La Pyramide: The Futuristic soul of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. In the heart of Abidjan's administrative district, La Pyramide rises as a 62-meter monument to the era of the "Ivorian Miracle." Designed by architect Rinaldo Olivieri and engineer Riccardo Morandi between 1968 and 1973, a 15-story brutalist landmark meant to announce Côte d'Ivoire onto the global stage. Over time, however, humidity, aging infrastructure, and rising maintenance costs led to the building's gradual dec

Situated on the Danube, linking Vienna and Budapest by water. An industrial site in the wider city centre of Slovakia’s capital. Once a heavily used and noisy cargo port. Currently the largest urban redevelopment site in Bratislava. A place where the past meets the future—and where the city’s next chapter is being shaped today. Winter Harbour. A formerly inaccessible industrial zone is set to become a modern, accessible urban district in the coming years, following the exampl

Announcement of International Design Competition for Pohang Museum We aim to create a new cultural platform that preserves and promotes the comprehensive history of Pohang, bridging its deep roots into the future by systematically collecting, researching, and exhibiting its cultural heritage. Currently, Pohang lacks a museum to serve as a central hub for the systematic collection, research, and exhibition of the region's history, culture, and cultural heritage. This issue has

La Chambre and the European House of Architecture - Upper Rhine are launching the 8th edition of Archifoto - European architectural photography competition.Since 2010, Archifoto has brought together documentary and artistic views on current architectural issues. By favouring a free and subjective viewpoint, it rewards photographers whose vision helps us to understand the urban and natural landscape, the ways of living and living together, and the new ways of building the worl

The International Urban Project Award (IUPA) is presented by Bauwelt (Berlin, Germany) and World Architecture Magazine (WA, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), with the support of BAU China and Messe München. The award recognizes outstanding recent projects in architecture and urban design that have transformed cities worldwide. It focuses on the interface between architecture and urban space, examining how buildings, urban design, landscape architecture and architectural t

Inventing Sauna: Playing with Fire, Smoke and Water → Residency period: July 13 – September 5, 2026 → Opening event: August 29, 2026 → Support: stipend + travel support + production budget → Application deadline: April 19, 2026 VARES is looking for architects, builders, engineers, inventors, artists and cultural researchers to co-create a two-month interdisciplinary sauna school. Together we will explore, experiment and build – resulting in a floating sauna that will emerge o

The European Collective Housing Award shines a light on collective housing projects that genuinely change how people live – not just architecturally, but socially. We celebrate both the building and its impact: new constructions and renovations, public and private, from anywhere across the 46 countries of the Council of Europe. The open call is aimed at all actors involved in collective housing – architects as well as housing cooperatives, developers, construction companies,

Following the announcement of the first projects that will be part of the upcoming Concéntrico Festival in Logroño, taking place from June 18 to 23, 2026, we continue to expand the programme with new initiatives. In the framework of Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026, Concéntrico launches a new open call in collaboration with Cruïlla Festival in Barcelona, a project that connects music, contemporary creation and community within the urban space. The call proposes th

[premise]The acceleration of climate change has amplified the scientific urgency to study Earth’s polar regions. Traditional research stations are often permanent, carbon-intensive structures with significant logistical and environmental footprints. This competition challenges architects and designers to envision the next generation of scientific outposts. We seek a paradigm shift towards a mobile, modular, and sustainable architecture that can be deployed, reconfigured, and

As part of the CONTEMPORANEA programme, the House of Architecture of Rome promotes the Call for Proposal 2026, addressed to architects, planners, landscape architects and/or conservation specialists, and aimed at selecting a research project to be developed through the use of the space known as "Monitor P" at the Casa dell'Architettura of Rome for a three-month period, between April and June 2026. Source: https://casadellarchitettura.it/call-for-proposal/