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1 award-winning entry
- 1 Silver
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Design Skill Awards
Discover the companies and studios behind Design Skill Awards winning projects. These annual standings bring their published award results together in one transparent, points-based ranking.
Choose an edition, compare award totals and open each company’s project list to see exactly where its points come from. How the ranking works
41 companies & studios
65 award-winning entries
2025 edition only1 award-winning entry
1 award-winning entry
1 award-winning entry
1 award-winning entry
1 award-winning entry
1 award-winning entry
1 award-winning entry
1 award-winning entry
1 award-winning entry
1 award-winning entry
1 award-winning entry
The methodology
Company points = 5 × Platinum + 4 × Gold + 3 × Silver + 2 × Bronze + 1 × Honourable Mention.
For example, two Gold awards and one Silver award give a company 11 points: 4 + 4 + 3.
Points are added for each company within the selected award year. The highest total takes first place. Companies with equal totals share the same position; alphabetical order only determines their display order. The next position follows competition ranking: 1, 1, 3.
Each separately published winning entry contributes its award points once. If a project has awards in more than one nomination, those distinct entries contribute separately. Exact duplicate records with the same company, project, nomination and award level count only once.
The ranking uses the Studio field in published DSA winner records. Differences in capitalisation and extra spaces are normalised, and different spellings of a studio that give the same website are counted as one company. Joint studio credits remain together as published; points are not automatically split between collaborators.
Only records with an identifiable company, award level and edition are included. Entries without a company are not assigned to a guessed studio. Annual totals are independent: points do not carry over from previous editions. For the 2022 edition, the original labels are mapped as follows: Winner = Gold (4 points), Second Award = Silver (3 points), and Third Award = Bronze (2 points).
Explore the work behind the standings
The DSA company ranking is an annual overview of award-winning architecture firms, design studios and companies working across the competition’s disciplines. It connects each studio’s position with the projects recognised in the Design Skill Awards.
This is a ranking of published DSA award results, not a universal assessment of every architecture or design practice. Award levels and the number of recognised entries both contribute to the final score. Use the standings alongside project descriptions, design credits and the DSA winners gallery to explore each company’s work.