Architecture Award 2025

June 5, 2025

Explore the AIA Architecture Award 2025 winners—recognized as the best in contemporary architecture regardless of budget, size, style, or type.

Architecture Award
The Cultural Living Room, a new community space, evokes a feeling of lightness. Its transparent, angled facade provides a panoramic view of the surrounding park.
Iwan Baan

Recognizing the best in contemporary architecture 

The AIA Architecture Award program celebrates the best contemporary architecture regardless of budget, size, style, or type. These stunning projects show the world the range of outstanding work architects create and highlight the many ways buildings and spaces can improve our lives.

 

Noho exterior

11 NOHO Mixed-Use Housing

Mixed-use development provides both affordable and market-rate housing in a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly arts district. It promotes equitable access to community amenities and inclusive living for very low-income residents.
Damen exterior

Damen Green Line Station

Historic transit restoration brings elevated rail service back to Chicago’s West Side after 75 years, improving transportation equity for underserved communities.
Kresge College

Kresge College Expansion at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Campus expansion renews a historically experimental college, restoring its communal essence while creating inclusive, ecologically integrated housing and academic spaces among California redwoods.
RIDC Mill exterior

RIDC Mill 19

Adaptive reuse transforms a steel mill into a sustainable hub for robotics and innovation, preserving industrial heritage while promoting advanced manufacturing in Pittsburgh.
Seattle exterior

Seattle Ferry Terminal at Colman Dock

Transportation terminal reconnects Seattle to Puget Sound, offering a welcoming civic gateway with a cohesive design that links terminal buildings, public spaces, and waterfront access.
Shanghai Astronomy Exterior

Shanghai Astronomy Museum

Architectural design reflects the past, present, and future of Chinese astronomy, integrating flowing visitor circulation and space exploration programming within a sculptural museum form.
Rose apartments exterior

The Rose Apartments

Supportive housing for young adults exiting the foster system offers a secure, connected, and private environment using a reimagined courtyard typology tailored for community integration.
Rwanda Institute Exterior

The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture

Climate-positive agricultural campus uses local materials and off-grid systems to restore biodiversity and train future conservation leaders through a sustainable and regenerative model.
exterior

U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara

Diplomatic campus blends performance, security, and cultural sensitivity, serving as a regional hub for visa services and U.S.–Mexico relations within an accessible, community-focused design.
Hyderabad exterior

U.S. Consulate General Hyderabad, India | U.S. Department of State

Sensitive site design respects cultural and ecological context, integrating a diplomatic facility within a nature preserve through light-filtering Jali screens and minimal environmental disruption.
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An AIA award is the ultimate acknowledgment of impactful, exemplary work in architecture and design. Browse AIA project-based award winners across nearly 11 categories whose work sets new standards of excellence and inspires others to innovate.

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Preserving the iconic central Texas landscape, the buildings are woven through the existing vegetation avoiding canopies and protecting roots of the mature oaks inhabiting the site.
Architecture Award
Architecture Award 2024
June 7, 2024

Explore the AIA Architecture Award  2024 winners—recognized as the best in contemporary architecture regardless of budget, size, style, or type.

The new Wagner Education Center establishes a new front door for the Center for Wooden Boats, a beloved Seattle organization dedicated to building, maintaining and using historic small craft.
Architecture Award
Wagner Education Center at the Center for Wooden Boats
June 3, 2024

 

Wagner Education Center at the Center for Wooden Boats

View from courtyard entrance, facing South.
Architecture Award
Thurston Hall Renovation
June 3, 2024

The Thurston Hall Renovation project transformed a historic residence hall at George Washington University into a vibrant, modern living-learning environment prioritizing sustainability, community