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The following awards are now open for submissions:

• COTE® Top Ten Award
• AIA/ALA Library Building Award 
• Architecture Award
• Collaborative Achievement Award
• Design for Aging Review Award
• Education Facility Design Award
• Healthcare Design Award
• Housing Award
• Interior Architecture Award
• Justice Facilities Review Award
• Regional & Urban Design Award
• Small Project Award

January 8, 2025 is the application deadline for these 12 awards. Start your submission on the AIA website at this link.

New this year, AIA has introduced a common application to streamline submissions for multiple award programs. You can fill out one application per project, choose the award programs you want to enter, and pay $450 for the first submission and only $100 for every additional program.

The following programs are also open for submissions with the corresponding application deadlines:

• November 15: Associates Award, Awards for Excellence in Public Architecture, Young Architects Award
• December 15: Honorary Fellowship, Honorary Membership

Eligibility information, submission checklists, past successful applications, and more tools are available on the AIA Awards FAQ page. All award winners will be announced at the AIA Awards Gala at AIA25.

See Residential Design’s coverage of previous AIA Design Award winners here.

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Until 2017, the COTE Top Ten award recognized ten projects based largely on predicted performance, while award recipients from previous years were eligible to submit post-occupancy data and narratives to be recognized with a single COTE Top Ten Plus award. In 2017, these separate tracks were merged: The ‘Plus’ designation will denotes projects with exemplary actual performance and post-occupancy lessons. There will be only ten award recipients total, but any number of the ten may receive the COTE Top Ten Plus designation. Previous COTE Top Ten award recipients are ineligible to submit. Please review our 2022 COTE Top Ten Call For Submissions to review the entry criteria.

Do you need extra guidance on how to use the SuperSpreadsheet? Watch the recording of our COTE SuperSpreadsheet tutorial discussing the processes and documentation of this tool that supports a successful submission.

Closes: January 13, 2022 by 5 pm ET

Eligibility

Entrants

• Any US-licensed architect may enter.
• On team projects, the architect submitting the entry doesn’t have to be the head of the team.
• Submitting firms must have signed the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Projects

• Completed new buildings, renovations, restorations, interior architecture, and urban/regional plans are eligible.
• Projects may be located anywhere in the world.
• Projects must have been completed at least three months prior to the submission deadline, with no additional age-related restrictions.
• You may submit multiple entries.

Each entry will be judged on how successful the project was in meeting its individual requirements, with particular emphasis on design excellence. Projects will be evaluated on a broad and inclusive definition of design quality that includes performance, aesthetics, community connection and resilience. and stewardship of the natural environment The Top Ten program was founded on the idea that sustainability is essential to design excellence, and vice versa. Therefore, a key criterion for judging projects is the integration of compelling design and sustainable performance.

For a detailed list of all submission criteria and guidelines, download 2022 COTE Top Ten Call For Submissions.

Submission Details

COTE Top Ten Measures:

Measure 1: Design for Integration: What’s the big idea? How does the project demonstrate the intersection of design excellence and sustainable performance?

Measure 2: Design for Equitable Communities: How does this project make the most of its surrounding community, integrate with it. and give back?

Measure 3: Design for Ecosystems. How does this project respond, connect, and contribute to the surrounding ecosystem?

Measure 4: Design for Water: How does the project use water wisely and handle rainfall responsibly?

Measure 5: Design for Economy: How does the design show that higher performance can be cost-effective?

Measure 6: Design for Energy: How much energy does the project use, is any of that energy generated on-site from renewable sources, and what’s the net carbon impact?

Measure 7: Design for Well-being: How does the design promote the comfort and health of those who spend time in it?

Measure 8: Design for Resources: How were the decisions about the materials used based on an understanding of their impact. especially carbon impact?

Measure 9: Design for Change: How does the project design anticipate adapting to new uses, adapt to climate change, and support resilient recovery from disasters?

Measure 10: Design for Discovery: What lessons for better design have been learned through the process of project design, construction, and occupancy?

