World Architecture Competitions: Last Light

World Architecture Competitions: Last Light

LAST LIGHT invites participants to propose a habitable lighthouse that re defines the traditional concept of the lighthouse through contemporary architectural language.The project is expected to function not as a purely symbolic object, but as a spatial experience capable of being inhabited, explored and perceived through movement, light and time.

The lighthouse must integrate an observation space or viewpoint orien ted toward the Atlantic horizon, a luminous element that acts as a rein terpretation of the traditional beacon, and a series of designed spaces including a gallery, a temporary refuge and an area of contemplation.

The Site

Last Light is located southeast of the historic lighthouse of Cape St. Vincent, Sagres, Portugal, facing the Atlantic Ocean, on an approximate area of ​​2,430 square meters.

SCHEDULE

26 january 2025 | Call to announcement26 january – 01 febrary 2025 | Pre registry02 febrary 2025| Start of inscriptions27 febrary 2025 | End of the first stage of registration16 march 2025 | Ad members of the Evaluation Committee20 march 2025 | End of consultation period21 march 2025 | Second stage of registration ends05 april 2025 | End of registration period20 april 2025 | Deadline for submission of proposals27 april 2025 | Judgment of the Evaluation Committee29 april 2025 | Dissemination of results30 april 2025 | Awards

RATES

Rates vary depending on the registration date.

Last Light is conceived as the redefinition of the 21st-century lighthouse, as a habitable space, accessible to visitors, where architecture not only emits light, but is lived in, explored, and occupied.

WORLD ARCHITECTURE COMPETITIONS

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PRIZES

1º PRIZE US $ 5,000+ Exhibition and diffusion in the main architecture sites worldwide.+ Virtual booklet of the best proposals.

3 HONORABLE MENTIONS+ Exhibition and diffusion in the main architecture sites worldwide.+ Virtual booklet of the best proposals.

Open to the public/Minimum requirements (Open to anyone that complies with the requirements), Single stage (Winners selected immediately)

The contest is aimed at all qualified architects and architecture students of theworld, as long as English is maintained as the official language.

Registration Opens January 26, 2026Registration Closes April 5, 2026Deadline to Submit Project April 20, 2026Winners announcement Date April 29, 2026

Cape St. Vincent, Portugal

Location of Project (if developed)

Cape St. Vincent, Portugal

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