PUBLICATION AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS

JURY

Coming Soon…

AWARD DATES

LAUNCH

Friday, June 21, 2024

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION

$245 until August 2 (midnight ET)
$125 until August 2 (midnight ET) with Emerging Firm discount

REGULAR REGISTRATION

$295 from August 3 until September 13 (midnight ET)
$150 from August 3 until September 13 (midnight ET) with Emerging Firm discount

STUDENT REGISTRATION

$45

To uplift students and emerging firms (firms that were founded within the last five years), AN offers reduced pricing, applicable to all categories of the awards and multiple uses. For the Emerging Firm discount use code EMERGING EARLY at checkout during the early bird period or EMERGING during regular registration. The Student Discount will automatically be applied to cart when submitting Student Work.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

Friday, September 13, 2024 (midnight ET)

TROPHY

Winners will receive an archival print from the Archigram archive signed by Archigram members. A new print will be selected, produced, signed, and mailed to winners for this year’s competition.

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 2022. Landscape, public, unbuilt, and representation projects must have been initiated within three years’ time of the submission deadline, so since October 2021.

To be considered for the Emerging Architects Project Award, the firm must have been founded within the last five years. Please use each submission to highlight one project.

The Best of Design Awards is open to any and all projects in any place of the world.

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.

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

Written material includes:

• A written description (up to 150 words). Please remember that submissions will be judged anonymously for a fair jury process. As such, do not reveal the company, brand, studio name, or other identifying marks in the project name, written material, and visual components 
• A list of applicable collaborators and manufacturers. (This will not be viewed by the jury so it can include company names)

IMAGES

Up to six images are per submission. Image requirements include:

• File format: 150 DPI, high-resolution JPG.
• Image size: Landscape is preferred 
• Color format: RGB
• File size: 5 MB maximum for each image.
• Label image file names in sequence with the photographer’s name in the file name.
• Do not add captions 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.

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