Awards & competitions
in 2026.

Hyatt Foundation

Architecture's highest honour, awarded annually to a living architect whose built work demonstrates talent, vision, and commitment that has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment.

American Institute of Architects

The highest honour the AIA bestows on an individual, recognising an architect whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture.

Royal Institute of British Architects

The UK's most prestigious architectural award for the building that has made the greatest contribution to the evolution of architecture in the past year.

World Architecture Festival

The world's largest architectural awards programme, judged live at WAF Singapore across 30+ categories covering new buildings, interiors, landscape, and future projects.

Aga Khan Development Network

A triennial award recognising architectural excellence in Muslim societies, awarded for buildings and urban planning that address community needs and explore the interplay of heritage and innovation.

Dezeen

Dezeen's global architecture, interiors, and design awards celebrate the best projects and studios of the year, judged by an international panel across residential, civic, cultural, and commercial categories.

Urban Land Institute

Recognises exceptional urban real estate and land use projects worldwide, covering mixed-use, residential, commercial, and infrastructure developments that embody smart, sustainable design.

Architects Regional Council Asia

The premier Asia-Pacific architecture awards covering categories from cultural buildings and residences to sustainable design and urban planning by architects from 22 Asian member nations.

Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen

One of the world's largest design competitions, evaluating product design across innovation, functionality, ergonomics, durability, ecological compatibility, and symbolic content.

iF International Forum Design

One of the most prestigious and oldest independent design prizes in the world, covering product, packaging, communication, service design, UX, architecture, and interior categories.

Dezeen

The design and interiors categories of Dezeen's flagship awards programme, spanning furniture, lighting, objects, and interior spaces across residential, hospitality, and workplace settings.

Elle Decoration / Lagardère

The international design awards published simultaneously in 25 editions of Elle Decoration, selecting the best furniture, lighting, and decorative products launched at Salone del Mobile.

Wallpaper* Magazine

Wallpaper*'s annual editors' choice awards across architecture, interiors, furniture, transport, digital design, fashion, and lifestyle — highly coveted editorial recognition in the design world.

Japan Institute of Design Promotion

Japan's only comprehensive design evaluation and commendation system, running since 1957, covering products, architecture, systems, software, and social design initiatives.

India Design Council / NID

India's official design standard, administered by the India Design Council, recognising products that demonstrate outstanding design quality in aesthetics, function, safety, and user experience.

Frame Magazine

Annual awards from Frame Magazine for exceptional spatial design, covering retail, hospitality, workplace, healthcare, cultural, and educational interiors from around the world.

Solar Impulse Foundation

Bertrand Piccard's foundation labels profitable solutions that protect the environment, actively selecting 1,000 clean and profitable solutions to present to governments and industries worldwide.

Solar Promotion GmbH

Presented annually at Intersolar Europe, recognising particularly innovative products and services in the solar industry, covering photovoltaics, solar thermal, and energy storage.

SEIA / ACP

Recognises the most innovative solar products, software, and business models launched in the North American market in the preceding 12 months.

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, India

India's national awards recognising excellence in solar project development, manufacturing, off-grid deployment, and rooftop solar installation across state utilities, developers, and manufacturers.

pv magazine

Annual awards from the global solar trade publication covering the best products and technologies across modules, inverters, racking, software, and storage systems.

Clean Energy Council (Australia)

Australia's peak clean energy body awards recognising excellence in solar installation, design, and innovation across residential, commercial, and utility-scale categories.

Renewables Now

Recognises the most technically ambitious and commercially significant utility-scale and distributed solar projects commissioned globally during 2025–2026.

S&P Global Commodity Insights

The energy industry's 'Oscars', recognising deals, companies, and projects of the year across renewables, power, and energy transition from a global field of nominees.

WindEurope

Recognises the most technically innovative, commercially robust, and community-beneficial onshore wind farm commissioned in Europe during 2025.

Recharge News / NHST Media

Annual awards from the leading renewable energy news platform, covering wind, solar, hydrogen, and energy storage projects, deals, and personalities of the year.

Reuters Events

Recognising the companies, projects, and leaders driving decarbonisation across power, industry, transport, and buildings, with dedicated hydrogen and grid modernisation categories.

The Energy and Resources Institute, India

India's longest-running sustainability recognition programme, honouring corporate and institutional initiatives in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and environmental stewardship.

Energy Globe Foundation

One of the world's most prestigious environmental prizes, awarded for outstanding projects in energy efficiency, renewable energy use, and resource conservation across 180+ countries.

IRENA

Launched to coincide with COP31, recognising outstanding projects, policies, and individuals advancing the global energy transition across wind, solar, hydrogen, and storage.