Deadline:
June 06, 2024
Location(s)
Online
Overview
Dezeen Awards is an annual awards programme identifying the world's best architecture, interiors, design and sustainability projects, as well as the studios and the individual architects and designers producing the most outstanding work.
Organised by Dezeen, the world's most influential architecture and design website, Dezeen Awards is now in its sixth year and has become the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere.
Details
Why enter Dezeen Awards?
Dezeen Awards is organised by Dezeen and judged by a panel consisting of leading figures from the architecture and design world.
Dezeen Awards has unprecedented credibility and reach. Every shortlisted and winning entry will be published on Dezeen to our audience of three million and Dezeen's seven million social media following, as well as in Dezeen's newsletters to over half a million subscribers, bringing significant recognition to successful entrants. The whole world will know you've won!
Shortlisted and winning studios will also be able to attend an exclusive event with renowned industry professionals in November. All winners will also receive a trophy and a certificate.
What is different about Dezeen Awards?
There are lots of architecture and design awards out there but Dezeen Awards is different.
First, our low entry prices are designed to attract smaller studios and avoid categories being dominated by large companies that can afford to enter multiple categories.
Second, our judging criteria have been carefully considered to ensure that winning projects are not only beautiful and innovative but also strive to benefit users and the environment. We don't believe that good design today can ignore issues such as social impact or sustainability and we will be looking for projects that incorporate positive thinking in this area.
Third, our awards include categories for architecture, interiors, design and sustainability – key areas that Dezeen writes about. This means that Dezeen Awards is a comprehensive annual survey of the best work across the major fields of architecture and design.
Judges
Dezeen Awards 2024 will be judged by an international panel comprising 90 leading figures from the architecture and design world. Within this, we will have a special panel of fifteen sustainability experts from the industry to judge our sustainability categories.
Full details of the judging process can be found on the terms and conditions page.
Categories
There are 39 project categories that you can enter in total: 15 architecture categories, nine interior categories, nine design categories and six sustainability categories.
All project winners will also go head to head to be crowned overall project winner for each of the categories in architecture, interiors, design and sustainability, as decided by our judges.
Key dates
Entries must be submitted by 23:59 UK time on the night of each deadline day.
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13 February 2024: Dezeen Awards 2024 opens for entry
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27 March 2024: early entry deadline
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30 May 2024: standard entry deadline
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6 June 2024: late entry deadline
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September 2024: longlists announced online
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October 2024: shortlists announced online
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November 2024: winners revealed
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Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
What the judges are looking for
For the project categories, judges are looking for entries that best fit the three judging criteria. These are:
- Beautiful: does it look amazing? We know that beauty is subjective but our judges will be looking out for aesthetic rigour, good detailing and good use of materials.
- Innovative: does it incorporate original thinking or address a problem in a new way? We don't mean that every entry has to reinvent the wheel but we will be looking for evidence of fresh approaches and new ideas.
- Beneficial: is it useful and considerate to both people and planet? Your project doesn't have to set out to save the world but it should show respect and consideration for users and the environment.
Dates
Deadline: June 06, 2024
Cost/funding for participants
Our entry prices remain as low as possible making Dezeen Awards accessible to smaller studios and maintaining its status as one of the most affordable programmes in the industry. Over 60 per cent of the entries in 2023 were submitted by companies with 10 employees or fewer, further cementing Dezeen's role in championing emerging architects and designers.
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