Archello Awards 2025: Open for Entries! Submit your best projects now.
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Housing

House of the Year (urban) - Small

The design of a house expresses the ways users prefer to live. The house can be terraced, semi-detached, or detached. And whatever the environment, successful house projects always find a relationship with the surrounding landscape. This category is for a house in an urban setting sized less than 150 m2.
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House of the Year (urban) - Medium

The design of a house expresses the ways users prefer to live. The house can be terraced, semi-detached, or detached. And whatever the environment, successful house projects always find a relationship with the surrounding landscape. This category is for a house in an urban setting sized between 150 and 300 m2.
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House of the Year (urban) - Large

The design of a house expresses the ways users prefer to live. The house can be terraced, semi-detached, or detached. And whatever the environment, successful house projects always find a relationship with the surrounding landscape.  This category is for a house in an urban setting sized greater than 300 m2.
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House of the Year (rural) - Small

The design of a house expresses the ways users prefer to live. The house can be terraced, semi-detached, or detached. And whatever the environment, successful house projects always find a relationship with the surrounding landscape. This category is for a house in a rural setting sized less than 150 m2.
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House of the Year (rural) - Medium

The design of a house expresses the ways users prefer to live. The house can be terraced, semi-detached, or detached. And whatever the environment, successful house projects always find a relationship with the surrounding landscape. This category is for a house in a rural setting sized between 150 and 300 m2.
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House of the Year (rural) - Large

The design of a house expresses the ways users prefer to live. The house can be terraced, semi-detached, or detached. And whatever the environment, successful house projects always find a relationship with the surrounding landscape.  This category is for a house in a rural setting sized greater than 300 m2.
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Housing Project of the Year - Low Rise

There is limited space in our cities. How can we maximize housing on compact sites while still ensuring pleasant outdoor spaces and maintaining views? And how can housing projects generate a sense of community? This category is for a building of 1-4 stories.
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Housing Project of the Year - Mid Rise

There is limited space in our cities. How can we maximize housing on compact sites while still ensuring pleasant outdoor spaces and maintaining views? And how can housing projects generate a sense of community? This category is for a building of 5-12 stories.
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Housing Project of the Year - High Rise Tower

There is limited space in our cities. How can we maximize housing on compact sites while still ensuring pleasant outdoor spaces and maintaining views? And how can housing projects generate a sense of community? This category is for a building of 13 stories or more.
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House Extension of the Year

Homes often need to grow as occupants desire more space. Additions can be excellent ways to transform and adapt residences. Well-designed extensions respond to the architecture of an existing house, the parameters of a site, or both. This category is for extensions to both urban and rural single-family homes.
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Unbuilt Housing Project of the Year

This category recognizes innovative housing projects that remain in the conceptual stages. These unbuilt projects will demonstrate a thoughtful approach to maximizing livability, creating a sense of community, and integrating with their environment. Entries may include single-family homes, multi-family housing, or large residential developments that showcase visionary approaches to space, sustainability, materiality, or user-centric design.
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Offices

Office Building of the Year - Low and Mid Rise

Now that many organizations have embraced hybrid working, the design of the office more than ever is about facilitation meeting and collaboration. Which office building sets the tone this year? This category is for a building of less than 10 stories.
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Office Building of the Year - High Rise Tower

Now that many organizations have embraced hybrid working, the design of the office more than ever is about facilitation meeting and collaboration. Which office building sets the tone this year? This category is for a building of 10 stories or more.
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Unbuilt Office Project of the Year

As work environments evolve, unbuilt office projects have the potential to redefine collaboration and productivity. This category honors forward-thinking office designs that remain unconstructed but which might propose innovative spatial arrangements, energy-efficient systems, or inspiring aesthetics. Projects of any scale could consider hybrid working models, community engagement, and adaptive reuse possibilities.
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Schools

Primary School Building of the Year

Well-designed kindergartens and elementary schools are so important to the development of young children the world over. Considerations of color and light, of movement and activity, and for small group or large group learning, all factor into the planning, design and material choices of schools purpose-built for children. Which primary school projects stood out this year?
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Secondary School Building of the Year

Secondary schools or high schools are purpose made for early-to-late teenage learning. Secondary school students require a range of spaces that support classroom activities, including social spaces and auditoriums, cafeterias and outdoor areas. Which secondary school projects stood out this year?
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University Building of the Year

