International Excellence Awards 2027 call for entries

[edit] Introduction

The International Excellence Awards (IEA) 2027 are open for entries. Organised by Architecture & Design Community, the third edition of the IEA accepts built, produced and conceptual work by architects, interior and landscape designers, product, furniture, lighting and fashion designers, studios and students from any country. Projects created fully or partially with AI are also eligible.

[edit] Categories

The awards have 11 categories and 240 nominations: Architecture, Interior, Landscape, Fashion, Furniture, Lighting, Packaging, Product, Transportation, Communication and AI-Powered Innovation. The Architecture category alone has 21 nominations, including Sustainable Architecture and Green Buildings, Adaptive Reuse and Restoration Projects, Heritage and Vernacular Architecture, Disaster-Resilient Architectural Solutions, and Urban Planning and Masterplans.

[edit] Eligibility

• Projects must not be more than seven years old on the date of registration.
• Built, produced and conceptual projects are accepted.
• Projects that took part in previous editions, including winning entries, may enter again.

[edit] How entries are judged

Entries are reviewed for compliance and then scored by an international jury on a secure judging platform. Each juror scores every project individually on a 1–10 scale against three criteria: Innovation & Originality, Design & Aesthetic Quality, and Functionality & Spatial Integration. The final score is the average of all jurors' scores, and it sets the award level: Platinum (9.0–10.0), Gold (7.5–8.9), Silver (6.0–7.4) or Bronze (4.5–5.9). Projects are not ranked against each other and there is no limit on the number of winners in a category. Submitted images and texts must not show the authors' names or logos.

The 2027 jury members come from Brazil, the United States, Thailand and Egypt; see International Excellence Awards 2027 Grand Jury.

[edit] Key dates

• Advance registration: until 24 November 2026
• Standard registration: until 8 January 2027
• Extended registration: until 9 February 2027
• Late registration: until 16 March 2027
• Project submission: until 19 March 2027
• Winners announced: 6 April 2027

[edit] Examples of 2026 winners

• CASA JESUS & ULRIKE by Mauricio Ceballos, MCXA (Mexico): Platinum, Sustainable Architecture and Green Buildings.
• Pandora by Lee Chung-Lin, YUN-YIH Design Company (Taiwan): Platinum, Hospitality and Hotel Interiors.
• Saint Ives, a multi-level luxury residential transformation, by Max Nobel, Nobel LA (USA): Platinum, Custom Interior Design Projects.
• Adagio by Seraphina Sol (Canada): Platinum, Sustainable Packaging for Products.

[edit] Find out more

• International Excellence Awards
• IEA winners