2017 Honor Awards Digital Toolkit

WELCOME!

AIA Seattle invites you to join us in celebrating outstanding architecture with the 2017 AIA Seattle Honor Awards, and we hope you will spread the word to your followers. Everything you need to know is below, including:

key information about this year’s program
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The AIA Seattle team

ABOUT

2017 AIA Seattle Honor Awards for Washington Architecture

The AIA Seattle Honor Awards are the ideal platform to recognize the diverse perspectives, scales, and typologies that encompass the practice of architecture in our region, recognizing discerning beauty, ingenious solution, and social and environmental impact. Let’s celebrate your voice and your values, demonstrated by the best of our collective work, by offering recognition for the inspirational, the intelligent and the evocative.

AIA Seattle’s annual Honor Awards program:

provides an important opportunity for the design community to share and celebrate its achievements both among practitioners and with the community at-large.
offers submittal guidelines and judging criteria that recognize both our profession’s changing conditions and our legacy of design leadership.
celebrates all who contribute to the evolution of practice, whether through the creation of buildings, installations or concepts.
recognizes the immense role and responsibility architects have in reducing the negative impacts of the built environment on the natural environment

As we strive to strengthen our collective commitment to building performance within the context of a changing climate, resource scarcity, and design excellence, AIA Seattle is pleased to once again offer an Energy in Design Award, commending projects that have made quantifiably significant strides in energy reduction while also maintaining the highest qualitative design caliber.

The 2017 Honor Awards program seeks submissions in the Built and Conceptual categories – two categories that aim to encompass and celebrate the wide range of design work architects are doing today. We believe that the best design, no matter the scale or budget, embodies a balance between inspiration, problem-solving, environmental sensitivity, and social transformation.

Submission guidelines are available to view or download here, and on the Honor Awards website.

WHY SUBMIT?

Design matters now more than ever. If you’ve never submitted before, now is the time. If you’ve submitted a project in the past that you think should have won, submit it again! This is a new year and a different jury.

Publicize your work—your project will be part of a program experienced by hundreds of architecturally-minded attendees from the design industry and beyond.
Get your work out there—all submitted projects are featured on the AIA Seattle Online Gallery, a perfect place for AIA Seattle to direct design-hungry writers. National editors and writers interested in architecture and the built environment use the Honor Awards website as a resource.
Put your creativity to work twice—if you’ve got a great project that never made it out of the design phase, don’t let it go to waste, submit it in the Conceptual category
Refine your pitch— submitting your project is a great way to hone how you communicate about your work. Those who have submitted in the past say that the process helped them speak about their work to clients and to fellow team members in a more coherent and persuasive way.
Get in front of distinguished colleagues—have your work reviewed by prominent architects like David Adjaye, David Lewis, and Catie Newell.
Build respect from peers and clients—recognition from a panel of carefully chosen jurors adds to your firm’s credibility. The Awards themselves exhibit the breadth and depth of architectural talent here in Washington. This is a great way to showcase to the greater community our strength as a design community.
Build buzz about your firm—use your firm’s recognition to leverage coverage of you and your projects in magazines and journals that are seen by peers and potential clients throughout the Northwest.

KEY DATES

September 18: Energy in Design Calculator info session + demonstration, 12-1pm at the Center. Register here.
September 20: Registration Deadline (15% fee increase applies after this date) Register here.
September 27 (5:00 pm PDT): Final Submission Deadline
November 13: Honor Awards Live Event at Benaroya Hall

TICKETS

Tickets will be available online & at the Benaroya Hall box office late September.
- Pre-sale* $32.50 general , $18 for students with valid student ID
- Day-of* $38.50 general, $18 for students with valid student ID
Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more by calling the Group Sales department directly at 206.215.4818 or 206.215.4784. There is an 12% per ticket fee for online and phone transactions. (This transaction fee can be avoided by purchasing tickets in person from the Benaroya Hall box office.)
Submitters will receive one (1) complimentary ticket (per entry) to the 11/13 Live Event and will receive an email from program manager Cassie Blair with more details on how to obtain these. No tickets will be distributed and/or sold from our office.

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(Simply copy + paste for Twitter. For Facebook, please be sure to TYPE in the bold names* – not just copy + paste – to make sure they are tagged, which increases engagement and reach.) The primary hashtag for the program is #HonorAwardsSEA, while the secondary hashtag is #CelebrateDesign.

Celebrate diverse architecture by submitting your project for the 2017 @AIASeattle Honor Awards. bit.ly/aiaha17 #HonorAwardsSEA
Design matters now more than ever. Submit your project for the 2017 @AIASeattle Honor Awards by 9/27 bit.ly/aiaha17 #HonorAwardsSEA
Be there when the 2017 @AIASeattle Honor Awards winners are announced live at @benaroyahall on 11/13 bit.ly/aiaha17 #HonorAwardsSEA

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