Stage Two has begun for the Tintagel Castle Bridge competition, which ultimately seeks a structurally elegant bridge whose design is worthy of the infamous 13th-century Tintagel Castle and its notable landscape in north Cornwall. If the castle's name rings a bell, it's famously associated with the legend of…

UD4U set up the Abandoned Chrysler Automobile Plant Redevelopment competition inviting professional and student participants worldwide to create a new urban-design plan to revive the abandoned Chrysler Engine Plant in Kenosha, WI. The 107-acre site is the first mass-assembly automobile plant in the U.S, and is currently in…

The client can have an influential role as much as the architect in realizing a project that develops into a public example of "fine architecture". Every year, the Royal Institute of British Architects recognizes exemplary clients in the RIBA Client of the Year award. Previous winners include The Royal…

The Architectural League of New York is preparing for the 2015 Beaux Arts Ball: Threshold, taking place at the Knockdown Center in Queens on September 18. Co-chaired by Vishaan Chakrabarti of SHoP Architects and Maria Alataris this year, the "Threshold" theme gives a hats off to the…

Registration is closed now for the Chicago Architecture Foundation's inaugural ChiDesign CADE competition, so be sure to submit your designs by September 9! As learning environments lean toward more open and communally oriented designs, CAF launched the ideas competition seeking designs for a new type of educational…

The 2015 Stephen Lawrence Prize competition is in full swing, with RIBA's announcement of the shortlist today. Dedicated to the memory of Stephen Lawrence—a teenager who aspired to become an architect but was murdered in 1993—the annual prize was set up in 1998 by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation…

Ideasforward — the creators of the 24H Competition — looks further out into the future in their newest competition, The Imaginary World of Harry Smith.  The competition is set up like a comic webseries with four episodes. Set in an imaginary world where anything is possible, each episode…

At the heart of Liberty Island in Budapest's 2015 Sziget Festival last month stood "Treedom", an alluring forest of wooden trees where festivalgoers gathered and met up during the weeklong arts and culture event. Designed by a team led by Parisian practice Atelier YokYok, Treedom was the 

The AA Greece Visiting School program is prepping for their Thessaloniki "Revelations" session, starting October 30 through November 9 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The collaborative workshop will investigate the urban fabric of the historic city of Thessaloniki through a series of multi-parameter morphological operations and the…

The immensely successful indoor BEACH is down to its final exhibition days at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. Since opening to the public on July 4, over 120,000 visitors both young and old dove into its bubbly "waters", lounged about on the "shore", and perhaps…

RIBA recently announced the renaming of its prestigious Manser Medal competition to the RIBA House of the Year award, with agreement from the Manser family according to the Institute. Established in 2001, the medal was originally named in honor of former RIBA President and notable home designer Michael…

How would you design a skyscraper? eVolo is accepting submissions for their 2016 Skyscraper Competition now until January. Launched last month, the competition invites participants worldwide to reinvent the skyscraper: examining its definition, historical context, purpose, and the potential for vertical living in the 21st century. Since the…