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This open project competition was organised by the DAEGU Architectural Culture Confederation (DACC) and hosted by the city of Samcheok in Gangwon-do. 

 View the website of the city of Samcheok : https://www.samcheok.go.kr/portal/intro/intro.jsp

The competition aimed to promote and celebrate the history and culture of Dodo Island and General Yi Sa-bu, and thus sought a creative and specialised space through a modern display of historical facts.

This competition was approved by the International Union of Architects (UIA) and followed the UIA-UNESCO regulations and the UIA guide.

The President of the International Union of Architects (UIA), Thomas Vonier, has issued a statement on the occasion of World Architecture Day (WAD) 2017. There he confirms and explains the meaning behind the chosen theme, “Climate Change Action!”,  an issue around which all architects should rally without hesitation, since they have a fundamental role to play. With this declaration, Thomas Vonier launches a call to action, for the planet and for humanity.

The International Union of Architects (UIA) has concluded the second edition of the UIA Award for Innovation in Architectural Education, organised jointly by the UIA Architectural Education Commission and the UIA Sustainable Development Goals Commission.  This edition of the award focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The International VELUX Award (IVA) is a biennial ideas competition for students of architecture. It invites students from all over the world to create projects investigating the role of daylight in our everyday lives.

More than 6000 participants, of which 2500 architecture students, met in Beijing from 23 to 26 June 1999 to take part in the activities of the XX World Congress of […]

The UIA has launched the first International Innovative Health Design Awards, organised by the UIA Public Health Group and open to all architects around the world.

The Bering project is a large scale project by which railroad systems and ocean driveways of world-wide nations are to be connected right at the Bering Strait between North America and Eurasia Continents. Through this unprecedented projects, east and west hemisphere can be link with this connection which will recover the discontinuity of nation, human and culture. The promoter hopes that a long-pending hostility and conflict could be cleared up by the communication obtained as a result, and thus, mutual cooperation can be realized.

The Foundation for Peace and Unification (FPU) is announcing the International ideas competition for the Bering project approved by the International Union fo Architects (UIA) in order to let the world know about this intention and to stimulate their interest and participation in the competition.

This competition aims to invite participants into an open ideas architectural design contest of the gymnasium for local residents in Hyeonpung-myeon located in Dalseong-gun (District), Daegu Metropolitan City, which is expected to begin construction in 2015.

It is organized by the Daegu Architectural Culture Confederation (DACC) and hosted by Dalseong-gun Office of Daegu Metropolitan City.

The Daylight Award, established by the philanthropic foundations VILLUM FONDEN, VELUX FONDEN and VELUX STIFTUNG, honours daylight research and daylight in architecture, for the benefit of human health, well-being and the environment. The award places specific emphasis on the interrelation between theory and practice.