2025 Architecture Awards Winners
The jury is currently reviewing all the applications. Winners will be announced Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at the Architecture Awards Ceremony at Hamilton Hall.
The winners will be posted online by Thursday, October 23, 2025.
Past Architecture Awards Winners
Awards and Judging
There are two designations of awards, Honor Award and Merit Award. A panel of distinguished architects and designers will review project entries to determine outstanding achievement in design by Columbus architects. The size, scope, category, or cost of a project in no way limits its eligibility or level of award. The jury will consider each project based on its own unique program, needs, and challenges.
Submitters will not be notified in advance if their project wins an award. Awards will be announced at the Architecture Awards Ceremony, October 22, 2025.
All award winners will receive one (1) plaque. Additional plaques for clients, consultants, and collaborators can be purchased by the entrant, and ordered after the Architecture Awards ceremony. AIA Columbus will promote and recognize winners on the AIA Columbus website, newsletters, exhibit, and awards publications. A press release will be sent to the local media.
2025 Categories
To achieve these goals, the AIA Columbus Architecture Awards Program has six (6) categories:
Large Project (recommended: 5,000 sf and over)
The Large Project Category is for projects that are around 5,000 square feet and over. It recognizes design excellence for completed architecture executed in projects that are around 5,000 square feet and over, of all types of buildings, restoration, preservation, and adaptive reuse. If a project wins in this category, it cannot be submitted later in another category.
Small Project (recommended: less than 5,000 sf)
The Small Project Category is for projects that are roughly less than 5,000 square feet. It recognizes design excellence for completed architecture executed in projects that are roughly less than 5,000 square feet, of all types of buildings, restoration, preservation, and adaptive re-use. If a project wins in this category, it cannot be submitted later in another category.
Residential (no maximum limit or minimum sf)
The Residential Project Category recognizes design excellence for completed one to three family residential architecture. Projects of all types including new buildings, restoration, renovation, additions, preservation, and adaptive re-use are encouraged to be submitted.
Interior Architecture
The Interior Architecture Category is for completed building interiors. The projects may be large or small in scope and may involve new construction, adaptive re-use, restoration, or preservation. If a project wins in this category, it cannot be submitted later in another category.
Architectural Detail
The Architectural Detail Category recognizes an instance in which the details of a project are executed in an artful way, celebrating the relationship between architecture and craft through materials, detail, or technology. To be eligible for an award in this category the project must be realized/built. If a project detail submitted in this category wins an AIA Columbus Architecture Award, the larger, full project can be submitted in another category later.
Unbuilt Work
The Unbuilt Work Category recognizes design excellence in projects scheduled to be built, as well as those that will never be built. Submissions may be commissioned or self-generated, research, or speculation. If a project wins in this category, it cannot be submitted later in another category.