Professional Practice
Dezeen Awards 2025
Date: 2/7/2025 - 6/5/2025
Type: Competitions / Awards
Location(s): International
Description:
The Dezeen Awards is an annual awards programme identifying the world's best design, sustainability, architecture, and interiors projects, as well as the studios and the individual architects and designers producing the most outstanding work.
Organised by Dezeen, the architecture and design website, Dezeen Awards is now in its eighth year and has become the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere.
There are 49 project categories that you can enter in total: 17 architecture categories, 13 interior categories, 14 design categories and five sustainability categories.
Categories include:
Landscape and urban design
Civic project
Cultural project
Infrastructure and transport project
Mixed-use project
Sustainable design
Material innovation
Judges are looking for entries that best fit the three judging criteria:
- Beautiful: does it look amazing? We know that beauty is subjective but our judges will be looking out for aesthetic rigour, good detailing and good use of materials.
- Innovative: does it incorporate original thinking or address a problem in a new way? We don't mean that every entry has to reinvent the wheel but we will be looking for evidence of fresh approaches and new ideas.
- Beneficial: is it useful and considerate to both people and planet? Your project doesn't have to set out to save the world but it should show respect and consideration for users and the environment.