Awardees—16 in total and selected by the jury—will be announced at the Record Innovation Conference and featured in the November 2025 issue of the magazine.

The competition is open until July 25, 2025, and applications can be submitted here.

More information on the jurors below:

Bina Bhattacharyya | Partner, RAMSA

Bina Bhattacharyya brings over 30 years of experience across resort and hospitality design, high-end single-family houses, mixed-use master planning, museums, and residential community developments.

As partner, she leads many of RAMSA’s transformative international projects, like Heart of Lake, a garden suburb in Xiamen, China that synthesizes classical western traditions and the regional vernacular. Domestically, Bhattacharyya has worked on some of RAMSA’s most well-known multi-family projects including 220 Central Park South in New York. Current projects include domestic and international private residences, a sustainability-minded marina resort and residential community, and residential towers integrating architecture and landscape to create a holistic living experience.

Bhattacharyya is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Urban Design Forum, the Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Urban Land Institute. She is a visiting design professor and continuing jurist for thesis reviews at the University of Notre Dame.

Trattie Davies | Founding Partner and Principal, Davies Toews Architecture

Trattie Davies is an architect and senior critic at the Yale School of Architecture. She is founding partner and principal of Davies Toews Architecture. 

Her work with the firm includes residential, commercial, and institutional projects for private, corporate, and nonprofit clients in New York, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, Illinois, and California. The firm was recognized as a 2018 Architectural Record Design Vanguard and as one of the 2019 Architectural League Emerging Voices. Davies Toews’s work was exhibited as part of the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City. 

Davies previously worked for Gehry Partners in Los Angeles and Pierce Allen in New York City. She was an artist in residence at the Cité International des Arts in Paris and a teaching fellow at the Fontainebleau Schools. She was a recipient of Yale University’s King-lui Wu Teaching Award in 2016.

David Farnsworth | Principal, Arup

David Farnsworth is a principal with Arup. He has a depth of experience in the design and management of projects both locally and globally. Farnsworth leads Arup’s Americas property market and tall buildings business, and has design experience encompassing all program types, construction materials, and modern methods of tower construction. 

He has designed some of the world’s most recognizable tall building structures, including the towers at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, Northeast Asia Trade tower in Incheon, South Korea, and the Citic Tower in Beijing. Farnsworth is also a leader in structural innovation, having overseen the digital fabrication of the complex precast concrete components of Little Island in Manhattan, and numerous high-rise volumetric modular construction systems for projects in both New York and California.

Benjamin Gilmartin | Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Benjamin Gilmartin joined Diller Scofidio + Renfro in 2004 and became a partner in 2015. He has contributed to the design of many of the studio’s most significant projects, including the renovation and expansion of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The High Line, the redevelopment of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and The Broad in Los Angeles.

As partner, he has overseen the design of projects both nationally and abroad, among them the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs and the adjoining Park Union Bridge. He is currently leading the adaptive reuse of the historic Metropolitan Storage Warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which will be the new home of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning.

Gilmartin is the 2025 president of AIA New York and an active board member of the Center for Architecture. Alongside his partners, he has been distinguished as a Storefront for Art and Architecture honoree and is the recipient of awards from the Society of Architectural Historians and the American Federation of Arts, among others. He lectures widely and has taught at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.