AR Emerging Awards
Dezeen Competitions: AR Emerging Awards seek outstanding portfolios comprising three projects – a completed project, a work in progress and an idea.
Launched in 1999, the awards celebrate and support young architectural talent.
This competition is now closed
Organiser: The Architectural Review
Competition: AR Emerging Awards
Judges: yet to be announced
Submission deadline: 15 May
Winner announcement: October
Prizes: a prize fund of £5,000. All finalists will be published in a special edition of The Architectural Review. All entries will be displayed in a permanent gallery on the AR Emerging Awards website
Competition overview
Launched in 1999, the AR Emerging Awards grant early recognition to young designers and celebrate the architectural stars of tomorrow.
Established in response to the heavy-hitting Gold Medals Pritzkers and other lifetime achievement awards, the awards recognise a promising portfolio of work and propel young talent onto the international stage early in their careers.
Rather than focusing on a single, completed building, the AR Emerging Awards recognise excellence in an overall body of work. It encourages a wide range of design projects: new builds, refurbishments, interiors, furniture, infrastructure, pop-ups, as well as product, urban and landscape design, with no restriction of scale, programme, budget or location.
Individuals and practices are invited to submit portfolios comprising three projects:
- one completed, built project: either a temporary or permanent structure, this project should have a completion date between January 2023 and October 2026
- one work in progress: still on the drawing board or currently on site, this project should be due to be completed after October 2026
- one idea: this is your chance to show your broader interests. The idea could be an unsuccessful competition entry, the design of an exhibition or piece of furniture (released or not), a storyboard, an essay or publication, etc
Each portfolio should show all three projects, with one board per project. Please note that multiple schemes entered on one board will not be accepted. Neither will CDs, videos, transparencies, physical models or prototypes.
As there is a new jury, work entered in previous years or for other AR Awards may be resubmitted on new boards.
Eligibility and judging criteria
The competition is open to up-and-coming practices involved in architecture, urban and landscape design, whose qualifications are recognised by their local accreditation organisations.
For a practice to be eligible, all practice founders must be born after 1 January 1981 and be aged 45 or under. Individuals who are working independently or across several practices they have (co-)founded are also eligible if they are aged 45 or under.
The AR Emerging Awards recognise excellence in an overall body of work, and all finalists will present in person to a world-renowned judging panel.
How to enter
Each entry should be designed on three A3-sized boards. One for the completed built project, one for the work in progress, and one for the idea to be provided digitally via the entry form.
It must include photography, drawings and a brief written description in English – the location of the submission is helpful to the jury.
The boards can be in landscape or portrait format, and the maximum board size is 297 by 420 millimetres.
To ensure anonymity in shortlisting, no names of entrants or collaborating parties may appear on any part of the board. Only after the finalists have been selected will the identity of the winners be revealed.
Entrants can upload up to six high-res images of their projects. For more details, visit the competition's website.
Submission deadlines
The final entry deadline is 15 May.
All entrants will be invited to a celebratory event in October where the finalists will present live, and the winners will be announced.
After the celebratory event, all finalists will be invited to join the AR editorial team, judges and sponsors at an exclusive dinner.
About The Architectural Review
The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine. It has been published in London since 1896.
Its articles cover the built environment, which includes landscape, building design, interior design and urbanism, as well as the theory of these subjects.
Its long-running and prestigious awards programmes celebrate excellent design and pioneering ideas from around the world.
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