The Architect’s Newspaper speaks directly to leaders in architecture and design with news, products, developments, trends, and updates. With our magazine, AN Interior, our outreach to the design community has grown exponentially.
Our Eighth Annual Best Of Design Awards is a unique project-based awards program that showcases great buildings, building elements, interiors, and installations.
Entrants are invited to submit completed works in 50 categories that reflect AN’s editorial coverage, as well as the interests and obsessions of our readers.
The BoD jury will judge entries based on several criteria—strength of the presentation, evidence of innovation, creative use of new technology, sustainability, and, most importantly, good design.
Winning projects will be featured on Archpaper.com, where they will reach a national and international audience and will be promoted via our online and social media platforms. Winners will also receive a limited edition print from Archigram produced especially for AN. Be seen by 1 Million+ AN readers and Members of the A/E/C Design Community!
Winners will be announced in December 2020
July 7th, 2020
$145 until August 6th (Midnight EST)
$195 from August 7th until October 1st (Midnight EST)
Extended to Thursday, October 8th (Midnight EST)
December 2020 issue of The Architect’s Newspaper
Winners and Honorable Mentions will be published in a special Design Annual created for Best Of Design. It will be mailed out in December 2020 and distributed at industry events and conferences throughout 2021.
Winning projects will also be featured on our website, where they will reach a national and international audience and will be promoted via our online and social media platforms. Winners will also receive a limited edition print from Archigram produced especially for AN. Be seen by 1 Million+ AN readers and Members of the AEC Design Community!
In order for a project to be eligible for submission, it must have been completed within two year’s time of the submission deadline (Since October 2018). Landscape, Public, Unbuilt, and Representation projects must have been initiated within three years time of the submission deadline (Since October 2017).
To enter the Young Architects Awards, you must have graduated from architecture or design school within the past 10 years. Please include images of three key projects and employ the text box to describe your practice.
The Best Of Design Awards is open to Canadian, Mexican, U.S. and international firms (e.g., architects/ designers/ consultants/ engineers/ manufacturers/ developers), but projects submitted must be located within Canada, Mexico, or The United States.
Entrants are allowed to submit multiple projects or the same project in multiple categories but must enter each as a separate submission.
Representatives of firms and developers are allowed to submit on behalf of their clients. Please provide your direct contact information but include the name of the applying firm in the “Company” field on the registration form.
Registration fees per submission:
Early Bird $145
Regular Registration $195
$45 for students
Registration + entry submission must be completed via the registration portal linked to this page. Submissions must include photographs and/or renderings of the project and a written description (150-word limit). Submissions cannot include the company, brand, studio name, logos, or any other identifying mark.
Up to six images per submission.
Digital specs:
File format: 150 dpi, high-res JPG.
Image size: Maximum dimensions, 8 ½ x 11 in or 11 x 8 ½ in (landscape preferred).
Color format: RGB File size: 5 MB maximum for each image.
Label image file names in sequence.
Please refrain from adding text to the images and please do not include your firm, company, school name on the images.
All submissions must be entered online and received by AN no later than midnight EST on the submission deadline. The Architect’s Newspaper reserves publication rights for all materials submitted as part of the Best Of Design Awards program, extending to all forms of media or content delivery, whether print, online, digital, mobile or otherwise, now or hereafter created.
Registration fees are nonrefundable.
Once a submission is completed and approved, you cannot return to the application to make changes.
Submission is no guarantee of publication or an award.
The Architect’s Newspaper provides timely news and cultural reporting on the built environment through a nationally distributed monthly newspaper as well as a design magazine, AN Interior, online at archpaper.com, and through a series of email newsletters. Every issue delivers our trademark blend of topical essays, opinionated columns, project analyses, firm profiles, interviews, new products, reviews of exhibitions and books, and calendars of events in a handy and handsome full-color tabloid and a quarterly magazine. AN reaches a highly engaged on-line community of hundreds of thousands through our web and social media platforms. AN is the must-read publication for architects, planners, landscape architects, designers, and allied professionals.
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