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" The Urbanarium’s Missing Middle Competition "
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In 2017, the Urbanarium, a Vancouver based non-profit, held an open design competition to develop and present options for addressing Metro Vancouver’s affordability and social health challenges, with outstanding design and social innovation. [...] more
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When the construction site turns into a forbidden party
by Marc-Antoine Fournier, published 2022-01-19
A New Dive for Architectural Quality in Laval (Quebec)
by Anna Torres, published 2017-06-07
Life in High REZ
by Anne Cormier, published 2013-07-05
Pedestrian and Shared Streets: Safety and Walkability
by Tchango Cyrille Ngamaleu, published 2025-05-22
Waterfront Public Space as “A Great Good Place”
by Shantanu Biwas Linkon, published 2024-07-11
What Future for Built Heritage?
by Nicholas Roquet, published 2013-04-05
Healing Through Interaction?
by Noémie Robitaille & Newt De Nijs, published 2017-04-03
National Housing Design Competition (part 1-2): a Monster Competition by the CMHC and the Canadian Housing Design Council, 1979
by Georges Adamczyk, published 2014-09-03
Cape Diamond
by Adrienne Costa, published 2017-02-13
Private competitions: Anamorphosis of profitability
by Jacques Lachapelle , published 2007-01-01
Ideas, vinyl and Pan American Games in Toronto
by Georges Adamczyk, published 2013-01-25
A Literature House for Québec, architecture and/or stage design?
by Louis Destombes, published 2013-03-08
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Invisible Accessibility Competition: Together, Let's All Go to the Sports Center!
Canada
Registration deadline:
July 1, 2025
Submission deadline:
August 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
This ideas competition is an initiative of the Faculté de l'aménagement of the Université de Montréal, designed to stimulate ideation and mobilize the creativity of young designers on the important theme of universal design. The competition is anonymous, multidisciplinary and internationally open to all university students, as well as all those who graduated less than a year ago, particularly in the fields of design, architecture and landscape architecture. This competition is not a project competition: it is an ideas competition. Projects submitted should not propose simple technical adjustments to a building, but rather transformative ideas that offer inclusive and equitable experiences for all users.
To the Loo!
Submission deadline:
March 27, 2025
The Toronto Public Space Committee is launching a global ideas competition to imagine the future of public washrooms in Toronto. We invite you to propose design ideas for inclusive and innovative public washrooms to help advocate and spread awareness for the urgent need of a robust public washroom network in our city.
Filling the Gap: Designing for new approaches to diversion, healing and rehabilitation
Canada
Registration deadline:
June 30, 2025
Submission deadline:
June 30, 2025
The Canadian Academy of Architecture for Justice (CAAJ) invites architecture students to speculate on issues ranging from the influx of highly addictive drugs to the suppression of Indigenous culture to an ever-increasing need for mental health care facilities in a design competition for a new community-oriented building that helps to fill a gap. This involves the selection of a site in a community of the competitor's choice, identification of the specific crisis (or crises) being addressed, and the development of an architectural or urban design solution. Design submissions will be evaluated by a jury of justice experts, architects and industry professionals. Participants are highly encouraged to explore a wide spectrum of architectural responses from functional and practical at one end to philosophical and social at the other, including ways in which the building integrates into the community, and acts as a catalyst for building positive relationships with the community it serves.
2025 CCA Interuniversity Charrette
Canada
Registration deadline: March 11, 2025
Submission deadline: March 17, 2025
This annual contest for architecture and design students is organized by the CCA in partnership with the Université du Québec à Montréal, the Université de Montréal, and McGill University. Participating teams will have four days to develop a proposal in response to this edition's theme, which will be revealed during the launch on 13 March. The contest is open to all students currently registered in Canadian universities as well as to recent graduates.
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