Architizer is thrilled to announce the world’s best architecture firms in 2026 — all winners of the 14th Annual A+Awards! This year’s program honors a global resurgence in architectural craft — not as nostalgia, but as a response to the homogenizing pressures of an increasingly automated world. From vernacular materials deployed with contemporary rigor to precision-engineered timber systems designed for disassembly, the 14th A+Awards celebrates the architects who understand that the most radical thing a building can do today is mean something specific to the place it stands.
In addition to celebrating some of the most innovative, recently completed architectural projects around the globe, Architizer’s A+Awards also serve as an incredible indicator of which designers will be at the forefront of innovation in the coming year. In recognition of this fact, Architizer is delighted to present the much-anticipated eighth edition of the coveted A+List, an annual rundown of every firm that scooped an A+Award and A+Firm Award in the previous season.
The A+List serves as a comprehensive guide to the world’s best architecture firms and is updated annually based on the results of the annual A+Awards program. (You can see last season’s A+List here.) The following document is arranged alphabetically, with more information available by clicking on the link to each firm’s profile. We’ve also curated a selection of featured firms, providing additional background on their A+Award triumphs.
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Every winner features in this definitive directory of high-quality firms and will also see their work published in a stunning, hardbound compendium, Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture, as well as gaining continual publicity through our year-round global celebration of design. Without further ado, explore the work of each of these immensely talented firms below:
The 8th Annual A+List
314 architecture studio
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Multi-Unit Housing – Low Rise (1 – 4 Floors)
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (S <10 Floors)
317studio
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Educational Interiors
3XN GXN
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – High Rise (16+ Floors)
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Landscape
85 Design
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Private House
a-fact architecture factory
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Cultural
ACDF architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Library
Acton Ostry Architects Inc.
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Institutional Building
Ahead of the Curve
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Environment
Featured Firm: Allied Works
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Bars & Wineries
Clemente Bar by Allied Works, New York City, New York | Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Bars & Wineries
Allied Works is an integrated architecture and design practice founded in 1994 by Brad Cloepfil, operating from studios in New York and Portland, Oregon. Its portfolio spans major museum and cultural projects, innovative educational facilities, residences, and workplaces of varied scale, purpose, and character across the globe, held together by an ethic of exploration and an uncommon commitment to work that is beautiful, moving, and meaningful. From urban design and site response to finely tuned interior environments, graphic design, furniture, and applied arts, the firm engages every register of the built environment—treating that intentional breadth as a source of new insight and innovation.
Anastassiadis Arquitetos
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Interior Design Firm
Anttinen Oiva Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Mixed Use (L >25,000 sq ft.)
Arcadis
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Transport Interiors
arches
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Design for Wellbeing Project
Architects’ Studio
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Kindergarten
ARCHSTUDIO
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Adaptive Reuse and Renovation Firm
ARISTIDES DALLAS ARCHITECTS
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Hospitality
ARTS GROUP CO.
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Office – High Rise (16+ Floors)
ASPECT Studios
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Landscape
Atelier Alter Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Adaptive Reuse
ATELIER BRÜCKNER
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Cultural & Expo Centers
Atelier Guo
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Art
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Wood
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Bars & Wineries
Quinta de Adorigo Winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo, Tabuaço, Portugal | Jury Vote Winner, Architecture +Wood and Jury Vote Winner, Bars & Wineries in , 14th Annual A+Awards
Atelier Sérgio Rebelo is a Porto-based practice that develops architecture directed to the end-user experience and grounded in sustainable models of construction and production. Its process is dialogical with the client — weaving research, design, and architecture together in collaboration with a network of local and international consultants, and shaping projects that contribute to place-making while paying homage to memory and history. Through hands-on experimentation with materials, the atelier expresses a deep appreciation for heritage and craftsmanship, integrating tradition with innovation so that daily routines become sensorial ventures.
