New architecture and design competitions: AZ Awards, COTE Top Ten for Students Competition, Davidson Prize, and Claude Parent Prize for Transgressive Architecture

This edition of Bustler's curated picks of noteworthy architecture and design challenges features four competitions seeking exceptional projects, from both professionals and students, across an array of categories, innovative solutions that address the housing shortage as it relates to climate change, forward-thinking and radical architectural designs, and extraordinary student design studio projects that integrate health, sustainability, and equity.

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AZ Awards 2024
Registration/Submission Deadline: Friday, February 23, 2024

"It’s the beginning of a new year – and that means that it’s time to kick off the 2024 AZ Awards. Open for submissions until February 23, AZURE’s 14th annual competition is 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."

The Davidson Prize 2024
Registration Deadline: Thursday, February 1, 2024
Submission Deadline: Thursday, February 29, 2024

"In 2024 The Davidson Prize is calling for inventive solutions to address the housing shortage in the context of climate change. The theme of this year’s £25,000 Davidson Prize is Rethinking Home – Adapt and Reuse. The brief is asking multidisciplinary collaborative teams to consider how exciting and different new homes can be created from recycling, retrofitting or ‘mining’ existing structures and/or waste building materials."

Claude Parent Prize for Transgressive Architecture 2024
Registration/Submission Deadline: Friday, March 15, 2024

"Celebrating innovative and radical architectural designs, the Claude Parent Prize recognizes architects and agencies pushing the boundaries of architecture. Jury: Esteemed panel includes Jean Nouvel, Joseph Giovannini, Anupama Kundoo, Carme Pigem, Loris Gréaud, and Julie Cattant. Prize: Winner receives an original Claude Parent drawing (approx. value: €7000). Criteria: Originality, creativity, impact on architectural discourse."

2024 COTE Top Ten for Students Competition
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, June 5, 2024

"The AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition is sponsored by The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE), in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Each year, the competition recognizes ten exceptional student design studio projects that integrate health, sustainability, and equity, evaluated following the same categories of the AIA COTE Top Ten Award for built work, and the AIA Framework for Design Excellence (now adopted as the basis of professional practice and awards across the AIA)."

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