Burlington, VT – The American Institute of Architects, Vermont Chapter (AIAVT) announced the recipients of its 2025 Excellence in Architecture Design Awards program at its annual meeting, held on December 4, 2025. Seven projects were chosen by a jury for demonstrating “excellence in design” from thirty entries submitted by AIA member architects. Two projects also won “Peers Choice Awards”, as voted on by AIAVT members at the annual meeting event. 

The jurors, all members of AIA Savannah, included Greg Skinner, AIA, Hannah Brown, AIA, Lavontae Decius, Associate AIA, Sophia Rodriquez, Associate AIA, and Steven G. Stowers, AIA. Details on the individual jury members can be found here. 

The jury was asked to grant awards using the AIA “Framework for Design Excellence” as their judging criteria. Awards were given at three levels: Honor, Merit, and Citation, with Honor being the highest award. The jury convened virtually and was facilitated by AIAVT’s Awards Committee Members, Ben Buglovsky and Michael Chaucer, AIA. 

Winners were announced by Ben Buglovsky along with Brian Leet, at the AIA Vermont Annual Meeting and Design Awards event at Champlain College. 

Winners of this year’s AIAVT Annual Design Awards are as follows:

• Honor Award in the Commercial / Institutional / Multi-Family / Mixed Use category goes to Bread Loaf Corporation for Middlebury Town Hall Theater Annex in Middlebury, Vermont.
• Merit Award in the Single Family Residential category goes to TruexCullins Architecture + Interiors for the Black & White House in Burlington, VT.
• Merit Award in the Single Family Residential category goes to Birdseye for the Atrium in Southern VT. 
• Merit Award in the Historic Preservation / Adaptive Re-Use / Rehabilitation category goes to R. Edwards & Co. for Memorial Hall in North Calais, VT. 
• Merit Award in the Small Projects category goes to McLeod Architects for Off the Beaten Track in Squam Lake, NH.
• Merit Award in the Pro-bono/ Volunteer/ Unbuilt category goes to Vermont Integrated Architecture for the Yellow House Community - Carriage Barn Renovation in Middlebury, VT.
• Citation Award in the Single Family Residential category goes to Birdseye for TeglHus in Southern VT. TeglHus was also a winner of the 2025 Peers' Choice Award.
• 2025 Peers Choice Award Winner: Two Step by Sidehill Design in Barnard, VT.

Details and images of each project can be found at https://www.aiavt.org/awards/2025-design-awards