New architecture and design competitions: Brick in Architecture Awards, Concrete Masonry Competition, MICROHOME Kingspan, and Transforming Falcon Road Bridge

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 calls seeking innovative proposals to revitalize a tunnel in London into a vibrant, artistic space enhancing the public realm, exceptional projects where clay brick is the primary building material, ingenious off-grid modular dwellings, and student-driven designs of fire stations that utilize concrete masonry products as the primary material.

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‘Transforming Falcon Road Bridge’ Design Competition
Registration/Submission Deadline: Thursday, September 12, 2024

"This competition invites architects, designers, and artists to submit their innovative proposals to reimagine the 100-metre-long tunnel beneath Falcon Road Bridge, enhancing the public realm and improving the overall experience for the local community. Participants are challenged to create large-scale artistic interventions that address environmental challenges while celebrating local character and heritage."

2024 Brick in Architecture Awards
Registration/Submission Deadline: Friday, November 1, 2024

"Projects may be submitted in nine categories and will compete for a Best in Class, Gold, Silver or Bronze award. An overall Craftsmanship Award will honor one project recognizing an individual mason or team for exceptionally artful or unique installation. [...] Per the competition rules, all submissions must use clay brick as the project’s primary building material. Entrants must be either an architect or designer employed by an architectural, design-build or landscaping design firm."

MICROHOME Kingspan 2024/25
Registration Deadline: Thursday, February 13, 2024
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, March 18, 2025

"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."

2025 Concrete Masonry Competition
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, June 4, 2025

"The design competition asks students to use concrete masonry products as the primary material in the design of a state-of-the-art Fire Station. The fire station needs to accommodate diverse functions, including equipment and vehicle storage, maintenance, gender inclusive housing accommodations, recreation, administration, training, community education and civic events. Concrete masonry is a flexible, resilient and durable material, and provides vast opportunities for form, function and expression."

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