Entries to the RIBA International Awards: 2024 are now open. The RIBA International Awards are architecture’s highest global accolades, celebrating buildings from around the world that demonstrate visionary thinking, design excellence and social impact. It is one of the world’s most rigorously judged architecture awards, with every shortlisted building visited by a group of international experts and awarded by the grand jury.
Eligibility:
The RIBA International Prize welcomes any qualified architect from across the globe.
To enter, the lead architect must:
- Be a qualified architect
- Submit a project outside of the UK
- Submit an architectural structure that has been completed between December 2018 and December 2022
- Submit an architectural structure that has been in occupation for a minimum of one year prior to submitting
- Have the client’s permission to submit the building
Judging criteria and process:
Architectural integrity
The project must:
- Be capable of stimulating, engaging and delighting its occupants, visitors and passers by have a design vision that’s reflected in all aspects of the design
- Have a robust design that has potential for flexibility in the future be environmentally and economically sustainable
- Provide social value
- Demonstrate innovation, invention and originality
- Select materials considering the environmental impact
- Have an appropriate scale
- Be detailed with rigour
- Consider size and space, in terms of the spatial experience it offers
- Demonstrate architectural and conceptual ambition
- Have a completed sustainability statement, including a response to the target metrics set out in the RIBA 2030 Challenge
Usability and context
The project must:
- Respond generously to the public realm or environment
- Make a significant contribution to the community
- Respond to the issues of accessibility and other social factors
- Have suitable structural and servicing systems
Delivery, execution and initial occupation
The project will be judged on:
- The complexity of brief and degree of difficulty; its architectural ambition and ideas
- Whether it’s fit for purpose, especially in response to the client’s brief as reflected in the level of client satisfaction
- Its timetable – the project should not have gone over time without good cause
- The type of contract, for example: traditional, design and build etc
- Value for money and budget
- Client and users’ feedback on the project in use
