Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition 2024

Buildner is thrilled to announce the results of the fifth edition of its Museum of Emotions Competition! This annual event invites participants to explore how architecture can evoke emotions, challenging them to design a museum with two contrasting exhibition halls: one inducing positive emotions and the other evoking negative ones. Participants had complete freedom to

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Registration Deadline: Feb 26, 2025; Submission Deadline: Feb 28, 2025

The MUSE Hotel Awards is a world-leading and prestigious competition that honors and celebrates the very best and industry-leading hotels in hotel and hospitality design, as well as state-of-the-art services, that continue to push the boundaries of global hospitality.
 

Categories:

The MUSE Hotel Awards does not stop at only recognizing the best hotels in the world. It rewards and celebrates all categories that create the ultimate global hospitality and guest experience – including Hotel and Hospitality Design.

Eligibility:

The MUSE Hotel Awards is open to hoteliers, hotel developers and builders, interior designers, architects, public relations firms, advertising agencies, travel agencies, and professionals directly or indirectly related to the hospitality industry.

 
Submission Requirement:

Entry Brief:
It is recommended that you keep your synopsis to approximately 350 words. The brief should strengthen your entry, as well as providing the jury a better understanding of your project. A written translation or adaptation must accompany non-English entries.

 Image Submission:
The submissions should be saved in a flattened JPEG or JPG format. (keep them under 4MB, 1,200px wide is preferable, 300dpi, RGB).

 Video / Audio Submission:
Entries with audio/video must be submitted with a direct URL that will take judges directly to the work:
Upload video/audio to Vimeo/YouTube/Youku.
Paste the URL link into the URL field.

 

2025 Entry Deadline & Fees:

Early Bird: Oct 14 – Nov 14, 2024 ($450)

Regular: Nov 15 – Dec 12, 2024 ($550)

Final: Dec 13, 2024 – Jan 16, 2025 ($650)

Final Extension: Jan 17 – Feb 28, 2025 ($750)

Last Minute: Mar 1, 2025 — Sep 25, 2025 ($850)

 

Winning Level:

There are FOUR (4) levels of achievement in the competition:

 
Category Winner of the Year

Platinum MUSE (85-100 points)

Gold MUSE (70-84 points)

Silver MUSE (50-69 points)

Judging:

Judging is blind. All entrant information is removed from entries to prevent bias/conflict of interest.

 To uphold the prestige and reputation of the MUSE Hotel Awards, a large part of the competition is highly dependent on the careful selection of judges of high calibre that convene each year to review submissions. This collective panel of juries assembled by International Awards Associate Inc (IAA) is primarily composed of industry experts and veterans with years of experience in the hospitality and tourism industry. This esteemed group of jurors represent the breadth of the profession, including private, public, institutional, and academic practice. They embody diversity in professional experience, geography, gender and ethnicity.

 

Evaluation Criteria:

Judges score on a scale of 1-100, based on the below criteria:

Hotel

• Establishment Overview
• Facilities
• Visual Identity / Design
• Brand Review and Reputation on Platform or Social Media
• Overall Impression

Hospitality Design

• Creativity / Originality / Concept / Idea
• Content / Brief / Objective / Planning / Execution
• Innovation / Technology
• Quality / Functionality / Sustainability
• Overall Impression / Wow! Factor / Memorable

 

The MUSE Hotel Awards and International Awards Associate Inc’s decision and ranking is final in its sole discretion and binding relation to all matters relating to competitions and may not be subject to any discussions or correspondence.

 

Results Announcement:

All winners for 2025 will be announced on April 10, 2025 via MUSE Hotel Awards official page. All registered participants can then login to see the winning works.

 
Prizes:

 Category Winners of the Year will receive a Limited Edition MUSE Statuette to be displayed at your establishment as a quality of excellence.

Category Winners of the Year – Winner’s Banner to be featured on category page and link to website for 30 days for maximum exposure.

Category Winners of the Year will be highlighted on MUSE Hotel Awards Gallery Section located at the Home Page for 30 days to increase public visibility.

Winner Interview – All winners will get a chance for an interview to recognize the winning team that contributed to the project.

A Dedicated Hotel, Design, Restaurant, or Agency Profile (Winner’s Page) for Category Winners of the Year, Platinum, Gold, and Silver Winners. Winners can also include booking (Agoda, Booking.com, Trivago, etc.) or official website links in their profile page.

Marketing Tools – A professionally-designed icon, badge, site bug, press release templates, and email signature to celebrate your win.

