General Design
Typical General Design entries represent excellence, exemplary performance, or significant site specific built works in communities and housing; urban design; parks/recreation; transportation corridors/facilities; commercial facilities; resorts; institutions; historic preservation/restoration; land and water reclamation/conservation; and landscape art.

Analysis and Planning
Typical Analysis and Planning entries represent excellence, exemplary performance, or significant works in general development, regional transportation, recreation facilities, park master plans, and town planning. Also relevant to are governmental policies or programs; legislation or regulations ensuring utilization of landscape architecture; landscape analysis such as environmental assessments; natural and cultural resource inventories; natural resource protection, conservation restoration/reclamation plans; and post-construction evaluations.

Residential Design
Typical Residential Design entries represent built single or multifamily residential projects; activity areas for cooking, entertaining, recreation, or relaxation; sustainable landscape applications; new construction or renovation projects; historic preservation, rehabilitation, or restoration; affordable landscape concepts and innovations; small site development; private gardens; rooftop gardens; and more.

Communications
Typical communication entries represent excellence, exemplary performance, or significant achievement in communicating landscape architecture works, techniques, technologies, history, or theory, and the lesson value to an intended audience.

Research
Research submissions represent excellence, exemplary performance, or significant works of scientific /academic rigor or historical research that give evidence of examination of a problem, use of accepted methods, and arrival at supported and original findings.

Community Service
Community Service submittals should represent pro bono community service demonstrating sound principles and values of Landscape Architecture. These may be submitted as by an individual or a group representing either an individual or group contribution. All contributors to the community service project will be recognized for their involvement.

Virginia Landmark Landscape
Submissions will present distinguished landscapes constructed more than 15 years ago that retain their original design integrity and contribute to the communities in which they are located.