2026 Design Awards Program is now receiving submissions.
AIA New Hampshire is committed to excellence in architecture and looks forward to celebrating outstanding works of architecture through its annual Design Awards Program. The purpose of the program is to recognize achievements in design in New Hampshire and to honor the project teams and the clients who work with them to create and enhance our built environment. Projects should exemplify the value of good design in creating livable communities and safe, valuable, and sustainable buildings, neighborhoods, towns, and cities.
Who Can Submit Projects
Registered, licensed architects who are members of AIA New Hampshire.
Firms domiciled outside NH: One firm principal must be a Component Allied Member of AIA New Hampshire. Details in Call for Entries.
Emerging Professionals who are employed at a NH firm. Emerging Professionals (EP's) are professionals who have completed their academic studies up to the point of licensure or up to 10 years after completion of their academic studies. Emerging professionals do not need to be members but must be working in a New Hampshire firm.
Students with either a permanent residence in NH or who are attending school in NH.
What Projects Can Be Submitted
Built projects substantially completed after January 1, 2021 are eligible.
Projects that have been honored in a past AIANH Design Awards program are not eligible (unless the project was submitted in the Unbuilt category and the project has since been built).
Projects previously submitted that have not won an award may be entered again but may not be submitted more than two years consecutively.
Each entrant may submit any number of eligible entries with the appropriate fees for each entry.
Firms domiciled in NH may submit projects anywhere in the world.
Firms domiciled outside NH may only submit projects located in NH.
Project Categories
Program Deadlines
Submission Fees
Complete details
Commercial / Institutional Architecture
Under 5,000 sf
5,000 - 15,000 sf
Over 15,000 sf
Residential Architecture
Under 2,000 sf (ADU’s considered)
2,000 - 8,000 sf
Over 8,000 sf
Rick & Duffy Monahon Award for Design Excellence in Architectural Restoration and Preservation
Unbuilt Architecture
Interior Architecture
May 22 Early Bird Registration ends. After this date, registration fees will increase.
June 19, 11:59 pm Submissions deadline. All registrations and submissions must be received by this date.
Sept 24 Awards Celebration, Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord, NH
Early Bird Registration: $150 each project
Students and Emerging Professionals, Projects submitted to the Unbuilt Category: Free
After Early Bird Registration deadline
First project entry: $235 Additional project entries: $185
Small Firms (under 5 practitioners): $210 Additional Small Firm entries: $185