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Each year the BSA, often in collaboration with other organizations, sponsors awards programs to honor design excellence in Massachusetts, throughout New England and elsewhere. A description and schedule of annual and biennial BSA and national AIA design awards programs are listed below.
| Accessible Design Awards |
Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Architectural Access Board and the BSA Access Committee, this program recognizes new or renovated buildings or other facilities that are accessible for persons of all abilities; designers, clients, community groups, public agencies and anyone else Showcasing the work of all who contribute to successful projects in the world may submit specific access solutions located/built in Massachusetts.
Submission deadline: April 14, 2009
Download the 2009 call for entries
Download the 2009 jury comments
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| Building Enclosure Design Award |
Co-sponsored by the BSA's Building Enclosure Council, this biennial award seeks to promote best practices and innovation in the design, construction and performance of building enclosures; it is open to built projects that conform to the Massachusetts State Commercial Building Code. The 2009 BEC Award program was cancelled.
Download the 2007 jury comments
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| Campus Planning |
Any campus plan anywhere in the world prepared by a New England design or planning professional or firm during the past decade is eligible, and any design or planning professional anywhere in the world may submit campus plans prepared during the past decade for institutions located in New England. This program is offered in even-numbered years only.
Submission deadline to be announced in late 2009
Download the 2008 call for entries
Download the 2008 jury comments
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| Healthcare Facilities Design |
Healthcare facilities of any type built anywhere in the world by any New England architect are eligible, and any architect anywhere in the world may submit any project built in New England. This program is offered in even-numbered years only.
Submission deadline to be announced in late 2009
Download the 2008 call for entries
Download the 2008 jury comments
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| Higher Education Facilities |
Co-sponsored by SCUP/New England, this biennial program recognizes higher education facilities by New England architects and New England projects. Submission deadline: May 21, 2009
Download the 2009 call for entries
Download the 2007 jury comments
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| Housing Design Awards |
Any housing type anywhere in the world, completed after January 1, 1999, may be submitted if the architect/firm currently resides in New England or New York, and any architect anywhere in the world may submit projects located in New England or New York. This program is offered in even-numbered years only. Submission deadline to be announced in late 2009
Download the 2008 call for entries
Download the 2008 jury comments
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| In the Pursuit of Housing |
Undergraduate and graduate architecture students and those who earned architecture degrees within the past five years are eligible to submit built or unbuilt projects to this biennial design competition. The 2009 award recipents have been announced; read the jury comments below.
For more information, visit In the Pursuit of Housing
Download the 2009 call for entries
Download the 2009 jury comments
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| Interior Architecture/ Interior Design |
Co-sponsored by IIDA and ASID, this program recognizes interiors projects built anywhere in the world by a New England architect or interior designer and projects built in New England. This program is offered in even-numbered years only. Submission deadline to be announced in late 2009
Download the 2008 call for entries
Download the 2008 jury comments
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| K-12 Educational Facilities Design |
Co-sponsored by the AIA New York Chapter, this program honors New England and New York City architects for design excellence throughout the world and architects throughout the world for New England and New York City projects.
The 2009 award recipents have been announced; read the jury comments below.
Download the 2009 call for entries
Download the 2009 jury comments
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| Small Firms/Small Projects |
Sole practitioners and small firms headquartered in Massachusetts are eligible to submit projects built anywhere in the world, and sole practitioners and small firms elsewhere in the world are invited to submit projects built in Massachusetts. Co-sponsored by the BSA's Residential Design and Small Firms committees, this program is offered in even-numbered years only. Submission deadline to be announced in late 2009
Download the 2008 call for entries
Download the 2008 jury comments
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| Sustainable Design |
Co-sponsored by the AIA New York Chapter, this biennial program solicits submissions from design professionals throughout the country. The 2009 award recipents have been announced; read the jury comments below.
Download the 2009 call for entries
Download the 2009 jury comments
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| Urban Design |
Co-sponsored by the AIA New York Chapter, these biennial awards honor urban design projects, community masterplans, placemaking projects and time-limited installations located anywhere in the U.S.; project authors may be design teams anywhere in the world. Massachusetts and New York professionals may submit projects located anywhere in the world. The 2009 award recipents have been announced; read the jury comments below.
Download the 2009 call for entries
Download the 2009 jury comments
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| Harleston Parker Medal |
Co-sponsored by the City of Boston, this annual honor seeks to recognize "the single most beautiful" building or other structure built in the Metropolitan Boston area in the past 10 years. Nominations need include only the name and address of the project and, if known, the architect. Nominations should be emailed to Nancy Jenner at njenner@architects.org.
Nomination deadline: February 24, 2009
Download the 2009 call for nominations
Download the 2008 jury report
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| Unbuilt Architecture |
Architects, architectural educators and architecture students throughout the world are invited to submit real or theoretical
projects. The 2009 award recipents have been announced; read the jury comments below.
Download the 2009 call for entries
Download the 2009 jury comments
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| Honor Awards |
Co-sponsored by Poole Professional Ltd. and XL Insurance, this program recognizes design excellence in projects anywhere in the world by Massachusetts architects and projects in Massachusetts by architects anywhere in the world. Submission deadline:June 25, 2009
Download the 2009 call for entries
Download 2008 jury comments
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| AIA New England Design Awards |
The AIA New Hampshire Chapter is administering the AIA New England Design Awards Program in 2009. This program recognizes and honors excellence in architectural design by all New England architects and by architects throughout the world who wish to submit projects in New England. For details, watch http://www.aianh.org/design_awards.asp.
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| Central Massachusetts Design Awards |
Sponsored by AIA Central Massachusetts, these biennial awards honor projects of any size or type built or renovated/rehabilitated in Central Massachusetts by any architect anywhere in the world. Visit www.aiacm.org for more information. Submission deadline: May 6, 2009
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| Western Massachusetts AIA Design Awards |
Any building type anywhere in the world completed at any time in the last 10 years is eligible if the architecture firm/architect-of-record currently has its principal office in western Massachusetts, which is defined for the purposes of this program as Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties. AIA membership is not required. For details, contact director@wmaia.org or 413-665-8168.
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Build Boston/RDC Exhibits
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| Build Boston/RDC: New England Architects Exhibit |
Open to all architects who are AIA members in New England.
Next application will be available in spring of 2010.
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| Build Boston/RDC: New England Interior Designers Exhibit |
Open to all New England interior designers who are ASID or IIDA members. Next application will be available in spring of 2010.
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| Build Boston/RDC: New England Landscape Architects Exhibit |
Open to all landscape architects who are ASLA members in New England. Next application will be available in spring of 2010.
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