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Friday, June 19, 2026

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
$245 until July 31 (midnight ET)
$125 until July 31 (midnight ET) with Emerging Firm discount

REGULAR REGISTRATION

$295 from August 1 until September 18 (midnight ET)
$150 from August 1 until September 18 (midnight ET) with Emerging Firm discount

STUDENT REGISTRATION

$45

To support student participation, AN offers reduced pricing for the Student Work category and for applicants in other categories who are students. The Student Discount will automatically be applied to cart when submitting Student Work and if you list your company and/or job title as student.

EMERGING FIRM DISCOUNT

$120/$145

To uplift emerging firms, AN offers reduced pricing applicable to all categories of the awards. This discount is available for multiple entries. To qualify as an emerging firm, your practice must have been founded within the last five years. Use the discount code EMERGING EARLY during the early-bird period or the discount code EMERGING during regular registration.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

September 18, 2026 (midnight ET).

Winners will receive a custom print made exclusively for AN. Subscribe or follow us on Instagram so you don’t miss the announcement of this year’s print.

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 September 2024. Landscape, public, unbuilt, and representation projects must have been initiated within three years’ time of the submission deadline, so since September 2023.

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

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)
• Project location, size, and other optional data
  

IMAGES

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

• File format: 150 DPI, high-resolution JPG.
• 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 project images unless it is a diagram/plan. 
• Do not include your firm, company, school name on the images.
• For adaptive reuse and renovation categories, before/after photos are encouraged as one of the five images

DIAGRAMS

• One floorplan, or if not applicable, another type of diagram, is required per submission
• File can be a PDF, no bigger than 5MB
• Please refrain from putting the company name in the diagram/plan

All submissions must be entered online and received by AN no later than midnight ET (11:59 p.m.) on the submission deadline. Please note you will have to pay for registration before submitting the materials. 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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