NEW YORK CITY, NY, June 8, 2026 — Architizer, the world’s leading platform for architecture, is delighted to reveal the winners of the 14th Annual A+Awards. As the industry’s largest and most international awards program, the A+Awards celebrates the finest architecture and design from across the globe. To explore this year’s Jury Winners, Popular Choice Winners, Finalists and Special Mentions, click below:
This year’s winners tell a consistent story: a profession turning away from spectacle and toward something more considered. Across more than 100 categories and thousands of submitted projects, the 14th A+Awards surfaced architecture that earns its place — buildings embedded in their landscapes rather than imposed upon them, shaped by the intelligence of their making rather than the ambition of their silhouette.
“This year felt like a welcome return to thoughtful, human-scaled architecture that puts place, craft and environmental sensitivity first instead of chasing spectacle,” observed juror Ismail Seleit. “That’s exactly why small practices matter so much right now.”
Gelareh by ZAV Architects, Kuhsar, Iran | Popular Choice Winner, Architecture +Color
Sydney Fish Market by 3XN GXN, Sydney, Australia | Jury Winner, Architecture +Landscape
Vortex 21 by Neelesh Chopda Architecture, Betul India | Popular Choice Winner, Architecture +Façades
That sensibility manifested differently across geographies and scales, but its underlying logic was consistent. As juror Jason Pugh, Principal at Gensler, noted, the year’s most striking projects achieved “compositions that felt less imposed and more embedded within their contexts” — not necessarily through organic geometry, but through local materiality, refined detailing and the careful orchestration of light and threshold.
“There’s a clear trend of meshing building with the landscape,” remarked juror Jean-François Goyette, founder and CEO of Future-Future; “building with the land.” Juror Gokhan Avcioglu, principal and founder of GAD, put it most directly: “The industry is moving past the era of the singular gesture. Today, the most impactful architecture serves as the mediator between human experience and the natural world.”
The winners of this year’s program will be published in Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture 2027, our annual hardbound compendium, now available for pre-order. This design-forward atlas presents the year’s most inspiring work from both emerging studios and global powerhouses — contextually grounded, materially rich and deeply humane.
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LG Corporation Headquarters Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Seoul, Korea | Popular Choice Winner, Commercial Renovations Additions
Mae On Art Forest EKAR Mae-On, Thailand | Popular Choice Winner, Sustainable Adaptive Reuse or Renovation Project
Fourth Ward Office Project Olson Kundig Atlanta | Popular Choice Winner, Office – Mid Rise 5 – 15 Floors
Some Firm of the Year Winners include:
- Snøhetta, Jury Winner, Best Large Firm (41+ employees)
- Padovani Arquitetos, Popular Choice Winner, Best Medium Firm (16 – 40 employees)
- Fernanda Canales, Jury Winner, Best Public Projects Firm
- tono Inc., Jury Winner, Best in Sustainability Firm
- Sanjay Puri Architects, Popular Choice Winner, Best Residential Firm
Select Project Winners include:
- AquaPraça by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, Venice, Italy, Jury Winner, Pavilion
- Biribinhas House by STUDIO MK27, Guarujá, Brazil, Jury Winner, Private House (XL >6000 sq ft)
- The Yard | Dalian Cultural Center by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, Dalian, China, Popular Choice Winner, Architecture +Adaptive Reuse
Select Sustainability Winners include:
- Limberlost Place, George Brown College by Moriyama Teshima Architects, Toronto, Canada, Jury Winner, Sustainable Institutional Building
- Echo by Daniel Joseph Chenin, Las Vegas, United States, Popular Choice Winner, Unbuilt Sustainable Residential Project
- Cloudhaus Hotel by RooMoo Design Studio, Chongqing, China, Jury Winner, Sustainable Interior Project
Mbrico‘s Architecture +Innovation Winners: A Showcase of Form and Fabrication
Down in the Clouds by Increments Studio and Practice on Earth, Xiangshan, China, Jury Winner, Architecture +Innovation; 3D-Printed Pedestrian Bridge at Ningbo Campus of Zhejiang University by UAD, Popular Choice Winner, Architecture +Innovation
Among the new categories introduced to the 14th A+Awards, Architecture +Innovation was conceived as a space for projects that advance the discipline through genuinely new thinking — in materials, fabrication, technology or the relationship between architecture and its environment.
The Jury Award went to Increments Studio and Practice on Earth for the design of three pavilions set among the rice paddies, built from container structures and inflatables, placing the heaviness of steel and the lightness of air in deliberate, playful dialogue. Meanwhile, the Popular Choice Award went to UAD for what is currently the longest-span nonlinear landscape bridge of its kind in the world — its fluid form arrived at through digital simulation and fabricated layer by layer in high-strength concrete.
Architizer is proud to recognize Mbrico — maker of a fully engineered, American-made porcelain tile decking system that has rethought the material and performance standards of outdoor surfaces — as the sponsor of this category.
Appreciation for an Inspiring Global Community
NTT Pavilion ～Architecture Draped in Emotion by NTT FACILITIES, INC Osaka, Japan | Jury Winner, Architecture +Emotion
Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects, Helsinki, Finland | Jury Winner, Mixed Use L>25,000
Techo International Airport by Foster + Partners, Phnom Penh, Cambodia | Jury Winner, Transportation Infrastructure
Architizer extends its sincere gratitude to the thousands of architects and designers who submitted their work to the 14th A+Awards. The quality and range of this year’s submissions — and the global community that makes this program what it is — continue to raise the bar for what an architecture awards program can be.
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