2024 Building Design Awards

The theme of the 2024 DMN Building Design Awards is ‘Elevating Design Excellence’.

This was chosen because our Awards showcase great design which raises the bar, anticipates future needs, and demonstrates advancement in design skill, innovation, sustainability, and thoughtful consideration of the client’s budget and needs. The Awards also inspire our members across Australia to reach even greater heights through their building design.

Since launching in 1996, the Awards have become our organisation’s most important and prestigious celebration of the building design profession, with Ministers of government, industry leaders and other built-environment professionals attending.

With your input, we’ve shaped an Awards program that reflects our community’s values. As usual, the Awards cover a broad range of categories, ensuring all kinds of building design are celebrated. This year, we’ll again highlight that design excellence is discovered in myriad forms across Australia, from those grand architectural achievements to the modest yet meaningful designs found all throughout the country. From the West to the East Coast, every project, regardless of size, budget or postcode, has the potential to inspire and make a difference. We’ve also added some new Awards.

The Awards judging process will culminate in events in Perth and Melbourne where we’ll announce State and National winners, and not only honour the achievements of our members but inspire future generations of building designers. We trust that the 2024 Awards will reaffirm the pride of past winners in their work, their association, and see the induction of another round of worthy Award recipients.

We encourage all DMN building designers to participate in the Awards and warmly invite every DMN member to attend the Awards ceremonies. Our Awards are more than a competition; they’re a celebration of the power of design to improve lives and shape tomorrow. They’re also the continuation of an almost-30-year tradition of rewarding the pursuit of excellence in building design.

DMN represents building designers all across Australia, so we look forward to receiving nation-wide submissions as we grow in strength and numbers as your national peak body.

Together, let’s elevate design excellence.

Danielle Johnston
CEO

PROUD PARTNERS & SPONSORS 2024

ELIGIBILITY

To enter the DMN Annual Building Design Awards you must be a member and your project(s):

• must have an occupancy permit by the closing date for entries.
• must have been completed within the last three years.
• must not have been entered previously in the DMN Building Design Awards.

Location, location!
The location of a project (not the Building Designer)determines the state a project is entered into (ie if a building designer based in Queensland enters a project located in Sydney, the project will be classified as a NSW entry.)

The Design Matters National Awards program has now outgrown a single event that commenced in 1996.  The two-tiered program will open with individual State Awards. State Building Design of the Year winners will automatically qualify to compete in the National Design Awards to become Australia’s Building Designer of the Year to be celebrated in October 2024.

SUBMISSION  DATES

Entries Open: Monday 25  March 2024

Entries Close: Friday 14 June 2024

Submissions and payment must be completed before closing date.

ENTRY FEES

Members must submit their entry via the online portal. No other method of lodgement will be accepted. 

Each project entered will attract a fee of $500.00 (ex. GST).

Entering the same project to multiple categories?
Make sure to have the same project for all categories entered. Avoid labelling project name with the category next to it.

Make sure to remove 'copy' from project name when duplicating entries.