Building of the Year 2025

2024 was an excellent year for ArchDaily. As we've continued to grow, we've delivered more information and tools to more people all around the world, leveling access to architectural knowledge and encouraging an exchange of ideas from professionals of diverse backgrounds, opening architecture up to everyone rather than just the privileged few.

Now for the 16th consecutive year, we are tasking our readers with the responsibility of recognizing and rewarding the projects that are making an impact in the profession with ArchDaily's 2025 Building of the Year Awards. By voting, you are part of an unbiased, distributed network of jurors and peers that has elevated the most relevant projects over the past six years. Over the next week, your collective intelligence will filter over 4,000 projects down to just 15 stand-outs - the best in each category on ArchDaily.

During the next two weeks, you’ll be in charge of nominating buildings (in fifteen categories) for the shortlist, and then voting for the winners of each category. We will guide you through these stages accordingly.

During the nominating stage, each registered user of the My ArchDaily platform will have the chance to nominate one project (published between Jan 1st 2024 and Dec 31st 2024) per category. This stage starts on January 28th and ends on February 12th at 12:01AM EST. After this, five projects per category will move into the voting stage, starting February 12th and ending on February 20th at 12:01AM EST. The winners will be announced on February 20th, 2025.

Eligible Projects

All completed buildings published for the first time between January 1st, 2024 and December 31st, 2024 under the following categories are eligible for this award: Houses, Housing, Healthcare Architecture, Industrial Architecture, Educational Architecture, Sports Architecture, Cultural Architecture, Hospitality Architecture, Offices, Interiors Architecture, Commercial Architecture, Public & Landscape Architecture, Religious Architecture, Small Scale & Installations, and Best Applied Product.
By submitting their works to ArchDaily for publication, offices agree to enter this competition and to be present on the promotional material.
Authorship and copyright of each project belong to the offices and architects mentioned on each project’s page.

Timeline

The nomination process starts on January 28th and ends on February 12th, 2025 at 12:01 AM EST.
The voting round starts on February 12th and ends on February 20th, 2025 at 12:01 AM EST.
The winners will be announced on the morning (EST) of February 20th, 2025.

How to Vote

Only registered users of the My ArchDaily platform can vote.
Anyone can register on the My ArchDaily platform to vote. To do so, you must follow the registration link and complete the required steps to become a registered user (or use your existing My ArchDaily account).
All registered users can vote.
To register you must use a valid email address. Votes coming from users without a valid email address will be removed.
You can only vote for one building per category in each stage.
Offices and architects are encouraged to promote their works for voting, but no monetary or virtual gift compensation should be offered. You can use the following link:
https://boty.archdaily.com/us/2025

First stage: Nominations

Starting January 28th, 2025, registered users will be able to vote for their favorite project for each of the 15 categories included in the Awards. One vote per category.
The first stage ends on February 12th, 2025 at 12:01 AM EST.
The five projects with the most votes for each category will move on to the finalists round.

Second stage: Finalists

On February 12th, 2025, we will update the platform with the shortlisted projects, and registered users will be able to vote for their favorite project among the finalists.
Users can vote for one project per category.
The finalist round will end on February 20th, 2025 at 12:01 AM EST.

Winners

Winners of each category will be announced on ArchDaily's home page on February 20th, 2025.
Winners of each category will receive a certificate from ArchDaily.
The 5 finalists and the winners of each category can use the respective title for their own purposes. ArchDaily will provide promotional material.

Important notes

All data of registered users will be kept private and will not be shared with 3rd parties.
After each stage, all nominations/votes will be checked. Votes submitted by fake/invalid registrations will be removed. All attempts to abuse the system, such as creating dummy accounts, suspicious behavior from individual IP addresses or any other techniques to generate nominations/votes in automated ways will be logged and reviewed for removal.
ArchDaily reserves the right to analyze the data during every stage of the Awards in order to ensure a fair process.
All questions should be sent to Romullo Baratto and Hana Abdel, coordinators of the awards, through our contact form.

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