A Celebration of Architectural Ideas: 2025 Vision Awards Winners Revealed!
NEW YORK CITY, NY, September 29, 2025 — Architizer is proud to reveal the Winners of the 2025 Vision Awards, the world’s leading program celebrating the art and impact of architectural imagery and ideas!
From concept sketches and intricate models to provocative renderings, photographs and films, this season’s winning works form an inspiring showcase of architectural ideation. The authors behind them have earned the title of architectural visionaries, translating ideas into powerful imagery and speculative projects into cultural provocations.
With winners hailing from some of the world’s most renowned architecture firms, alongside emerging talents and students, each awardee represents a powerful voice in a global conversation around design communication. You can explore every winner and finalist in the official Vision Awards Winners’ Gallery:
Explore the 2025 Vision Awards Winners
A Global Celebration of Architectural Representation
Tower by ZOA Studio, 2025 Vision Awards Jury Winner, Rendering Artist of the Year
Now in its second season, the Vision Awards saw entries across more than 50 categories, structured to spotlight three major themes:
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Architectural Representation: Celebrating still and moving imagery that powerfully captures architecture’s essence — from photos and renderings to hand drawings, physical models, and film.
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Conceptual Projects: Honoring unbuilt designs, speculative architecture, and masterplans that challenge spatial conventions and propose new ways of living, learning, and building.
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Architectural Visionaries: Recognizing individuals and studios with a consistent, compelling approach to architectural storytelling across mediums and typologies.
Winners were selected by a world-class jury that included Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind, Lyndon Neri and Sanjay Puri, among many others — each a renowned advocate for architecture’s artistic and cultural potential.
Juror Mengyi Fan, Director of Visualization at SHoP Architects, said: “It was wonderful to see the focus on craft and its role in storytelling in many entries. As homogenized AI becomes more and more prominent in visualization, it grows ever more important that architects and designers can clearly distinguish themselves in aesthetic and messaging. Innovation happens not only with new technology, but also through examining a technique or way of working through a new lens, as many of the submissions demonstrated this year.”
A New Canon of Architectural Ideas
Populus by Jason O’Rear Photography, 2025 Vision Awards Jury Winner, Best Photo – Architecture & Details
Every architectural project begins with a vision — a bold idea, a hand sketch, a rendering, a model, a moment of conceptual clarity. The Vision Awards was designed to celebrate these moments. This year’s winners comprise a global group of architects, designers, and visual storytellers shaping how we see and understand the built environment.
Architect, artist and juror Thomas Schaller expressed his admiration for this season’s participants, saying: “The incredible range and quality of skills on display were both humbling and deeply encouraging. Making art of any kind is an exercise in observation, and the observational prowess demonstrated by so many thoughtful, wildly creative, innovative firms and individuals was very exciting. It was a privilege to have a front row seat.”
The 2025 Winners include some of the most arresting visual works in the industry today. The images and videos presented tell stories, spark imagination and build public appreciation for architecture in its many forms.
Enjoy a taste of just some of the outstanding works from this year’s Vision Awards:
Vyksa by ZOA Studio, 2025 Vision Awards Jury Winner, Rendering Artist of the Year
ARVO Hotel by DL Atelier, Photo by Zhu Yumeng, 2025 Vision Awards Jury Winner, Architectural Photographer of the Year
Pragmatic in Contrast to Non-Pragmatic by Sergei Tchoban, 2025 Vision Awards Editor’s Choice Winner, Best Architectural Sketch
The House for Twos by Alexander Htet Kyaw, 2025 Vision Awards Editor’s Choice Winner, Best Presentation Model
Valelaca Rokataki (Prismatic Parasol) by OBJECT TERRITORIES, 2025 Vision Awards Editor’s Choice Winner, Vision for Materials
Second Wind by Mohannad Khalaf, 2025 Vision Awards Editor’s Choice Winner, Vision for Reuse and Renovation
Baghere Nutritional Center by Kyle MertensMeyer, 2025 Vision Awards Editor’s Choice Winner, Vision for Localism
Conceptual Skyscraper in Manhattan by HISM, 2025 Vision Awards Jury Winner, Best Photorealistic Rendering
Incomplete Landscapes on Pedra Branca by Eugene Tan, 2025 Vision Awards Jury Winner, Architectural Illustrator of the Year
San Blas Pier by Rafael Gamo, 2025 Vision Awards Editor’s Choice Winner, Architectural Photographer of the Year
To view the full list of winners and their visionary work, visit the Official Winners’ Gallery.
Global Recognition in Print and Online
Every 2025 Vision Awards Winner will be featured in a major new print publication: How to Visualize Architecture, Architizer’s definitive book on architectural ideation (available for pre-order in Architizer’s shop). In addition, Metropolis Magazine will publish a special editorial feature spotlighting Vision Awards “Best of the Year” winners, placing select works in front of one of the most engaged and influential design audiences in architecture today. Together, these features will amplify each winner’s reach across both professional and public spheres, inspiring new collaborations, commissions, and conversations.
The Vision Awards program exists to spotlight the most forward-thinking ideas in architecture — not just buildings, but the images and drawings that spark them into existence. In an industry increasingly shaped by visualization and media, these stories matter more than ever.
We are honored to celebrate this year’s Winners and commend every entrant for sharing their work with the world. You are shaping the future of the built environment — and how we imagine it.
Congratulations to all of this year’s Vision Award recipients!
Coming Soon: The 14th Annual A+Awards
In Context by Brad Feinknopf, 2025 Vision Awards Jury Winner, Best Photo – Architecture & People
As we conclude one chapter of recognition, another opens: The 14th Annual A+Awards — the world’s largest awards program for architecture and spaces — launches later this fall!
If you’re an architect, designer, or firm with projects that deserve the global spotlight, this is your moment. Pre-register now to be among the first to receive key program updates and insider submission tips to maximize chances of your success this season:
Top image: Valelaca Rokataki (Prismatic Parasol) by OBJECT TERRITORIES, 2025 Vision Awards Editor’s Choice Winner, Vision for Materials
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