It’s great to have a jury unanimously pick you out for something like this. This is something we have been waiting to realise for years—a steel framed housing project—and we can do it with the steel industry’s help now in Warsaw.” Michiel Cohen, architectenbureau cepezed, 1st Competition Winner for Warsaw.

More than 600 from over 50 countries felt the same as Michiel Cohen—you’ve been waiting for years to see your own design be a positive force in the growing global need for low cost, environmentally responsible housing.

We thank the many teams that entered our competition that have a desire to take up the challenge for a low climate change emissions building in Cherepovets, Russia, to conceptualise a comfortable, efficient home—the home people want and deserve.

Our Competition Short-List Committee will be meeting on the 6-7 May to undertake the very difficult job of choosing, from among the finest minds in the world, the ten teams of two architects who stand out among all the rest. These ten teams, who will be notified on or about 16 May, will comprise the short-list finalists who will go on to present concepts to our Jury in Helsinki, 25-29 June. You can view the full competition schedule of dates and activities by clicking Learn about the 3rd Competition.

The International Architecture Competition. Imagine your extreme ideas making an extreme impact for our world and for the people that will call your vision “home”. We wish you all the best of luck.

The short-listed team finalists will be announced here on 2 June 2008.