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As spring sets in with full force, now's the perfect time to look ahead towards the variety of architecture and design-centric events on show.From the roster of ongoing and upcoming events listed on Bustler, here is our curated selection of recommendations worth checking out.UPCOMING EVENTSRead the full post on Bustler

The 2025 class of Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Honorary Fellows has been announced by Canada’s oldest and most visible professional architectural association. The five architects to receive the honor, which denotes their elevation to the RAIC College, all are Honorary Members of the RAIC and will remain on as Fellows for life in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the professional community both domestically and abroad. This year’s list of Honorary Fellows includes former American Institut

Buildner, in collaboration with the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and Dubai Government, has officially launched the Dubai Urban Elements Challenge, an international architecture and urban design competition featuring an impressive total prize fund of €500,000. The competition invites architects, designers, urban planners, and visionaries from around the world to propose innovative, human-scale urban elements that will help define Dubai’s evolving identity.The challenge focuses on impactful small-scale architectural interventions—such as 

This summer in London, the Design Museum will begin hosting More than Human, an exhibition featuring designs considerate of a multispecies environment from more than 50 participants whose work challenges the core tenants, presumptions, and pedagogies of contemporary Western design practice. This represents the first major exhibition to be curated jointly with the museum’s Future Observatory research operation. The dates for the exhibition are July 11th to October 6th, 2025. Rebecca Lewin, the Senior Curator of the Design Museum says, “We want people to leave the exhibition feeling inspired and informed but a

Seven new ‘Best in Class’ winners of the 35th Brick in Architecture Awards were selected recently by the Brick Industry Association (BIA). Each was chosen out of a group of 39 Gold, Silver, and Bronze, joined again by the team that won the overall Craftsmanship Award, which this year was given to a multifamily design in New York City by SLCE Architects and INC Architecture & Design.

Buildner, in collaboration with the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and Dubai Government, has officially launched the Dubai Urban Elements Challenge, an international architecture and urban design competition featuring an impressive total prize fund of €500,000. The competition invites architects, designers, urban planners, and visionaries from around the world to propose innovative, human-scale urban elements that will help define Dubai’s evolving identity.The challenge focuses on impactful small-scale architectural interventions—such as 

The world is not enough for Foster + Partners, whose designs for a speculative lunar habitation were unveiled as part of the special EARTH to SPACE Festival taking place at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from March 30th through April 13th, 2025. The British firm's contribution, titled From Earth to Space and Back, speculates a four-person habitation built using lunar regolith soil and erected underneath the surface of the moon to protect against gamma radiation and meteorites. The base will comprise an inflatable dome structure that is then cov

It may not be your first instinct when entering a building to consider how it makes you feel, but architecture has always had a big impact on emotions. Different spaces are designed to make its inhabitants feel different things; offices can make you feel energised and productive, art galleries can make you feel thoughtful and curious, and museums can make you feel calm and intrigued. Each of these spaces are completely different from each other and are far more than just a building. As part of a series of annual architecture competitions, the Museum of Emotions competition is tasking participants with using architecture as a tool to bring out different emotions. They are being asked to design a museum that includes two separate halls that bring out contras

The competition to redevelop Toronto’s 70-acre former Downsview Airport Lands (known as YZD) has named CCxA, Field Operations, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Sasaki, and

If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Featured below are four briefs seeking those who have made significant efforts to preserve and reuse modern buildings in the United States, design proposals for the revitalization of the Daejeon Regional Government Complex in South Korea, the best pre-construction residential projects, and exceptional student-edited design journals.For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.