Welcome to The Architect's Newspaper's 2025 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 15, 2025
Submission Deadline
March 28, 2025 *** Extended to April 4, 2025
Announcement of Winners
Best of Practice winners will receive a trophy and be showcased to AN’s audience of over 1 million readers and AEC industry leaders through features on the site, social media channels, and in print.
Winners will be in May on archpaper.com and via our social media channels. Winners will also be featured in our Best Of 2025 print issue, which will publish at the end of the year and be distributed at industry events and conferences throughout 2026.
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 (preferred)
Color format: RGB
File size: Images/slides should be 3,000 pixels wide on the long side.
Label image file names should 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 project photography.
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 not a guarantee of publication or an award.
Entry Fees
Early Bird: $245 until February 28, 2025 at 11:59pm ET
Emerging Early Bird: $125 until February 28, 2025 at 11:59pm ET
Regular: $295 from Feburary 29, 2025 until the final submission deadline on April 4, 2025 at 11:59pm ET
Emerging Regular: $150 from February 29, 2025 until the final submission deadline on April 4, 2025 at 11:59 pm ET
To redeem the Emerging Firm discount (applicable to any company founded within the last five years), use code EMERGING during the Early Bird registration period for a reduced rate of $125. After Early Bird ends, the same code, EMERGING, will feature a reduced rate of $150 during regular registration. 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/practice25
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.