Winners of all winning levels will be featured on the MUSE Hotel Awards Winners Section.

Category Winners of the Year, Platinum and Gold Winners will be featured by MUSE on social media or on Muse.World, our media partner site to maximize exposure.

A complimentary professionally-designed certificate to commemorate winning entry submissions that includes entry title, entrant company and/or winner’s name, and award category. A decal will be customized to indicate the winning level.

An e-Certificate to commemorate your win, can be downloaded. Details such as Entry Title, Entrant Company and Categories will be displayed on the e-Certificate.

Platinum, Gold, and Silver winners will be given the choice to purchase limited-edition statuettes and/or additional award certificates while stocks last.

A press release template will be available for all winning levels to download and modified to be sent to major industry outlets for marketing and promotions, celebrating your win.

 

2025 MUSE Theme: Celebrating Milestones

 A Decade of Redefined Hospitality, A Future of Limitless Experiences

 In celebrating the 10th Anniversary, the MUSE Hotel Awards continues to honor the architects of luxury, comfort, and unforgettable stays that have elevated the world of hospitality. The 2025 MUSE theme, Celebrating Milestones, is a tribute to hoteliers and designers who have turned the ordinary into the extraordinary, creating unforgettable experiences that go beyond just a stay. Every milestone represents a dedication to service, a passion for luxury, and a commitment to delivering moments that linger in the memory.

 This year, you are invited to be part of this remarkable celebration, sharing your unique ideas to inspire new standards, foster collaboration, and craft experiences that will resonate with travelers for years to come. Together, let’s celebrate the achievements that have brought us here and embrace a future filled with limitless possibilities in hospitality. 

2025 MUSE Hotel Awards is calling for entries now. Together, let’s celebrate the achievements that have brought us here and embrace a future filled with limitless possibilities in hospitality. Join us today!

Enter Now: https://musehotelawards.com/   

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Registration Deadline: Jan 30, 2025; Submission Deadline: Jan 30, 2025

COMPETITION SUBMISSION DEADLINE
January 30, 2025, 11:59pm ET
All entries must be submitted through the League’s online competition portal. 

CALL FOR ENTRIES
Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the 2025 Architectural League Prize competition. Projects of all types, executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and installations in June 2025. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000. 

Established in 1981 to recognize visionary and innovative work by young practitioners, The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers is a competition organized by The Architectural League and its Young Architects + Designers Committee. Learn more about The Architectural League Prize’s past winners.

THE YOUNG ARCHITECTS + DESIGNERS COMMITTEE
Rayshad Dorsey
Liz Gálvez
Miles Gertler

JURY
Behnaz Assadi
Mario Gooden
Jia Yi Gu
William O’Brien Jr.
And the Young Architects + Designers Committee

Download the call for entries poster designed by Pentagram.

THEME: PLOT
Whatever the narrative, architecture can’t help but engage with plot. This is an open call for designers with a story to tell.

Every building has its lore, and plots are known to thicken. Which dramas are shaping architecture’s arc today? The truth may be stranger than fiction. Despite the best-laid plans, design so often deals in circumstance. That is, while architects may endeavor to write their own stories, projects always present twists.

The 2025 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers competition asks entrants to interrogate Plot and map out the throughlines that shape their work.

How is architecture informed by considerations of plot, whether as land, drawing, or scheme? We invite young designers to chronicle that which bookends their practices and to demonstrate plot’s persistent role as main character.

TEMA: TRAMA
Cualquiera sea la narrativa, la arquitectura no puede evitar involucrarse con la trama. Esta es una convocatoria abierta para diseñadores con una historia que contar.

Cada edificio tiene su propia historia, y las tramas tienden a complicarse. ¿Qué dramas forman el arco de la arquitectura hoy en día? A veces la realidad es más extraña que la ficción. A pesar de los planes más cuidadosamente elaborados, el diseño a menudo se enfrenta a circunstancias imprevistas. Es decir, mientras los arquitectos pueden esforzarse por escribir sus propias historias, los proyectos siempre presentan giros inesperados.

El concurso del Premio de la Liga Arquitectónica 2025 para Jóvenes Arquitectos + Diseñadores invita a los participantes a interrogar la trama y a mapear las líneas que dan forma a su trabajo.

¿Cómo se informa la arquitectura a partir de consideraciones de trama, ya sea como terreno, dibujo o esquema? Invitamos a los jóvenes diseñadores a documentar lo que enmarca sus prácticas y a demostrar el papel persistente de la trama como personaje principal.

