Design the memorial to Alexei Navalny

Registration Deadline: Jan 17, 2025; Submission Deadline: Jan 17, 2025

The IE and JLL Design Wonder Award—a three-year initiative by JLL Project and Development Services (PDS) and IE School of Architecture and Design —fully funds nine students each year for the Master in Interior Design at IE University in Madrid. 

Upon successful completion of the 10-month program, selected graduates will be offered opportunities to work for two years at JLL offices worldwide, applying their skills to JLL’s real-world design projects. 

Ready to elevate your career? Apply now!

More info HERE 

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Registration Deadline: Feb 3, 2025; Submission Deadline: Feb 3, 2025

The Daxi Wood Art Ecomuseum is pleased to announce the opening of submissions for the 2nd Daxi International Wood Furniture Craft and Design Competition. Entries are welcome from now until February 3, 2025. The competition calls on creators worldwide to reimagine the potential of wooden furniture design through the lens of “storage.” This theme highlights the harmonious blend of traditional woodworking craftsmanship and contemporary design innovation, celebrating the distinctive aesthetics and functionality of wooden furniture. Designers from around the globe are warmly invited to engage in this dynamic and creative journey.

The competition features two categories: the Open Group and the Youth Group, offering a total prize pool of US$ 43,000. The Grand Prize for the Open Group is set at US$12,000, while the Grand Prize for the Youth Group is US$7,700, with a total of 16 award opportunities available. Open to all who are passionate about wooden furniture design, regardless of nationality, profession, or residence, the competition invites participants to embark on a journey of creativity and innovation, exploring the boundless possibilities of wooden furniture design together.

Daxi, Taoyuan, boasts a rich woodcraft industry that dates back to the 19th century. With a legacy spanning over a century, Daxi’s comprehensive woodworking industry encompasses sawmilling, design creation, and bespoke woodcraft services. The Ecomuseum has been a vital partner in preserving and promoting Daxi’s woodworking heritage. Through dedicated research, exhibitions, educational outreach, and artisan training, the Ecomuseum plays a pivotal role in fostering the region’s woodcraft culture. In 2023, the Ecomuseum launched the inaugural Daxi International Wood Furniture Craft and Design Competition, drawing an impressive 519 entries from 14 countries and regions. The competition culminated in 16 exceptional winning designs, which were showcased through exhibitions and tours, strengthening cultural exchanges between Daxi, Taiwan, and the global woodworking community. Building on this success, the Ecomuseum aims to continue hosting this competition, creating an international platform for woodcraft creators to exchange ideas and expertise. By connecting local and global talent, the Ecomuseum seeks to preserve and innovate woodcraft traditions, establishing Daxi as a world-renowned hub for woodworking talent.

The theme for this year’s competition, “Storage,” reflects the evolving needs of contemporary living spaces and changing lifestyle dynamics. Beyond fulfilling the basic function of storing items, the competition encourages participants to integrate thoughtful innovations that address spatial dimensions, lifestyle aesthetics, and user convenience. Creators are invited to go beyond traditional frameworks, incorporating elements of expandability, adaptability, and multipurpose use. They are also encouraged to experiment with diverse materials, blending traditional woodworking techniques with modern design language and creative philosophies, bringing warmth and imagination to home living.

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Registration Deadline: Mar 7, 2025; Submission Deadline: Mar 7, 2025

As the need for sustainable alternatives to building anew becomes increasingly urgent, the AR New into Old awards celebrate architectural adaptations and remodelings that welcome new contemporary uses to older buildings. 

These awards speak of what we inherit and preserve, why we assemble and transform, and how the spaces we appropriate can be reimagined to suggest that the world could be different. 

 Launched in 2017, the awards recognise imaginative appropriations of structures, from innovative insertions to ambitious adaptations, that offer buildings a new lease of life.

Past winners include SO-IL and Freaks Architecture’s adaptation of a former glass factory into a cultural centre in France (2023) and ZAV Architects’ conversion of a 1930s house into a film studio in Iran (2021).

Entries for 2025’s awards close on Friday 7 March 2025.

