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11th Annual

Recognizing the year’s best buildings, landscapes, interiors, installations, and projects.
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ABOUT AN
BEST OF
DESIGN 2023

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 11th annual Best of Design Awards is a unique project-based awards program which showcases great buildings, building elements, interiors, and installations. Entrants are invited to submit completed works in 39 categories which reflect AN’s editorial coverage, as well as the interests of our readers.

The Best of Design 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.

A submission to AN’s Best of Design Awards is an opportunity for your work to be seen by 1 million+ AN readers and members of the AEC community.

Winners will be announced in December 2023.

PUBLICATION AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS

Winning projects will be published in print in AN’s Best of Design 2023 issue, which will arrive in December. Photos, descriptions, and juror comments will appear in this gorgeous publication that reaches readers nationwide and is distributed at industry events and conferences throughout 2024.

This coverage will also be featured on our website, where it 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!

TROPHY

Winners will receive an archival print from the Archigram archive signed by Archigram members. As seen above, last year’s winners received a copy of Bournemouth Development, Arcade, limited edition, on Hahnemühle German Etching paper (24 3/4 × 18 1/2 inches). A new print will be selected, produced, signed, and mailed to winners for this year’s competition.

JURY

Meryati Johari Blackwell

Principal + Interior Design Director

Marlon Blackwell Architects

Chris Cooper

Design Partner

SOM

Michelle Arevalos Franco

Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture

The Ohio State University

Michael Hsu

Founding Principal

Michael Hsu Office of Architecture

E.B. Min

Principal

Min Design

Maria Nicanor

Director

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Emily Conklin

Managing Editor

The Architect's Newspaper

Jack Murphy

Executive Editor

The Architect’s Newspaper

CATEGORIES
& SUBCATEGORIES

ADAPTIVE REUSE

ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING

BUILDING RENOVATION

CIVIC

COMMERCIAL
Hospitality
Office
Retail
Sports & Entertainment

CULTURAL

DIGITAL FABRICATION

EDUCATION
Higher Education
Kindergarten, Primary & High School

EXHIBITION DESIGN

FACADES

HEALTHCARE

INFRASTRUCTURE

INTERIOR
Healthcare
Hospitality
Institutional
Residential
Retail
Workplace

LANDSCAPE

LIBRARIES

RELIGIOUS

RESIDENTIAL
Mixed Use
Multi-Unit
Single-Unit

RESTORATION & PRESERVATION

SOCIAL IMPACT

STUDENT WORK

TEMPORARY INSTALLATION

UNBUILT
Commercial, Cultural, Civic & Education
Conceptual
Landscape, Urban Design & Master Plan
Residential: Multi-Unit
Residential: Single-Unit

URBAN DESIGN & MASTER PLAN

YOUNG ARCHITECTS AWARD

AWARD DATES
& DETAILS

LAUNCH
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
$245 until September 1 (midnight EST)

REGULAR REGISTRATION
$295 from September 2 until October 13 (midnight ET)

STUDENT REGISTRATION
$45

SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Friday, October 13, 2023 (midnight ET)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

ELIGIBILITY

In order for a project to be eligible for submission, it must have been completed within two years’ time of the submission deadline, so since October 2021. Landscape, public, unbuilt, and representation projects must have been initiated within three years’ time of the submission deadline, so since October 2020.

To be considered for the Young Architects Award, you must have graduated from architecture or design school within the past ten years. Please include images of three key projects and use the text box to describe your practice.

The Best of Design Awards is open to any and all projects that meet one or both of the two following criteria: The project submitted must be located within Canada, Mexico, or the United States, or the submitting firm (e.g., architects, designers, consultants, engineers, manufacturers, developers) must operate a location within Canada, Mexico, or the United States.

Entrants are allowed to submit multiple projects for the same category 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.

The Adaptive Reuse category is intended for projects where a change of use takes place. The Building Renovation category is intended for projects where improvements are made but the use remains the same. Entrants may submit adaptive reuse/renovation projects in other categories as desired; the winners of other categories are not required to be new construction. Note that the submission of the same project to multiple categories will require the payment of additional registration fees.

ENTRY FEE

Early Bird: $245 (July 5 – September 1)
Regular: $295 (September 2 – October 13)
Student: $45

REQUIREMENTS

Submissions must be paid for before making a submission.
Registration and entry can be completed via the submission portal linked to this page.

WRITTEN MATERIAL

Registration and 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). Written and visual components of submissions cannot include the company, brand, studio name, logos, or any other identifying mark.

Include all applicable collaborators and manufacturers.

This information should include company names as it will not be reviewed by the jury.

The written description and visual components of submissions cannot include the company, brand, studio name, logos, or any other identifying mark.

IMAGES

Up to six images per submission.

Digital specs:
File format: 150 DPI, high-resolution JPG.
Image size: Maximum dimensions of 8.5 × 11 inches or 11 × 8.5 inches (landscape format preferred).
Color format: RGB
File size: 5 MB maximum for each image.
Label image file names in sequence. Do not include the photographer’s name in the file name.

Do not include text on or within images. 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 ET (11:59 p.m.) on the submission deadline. AN 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.

Submission is no guarantee of publication or an award.

ABOUT
AN MEDIA
GROUP

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 online 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. Learn more about AN Media Group and our other brands at: https://anmediagroup.com/