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The Design Awards recognize design excellence of built and unbuilt work in Connecticut or in other locations by Connecticut-based firms.
2024 Registration Opens: June 10
Registration Deadline: July 26
Submission Deadline: September 6
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.
Interior Architecture
Projects of any interior scope that may be new construction, renovation, preservation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, or restoration.
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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
Small Firm
Projects no larger than 5,000sf completed by firms of no more than ten people total.
Architects licensed and residing in Connecticut may submit projects located anywhere.
Architects whose practice is located outside Connecticut may submit projects located in Connecticut.
Architectural interns and students are eligible only for the Unbuilt and Architecture: The Encompassing Art categories.
Submitted projects must have been completed within the last 5 years. “Completed” is defined as “Substantial Completion” in accordance with standard AIA contracts.
Entrants should select a single category for their project. Entries that fall into more than one category must be assigned to only one.
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 member:
Member of another AIA component:
Non-Member Registered Architect: