“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than
percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”

-Alfred North Whitehead

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These coming competitions will be published when our new website is published. Stay tuned!

Fitness for Nature

Registration Deadline October 30th. 2022

(Registration is free of charge)

While active lifestyles have increasingly been the focus of many people to stay fit physically, deep healing can still not be reached. As cities keep growing and daily realities quickly shift, people turn to new ways to maintain their well-being. For centuries, designers had missed a vital link to sustainability and well-being, which is the human beings’ inherent love for nature. We want to work with you to bring that missing link between architecture, humans, and nature in the design form of a fitness center merged with nature. Creative integration of the indoor and the outdoor is key for sustained everlasting body-mind fitness.

Our Fall Competions
My Little Dream Home

Registration: 28th Sep. 2022 I Submission: 28th Nov. 2022

Free for students

Design is a form of pure self-expression when done correctly, and has a way of transforming our environment into something inspiring. Imagine a scenario where you are given the opportunity of designing a small house to be yours for 10 years. In this design challenge, you are having the freedom of imaging and generating genuine ideas for your home on a specific lot. This home fits perfectly your needs, beliefs, hobbies, and lifestyle, all with an ambiance that keeps you motivated. We sincerely look forward to seeing your creation of a new small architecture that reflects you and maybe your generation! Express yourself and your world in the formation of a new architecture that will be part of your life.

Tiny House Community

The results are published on our Awards page!

Also, the winners announcement is published on our social media, our ‘Articles’ page, and on Competitions Archi social media!

https://www.facebook.com/archicompetitions/photos/pcb.5028800880501977/5028800773835321
Free for Students
We would like to find better ideas and mechanisms to take sustainable living steps further through designing ultra-small living houses, minimalist lifestyle, self -sustained off grid communities. These communities ( villages) are to be seeds like, injected into our urban design for a better future.

We sincerely look forward to your participation in this mind-set changing
 design, so we can pass on with you a better city to future generations.

Student Work Opportunity: We are looking for an architectural student who is active on social media and has the ability to connect and communicate with our social media followers to make daily/weekly posts for our architectural community. The right candidate is expected to have many followers and can come up with ideas to create an active social media to build this community. The compensation depends on performance and people’s engagement. Email info@arcace.ca

Nature Inspired Youth Centre

(For Students Only)
The winners will be announced soon

We want to work with you to explore and think about shifting our ways of designing toward a future in which humans are a part, a giving not distracting part, of nature. We sincerely look forward to your participation in this mind-set changing design, so we can pass on with you a better place for youth to grow and connect. This body soul youth healing centre lies on the periphery of the beautiful hilly City of Coquitlam, BC, Canada.

Nature Inspired Youth Centre (For Non Students )

We want to work with you to explore and think about shifting our ways of designing toward a future in which humans are a part, a giving not distracting part, of nature. We sincerely look forward to your participation in this mind-set changing design, so we can pass on with you a better place for youth to grow and connect. This body soul youth healing centre lies on the periphery of the beautiful hilly City of Coquitlam, BC, Canada.


2030 Academic Library

The results are published on our Awards page!

Also, the winners announcement is published on our social media, our ‘Article’s page, and will be published on Competitions Archi social media!


The Academic Library is traditionally a place for students to study; do research work; and, ultimately to learn. However, the digital surge had a big impact on the library’s purpose and use, which demands a new approach for future design. The young generation designers (you) will be speaking for their generations and expressing innovative ideas of the future academic library. Moving the concept from a university library to a university center.


Cafe Bookstore Interiors

Registration Deadline April 30th, 2022
Registration is free for students

Many standards of normalcy have changed considerably over the last few years, especially the way we interact with academic reading/study spaces. While academic study spaces were always there, technology; web libraries, and pandemics had a significant impact. Students are less motivated to be present in these spaces. This design challenge is seeking your thoughtful design solutions to foster vibrant, fun, and engaging interior spaces for a cafe bookstore. The site is your choice, but it should be specific to the grounds of a university/or college, in your town.

Vancouver Community

(The Invisible Hub)
Submission deadline:June 30th, 2022 (Midnight-PST)

Incorporate biophilia* in the most innovative and exciting ways to design a place that connects the built environment with the natural environment, while connecting people together. It is a community hub inspired by and merged with nature.

This people/nature hub will be designed in a fast-changing neighborhood in Vancouver, BC!

Help with your ideas to renew the social and environmental ecologies of this part of the city and its people.

Bowen Island Community

Registration: 1st June 2021, Submission: 10th July 2021 (extended for 16 days)

Bowen Island is like a virgin island with single-family houses (small buildings) spread within the green forest. Nature’s healing power is in abundance on this island. The expectation is to stay the same with more common community activities. Bowen Island people are looking forward to having a hive of gathering and recreation activities for their intimate community.

bowen island competition

Call for Inspiring Graduations’ Projects

Did you design a project to solve our climate change or make your built environment more sustainable?
Tell us about it!
Your project can be chosen to be featured in our magazine and on social media, with your bio.
Every month we will feather three inspiring architectural projects meant to make humans and nature thrive together.
Submit your project with a descriptive paragraph (100-words max.) explaining the purpose and the key for sustainable design, along with a short Bio
( 20-words max.).
Email your project to: info@acrace.ca

MicroRoom Design Competition

Registration July 1st, Submission Sep.1st 2021

MicroRoom is a room/furniture design competition with the aim of developing innovative and interactive multi-functional compact furniture for a micro portable house. This house is a future project for a couple of professionals looking for environmentally responsible housing that aims to reduce the area and the energy they consume.

Quarantine Pod

Registration July 1st, Submission July 30th

The implementation of quarantine implies the use or creation of appropriate facilities in which a person or persons are physically separated from the community while being cared for. e hotels, dormitories, or houses.(these recommendations are based on WHO)

Lakeside Winter Chalet

Registration July 1St, Submission July 30th

Whistler is one of the largest ski resorts in North America.

Bring your ideas to help a young family exhilarate snowy workout adventures and live a fun life while in Whistler. Help them in having an amazing winter adventure home in the heart of Canadian winter activities.

Smart Design: An Evolving Laneway House

Backyard (Laneway) Housing is a new phenomenon in tackling our housing crisis. This is an evolution for solving the lack of affordable housing and be more environmentally sustainable. Bring your skills to contribute to this design upgrade. You need to design 3 options of extensions to be added to this small house to evolve with the family’s needs.

Registration: 15th July 2021, Submission 25th August 2021 (extended)

Pandemic Studio Classroom
Registration: June 15th 2021 (extended), Submission: August 30th 2021

A radical change in attention for space design to help reduce the spread of viruses is now! There is an urgent need to redesign a university design studio after the Coronavirus outbreak. The space is seen to foster active learning methods through hands-on activities and projects for design students.

Competitions’ Guidelines:

-You can work in groups of a maximum of five people

-If you submit as a student, all of the team should be students and need to upload their student ID.

-The submissions should be PDF files (landscape is preferable).

-The student ID should be PDF files and the file size is not more than 5 MB.

-Provide a brief bio (when you register) for publication in case you win.

-Provide a brief description of your project.

-Don’t put your name on the submission sheets.

-Use your registration number as part of your file name.

Best of luck