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The city Government of the Rio de Janeiro in collaboration with the Brazilian Institute of Architects-Rio de Janeiro announce an open, anonymous international competition in a single phase for the general urban plan of the Rio 2016 Olympic Park.

This competition is organized to select the best master plan for the Rio 2016 Olympic Park to relocated at Barra da Tijuca.

The Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be a sports celebration, which shall serve as a turning point for transformation, assuring a sustainable legacy to the city bringing about the development of solutions to improve the urban environment and quality of life of it’s citizens.

An unprecedented International Architectural project Competition, under the auspices of UIA, commissions 16 iconic buildings for the Mount Lu Estate of World Architecture (MOLEWA), which will combine a unique permanent exhibition and celebration of world architecture with a world-class tourist destination.

This innovative project has been established by Huayan Group to explore how China’s ‘new urbanisation’ can be achieved.

The Agency of Partnership for Progress (APP), with its implementing partner, the Agency for the Development and Rehabilitation of the city of Fez (ADER-Fès), is issuing this competition for the design of a site in the Medina of Fez, Morocco, known as Place Lalla Yeddouna.

The competition is being conducted in the context of an international development program funded by the United States of America, acting through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), in accordance with the Millennium Challenge Compact (the “Compact”) signed on August 31, 2007, between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Morocco.

The UIA is pleased to announce that 16 projects from 9 countries on 4 continents were submitted to the inaugural edition of the UIA Innovation in Architectural Education Award, organised by the UIA Education Commission and launched in November 2019.

This competition was organised to erect a monument in honour of Prince Henry the Navigator (Henrique o Navegador or Infante Dom Henrique); he was the son of King John I of Portugal and lived in the 15th century.

This competition was approved by the International Union of Architects (UIA).

This competition was organised by the government of New South Wales to find a design for the construction of a National Opera House in Sydney, Australia.

This competition was approved by the Australian Institute of Architects and the International Union of Architects.

This competition was organised for the construction of a basilica in Syracuse by the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Tears.

The competition programme was approved by the International Union of Architects (UIA).

This international competition was organised to design a memorial on the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. 

The competition was organised over two stages by the International Auschwitz Committee with the technical assistance of the International Union of Architects (UIA). 

In 1956, the decision to hold an international competition for a new city hall over two stages was made by Dr. Eric Ross Arthur, a Canadian architect.

This competition was approved by the International Union of Architects (UIA).