We are pleased to announce the launch of ‘No Harm in Waiting’.
The RSUA/JP Corry Design Competition for 2026 challenges Early Career Architects to propose creative ideas for a specific bus shelter that explores the potential of gender equity and inclusivity within public realm design.
Bus Shelters are a familiar part of our everyday public realm, but they can also be places where people feel vulnerable or unsafe. We are inviting early career architects to reimagine this everyday piece of infrastructure and explore how design can help create public spaces that feel safer, more accessible and welcoming.
The competition aims to:
- Encourage creative responses to the task of delivering an equitable public realm.
- Generate debate, interest and discussion around existing challenges relating to safety and inclusion in the public realm, including those specific to the entrant’s chosen site.
- Demonstrate how a bus shelter design may respond to local, place-based issues.
- Incorporate safety and inclusion as fundamental design considerations. Designs should provide a safe waiting environment and support free, confident movement through public space.
- Reimagine a familiar and widely used element of public transport infrastructure, exploring how its design can better serve all users.
- Showcase the creativity and talent of Early Career Architects
The deadline for submissions is 11 October 2026 but please do register immediately by emailing Julia Leaker on julia@rsua.org.uk
Please read the brief on the RSUA Website for More Information
Eligibility
- This competition is open to early career architects either living or born on the
island of Ireland.
- ‘Early career architect’ is defined as any architect who has been actively in work as an architect for less than 15 years. This is in recognition that for many people, especially women, the journey after qualifying as an architect is not always an interrupted straight run of employment.
- The competition is open to early career architects working in all sectors, not just
those in private practice. Early career architects can collaborate with each other
and architecture students to enter the competition with a maximum of 4 people
per team entry.
4 September 2026 – competition launch
11 October 2026 – submission deadline
14 October 2026 – panel assessment
23 October 2026 – Showcase of entrants & announcement of winner at Architecture Night 2026
Prize
The winner picked by the judging panel will receive a prize of £1,000 courtesy of JP
Corry. All entrants will be showcased by RSUA.
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