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2026 Fentress Global Challenge

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ABOUT FGC

Fentress Global Challenge is an international student design competition launched in 2011
by Curtis Fentress, FAIA, RIBA. Over the years, it has attracted an extraordinary array of submissions
from around the world, including over one thousand entries from more than 160 countries.

Distant future rendering of city

2024 WINNERS

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1st Place

LAX Droplet
Vertical Take-Off and Landing

by Laura Hedrick and Matthew Phillips

North Carolina State University, USA

PAST WINNERS

1ST PLACE Carmina Ferreras and Oluwarotimi Osiberu
1ST PLACE The Green Gateway Nikhil Bang and Kaushal Tatiya, Southern California Institute of Architecture - A Green Gateway
1ST PLACE Infinity Airport, Daoru Wang, North Carolina State University

2021

1st Place: Carmina Ferreras and Oluwarotimi Osiberu

2nd Place: Liyang Wang

3rd Place: Tan Gee Yang

People’s Choice Award: Assem Attia

2020

1st Place: Nikhil Bang and Kaushal Tatiya

2nd Place: Dušan Sekulic

3rd Place: Yuanxiang Chan, Chaofan Zhang, and Zhuangzhuang King

People’s Choice Award: Yi Yang Chai and Sharon Cho

2019

1st Place: Daoru Wang

2nd Place: Samantha Pires

3rd Place: Christopher Johnson

People’s Choice Award: Riki Rozenberg, Evelyn Kreslavsky, and Mai Whiteson

People’s Choice Award: Chai Yi Yang and Ng Yi Ming

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