Celebrating Inspired Design

Looking Back – Looking Forward


Looking Back – Looking Forward

The Dallas Architecture Forum educates, enriches, and connects the North Texas community by presenting programs and events, creating experiences, and engaging global and local thought-leaders from all design fields to enhance how we live. This Season, The Forum is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. Over the last 25 years, Dallas/Fort Worth has seen great advances in its built environment. The Dallas Arts District has been finished, new museums in both cities have been built, and significant public spaces, parks, and public art have opened, positively engaging the community. The Forum plans to recognize and honor these developments with a 25th Anniversary Design Recognition: Looking Back - Looking Forward.

The Forum will recognize twenty-five projects that have been completed over the last twenty-five years, regardless of whether that was in 1997, 2021, or anytime in between. Also, because many new projects are now in process, we will also recognize up to ten projects that are through design development. We invite a wide variety of submissions, including cultural, education, interiors, public spaces, retail, infrastructure, adaptive reuse, and public art. Projects will be judged on design excellence, sustainability, resiliency, and inclusiveness.

This Design Recognition is a unique opportunity to recognize the remarkable growth of inspired design in Dallas/Fort Worth over the last twenty-five years AND into the future!

Jury Members

Deborah Berke
Yale Dean, New Haven
Andrea Cochran
Landscape Architect, San Francisco
Maurice Cox
City Planner, Chicago
Carlos Jimenez
Architect, Houston
Brigitte Shim
Architect, Toronto

Looking BACK

This Design Recognition will recognize twenty-five projects of significance that have improved the social and urban fabric of North Texas, or have the potential to do so, since The Forum was founded in December 1996.

Categories

Ten categories, twenty-five awards:

  1. Commercial
    Includes Office
  2. Cultural and Civic
    Includes municipal, faith-based, museums, performing arts and public arts
  3. Education
    Includes all grade levels
  4. Health and Wellness
    Includes medical, recreation and athletic stadiums
  5. Interior Design
    Includes interiors for residential and office
  6. Landscape, Urban Design, Public Space, Master Plan
    Includes public and private projects
  7. Residential
    Includes single-family, multi-family, new and renovation
  8. Retail, Mixed Use and Hospitality
    Includes architecture and interiors
  9. Transportation and Infrastructure
    Includes transit and aviation
  10. Adaptive Re-use, Preservation and Non-residential Restoration

Time frame for eligibility – completion between December 1996 and December 2021. Project must be located within the Dallas/ Fort Worth metropolitan area. At least one firm of the project must have a location in D/FW.

Projects may be submitted in multiple categories, but a registration fee must be paid for each entry. Design excellence, sustainability, resiliency, and inclusiveness will be components evaluated for all entries.

Schedule

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023, 11:59pm: Final Submission Deadline


Looking FORWARD

The Design Recognition will also recognize between 5 to 10 projects that have been completed since January 1, 2022, are under construction, or announced with a targeted ground-breaking date.

Categories

Ten categories, up to ten awards:

  1. Commercial
    Includes Office
  2. Cultural and Civic
    Includes municipal, faith-based, museums, performing arts and public arts
  3. Education
    Includes all grade levels
  4. Health and Wellness
    Includes medical, recreation and athletic stadiums
  5. Interior Design
    Includes interiors for residential and office
  6. Landscape, Urban Design, Public Space, Master Plan
    Includes public and private projects
  7. Residential
    Includes single-family, multi-family, new and renovation
  8. Retail, Mixed Use and Hospitality
    Includes architecture and interiors
  9. Transportation and Infrastructure
    Includes transit and aviation
  10. Adaptive Re-use, Preservation and Non-residential Restoration

Time frame for eligibility – completion since January 1, 2022, or are under construction, or announced with a targeted ground-breaking date. Project must be located within the Dallas/ Fort Worth metropolitan area. At least one firm of the project must have a location in D/FW.

Looking Forward will be judged separately from the “Looking Back” projects. Projects will be evaluated on their potential to significantly improve the social and urban fabric of North Texas.

Projects may be submitted in multiple categories, but a registration fee must be paid for each entry. Design excellence, sustainability, resiliency, and inclusiveness will be components evaluated for all entries.

Schedule

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023, 11:59pm: Final Submission Deadline