NEW YORK CITY CITY, NY, June 8, 2026– Architizer, the world’s leading platform for architecture, is thrilled to expose the winners of the 14th Yearly A+A wards. As the industry’s biggest and most worldwide awards program, the A+A wards celebrates the finest architecture and style from around the world. To explore this year’s Jury Winners, Popular Option Winners, Finalists and Unique References, click listed below:
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This year’s winners inform a consistent story: an occupation turning away from spectacle and toward something more thought about. Across more than 100 classifications and thousands of submitted projects, the 14th A+A wards emerged architecture that makes its place– buildings embedded in their landscapes instead of enforced upon them, formed by the intelligence of their making instead of the aspiration of their silhouette.
“This year felt like a welcome return to thoughtful, human-scaled architecture that puts location, craft and ecological sensitivity first instead of chasing phenomenon,” observed juror Ismail Seleit. “That’s precisely why little practices matter a lot right now.”
Gelareh by ZAV Architects, Kuhsar, Iran|Popular Option Winner, Architecture+Color Sydney Fish Market by 3XN GXN, Sydney, Australia|Jury Winner, Architecture +Landscape Vortex 21 by Neelesh Chopda Architecture, Betul India|Popular Option Winner, Architecture +Façades That perceptiveness manifested differently throughout locations and scales, but its underlying logic was consistent. As juror Jason Pugh, Principal at Gensler, kept in mind
, the year’s most striking jobs accomplished “structures that felt less enforced and more ingrained within their contexts”– not necessarily through natural geometry, however through regional materiality, fine-tuned detailing and the cautious orchestration of light and threshold.”There’s a clear trend of fitting together building with the landscape,” remarked juror Jean-François Goyette, creator and CEO of Future-Future;”constructing with the land.
“Juror Gokhan Avcioglu, principal and founder of GAD, put it most directly:”The industry is moving past the age of the particular gesture. Today, the most impactful architecture acts 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
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LG Corporation Head Office 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 Remodelling Task
Fourth Ward Office Task Olson Kundig Atlanta|Popular Option Winner, Workplace– Mid Rise 5– 15 Floors
Some Firm of the Year Winners consist of:
- Snøhetta, Jury Winner, Best Large Company (41+ staff members)
- Padovani Arquitetos, Popular Choice Winner, Finest Medium Firm (16– 40 workers)
- Fernanda Canales, Jury Winner, Finest Public Projects Firm
- tono Inc., Jury Winner, Best in Sustainability Firm
- Sanjay Puri Architects, Popular Option Winner, Finest Residential Company
Select Project Winners consist of:
- AquaPraça by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, Venice, Italy, Jury Winner, Pavilion
- Biribinhas House by STUDIO MK27, Guarujá, Brazil, Jury Winner, Personal Home (XL > 6000 sq ft)
- The Lawn|Dalian Cultural Center by Neri & Hu Style and Research Workplace, Dalian, China, Popular Option Winner, Architecture +Adaptive Reuse
Select Sustainability Winners include:
- Limberlost Place, George Brown College by Moriyama Teshima Architects, Toronto, Canada, Jury Winner, Sustainable Institutional Structure
- Echo by Daniel Joseph Chenin, Las Vegas, United States, Popular Option Winner, Unbuilt Sustainable Residential Project
- Cloudhaus Hotel by RooMoo Design Studio, Chongqing, China, Jury Winner, Sustainable Interior Job
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 +Development; 3D-Printed Pedestrian Bridge at Ningbo Campus of Zhejiang University by UAD, Popular Choice Winner, Architecture +Development
Amongst the brand-new classifications presented to the 14th A+A wards, Architecture +Innovation was developed as a space for tasks that advance the discipline through genuinely brand-new thinking– in products, fabrication, technology or the relationship between architecture and its environment.
The Jury Award went to Increments Studio and Practice on Earth for the style of three pavilions set among the rice paddies, constructed from container structures and inflatables, putting the heaviness of steel and the lightness of air in purposeful, lively discussion. Meanwhile, the Popular Choice Award went to UAD for what is presently the longest-span nonlinear landscape bridge of its kind on the planet– its fluid type got to through digital simulation and made layer by layer in high-strength concrete.
Architizer is happy to acknowledge Mbrico– maker of a fully engineered, American-made porcelain tile decking system that has rethought the product and performance requirements of outdoor surfaces– as the sponsor of this classification.
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Gratitude for a Motivating Global Community NTT Pavilion ～ Architecture Draped in Emotion by NTT FACILITIES, INC Osaka, Japan|Jury Winner, Architecture +Feeling
Katajanokan Laituri by Anttinen Oiva Architects, Helsinki, Finland|Jury Winner, Mixed Usage L > 25,000
Techo International Airport by Foster + Partners, Phnom Penh, Cambodia|Jury Winner, Transportation Infrastructure
Architizer extends its genuine appreciation to the countless designers and designers who submitted their work to the 14th A+A wards. The quality and series of this year’s submissions– and the international 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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Leading image: Gelareh by ZAV Architects, Iran, Popular Option Winner, Architecture +Color