Challenging places where research and education go hand in hand, where there is room for intense focus on the one hand and room for knowledge exchange and collaboration on the other. This category is for all university buildings, offering education from undergraduate through graduate to postgraduate levels.
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Unbuilt School Project of the Year

This category celebrates unbuilt designs for primary, secondary, or higher education facilities that prioritize learning, collaboration, and growth. Projects, of any scale, could address the specific needs of students, teachers, and communities, incorporating flexible spaces, sustainable materials, and innovative design principles.
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Healthcare

Hospital Building of the Year

Effective organization, state-of-the-art facilities, pleasant rooms for patients, and clear routing along 'healing' places... the design of a hospital is a multifaceted task. Which hospital building is the best this year?
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Healthcare Building of the Year

Beyond the hospital, primary, secondary and tertiary care take place in many kinds of buildings, from individual practices of general practitioners to health centers where various disciplines are combined. This category covers all buildings in the healthcare sector.
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Residential Care Building of the Year

Senior care facilities, hospices for the young and old, mental health residences and short- or long-term centers for wellbeing: all these and more may fall under the expanding category of residential care buildings. Programs housed by such a typology can range from clinical spaces to guest rooms, support, activity and care spaces. This category is for all types of care facilities that also contain residences.
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Unbuilt Healthcare Project of the Year

Healthcare is a dynamic field, and this category seeks to highlight unbuilt healthcare designs that address patient care, staff efficiency, and evolving medical needs. Whether hospitals, clinics, or specialized care facilities, these designs might demonstrate cutting-edge thinking in functional layouts, healing environments, and energy-efficient solutions.
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Leisure

Sports and Leisure Building of the Year

How nice it is to exercise and relax all year round, regardless of the weather. This category is for sports and leisure buildings of all scales, from fitness centres, to sports centres, to stadiums.
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Shopping Centre of the Year

A combination of multiple retail stores becomes more than just a place to shop. It also becomes a place where people meet and congregate. Larger shopping centers in particular acquire urban characteristics with their own (roofed) streets and squares.
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Shop of the Year

This category is for a single retail store building. How do you translate a retail identity into an architecture that best showcases the items on display?
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Hotel Building of the Year

A temporary home anywhere in the world, with rooms for retreat and attractive common areas and amenities. Which hotel raises the bar this year?
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Unbuilt Leisure Project of the Year

Unbuilt leisure projects offer opportunities for creativity and innovation in spaces meant for relaxation, recreation, and community. This category recognizes proposals ranging from sports centers to entertainment venues or leisure spaces that emphasize design excellence, user experience, and integration with the surrounding environment.
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Public buildings

Transportation Hub of the Year

Transportation hubs are essential nodes in the infrastructure of our cities. Different modes of transport are connected at these nodes. These modes can involve any combination of trains, metros, trams, buses, taxis, (shared) cars, bicycles and pedestrians.
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Religious Building of the Year

Faith helps so many people to give meaning to their lives and find a sense of belonging. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Sikhism and many more… each faith has its own kinds of gatherings and accompanying rituals being reflected in the architecture of the buildings designed for them.
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Cultural Building of the Year

A cultural building will reflect the heritage of the city in which it is based, from its architecture to its interiors and exhibitions. Acting as a destination for people from all walks of life, it is a place that combines learning and entertainment. A cultural building should have the potential to become a driver in a city’s social, physical, and economic regeneration.
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Community Centre of the Year

A home away from home, a community centre is a warm and welcoming place for all generations. The community centre needs adaptable spaces for a range of social activities and classes, for example, cooking, music and drama, arts and crafts. It might include a nursery and play areas. Overall, a barrier-free design is fundamental, both in terms of mobility and sociability.
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Library Building of the Year

From cosy reading nooks to open, social spaces, the best library will act as a community ‘living room’, striking a balance between activities that require silence, such as research, and those that encourage participation, such as book readings. The library setting should offer flexibility, welcoming groups of school children and adults alike. It might include a cafe or offer hybrid working solutions for people who work remotely.
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Theatre Building of the Year

The theatre is a place in which the audience enjoys a collective sensory experience together with the performers. The ideal theatre is a building that connects with the community. It will provide a welcoming foyer, state-of-the-art acoustics, and optimal seating and visual comfort for every audience member. Well-designed rehearsal, backstage, and main stage facilities for performers are equally important. As a building, it should be accessible to all.
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Museum Building of the Year

