Design Awards
Design Awards
The AIA North Carolina Design Awards program recognizes architects regionally and nationally for exceptional design expertise. Spanning public, private, and educational design, the deign awards showcase the variety and depth of the design experience of North Carolina architects. Each project is carefully chosen by juries composed of some of the nation’s most elite architects. Each project is selected because it exceeds benchmarks for outstanding architectural design, structural composition, and application of design theory.
Residential Design Awards
Residential Design Awards are juried separate from the Design Awards, and are meant to recognize design extraordinary residential architects in North Carolina. Architecture in North Carolina is as diverse as the landscape. From the ocean to the mountains, each house has its own unique set of qualities and complications. The jury will be asked to judge each house based on its sensitivity to its surroundings, its client’s needs, and the way people interact with and inhabit the spaces.
COTE Awards
Recognizing well-designed projects by AIANC members that exemplify the COTE Measures of Sustainability. AIANC COTE awards must include a description with key environmental features, and narratives responding to specific categories, indicating an understanding of the connections between them. Selection favors well-designed solutions that exhibit an integration of natural systems and appropriate technology quantifying features when possible (using suggested metrics), verification through building systems modeling, analysis, and best practices.
Tower Awards
Recognizing well-designed projects by AIANC members that exemplify historic preservation and adaptive reuse in renovation, restoration or rehabilitation of a historic structure; new / infill construction within a historic context; or a new construction addition to a historic structure. Tower Award submissions must be on the National Register of Historic Places; a contributing building in a National Register historic district; a contributing building in a locally-designated historic district, or a locally designed landmark.