Atelier XI
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Art
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Small Projects
Atelier Ma | AMA
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Cultural & Expo Centers
b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitecto
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Transportation
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Home
Bauart Architects and Planners
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Residential Adaptive Reuse Project
Bautista Arquitectos
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Religious Buildings & Memorials
Bernardes Arquitetura
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (XL >6000 sq ft)
Bisson Fortin
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Transport Interiors
BKSK Architects
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Commercial Adaptive Reuse Project
Bonsar Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Renovation
Boxleaf Design
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Landscape Design Firm
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private Garden
Building Bureau
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Hospitality Building
Bureau de Change architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Small Firm (6 – 15 employees)
BVN
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Landscape
CannonDesign
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Showroom
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L >10 Floors)
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L >10 Floors)
LTR1 by CARAZO ARQUITECTURA, Concept | Jury Vote Winner and Popular Vote Winner, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L >10 Floors), 14th Annual A+Awards
Carazo Arquitectura is a Costa Rican architecture firm founded in 2005 by Rodrigo Carazo, based in the heart of San José and specializing in innovative mid- and high-rise projects informed by a design philosophy the studio calls Tropical Vertical Urbanism. Working from a native perspective on the country’s natural wealth — and treating that context as both an obligation and a design resource — Carazo has extended its practice from Costa Rica into Peru, Guatemala, and El Salvador, adapting each project to its specific site and climate. Every project is processed through five interlocking axes: specific design at the highest level of quality, environmentally sustainable design, economically sustainable design, socially sustainable design, and innovation in the methodologies and tools of the region.
Chen Yang, Liwei Guo
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Institutional
China Architecture Design & Research Group (CADG)
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Cultural Building
Christensen & Co Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Learning
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Pavilion
CRB Arquitectos
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – Mid Rise (5 – 15 Floors)
CrystalZoo
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Public Projects Firm
CS&P Architects Inc.
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Sports & Recreation
Daniel Joseph Chenin LTD
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Sustainable Residential Project
Davood Boroojeni Office
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Factories & Warehouses
DEB ARCHITECTURE
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Urban & Masterplans
Department of ARCHITECTURE Co.
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Retail
Design Workshop
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Landscape Design Firm
DP Architects
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Government & Civic Buildings
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Adaptive Reuse or Renovation Project
Mae On Art Forest by EKAR, Mae On District, Thailand | Popular Vote Winner, Sustainable Adaptive Reuse or Renovation Project, 14th Annual A+Awards
EKAR is a Thai architecture practice founded in 2014 by Ekaphap Duangkaew, a Chiang Mai native, and operating from studios in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. Rather than pursuing a self-consciously “Thai style,” the firm treats culture as something to be continually reinterpreted rather than frozen in place — grounding each project in the specific conditions of its site through the coexistence of old and new materials, narratives that echo the past, and a direct response to nature, society, culture, behavior, and time. Every EKAR project reads as a piece of research combining science and art, calibrated to produce a sense of place that expands the boundaries of design across Thai society at large.
EL EQUIPO MAZZANTI
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Urban & Masterplans
Elkus Manfredi Architects
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Renewal
Ennead Architects
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Halls & Theaters
Enter Projects Asia
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Materials Project
ERRE
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Stadiums & Arenas
ESTEYCO
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Transportation
EVOKE Studio | Architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Primary & High Schools
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Primary & High Schools
FAAB
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Hospitals & Healthcare Centers
Farshid Moussavi Architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Community Center
Feldman Architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Stone
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Public Projects Firm
Border Library and Public Park by Fernanda Canales, Agua Prieta, Mexico
Fernanda Canales is a Mexico City–based architect, urbanist, and writer whose practice moves fluidly between built work, criticism, and research. Trained across the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Universidad Politècnica de Catalunya, and the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid — where she completed her PhD — she has authored four books on housing and modernity in Mexico and beyond, including My House, Your City: Privacy in a Shared World (2021) and Shared Structures, Private Spaces (2020), and exhibited at institutions from the Royal Academy of Arts and SFMOMA to four editions of the Venice Biennale. Recognized by The New York Times as one of ten women changing the landscape of leadership globally and by The Architectural League of New York with an Emerging Voices Award, Canales currently teaches at Columbia GSAPP and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the Architectural Association.
FGMF
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Office – Low Rise (1 – 4 Floors)
Field Operations
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Urban & Masterplans
Fogarty Finger
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Commercial Interiors (<25,000 sq ft.)