Fees: $500 for members and $850 for non-members

Digital images and drawings: Each project should be illustrated by at least 13 and no more than 18 digital images. Please include a minimum one image per measure, as well as site plan, a typical floor plan, and a rendering. Emphasis should be placed on graphics that best inform the jurors about the innovative sustainable design solutions that have been developed. Include the appropriate credit and caption for each while not mentioning architect or firm. Ideal images should be in JPEG format, minimum dimensions 2400x1350px.

Jury

Margaret Cavenagh, AIA, Chair, Studio Gang, Chicago, IL

Angela Brooks, FAIA, Brooks & Scarpa, San Francisco, CA

Nakita Reed, AIA, NOMA, Quinn Evans, Washington, DC

Z Smith, FAIA, Eskew Dumez Ripple, New Orleans, LA

Donald King, FAIA, The Nehemiah Initiative, UW College of Built Environments, Seattle, WA

2021 recipients

Arizona State University Hayden Library Reinvention, Ayers Saint Gross, Tempe, Arizona

Civitas, archimania, Memphis, TN

Lafayette College Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center, Payette, Easton, Pennsylvania

Market One, Neumann Monson Architects, Des Moines, Iowa

Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT.nano, HGA,  Cambridge, Massachusetts

Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus, WRNS Studio, Mountain View, California

Rainier Beach Clinic, Mahlum, Seattle, Washington

Ryerson University Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex, Perkins&Will, Toronto, Ontario, CA

The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, Lord Aeck Sargent in collaboration with The Miller Hull Partnership, Atlanta, Georgia

University of Washington, Life Sciences Building, Perkins&Will, Seattle, Washington

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The RD Architecture Awards recognize excellence in custom residential design.

This is a different kind of awards competition that covers the breadth and scope of work by talented residential architects and designers. We recognize that contemporary and contextual projects are sometimes difficult to judge against each other. We have, therefore, created two different paths of entry. In addition to categories based on location and scope of design, we’ve created categories specifically for contextual, vernacular, or traditional work to encourage submission of these projects to the program and to the magazine. Modern work will be judged against modern work; traditional work against traditional work.

This is not a web-only awards program.

All winning firms will receive their awards in person at a special event held concurrent with the 2021 AIA Conference on Architecture in Philadelphia.

All winning projects will be published in the print edition of Residential Design magazine distributed at the AIA Conference on Architecture, and published in the digital edition of the magazine and on RD’s website.

All entries will be judged by an independent jury of architects.

Online coverage of this year’s RDAA award-winning projects can be viewed here. And a digital facsimile of the print edition coverage can be seen here.

Eligibility

All entries must be submitted by or on behalf of an architect or designer.

The competition is open to residential projects within or outside the United States of America.

Projects completed on or after January 1, 2016 are eligible for entry.

Projects may be entered in multiple categories, if they conform to the category criteria.

Projects that have appeared previously in Residential Design or have won awards in other competitions may be entered if they meet all other eligibility criteria.

All entered projects must be professionally photographed at the time of submission (On the Boards projects are the exception).

To receive an award, all winning entrants must complete a detailed products specification form prior to the print publication deadline.

Special note: This a residential design excellence program that welcomes all styles of architecture. We do recognize that traditional projects and contemporary projects are sometimes difficult to judge against each other. We have therefore created categories specifically for contextual or vernacular work to encourage submission of traditional projects to the program and to the magazine.

However, we invite firms to enter projects where they feel they can best compete, and we will give jurors broad discretion to move them where their strengths can shine. Both modern and traditional work will be considered for the top honor of Project of the Year, and jurors will be given discretion to select one modern work and one traditional work for Project of the Year, if they so choose.

Fees and Deadlines

$125 per standard entry

$100 per special entry

Regular deadline to register your entry is January 13, 2021

Late deadline ($50 late fee required) to register your entry is February 4, 2021

Final deadline to submit all entry materials is February 25, 2021, 11:59 CT

Residential Standard Entry Categories

$125 each entry

1. Custom Urban House

Houses located in cities, close-in suburbs, or towns. These houses respond to context in an inventive, expansive way, while balancing the need for privacy and connection to city life.

