AIA New Hampshire is committed to excellence in architecture and looks forward to celebrating outstanding works of architecture through its annual Design Awards Program. The purpose of the program is to recognize achievements in design in New Hampshire and to honor the project teams and the clients who work with them to create and enhance our built environment. Projects should exemplify the value of good design in creating livable communities and safe, valuable, and sustainable buildings, neighborhoods, towns, and cities.

DATES + DEADLINES

April 7  Call for Entries announced. Project registrations can be received.
June 13, 11:59PM Submissions deadline.
Sept 25 Awards Celebration, Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord, NH  

FEES

First project entry: $230
Additional project entries: $200
Students and Emerging Professionals: free

All projects must be registered to be eligible.  All fees are non-refundable and must be paid online via credit card. Submissions are received via Submittable only.

CRITERIA

The sole judging criterion is design excellence. The jury is empowered to determine the extent to which design excellence is informed by aesthetic, technical, functional, contextual, sustainable, social or other characteristics largely informed by the AIA Framework for Design Excellence. The jury may elect to honor projects by building type or other categories or may choose to make no such distinction. The jurors’ decisions will be based solely on the materials submitted.

GENERAL ELIGIBILITY FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS 

• This program recognizes and honors excellence in architectural design by registered, licensed architects who are members of AIANH. 
• It recognizes Emerging Professionals who are employed at a NH firm. Emerging Professionals (EP's) are professionals who have completed their academic studies up to the point of licensure or up to 10 years after completion of their academic studies. Emerging professionals do not need to be members but must be working in a New Hampshire firm.
• It recognizes work by students with either a permanent residence in NH or who are attending school in NH.
• Firms domiciled in NH may submit projects anywhere in the world.
• Firms domiciled outside NH may only submit projects located in NH. One principal from this firm must be a Component Allied Member of AIANH.   Fees for this membership can be paid during project registration process. More details on benefits of Component Allied Membership. 
• Built projects substantially completed after January 1, 2015 are eligible.
• Projects that have been honored in a past AIANH Design Awards program are not eligible (unless the project was submitted in the Unbuilt category and the project has since been built).
• Projects previously submitted that have not won an award may be entered again but may not be submitted more than two years consecutively. 
• Each entrant may submit any number of eligible entries with the appropriate fees for each entry.

Please refer to the 2025 Call for Entries for complete eligibility requirements by category as well as submission requirements.

Once you have registered a project, you will receive an email confirmation with a link to the submission form.