The perfect place to exhibit art and to exchange ideas. A place that is connected to the surrounding (urban) landscape and welcomes visitors – because art should be enjoyed by everyone.
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Government Building of the Year

This concerns all buildings that house a government service: municipalities, municipal services, provincial services, national services, ministries, parliaments, and so on. These buildings always have a representative side, where guests of the general public can be received.
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Pavilion of the Year - Permanent

A place of shelter or learning, the best pavilions are also architecturally significant. They should arouse curiosity and invite exploration. A pavilion might offer a program of activities, from talks to performances. This category is meant to recognize this year’s most outstanding permanent pavilion.
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Pavilion of the Year - Temporary

A place of shelter or learning, the best pavilions are also architecturally significant. They should arouse curiosity and invite exploration. A pavilion might offer a program of activities, from talks to performances. The pavilion’s materiality is important, especially if it’s a temporary structure. Thinking about renewal, it will be reused and/or repurposed. This category is meant to recognize this year’s most outstanding temporary pavilion.
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Parking Garage of the Year

Whether we like it or not cars and trucks are, at least for now, here to stay. Because vehicles are large, heavy and polluting, parking garages are typically open-air, require heavy structures and can cover massive surfaces. They can also be structurally innovative, energy efficient, sustainable and innovative buildings. Which parking garage projects stand out this year?
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Airport Building of the Year

There may not be another building typology that compares in sheer scale or complexity with airports. From arrival zones to security checkpoints, commercial areas, boarding gates and aircraft parking and circulation, airports might house enough space and receive enough visitors that they are even comparable in scale to small cities. Because of their size, airports often feature some of the most innovative structural systems, programs for energy efficiency and infrastructures for renewable energy. This category is for airport buildings of all sizes.
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Bridge of the Year

Bridges combine the expertise of architects and engineers to span waterways, valleys and urban spaces. They can be modest or sculptural, and measure a few meters or several kilometers in length. This category is for bridges of all types, vehicular or pedestrian.
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Unbuilt Public Project of the Year

This category honors unbuilt public projects that explore new ways to enhance civic life and community engagement. From libraries to transportation hubs to cultural centers, these designs will prioritize accessibility, inclusivity, and sustainability. Submissions should demonstrate a capacity to become landmarks in their communities while addressing practical public needs.
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Interiors

Cultural Interior of the Year

The cultural interior straddles a line between connecting with the surrounding community and/or landscape and offering a unique experience. Materials, lighting, furniture, and signage are all significant design factors. Accessibility and sustainability are key. Moreover, it is important to think about spatial arrangements and pedestrian flows.
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Café / Restaurant of the Year

Here, space planning and a configuration suited to a holistic dining experience is important. What are the available seating and table options? How does the space flow — is there a thoughtfully arranged connection between the indoor space and an outdoor terrace? Is sustainable design a feature? What attention has been given to sound, lighting, and branding?
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Shop Interior of the Year

A thoughtfully designed shop interior will help a brand to tell its story and engage with the customer. Fit-out is key: it is an opportunity to reflect culture and community. A good shop interior will avoid anything that is superfluous; it will highlight products and offer a comfortable shopping experience. Lighting is essential, and in larger stores, signage and wayfinding is important too.
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Office Interior of the Year - Small and Medium

With an increase in working from home, the office is becoming more and more of a hybrid setting. Flexibility is important, with spaces for individual working, group work, socializing, and even dedicated videoconferencing. There can be an emphasis on well-designed furniture, acoustics, and lighting (natural, focused, and ambient), as well as greenery. This category is for an office of less than 1000 m2.
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Office Interior of the Year - Large

With an increase in working from home, the office is becoming more and more of a hybrid setting. Flexibility is important, with spaces for individual working, group work, socializing, and even dedicated videoconferencing. There can be an emphasis on well-designed furniture, acoustics, and lighting (natural, focused, and ambient), as well as greenery. This category is for an office of 1000 m2 or more.
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Housing Interior of the Year

The interior of a house expresses the way a family wants to live: putting the kitchen central as the buzzing heart of the house, focused on the view or garden with different sitting areas, or focused around large tables to wine and dine with friends and family… each housing interior will be highly personal. Whatever the concept, it’s in the execution where the craftsmanship of the interior designer or architect comes to light.
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Hotel Interior of the Year

