35 categories.
Find where your work wins.
Built and conceptual entries are welcome in every category, from professionals and students worldwide. Around 60% of participants enter one project in multiple categories to increase their chance of winning — and the 3rd category on the same project is free.
Architecture
20 CATEGORIESCommercial
Recognizes architectural excellence and innovation in commercial buildings that serve the needs of commercial spaces with new innovations.
Cultural
Recognizes expressive and forward-thinking cultural centers — projects that symbolize their local culture and become an all-inclusive hub for the public.
Healthcare / Wellness
Instituted to recognize the best projects in healthcare and wellness spaces that look for a new building dialect to fulfil functional necessities.
Hospitality
Recognizes excellence in conceptualizing a brand into an architectural form while keeping the smooth functioning of the project intact.
Housing (up to 5 floors)
Recognizes low- and mid-rise group housing that is innovative in its approach and creates new living experiences designed for many distinct families.
Housing (over 5 floors)
Recognizes high-rise housing projects that combine density with liveability — innovative vertical communities designed for a large number of families.
Industrial
Recognizes creativity and innovation in highly functional and productivity-oriented industrial architecture.
Institutional
Recognizes architectural excellence and innovation in institutional buildings such as schools, colleges, campuses, hospitals and transport terminals.
Mixed Use
Recognizes the year's best mixed-use structure featuring a combination of programs such as hospitality, commercial or residential.
Office Building
Recognizes excellence in office spaces: communicating corporate identity while designing a highly productive workspace.
Pop-ups & Temporary
Recognizes the year's best temporary structures and pop-ups in public places, exhibitions and installations.
Private Landscape
Recognizes the year's best private landscape design — innovations in comfortable private outdoor and indoor open spaces and gardens.
Public Landscape
Recognizes the year's best public landscape project — parks, waterfronts and open spaces that give the city back to its people.
Private Residence (Small–Medium)
Recognizes the best small and medium residential projects providing a comfortable living environment for residents in their respective climates.
Private Residence (Large)
Recognizes the best large residences — homes where scale, site and craft come together into an exceptional living environment.
Public Building
Recognizes architectural excellence in buildings or complexes, public or private, serving government, social, cultural or religious purposes.
Sports & Recreation
Recognizes innovation and excellence in sports and recreational spaces that define a new architectural language.
Transportation
The value of quality transportation cannot be overstated — recognizes projects making travel smoother and safer for millions of people every day.
Urban Design
Recognizes urban design strategies which transform cities into more stimulating environments for human life.
Restoration & Adaptive Reuse
Recognizes excellence in restoration, renovation and adaptive reuse — projects that give existing buildings new purpose, performance and life.
The future enters here. So can yours.
Every architecture category accepts completed work (after 1 June 2020) and unbuilt concepts alike.
Interiors
5 CATEGORIESInteriors — Healthcare / Wellness
Recognizes interior projects for clinics, hospitals, spas and wellness spaces where design measurably improves the experience of care.
Interiors — Hospitality
Recognizes perfection and excellence in hospitality interiors — hotels, food courts and wellness venues — with innovation and a new design language.
Interiors — Residential
Interior design projects featuring innovations in providing a comfortable living environment for inhabitants — characterizing new models for living.
Interiors — Retail
Recognizes innovation in retail environments — stores, showrooms and brand spaces that turn shopping into an experience.
Interiors — Workplace
Instituted to recognize the best corporate interior projects — designs that seek a new dialect to fulfil the utilitarian necessities of work.
Design
4 CATEGORIESExhibition Design
Recognizes innovation in brand identity and storytelling through exhibition design.
Furniture Design
Recognizes the year's best furniture design, outdoor or indoor, that is an innovative solution for comfortable living and the environment.
Interior Design Elements
Recognizes excellence and innovation in interior design elements that do not fit into any other category.
Signage Design
Recognizes innovation in signage and graphic design in the built environment.
Old bones. New life.
The 20th architecture category honours projects that give existing buildings new purpose — enter yours.
Construction & Special Awards
6 CATEGORIESArchitectural Innovation of the Year
Recognizes the project, system or idea that pushed architecture forward this year — a genuine first, not an increment.
Sustainable Project of the Year
Recognizes innovation and best practice in resource-efficient and environmentally responsible construction.
Technological Innovation of the Year
Recognizes innovations in construction technology — from the integration of new technologies to successful experimentation.
Green Rated Building of the Year
Recognizes certified green buildings (LEED, GRIHA, BREEAM and equivalent) whose performance matches their promise.
Offsite Construction Project of the Year
Recognizes excellence in modular and offsite construction — projects proving that speed, precision and design quality can coexist.
Woman in Construction Award
For any company or individual championing equality and driving change within a workplace or on a project.
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$300 per entry until 15 September · 3rd category on the same project free · Submission closes 3 October 2026
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