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2024 categories

 

PRODUCTS

Architectural Systems and Facades

 

Flooring--Soft (Carpet)

 

Flooring--Hard 

 

Furniture--Office

 

Furniture--Outdoor

 

Furniture--Education

 

Furniture--Healthcare

 

Furniture--Other Indoor

 

Kitchen and Bath

 

Lighting

 

Lighting--Outdoor

 

Paint

 

Surfaces, Tiles, Materials

 

Technology and Tools

 

Textiles

 

Walls + Ceilings

 

 

PROJECTS

Civic/Cultural

All projects completed for cultural or civic clients that are accessible to the public, either free of charge or through an admission fee/ticket. This includes but is not limited to civic amenities, community centers, transit facilities, parks, public plazas, museums, performance venues, event venues, sport/athletic venues, convention centers, local/state/federal government offices, embassies, consulates, and courthouses. (Parks and public plazas are also eligible for the Landscape category, depending upon the scope of work on the project.)

Educational

All projects completed for educational institutions and projects that incorporate learning and research as a significant portion of their program. This includes but is not limited to schools, colleges, universities, research centers, innovation centers, laboratories, and training facilities. (Student housing must be entered in the Multifamily/Mixed-Use category.)

Healthcare

All projects completed for clients who provide health care services. This includes but is not limited to hospitals, clinics, therapeutic facilities, veterinary facilities, medical/dental/vision specialist facilities.

Hospitality

All projects completed for clients who provide hospitality services. This includes but is not limited to hotels, bars, restaurants, eateries, cafés, resorts, spas, commercial kitchens, and event venues.

Landscape

All projects where landscape architecture is the main service rendered to the client. This includes but is not limited to parks, plazas, waterfronts, gardens, grounds, outdoor work or hospitality areas, and brownfield remediation.

Multifamily/Mixed-use

All projects which include more than one residential unit. This includes but is not limited to apartment buildings, housing developments, affordable housing, supportive housing, homeless housing, transitional housing, senior living, assisted living, retirement communities, student housing, and mixed-use buildings combining residential units with retail or office space. (Hotel buildings with residential units must be entered in the Hospitality category.)

Single-Family Home

All free-standing home projects that are designed to be used as a single-dwelling unit. This includes but is not limited to fully detached, semi-detached, a row house or a townhome.

Showroom/Retail

All projects designed for sale of goods, including but not limited to retail outlets, showrooms, malls, and pop-ups.

Workplace 

All projects for private clients where knowledge work is a significant part of the program. This includes but is not limited to offices, headquarters, co-working facilities, conferencing facilities, and administrative facilities. (Projects focused on real estate repositioning may be entered in this category or in any of the categories above, based on what program occupies most of the square footage.)

 

PEOPLE

Firm of the Year

This award recognizes one architecture and interior design firm for all-around leadership on design for sustainability, wellness, equity, and resilience. 

Rising Star 

This award recognizes early- and mid-career individuals who have made significant contributions to sustainable, equitable, healthy, and resilient design at their firms.

Best Student Work 

This award recognizes rigorous and visionary work by a student of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, or planning that focuses on design for a sustainable, healthy, resilient, equitable, and regenerative future. Students can apply themselves and don't need to be nominated.

Best Educator 

This award recognizes educators in architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture who nurture creative approaches to future challenges in the next generation of professionals. Educators can apply themselves and don't need to be nominated.


INNOVATION 

Best Overall Decarbonization

The building industry is responsible for 40% of global carbon emissions. This award recognizes project playing their part in fighting climate change through decarbonization.

Best Embodied Carbon Reduction

By 2050, embodied carbon emissions are set to represent 49% of the building industry’s total emissions. This award celebrates projects that reduce embodied carbon in core and shell or interiors.

Best Innovation in Material and Product Use in Projects

A big portion of any building’s impacts on people and the planet can be influenced by material choices and careful analysis of supply chain impacts. This award honors creative choices and uses of materials and products.

Best Community Engagement

Architecture and design projects touch the lives of many communities, and the best way to understand those impacts is to engage those people in meaningful ways. This award recognizes projects with deep and impactful community engagement.

Best Social Impact

Communities and societies can be empowered and uplifted through the kinds of spaces that they can access, use, or influence. This award recognizes projects that fulfill the potential of the built environment to improve the lives of people.

Best Water Conservation and Management

Water is one of the most precious resources on the planet, and man-made environments have placed an excessive burden on water in many places. This award recognizes projects that help sustain our world through responsible use of water.

Best Impact on Health and Wellness

Human-made environments, whether indoors or outdoors, are a key determinant of both personal health and public health. This award celebrates projects that help keep individuals and communities healthy.

Best Design for Resilience

Communities everywhere can benefit from a resilient built environment, but buildings and spaces that bounce back from catastrophe can be critical to vulnerable populations. This award celebrates projects that can support communities during times of crisis and help them recover after.

Best Unbuilt Project

The biggest challenges in the world—like climate action, social justice, or public health—need imaginative solutions. This award celebrates an unbuilt project that has the potential for extraordinary impact.

Best Manufacturer Corporate Sustainability Initiative

This award is given to a corporate sustainability, health, wellness, or equity initiative led by a product manufacturer that has made a positive impact on the organization or its operations, workforce, products, and customers. Individual products or product collections are not eligible in this category and should be entered for a Planet Positive Products Award in the appropriate category.

Best Innovation in Material and Product Use in Products

This award recognizes innovative materials and material applications in products for buildings, landscapes, and interiors that result in a positive impact on people and the planet.

 

 

*Please note that categories may be renamed, consolidated, or eliminated (and entries reassigned) at the editor's discretion. All information and images should appear exactly how you want it to be shown digitally and in print.