Architecture Competition Greening the Industrial City 1st prize winners – Pavel Nishchanka, Olga Dolinina, Yuri Korolev and Yuliya Nesviatayeva

We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to the 1st prize winners of our "Greening the Industrial City" competition – Pavel Nishchanka, Olga Dolinina, Yuri Korolev and Yuliya Nesviatayeva from Belarus!

1st prize winners from Belarus

The company was founded in 2012 in Minsk, Belarus. Growing from small private houses and interiors to design of residential complexes, in 2018 it went international. At the moment we’ve got offices in 4 countries, 250+projects scale from an apartment to a 7000ha development and a team of 20+ professionals. 

Brief information about the projects that you/your company have been involved with. For instance, what scale have you focused on/preferred, any significant projects where the company/ individuals have been involved?

The company unites 4 main directions: 1. urban planning; 2. urban design; 3. multistory residential & public architecture; 4. private houses and interiors. The balance is attained as there’s a separate creative leader for each of these directions - the distribution natural to their strengths and interests. At the same time the synergy between the directions, when needed, lets us take any scale up and elaborate it to the smallest details. We’ve made landscape design for courtyards, parks, boulevards and squares; masterplans from a small district some 5ha to a semi-city 7000 ha - usually within record-tight deadlines; residential architecture for these territories in typologies from townhouses to urban-villas and apartment blocks; and private residential spaces from small prefab houses (our separate passion) up to 4 stories per villa.

What does architecture mean to you and what is the role of an architect in your society?

We believe that the right environment makes people happier. Considerate design is not just an interesting shape or attractive packaging, but a tool that creates positive emotions and sets scenarios for behavior in the community. We’ve witnessed it in our residential projects in Minsk (Novaya Baravaya) that created the communities of the strength previously unseen in the city. One of the creators and co founders lives there due to this, by the way. What we create will exist for a long time, and lots of people will actively interact with it. Thus we take our vocation with full responsibility, while always open to face some new challenge.

Why do you participate in architecture competitions?

As we said above, we’re happy to take up new challenges: new context, new problem-solution setting, and new continents:) Win is fun, getting known in the new markets is great for business, but the key is learning and getting stronger after every new case - the skills we later apply for our work with Customers.

What advice would you give to individuals who struggle to decide whether it would be beneficial for them to participate in architecture competitions?

Competitions are usually about unconventional challenges in unconventional contexts - an excellent exercise for mind and teamwork. Thus the least one gets when participating is a new neural connection, project for a website portfolio and motivation to become better. While in the case of winning it’s a set of countable benefits in the form of recognition and publications on the target market, sometimes a financial bonus, and sometimes a new contract to detail the project designed for the competition. Thus the advice is to determine the target market and/or type of challenge you want to take up, set the budget, encounter a competition you find fascinating while sticking to the budget, treat the costs of participation as an investment, and head towards the new challenge.

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The Home of Shadows

Design a home with no artificial lighting

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
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registration deadlines

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Apr 18
project COMPETITION
Portugal Elderly Home

Design a comfortable and accessible home for the elderly in Portugal

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + CONSTRUCTION
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Portugal Olive Guest House

Design a guest house and olive oil tasting room located in Portugal

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + CONSTRUCTION
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Jan 27
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project COMPETITION
Yoga House in the Bog

Design a yoga guest house located within rich bog wildlife

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + CONSTRUCTION
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Apr 26

Reccuring architecture competitions

ideas COMPETITION
Silent contest
For this competition, NO DESCRIPTION TEXT is allowed. The architecture ideas must be communicated strictly with visuals.
Architectural Visualization Award
Edition #2

Present your best work and submit your favorite architectural visualization

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
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ideas COMPETITION
MICROHOME
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Design a new concept of small-scale home

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + PUBLICATION IN MAGAZINE
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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Apr 18
Jun 16
ideas COMPETITION
Silent contest
For this competition, NO DESCRIPTION TEXT is allowed. The architecture ideas must be communicated strictly with visuals.
Museum of Emotions
Edition #3

Use architecture to create different emotional states

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL

registration deadlines

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May 19
Jul 21
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Portable Reading Rooms
Edition #2

Design a portable reading room that encourages reading in any location

Prize: MONETARY AWARD + SCOLARSHIP
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registration deadlines

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May 15
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Pavilion Of Humanity: First Contact
Edition #2

How would you represent the best that humanity has to offer through architecture?

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
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Jul 24
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Children's Hospice
Home for the Terminally ill / Edition #2

Design a safe and supportive space for children struggling with a terminal illness

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
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Milan Affordable Housing Challenge
Affordable Housing Series #15

Design a concept for affordable housing in Milan

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
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Virtual Home
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Design virtual home as architecture moves into the metaverse

Prize: MONETARY AWARD
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Office
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Reimagine the workplace of the future, and design the new way of working

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Creativity gym Short term competitions for you to exercise your creativity

T-SHIRT DRAWING COMPETITION
The Architect's T-shirt
Edition #18

Design THE architect's t-shirt!

Prize: 3,000 €
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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO COMPETITION
The Buildner's Architecture Portfolio Competition
Edition #2

Submit your online portfolio!

Prize: 5,000 €
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Competition results

Hong Kong 
Pixel Homes

Hong Kong Pixel Homes

Affordable Housing Series #2
MICROHOME

MICROHOME

Small living, huge impact! Edition #4

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