This is a list of notable architectural design competitions worldwide.
Major architecture competitions by country
Australia Flinders Street station, Melbourne – Fawcett and Ashworth, 1899 (17 entries) Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne – Phillip Hudson and James Wardrop, 1923 (83 entries; open to Australian and British architects only) Shrine of Remembrance, Brisbane – Buchanan and Cowper, 1928 ANZAC War Memorial, Sydney – Charles Bruce Dellit, 1929 (117 entries) Opera House, Sydney – Jørn Utzon, 1955 (233 entries) Parliament House, Canberra – Romaldo Giurgola, 1978 (329 entries) Federation Square, Melbourne – Lab Architecture Studio, 1997 (177 entries) Flinders Street station renewal, Melbourne – Hassell + Herzog & de Meuron, 2013 (118 entries)Major Projects Victoria , retrieved 24 August 2013
Austria Vienna Ring Road – Ludwig Förster – Friedrich August von Stache – Eduard van der Nüll and August Sicard von Sicardsburg, 1858 (85 international participants) Vienna State Opera – August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, 1860 Karlskirche, Vienna – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, 1713 Votivkirche, Vienna – Heinrich Ferstel, 1854 (75 international participants) Austrian Postal Savings Bank, Vienna, 1903 City Hall, Innsbruck – Dominique Perrault, 1994
Brazil City of Brasília – Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, 1957 (47 final submissions). The goal was to build a new capital in 1000 days.
Canada Between 1960 and 2000, close to 150 competitions had been held in Canada. City Hall, Toronto – Viljo Revell, 1956 (500 entries) University of Manitoba – Visionary (re)Generation, Winnipeg – Janet Roseberg & Studio Inc. with Cibinel Architects Ltd. and Landmark Planning & Design Inc., 2013 (45 international participants)
China Beijing National Stadium – Herzog & de Meuron, 2001 (13 final submissions). China Central Television Headquarters – Office for Metropolitan Architecture, 2002 (10 submissions)designbuild-network, retrieved 18 May 2012 Beijing National Aquatics Center – PTW Architects and Arup, 2003 (10 proposals)
Denmark Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen – Schmidt Hammer Lassen, 1993 (179 entries) Geo Centre Møns Klint, Møn Island – PLH Architects, 2002 (292 entries)
Egypt Bibliotheca Alexandrina – Snøhetta, 1998 (523 entries) Grand Egyptian Museum - Heneghan Peng Architects, 2025 (1,557 entries)
Finland Over the past 130 years, almost 2,000 architectural competitions have been held in Finland.130 Years of Finnish architectural competitions , retrieved 2009-09-23 Central railway station, Helsinki – Eliel Saarinen, 1904 (21 entries) Viipuri Library – Alvar Aalto, 1927 Paimio Sanatorium – Alvar Aalto, 1929 Säynätsalo Town Hall – Alvar Aalto, 1949 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki – Steven Holl, 1992 (516 entries) Guggenheim Helsinki Plan – 2014 (1,715 entries)Janelle Zara: "Six Finalist Designs Unveiled for Guggenheim Helsinki" in Architectural Record, 23 April 2015
France Opera Garnier, Paris – Charles Garnier, 1861 (171 participants) Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris – Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, 1971 (681 entries) Arab World Institute, Paris – Jean Nouvel, 1981 Parc de la Villette, Paris – Bernard Tschumi, 1982 (471 entries) La Grande Arche de la Défense, Paris – Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, 1982 (420 entries) Cité de la Musique, Paris – Christian de Portzamparc, 1983 Opéra Bastille, Paris – Carlos Ott, 1983 (750 entries) Carré d'Art, Nîmes – Norman Foster, 1984 (12 invited architects) Opéra National de Lyon, Lyon – Jean Nouvel, 1986
Germany
Reichstag, Berlin, 1872 and 1882 (189 entries by German architects) Central Station, Hamburg – Heinrich Reinhardt, 1900 House for an Art Lover, Darmstadt, 1901 Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin – Hans Scharoun, 1956–57 (14 invited architects) Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart – James Stirling, 1977 International Building Exhibition, Berlin – various architects for several projects, 1980–1987 Messeturm, Frankfurt am Main – Helmut Jahn, 1985 Jewish Museum, Berlin Daniel Libeskind, 1989 Commerzbank Tower, Frankfurt am Main – Norman Foster, 1991 Reichstag building, Berlin – Norman Foster, 1992 Central Station, Berlin – Gerkan, Marg and Partners, 1992 Olympic velodrome and swimming pool, Berlin – Dominique Perrault, 1992 Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück – Daniel Libeskind, 1995 French Embassy, Berlin – Christian de Portzamparc, 1997 (7 invited architects) Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg – Zaha Hadid, 2000 BMW Welt, Munich – COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, 2001BMW Welt Architectural Competition, retrieved 12 October 2015 BMW Werk, Leipzig – Zaha Hadid, 2002Architectural competition for the Central Building of the BMW Leipzig factory, retrieved 12 October 2015
Ireland U2 Tower, Dublin, 2002 (not yet built)
Italy Termini railway station, Rome, 1947
Japan Memorial Cathedral for World Peace, Hiroshima, 1947 (177 designs, no winner) Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima – Kenzo Tange, 1949 New National Theatre, Tokyo – Takahiro Yanagisawa, 1984 Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo – Kenzo Tange, 1985–1986 Kansai International Airport – Renzo Piano, 1988 Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo – Rafael Viñoly, 1987 (395 entries)
Lithuania Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum – Zaha Hadid – scheduled for completion in 2011
Luxembourg Philharmonie Luxembourg – Christian de Portzamparc, 1997
Mexico Guggenheim Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco – Enrique Norten/TEN Arquitectos
Netherlands
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – Pierre Cuypers, 1863 and 1875The Saatchi Gallery, retrieved 6 October 2010 Beurs, Amsterdam – Hendrik Petrus Berlage, 1884 Peace Palace, The Hague – Louis M. Cordonnier, 1905 Amsterdam City Hall – Wilhelm Holzbauer, Cees Dam, B. Bijvoet and G.H.M. Holt, 1967 (804 entries) The Hague City Hall – Richard Meier, 1986–1989 Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam – Jo Coenen, 1988 (6 submissions)
New Caledonia Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa – Renzo Piano, 1991
Norway Oslo Central Station, Oslo – John Engh
Russia
Palace of Soviets, Moscow – Boris Iofan, 1931–1933, 160 architectural design entries (never built) Commisariat for Heavy Industry, Moscow, 1934
Spain Igualada Cemetery, Barcelona – Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós
Sweden City Hall, Stockholm, 1907
Switzerland Palace of Nations, Geneva, 1926, Henri Paul Nénot & Julien Flegenheimer; Carlo Broggi; Camille Lefèvre; Giuseppe Vago (377 entries)
United Kingdom
Crystal Palace, London – Joseph Paxton Houses of Parliament, London – Charles Barry, 1836 (98 proposals) Royal Courts of Justice, London – George Edmund Street, 1868 (11 competing architects) Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow – John William Simpson and E J Milner Allen, 1891 (19 competing architects) Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool – Giles Gilbert Scott, 1902 (5 prequalified architects) McLeod Centre, Iona for the Iona Community – Feilden Clegg Bradley Manchester Art Gallery – Hopkins Architects, 1994 (132 entries) Scottish Parliament building, Edinburgh – Enric Miralles, 1998 (5 prequalified architects) National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff – Richard Rogers, 1998 (55 entries)
United States White House, Washington DC – James Hoban, 1792 (9 entries) 33 Liberty Street, New York – York and Sawyer, 1919 Tribune Tower, Chicago – John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, 1922 (260 entries) Boston City Hall, Boston – Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, 1962 (national, 256 entries) McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Chicago – Rem Koolhaas, 1998 New York World Trade Center 2002 World Trade Center Master Design Contest – Daniel Libeskind (concept) World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition – Michael Arad and Peter Walker Visual and Performing Arts Library, Brooklyn, NY – Enrique Norten / TEN Arquitectos
References
Sources De Jong, Cees and Mattie, Erik: Architectural Competitions 1792–1949, Taschen, 1997, De Jong, Cees and Mattie, Erik: Architectural Competitions 1950-Today, Taschen, 1997,
External links Visionary (re)Generation – Envisioning a Sustainable Campus Community in Winnipeg, Manitoba