In the lobby, well-chosen fittings and flattering lighting will offer a warm greeting. Visual appeal is important and communicates a hotel’s commitment to the customer experience. Consider ambience, functionality, and durability — are furnishings and fittings designed to endure daily use. Think about everyday accessories, the use of technology, guest amenities, and the design of outdoor areas.
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Unbuilt Interiors Project of the Year

Innovative interiors can redefine how spaces are experienced. This category celebrates unbuilt interior designs that creatively balance functionality, aesthetics, and sustainability. Whether residential, commercial, or cultural interiors, submissions might present bold ideas in materiality, layout, and user interaction that promise to elevate the built environment.
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Landscape and Public Spaces

Park of the Year

A park can serve many functions. Parks can be open or closed, private or public. They typically offer recreational activities and are integrated with the landscape or site. This category is devoted to recognizing this year’s best park projects. It differs from the ‘public space’ category in that parks are typically reserved for specific purposes, may be more focused on landscaping, and are more defined or isolated spaces within cities or rural areas.
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Public Space of the Year

What is a public space? What does it do for a city? The most successful of public spaces are not only well designed aesthetically but also serve a civic purpose or tie together multiple urban areas for better pedestrian connectivity. This open-ended category is for public spaces large and small. Which are this year’s most outstanding public spaces?
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Unbuilt Landscape Project of the Year

Unbuilt landscape projects are opportunities to reimagine the relationship between humans and their environment. This category recognizes visionary designs for parks, urban spaces, or ecological sites that prioritize sustainability, community needs, and resilience. Projects might creatively address challenges like climate change, biodiversity, and urban density while enhancing public enjoyment or well-being.
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Mixed Use

Mixed Use Building of the Year

Mixed use buildings are a particularly interesting project type. They are also becoming more commonplace in cities as zoning rules are revised to encourage increased urban dynamism and density. While most mixed-use developments commonly combine residential and commercial programs, they can take many other forms. Whether industrial buildings topped with public parks, hotels mixed with offices, residences mixed with sports and leisure facilities, this category is open to mixed-use projects of every kind.
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Unbuilt Mixed Use Project of the Year

Mixed-use developments can redefine urban dynamism, and this category focuses on unbuilt projects that integrate residential, commercial, or recreational functions. Entries might explore innovative layouts, vertical density solutions, and sustainability measures while maintaining a harmonious relationship between different uses.
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Renovation and transformation

Adaptive Reuse of the Year

As climate concerns become more prevalent the world over, architects and planners are doing more to work with the building stock already in place. Adaptive reuse projects rework existing buildings or infrastructure for new uses. This category applies to all adaptive reuse projects.
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Renovation of the Year

As climate concerns become more prevalent the world over, architects and planners are doing more to work with the building stock already in place. Renovations are a way to give new life to old buildings. Renovation projects encapsulate refurbishments, upgrades, renewals and expansions, or near total transformations.
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Unbuilt Transformation Project of the Year

Adaptive reuse and transformation projects breathe new life into existing spaces, and this category celebrates unbuilt proposals that exemplify this approach. Whether reimagining old structures or converting spaces for entirely new functions, submissions should demonstrate creativity in design and a commitment to sustainability while preserving or enhancing the character of the original site.
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Small Projects

Small Project of the Year

Small projects can offer big ideas. They can explore new ways of using materials and rework small sites. They can be located in public or private zones, and even sit within or atop existing buildings. What is most exciting about small projects is their ability to serve a purpose while using a minimal footprint. This category is meant to recognize outstanding projects of less than 25 m2.
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Unbuilt Small Project of the Year

Small-scale projects can carry immense impact, and this category recognizes unbuilt designs under 25 m² that showcase innovation, efficiency, and purpose. Submissions should highlight the ability to solve complex problems or serve specific needs through minimal but powerful interventions, whether public or private.
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Industrial

Industrial Building of the Year

Manufacturing spaces, warehouses, distribution centers, factories: industrial buildings make up much of the world’s building stock, and are necessary infrastructure for functioning societies. Industrial buildings often weigh flexibility with responses to unique functional needs for humans, vehicles and machines. Such buildings often also prove to be among the most exciting examples of sustainability and design innovation. This category is for all industrial building types.
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Laboratory Building of the Year

Laboratories are complex functional machines. They are buildings that often require specific technologies and special considerations for mechanical systems, lighting, acoustics and climate control. They can also be buildings that rely on a unique mix of social spaces for teaching, interaction, and break-out activities. This category is for all laboratory building types, whether commercial, academic, commercial or government.
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Winery of the Year

