Call for Entries: 9th Annual Architizer A+Awards

Returning with relevant new categories and inspiring jurors, the 2021 Architizer A+Awards will spotlight architecture for a changing world.

Architizer, the world’s largest online platform for architecture, is now accepting entries for the 9th Annual Architizer A+Awards, emphasizing architecture’s role in a changing world.

The Architizer A+Awards is the world’s largest and most democratic architectural awards program, and honors the year’s best buildings and spaces from around the globe. The A+Awards are judged by Architizer’s 250+ jury academy featuring prestigious members of the architecture and design community, as well as luminaries from the art, technology, fashion, media, business, and real estate industries. 

The A+Awards are also judged by the public, with the aim to break architecture out of the echo chamber and remind the world how design impacts people’s everyday lives. 

In collaboration with its official partners, Phaidon, AIA New York, and Aesthetica Magazine, the 2020 A+Awards received over 400,000 public votes on 5,000+ entries from over 100 countries worldwide. 

Visit www awards.architizer.com for details

See Your Work on the Global Stage

The A+Awards live at Architizer.com, the largest online architecture community in the world, with an audience 7+ million strong. Finalists and Winners are published in bespoke coverage on Architizer and other international media outlets from around the globe.

Winners also receive the custom A+Awards trophy and have their work featured in the annual A+Awards book The World’s Best Architecture, published by Phaidon.  

Be Judged by Industry Luminaries

The program returns with timely additions to its Jury, including:

•  Lesley Lokko (Founder & Director, African Futures Institute)
• Alison Brooks (Principal & Creative Director, Alison Brooks Architects )
• Céline Semaan (Founder & Executive Director, Slow Factory Foundation)
• Tom Kundig (Principal, Olson | Kundig)
• Monica von Schmalensee (Senior Partner & CEO, White Arkitekter)
• Karim Rashid (Industrial Designer and American Design Award Winner)
• Pascale Sablan (Founder & Executive Director, Beyond the Built)
• Tao Liu and Chunyan Cai (Founders & Principals, Atelier tao+c)
• Nader Tehrani (Founding Principal, NADAAA)

Architecture for a Changing World

The world around us never stops evolving, but in 2020, the rate of change accelerated on all fronts.  For the world’s best designers, today's challenges bring with them rich opportunities for innovation. The 2021 A+Awards will throw the spotlight on designs for a rapidly changing world, with 94 categories across a wide spectrum of project types, including:

• healthcare
• environment
• new technology
• low-cost design
• multi-unit housing

Competition Details

The final deadline for entries is April 23rd, 2021. All architecture, interior design, landscape, and urban planning projects are eligible to enter. Projects can be built or conceptual, but must be completed within the last 3 years. 

Enter at: www.awards.architizer.com

Key Dates

Main Entry deadline: March 12, 2021

Late Entry deadline: April 23, 2021

Finalists Announced: June 2021

Winners Announced: July 2021