Submissions are open and there is now one point of entry for all RIBA Awards.

Students and architecture schools from all over Europe are invited to develop a concept for the neglected 'Schützenmatt' area on the edge of the historic city centre of Bern.

The competition's intention is to gather ideas for technologys that enforce energy savings for restaurants. The aim is to create an exchange stock for such ideas and, at the same time, to have a listing of all design offices serving as a business directory.

The Serbian Ministry of Science and Technological Development launches a competition for the design of a Centre for the Promotion of Science in one of the districts of New Belgrade. Deadline for reception of entries by organisers is the 1st of December 2010.

From August 19 to October 15, 2010 there can be hand in suggestions for an international, open architecture competition in Fez Medina, Morocco. The key objective for the square and its surroundings is to carefully restore the valuable existing buildings and to adapt modern distinctive architecture into an area that is full of tradition, vibrancy and functionally diverse.

Two competitions have been combined for Light+Building 2010. Even younger entrants will have their chance.

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been awarded the first prize in the competition to build the Taipei Performing Arts Centre. An international jury chose the design from over 135 entries from 24 countries.

The Antwerp Port Authority have announced Zaha Hadid Architects will build their new headquarters: Port House.

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Outstanding architecture not only meets high aesthetic criteria, but also fulfils its function – right down to the last detail. See the winning projects!

At a press conference in Copenhagen last week, it was announced that Steven Holl Architects is the winner of the international design competition, “The LM Project.” The winning proposal connects office towers and civic spaces with a public walkway 65 meters above the harbour and is intended to form an iconic landmark for Copenhagen’s waterfront.

The Colegio de Arquitectos of Ecuador invites to every architectural design professionals of the world to participate in the worldwide Competition of Social Habitat and Development in the present edition of XVI Quito Pan-American Architecture Biennale to be held from 17 to 21 of November 2008.

A dangerous disease is affecting the developing countries’ lifeline to a healthy development: unchecked and substandard schooling facilities creating an increasingly disparate future and unemployable youth. The erosion of this precious commodity has been detrimental to the many economies that continue to experience a decline in living standards.