Upcoming AIA Awards currently open for submissions on Bustler

For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are featuring 14 AIA Awards programs seeking the best in a range of typologies, from urban design and housing to small projects and contemporary architecture.

For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.

AIA Young Architects Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2024

"Emerging talent deserves recognition. The Young Architects Award honors individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the architecture profession early in their careers."

AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2024

"Great public architecture embodies the identity and values of a society. The Award for Excellence in Public Architecture recognizes architects in the public and private sectors who design distinguished public facilities and public officials, or other individuals, who advocate for the design excellence of public spaces."

AIA Small Project Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"A small project can make a big impact and a single design element can set the tone for large projects. AIA and its Small Project Design (SPD) Knowledge Community present the annual Small Project Award Program to raise public awareness of the value and design excellence that architects provide regardless of the limits of size and budget."

AIA Regional & Urban Design Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"Buildings never arise in isolation. The best planning accounts for the entire built environment, local culture, and available resources—modeling architecture’s promise and true value to communities. The Regional & Urban Design program recognizes the best in urban design, regional and city planning, and community development."

AIA Housing Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"It’s a life necessity, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and many people’s first and most personal encounter with architecture: The house. By recognizing the best in home design, AIA Housing Awards show the world how beauty, safety, sustainability, and comfort can come together."

AIA Collaborative Achievement Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"The Collaborative Achievement Award recognizes the achievements of allied professionals and architect teams which have advanced the architectural profession. The Collaborative Achievement Awards recognize the excellence that results when architects work with those from outside the profession to improve the spaces where people live and work."

AIA Education Facility Design Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"As education continues to evolve, we must evaluate and measure our successes, and have an arena in which to test ideas. The Education Facility Design Award provides an opportunity to engage in critical evaluation and experimentation, not as an end in itself, but in the context of our clients and their needs. Recognized projects represent state-of-the-art learning environments, including early childhood, K-12, alternative, community and technical colleges, schools of higher education, corporate or other specialized training centers, and non-traditional learning environments such as community centers, museums, libraries, nature centers, and interpretive centers."

AIA Design for Aging Review Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"The Design for Aging Review includes a juried award and access to digital content and educational programs that showcase communities representing conscientious surroundings that advance environments for senior living. The comprehensive review of architectural design trends for the aging will become a reference for providers, developers, users, advocates, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and other design professionals. This award furnishes architects and their teams the opportunity to demonstrate innovative solutions that improve the quality of life for older adults within specific project constraints."

AIA/ALA Library Building Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"Libraries are more than learning centers—they’re also enduring examples of architectural excellence. Every year, the AIA is proud to partner with the American Library Association/Library Leadership and Management Association to honor the best in library architecture and design. The AIA/ALA Library Building Award is the only award that recognizes entire library structures and all aspects of their design."

COTE® Top Ten Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"The Committee on the Environment (COTE®) Top Ten award program, now in its 29th year, was founded on the idea that sustainability is essential to design excellence and vice versa. The COTE® Top Ten has become the industry’s best-known award program recognizing innovative projects integrating exemplary performance with compelling design."

AIA Healthcare Design Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"The Healthcare Design Award recognizes innovative projects that help solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social problems while also being functional and sustainable. Project types include outpatient centers, hospital expansions, diagnostic and treatment facilities, community-based clinics, children’s hospitals, and wellness centers."

AIA Interior Architecture Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"Impactful building interiors make their mark on the cities, places, and spaces where we live and work. The Interior Architecture program celebrates the most innovative and spectacular interior spaces, with projects ranging from a distillery visitor center to an ice rink to a 1,100-foot table, and that’s just the beginning."

AIA Architecture Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"The Architecture program celebrates the best contemporary architecture regardless of budget, size, style, or type. These stunning projects show the world the range of outstanding work architects create and highlight the many ways buildings and spaces can improve our lives."

AIA Justice Facilities Review Award 2025
Registration/Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"The Justice Facilities Review (JFR) is published yearly and documents best practices in planning and design for justice architecture. The JFR offers examples of a broad range of design strategies and depicts the latest trends in the design and construction of buildings that directly support the justice system. These projects demonstrate the quality of form, functionality, and current architectural responses to complex justice design issues. The JFR program is sponsored by the Academy of Architecture for Justice, an AIA Knowledge Community. Share your exceptional work with your peers today."

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