Design Awards

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The Hobson Trophy, 2024 Awards.

Image courtesy of Paige McWhorter Photography.

The BSA Design Awards program celebrates exemplary innovation in the built environment, collaboration, experimentation and the unique power of architecture to design buildings and spaces that transform communities and shape the way we live. The BSA honors projects that embody the values of the BSA’s vision of building a just and sustainable Boston, together.

The 2025 BSA Design Awards program invited visions of various scales and resources that challenge practice, lead sustainability progress, and broaden conversations about resilience in design. Recipients are recognized at three different levels (from highest): Honor Awards, Merit Awards, and Citations.

Award winners will be announced at this year's Awards Gala on Thursday, March 5, 2026 from 5:00 PM-9:00 PM at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. We are so excited to toast all that our community has achieved and all the people who make the Boston AEC industry so dynamic!

Gala tickets are sold out.


Categories

BUILT DESIGN– Recognizing design excellence in completed projects through clear demonstration of performance, innovation, and impact.

SMALL FIRMS – Recognizing design excellence through performance narratives in all completed projects. Eligible for firms of 10 or fewer employees.

UNBUILT PLANNING & DESIGN – Recognizing the promise of design excellence in the broadest possible range of research, conceptual exploration and innovation in design thinking for initiated (completed or incomplete project, where a significant portion has been completed, implemented, or adopted by a local jurisdiction, authority, institution, or private client) and theoretical projects.

Past Winners

To see galleries of the past award-winning projects, visit designawards.architects.org.

Submission Materials

Curious about last year’s submission process? Check out the following links:


BSA Design Awards 2025 Jury

The Jury

The 2025 Built Design & Small Firms Jury consists of:

  • Whitney Johnson, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP BD+C, Project Architect at EOA Architects
  • Alice Kimm, FAIA, co-founder of John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK)
  • Ann Lui, AIA, founding principal of Future Firm
  • Christiana Moss, FAIA, principal at Studio Ma
  • Brandon Pace, FAIA, founding partner of Sanders Pace Architecture

The 2025 Unbuilt Planning & Design Jury consists of:

  • Mark L. Gardner, AIA, principal at Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects (J/GA)
  • Chana Haouzi, AIA, founder of Architecture for Public Benefit
  • Nate Imai, founding-partner of Studio Imai Conway
  • Leyuan Li, design principal of Office for Roundtable

Professional bios of these esteemed jurors can be found in the BSA News page here.

2025 BSA Design Awards: What Submitters Need to Know

The session provides an overview of this year's BSA Design Awards program, submission requirements and updates, with tips on creating a successful submission.

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