Registration Deadline: May 30, 2025; Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025
Now in its 12th year, the Awards celebrate the documentation, preservation and reuse of modern buildings, structures and landscapes built in the United States or on U.S. territory. The Awards recognize those building owners, design teams, advocacy and preservation organizations that have made significant efforts to retain, restore, and advocate for the aesthetic and cultural value of such places.
Small Lots, Big Impacts is a two-stage initiative to build a path to a better future for Los Angeles—one where a new generation of homeowners has the chance to thrive in more resilient neighborhoods. The recent fires have highlighted the importance of combining public resources with creative ingenuity to address the city’s housing crisis. Thus, in Small Lots, Big Impacts, the City of Los Angeles is leading the way, hosting demonstration projects on its own land that will offer new visions for building housing that can translate to thousands of similar, privately-held lots. First, a design competition asks designers, architects, and students to propose homeownership models on a selection of the City’s small, overlooked, and forgotten lots. Participants will imagine a sustainable urban future that updates the Los Angeles residential imaginary for a postsuburban world where infill, shared amenities, and compact communities present viable alternatives to the detached house. To address the city’s housing shortage and support fire recovery, proposals will consider architectural and community resilience, strategies for expedient construction, and cost-effective development approaches. Second, through a Request for Qualifications (RFQ), the City of Los Angeles will award small, underutilized parcels of City-owned land to nimble, innovative, and high-quality architect-developer partners (“Development Teams”) to construct housing prototypes. The initiative will be “open source,” sharing development lessons, design approaches, policy implications, and strategies for practice to build the capacity of the city’s housing development community.
Across Los Angeles, tens of thousands of privately-owned lots are under a quarter acre, underutilized, zoned for residential construction, and by any common sense measure, ripe for construction. Through this initiative, the City is providing a unique opportunity to design new models for living together on publicly-owned lots that have these same characteristics. In so doing, Small Lots, Big Impacts will highlight the larger opportunity that lies in leveraging these prototypes to build sustainably on the rest of Los Angeles’ residential land.
Since the first day of her administration, Mayor Karen Bass has been focused on building a stronger, more resilient Los Angeles by addressing the city’s multifaceted housing crisis. Today, City Councilmembers are anxious to deploy land in their districts to create resilient demonstrations of homeownership opportunities. City-owned land already plays an outsized role in facilitating new housing demonstrations, but until now, larger sites for multifamily apartments have received the most attention. Small Lots, Big Impacts instead pursues pilot projects on underutilized residential parcels that are less than a quarter acre—the very DNA of housing in Los Angeles. Each individual site and each individual project may be small, but the scale of the opportunity is vast.
Each masterpiece begins with your dream, polished by your skills and hard work, fuelled by your steadfast belief in your power, and nurtured by your inspiration and desire to create a better future. IADA is here to recognize your genius, celebrate your dedication, reward your tireless journey, and inspire others with your vision and creativity. We will share your story of challenge and success with the world.
This year, our esteemed Jury Board has been enhanced with the brightest professionals, ready to uncover the stories behind your projects and select the best among them. Meet our new Jury members:
Frederick Rickmann (DNgroup, STEENSSEN Aps, DNDC, AFR, Thinking Urbans)
Yuting Zhang (Studio RE+N)
Daryl Villanueva (Bandit9 Motors)
Jiaru Lin (KMC Corp)
Larry Lim (Anchor Agency)
Alberto Dias Ribeiro (A2OFFICE)
Gloria Cabral (STUDIO 4.4)
Serhii Makhno (Makhno Studio)
Xiaobi (Iris) Pan (Amazon)
Paul Wiseman (The Wiseman Group)
IADA 2025 invites you to join a global stage where passion meets recognition. Whether you are a student, creator, professional, constructor, web designer, fashion designer, artist, or anyone who dares to dream and turn those dreams into reality, you are welcome here.
Prizes:
Certificate of Achievement
Personalized Award Logo
Winner’s personalized page
Iconic IADA Trophy
Our magnificent trophy can go to each winner.
Winner’s Banner Kit
Social Media publication
Media-Partner publication
Studio’s Spotlight
A personalized studio card with contact information will be featured on each winner’s page.
Take advantage of early registration with discounted pricing, enter by the Early Bird Registration Deadline (6th December 2024), and secure your place among the world’s most inspiring designers.
Saudi Arabia is undergoing an extraordinary transformation, stepping boldly into a future shaped by innovation, creativity, and opportunity. Guided by Vision 2030, the Kingdom is diversifying its economy beyond oil, with significant investments in tourism, culture, technology, and sustainability. This national evolution is redefining Saudi Arabia’s identity on the global stage, blending modern progress with
TerraViva has officially released the complete list of awarded projects of the architecture contest entitled “Eliava Bazaar”. Eliava Bazaar Architecture Competition invited architects and designers to propose innovative solutions for the future of one of Tbilisi’s most dynamic marketplaces. With ongoing discussions about potential relocation or redevelopment, the challenge was to envision a project that
In this article, we continue our series on Competitions.archi, presenting a collection of articles on different architectural competitions. Today, we will be featuring the winner of the Skyscraper 2023 Competition – an article from Architecture Competitions Yearbook 2023. ____________________________________________________________________ It was a real surprise for us to win the eVolo 2023 Skyscraper Competition with
Registration Deadline: Jun 12, 2025; Submission Deadline: Jun 25, 2025
Handrail on a Cliff challenges designers to redefine the handrail in the extreme landscape of the Black Angel Cliff, Greenland. A balance of protection, freedom, and control, where design meets raw nature. No limits on form or materials—just bold ideas shaping the edge between safety and risk. More:https://www.archcontest.com/en/competition/9
Total prize fund € 3,000
10 finalist projects will be shortlisted and 3 winners will be selected to receive the prizes, which will be distributed as follows:
