Call For Entries: Get Published and Be Named an Architectural Visionary in the 2026 Vision Awards!

Architectural visionaries: That is your second to shine!

The 2026 Architizer Imaginative and prescient Awards is now open for entries, honoring the studios and people redefining how structure is imagined, represented and communicated. From radical conceptual proposals to unforgettable images, movies, renderings and drawings, this system celebrates the artistic work that shapes structure lengthy earlier than — and lengthy after — a constructing is full.

Begin your entry right now and full it earlier than the Early Entry Deadline at midnight PT on April 17, 2026:

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Proudly hosted by Architizer in partnership with RELEASE [AEC], NADKA, Metropolis, and the World Visualization Competition, the Imaginative and prescient Awards is designed to honor and elevate the studios, designers and image-makers whose work is driving structure ahead.

In case your work challenges conference or communicates structure in a brand new approach, that is your alternative to be acknowledged as one of many voices shaping what comes subsequent. Whether or not it’s a daring unbuilt mission, a misplaced competitors entry or an idea left on the drafting board, the Imaginative and prescient Awards gives a brand new stage to provide that work the worldwide consideration it deserves.

Be Named within the Visionary 100

On the coronary heart of this yr’s program is the return of the Visionary 100, Architizer’s definitive annual listing of the world’s most fun architectural creators. For corporations and people alike, inclusion alerts one thing larger than a single accolade — it marks you as a designer, visualizer or storyteller whose work is influencing the route of structure itself.

In an business the place concepts are more and more skilled by way of photographs, the flexibility to speak structure with readability and conviction has grow to be a type of authorship. The Visionary 100 celebrates those that do it finest.

Your Work on a International Stage

2025 Imaginative and prescient Award Winners from left to proper: Sands Temple by Chen Guanhong, Editor’s Alternative Winner, Finest {Photograph} – Structure & Ambiance; Incomplete Landscapes on Pedra Branca by Eugene Tan, Jury Winner, Architectural Illustrator of the Yr; Freeway Carpools by Greg Tate, Jury Winner, Finest AI-assisted Rendering; Populus by Jason O’Rear Pictures, Jury Winner, Finest Picture – Structure & Particulars. See all 2025 Winners right here.

The Imaginative and prescient Awards are hosted by Architizer.com, the biggest on-line group of architects on the earth, with an viewers of greater than 7 million. Winners and finalists obtain year-round visibility throughout Architizer’s editorial platform, winners gallery and social channels, putting your work in entrance of a world viewers of architects, purchasers and collaborators.

Every Imaginative and prescient Awards class provides two main accolades: the Editors’ Alternative Award, chosen by Architizer’s editorial group, and the Jurors’ Alternative Award, chosen by an knowledgeable jury from the season’s prime entries. This yr’s jury contains internationally famend architects Steven Holl and Daniel Libeskind, alongside a various panel of designers, editors and business leaders. Having your work reviewed by figures of this caliber is a chance in itself. See the total jury right here.

Entrants may also decide into the Better of the Yr Awards, which acknowledge essentially the most visionary and well timed submissions throughout ideas, visualization and illustration. Be taught extra right here.

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Be part of Us on the Imaginative and prescient Awards Showcase in Paris

Latest Architizer celebrations have taken place in New York Metropolis, Shenzhen, and Paris, with networking and talking alternatives for a lot of winners. Picture credit: Zack DeZon, Alex Bonnemaison

For the primary time, the Imaginative and prescient Awards will culminate in an in-person celebration on the iconic Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris this fall. Hosted in partnership with RELEASE [AEC], an thrilling international convention centered on rising expertise in structure, engineering and development.

Winners might be introduced reside, with finalists and winners invited to attend a full day of keynotes, panel discussions, demonstrations and networking. Chosen winners will even see their work exhibited in the course of the convention and have the chance to current their work on stage.

For architects, rendering artists, photographers and videographers alike, the occasion will present an unparalleled alternative to attach with and develop enterprise relationships with different visionary leaders throughout the AEC business, whereas having enjoyable within the course of!

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New Prizes for 2026

Choose Imaginative and prescient Awards Winners might be featured in a 2027 print version of Metropolis Journal. See extra particulars on this system prizes right here.

This yr’s Imaginative and prescient Awards program introduces an expanded set of incentives designed to raise you and your work even additional.

In partnership with Metropolis, choose Imaginative and prescient Awards winners might be printed within the journal’s Spring 2027 print challenge devoted to innovation in AEC. Distributed throughout North America and featured on the AIA nationwide conference in Philadelphia, this can be a uncommon alternative to see your work in print at a significant business occasion.

New this yr, the Imaginative and prescient Awards additionally provides an opportunity to monetize your imaginative and prescient with the artistic catalog platform NADKA, providing one winner the prospect to affix its unique portfolio. This opens the door to international business licensing alternatives throughout movie, tv, gaming and promoting — reworking architectural imagery into new types of artistic {and professional} worth.

And in one other first for Architizer, choose profitable architectural movies might be aired on DESIGNTV, SANDOW’s premier platform for design-oriented video!

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Classes for Each Type of Visionary

2025 Imaginative and prescient Award Winners from left to proper: Valelaca Rokataki (Prismatic Parasol) by OBJECT TERRITORIES, Editor’s Alternative Winner, Imaginative and prescient for Supplies; Conceptual Skyscraper in Manhattan by HISM, Jury Winner, Finest Photorealistic Rendering; Pragmatic in Distinction to Non-Pragmatic by Sergei Tchoban, Editor’s Alternative Winner, Finest Architectural Sketch; San Blas Pier by Rafael Gamo, Editor’s Alternative Winner, Architectural Photographer of the Yr. See all 2025 Winners right here.

The Imaginative and prescient Awards classes mirror the various methods architectural concepts take form right now:

Architectural Idea Classes reward unbuilt proposals that discover the way forward for housing, cities, sustainability and extra.

Architectural Rendering & Drawing Classes have a good time photographs that talk structure with readability, environment and impression.

Architectural Pictures & Video Classes spotlight the nonetheless and shifting photographs that form how structure is skilled and remembered.

Architectural Visionary Classes acknowledge the people and studios whose portfolios set up them as leaders in architectural storytelling.

Whether or not you’re submitting a speculative mission, a nonetheless picture, a movie or a physique of labor, the goal is similar: to showcase the various revolutionary methods you progress structure ahead by way of concepts and communication.

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Share Your Work With the World

The Imaginative and prescient Awards exists to have a good time the creators who give structure its voice — those that flip ideas into photographs, narratives and experiences that resonate.

If that appears like your work, now could be the second.

Submit earlier than the Early Entry Deadline on April 17, 2026, and place your work for international recognition, publication, reside presentation alternatives and inclusion within the Visionary 100.

We are able to’t wait to see what you’ve been engaged on!

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