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Architectural Competitions

Why hold a RIBA Competition?

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Why enter a RIBA Competition?

Best practice design competitions can raise your profile, create new business opportunities and provide valuable experience.

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RIBA has over 65 years’ experience of managing international architectural competitions in the public and commercial sector.

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For any enquiries or help with our RIBA competitions please email: riba.competitions@riba.org

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​2000
Invited Past

​Lyric Square, Hammersmith

To select an architect/landscape architect for the creation of a new £750,000 public square on a closed section of highway in the centre of Hammersmith, London.
Infrastructure
today ​Completed: 2005 place ​London Project value: £750,000
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​2003
Open Past

​The Atom, Pendle

The Panopticons competition was launched in May 2003 and aimed to exploit the large areas of the East Lancashire Park as a matrix of opportunities to bring local people closer to the countryside and attract more tourists to the area.
Infrastructure
today ​Completed: 2006 place ​Lancashire Project value: £500k
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​1996
Open Past

​Millennium Bridge, London

The design of a new pedestrian bridge across the River Thames, between Bankside and St Pauls. This would create a direct link between the north and south side of the river, and encourage the revival of a long-neglected area of London.
Infrastructure
today ​Completed: 2000 place ​London
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​1995
Open Past

​Butterfly Bridge, Bedford

In 1995 an RIBA competition was launched on behalf of Bedford Borough Council to design a pedestrian bridge across the River Great Ouse.
Infrastructure
today ​Completed: 1997 place ​Bedford Project value: £390,000
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​2003
Invited Past

​Infinity Bridge, Stockton

The design of a prestigious and distinctive landmark bridge across the River Tees in Stockton on Tees.
Infrastructure
today ​Completed: 2009 place ​Stockton, County Durham Project value: £15 million
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​2004
Open Past

​Bonn Square, Oxford

The objective was to transform Bonn Square, a historic city square, which had fractured spatial character and low overall quality, into a high quality contemporary city square.
Infrastructure
today ​Completed: 2008 place ​Oxford Project value: £1.5 million
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​2009
Invited Past

Bishop Edward King Chapel, Cuddesdon

The competition was looking for a design of a new chapel that would be a place in which people want to pray and feel attracted to do so. The new building has been designed to be welcoming, flexible, functional and of the highest architectural quality.
Culture and Leisure
today ​Completed: 2012 place ​Cuddesdon, Oxford Project value: £2 million
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​2004
Open Past

​Halley VI Research Station, Antarctic

The international competition to design a new scientific research station in one of the Earth's most extreme environments, Antarctica, was launched in 2004.
International
today ​Completed: 2013 place ​Antarctic Project value: £23 million
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​2006
Open Past

​Pennington Road Footbridge, Bootle

The new Pennington Road Footbridge over the Leeds and Liverpool canal is situated in an area of Bootle, Merseyside that was heavily industrialised before it fell into decline.
Infrastructure
today ​Completed: 2010 place ​Bootle, Merseyside Project value: £760k
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​2010
Open Past

​Royal Parks Drinking Fountain

The Royal Parks Foundation Drinking Fountain is intended as a formally elegant addition to the repertoire of urban furniture already provided in London's Royal Parks.
Infrastructure
today ​Completed: 2012 place ​London Project value: Confidential
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