2025 Design Awards Program is now receiving submissions.

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.

Who Can Submit Projects

  • Registered, licensed architects who are members of AIA New Hampshire.

    Firms domiciled outside NH: One firm principal must be a Component Allied Member of AIA New Hampshire.  Details in Call for Entries.

  • 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.

  • Students with either a permanent residence in NH or who are attending school in NH.

What Projects Can Be Submitted

  • 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.

  • Firms domiciled in NH may submit projects anywhere in the world.

  • Firms domiciled outside NH may only submit projects located in NH.

Project Categories

Program Deadlines

Submission Fees

Complete details

Platinum

Silver

  • Commercial / Institutional

  • Single -family Residential

  • Rick & Duffy Monahon Award for Design Excellence in Architectural Restoration and Preservation

  • Small Projects / Small Firms

  • Unbuilt Projects

  • Other categories deemed needed or appropriate by the review jury

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

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

Thank you to our event sponsors