2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

Sound Transit University of Washington Station, exterior

Sound Transit University of Washington Station, 2021 recipient of architecture award

The 2021 Architecture 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.

2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

Fass School and Teachers' Residences

Inspired by the rural American one-room schoolhouse where Josef Albers once taught, this new school in a remote region of Senegal is the first there to offer secular education in tandem with Quranic teaching.

2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

The Lamplighter School Innovation Lab

O'Neil Ford originally designed the campus in the late 1960s, working closely with administrators to support their learning movement with open learning spaces and a deep connection to nature.

2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

Loghaven Artist Residency

In the heart of Knoxville's Battlefield Loop, a historic 600-acre woodland that overlooks the Tennessee River, this project has rehabilitated six log cabins dating to the 1930s.

2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

Martin's Lane Winery

A direct response to both program and site, this winery on the shores of British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake leverages its relationship to the land for two distinct but complementary functions.

2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

Northeastern University Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex

Flow and movement are the defining features of this new academic precinct straddling Boston’s Roxbury and Fenway neighborhoods.

2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

Polygon Gallery

This project is the rebirth of an independent photography and media institution that has served North Vancouver's creative community for nearly 40 years.

2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Justice Center

This tribal community-use facility in the heart of an ancestral home responds to an increased demand for space dedicated to the judicial process.

2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

Sound Transit University of Washington Station

At one of the busiest intersections of transportation modalities in Seattle, the Sound Transit University of Washington Station creates a new unified urban space that untangles a morass of fragmented systems.

2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

TWA Hotel

The TWA Hotel imbues Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, one of the grandest examples of Mid-century Modern architecture, with new life.

2021 AIA Awards - Architecture

Walker Art Center Expansion

This expansion for Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, one of the most important venues for contemporary art in the country, unifies a previously disjointed site.

Image credits

Sound Transit University of Washington Station, exterior

Kevin Scott