New architecture and design competitions: AZ Awards, Tactical Urbanism Now!, ADC Annual Awards, and Stuttgart Weissenhof Estate

It's a new year and a splendid opportunity to check out some of the latest architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler.

Highlighted in our curated picks this week are four briefs calling for a contemporary urban makeover of the iconic OG modernist Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, innovative transformations of public space around the world, and outstanding work from the global design community across various disciplines.

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Competition for the Weissenhof in Stuttgart (Germany)
Registration Deadline: Friday, Feb 11, 2022
Submission Deadline: Monday, Mar 28, 2022

"In 2027, the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart will be 100 years old. The famous estate with 21 houses was built for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in 1927 under the artistic guidance of Mies van der Rohe. The two houses of Le Corbusier are now part of the World Heritage Site. This upcoming anniversary forms the basis for the International Building Exhibition 2027 (IBA’27), which takes place in Stuttgart and its region. After a century of architectural and urban history, the IBA offers the opportunity to rethink the built testimonies of modernism and to advance the urban design at Weissenhof with a contemporary model. To this end, the state capital Stuttgart and the state of Baden-Württemberg, in cooperation with the IBA’27, are going to announce an open international ideas competition for the urban design of Weissenhof and its surroundings in 2022."

AZ Awards 2022
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Feb 25, 2022

"The 2022 AZ Awards is now accepting entries into its eight major categories, from architecture, landscapes and urban design to interiors, product design and the A+ Award for best student work. It welcomes submissions until February 25 and – as ever – promises to attract entries from some of the most forward-thinking firms from all corners of the globe."

ADC 101st Annual Awards
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Mar 4, 2022

"The ADC Annual Awards, celebrating 101 years of excellence in design and craft, is now open for entries! This iconic design and advertising awards show honors the best creative talent and groundbreaking work across many different creative disciplines, from graphic design to illustration, from publishing to packaging, from advertising to photography and all points in between. The Spatial Design discipline crosses boundaries of traditional design specializations such as building design, landscape architecture and design, interiors design, service design, certain areas of public art and more."

Tactical Urbanism Now! 2021 Competition
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Mar 18, 2022

"Over the last decade, cities all around the world have experimented with a wide range of urban transformations through colourful, flexible and light interventions. Nowadays, it has become more and more common to come across these type of projects in both, small towns and metropolises. Tactical Urbanism proposes an innovative design approach that aims to achieve long-term regeneration with short-term strategies. In certain cases, due to the positive impact that these interventions have generated in the urban realm, projects that were once thought of as temporary have now become permanent. Working at the scale of a street, a block or a building, tactical tools have the power to improve liveability citywide. Similar to the way acupuncture inserts needles into one part of the body to boost the well-being of the entire organism, these type of projects can actually lead to positive changes in an entire neighbourhood."

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