Competitions
Find out what competitions you can apply for and widen your horizons.
Featured image by Maito Akiyama – Student Design Awards Presentation Wellington

ArchEngBuild Challenge 2023: Call for Nominations
ArchEngBuild Challenge 2023 : Call for Nominations The ArchEngBuild Challenge is an intensive 3-day competition for New Zealand tertiary students studying architecture, engineering or construction...

ArchEngBuild Challenge 2022
ArchEngBuild Challenge The ArchEngBuild Challenge is an intensive 3-day competition for New Zealand tertiary students studying architecture, engineering or construction management. The challenge The...

University + Rip Curl Creative Jam
Register with a team to compete against other university students in Australia and New Zealand in a week-long Creative Jam and win prizes!Use Adobe XD to design an experience and present your...

Simon Devitt Prize for Photography
Simon Devitt Prize for Photography Hey guys! With semester crits out of the way, why not take some photos and enter this year's Simon Devitt Prize for Photography? This year's fitting theme is...

Kaira Looro Design competition
Kaira Looro Design competition opens on 24th January.The theme of this contest is an Emergency Operations Center in Africa to solve humanitarian disasters. The initiative has two objectives: the...

Bright Nights 2020 Pavilion Design Competition
The Bright Nights 2020 Pavilion Design Competition is a chance for an emerging artist or group to be awarded $10,000 towards creating and exhibiting a feature installation at this year’s Bright...

Dezeen x Samsung design competition
Saturday, Sunday 19th,20th OctoberSamsung and Dezeen are calling for the best graphics and accessory designs to enhance future Galaxy mobile devices, in a new competition with prize money of...

NZIA 2019 Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing
The Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing is now open.The Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing is now open. Essay topic: Write about the work of an architect, of any place and time....

Brick Bay Folly competition 2019
The Brick Bay Sculpture Trust invites proposals for the 5th annual Brick Bay Folly competition. The competition winners will receive a grant to the value of $30,000 to allow them to develop an...

Competition: Textile Structures fro New Building 2019
In 2019, Techtextil – Leading international Trade Fair for Technical Textiles and Nonwovens – is organising the 15th 'Textile Structures for New Building' contest. As in the years before the...

Architex: SNUG competition
Architex are looking for three Auckland University students who might be interested in joining their office for a week (from July 23 to July 27) as they develop design submissions for the SNUG...

YAC 2018 Seduction Pavilion
There will be a total amount of 10.000 € in prize money for the awarded proposals + realization of the first prize project. The jury of the competition gathers outstanding international...

NZPrefab Snug design competition 2018
This year's theme for the NZ Prefab competition is the SNUG- A home in my backyard. The purpose of this SNUG Design Competition is to produce an amazing, well-designed, gorgeous, sustainable,...

Tamayouz International Awards 2018 – Graduation Projects Award
INTERNATIONAL GRADUATION PROJECTS AWARD We are delighted to invite students of Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Architecture Technology and Landscape Design worldwide to register and...

NZIA – 2018 Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing
Entries are invited into this year’s Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing. The annual writing competition, organised by the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) with the...

Best Design Awards 2018
Best Design Awards 2018 Student Categories —Today’s design students are tomorrow’s industry professionals. Now is your chance to have your project seen by industry leaders and the opportunity to...

Affordable Housing Design Challenge 2018
The building trust is very excited to announce the launch of the 8th Building Trust international design competition which is in association with the United Nations Development Programme and...

Designers Institute of New Zealand – Moonlight – Exhibition and Mentorship opportunity
Moonlight Exhibition at Allpress Gallery 02.07.18 - 13.07.18 Moonlight is an initiative to foster the New Zealand creative community by connecting emerging and established talent...

2018 Interior Awards
The Interior Awards are in their seventh year and celebrates excellence of commercial interior design and is the perfect platform to showcase your talent to the entire industry. There...

The Design Show Awards 2018
The Design Show’s inaugural Designer Awards showcases New Zealand’s emerging talent in architecture and design. The purpose of The Design Show Designer Awards is to provide an opportunity for...

The Design Show 2018
Competition Details: Entries open on Monday 22 January 2018, interested entrants should register an email prior to this date to be alerted to further details in early 2018. Entry...

ACA’s International Design Competition 2017
Greetings from Aditya College Of Architecture, Mumbai, India! It is our immense pleasure to announce the 5th edition of ACA’s International Design Competition 2017 and introduce this year’s...

ACE Design Competition
ACE presents 'ACE Design Challenge', Sunday 17th September from 9 till 6.

150 Years of Discovery: Emerging Research – Submissions Open
The Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Researcher (ECR) Forum invites New Zealand’s ECRs and postgraduate students to celebrate and share their research, innovations, discoveries and insights...

Wege Prize 2018 – Accepting Team Applications
The Wege Prize is an international student designs competition that gives teams of five the chance to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary and cultural boundaries, use design thinking...

Call for Submissions: Discursive Images
Deadline: September 1, 2017, 5pm EST What is the role of architectural representation while working towards a project? What kind of images, media, texts do architects concoct to think while...

2017 Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing
The New Zealand Institute of Architects invites entries into its annual essay writing competition. For more information, click here

Best Design Awards 2017 – Student Categories
Brought to you by The Designers Institute of New Zealand, The Best Design Awards is an annual showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product, interactive and motion design. The...

The Undergraduates Awards
The Undergraduate Awards 2017 Architecture & Design The Undergraduate Awards aims to recognise and celebrate top undergraduate coursework world wide. This year, a brand new category:...

2017 2017 RIBA Research Fund
The Royal Institute of British Architects is now welcoming: Applications for funding from the 2017 RIBA Research Fund Submissions for the 2017 RIBA President's Awards for Research 2017 RIBA...