Foster + Partners
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Office – High Rise (16+ Floors)
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Transportation Infrastructure
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Museum
Found Projects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best X-Small Firm (1 – 5 employees)
GENETO Architect’s
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Residential Renovations & Additions
Gensler
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Retail
Geodesic Architects /测地线建筑
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Cultural
GI21 Arquitectura
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Transportation Infrastructure
Giannone Petricone Associates Inc. Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Glass
GOA (Group of Architects)
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Landscape
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Factories & Warehouses
GÖKMEN ARCHITECTURE
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +For Good
Green Architecture Design & Research Institute of CADG
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best in Sustainability Firm
Gustavo Penna Arquitetos Associados
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Context
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Cultural Building
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Multi-Unit Residential Building
Bioclimatic student housing for the UCAD Campus by HARDEL LE BIHAN ARCHITECTS, Dakar, Senegal | Jury Vote Winner, Sustainable Multi-Unit Residential Building, 14th Annual A+Awards
Hardel Le Bihan Architects is a Paris-based practice founded in 2006 by Mathurin Hardel and Cyrille Le Bihan, following the pair’s Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes recognition the year before, and today numbering some 50 architects working from central Paris. The studio’s portfolio spans headquarters and mixed-use buildings, cultural amenities, hotels, academic campuses, and housing across France and West Africa. Rational and sensitive in method, the firm balances architectural restraint with close attention to each detail, treating every project as a chance to develop specific innovations in structure, materials, and use, and giving equal weight to how a building will be occupied immediately and how it will accommodate change over time.
HDR
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Institutional Building
HID Landscape Architecture
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Landscape/Planning Project
HK ASSOCIATES
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Private House (S <3000 sq ft)
HOK
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Hospitals & Healthcare Centers
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Stadiums & Arenas
Hooba Design
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best in Craft Firm
Höweler + Yoon Architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Pavilion
Hubo Studio
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Kindergarten
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Educational Interiors
idee architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Spa & Wellness
Increments Studio
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Innovation
Interior Architecture Studio; Studio Hu
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Localism
IwamotoScott Architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Metal
Jacobsen
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Residential Interiors (>3000 sq ft)
JGStudio
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Concrete
juri troy architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Materials Project
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Local Firm
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Young Firm
Collective Arc by K-Thengono Design Studio, Banten, Indonesia
K-Thengono Design Studio is an integrated architecture and interior practice founded in Jakarta in 2019 by Kelvin Thengono, following his training at California College of the Arts and his work with major architectural firms in the United States. Across residential, commercial, hospitality, and cultural projects, the studio treats each site as a specific brief in Indonesian tropical modernism, drawing on local heritage, craftsmanship, and vernacular techniques to shape form and construction. Contextual responsiveness runs through the practice’s method: careful reading of climate and culture, natural light and ventilation, and access to water are prioritized as instruments of well-being that connect inhabitants to their surroundings.
KAAN Architecten
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Craft
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Religious Buildings & Memorials
Kenta Fukunishi Architecture Office
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Environment
Killa Design
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Hotels & Resorts
Knickerbocker Group
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (XS <1000 sq ft)
KPF
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best in Craft Firm
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Large Firm (41+ employees)
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Stone
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Mixed Use (L >25,000 sq ft.)
LaGuardia Design Group
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private Garden
Ledao Landscape Design Studio
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Public Parks & Green Spaces
Leeton Pointon Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Concrete
Lemay
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Transport Interiors
LINK Arkitektur
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Residential Adaptive Reuse Project
LLDS
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (XS <1000 sq ft)
Looklen Architects Co.
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Pop-Ups & Temporary
LRS Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Commercial Building
LUO studio
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Gallery & Exhibition Spaces
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Health
Väsby School Canteen by Marge Arkitekter, Upplands Väsby, Sweden
Marge Arkitekter was established in 2002 by Pye Aurell Ehrström, Katarina Grundsell, Louise Masreliez, and Susanne Ramel, quickly becoming recognized as one of the young Swedish firms representing a contemporary development of architecture in the country. The 36-person practice works at every scale — from town planning through architecture to interior fittings and product design — and its portfolio spans private, commercial, and public projects across Sweden, with exhibitions and press coverage extending across Europe and beyond. A spatially exploratory sensibility runs through the work: a conceptual design process, socially and environmentally sustainable values, a clean and sparing approach to space, and a signature punctuation of color and inventive use of materials that gives each project its charge.
