A&L » Architecture Awards » International Architecture Awards (IAA) 2024
- Type of award: annual international awards for architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and urbanism
- Participation: All submissions must be the work of international architects and architectural firms either working nationally or internationally for projects both in their respective countries and abroad. U.S. architecture firms headquartered inside or outside the United States are eligible to enter projects built or to be built, in the U.S. and around the world.
- Featured Laureate: Buro Archpoint
- Winners: The Top-100 will be showcased during special The City and the World exhibition in Athens on September, 13 this year. The awards ceremony and a gala dinner would also take place during the exhibition.
- Next deadline: Closing date for 2021 application is December 1, 2023
- Country: USA
- Current status: completed
- Pro: First of all, these awards have organizers with a high reputation: The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. In addition, the jury is annually formed from representatives of the most reputable institute of one of the countries: for example, in 2019, awards were awarded by experts from Lithuania. And, finally, it does not matter in which country the idea is implemented - at home or abroad, you can participate in the competition anyway.
- Contra: It seems that the organizers of these awards consider the number of participants an important indicator of success. And so it is. However, a very long list of nominations and participants is slightly scary, because in this situation only bright projects have a chance of winning.
Since 2004, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. have organized The International Architecture Awards as a way in which to honor the best, significant new buildings, landscape architecture, and planning projects designed and/or built around the world’s leading architects, landscape architects, and urban planners practicing nationally and internationally. The International Architecture Awards give an important global overview of the current aesthetic direction of today’s commercial, corporate, institutional, and residential work to the real estate, banking, business, and corporate community, as well as to the press and general public worldwide.
The program is one of the Museum’s most important public education outreach initiatives produced throughout the year-to the Museum’s international audience.
The International Architecture Awards are dedicated to the recognition of excellence in architecture and urbanism from a global point-of-view.
The program pays tribute to new developments in design and underscores the directions and understanding of current cutting-edge processes consistent with today’s design thinking.
This year’s program honors new (2017-2020) corporate, institutional, commercial, residential architecture, interiors, and urban planning, designed for both built and unbuilt projects alike.
Last year saw the highest number of applications for the award ever; only 380 projects from 40 countries were shortlisted, with 127 buildings receiving the prestigious prize in 28 categories.