Building Awards

• Architecture Firm Awards
• Building Awards
• Inside Spaces
• Making a Difference
• Outside Spaces
• People
• Sustainability
• World's Tallest Buildings

• Wu Han Master Plan of Riverside Area of the Han River, Wu Han, China | DLR Group

Buildings are highlighted in this section. Awards to buildings include general awards and specific building award types, such as schools, libraries and industrial design. 

• AIA Honor Awards
  The American Institute of Architects’ Honor Awards celebrate outstanding design in three areas: architecture, interior architecture, and regional and urban design.
• Best Tall Building Awards
  The Best Tall Building Awards recognize projects that have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment, including sustainability.
• Twenty-five Year Award
  The American Institute of Architects’ Twenty-five Year Award celebrates buildings that excel under the test of time. Eligible projects must have been completed within the past 25 to 35 years by a licensed US architect, though the buildings may be located worldwide.
• Exhibition of School Architecture Awards
  The Exhibition of School Architecture Awards, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators, American Institute of Architects, and Council of Educational Facility Planners International, showcase how well-designed schools facilitate student achievement.
• Housing Awards
  The AIA’s Housing Awards recognize the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource. Licensed AIA-member architects are eligible to enter US-built projects.
• Library Buildings Awards
  The American Institute of Architects and American Library Association present the biennial Library Buildings Awards to encourage excellence in the design and planning of libraries.
• National Healthcare Design Awards
  The National Healthcare Design Awards showcase the best of healthcare building design and health design-oriented research. Winning projects exhibit conceptual strength and solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns in addition to the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a healthcare facility.
• Religious Art & Architecture
  The annual Religious Art & Architecture Design Awards, co-sponsored by Faith & Form magazine and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (a professional interest area of the American Institute of Architects), reward the highest achievements in architecture, liturgical design, and art for religious spaces.
• International Design Excellence Awards
  The annual International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), produced by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and sponsored by Fast Company, honor outstanding industrial design projects worldwide.