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Announcing the 2025 Calibre Design Awards

Get your submissions ready for Calibre 2025! The submission period for the 37th IIDA Southern California Calibre Design Awards will open December 9th. Final submissions will be due on January 24th. Check the event page for more information coming soon!

PROJECT CATEGORIES

Work Large
Workplaces 50,000 + sq. ft.

Work Medium
Workplaces 20,001 – 49,999 sq. ft.

Work Small
Workplaces under 20,000 sq. ft.

Public & Community Spaces
Government, institutional, courts, transportation, worship, museums, galleries, public libraries, and community centers.

Education
Preschool, elementary, secondary educational facilities, colleges and universities, long-distance learning facilities, trade schools, and institutes.

Healthcare
Hospitals, clinics, hospice/palliative care, cancer centers, pediatric care, long-term care facilities, medical office buildings, mental health facilities, healing and wellness centers, and therapy care.

Hospitality & Retail
Hotels, retail (point of sale, store, boutique, dispensaries), restaurants, country clubs, spas, and salons.

Multi-Family Housing
Lobbies, communal and amenity spaces (indoor/outdoor).

Unbuilt/On the Boards
Unbuilt or ‘on the boards’ projects including design, strategy, and research. The project must be currently contracted by a client (no hypothetical projects allowed) and include a minimum of 3 team member firms.

Transformation
The Transformation award is for any project (regardless of type) that has transformed a space from one typology to another, repositioned a space, and/or converted from one use to another use.

People’s Choice
People’s Choice for any submission entered in the 10 categories. Voting will be online by all current IIDA SoCal members during a designated timeframe. To be considered for People’s Choice, the entrant must complete an additional 50 word summary narrative that briefly describes the project challenge and team’s solution. The winner will be announced live during the awards program.

Innovation
The Innovation award reflects a design solution that is based on new thinking and problem solving, advances the profession of interior design and/or advancements in regenerative/sustainable design and wellness and social/societal impacts in equity, diversity and inclusion. Any submission entered in the 10 categories will be given consideration for this award by our jury panel.

Best of Calibre
Best of Calibre selected by the Jury from the 10 category winners.