Interior Architecture Award 2026
Explore the AIA Interior Architecture Award 2026 recipients—recognized as the best in interior architecture and design.
Corey Gaffer
Announcing the 2026 recipients
The AIA Interior Architecture Award celebrates the most innovative and spectacular interior spaces. Impressive building interiors make their mark on the cities, places, and spaces where we live and work.
825 Arts
In St. Paul’s Frogtown and Rondo neighborhoods, this adaptive reuse project transforms a long-abandoned historic theater into a vibrant arts center, integrating community-led design, flexible performance spaces, and cultural preservation to support a diverse and dynamic local arts community.
Casa Luce
In the Catalina foothills of Tucson, this renovation of a mid-century modern home redefines its original essence through careful subtraction and insertion, integrating daylight, natural materials, and desert-responsive design to reconnect living spaces with the surrounding landscape.
Cedar Park Public Library
In the heart of Cedar Park’s Bell District, this civic library is conceived as the community’s porch, integrating landscape, daylight-driven design, and flexible learning spaces to foster connection, civic engagement, and a shared culture of discovery.
Jackson Hole History Museum
In downtown Jackson, this community-driven museum reclaims a threatened site as a civic and cultural anchor, integrating Indigenous collaboration, flexible gathering spaces, and connections to the surrounding landscape to preserve history and expand public access.
Missouri Botanical Garden Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center
At the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, this visitor center creates a welcoming gateway that integrates architecture and landscape, using biophilic design and immersive experiences to connect visitors to nature, conservation, and the garden’s mission.
Mosaic Tenant Amenity Conference Center
At San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center, Mosaic transforms long-vacant retail space into a dynamic hub where work and social life converge, reconnecting the energy of the office tower above with the urban fabric below through a richly layered, light-filled environment.
Seattle Convention Center Summit Building
In downtown Seattle, this high-rise convention center redefines the typology through a vertically stacked design that integrates public space, daylight-filled interiors, and urban connectivity to create an inclusive civic hub within the city core.
Sunnyvale City Hall
At the heart of Sunnyvale’s new civic campus, City Hall reimagines public space as an open, transparent, and community-centered environment where governance, sustainability, and daily life intersect in a high-performance, net-zero building designed for the future.
The Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT, & Harvard
In Cambridge, this research facility brings together scientists and communities in a high-performance building that integrates adaptable laboratories, biophilic environments, and shared amenities to advance collaboration, discovery, and environmental stewardship.
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