List of architectural design competitions

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)^[1]

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)^[2]
• 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)

Finland

Over the past 130 years, almost 2,000 architectural competitions have been held in Finland.^[3]

• 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)^[4]

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

Competition entry by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the House for an Art Lover 1901.

• 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, Berin - 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, 2001^[5]
• BMW Werk, Leipzig - Zaha Hadid, 2002^[6]

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

Hendrik Petrus Berlage and Theodorus Sanders: Competition design for a commodity exchange, Amsterdam

• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - Pierre Cuypers, 1863 and 1875^[7]
• 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