design awards



Overview:

The 2011 Design Awards Program recognizes excellence in design by the architectural profession and is presented by AIA Tampa Bay, a Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.  These Awards are intended to promote public consciousness of the built environment through distinguished works of architecture.

The submittals are open to built or unbuilt architectural projects of all types and sizes, and can be submitted by individuals or firms either residing in or whose submitted project is located in the chapter’s seven-county region.  All designs must have been produced within the past five years.

The awards are juried by a panel of non-competing, award-winning, out-of-area architects who have not served as design awards jurors for at least the past 5 years.  Multiple Honor and Merit Awards may be awarded in each category as entries are solely and individually weighted on their value of design excellence.  However, only one project will be awarded the top award – the H. Dean Rowe, FAIA Award for Design Excellence.  Winners will be announced at a Reception on Friday, June 17th at the new Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. 

H. DEAN ROWE, FAIA AWARD FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE
This award of honor recognizes built projects by licensed individuals or firms that may include architectural projects of any type from any category.  It has been established in honor of the late H. Dean Rowe, FAIA, and recognizes work by AIA members that represents the highest level of design excellence awarded by AIA Tampa Bay.

Categories:

STUDENT CATEGORY
This award recognizes unbuilt or competition projects by college students attending a school of architecture program within our chapter territory or whose permanent residence is within our area.  Entries are to be submitted on entry boards and described.   

Entry Fee: $25.00 *    (Entry fee includes one free admission to design awards reception.)

NEW! THESIS STUDENT CATEGORY  (Problem Solving)
This new award category is intended to allow thesis students an opportunity to share their work and to have it recognized by the architecture community.  It is open to students attending a school of architecture program within our chapter territory or whose permanent residence is within our area.  Students must be in their final year of a master’s degree in architecture and have finished their thesis within the past 6 months or will finish in the next 6 months.  Specific criteria have been created for this category and are available on the Thesis Entry Information Form.  Entrants will have an opportunity to have a display at the Design Awards Reception.  Format and space requirements are also outline on the Thesis Entry Information Form.  Design Awards attendees will vote for their favorite project at the event and the winner will be recognized that evening.

Entry Fee: $25.00 *    (Entry fee includes one free admission to design awards reception.)

ASSOCIATE / INTERN CATEGORY
This award recognizes built or unbuilt projects by any unlicensed individual who has received an architectural degree within the past 10 years.  If a project entry is built, an architect or firm must attest that the intern acted as the lead or primary designer for the project entered.

Entry Fees: AIA Member- $50.00*, Non-member - $100.00*

ARCHITECT CATEOGORIES
Entry Fees:  AIA Member - $125.00*
Non – Member - $250.00*

* All entry fees are non-refundable

NEW  COTE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AWARD
This is a new category and recognizes projects that demonstrate excellence in sustainable design.  There are specific entry requirements outlined in the COTE Sustainable Design Award Information Form.

NEW  UN-BUILT INSTITUTIONAL/COMMERCIAL
Includes public and private non-residential projects that are not built.

NEW  UN-BUILT RESIDENTIAL
Include single and multi-family residences that are not built.

DISTINCTIVE DETAIL
The creation and implementation of outstanding details is often not given the recognition it deserves.  These submissions should be of a detail that can stand buy itself or make a building.  A submission for this award must be an element or composition of elements within a built project that is integral to that project.

HISTORIC RENOVATION CATEGORY
Includes built preservation, adaptive re-use, or renovations of structures of historic importance.

URBAN DESIGN CATEGORY
Includes transportation, parks and recreation, or city and community planning projects.

INSTITUTIONAL
Includes built public non-residential

COMMERCIAL
Includes built private non-residential

RESIDENTIAL
Include built single and multi-family residences.

Registration
Registration and fees are due by 5:00 p.m. on April 29th.  Online registration is available by going here. 

Entry Requirements
(Not applicable to Thesis Student and Sustainability Awards)
Submissions will be a 30” x 40” entry board and a disk containing no less than 5 jpeg images of the project, plus one image of the entry board.  A detailed description of the 30” x 40” entry board requirements and the 2010 Design Awards logo will be sent to you upon registration.  They are also available on the chapter website, design award page.   Submissions must also include a disk containing project images when submitted.

Schedule
May 9th  Deadline for receipt of application and fees
May 20th  Deadline for receipt of entries
June 17th at 6:30 p.m. – Design Awards Reception at the Dali Museum



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We have yet another successful Design Awards Presentation & Reception under our belts! What a wonderful evening it turned out to be at the new Dali Museum in St. Pete. AIA Tampa Bay was pleased to hand out a combination of 20 COTE, Merit, Honor, Thesis Student, People's Choice and H. Dean Rowe Award for Design Excellence awards on Friday, June 17th.

Click here to view winners and projects.

A very special thank you to Randy Van Duinen, architectural photographer, who captured all of the great photos! Please click here to see the web gallery.