New architecture and design competitions: Brooklyn Design Awards, Dutch Design Awards, AR Future Projects Awards, and Inspire Future Generations Awards

Looking to win some awards for your hard work? This week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler feature four calls seeking top-notch projects by Brooklyn/Kings County-based architects, entries to the Dutch Design Awards, initiatives that connect young people with the built environment, and the best new unbuilt and incomplete projects.

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

Dutch Design Awards: Emerging Talent Award 2025
Register/Submit Deadline:  Monday, Sep 15, 2025

"For over two decades, Dutch Design Awards (DDA) has celebrated designers who push boundaries, reimagine futures, and shape the role of design in society. With the Emerging Talent Award, we recognise designers who embody bold imagination, creative courage, and the power of collaboration—those who reframe what design can achieve today and tomorrow. This year, three promising designers will each receive a €10,000 award and personal guidance within the Dutch Design Week programme, offering them both recognition and support to further develop their practice."

2025 Brooklyn Design Awards
Register/Submit Deadline:  Tuesday, Sep 30, 2025

"Celebrating the high caliber of design in Brooklyn, the BKDA are open to projects by Brooklyn architects and projects in Kings County by AIA Members from anywhere. Featuring many entry categories - there IS a category for your project. An invited panel of esteemed jurors will review each entry on its own merits in October. Entries are not in competition with each other."

Inspire Future Generations Awards 2025
Register/Submit Deadline:  Friday, Oct 17, 2025

"Open to architectural and planning practices, local authorities, developers, not-for profit organisations, practitioners and other built environment professionals across the private/public sector. The Inspire Future Generations (IFG) Awards for 2025, now in their 5th year, continue to recognise and celebrate outstanding initiatives, organisations, and individuals who are bridging the gap between the built environment and young people. This year the IFGA present 16 categories, don’t loose your opportunity: enter for the IFGA25!"

AR Future Projects awards 2026
Register/Submit Deadline:  Friday, Nov 21, 2025

"Launched in 2002, the AR Future Projects awards are a window into tomorrow’s cities and landscapes, celebrating excellence in unbuilt and incomplete projects, and the potential for positive contribution to communities, neighbourhoods and landscapes around the world. The following 13 categories will be reviewed by an international judging panel, who will choose one winner per category as well as an overall winner: Civic and community, Commercial mixed-use, Cultural regeneration, Education, Health, Hotels and leisure, Housing, Infrastructure, New and old, Offices, Regeneration and masterplanning, Retail, Tall buildings. Plus, there are a further three prizes to be won: Student prize, Sustainable research and design prize, Competition entry prize"

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