ELIGIBILITY
The competition is open only to current full-time residents (who need not be citizens) of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 

Entrants must be ten years or less out of a bachelor’s or master’s degree program, not a PhD program or other advanced degrees. Current students are ineligible. If you graduated in 2015, please specify the month of your graduation in the competition portal.

No student work completed for any academic program or degree is eligible for submission. Educators may not include work done in their studios or for their teaching. 

Entrants may submit individually or as a group. Entrants must submit work done independently; no work done as an employee of a firm where the entrant is not a principal or partner is eligible for submission. 

No current Architectural League board or staff members are eligible to participate in the competition. With the exception listed below, no employees of firms or immediate family (spouse/partner; children; siblings) of current board members, staff members, or jury members are eligible to participate in the competition. Individuals who work for the firms of League board members may enter the competition if they are submitting independent work carried out without connection to the firm. Past League Prize winners are ineligible.

PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION
If only one partner of a firm is eligible, the eligible partner can enter as an individual. The entrant must upload a signed document from all other partners that briefly describes the entrant’s role within the practice. If the entrant’s portfolio is selected, the individual, not the firm, will be listed as a recipient of the prize. 

Projects realized in collaboration with other practices or individuals may be included in the competition portfolio. All collaborative work must be clearly identified as such either in the project title or on the page (ex. House in Suburbs – Collaborative Project). Do not include the names of collaborators in the portfolio. Projects of this type must be accompanied by signed documents from all non-entrant collaborators describing their contribution to the work and approving the project’s inclusion in the entrant’s competition portfolio. These documents only apply to collaborators who had a substantive role in the design process, not consultants or employees. 

League staff will review these documents before the jury convenes and will inform the jury about the collaborations and project credits when relevant. Collaborative work will be considered within the context of an individual’s complete portfolio.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
A single digital portfolio in PDF format, with a file size no larger than 60MB and page dimensions not to exceed 11×14”. It may not contain more than 30 pages in total, excluding the cover page. Please note that a spread of two facing pages counts as two pages. Please do not include any external links.

The jury will review each portfolio in its original digital format. During the deliberation process, jurors will see a grid of the submitted portfolios’ cover pages. In this view, the cover pages will be automatically cropped to small square thumbnails. To facilitate jury review, the first page of the portfolio must be formatted as a square (1:1) and should feature a representative image of the work. 

If relevant, please upload collaborator acknowledgment and/or partner acknowledgement form(s) to the submission portal. 

The competition theme is given as a basis for young architects and designers to reflect upon and reevaluate their work. A written statement not to exceed 250 words that defines and considers the work under the rubric of the competition theme is required. Significant weight is given to how an applicant’s work addresses the theme. The written statement must be on the first (non-cover) page of the portfolio. 

This is an anonymous competition. Submitted portfolios may not contain any form of identification. Including an entrant’s name, firm name, or photograph anywhere in the portfolio is grounds for disqualification.

ENTRY FEE
The entry fee is $35 per submission, to be paid via the online competition portal.  

COMPETITION DEADLINE
January 30, 2025, 11:59pm ET
There will be no exceptions to this deadline.

SELECTION
Winning entrants will be notified by early March 2025.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Anne Rieselbach

PROGRAM MANAGER
Zoe Fruchter

QUESTIONS
Applicants may email questions to Program Manager Zoe Fruchter, [email protected].

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Registration Deadline: Mar 19, 2025; Submission Deadline: Mar 19, 2025

Event date: November 1, 2024 to March 19, 2025 (Full Results on March 23, 2025)

Location: Online

Entry Fee: Yes ($400 – $550)

How to Apply: Sign up for an account here – https://iluxuryawards.com/sign-up.php

The International Luxury Awards (iLuxury Awards) is a prestigious award medium, creating instances where sophistication meets innovation. As the world swiftly evolves, luxury continues to be an emblem of timeless class and unrivaled distinction. Yet, at the awards program, we believe that it’s not just about grandeur, but also about the story, the craftsmanship, and the vision behind each masterpiece.

Our spotlight shines on those that have redefined luxury in various realms: iconic brands, exquisite design, elite properties, unparalleled hospitality, the world of travel, F&B, services, cutting-edge tech & gadgets, and lastly the pioneers of sustainable brands. Whether you are a trailblazing designer crafting exquisite haute couture, a visionary architect creating iconic structures, a gourmet chef elevating culinary artistry, or a digital pioneer shaping the future of luxury experiences, these awards are your stage to shine. 

