Over the last 5 years, the Fairy Tales competition has captured the imagination of thousands of participants from around the world - from students and aspiring architects, to multi-national firms and Pritzker prize winners.

Courtesy of Blank Space Project

Over the last 5 years, the Fairy Tales competition has captured the imagination of thousands of participants from around the world - from students and aspiring architects, to multi-national firms and Pritzker prize winners.Here is why, if you enjoy design and storytelling, you should give it a shot this year. 

Course of an Empire by Aiden Doyle and Sarah Wan. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Project

1) Fairy Tales pushes your creativity to a new level.Sure, you are a master at planning spaces and your taste for design is unparalleled. But do you always design with a story in mind" Fairy Tales encourages you to invent worlds that marry your creativity with a message, and allows you to rethink the way you approach design challenges. With storytelling guiding your design, you?ll never look at architecture the same way again.
A Thousand and One Nights by Xinran Ma. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Project

2) You?ll be part of something big.The Fairy Tales competition has become a repository of the social and environmental issues that are at the forefront of everyone?s mind on a yearly basis. They capture the zeitgeist of the times in highly imaginative and sometimes tongue-in-cheek way...