CATEGORIES

• Architecture - celebrate outstanding architecture regardless of project size, budget, style, or building type. New buildings and major additions are eligible.  

• Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse - celebrate projects that restore, remodel, preserve or re-purpose existing buildings of any type or style.

• Unbuilt Projects - celebrate unbuilt architecture, planning, urban design, and research. Submissions may be real or conceptual but must reflect a solution related to the built environment.  

• Emerging Professionals - celebrate outstanding architectural design work (built or un-built) by Associates, Students and Architects licensed for less than ten (10) years.

• Sustainable Architecture - celebrate built projects on the merits of environmental stewardship.

AWARDS

• Honor Award - represents the highest level of design and performance with excellence in innovative design strategy from plan through to the finished imagery and/or completion.

• Merit Award - represents distinguished achievement with exemplary execution of design principles and presentation.

• Juror Award - will be decided upon by the jury for any project in any or all categories, as they see fit.  Recognizing excellence in resolving specific programmatic desires through interpretation of style, technologies, sustainability, materials and/or vernacular influences.

• People's Choice Award - to be determined by registered attendees of the Design Awards Celebration via digital vote conducted the week leading up to the event. Recognition of excellence in Architectural Design as voted on by colleagues and peers.
  
  

ELIGIBILITY

• AIA Peconic members may submit projects located anywhere in the world, including those located within AIA Peconic Chapter’s geological boundaries.

• Any registered architects may submit projects located within the chapter’s geographic boundaries.

• Any project that has won a previous award from AIA Peconic is no longer eligible

• Number of entries allowed: six 

AWARDS EXHIBITION

An exhibition of awards submissions is open to the public April 18 through May 4, 2025 at Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts.

2025 DESIGN AWARD RESULTS

Congratulations to our 2025 Design Awards Recipients!

 
Information about the 2026 Design Awards program will be released in the fall of 2025.