martín martín arquitectos
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Local Firm
Mecanoo
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Halls & Theaters
Mei architects and planners
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Multi-Unit Residential Building
MG2
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – High Rise (16+ Floors)
Michael Maltzan Architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Affordable Housing
Moriyama Teshima Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Institutional Building
Mork-Ulnes Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Residential Firm
Morphosis
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Museum
MQA Estudio
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (M 2000 – 4000 sq ft)
Multitude Of Sins
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Interior Project
MVA / Mikelić Vreš Arhitekti
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Workspace
Neelesh Chopda Architecture
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Facades
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Masterplan
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Adaptive Reuse
New Energy Works
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Infrastructure Project
NOA Studio
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Low Cost Design
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Pavilion
noiz / architecture, design and planning was founded in 2007 by Keisuke Toyoda and Jia-Shuan Tsai — with Kosuke Sakai joining as partner in 2016 — and takes its name from the observation that new forms of music in their infancy have often been taken as noise: an everyday reminder of the firm’s commitment to unique and insightful design solutions. Operating from Tokyo, Taipei, and Warsaw, the studio has become recognized as a front-runner in computational methods across a practice that spans architecture, interior design, digital art installations, furniture design, and computational design consultation. Grounded in the founders’ international experience across Japan, China, Taiwan, and the United States — Toyoda’s background includes Tadao Ando Architect & Associates and SHoP Architects — noiz works at the intersection of physical space and digital technique, treating each project as a chance to test how emerging tools reshape architectural possibility.
NTT FACILITIES, INC.
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Emotion
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Facades
O’Neill Rose Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Commercial Adaptive Reuse Project
Oblique
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Apartment
OJB Landscape Architecture
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Public Parks & Green Spaces
Olson Kundig
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Office – Mid Rise (5 – 15 Floors)
Omar Gandhi Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Interior Design Firm
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Medium Firm (16 – 40 employees)
Onze04
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Gyms & Recreation Centers
OODA
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – Mid Rise (5 – 15 Floors)
OOTT
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Low Cost Design
Openbook
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Commercial Firm
OUALALOU+CHOI
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Sports & Recreation
Oxbow Architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +For Good
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Medium Firm (16 – 40 employees)
Residência Embaúbas by Padovani Arquitetos, Bragança Paulista, Brazil
Padovani Arquitetos is a Brazilian architecture and design office founded in 2008 by Lucas Padovani after studies and professional work in Spain, operating from studios in São Paulo and Campinas. Grounded in the modernist heritage of Brazilian architecture, the practice designs residential and design projects marked by elegance and simplicity — a contemporary language expressed through wood, stone, brise soleils, and materials chosen to patinate over time — always in intense dialogue with the tropical landscape in which each project sits. Working through an integrated multidisciplinary team, the studio pursues the specific character of each commission by matching technical response to conceptual poetics and client needs, treating architecture as an experience calibrated to the people who will inhabit and interact with it.
Paolo Belardi
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Sustainable Non-Residential Project
Paul Lukez Architecture
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Landscape
PAVA architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Hospitality Building
PAZO DESIGN
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Showroom
Peny Hsieh Interiors
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Residential Interiors (<3000 sq ft)
Perkins&Will
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Transport Interiors
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (S <10 Floors)
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Sustainable Residential Project
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building
PHAEDRUS Studio
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Restaurant (S <2000 sq ft)
PKA Architecture
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Residential Interiors (<3000 sq ft)
Populous
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Sports & Recreation
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Affordable Housing
Loop of Wisdom by Powerhouse Company, Chengdu, China
Powerhouse Company is an award-winning architecture firm with offices in Rotterdam, Oslo, Munich, and Nairobi. Founded in 2005, it has grown into an international, multidisciplinary practice of more than one hundred designers and specialists. Its versatility is reflected in the integrated design solutions it develops across different scales and contexts, from high-rise towers and public buildings to private villas, interiors, and the transformation of existing structures. With a drive to innovate and an ambitious, collaborative approach, Powerhouse Company turns bold ideas into built reality and creates architecture of timeless beauty.
Practice on Earth
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Innovation
Primary Architects 原初建筑
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Wood
RAD+AR
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Young Firm
Rafael Pardo Arquitectos
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (S 1000 – 2000 sq ft)
RCA Studio
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Commercial Interiors (>25,000 sq ft.)
