The GIA Design Awards 2025: Last call for project entries - including for the first time interior design schemes.
Rock Cove - Supreme Winner 2024 - Cameron Webster Architects. Image credit: Paul Tyagi
If you've not yet got your entries in for the 2025 GIA Design Awards, there's still time.
A highly anticipated event in Scotland's architecture calendar, the Glasgow Institute of Architects has, for this year, widened the net of opportunity for those wanting to get involved with several new categories.
This includes: Conservation, Sustainability, and Interiors. Which sit alongside the existing categories: Office/Commercial/Industrial/Retail, Residential, Healthcare, Small Works, Leisure/Arts, Education.
As well as this, all entries will be considered for The GIA Supreme Award, which can be awarded to any of the shortlisted buildings, the best body of work by an individual or a practice, or for an outstanding contribution to the GIA. This is "only awarded when the quality and ambition of the work is truly exceptional and outstanding."
The Port of Leith Distillery - Threesixty Architecture. Image credit: Simon Messer
In 2024, Rock Cove by Cameron Webster Architects, a contemporary home on the Rosneath Peninsula in Scotland that "offers a bold response to its dramatic coastline setting", reigned Supreme.
Also in the running for the Supreme Award were the Port of Leith Distillery by Threesixty Architecture, and Botany Corner by Elder and Cannon, pictured above and below.
Selecting the winners is no mean feat. And tasked with the challenging job of choosing the winners for 2025 is guest judge, Raffaele Esposito, city design manager, Glasgow City Council.
An architect and urban designer, Raffaele is a tenacious problem solver, keen mediator and a sensitive designer.
Traditionally trained in Italy where he gained his degree in 1996, Raff has worked internationally designing buildings, places, spaces and experiences, shaping economic dynamics and political responses. His focus is on the social and environmental responsibilities of any architectural gesture, no matter the scale and nature of the challenge or opportunity.
Botany Corner by Elder and Cannon. Image credit: Andrew Lee Photographer
The GIA Design Awards are open to chartered architects, individuals or practices based in the GIA Chapter area and buildings within the UK & Ireland.
They are also open to chartered architects that are not members of the GIA but have completed buildings within the GIA Chapter area.
Buildings should be complete at the time of entry submission – the building’s completion should be in the 18 months preceding September 2025. Clients must be notified of any entry to the awards.
Entries will be judged by category. Judges will be assessing entries against the criteria of ‘good architecture and buildings, whether new or adapted, which express good design in terms of function and effectiveness as well as aesthetics’.
Judging will take place over October and shortlisted buildings will be visited by the judges.
For more information, and to submit your entry, click here.
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