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Designing Denver: Framing our Public Realm
Jill Jennings Golich, Director of Denver’s Permitting Office, discussing the city’s efforts to integrate affordable housing with thoughtful design. Emphasizing the importance of creating great, inclusive spaces that enhance neighborhoods while streamlining permitting processes to avoid delays. Golich highlights initiatives like the Affordable Housing Review Team and the fast-track program under Proposition 123, aimed at accelerating affordable housing development.
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Design a new small-scale home concept in the 10th edition of MICROHOME — 100,000 € prize + construction
100,000 € Prize Fund / Kingpsan Edition #10 ideas COMPETITION
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Challenging Conventions in Small-Scale Architecture
Architect Francesca Perani shares how working with limited budgets and compact spaces can spark bold and imaginative design. Her approach challenges traditional spatial norms through material experimentation, diagonal forms, and expressive textures. With a strong emphasis on storytelling and photography, she crafts emotionally rich environments that blend past and present in unexpected ways.
Featured architecture competition
Design a new small-scale home concept in the 10th edition of MICROHOME — 100,000 € prize + construction
100,000 € Prize Fund / Kingpsan Edition #10 ideas COMPETITION
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Architecture competitions
Design a new small-scale home concept in the 10th edition of MICROHOME — 100,000 € prize + construction
100,000 € Prize Fund / Kingpsan Edition #10 ideas COMPETITION
Prize 100,000 € + Potential realisation
Eligibility Open to all
Final registration deadline 25 September 2025
Celebrating your unbuilt architecture visions with a €100,000 prize
100,000€ Prize / 2025 ideas COMPETITION
Prize 100,000 €
Eligibility Open to all
Final registration deadline 30 October 2025
Choose a site—used, abandoned, or forgotten—anywhere in the world, and give it a new purpose
Edition #2 ideas COMPETITION
Prize Monetary award
Eligibility Open to all
Early bird registration deadline 2 October 2025
Design a safe and supportive space to those struggling with a terminal illness
Edition #5 ideas COMPETITION
Prize 10,000 €
Eligibility Open to all
Advance registration deadline 9 October 2025
Take a step and make a statement!
Take a step and make a statement! Edition #3 ideas COMPETITION
Prize Monetary award
Eligibility Open to all
Early bird registration deadline 15 October 2025
Design a kindergarten of tomorrow
Architecture for Children’s Development #3 ideas COMPETITION
Prize Monetary award
Eligibility Open to all
Advance registration deadline 16 October 2025
Design a memorial that speaks to the cause of ending all nuclear weapons programs
Edition #6 ideas COMPETITION
SILENT CONTEST
Prize Monetary award
Eligibility Open to all
Final registration deadline 13 November 2025
Design a concrete pavilion
Edition #3 ideas COMPETITION
Prize Monetary award
Eligibility Open to all
Final registration deadline 27 November 2025
Use architecture to create different emotional states
Edition #7 ideas COMPETITION
SILENT CONTEST
Prize Monetary award
Eligibility Open to all
Final registration deadline 27 November 2025