RCPA+ PW Hsiao Architects & Associates
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Commercial Interiors (>25,000 sq ft.)
Realrich Architecture Workshop
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Library
Rhyme Design Group
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Glass
Robert Konieczny KWK Promes
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Office – Low Rise (1 – 4 Floors)
Roland Baldi Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Mixed Use (S <25,000 sq ft.)
Roni Karsh
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Craft
RooMoo Design Studio
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Interior Project
Rosan Bosch Studio
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Learning
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Small Firm (6 – 15 employees)
Apartment Building L329 by ROSSETTI+WYSS ARCHITEKTEN, Zürich, Switzerland
Rossetti+Wyss Architekten was founded in Zurich in January 2000 by Nathalie Rossetti and Mark Aurel Wyss, and works across architecture and urbanism as a multilayered dialogue between space, human, and time. From the renovation of the Cabaret Voltaire — birthplace of Dada in Zurich — through new residential and commercial buildings across Switzerland to conversions and property development, the practice pursues a formal language of the reduced, the essential, and the immediate, drawing on reference points as varied as Minimal Art and Arte Povera and giving equal weight to material aesthetics, the effect of light, and spatial order. Guided by what the founders call “the art of intervention,” the firm reinterprets archetypal forms so that the unforeseen may emerge from the familiar — producing an architecture that is calm and restrained, consistent rather than loud, and oriented toward the durable rather than the temporary.
Saen Studio
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best X-Small Firm (1 – 5 employees)
Salagnac Arquitectos
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (L 4000 – 6000 sq ft)
Salvador Román Hernández
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (M 2000 – 4000 sq ft)
Sanjay Puri Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Higher Education & Research Facilities
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Residential Firm
Sinas Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Private House (L >3000 sq ft)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Sustainable Non-Residential Project
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Commercial Renovations & Additions
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Masterplan
SkreinStudios
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Pop-Ups & Temporary
Slow Coral Design
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Adaptive Reuse and Renovation Firm
Snøhetta
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Large Firm (41+ employees)
Snow Kreilich Architects
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Community Center
SOIA Design
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Restaurant (L >2000 sq ft)
SP(R)INT STUDIO
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Adaptive Reuse or Renovation Project
STAR strategies + architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Color
STARH
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Transportation
STARK Architecture & Interiors
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Private House
Stephane Laroye Architect Inc (SLA)
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Prefab & Modular
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Prefab & Modular
Stephen Marshall (Urbanism)
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Health
STILL YOUNG
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Commercial Firm
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (L 4000 – 6000 sq ft)
Porthmadog House by Strom Architects, Wales, United Kingdom | Popular Vote Winner, Private House (L 4000 – 6000 sq ft), 14th Annual A+Awards
Ström Architects was founded in 2010 by Swedish architect Magnus Ström in England’s New Forest, with a second studio in the Turks and Caicos Islands co-founded and led by Kyle Barclay, and works on bespoke private houses, multi-residential developments, and high-end hospitality projects across Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. The practice pairs its architecture with a full interior design service, and takes on a limited number of the right commissions each year — a habit that has produced work in Sweden, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the USA, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, and across the Caribbean, drawing on genuine fluency in different planning systems, construction cultures, and climates. Grounded in a Scandinavian tradition that treats function and beauty as complements rather than competitors, the studio pursues buildings that feel inevitable — edited relentlessly until nothing is added for effect and nothing kept out of habit — with the goal, in Ström’s words, of “a building that improves the life lived inside it.”