2. Custom Rural or Vacation House

Houses unburdened by existing context and/or by the programmatic constraints of a primary dwelling, and that mine the unique benefits of their scenic locations.

3. Custom Period or Vernacular House

Houses that respond directly and sensitively to existing architectural context, building conventions, or tenets of traditional and classical design. These projects are welcome in the Urban and Rural house categories as well.

4. Renovation

Substantial additions or alterations to an existing home; also, whole-house remodels.

5. Custom Period or Vernacular Renovation/Restoration/Preservation

Substantial additions and alterations to or restoration/preservation of an existing home where the goal is to honor, replicate, and/or enhance the original style. These projects are also welcome in the Renovation category.

Residential Special Project Categories

$100 each entry 

6. Architectural Interiors

Whole-house interiors and apartment interiors, or outstanding special rooms, such as wine rooms, kitchens, baths, game rooms, offices, mudrooms, and the like.

7. Architectural Details

Significant custom-designed and crafted details or focal points of the house. Fireplaces, staircases, ceiling details, scuppers, window seats are some examples.

8. Custom Outdoor Living Design

Projects that extend living, dining, or cooking areas beyond the interior of the home and integrate indoor/outdoor spaces.

9. Custom Accessory or Outbuilding

Detached guest houses, studios, garages, pool houses, architectural follies are some examples.

10. Residential Special Constraints/Conditions

Single-family dwellings built to rigorous sustainable standards programs, stringent architectural review, or pattern book; adaptive reuse to residential; universal design; affordable, extraordinary budget or size constraints, residential pro-bono projects; prototype dwellings or projects that employ and explore special construction technologies.

11.  Custom On the Boards

Unbuilt single-family residential projects of any scale and style, commissioned by a client. These projects should be fully conceived and clearly presented.

Residential Design Project of the Year

The jury will choose an overall project of the year from among the built project entries.

Both modern and traditional work will be considered for the top honor of Project of the Year, and jurors will be given discretion to select one modern work and one traditional work for Project of the Year, if they so choose.

About the Jury Process

All entries will be judged by an independent jury of architects selected for geographic and aesthetic diversity. 

The jury will be given broad discretion to move projects to different categories. The jurors may also combine categories or create new ones to better showcase award-worthy entries. Further, they may give more than one or no awards in each category, if they so choose. The judging will take place in early March, and winning projects will be published in Volume 3, 2021 of Residential Design magazine and on this website.

Click here to register or learn more about the program.

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Applications are due November 17, before 5pm ET.

Eligibility

Entrants

• Architects licensed in the US or any owner of a structure or project.
• On team projects, the architect submitting the entry doesn’t have to be the head of the team.
• All team, group, or firm projects must credit all who substantially contributed in any capacity (for example, landscape architects and construction firms).

Projects

• New construction, renovations, and restorations are eligible.
• Projects must have been completed after January 1, 2015.

Submission Details

The AIA Housing Awards offer opportunities in four categories:

• Category one: One- and Two-Family Custom Residences​
• Category two: One- and Two-Family Production Homes​​
• Category three: Multifamily Housing​
• Category four: Specialized Housing

All projects must demonstrate design excellence. The jury evaluates entries based on how successfully projects have met their individual requirements. The jury also evaluates entries’ sustainability, affordability, social impact, innovation, durability, how the projects address the natural and built contexts, and how they meet specific client needs.

Entries are judged individually—not in competition with each other.

Entry fee: $375 for members and $750 for non-members (with the exception of category 2 where the fee will be waived again this year)

Jury

TBD

Submission process

Please View the 2021 Housing Award Sample Application.

The submission site will open on August 27, 2020, all applications must be completed through the submission site. Visit the submission site for full submission details prior to the deadline. After logging in, you may view the entire submission site, and save your submission as you work to complete it. You will not be asked to pay until your submission is complete.

If you are interested is reviewing previously successful submissions please contact our archivist.

Past Recipients

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