Welcome to the 2024 AN Best of Practice Awards registration portal. Please read the program information carefully and then begin your application by clicking the link below: 

Click here to begin your submission(s).

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Launch
January 22, 2024

Submission Deadline
April 19, 2024

Announcement of Winners

Best of Practice winners will reach AN’s audience of over 1 million readers and AEC industry leaders. 

An initial announcement of the winners will be in late June on archpaper.com and via our social media channels. Winners will also be featured in our end of the year Best Of issue, which will publish in December 2024 and be distributed at industry events and conferences throughout 2025.

Eligibility

AN’s Best of Practice Awards is open to all North American offices, though submitted projects or case studies may be international. 

Entrants are asked to submit a 500-word statement making the case for excellence in practice. The statement should describe the way the office operates, which could include its philosophy of design, the culture promoted within the office, how employee growth is cultivated, how the office interacts with the public and/or communities, the office’s position on sustainability and the environment, the office’s investment in research and technology, or any other salient feature of the practice. 

Entrants should also submit up to 10 images/slides that support the statement. These items can include photography and/or drawings of projects or the office itself, graphs and/or charts that illustrate claims made in the statement, testimonials from clients or community groups, articles published about the office and/or its work, and any other document that backs up the office’s claim to excellence. 

Representatives of offices or developers and public relations professionals are allowed to submit on behalf of their clients. Please provide your direct contact information, but include the name of the entrant in the “Company” field on the registration form.

Material Requirements

Registration must be completed via the registration portal linked to this page. Submissions must include up to 10 images and/or supporting documents and a written statement about the practice (500-word limit). An optional testimonial from a client may also be included but is not required.

Digital specs:

File format: JPG

Image format: Landscape

Color format: RGB 

File size: Images/slides should be 3,000 pixels wide on the long side. 

Label image file names in sequence. Include photography credits in image file names where necessary.

While text is welcome as part of diagrams or other slides, please refrain from adding text to photographs.

When submitting photography, only include one image per file. Do not combine images unless it is part of a larger graphic. Do not upsample images; if photographs aren’t available at the file size listed above, provide in the largest available dimensions. 

All submissions must be entered online and received by AN no later than midnight ET on the submission deadline. The Architect’s Newspaper reserves publication rights for all materials submitted as part of the Best of Practice Awards program, extending to all forms of media or content delivery, whether print, online, digital, mobile or otherwise, now or hereafter created.

Registration fees are nonrefundable.

Once a submission is completed and uploaded, you cannot return to the application to make changes.

Submission is no guarantee of publication or an award.

Entry Fees

Early Bird: $245 until March 8, 2024 at 11:59pm ET

Emerging Early Bird: $125 until March 8, 2024 at 11:59pm ET

Regular: $295 from March 9, 2024 until the final submission deadline on April 19, 2024 at 11:59pm ET

Emerging Regular: $150 from March 9, 2024 until the final submission deadline on April 19, 2024 at 11:59 pm ET

To redeem the Emerging Firm discount (applicable to any company founded within the last five years), use code EMERGING1 during the Early Bird registration period for a reduced rate of $125. After Early Bird ends, use code EMERGING2 during the regular registration period for the reduced rate of $150. Note that each code may only be used once per user and applications may be deemed disqualified should a company redeem a code that is found to not meet the five year requirement. 

There is no limit on the number of submissions you may make, but each must be entered individually and a separate entry fee paid.

Click here to begin your submission(s).

Learn more about Best of Practice at archpaperawards.com/practice24

All submissions must be entered online and received by AN no later than 11:59pm ET on the submission deadline. The Architect’s Newspaper reserves publication rights for all materials submitted as part of the Best of Practice Awards program, extending to all forms of media or content delivery, whether print, online, digital, mobile, or otherwise, now or hereafter created. Registration fees are nonrefundable. Submission is no guarantee of publication or an award.