Why enter?
- Celebrate your project’s success over time and demonstrate its strong track record for delivering on its ambitions – environmental, functional, community and cultural
- Contribute to the shared learning that is essential if we are to bring about the step change in performance the industry desperately needs
- Demonstrate the long-term performance of your project and building performance evaluation (BPE)
- Showcase the building team’s thinking, ingenuity and expertise for delivering projects that have stood the test of time
- Present your projects to the judges and an audience of industry leaders, clients and peers
- Share your success story in a building in use study with new commissioned photography of the winning projects published in a special issue of Architecture Today
- Record and share your presentation on a publicly accessible learning resource on the Architecture Today website
Win recognition for your project as we honour the winners at The Awards Party for the AT Awards 2024 in November 2024.
Categories
2024 Categories
Education
The education award is among the most hotly contested categories with diverse high-calibre entries, including retrofit schemes, vying for the top honour. Adaptability, robustness, environmental performance and the ability to inspire pupils/students are just some of the design criteria the jury will be looking for.
Healthcare
Individual House
New for 2023, this award reflects the perennial interest in one-of-a-kind dwellings among both architects and judges. Design qualities that entered projects will be judged on include contextual sensitivity, appropriate use of materials, spatial richness, and long-term sustainability.
Hospitality, Retail, Sport & Leisure
Landscape & Public Realm
Mixed Use
As the title suggests, this broad and inclusive category is open to a wide range of projects. Success will depend on numerous factors – not least programmatic ingenuity, flexibility, functionality at macro and micro scale, and the elusive x-factor that makes the scheme stand out from other like-minded developments.
Religion & Culture
Residential Development
Transport & Infrastructure
Workplace
International
Student Prize
Each category is open to new-build and retrofit projects. Buildings must have been completed before 1 April 2021 to be eligible for entry.
Judging Criteria
The judging panel consider key areas of performance including
Construction approach
Environmental performance
User comfort and well-being
Accessibility, inclusivity and legibility
Adaptability and flexibility
Facilitation of sustainable lifestyles
Robustness and resilience
Biodiversity and natural capital
Social impact
Civic pride and sense of place
Contribution to shared learning
Guidelines
The judges will be particularly keen to see any independent third-party validation of claims made.
They will also probably expect to see some form of comparative data demonstrating the effectiveness of the changes made. However, every building has different challenges and it is up to the shortlisted teams to explain the design decisions they made and the effectiveness of those solutions.
You do NOT need a Post Occupancy Evaluation to enter. We fully understand that POE has only recently become widespread practice and that is unrealistic to expect it to be available for buildings completed some years ago.
That said, we view these awards and the judging process as an exercise in collective learning, and particularly welcome any insights entrants can offer into the challenges involved in obtaining, or indeed failing to obtain, meaningful information on performance.
Key dates
- 2024 Entries open — Thursday 1 February 2024
- Deadline for entries — Wednesday 19 June 2024
Live Finals — Wednesday 18 September 2024
2024 Winner’s Party — November (date TBC)
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