Cover Revealed: A+Awards Book “The World’s Best Architecture” Goes To Print
Architizer is thrilled to announce that the latest edition of the A+Awards book, The World’s Best Architecture, has officially gone to press! This year’s A+Awards book celebrates local innovation on a global stage, with a cover project that embodies architecture’s evolving relationship with place. As always, the volume captures the very best in contemporary design from across the globe — and with demand already running high, we encourage readers to secure their copy now, before it sells out:
13th Architizer A+Awards book cover featuring Centre for Inclusive Growth & Competitiveness for Tapmi by The Purple Ink Studio, Manipal, India | Photo by Saurabh Suryan | Jury Winner, Community Centers, 13th Architizer a+Awards
This year’s collection is guided by a timely theme: celebrating local innovation with global recognition. While the A+Awards represent a worldwide platform, the projects within reveal a distinct movement away from anonymous globalism and towards architecture that is firmly rooted in its regional cultures, climates, and communities.
At the heart of the book is the newly unveiled cover project, the Centre for Inclusive Growth & Competitiveness for TAPMI in Manipal, India, designed by The Purple Ink Studio and photographed by Saurabh Suryan. The project wholly embodies the spirit of this year’s theme. Situated within a dense academic campus, the center redefines what a learning environment can be in a modern Indian town. Instead of a sealed-off academic block, it functions as a porous communal hub — its amphitheater, terraces and stepped landscapes blurring the boundaries between building and urban landscape.
By adapting traditional construction methods and responding directly to the region’s heavy monsoons, the design transforms constraints into opportunities. The firm collaborated with local artisans, empowering them to apply their bamboo crafting skills on a different scale, connecting with their historical lineage and empowering future generations. The parasols, some of which are pictured on this year’s book cover, measure 39 and 46 feet (12 and 14 meters) in diameter and are positioned at varying heights, creating a tactility that mimics the tree canopies observed in the valley.
As Architizer’s editors note in this year’s foreword, projects like TAPMI are increasingly shaping the global conversation: “The most forward-looking architecture today is not about spectacle or scale, but about specificity — finding identity in context, and resonance in culture.”
Featuring hundreds of award-winning projects across residential, commercial, cultural, and civic typologies, this year’s book once again offers a definitive record of the ideas and innovations that are shaping the built environment today.
With limited quantities available, now is the time to reserve your copy of The World’s Best Architecture and experience the projects pushing the profession forward — one place and one community at a time:
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