Wineries buildings can be breeding grounds for architectural excellence. Often integrated with rural sites, wineries offer a particularly interesting mix of spaces and programs, from storage facilities and humidity-controlled environments, to visitor centers, laboratories, restaurants and tasting rooms. Wineries often experiment with natural materials and landscapes and can range in scale. This category is for all buildings affiliated with wineries and vineyards.
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Unbuilt Industrial Project of the Year

Industrial projects often push the boundaries of functionality and innovation, even before they are built. This category honors unbuilt designs for factories, warehouses, laboratories, and other industrial facilities that demonstrate visionary thinking in technology integration, sustainability, and adaptability. Submissions might address both human and machine needs while proposing bold design solutions.
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& Categories

Architecture & Wood Award

This award celebrates the innovative use of wood in architecture, highlighting its versatility, sustainability, and aesthetic potential. Submissions should showcase recent projects that utilize wood in structural, cladding, or decorative applications, demonstrating its environmental benefits, adaptability, and contribution to creating warm, inviting spaces. The winning project will exemplify the integration of craftsmanship and cutting-edge design with this renewable material.
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Architecture & Brick Award

Recognizing excellence in the use of brick, this award honors projects that leverage its durability, texture, and timeless appeal. Submissions might demonstrate innovative brickwork techniques or compositions that enhance structural integrity and visual interest. The winning project will emphasize sustainability, craftsmanship, and the ability to bridge traditional and contemporary design aesthetics through brick.
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Architecture & Glass Award

Glass has the power to transform spaces through light, transparency, and reflection, and this award recognizes projects that harness its full potential. Submissions might explore innovative uses of glass for façades, windows, or interior features, focusing on energy efficiency, thermal performance, and design excellence.
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Architecture & Metal Award

This award honors the innovative application of metal in architecture, from structural elements to facades and decorative features. Submissions should demonstrate creative uses of metal’s strength, reflectivity, and recyclability, emphasizing cutting-edge fabrication techniques or sustainable practices. The winning project will showcase metal’s ability to merge function, beauty, and environmental responsibility.
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Architecture & Concrete Award

Concrete is a material of strength and flexibility, and this award celebrates projects that push the boundaries. Submissions should highlight inventive uses of concrete, such as sculptural forms, energy-efficient systems, or integration with other materials. The winning project will exemplify sustainability, resilience, and a mastery of detail, showcasing how concrete can elevate architectural expression.
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Architecture & Stone Award

How might the use of stone be both timeless and innovative? Submissions should showcase projects that creatively integrate stone into their design, celebrating its natural beauty, durability, and sustainability. Whether used structurally, decoratively, or as cladding, the winning project will demonstrate innovative techniques and thoughtful application of this age-old material.
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Interior & Furniture Award

This award highlights the design of interiors and furniture that might exemplify innovative space use, sustainability, innovation, or craftsmanship. Submissions should demonstrate how furniture and interior design enhance the function and aesthetic of a space while prioritizing sustainable materials, ergonomic solutions, and unique design narratives.
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Exterior & Lighting Award

Lighting can shape the exterior identity of buildings, landscapes, or public spaces. This award recognizes projects that creatively use lighting to highlight architectural forms, enhance safety, or reduce energy consumption. Submissions should focus on innovative, sustainable lighting solutions that transform outdoor environments while respecting their surroundings.
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Interior & Lighting Award

Lighting transforms interior spaces, creating mood, enhancing functionality, and adding depth. This award celebrates innovative lighting designs that marry sustainability, creativity, and advanced technologies. Submissions might highlight how lighting has been used to accentuate materials, improve energy efficiency, or transform the quality of a space.
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Detail of the Year Award

The Detail of the Year award celebrates the mastery of architectural and design details that make projects truly exceptional. Submissions should focus on recently constructed projects with standout elements showcasing innovation, precision, and craftsmanship. Whether it’s a bespoke facade connection, a well-resolved interior joint, or a material transition, the winning project will highlight how small details can have a profound impact on design and sustainability.
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Overall

Building of the Year

What is, overall, the best building of the year? One cannot enter for this award, the nominees for this award are selected from the nominees of the building categories.
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For the Planet Award

What is, overall, the most sustainable project of the year? One cannot enter for this award, the nominees for this award are selected from the nominees of other categories.
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Interior of the Year

What is, overall, the interior of the year? One cannot enter for this award, the nominees for this award are selected from the nominees of the interior categories.
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