New architecture and design competitions: AIASF Design Awards, EUmies Awards Young Talent, Global Start-up Hub Busan, and Vilnius Airport Arrivals Terminal

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.

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International Invitation and Proposal Competition for 'Global Start-up Hub Busan'
Registration/Submission Deadline: Friday, January 24, 2025

"This design competition aims at creating a Korean-style “Station F” to foster domestic and international start-ups by utilizing the historical, urban, and technological values of the North Port in Busan, which is returning to the citizens after 146 years since its opening. Besides, given the project site and the existing building are currently registered as cultural heritage of Busan and are being considered for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage list as part of the former wartime capital’s heritage, the goal is to derive architects’ innovative solutions that can create new values from the historical heritage."

EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Submission Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

"The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards), founded in 1988 in Barcelona by Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Parliament, are annual awards recognising excellence in built works of architecture in Europe (Architecture and Emerging) and final diploma works by recently graduated architects (Young Talent). The EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025 aims to support the talent of recently graduated architects, urban planners and landscape architects, who will be responsible for transforming our environment in the future. This call aims at architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture schools across all Creative Europe countries to nominate projects."

2025 AIASF Design Awards
Registration/Submission Deadline: Thursday, March 6, 2025

"The AIA San Francisco (AIASF) Design Awards program honors transformative achievements in architecture, interiors, and unbuilt work. This program celebrates the power of design to shape a better world by fostering innovation, championing sustainability, and advancing social responsibility. Through this recognition, AIASF aims to inspire architects, designers, and visionaries to push boundaries, elevate communities, and create spaces that resonate with beauty, purpose, and impact."

Open Architectural Project Competition For The Arrivals Terminal Of Vilnius Airport
Registration/Submission Deadline: Thursday, March 20, 2025

"The existing Airport infrastructure needs to be adapted to the rapidly increasing passenger flows and, at the same time, a more efficient and comfortable environment for passengers should be created. Therefore, Vilnius airport invites architects to design not only a new arrivals terminal, but also to connect it into a whole with the future Rail-Baltica gauge underground connection-station, as well as with the new departure terminal and the central square, which reconstruction is starting already in 2025."

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