2025 4WALLS Visionary Buildings Design Competition
Commercial Interior Spaces
Residential, Commercial and Mixed Use Buildings and Complexes
New Home Models | Hotels and Restaurants | Public Spaces and Parks
Future Projects
Celebrating the year’s most impressive buildings, the 4WALLS Competition recognizes projects designed as public or private spaces. Four adjoining walls may make a space inhabitable, but after evolving through the construction process realized buildings become activated with purpose and narrative. This competition highlights the region’s built milieu without limits on scale, function or form.
Open to hospitality projects (restaurants, hotels and attractions), commercial interiors spaces, commercial buildings, multi-unit condominiums and complexes, public spaces, structures and parks, mixed use buildings, model homes and future projects, SRQ MEDIA aims to highlight the best of the built environment of the Gulf Coast of Southwest Florida. Each year, judges from around the country jury buildings and planned neighborhoods submitted by builders, architects and engineers to celebrate the 4WALLS Visionary Design Awards in Platinum, Gold and Silver.
STANDARD ENTRIES: Friday, June 6, 2025
LATE CALL FOR ENTRIES: Friday, June 27, 2025
ELIGIBILITY
Buildings that meet the following criteria by June 1, 2025 are eligible: completed and fully realized buildings,
buildings currently under construction and buildings that have broken ground.
Interior commercial spaces that meet the following criteria by June 1, 2025 are eligible: completed and fully constructed commercial
interior spaces such as office spaces and commercial foyers.
Entries to the Future Projects category may be submitted as renderings of project that has not broken ground yet—not including spec projects
Submissions to the New Home Model category must reflect a community with home sites that are currently on the market—
photography of model homes and/or renderings of model homes may be submitted.
Entries must exist in the geographic region of Sarasota, Manatee and the barrier islands from, and including, Boca Grande to Palmetto and Lakewood Ranch.
Work completed in other areas is not eligible. Entrants may submit as many projects as they wish as separate entries.
Submitting companies do not need to hold a physical place of business in the competition region.
CATEGORIES
A. Residential Building / Condominium or Complex
B. Commercial Building
C. Mixed Use Building
D. Hospitality Space: Hotels and Restaurants (Building and/or Interior)
E. Commercial Interior Design (Office Spaces/Foyers)
F. New Home Community—Model Home
G. Public Building or Structure / Public Space
H. Future Project
JUDGING
A panel of professional and independent judges from regions outside the geographic area of this competition shall determine the platinum, gold and silver winner in each category. The jury decisions will be determined based on various criteria such as: adjacent infrastructure, access to transport, function, aesthetics, originality of concept, architecture, implementation, place making and usability. In the event of a tie, both entrants will receive awards. If any winner is disqualified or forfeits to claim the award, no replacement award shall be given. All decisions are final.
NOTIFICATION
All winning projects will be notified with an invitation to the official SRQ 4WALLS Design Competition Awards Ceremony. Platinum, Gold and Silver winners will be announced and recognized at the awards event. The 2025 4WALLS Awards will be held at the end of August 2025, with the winners of the competition published in the September 2025 edition of SRQ Magazine.
READERS ONLINE VOTING
From September 1-21, 2025, readers will be invited to vote online for their favorite 4WALLS Submission to determine the 2025 4WALLS Readers Favorite Entry of the Year. The winner of the vote will be announced on SRQ social media. All winning projects submitted to 4WALLS 2025 will be included.
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