2025 Registration Opens: June 9
Early Bird Registration Deadline: June 27 (Extended to July 11)
Final Registration & Submission Materials Deadline: August 22
Winners announced in October
The Design Awards recognize design excellence of built and unbuilt work in Connecticut or in other locations by Connecticut-based firms.
Introducing a NEW category – Small Firm award. Small firms (under 15 employees) can submit their single BEST project. It’s not divided by category, but rather focused on recognizing the overall excellence of a firm’s work, and there may be multiple winners selected. All other categories are traditional categories, which remain open to firms of all sizes, follow the same structure as in previous years.
New York, NY
Andy Davey
Simpson & Brown
Edinburgh, UK
Antonia Devine, AIA
Tishman Speyer and Yale School of Architecture lecturer
New York, NY
Colin Flavin, AIA
Flavin Architects
Boston, MA
Stephen White, AIA
Roger Williams University
Dean, Architecture School
Providence, RI
Commercial, Institutional, Educational, or Multi-Family Residential Design
Both public and private projects. Can be single buildings or a related group of buildings forming a single project, renovations, and additions. Two categories of awards will be considered in this category:
Historic Preservation & Adaptive Re-Use
Buildings 50 years or older, both public and private projects. Can be single buildings or a related group of buildings forming a single project, renovations, restorations, and additions that thoughtfully preserve, restore, or adapt existing structures for contemporary use.
Interior Architecture
Projects of any interior scope that may be new construction, renovation, preservation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, or restoration.
Residential Design
Single family residences, additions, and accessory buildings (new or remodeled). Projects previously submitted to the Alice Washburn Awards program may also be submitted to this category.
Planning: Community, Campus, Town and Urban
Projects that include more than a single structure and engage the private and public realms of the built environment. Two categories of awards will be considered in this category:
Small Firm Design
Architecture: The Encompassing Art
Includes but is not limited to: designs for such details as hardware, stairways, railings, graphics, lighting or fixtures, furniture, scholarly research, environmental or energy research, urban planning analyses, or technical innovations.
Unbuilt Design
Unbuilt architectural designs, for which there is no current intent to build, of any project type, including purely theoretical or visionary projects, with or without a client.
Connecticut-Licensed Architects: Architects who are licensed and reside in Connecticut may submit projects located anywhere.
Out-of-State Architects: Architects whose primary practice is located outside of Connecticut may submit only those projects that are located within Connecticut.
Interns and Students: Architectural interns and students are eligible to submit only in the Unbuilt and Architecture: The Encompassing Art categories.
Project Completion: Submitted projects must have been completed within the past five (5) years. “Completed” is defined as achieving Substantial Completion per standard AIA contract definitions.
Category Selection: Each project must be entered into a single category. However, the same project may be submitted in additional categories as separate entries.
Each category is a separate submission. The submission form will require the following items:
Do not include any identifying firm information in any part of your submission. This includes file names because they are visible to jurors. Submissions with identifying information will automatically be disqualified.
The Design Award jury consists of peers who are located outside the state of Connecticut.
Jurors will take into consideration and acknowledge:
AIA CONNECTICUT MEMBERS:
Early Bird Rates Available Through July 11
Entries submitted after July 11 will incur an additional fee of $100 per entry.
MEMBER OF ANOTHER AIA COMPONENT CHAPTER:
Early Bird Rates Available Through July 11
Entries submitted after July 11 will incur an additional fee of $100 per entry.
NON-MEMBER REGISTERED ARCHITECT:
Early Bird Rates Available Through July 11
Entries submitted after July 11 will incur an additional fee of $100 per entry.