Crafting the Next Era of Architecture: Enter the 14th Architizer A+Awards!

Select 13th A+Award honorees; left: Academia Atlas by Sordo Madaleno, