Local Competitions

About the Program After 20 fruitful years of recognizing young talented painters, the Metrobank Foundation has launched a new art competition dubbed as the Metrobank Art and Design Excellence or MADE. In addition to painters, MADE will also recognize the outstanding works of young but promising sculptors, architects and interior designers.

The Competition is open to young Filipino painters and sculptors 18 to 35 years old and licensed architects and interior designers 25 to 45 years old. In partnership with Philippine Institute of Interior Designers, United Architects of the Philippines, Federal Land and BluPrint, the competition aims to provide a venue for creative expressions of young talented artists and designers.

The painting competition has two categories namely Oil-Based Medium on Canvas and Water Media on Paper on a minimum of 18 x 24 inches to a maximum of 36 x 48 inches. While the sculpture competition is open to the following media: glass, metal, wood, stone, and fired clay rendered in small scale measuring a minimum of 12” x 12” to a maximum of 16” x 16”.

While the architecture competition category requires a built structure single detached residence in the Philippines, completed and occupied for at least one year. The interior design competition on the other hand requires a conceptual work output.

Winners in the painting competition, Oil-Based Medium on Canvas category will receive P 150,000 (1st place); P 130,000 (2nd place); P 120,000 (3rd place). While winners in the Water Media on Paper category, Sculpture, Architecture, and Interior Design competitions will receive P 150,000 each.

Entry forms are available at all Metrobank branches nationwide.

For inquiries, please contact the Metrobank Foundation at (63-2) 898.8856 or 857.5918 or email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

For queries on architecture and interior design competitions, you can also call UAP National Secretariat at 412.6403 /6374 and PIID Secretariat at 867.1403 / 1404, respectively.

International Competitions

UIA Congress Tokyo, 25-28 September 2011 / Four International Competitions for UIA TOKYO 2011

COMMUNITY DESIGN FOR CHILDREN’S FUTURE
‘Wisdom and Dreams’ is the theme proposed to to children, adolescents, young people and everyone around the world who would like to offer ideas that can provide children and the residents of disaster stricken areas in Japan an environment that will allow them to assume the responsibility of the future with confidence. Organised with the support of UNICEF-Japan in the framework of the Japan recovery programme.

Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2011
http://www.children-env.org/sinsai/?lang=english

SHELTERS IN THE WILDERNESS
This international confrontation of projects invites university students to design a shelter that puts today’s women and men in a situation where they can feel both the richness and the toughness of the wilderness: desert, sea, forrest, polar regions.

Deadline for submissions: 25 July 2011
http://www.shelter-inc.net/compe/

GLASS ARCHITECTURE IN 2050
Open to students and architects worldwide, this confrontation of ideas invites participants to think about ways glass will be used in the architecture of the 2050s, emphasising the environment, energy saving, history and cultural diversity.

Deadline for submissions: 1st August 2011
http://www.cgco.co.jp/kyougi/#/about/

LEDs, LIGHT OF THE FUTURE AND OF HOPE
The Japan Institute of Architects (JIA) announces The Architectural Lighting Design Competition. This confrontation of ideas on the integration of light emitting diodes (LED) in lighting design is open to architects worldwide.

Deadline for submissions, on line: 8 August 2011
http://www2.lighting-daiko.co.jp/jia/index16.html

UIA Congress web site
http://www.uia2011tokyo.com/en/