GRAY Awards trophies are custom-designed by acclaimed glass artist John Hogan. Photographed by Hank Drew Photography.
8th Annual GRAY Awards
Recognizing the best.
Gold star-worthy is the centerpiece of GRAY Awards: a competition celebrating the world’s most creative projects in architecture, interiors, landscape, and product design. Winners are local, regional, national, and international designers.
The entry portal open now.
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Reviewed by peers.
Who better to weigh in on the best designs in the world than your peers? Each member of the panel scores the “judges” categories on a scale of 1-10. Top combined score wins. This year’s panel includes:
Note: New Dates
Key dates.
Entry portal open thru: November 15, 2024
Finalists announcements: Feb. 2025– Mar. 2025
People's Choice voting: February 2025
Winners announced: March 2025
The categories.
Judges categories
(trophy winners).
Architecture, commercial
Architecture, residential
Interior Design, commercial
Interior Design, residential
Landscape Design
Product Design, lighting
Product Design, furniture
Product Design, other
Wild Card, open category (realized or conceptual)
Student, open category (realized or conceptual)
Breakout categories.
Design for Good - a designed project/product that has made a positive impact on a humanitarian, community, or environmental issue.
Visionary - A designer or specific architectural, interior, landscape, or product design (realized or conceptual) that exemplifies innovative thinking in a game-changing manner.
Bath
Collaboration
Health + Wellness
Historic Renovation
Home Office
Hospitality
Hotel or Resort
Institution
Kitchen
Mixed-use Development
On the Boards
Outdoor Living
Retail or Showroom
Small Space
Surface Material
Textile, Wallcovering, or Rug
Transportation
Workplace
Legacy Award.
A lifetime achievement recognition.
In homage to the place GRAY calls home, this honor is reserved for a designer based in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. We welcome your nominations.
Judging criteria.
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Aesthetic quality.
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Exceptional style.
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Overall creativity.
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Function.
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Innovation.
Eligibility.
We accept products that have been fully realized after June 2022. For the Landscape category, projects must be realized after June 2020.
With the exception of Wild Card, Student, Visionary, and On the Boards categories, all projects must be fully realized (not conceptual).
Design Students must be enrolled in an architecture or design program at time of entry or graduated from design program in 2024.
A single project can be entered into any or all categories they are eligible for including judges categories and breakout categories.
You may submit projects that have been entered in past GRAY Awards providing they still meet eligibility requirements.
“I am so honored. GRAY magazine has become such a great treasure to the design world... an award like this means so much to me and to the people that I work with. It just encourages us to keep doing what we do everyday of the year.”
— Jim Olson, FAIA, Olson Kundig, 2020 GRAY Awards Legacy Honoree
2022 GRAY Awards Party
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