The town of Higashikawa is a major producer of Asahikawa furniture. We are calling for designs that embody KAGU, a new, mindful way of life for the young people who will shoulder the responsibilities of the future.

概要
北海道旭川家具の主要産地である北海道東川町は、次の時代を担う若者に対して、新しい丁寧な暮らしの提案につながる「KAGU」のデザインを求めます。KAGUとは、人間と世界の間をつなぐものの総称で、従来の家具という概念を拡張したものです。私たちは、身近な毎日の暮らしの中で様々なモノを使いますが、そのモノが作られ使われてきた背景はなかなか見えづらいものです。ともすればモノを乱暴に扱い、粗末にし、手間を省いて結果を急ぎ、時間を掛けずに深く考えないような暮らしが、大きなひずみを作ることに気づきました。
これから始まるKAGUデザインコンペを機会に、たくさんの可能性を秘めた君たちのアイディアが、形となり長く使われるように、そして丁寧な暮らしが少しずつ実現してゆきますように。

審査員
隈 研吾 (建築家、東京大学特別教授・名誉教授)
太刀川英輔 (NOSIGNER代表、JIDA 理事（前理事長2021-2025）、WDO 理事、慶應義塾大学特任教授)
原田真宏 (建築家、芝浦工業大学准教授)
藤原徹平 (建築家、横浜国立大学准教授)
日比野克彦 (アーティスト、東京芸術大学教授)
野老朝雄 (美術家)
織田憲嗣 (椅子研究家、東川町デザインアドバイザー)
中村拓志 (建築家、NAP建築設計事務所)、
東川木工会

賞
最優秀賞（隈研吾＆東川町賞）1点 50万円／製品化
準最優秀賞（SOLIZE賞）1点 20万円
優秀賞 2点 10万円
佳作 7点
【特別賞】東川木工会賞 1点 製品化

登録料などの費用
なし

タイムテーブル
最終審査会・表彰式：2027年3月21日

主催
｢隈研吾&東川町｣KAGUデザインコンペ実行委員会
東川町、東川町商工会、一般社団法人ひがしかわ観光協会、東川町農業協同組合、東川町建設業協会、東川町森林組合、株式会社東川振興公社、旭川家具工業協同組合、東川町議会、東川町教育委員会、東川木工会

公式ウェブサイト
Official Website

Result

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Overview

This Award honors and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture.

Description
Presented by the Daylight Academy (DLA), The Daylight Award honours and supports research in the scientific understanding of daylight and its significance for health, wellbeing and a balanced ecosystem, as well as its experiential and mental value in architectural design. The intention is to underline the collaboration of disciplines that are usually considered as separate professional realms of expertise.
The Daylight Award strives to raise an integrated understanding of daylight in human life and the wider ecosystem, and to strengthen its positive impact.
DAYLIGHT RESEARCH:
The Daylight Award in Research is awarded to individuals or smaller groups of researchers or scientists, who have accomplished internationally recognized outstanding and forward-looking contributions in any relevant field of daylight research. The Award acknowledges highly original and influential advances in the areas of natural, human and social sciences. A special emphasis is on the impact of daylight on human health, nature and innovation in its technological use for any solution leading to a more healthy and sustainable society.
DAYLIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE:
The Daylight Award in Architecture is awarded to a single architect or a group of practitioners, who have created distinguished architecture, urban environments or other environmental designs that showcase an outstanding, ground breaking and experientially meaningful use of daylight. The Award also includes scholarly and artistic studies in daylight. Special emphasis is placed on projects that consider the overall quality of life, the impact of daylight on human health, performance, mental and physical wellbeing, as well as on its value for culture and society.

Jury
See "Juries""Juries"

Prize
Each category laureate, whether an individual or a team, receives a prize of €100,000.

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
The location of the 2026 ceremony will be decided in the beginning of 2026.

Links
Past winners

Organizer
The VELUX FOUNDATIONS

Official Website

This design challenge invites designers, architects, engineers and creative thinkers to propose small-scale projects that deliver meaningful impact.

Description
This design challenge invites designers, architects, engineers and creative thinkers to propose small-scale projects that deliver meaningful impact. The focus is on ideas that serve a charitable purpose, support humanitarian goals, or contribute to wildlife conservation.
We are seeking thoughtful, practical, and buildable proposals that address real-world needs--particularly for individuals, communities, or ecosystems that are often overlooked or underserved.
​OBJECTIVES
Deliver high-impact
Support underserved or vulnerable communities
Address humanitarian challenges or wildlife conservation needs
Promote sustainability, adaptability, and resilience
Encourage innovative yet practical design solutions
Participants are asked to design a project that can be delivered for $50,000 or less, demonstrating how limited resources can be used creatively to produce lasting, positive change.

Jury
Not yet announced

Prize
At least one winning proposal will receive full funding (up to $50,000) to bring their project to life. Selected teams may also have the opportunity to collaborate through delivery and implementation stages.

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Jury Evaluation - 1st July - 31st July 2026
Announcement of Winners to be posted on www.buildingtrustinternational.org - 1st August 2026

Organizer
Building Trust International

Official Website

This competition invites participants to design new living environments across three realms where physical and environmental conditions redefine the very act of building: flood-prone lands, marine/submarine environments, and outer space.

