The September 24 deadline creates a timely opportunity to surface new preservation proposals for cemeteries, temples and sacred landscapes across Argentina, including architectural interventions, interpretation, wayfinding, cataloguing and research.
Location
Argentina; nationwide eligibility for qualifying residents
Organizations
Fondo Nacional de las Artes — Competition organizer and funder
The recently opened Argentine museum unites six monumental Lola Mora sculptures in a purpose-designed home and represents César Pelli's final building. Its net-zero strategy, local materials, wind tower, bridge, and Yungas forest setting justify a substantial architecture feature.
Location
Víctor Hugo 51, Alto La Viña, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina
Organizations
Gobierno de la Provincia de Jujuy — Client and public project owner; Pelli Clarke & Partners — Design architect; Arturo Beccar Varela y Asociados — Architect of record; Balmori Associates — Landscape design; Cappiello + Partners — Lighting design; Alberto H. Fainstein — Structural engineering; EGF – Estudio Grinberg — Mechanical engineering
The project combines sound technology, adaptive cultural use and rare access to a major 1890 industrial structure closed to the public for 13 years. Free tickets and the short five-day run create an immediate attendance and commissioning opportunity.
Location
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall, London E1W 3SF, United Kingdom
Organizations
London Design Festival — Commissioning festival; L-Acoustics — Presenter and spatial-audio technology partner; Glass Castle Foundation — Venue custodian and host; Max Cooper — Commissioned multidisciplinary artist; Chris Watson — Sound artist and nature recordist
The recently opened center is a major Argentine cultural project and one of César Pelli’s final works. It brings six monumental sculptures by Lola Mora into a purpose-built, climate-conscious setting while using local stone, timber and metalwork to connect a globally prominent architect with Jujuy’s landscape and production economy.
Location
Víctor Hugo 51, Alto La Viña, San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina
Organizations
Government of Jujuy — Client, funder and operator; Pelli Clarke & Partners — Architect; project initiated under César Pelli; Samsung Argentina — Technology collaborator for building and visitor systems
The completed stadium is one of the largest current US sports projects and offers a technically relevant cold-climate design story, including a steep seating bowl, partial canopy, wind mitigation, and extensive snow-management systems.
Location
Orchard Park, Erie County, New York, United States
Organizations
Buffalo Bills — Owner and operator; Populous — Architect; New York State — Public funding and development partner; Erie County — Public funding and development partner
The first new Futuro produced for Finland in roughly six decades raises unusually rich questions about authorized architectural reproduction, prefabrication, plastics, conservation and how modern icons can re-enter production.
Location
Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden, Helsinki, Finland
Organizations
Jan van Dijs — Architectural heritage specialist and project lead; JR van Dijs — Historical rehabilitation practice associated with the project lead; Matti Suuronen — Original Futuro House architect; Helsinki Design Week — Exhibition partner and venue programmer; Marimekko — Interior installation collaborator; Vibeke Rohland — Print designer for the Marimekko interior
An immediate South Florida development opportunity with a September 3 submission deadline. The city-owned site and combined design, finance, development and management brief could produce a consequential model for mixed-income workforce housing in an expensive, transit-accessible municipality.
Location
5890 SW 69th Street, South Miami, Florida
Organizations
City of South Miami — Property owner, project sponsor and procurement authority
A thoughtful second-phase intervention in an award-winning coastal house, showing how an architect can revisit its own recent work to improve circulation, garden access and weather protection while maintaining material continuity on a sensitive SSSI site.
Location
Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex, United Kingdom, within the Rye Nature Reserve Site of Special Scientific Interest
Organizations
RX Architects Ltd — Architect; Myriad Construction Ltd — Main contractor; Chartwood Design Ltd — Bespoke joinery; Ideal Work — Flooring system and finish; KEIM Mineral Paints Ltd — Mineral paint finish for brickwork; Richard Chivers Architectural Photography — Photography
The Argentine municipal project combines adaptive reuse, audiovisual preservation, public cinema, digital restoration, education, and artist residencies—an unusually complete civic program built around regional moving-image heritage.
Location
Centro de Experimentación Audiovisual, Colón 1133, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Organizations
Municipalidad de Avellaneda — Owner and operator; Dirección General de Arquitectura, Municipalidad de Avellaneda — Architecture; Secretaría de Planificación, Municipalidad de Avellaneda — Planning and project collaboration
This is unusually strong evidence that architectural design itself can act as public-health infrastructure. The randomized trial connects passive cooling, insect screening, sanitation, smoke control, solar power and rainwater collection to measurable reductions in three major childhood diseases.
Location
55 villages in rural Mtwara Region, Tanzania
Organizations
Ifakara Health Institute — Research partner; University of Oxford — Research partner; Royal Danish Academy — Architecture and research partner; Ecohomes Company Limited — Prefabrication and construction contractor
The live relocation of an intact historic keep is an exceptional preservation and construction story. It demonstrates how traditional building-moving knowledge, public participation and long-term masonry conservation can converge in a nationally important heritage project.
Location
Hirosaki Park and Hirosaki Castle, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Organizations
City of Hirosaki — Project authority and event organizer; Hirosaki Park — Historic site and event venue