Studio 10
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Environment
STUDIO ANDRE LENZA
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Workspace
Studio J. Bridgland
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Hotels & Resorts
Studio Lagom
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Design for Wellbeing Project
Studio Lau
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Residential Renovations & Additions
Studio Miti
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Brick
STUDIO MK27
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (XL >6000 sq ft)
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Residential Interiors (>3000 sq ft)
Studio Nenmar
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Apartment
studio PROTOTYPE
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Government & Civic Buildings
Studio TO Arquitectos
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Small Projects
Studio Yione
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Commercial
studioMDA
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Gallery & Exhibition Spaces
STUDIOS Architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Office – Mid Rise (5 – 15 Floors)
Takashi Niwa Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Restaurant (L >2000 sq ft)
Taller Capital
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Infrastructure Project
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building
Kengzi Cultural and Technology Centre (Pingshan Cultural House) by Tanghua Architects, Shenzhen, China
Tanghua Architect & Associates was founded in 2002 by Tang Hua, scholar and professor at Chongqing University, and today operates as an award-winning Shenzhen-based practice offering architecture, planning, urban design, interior design, and landscape architecture services, alongside sustained research in each field. Nearly 400 projects have come through the office in its two decades of operation, with more than 70 realized, earning recognition from institutions including the CHINAASC Architecture Design Award of China and the HKIA Cross-Strait Architectural Design Awards — and inclusion in exhibitions from the Venice Biennale to the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture in Shenzhen. The practice believes in the efficient use of resources and respects the rights and dignity of every individual, working within a rigorous framework to produce a regional modern architecture of distinctive character.
The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co. (UAD)
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Innovation
the marc boutin architectural collaborative inc.
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Community
TheY Architects
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Private House (S <3000 sq ft)
Thinking Design & Lanting Design
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Localism
tono Inc.
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best in Sustainability Firm
TOUCH Architect
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Home
UN-GROUP
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Restaurant (S <2000 sq ft)
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Renewal
UNS
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Transportation
Urban Ecology and Design Lab
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Landscape/Planning Project
Urban Soul Project
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Commercial
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – Low Rise (1 – 4 Floors)
Babel by V Taller, Tulum, Mexico | Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – Low Rise (1 – 4 Floors)
V Taller is a Mexican architecture studio led by co-founders Daniel Villanueva and Miguel Valverde, working from the premise that architecture happens where culture meets nature. Drawing on local traditions to shape spaces that reflect identity and belonging, the practice integrates its sites through the design levers of light, void, and texture — and through material choices such as tropical wood carpentry, handcrafted clay vessels, and white linen textiles that lend each project an artisanal, contextual sensibility, most recently realized at the Babel complex in Tulum. Every project is treated as a living narrative connecting past, present, and future, seeking a balance between cultural diversity and natural environment that transcends the individual commission.
Veinte Diezz Arquitectos
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Renovation
Viereck Architekten ZT
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Metal
VOID STUDIO
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Mixed Use (S <25,000 sq ft.)
waa 未觉建筑
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Commercial Renovations & Additions
Waechter Architecture
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (S 1000 – 2000 sq ft)
Walker Warner
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Private House (L >3000 sq ft)
WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Higher Education & Research Facilities
West of West
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Commercial Interiors (<25,000 sq ft.)
Wutopia Lab
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Spa & Wellness
XiangWang Architects (XWArchitects)
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Community
xian氙建筑工作室 xian architects
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Emotion
Yi Ke Architects，一棵建筑
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Gyms & Recreation Centers
YODEZEEN
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Hospitality
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Color
Gelareh by ZAV Architects, Kouhsar, Iran | Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Color
ZAV Architects was founded in Tehran in 2006 by Mohamadreza Ghodousi and Parsa Ardam — its name a Persian word that roughly translates to “builder” — and works from the premise that architecture is the design of an extended process rather than the production of an object. The practice reimagines that process to rediscover at-hand and forgotten resources, drawing on the locally available workforce to transform initial materials into adaptable spaces, in the tradition of Iranian villages where ordinary wool colored with pomegranate skin and dyer’s madder becomes an invaluable carpet through craft. That approach — recently recognized with the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Majara Residence on Hormuz Island — embraces whatever outcome emerges, however unsolicited, as what the studio calls adopted aesthetics: an architecture that mediates between state, investors, and local communities on equal terms.
ZENBER ARCHITECTEN
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Government & Civic Buildings
ZHA
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Stadiums & Arenas
ZJJZ
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Context
Great architecture comes to fruition through the work of talented teams and collaborators. There are numerous A+Award-winning companies that fall outside of the traditional architectural role, but that deserve recognition for their contributions. They include:
Avesh Gaur
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Photography & Video
Beijing PRO Lighting Design Co.
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Light
Debreceni Infrastruktúra Fejlesztő Kft.
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Landscape
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Institutional
Fastned B.V.
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Commercial Building
Intelstock Engineering
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Brick
Puri Lighting Design
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Light
Sohaib Ilyas
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Photography & Video
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