BUILDER's Choice Design Awards

2023 Builder's Choice Design Awards

This year's annual showcase recognized 15 exemplary residential projects from around the country.

2022 Builder's Choice Design Awards

Ranging from small ADUs to large multifamily buildings, a total of 18 residential projects were honored in this year's program.

2021 Builder's Choice Design Awards

The 14 winners in this year's design awards program display a broad range of product types in several different geographic locations.

2020 Builder's Choice & Custom Home Design Awards

Small, inventive, and efficient, this year's projects reflect an industry paving the way for the future of building.

2019 Builder's Choice & Custom Home Design Awards

The winners of the 2019 program showcase function in small footprints, the use of innovative building materials, and remodels that respect existing architecture.

2018 Builder's Choice & Custom Home Design Awards

These award-winning 2018 projects transform our cities, enhance our communities, and most importantly, help redefine our notion of ‘home.’

2017 Builder's Choice & Custom Home Design Awards

The winners of the 2017 Builder’s Choice & Custom Home Design Awards showcase the best in residential design—and their residents, and communities, are better for them.

2016 Builder's Choice & Custom Home Design Awards

The winners of the 2016 Builder’s Choice & Custom Home Design Awards use thoughtful planning and innovative details to advance the notion of what makes a house a home.

Franklin Mountain House by Hazelbaker Rush in El Paso. Photo: Casey Dunn

2015 BUILDER's Choice Design Awards

Craftsmanship has always been the name of the game in residential design, and that is evident nowhere more so than in the winners of this year’s Builder’s Choice & Custom Home Design Awards, our annual showcase of the best residential projects from around the country.

2014 BUILDER's Choice Design Award Winners

Community is Crucial, sustainability is assumed, adaptive reuse is increasingly inventive, and density is being accomplished in defter and more beautiful ways than ever before

At the end of a row of cottages, a fireplace and screened pavilion is used for family picnics and spontaneous happy hour

2013 BUILDER's Choice Design Awards

The winners of our 2013 Builder's Choice and Custom Home Design Awards offer cutting-edge, inspired projects, selected by a jury of builders and architects.

2012 BUILDER's Choice Design Awards

The 2012 winners harmonize beautifully with their settings, let the best of the outside in, and show why the open plan has come to define how people are living today.