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Entries to the 2026 Test of Time Awards have now closed. The shortlist of this year’s finalists will be announced later this year.

Shortlisting and the live finals will be hosted at Society Building – with the live finals taking place on Wednesday 9th September. Details of what projects have been shortlisted will be announced soon.

See every winner from 2025 in the special Awards issue of Architecture Today

Key details

The Education Award

The Education Award is open to all education buildings from nursery care up to higher education. The jury considers a wide range of factors including adaptability, robustness, environmental performance and the ability to inspire students and staff.

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The Healthcare Award

This award is particularly relevant and important given the parlous state of healthcare in the UK. The judges are interested in schemes that provide a benchmark for patient well-being, quality of care, well-considered functional programmes and long-term resilience. Given the ongoing issues with funding and delivery in this sector, we are particularly interested in projects that have trialled innovative approaches to construction and/or found ways to deliver on aesthetic, poetic and civic ambitions at minimal cost.

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The Hospitality, Sport & Leisure Award

This is a diverse award, encompassing a wide range of building types that are often focused on functionality and efficiency at the expense of wider issues such as architectural quality, environmental performance and cultural and social ambitions. The jury will be looking for entries that set new standards within their sector, and that have paid due consideration to integration with the local context and community, accessibility and legibility, civic pride and clear design intent.

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The Individual House Award

This award reflects the perennial interest in one-of-a-kind dwellings among both architects and judges. Projects will be assessed on contextual sensitivity, appropriate use of materials, spatial richness, and long-term sustainability. Entries range from prototypes designed to test specific materials, technologies or ideas and often intended to be replicable at scale – to bespoke projects tailored to the idiosyncrasies, lifestyles and tastes of the client. The strongest presentations tend to include insights from the resident/client.

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The Landscape & Public Realm Award

Forming the connective tissue of both urban and rural environments, landscape and public realm projects play a critical role in shaping the way places function, feel and endure. Judges will be looking for schemes that combine robust, long-term performance with clear design intent, enhance accessibility and inclusivity, strengthen a sense of place, enrich the interrelationships between people, ecology and wildlife and deliver lasting civic and environmental value for the communities they serve.

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The Mixed Use & Retail Award

This broad and inclusive category is open to a wide range of projects. Success depends on numerous factors – not least programmatic ingenuity, flexibility, functionalist and macro and micro scale, and the elusive X-factor that makes the scheme stand out. The award is open to new-build and refurbishment projects, but is particularly focused on instances that can have a positive environmental, social and economic impact over time. The judges’ verdicts on previous winners demonstrate the power of bold, visionary projects – and of gambles that paid off.

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The Religion & Culture Award

This award celebrates a diverse array of building types from churches and mosques to galleries, museums and visitor centres. Past winners have included world-class cultural institutions, a youth centre and a Buddhist Retreat Centre. Projects are judged on their fitness for purpose, but also for their ability to adapt to changes in behaviour, technology or use. As civic buildings, they are also assessed for their openness and inclusivity, and for their contribution to the public realm.

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The Residential Award

As the government grapples with the challenge of delivering on its ambitious house-building targets, the profession is calling for quantity that isn’t delivered at the cost of quality. There has never been a more pressing need to highlight – and to learn from – precedents for residential projects that have flourished over time. The jury is interested in a wide range of issues including: design and construction quality, long-term environmental performance, the ability to facilitate healthy and sustainable lifestyles and a proven track record in creating communities that thrive.

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The Transport & Infrastructure Award

A vital sector, where safety, security and functionality often take precedence over social, cultural and aesthetic considerations, and where ecology and the environment are all too often overlooked. The judges’ comments on previous winners reflect an appreciation of projects that unlock the potential for transport and infrastructure awards to make a lasting, transformative impact on the communities they serve and transform the civic realm.

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The Workplace Award

A highly competitive sector, workplace design has had to keep pace with changes in technology, evolving work habits, ever more stringent regulations and expectations around health and safety, changing priorities and expectations around embodied and operational carbon and an increased emphasis on wellbeing. The judges will be looking for agile and inventive projects that have considered, or successfully adapted to, these wide-ranging challenges while lifting the spirits and enriching the public realm.

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The International Award

This important category looks overseas for projects that represent the very best in architectural design. The judges look for high-quality buildings across any sector and from any part of the world that can demonstrate programmatic innovation, attention to detail, fitness-for-purpose, sustainability and, above all, longevity. Previous winners include a factory, a concert hall, an embassy and a university, and prompted wide-ranging discussions.

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The Student Prize - FREE TO ENTER

The Student Prize was launched to encourage – and to recognise – a step change in education with a move away from form-making and new-build projects and an increasing emphasis on extending the life of existing buildings and/or designing with long-term performance, resilience and flexibility in mind. We accept projects by students of architecture or any related discipline from across the construction industry, at any stage of their education, and from any part of the world. Projects can be submitted by tutors or students. Joint or team entries are actively encouraged.

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Dates

Open for entries: Monday 16th February 2026
Extended deadline: Friday 26 June 2026
Live finals: Wednesday 9th September 2026
AT Awards Winners’ Party: Thursday 12th November 2026

Pricing

Single entry: £395+VAT (£474)
Multiple entries: £295+VAT (£354)

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The Education Award

The Healthcare Award

The Hospitality, Sport & Leisure Award

The Individual House Award

The Landscape & Public Realm Award

The Mixed Use & Retail Award

The Religion & Culture Award

The Residential Award

The Transport & Infrastructure Award

The Workplace Award

The International Award

The Student Prize - FREE TO ENTER

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