Keep your creative edge with these architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler

With yet another week spent working from home nearing its end, many architects and designers are itching to break through the quarantine routine and look — properly socially distanced of course — for creative outlets during this "new normal." So why not participate in a design competition right now?

Bustler, Archinect's sister site, has got you covered with the latest listings in our vast competitions database. 

Take a look at a few recently listed, and also some soon ending, challenges below (ordered by registration and submission due date).

SuperDesign For SuperFurniture
Registration Deadline: Tuesday, Apr 28, 2020
Submission Deadline: Thursday, May 28, 2020

POST Houston, the adaptive reuse of downtown Houston’s former Barbara Jordan Post Office, is proud to launch SUPERDESIGN FOR SUPERFURNITURE, a nation-wide furniture design competition open to all students of art, graphic design, industrial design or interior architecture and architecture. 

THE LIFE CYCLES OF WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE
Registration/Submission Deadline: Thursday, Apr 30, 2020

Rather than spotlighting the accomplishments of prominent individuals, WOMENWHODESIGN.ORG examines through storytelling the lived experience and contributions of the many. This platform asks what it means to be a woman in the broadly defined field of architecture, and through collaboration and exploration proposes how it can be different. Why do women architects matter? How do career and human life cycles intersect, interfere and inform each other? What has been your experience as a woman in architecture? What obstacles have you overcome, or not? How are you living your vision for the future? We invite you to explore these questions and more...

Architecture at Zero 2020 Competition
Registration/Submission Deadline: Thursday, Apr 30, 2020

The 2020 Architecture at Zero competition challenge is to create a zero net energy library for the San Benito County Free Library in Hollister, CA. Entrants are encouraged to highlight any energy efficiency strategies or systems shown. In order to demonstrate the building design and its performance, entrants will provide required documentation and may also include supplementary documentation. The preferred solution is an all electric zero net energy library. The preferred solution will not include natural gas and will use electric power.

African House Design Competition: A home for the Jorejick family
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, Jun 17, 2020

Tanzania suffers from a terrible shortage of good quality and affordable housing. So dire is this shortage that the nation currently carries a 3 million housing deficit coupled with a 200.000 unit annual demand. Over seventy percent of its urban residents live in unplanned and unserviced informal settlements.   With that in mind, Archstorming is looking for a housing design to be implemented not only in Tanzania, but also in other African countries where housing is an increasing problem.

TREE HOUSE MODULE
Registration Deadline: Sunday, Jun 21, 2020
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, Jun 24, 2020

YAC - Young Architects Competitions - and Dartagnans launch TREE HOUSE MODULE, a competition of ideas aiming to design and realize a tree house system to put into the oneiric French castles of Vibrac, Mothe Chandeniers, Ebaupinay. A cash prize of € 15,000 will be awarded to the winners selected by an outstanding jury panel made of, among the others, Espen Surnevik, Matthew Johnson (DS+R), Giulio Rigoni (BIG), Tue Hesselberg Foged (Effekt Architects), Peter Pichler, Patrick Lüth (Snøhetta).

Fentress Global Challenge: Airport of the Future
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Jul 1, 2020
Submission Deadline: Friday, Jul 31, 2020

Fentress Global Challenge (FGC) is an annual international student design competition. Since its inception in 2011, thousands of entries from over 75 countries have competed for top honors. FGC represents an extraordinary exploration into the future of architecture, and in so doing, continues to advance the pursuit of innovative design in public architecture.

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