Find out more here

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Design a new concept small-scale home and compete for €100,000 prize in the second Kingspan-Buildner MICROHOME competition We’re calling for innovative designs for an off-grid, modular microhome within 25m² that rethinks living spaces. The Buildner-Kingspan MICROHOME 2024/25 invites participants to conceptualize an off-grid modular dwelling that would accommodate a hypothetical young professional couple. This scenario

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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: Mar 20, 2025; Submission Deadline: May 29, 2025

Students Reinventing Cities is C40 Cities‘ global competition seeking innovative, tangible designs that help build a green and just urban future. The fourth Students Reinventing Cities competition launched in October 2024 and will run until July 2025. 

The competition creates a space to:

• drive collaboration between youth and city governments to accelerate low-carbon urban redevelopment.

• support the development of globally replicable and innovative urban design solutions.

• strengthen knowledge and understanding of leading climate policies, solutions and technologies. 

HOW IT WORKS

• Participating world-leading citiesselect urban areas urgently seeking redevelopment. These sites are open to students and young people across the world to redevelop, presenting creative and innovative solutions that address city climate targets, resident priorities and local challenges.

• Interested participants select a site/city to develop a proposal for. Participants then form teams and develop a comprehensive action plan for the site.

• Projects should seek to transform urban areas into green and thriving neighbourhoods, integrating the “15-Minute City” model & proximity approach for low-carbon urbanisation.

PARTICIPATION ELIGIBILITY 

• Current university students of any age, any degree level, and any discipline can participate, provided they are enrolled in the 2024-2025 (or 2025) academic year.

• Any young person who is not a current student can also participate, provided they are aged 18-28.

• Teams must comprise at least one current university student. “University(ies)” refers to research institutions, schools, colleges and the entire academic community in higher education, above the high school level.

• Teams must be composed of at least two people. There is no limit to the maximum number of people that can be in a team.

• The competition encourages participants to develop mixed-discipline teams, drawing on knowledge from a wide range of studies. Teams may include participants from multiple departments such as architecture, urbanism, environment, engineering, real estate development, sociology, economy, and the arts, among other fields.

•  Any eligible participant is welcome to apply, regardless of their city of residence. Participants do not need to be from or reside in, the city they have chosen for the competition.

TIMELINE

• 29 October 2024 | Competition launch

• 20 March 2025* | Deadline to register your team*

• 29 May 2025*| Deadline to submit your project* 

• June 2025 | Juries comprised of C40 and city experts will assess all projects

• July 2025 | Announcement of winning projects & city-specific prizes

*Timeline may vary for certain cities. Please refer to each city’s site page to verify the timeline. 

PARTICIPATING CITIES & SITES TO CHOOSE FROM 

• The fourth Students Reinventing Cities competition has launched in 11 cities worldwide –  Amman, Barcelona, Freetown, Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Lisbon, Milan-Segrate, Quito, Rome and Tshwane. Please consult the Sites in Competitionfor information about the selected sites and development expectations. 
• For each city in competition, a Site Form is provided. The city prepares this document to present the site and detail the objectives of the project. The Site Form may provide further information regarding submission requirements such as language requirements as well as potential additional awards given by the city.
•  An online folder (“Dataroom”) will also be available containing more relevant documentation [maps, images, regulations] related to the site. 

SCORING CRITERIA
For each site, all submitted projects will be judged based on the following criteria:

• Quality of the team and their approach to developing the project.
• Quality of design and relevance of the project 
• Proposed solutions aligned with the Green & Thriving Neighbourhoods Guidance
• Feasibility of the project.

For each site, the final projects are evaluated (anonymously) by a jury composed of representatives from the city, C40 and external experts. The composition of the juries will be made public. 

One winner will be chosen per city/site; some projects may be awarded a special mention. Please refer to the Competition Regulations for a more detailed breakdown of the scoring criteria.

WINNING PRIZES 

For each city/site, the winning team will receive:

• An official Certificate signed by the Mayor of the city and the Executive Director of C40.
• Coverage in local and global communication campaigns (social media, press releases, Reinventing Cities website).
• Additional awards may be given at each city’s discretion. Further information regarding additional awards can be found within the city-specific Site Form.

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