BLT Built Design Awards 2025 Now Accepting Submissions

The BLT Built Design Awards are back for their fifth year, and the 2025 edition is now officially accepting submissions. Organized by the 3C Group, the program has grown into an internationally recognized benchmark for innovation and quality in the built environment. With categories spanning architecture, interior, landscape, and construction product design, the BLT Awards offer a wide view of how design operates at every scale.

Last year’s results painted a vivid picture of contemporary priorities—from wellness-centered resorts to urban forests reclaiming city space. The 2025 call for entries invites an even broader exploration of spatial ideas and functional ingenuity, with professionals, emerging designers, and students encouraged to submit their work before the September deadline.

Design at the Crossroads of Culture and Innovation

Looking back at the 2024 winners provides insight into the program’s curatorial lens. Hadi Teherani Architects took the top architecture prize with ATMOSPHERE by Krallerhof, a project set in Germany that reimagines hospitality design through biomorphic form and tactile materiality. The structure balances regional sensibility with international polish, housing wellness and retreat spaces that merge with the landscape rather than dominate it.

Such projects show how the BLT Awards highlight not just good buildings, but those that engage deeper conversations—around place, atmosphere, and the sensory experience of space. They celebrate a type of design that is as much about process and narrative as it is about the final form.

Interiors with a Sense of Direction

The 2024 Interior Design of the Year award went to WOSA Sintered Stone Showroom in Macau, by The Volks Design Research & Consulting Ltd. It’s a space designed less to display products and more to choreograph a visitor’s spatial journey. Monolithic surfaces, seamless transitions, and layered lighting formed an interior landscape that elevated the act of showroom browsing into an almost cinematic experience.

This attention to movement, rhythm, and mood defines many of the BLT interior winners. Whether commercial or residential, the focus tends to lean toward spaces that curate experience rather than simply house function.

Landscapes as Infrastructure and Imagination

In the landscape category, Benjakitti Forest Park by Arsomsilp Community and Environmental Architect and TURENSCAPE in Bangkok showed how public space can serve both ecological and social roles. The park is a reclaimed swamp site, transformed into a sprawling urban forest with flood-mitigating features, wetlands, and pathways—offering a new urban prototype for Southeast Asia.

These kinds of entries signal the awards’ interest in how design mediates between city and climate, and how landscape architecture continues to expand its influence in infrastructure and policy.

Construction Products with a Design-First Mindset

The product design category often highlights innovations that blur the line between tool and aesthetic object. Canada’s Backcountry Hut Company won in 2024 for System 02, a modular building kit that plays with prefab logic without abandoning design integrity. It’s a reminder that construction product design, often overlooked in architectural discourse, holds potential as a space for experimentation and new economies of building.

These selections show that strong product design goes beyond performance—it considers context, adaptability, and the emotional resonance of the built object in equal measure to its technical function.

2025 BLT Awards Timeline