New architecture and design competitions: Fentress Global Challenge, Creating Connections, North Boulder Creative Campus, and JBC Masonry Innovation Competition

This edition of Bustler's curated picks of noteworthy architecture and design competitions features four briefs inviting public infrastructure designs that serve to bring people together, creative proposals for a 100,000-square-foot campus around the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, innovative masonry design and construction, and forward-thinking, student-led airport terminal designs for the year 2100.

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Creating Connections: A Design Competition
Registration/Submission Deadline: Monday, March 11, 2024

"Creating Connections is an open invitation to designers, artists, architects, and innovators to explore the profound impact of design on how people connect with others, the universe, and themselves in today's world. The competition aims to heal, unite, and inspire sustainability, inclusivity, and human and spiritual connection, and builds from the Jewish imperatives to improve our global community and honor the interconnectedness of all people and the planet. Your challenge is to create a public infrastructure piece that reimagines public spaces as catalysts for creating moments of connection, empathy, and shared experiences."

North Boulder Creative Campus Request for Qualifications
Registration/Submission Deadline: Friday, March 15, 2024

"This RFQ is seeking innovative and visionary design teams to develop a 100,000-square-foot campus that integrates creative, residential, and commercial spaces. BMoCA, a key cultural institution in Boulder for over fifty years, will be the centerpiece of this project, which aims to enhance community engagement and artistic expression in a sustainable and inclusive environment."

JBC Masonry Innovation Competition
Registration/Submission Deadline: Monday, July 15, 2024

"IMI’s JBC Masonry Innovation Competition wants your ideas for transformative masonry design. We’re challenging practicing and aspiring architects and engineers to advance the future of masonry design and construction. [...] We're interested in any concepts that add value, usefulness, appreciation, and relevance to masonry design and construction. Imagined, proposed, and completed structures and systems are welcomed."

Fentress Global Challenge 2024
Registration/Submission Deadline: Tuesday, October 1, 2024

"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. [...] FGC participants are challenged to envision a terminal building for the year 2100."

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