Our projects range from design charrettes and workshops to large-scale public realm installations. Many of the installations are temporary so you can also read about the afterlife of these projects which go on to be re-homed or recycled. 

Use the filters below to browse our competitions by category. You can sort by theme (e.g. urban greening, public art, wayfinding projects) or by competition type (e.g. temporary, permanent). 

If you’re interested in reading more about running or entering one of our design competitions visit our About LFA Competitions or Why Enter? pages. 

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Pews and Perches: third edition

Pews and Perches: third edition

2022

For the LFA 2022, we launched the third edition of the Pews and Perches competition in partnership with the Royal…

Pop-up Bike Parking

Pop-up Bike Parking

2022

In September 2021 we launched a ‘Pop Up Bike Parking’ competition with Network Rail for a creative and innovative design…

Mobile Arboretum

Mobile Arboretum

2022

Following the success of the City benches project over the past four years, the London Festival of Architecture (LFA), the…

Showroom Showcase

Showroom Showcase

2022

In March 2022, the LFA launched the second edition of Showroom Showcase competition, for a series of innovative paper installations…

New Growth on Exhibition Road

New Growth on Exhibition Road

2021

An algae factory, a nest-like timber mound and giant slices of a decommissioned wind turbine blade formed a series of…

Ealing Benches in North Acton Square

Ealing Benches in North Acton Square

2021

Ealing Council teamed up with City and Docklands, Imperial College and OPDC to commission three architect teams to each create a bench for the newly…

Showroom Showcase

Showroom Showcase

2021

In 2021, the London Festival of Architecture launched a design competition inviting emerging architects and designers to create unique, small-scale…

Curating Concourses

2021

In 2021, the LFA launched the competition “Curating Concourses” with Network Rail inviting emerging architects, designers, artists and curators to…

Pride Pop Up

Pride Pop Up

2021

In collaboration with Architecture LGBT+, ‘Pride Pop Up’ competition was open to architecture students, recent graduates, emerging practices as well…

City Benches

City Benches

2021

Nine new public benches situated in Cheapside and for the first time, Aldgate, were placed to mark the 2021 edition…

City Benches

City Benches

2020

In December 2019, the LFA – in partnership with Cheapside Business Alliance and Aldgate Connect Business Improvement District – launched…

Tooley Street

Tooley Street

2020

In 2018 the London Festival of Architecture and Team London Bridge ran a competition for a design to help people…

Pews and Perches

Pews and Perches

2020

This competition, the second edition of ‘Pew and Perches’ invited architecture and design students, recent graduates and emerging practitioners to…

Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty

2020

In 2020, Network Rail and LFA ran a competition to find creative new Benches for some of London’s finest train…

Pride Float

Pride Float

2019

For Pride 2019, London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and Architecture LGBT+ launched its second design competition for a float to…

Pews and Perches 2019

Pews and Perches 2019

2019

In 2019 the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and the Royal Docks Team (RDT) launched a new competition ‘Pews and…

River View

River View

2019

In October 2018, the LFA launched an open call for submissions for a design intervention that would sit on the…

A City of London Parklets

A City of London Parklets

2019

Three miniature landscaped spaces in the City were the result of a competition organised by the LFA in partnership with…

Harrow Road

Harrow Road

2019

The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and Westminster City Council (WCC), in partnership with the Canal and River Trust, collaborated …

City Benches

City Benches

2019

In 2019 the LFA and Cheapside Business Alliance launched a design competition for a new series of public benches to…

London Bridge Substation

London Bridge Substation

2019

In 2019, Team London Bridge in partnership with the London Festival of Architecture, UK Power Networks and Network Rail commissioned…

St Paul’s Plinth

St Paul’s Plinth

2019

For the second year running, together with Cheapside Business Alliance, LFA launched a competition for the imaginative re-use of the…

Dulwich Picture Gallery Pavilion

Dulwich Picture Gallery Pavilion

2019

The second edition of the Dulwich Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery, this competition called for pavilion designs which would serve…

Thessaly Road

Thessaly Road

2019

The Thessaly Road Railway Bridge competition was organised as part of the London Festival of Architecture in partnership with Wandsworth…