New architecture and design competitions: The Architect’s Stair, Goldreed Industrial Design Award, Reinventing Montréal, and Hope in the Square

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 the best in industrial design, forward-thinking conceptual explorations of stairs, concepts for an accessible garden-like area in London's Peckham Square that serves as a meeting place for young people and local communities, and proposals for a sustainable and inclusive development for a vacant site in Montreal.

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Goldreed Industrial Design Award (GIDA) 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Saturday, July 20, 2025

"The Goldreed Industrial Design Award (GIDA) is a prestigious international design competition, now in its sixth edition. Promoted by the Xiong'an Future Industrial Design Institute, this award honors projects and companies pushing the boundaries of design and innovation, recognized for their global reach. GIDA focuses on core values such as leading new industrial development, creating a new way of social life, and fostering harmonious development between humans and nature. This year, submissions are accepted across diverse categories including Manufacturing Equipment, Biomedical Science, Digital Technology, Transportation, Public Services, and Future Scenario."

The Architect’s Stair / Edition #2
Registration Deadline: Thursday, July 24, 2025
Submission Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025

"This competition invites architects, designers, and creative thinkers to explore the stair as a pure expression of architectural language. Participants are asked to reflect on its symbolism, geometry, movement, and potential—free from constraints of program, material, or scale. There are no limitations on style, function, context, or dimension. Whether monumental or minimal, abstract or inhabitable, real or speculative—what matters is the clarity and creativity of the concept."

Hope in the Square
Registration/Submission Deadline: Thursday, August 14, 2025

"The NLA and Southwark Council are proud to announce the new design competition ‘Hope in the Square’. As part of the council’s flagship scheme for the redevelopment of Peckham Square, this competition is looking for creatives to design and deliver a garden-like area that celebrates youth. The key objective of this competition is to create a unique meeting place within the square for young people and local communities to gather and reflect, take a positive look towards the future and honour Peckham’s past to build on Damilola Taylor’s legacy and the work of his family as well as the Hope Collective."

Reinventing Montréal 2025-2026: Imagine 150 Louvain Ouest!
Registration/Submission Deadline: Thursday, October 16, 2025

"The international call for projects is open to local corporations and provides a unique opportunity to create an innovative and versatile urban space meant to embody sustainable and inclusive development. The project namely aims to strengthen and complete the Central district’s (District central) employment hub, to favour mixed-use development for an entire neighborhood, to mesh residential and commercial uses harmoniously, to integrate green areas and appealing public areas, to create pedestrian links throughout the bigger island, and to implement ground-floor commercial spaces in buildings."

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