Description
This competition invites participants to design new living environments across three realms where physical and environmental conditions redefine the very act of building: flood-prone lands, marine/submarine environments, and outer space.
In these unstable or hostile contexts, the ground can no longer be taken for granted, the atmosphere is no longer assured, resources are limited, and natural cycles impose their own temporalities. The challenge is not to dominate the environment, but to design in harmony with it.
•On flood-prone lands, rising sea levels turn water into a core design parameter: adaptability, reversibility, scalability, and integrated risk management become central to the project.
• In marine and submarine environments, swell, currents, pressure, and buoyancy (Archimedes' principle) call for a systemic approach combining architecture, engineering, and ecology as the driving force of design.
•In space, vacuum, radiation, and microgravity transform architecture into a life-support system: autonomy, closed-loop cycles, modularity, and maintainability structure the proposal.
Projects are encouraged to develop bold, resilient, and tangible responses.
The objective is to place humanity and living systems at the heart of safe and desirable frameworks, capable of turning constraints into resources and inventing new ways of inhabiting the Earth, the sea, and beyond--by bringing together art, science, and technology in close connection with nature.

Jury
Not yet announced

Prize
In 2026, the Fondation Jacques Rougerie - Académie des beaux-arts will reward candidates presenting an architectural project related to flood-prone lands, the sea, or space, by awarding prizes totaling €42,000.
• Grand Prize - Flood-Prone Lands - Prospective: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)
• Grand Prize - Flood-Prone Lands - LAB: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)
• Grand Prize - Sea - Prospective: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)
• Grand Prize - Sea  - LAB: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)
• Grand Prize - Space - Prospective: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)
• Grand Prize - Space - LAB: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Jury deliberation: October 2026
Individual notification to award winners: Late October 2026
Awards Ceremony: Late November 2026

Links
Past winners

Organizer
The Jacques Rougerie Foundation

Official Website

This award seeks to recognize the year’s best built and unbuilt projects as well as honor leading and emerging voices in the field.

Categories
- Building of the Year
Awarded to a single building, completed within the eighteen months prior to the competition deadline, that exemplifies excellence in architectural design. Firms cannot directly apply to this award--the project will be selected, by the editors, from the winners of the "Best of Architecture" categories, listed below.
- Best of Architecture Award
Awarded to a single building, completed within the eighteen months prior to the competition deadline, in each of the following categories. At the discretion of the jury, runners-up or no winners may be selected for certain categories.
Adaptive Reuse (any building type)*
Civic & Government
Colleges & Universities
Details & Facades
Health Care
Hospitality
Housing
Museums
Office & Workplace
Parks & Recreation
Performance Spaces
Pre-K-12
Restoration (any building type)*
Sports
Tall Buildings
Transportation & Infrastructure
Unbuilt (Student/Recent Graduate)
Unbuilt (Firm/Practice)**
- Architect of RECORD
Recognizing a lifetime of achievement in the profession and exceptional work published in the pages of the magazine.
- Innovator of the Year
For outstanding contributions to the built environment that push disciplinary boundaries. Architects, engineers, building scientists, and related professionals are all eligible for the prize.
- Rising Professional Award
Awarded to a leading architect or designer, under 50 years of age, who is shaking up the profession.

Jury
A jury of practicing architects, from a range of firm sizes and expertise, and Architectural Record editors will select winners of the Best of Architecture Awards.

Prize
Publication

Entry Fee
Entry fees range from $200 - $300 depending on firm size.
- Early Bird Discount (ends May 15)
Firms under 80 people: $150
Firms over 80 people: $250
- Regular
Firms under 80 people: $200
Firms over 80 people: $300
- Students/Recent Graduates
$25

Timetable
Applicants will be notified of decisions by the end of September.

Links
Past winners

Organizer
Architectural Record

Official Website

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Overview

The Prize would boost the quality of architecture looking at final result, analysing and focusing on project and constructive plan process and giving a special attention to people who determine the success of the work: the architect and the client, supported by the project executors (the building firms) and the public administrations.

Description
The Dedalo Minosse International Prize for commissioning a building, presented in Vicenza (Italy), the city of Andrea Palladio, is promoted by Associazione ALA Assoarchitetti & Ingegneri (ALA) to support high quality architecture.
The Prize comes from the idea that the framework for creating good architectural works is not only determined by the quality of the project (developed by a freelance architect or building engineer), but also by the positive and stimulating role played by the Client.
Starting with the ninth edition, the Dedalo Minosse Prize has included the "Andrea Palladio International Prize", promoted by Caoduro Lucernari from 1987 to 1993.

Jury
Not yet announced

Prize
- the "Dedalo Minosse International Prize";
- the "Dedalo Minosse International Prize OCCAM - Under 40", to a Client who commissioned a young Designer;
- the "ALA - Fondazione Inarcassa" prize, to a Client who commissioned an Italian Designer;
- Premio ALA Under 40, to a Client who commissioned a young Italian Designer;
The "Andrea Palladio International Prize" is assigned, on the recommendation of the Organizing Committee, to a Client
who has stood out for the enlightened work done in the last 20 years.

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Awards ceremony: 9th October 2025 at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza

Links
Past winners

Organizer
ALA Assoarchitetti & Ingegneri with Regione del Veneto and the Municipality of Vicenza

Official Website

Result

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Overview

The Awards were established in 1985 to celebrate, identify and promote good habitat practices.

Description
Every year between January and March the World Habitat Awards receive applications from all corners of the world. Soon after the call closes we start a rigorous evaluation process involving an independent advisory group of housing experts.
Between eight and 12 projects that demonstrate exceptional work in providing or promoting access to adequate housing are shortlisted as finalists each year.
Up to four projects are then visited by a small evaluation team before recommendations are presented to a panel of external judges, including the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT).
In the final stage two projects become Gold winners and the remaining either Silver or Bronze winners.

Jury
Not yet announced

Prize
The two GOLD Award-winning projects receive:
a trophy in recognition of their work to develop and deliver good practice in housing;
prize money of £10,000;
follow-up support from World Habitat through our exChange programme; and entry to the World Habitat Awards Network, along with the Silver and Bronze winners.

Entry Fee
None

Links
Past winners

Organizer
BSHF/World Habitat in partnership with UN-Habitat

Official Website