Exploration of housing typologies reveals vast the potential of overlaying urban, contextual, cultural, social, and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies for the future. The d3 Housing Tomorrow Competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects.

The competition calls for transformative solutions that advance sustainable thought, building performance, and social interaction through study of intrinsic environmental geometries, social behaviors, urban implications, and programmatic flows. Special emphasis may be placed on housing concepts that investigate dialogues including engagement of internal/external socio-economic diversity, change/adaptability over time, public/private realm connectivity, and permanence/impermanence of materiality. d3 challenges participants to rethink strategies for investigating residential design from macro-to-micro scales ranging from urban—promoting broader physical interconnectivity; communal—exploiting an interaction of units with shared facilities; and internal—examining the interior particularity of the unit, individual, or family in housing design toward promoting identity, ownership, and intimacy.

International Competition: Ideas and Concepts on the proposed project of “Bruce Lee’s Residence” at No.41 Cumberland Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.

Purpose of Competition: To invite ideas for restoring the late Mr. Bruce Lee's former residence and optimising the use of space of the property and to engage the community in the restoration project, with a view to converting the residence to a tourism attraction.

Details on competition website: http://www.bruceleeresidence.com

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The French Ministry of Culture and Communication (Direction of Architecture and Heritage - DAPA) and the International Union of Architects announce a joint initiative aimed at enhancing and expanding their web index of 20th century architectural heritage: http://www.archi.fr/UIA/ .

This project focuses on an international student competition for digital representations of landmark 20th century buildings. The competition will be run entirely through the Internet.

An initial national competition will be carried out by the UIA Member Sections and the winners of the national selections will be submitted to the international jury.The panoramas and 3D models designed for this competition will be based on digital photographs and developed using the Autodesk software 'Autodesk® ImageModeler™' and 'Autodesk® Stitcher™'. This software will be made available to the participants free of charge for a period of three months.

The competition will be launched during the European celebration of Architectural Heritage Days, organised by the Minister of Culture and Communication on 19 & 20 September 2009.

Use your photographic skills to CAPTURE FUTURISTIC IMAGES of BUILDINGS OR STRUCTURES that feature concrete predominantly in their design, and you could win up to Twenty Thousand Rand.

View Competition Website: http://www.npcfocus.co.za/

On the occasion of Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday, June 8, the Guggenheim Museum and Google launched Design It: Shelter Competition, a global, online initiative that invites the public to use Google Earth and Google SketchUp to create and submit designs for virtual 3-D shelters for a location of their choice anywhere on Earth.

The competition takes its inspiration from Learning By Doing, an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum's Sackler Center for Arts Education, which features plans, photographs, and models of shelters built by students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

= William J. R. Curtis, prestigious critic of architecture, is to chair the jury

= The total prize fund for the Awards is 60,000 Euros for the three categories

= Martha Thorne (Pritzker Awards director), Carme Pinós, Francesc Rifé, Juan Domingo Santos, Ramón Vilalta and Ramón Monfort will be part of the jury.

The Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers' Association (ASCER) is launching the eighth edition of Tile of Spain Awards of Architecture and Interior Design competition. The Awards are made in recognition of projects that best reflect the development of Spanish ceramic tiles in cutting edge architecture.

The deadline for handing in the projects is 30th October 2009. The Awards count on with a high recognition and prestige among the professional field and each year they have a jury comprise the most renowned architects. This year the jury will be chaired by the prestigious architect William J. R. Curtis and the architects Martha Thorne (architect and executive director of the Pritzker Awards), Carme Pinós, Ramón Vilalta (RCR Arquitectes), Juan Domingo Santos and Ramón Monfort; and the interior designer Francesc Rifé.

"The aim of the competition is to promote online discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.