2025 Great Places Awards

Thank you for your interest in submitting to the 2025 Great Places Awards. Now in its 27th year, EDRA's Great Places Awards seek to recognize work that combines expertise in design, research, and practice and contributes to the creation of dynamic, humane places that engage our attention and imagination.

Award-winning projects reflect an interdisciplinary approach that is enduring, human-centered, sustainable, and concerned with the experiential relationship between people and their environment (built or natural) over time.

For details about the submission categories requirements and the jury considerations download the Great Places Award brochure.

For information about past winners, jurors, and general information about Great Places Awards please visit the EDRA GREAT PLACES AWARDS homepage.

The 2025 GPA Awards Jury members will be announced in January 2025.

SUBMISSION TYPES:

The Great Places Awards have five (5) submission types:

  1. Place Art
  2. Place Book
  3. Place Design
  4. Place Planning
  5. Place Research

All submissions for the 2025 Great Places Awards must be electronically submitted by 11:59 pm EST Tuesday, January 21, 2025. No paper or late submissions will be accepted. Your submission will not be considered if the application fee has not been received by the deadline date.

SUBMISSION KEY DATES

November 4, 2024 Submission site opens: https://www.edra.org/page/greatplacesawards
January 21, 2025 Submission site closes
March 31, 2025 Notifications sent out
May 27-30, 2025 EDRA 56 Halifax, Canada

Begin a submission:

Deadline for New Submissions: Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 11:59 pm EST