Prizes Details: 

1. Highest Level of Excellence: With iLuxury Awards, once you’ve won, you’ve won. Entries receiving an average score under 60 do not receive an award.
2. Global Recognition: Winners will gain international exposure, increasing their chances for collaborations with worldwide media partners and securing a place in the exclusive winner’s gallery. This visibility opens up expansive networking opportunities and boosts global recognition.  
3. Trophy: Winners can opt to order personalized Winning Trophies for additional fees from an affordable fee of $950* – $1,500

The iLuxury Statuettes come in two models – the Glaze iLuxury Statuette and the Crystal iLuxury Statuette. These statuettes signify astounding and magical achievements, glory, and fame. The Glaze Statuette is priced at $1,500* each, whilst the Crystal Statuette is priced at $950* each. 

Refer here for more details: https://frenchdesignawards.com…

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/frenchdesignawards/

Web Link: http://frenchdesignawards.com

Contact: [email protected]

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About Organizer:
Established in 2015, the International Awards Associate (IAA) is a global organization dedicated to recognizing professional excellence and outstanding achievements in various industries. As the organizer of a wide range of prestigious award programs such as the MUSE Creative Awards, MUSE Design Awards, Vega Digital Awards, NYX Awards, NYX Game Awards, TITAN Business Awards, TITAN Property Awards, London Design Awards, NY Product Design Awards, French Design Awards and many more, IAA aims to honor, promote, and encourage professional excellence, from industry to industry, internationally and domestically, through award platforms that are industry-appropriate.

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Registration Deadline: Jan 6, 2025; Submission Deadline: Jan 6, 2025

The Prem Jain Memorial Trust National Green Earth Challenge invites students of Engineering, Architecture, and Design colleges across India to tackle critical environmental challenges by developing innovative and sustainable design solutions for the built environment. With the mounting pressures of climate change, resource depletion, and urbanization, this challenge emphasizes the importance of a transdisciplinary, integrated approach. Participants will blend insights from various disciplines to create solutions that are not only eco-friendly but also socially inclusive.
The PJMT National Green Earth Challenge this year will focus on two distinct themes: 

• The Arch-Eng Challenge: The Arch-Eng theme encourages Architecture and Engineering students to create sustainable design solutions that are rooted in evidence and address issues related to the environment & people. The challenge emphasizes a transdisciplinary approach, integrating the environmental, social, and technological aspects while designing the solution. Participants should bring their innovative ideas and subject matter expertise to reinvent conventional practices or provide an alternate solution to enhance efficiency. 
• The Design Challenge: The Design category of the PJMT National Green Earth Challenge aims to promote sustainability by transforming available materials into innovative products that benefit humanity, communities, society, and the environment as a whole. Our planet faces escalating environmental challenges, from resource scarcity to mounting waste and pollution. Designers have a unique ability to shape how products are created, used, and discarded. In this challenge, we ask you to reimagine design processes through the lens of circularity—creating innovative solutions that keep materials in use for as long as possible, minimize waste, and regenerate natural systems. 

Who can participate? 

• The challenge is open to undergraduate students currently enrolled in architecture, engineering, or design programs. 
• You can participate individually or form teams of 2 or 3 members. Teams can consist of students from different batches or colleges, as long as all members meet the eligibility criteria. 
• Eligibility is restricted to Indian citizens. 

Stages of Evaluation 

• First Stage: A panel of experts in the field will review all applications and rank the top solutions from four zones – North, East, South, and West. 
• Second Stage: The top solutions will present their submissions online to a distinguished jury in each zone. Per zone, three prizes will be awarded at this stage: zonal winner, zonal first runner-up, and zonal second runner-up. 
• Third Stage: The zonal winners and first runners-up advance to the third stage, competing in Delhi for the National Prize. They will present their solutions while incorporating feedback from previous stages. A national winner and national runner-up will be announced at this stage. 

Awards: 

The following awards* are available for both categories: 

• National Round:  
  • Winner: ₹1,50,000 
  • Runner-Up: ₹50,000 
• Zonal Rounds:   
  • Winner: ₹25,000  
  • First Runner-Up: ₹18,000  
  • Second Runner-Up: ₹12,000 

Key Dates: 

• 13th November 2024 – Applications Open 
• 6th January 2025 – Applications Close 
• 1st-2nd March 2025 – Zonal Rounds: Top entries from the North, East, South, and West zone will present their ideas to judges. 
• 28th-29th March 2025 – National Round: Zonal winners and first runners-up will compete at the Grand Finale in Delhi.

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