New architecture and design competitions: Art Omi Architecture Residency, Wege Prize, The Resilient Campus, and Creating the City within the City

For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are featuring four calls seeking forward-thinking designs for a more resilient, adaptable, and inclusive University of Buffalo South Campus, ideas for sustainable, circular approaches to addressing issues relating to pollution, hunger, waste, and more, early- to mid-career architects looking to develop and complete a piece of work, and design concepts that reimagine a shopping center in Sudbury, Ontario, into a more diverse, vibrant, and livable place.

For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.

The Resilient Campus
Registration/Submission Deadline: Friday, September 26, 2025

"The Resilient Campus challenges architects, landscape architects, planners, and other allied design professionals to boldly envision the University at Buffalo’s South Campus—a public campus on its way to becoming carbon neutral—as a socio-ecologically integrated landscape that engages the pressing and intertwined challenges of climate change. As a forward-looking academic environment, its design should foster a resilient, adaptable, and inclusive setting that recognizes and integrates the interdependencies among its many constituencies and species, human and non-human."

Wege Prize 2026
Registration/Submission Deadline: Sunday, October 5, 2025

"Now through October 5th, applications are open for Wege Prize 2026, the international design competition where top teams win a prize pool of $65,000 USD for their sustainable, circular approaches to solving some of today’s biggest problems in pollution, hunger, waste and more. Wege Prize winners in the past few years included African students with a charcoal cooling concept that slashes post-harvest losses for vegetable farmers, U.S. students with an innovative wastewater treatment technique to extract raw materials for reuse, and a multinational team turning India’s banana crop waste into a fashionable faux leather."

Art Omi: Architecture Residency Open Call
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

"The Art Omi: Architecture residency program is the first of its kind in the nation, inviting 10 early- to mid-career architects from around the world to develop their work during a two-and-a-half week residency on Art Omi's campus. Architecture Residents are selected on the basis of their individual proposed project and portfolio. Completed projects are presented in an informal critique setting at the end of the residency period. Applicants must submit and describe a project they wish to work on, on their own, while at Art Omi. Projects may be conceptual or practical, and may be an on-going or existing project that requires completion or a new design scheme to be initiated and completed by the end of the residency."

Creating the City within the City
Registration/Submission Deadline: Friday, October 17, 2025

"An architecture ideas competition led by the McEwen School of Architecture, in collaboration with Vista Hospitality Co. Canada / Elm Place, open to architecture students and to intern architects. It offers the opportunity for entrants to think creatively about the potential adaptation of the Elm Place shopping center located in the heart of downtown Sudbury, filling in urban voids around the mall and building on top of/within the mall to transform an inward-facing commercial complex into a more diverse, vibrant and livable place by introducing new residential program."

Would you like to contribute competitions, award programs, or calls for submissions that aren't listed on Bustler yet? Send them directly to our team to review. We may include them in our next roundup.