This includes international competition first prizes from Buildner’s Unbuilt Awards, Architizer’s A+ Awards and Archisource’s Drawing of the Year. These are alongside scholarships and institutional distinctions including Harvard GSD’s Full Dean’s Merit Scholarship and the HDR Design Scholarship.
Buildner’s Unbuilt Awards recognises outstanding unbuilt architectural proposals. The Large Scale Top Prize is awarded to the strongest overall entry in the Large Scale category, judged for clarity, originality, and credibility at an urban or infrastructural scale. The award includes headline recognition and competition-wide publication of the winning project.
The Large Scale Student Winner award recognises the best student-led proposal in the Large Scale category. It highlights ambition and disciplined resolution at a professional scale, selected through jury review alongside international submissions. The award includes dedicated student recognition and publication within the competition’s winners’ announcements.
Curated by Architizer, the Visionary 100 List is an editorial selection of designers noted for distinctiveness and forward-looking work. Inclusion signals recognition beyond a single project, positioning the recipient within a snapshot of contemporary practice. The list functions as a public directory, increasing visibility to professional and cultural audiences.
Architizer’s A+ Awards “Best of Year” title distinguishes a small set of standout winners across the programme. It signals exceptional quality beyond category-level success, judged for overall design strength, execution, and relevance. The designation increases visibility through A+ Awards coverage and year-end promotion across Architizer channels.
This A+ Awards category recognises projects that transform existing buildings through adaptation, repair, and re-programming. Winning highlights design excellence under real constraints—structure, material, and context—while delivering clear spatial and environmental outcomes. The award positions the work within contemporary conversations on retrofit, stewardship, and circular approaches to development.
Awarded by HDR, this merit-based scholarship supports architecture or engineering study in the United States. It recognises academic performance, demonstrated promise, and alignment with the profession’s public-purpose aims, providing financial assistance toward study costs. As a competitive award from a major practice, it also signals external validation.
Archisource’s Drawing of the Year recognises exceptional architectural representation as a tool for design thinking. The award rewards clarity, originality, and craft in communicating spatial ideas through drawing. Winning distinguishes a submission within a large international field and is accompanied by major recognition and prominent publication through Archisource’s platforms.
The Full Dean’s Merit Scholarship is a competitive award supporting graduate study at Harvard GSD. It is awarded on merit, reflecting exceptional academic and design achievement and strong long-term potential. The award indicates substantial financial support representing one of the school’s most significant scholarships.
The Architects’ Journal Student Prize recognises the best ARB/RIBA Part 1 (or equivalent) student work in the United Kingdom. Judged by a professional jury, it typically assesses conceptual strength, technical resolution, and the quality of communication. Winning signals top distinction nationally, accompanied by publication and industry visibility through AJ.
An AJ Student Prize nomination indicates a project put forward for national consideration within a competitive field of architecture schools. Nomination reflects exceptional promise in concept, resolution, and communication at Part 1 (or equivalent) level. It serves as an external marker of distinction, often accompanied by visibility through the AJ platform.
The RIBA President’s Medals are among the UK’s most established student awards. Nomination indicates a project selected by its school as exemplary work, typically based on originality, rigour, and coherence of design and research. Being nominated positions the work within a national cohort and signals institutional recognition ahead of final judging.
The Bartlett Medal recognises the strongest graduating design work within the cohort, judged for ambition, conceptual depth, and quality of architectural resolution. It signals that a project stands out across studios and agendas within the school’s internal review process. The award foregrounds design excellence and disciplinary contribution at graduation.
This memorial award recognises the highest academic achievement within the graduating cohort. It reflects sustained excellence across the all courses. The award signals consistent performance at the top of the class and formal recognition of outstanding overall attainment.