New architecture and design competitions: Europan 16, Cold War Veterans Memorial, Henning Larsen Foundation Competition, and Testing-Ground: Youthhood

For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we have selected three contests and one call for submissions inviting spatial utopias, youthful perspectives of the world, designs for a Cold War Veterans Memorial, and innovative urban concepts for 40 sites across nine European countries.

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Henning Larsen Foundation 2020/21 Competition: Architecture and Utopia
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Apr 9, 2021

"The Henning Larsen Foundation is proud to announce the latest edition of its competition series this year an open international competition on the theme of Utopia in architecture. [...] Ideas that, with artistic and poetic power, can inspire a new dimension and a new quality in architecture are sought. The task: Describe in sketches and few words a Utopia, a dream or mood with descents in spatial, architectural particulars. Contributions are to be made in drawing/photo or any pictorial technique including short illuminating texts in either Danish or English [...]."

Testing-Ground – Call for Submissions: Youthhood
Register/Submit Deadline: Tuesday, May 4, 2021

"TESTING-GROUND invites submissions for the third issue, Youthhood. Young people are founding movements against injustices. Teenagers are lobbying their politicians to add climate change to the curriculum. Children are walking out on classes to participate in demonstrations and strikes. There is increasing concern that global elders have failed to address – and in many cases exacerbated – social, economic, and ecological inequities. Urgent, uninhibited, and technically proficient – you can’t fool the children of the revolution. When it comes to the creation of environmentally just and hopeful worlds, young people are proving their worth and the future is in their hands … or is it? Issue 03: Youthhood will consider the world through youthful eyes, make evident young ambitions, and aim to empower young people to take on the design of their own cities and landscapes."

Cold War Veterans Memorial International Design Competition
Register/Submit Deadline: Tuesday, Jun 15, 2021

"The international design competition by the Pritzker Military Museum & Library located in Chicago invites designers to submit design concepts for the new Cold War Veterans Memorial in Somers, Wisconsin. This Memorial will be a critical piece of the Pritzker Archives and Memorial Park Center (PAMPC) currently under development. Design submissions will be accepted until June 15, 2021."

Europan 16 – Living Cities
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Sep 17, 2021

"Europan is a competition of ideas followed by implementation processes. The competition is open to professionals of architectural, urban, and landscape design under 40 years of age. Students with a bachelor level or equivalent can be associates, yet under the condition that the team representative is a graduated architect. 9 European countries proposing 40 sites are participating in the Europan 16 edition on one common theme: Living Cities - Metabolic Vitalities / Inclusive Vitalities."

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