2024 IIDA Healthcare Design Awards

Honoring excellence and originality in healthcare interior design that is exemplary of extraordinary innovations in design concepts across 14 categories.

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Eligibility

Any interior designer, interior architect, or architect may submit design project(s). Projects must be healthcare interior design projects completed no earlier than June 1, 2021.

Competition Guidelines

Important Dates

The Healthcare Design Award takes place annually. 2024 commemorates the 13th annual Healthcare Design Awards.

Submission Open

Jul 11, 2024

Submission Closed

Sep 12, 2024

Pricing

All fees must be submitted electronically. Apply for IIDA membership to take advantage of our member pricing!

$300

IIDA Member Price

$400

Non-IIDA Member Price

Competition Guidelines

Guidelines

Submission Requirements

All submissions will be done electronically, no hard copy submissions will be accepted. To enter a project into this competition, you will need to prepare and submit the following:

Written Component

Your firm's contact information including name, address, phone number, and email

Your design project's information including name and location

Project description: a brief project summary (50-word maximum)

Challenge statement: a description of your design challenge (250-word maximum)

Solution statement: a description of specific solutions to project challenges (250-word maximum)

Images

Please submit color images of your completed project, in JPG or JPEG format with a maximum file size of 1MB. You may submit captions to your images, not to exceed 50 words. Take note of the following additional guidelines:

Submit 7-10 color images total - of these images only one (1) exterior image is permitted, and a maximum of three (3) floorplans

No composite images allowed - only one photograph per image upload

Use numbers to name your image files, in order of uploads (01, 02, 03, etc). Please use the following format for floor plans: "floorplan1, floorplan2, floorplan3"

Do not reference or include your design/architectural firm name/logo in the images.

Images may be edited to improve contrast ratio, color balance, and composition through cropping only.

Images may not be edited to add, remove, or alter any aspect or element of the project including its context. Images should represent the project as it exists in the built environment.

Conceptual renderings will not be accepted

Categories

Projects must be submitted in one of the categories below. All projects are eligible for the Transformation and Innovation Award, which recognizes a project that is leading the industry and advancing healthcare outcomes. Categories may be renamed, consolidated, or eliminated (and projects reclassified) at the discretion of IIDA and/or the jurors.

Ambulatory (specialty clinic, pediatric, cancer center, ambulatory surgery center, or urgent care center)

Hospitals (community, academic/teaching hospitals, pediatric, women's, or psychiatric)

Extended Care and Assisted Living Facilities (skilled nursing facility, mental health, long-term care, or hospice/palliative care)

Judging

The winning design projects are chosen by a jury of design professionals. Submissions are judged on excellence in aesthetics, design, creativity, and function as well as the suitability of the design solution to the project challenge and the successful integration of the elements of design. The jury reserves the right to not select a winner from the entries submitted.

Prize

Category winners are scheduled to be announced in October of 2024. The Best of Competition Award and the Transformation and Innovation Award winners will be announced at the Healthcare Design Awards Winner’s Celebration in November of 2024, at IIDA Headquarters in Chicago. Winners will be featured in the Healthcare Design magazine and on IIDA.org. Winners will also receive official digital assets, including competition winner logos for self-promotion, coverage and mention on IIDA’s social media accounts, and in an official press release distributed to leading industry outlets and media partners.

For questions or more information, contact IIDA Design Competitions Manager at competitions@iida.org

View the 2023 winner here