New architecture and design competitions: KRob, Timber in the City, TRANSFER Architecture Video Award, and Shenzhen Pingshan Sports Park

If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Featured below are four calls inviting short films expressing innovative ways of analyzing architecture, design schemes for a badminton and fitness complex in Shenzhen, student-led projects that reimagine the boundaries of wood construction in the urban environment, and the best in hand and digital architectural delineation.

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TRANSFER Architecture Video Award 2023
Registration/Submission Deadline: Monday, January 15, 2024

"The TRANSFER Architecture Video Award is an independent award, launched in 2019, to recognise the most creative and innovative short films in the field of architecture, city or landscape worldwide. Video is becoming increasingly instrumental in analysing architecture and the human environment, and is directly related to the digital networks that underpin contemporary communication. With the TRANSFER Architecture Video Award, we aim to highlight the contributions that best represent new means of knowledge and analysis of architecture using video."

Pre-announcement | International Tender for Architectural Design of Shenzhen Pingshan Sports Park
Registration/Submission Deadline: Thursday, January 25, 2024

"Pingshan district in Shenzhen acts as an important node for the eastward development of Shenzhen. However, the eastern part of Shenzhen lacks large-scale cultural and sports complexes and supporting service facilities. The project aims to address the shortcoming of uneven distribution of large-scale cultural and sports facilities in Shenzhen, as well as reaching higher level of national fitness and meeting the recreational fitness needs of the public. It is proposed to build a sports park featuring “badminton” as the theme, and to construct a National Badminton Training Center integrating practice, scientific research and training."

2024 Timber in the City, Student Competition
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, June 5, 2024

"The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) is pleased to announce TIMBER IN THE CITY 5: Urban Habitats Competition for the 2023-2024 academic year. The program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to reimagine the boundaries of wood construction in the urban environment, leading to the transformation of our existing cities through constructing sustainable buildings made from renewable resources, offering expedient affordable construction, innovating with new and traditional wood materials, and designing healthy living and working environments."

50th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial | Architectural Delineation Competition
Registration/Submission Deadline: Thursday, May 23, 2024

"The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob) has celebrated the best in architectural delineation for 50 years. A Dallas classic that has received international recognition, KRob honors hand and digital delineation by professionals and students throughout the world. Averaging over 400 entries from 25 countries in the past several years, the competition’s visibility continues to grow. The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition is the most senior architectural drawing competition currently in operation anywhere in the world."

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