Awards 2026The Liverpool Architectural Society Awards 2026 celebrate excellence, innovation and ambition in the built environment across the Liverpool City Region. Showcasing outstanding architecture from the past two years – and looking ahead to the city’s future – the awards recognise projects that demonstrate design quality, social value and a meaningful contribution to place.
Open to architects, designers, clients and project teams, the awards seek the very best built and unbuilt work completed or developed between May 2024 and May 2026. From landmark commercial schemes and housing developments to community-focused projects and forward-thinking proposals, the LAS Awards highlight architecture that shapes how Liverpool lives, works and grows.
Projects may be submitted across six key categories:
Commercial Project
Offices, retail, bars, hotels and industrial buildings.Housing Project
Multi-unit housing developments, apartments, high-rise residential and single new-build homes.Small Project / Extension Project
New-build or refurbishment projects from any sector with a total construction cost under £500,000.Community / Heritage Project
Buildings that enhance the local community, including education, culture, transport, health, sport and heritage-led projects.Future of Liverpool
Unbuilt projects in any sector that will positively shape the Liverpool City Region, supported by a valid planning application or pre-application reference.The Liverpool Practice Award – Impact Beyond the City
Celebrates an architectural practice with an office in the Liverpool City Region whose work demonstrates design excellence, innovation, and positive impact locally and across the wider UK. The award recognises practices that contribute meaningfully to the built environment at multiple scales, championing Liverpool as a base for high‑quality architecture with national influence.
Together, the Liverpool Architectural Society Awards 2026 offer a platform to celebrate design excellence, collaboration and the ideas that will define the region’s architectural future.
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Important InformationPlease read all of the entry requirements and criteria before you start your submission.
The projects are required to be within the Liverpool City Region (Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens, Wirral and Halton)
Required information, including sustainability statement, photos and drawings are available to upload.
The client and collaborators have given permission to enter.
All forms must be completed in English.
Please check over your entry carefully before submission, as once a project is submitted you will no longer be able to make changes.
Price
All submissions are free to submit.
Deadline
Deadline for entries to be completed and paid for is 17:00 GMT on Tuesday 30th June 2026.
Have a question?
If you have any questions or are having trouble with your entry please contact the Liverpool Architectural Society at l.arch.society@gmail.com
Use of information
Data, including images, plans, drawings, technical and budget information and narrative text submitted in support of all LAS Awards entries will be used by LAS the purposes of assessing Awards entries in the current year of judging. Any information relating to budget, personal details such as company names or client names, addresses that the individual or agent preparing the application wishes to remain confidential during and subsequent to the Judging process has the facility (through the online entry system) to mark this information as confidential during the application process. Information marked as Confidential will not be shared for publicity or any form of public dissemination. Information not marked as Confidential will be assumed to be suitable for public dissemination. For the avoidance of doubt, information marked confidential will be shared with LAS Council Members for the purposes of evaluating and assessing Awards entries. LAS Council Members will be made aware of their obligation to treat the information as Confidential beyond the immediate purposes of assessing Awards entries.
Data will be held by LAS in perpetuity for the purposes of maintaining a record of the entries and for the LAS archive. This information will not be shared with any third party without the express and prior consent of the author, their clients or agents acting on their behalf.
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