were announced recently during a special ceremony at the brand new AIA|LA and Architecture for Communities Los Angeles (ACLA) Center for Communities in historic West Adams.As in past iterations, the AIA|LA says these projects best represent their organizational values of equity, diversity, inclusivity, community, and sustainability while also exemplifying the industry’s proactive fight against climate change. "We’re thrilled to introduce the Center to our members and the broader community," said Carlo Caccavale, Hon. AIA|LA, Executive Director of AIA|LA and ACLA. "This space elevates our capacity to serve both the profession and Los An..

Five finalists have been named in the competition to create the first home for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki’s South Harbor area.  The designer’s names will remain anonymous through this stage while entries are listed by their initial number and title. A total of 624 were submitted from across the world. The 13-member jury will grant each a €50,000 ($52,000) development fee and expects to come back with the final winner's announcement by September 2025.Beate Hølmebakk, jury panel member and partner at Manthey Kula in Oslo said: “The five finalist projects represent different visions for an inviting and inspirational museum situated on ..

Introducing the Architect's Chair Competition, an exciting opportunity for architects and designers to showcase their versatility and creativity by designing a signature piece of furniture. Inspired by the long-standing tradition of iconic architects creating custom furniture as an extension of their architectural work, this competition challenges participants to distill their design approach into its core components and represent their unique style in a single piece of furniture – the architect's chair. Throughout history, renowned architects such as Charles and Ray Eames, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, and Arne Jacobsen have successfully designed iconic chairs that embody thei..

WHAT IS A HOME?A house and a home aren't always the same thing. And while the aspects that make a place your home aren't limited to physical attributes, architecture can still have a huge impact. Cultural differences, location, resources, and the format of your family will all influence what you look for in a home. And in a world that seems to be changing faster than ever, can architects and designers anticipate the needs of new-age homes?SHEIKH ZAYED HOUSING PROGRAMMEAs the second competition in the series following the success of the first House of the Future 2023/24, we continue our exploration into the future of living spaces for Emirati citizens in United Arab Emirates. This year, ..

The South Korean-born academic, architect, and urban designer Sang Dae Lee has been awarded the 2024 American Prize for Architecture by both The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.Read the full post on Bustler