DESIGN AWARDS
WHAT IS IT?
The AIA Triangle Design Awards Program recognizes excellence in architectural design throughout the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina metropolitan area. All awards are announced and presented at the AIA Triangle Design Awards Reception.
THE SCOOP
April 17, 2025
Early registration (Award Submission) starts February 3
More details coming soon!
Click here to see the 2024 Award Winners.
AWARD CATEGORIES
DESIGN AWARDS
Honor and Merit awards recognize area architects for overall design excellence.
COMMUNITY IMPACT THROUGH DESIGN AWARD
This award seeks to recognize built architectural projects that have catalyzed, reimagined, and advanced communities in the Triangle area for the purpose of serving the general public.
GAIL LINDSEY AWARD
The Award is intended to honor the legacy of Gail Lindsey by recognizing any person, project, or groups with the Triangle that embodies the sustainable values of collaboration, integration and creativity.
STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
Recognizes student projects at NC State School of Architecture and Wake Tech Community College for design excellence.
WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OUR
2025 JURY CHAIR
Aziza Chaouni
Founding Principal, Aziza Chaouni Projects; Associate Professor Architecture, University of Toronto
The 2025 Design Awards Task Force is thrilled to announce that Aziza Chaouni will be the 2025 Design Awards Jury Chair
Aziza’s practice, research and teaching focuses on sustainable design and construction in the developing world. She is also interested in the integration of architecture and landscape, particularly through the implementation of sustainable technologies in arid climates. She is the author / editor of three books: Desert Tourism, Tracing the Fragile Edges of Development (with Virginie Lefebvre), Out of Water, Design Solutions for Arid Regions (with Liat Margolis), and Ecotourism, Nature Conservation and Development, Reimagining Jordan’s Shobak Arid Region. In 2007, Chaouni co-founded Docomomo Morocco with the late Mohammed El Hariri. Chaouni has rehabilitated several heritage buildings, including the Qarawiyine library, the oldest library in the Middle East. She is responsible for construction management plans for the Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Complex and for the CICES (with Mourtada Gueye), both supported by the Keeping it Modern grant of the Getty Foundation, and the restoration of Old Fourth Bay College (Freetown Sierra Leone) rehabilitation, west Africa’s oldest western style university, and the Maison du Peuple (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) with the World Monuments Fund.
Aziza’s design work has been recognized with top awards for both the Global and Regional Africa and the Middle East competition from the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction; the Architectural League of New York Young Architects Award; Environmental Design Research Association Great Places Award; the American Society of Landscape Architects Design Awards; the ACSA Collaboration Award among others. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally, including the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam; INDEX: Design to Improve Life in Copenhagen; and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN HABITAT) World Urban Forum; the Venice Architecture Biennale; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen.
Aziza Chaouni is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and the Founding Principal of the design practice Aziza Chaouni Projects (ACP) with offices in Fez, Morocco and Toronto, Canada.
Chaouni holds a Masters of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Civil Engineering from Columbia University.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST YEAR’S EVENT
View the gallery of photos capturing the evening as more than 150 members, annual partners, and guests gathered to celebrate excellence!
Photos by: Veritas Digital Photography
2025 SCHEDULE
EARLY ENTRY REGISTRATION
Early Pricing: $225 per entry
February 3 – February 14
ENTRY REGISTRATION
General Pricing: $275 per entry
FEBRUARY 15 – FEBRUARY 28
ENTRY SUBMISSION DEADLINE
FEBRUARY 28, 2025 AT 5:30 PM (EST)
*THERE WILL BE NO DEADLINE EXTENSIONS – PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY
COMMUNITY IMPACT THROUGH DESIGN AWARD SUBMISSION DUE
March 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM (EST)
JURY CHAIR LECTURE
Aziza Chaouni
April 16, 2025
NC State University, Raleigh, NC
AWARDS CEREMONY
April 17, 2025
THE TASK FORCE
CHAIR
Chris Garris, AIA, LEED AP
Perkins&Will
CO-CHAIR
Julie Barghout, AIA
Hanbury
TASK FORCE
Michael Wagner, AIA
LS3P
Jennifer Amster, AIA, LEED AP
Page
Allison Harris, AIA
Smith Sinnett
Jose Noya, AIA
Notch Design
Will Stewart, AIA
Little
Janice Wang, AIA, LEED AP
Szostak Design
PREVIOUS AWARDS
2024 AWARDS
The AIA Triangle Design Awards Program recognizes excellence in architectural design throughout the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina metropolitan area.
GET INVOLVED
The Design Award Task Force promotes the recognition and celebration of design excellence throughout the AIA Triangle membership by coordinating the AIA Triangle Design Awards. The AIA Triangle Design Awards Program recognizes excellence in architectural design throughout the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina metropolitan area. All awards are announced and presented at the AIA Triangle Design Awards Reception held in Spring every year.
NOTE: Participation in the Design Awards Task Force is restricted to AIA members and Associate AIA members only.