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Call For Entries: Get Published and Be Named an Architectural Visionary in the 2026 Vision Awards!
Architectural visionaries: This is your moment to shine!
The 2026 Architizer Vision Awards is now open for entries, honoring the studios and individuals redefining how architecture is imagined, represented and communicated. From radical conceptual proposals to unforgettable photographs, films, renderings and drawings, the program celebrates the creative work that shapes architecture long before — and long after — a building is complete.
Start your entry today and complete it before the Early Entry Deadline at midnight PT on April 17, 2026:
Proudly hosted by Architizer in partnership with RELEASE [AEC], NADKA, Metropolis, and the World Visualization Festival, the Vision Awards is designed to honor and elevate the studios, designers and image-makers whose work is driving architecture forward.
If your work challenges convention or communicates architecture in a new way, this is your opportunity to be recognized as one of the voices shaping what comes next. Whether it’s a bold unbuilt project, a lost competition entry or a concept left on the drawing board, the Vision Awards provides a new stage to give that work the global attention it deserves.
Be Named in the Visionary 100
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At the heart of this year’s program is the return of the Visionary 100, Architizer’s definitive annual directory of the world’s most exciting architectural creators. For firms and individuals alike, inclusion signals something bigger than a single accolade — it marks you as a designer, visualizer or storyteller whose work is influencing the direction of architecture itself.
In an industry where ideas are increasingly experienced through images, the ability to communicate architecture with clarity and conviction has become a form of authorship. The Visionary 100 celebrates those who do it best.
Your Work on a Global Stage
2025 Vision Award Winners from left to right: Sands Temple by Chen Guanhong, Editor’s Choice Winner, Best Photograph – Architecture & Atmosphere; Incomplete Landscapes on Pedra Branca by Eugene Tan, Jury Winner, Architectural Illustrator of the Year; Freeway Carpools by Greg Tate, Jury Winner, Best AI-assisted Rendering; Populus by Jason O’Rear Photography, Jury Winner, Best Photo – Architecture & Details. See all 2025 Winners here.
The Vision Awards are hosted by Architizer.com, the largest online community of architects in the world, with an audience of more than 7 million. Winners and finalists receive year-round visibility across Architizer’s editorial platform, winners gallery and social channels, placing your work in front of a global audience of architects, clients and collaborators.
Each Vision Awards category offers two major accolades: the Editors’ Choice Award, selected by Architizer’s editorial team, and the Jurors’ Choice Award, selected by an expert jury from the season’s top entries. This year’s jury includes internationally renowned architects Steven Holl and Daniel Libeskind, alongside a diverse panel of designers, editors and industry leaders. Having your work reviewed by figures of this caliber is an opportunity in itself. See the full jury here.
Entrants can also opt into the Best of the Year Awards, which recognize the most visionary and timely submissions across concepts, visualization and representation. Learn more here.
Join Us at the Vision Awards Showcase in Paris
Recent Architizer celebrations have taken place in New York City, Shenzhen, and Paris, with networking and speaking opportunities for many winners. Photo credits: Zack DeZon, Alex Bonnemaison
For the first time, the Vision Awards will culminate in an in-person celebration at the iconic Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris this fall. Hosted in partnership with RELEASE [AEC], an exciting global conference focused on emerging technology in architecture, engineering and construction.
Winners will be announced live, with finalists and winners invited to attend a full day of keynotes, panel discussions, demonstrations and networking. Selected winners will also see their work exhibited during the conference and have the opportunity to present their work on stage.
For architects, rendering artists, photographers and videographers alike, the event will provide an unparalleled opportunity to connect with and grow business relationships with other visionary leaders across the AEC industry, while having fun in the process!
New Prizes for 2026
Select Vision Awards Winners will be featured in a 2027 print edition of Metropolis Magazine. See more details on the program prizes here.
This year’s Vision Awards program introduces an expanded set of incentives designed to elevate you and your work even further.
In partnership with Metropolis, select Vision Awards winners will be published in the magazine’s Spring 2027 print issue dedicated to innovation in AEC. Distributed across North America and featured at the AIA national convention in Philadelphia, this is a rare opportunity to see your work in print at a major industry event.
New this year, the Vision Awards also offers a chance to monetize your vision with the creative catalog platform NADKA, offering one winner the chance to join its exclusive portfolio. This opens the door to global commercial licensing opportunities across film, television, gaming and advertising — transforming architectural imagery into new forms of creative and professional value.
And in another first for Architizer, select winning architectural films will be aired on DESIGNTV, SANDOW’s premier platform for design-oriented video!
Categories for Every Kind of Visionary
2025 Vision Award Winners from left to right: Valelaca Rokataki (Prismatic Parasol) by OBJECT TERRITORIES, Editor’s Choice Winner, Vision for Materials; Conceptual Skyscraper in Manhattan by HISM, Jury Winner, Best Photorealistic Rendering; Pragmatic in Contrast to Non-Pragmatic by Sergei Tchoban, Editor’s Choice Winner, Best Architectural Sketch; San Blas Pier by Rafael Gamo, Editor’s Choice Winner, Architectural Photographer of the Year. See all 2025 Winners here.
The Vision Awards categories reflect the many ways architectural ideas take shape today:
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Architectural Concept Categories reward unbuilt proposals that explore the future of housing, cities, sustainability and more.
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Architectural Rendering & Drawing Categories celebrate images that communicate architecture with clarity, atmosphere and impact.
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Architectural Photography & Video Categories highlight the still and moving images that shape how architecture is experienced and remembered.
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Architectural Visionary Categories recognize the individuals and studios whose portfolios establish them as leaders in architectural storytelling.
Whether you’re submitting a speculative project, a still image, a film or a body of work, the aim is the same: to showcase the many innovative ways you move architecture forward through ideas and communication.
Share Your Work With the World
The Vision Awards exists to celebrate the creators who give architecture its voice — those who turn concepts into images, narratives and experiences that resonate.
If that sounds like your work, now is the moment.
Submit before the Early Entry Deadline on April 17, 2026, and position your work for global recognition, publication, live presentation opportunities and inclusion in the Visionary 100.
We can’t wait to see what you’ve been working on!
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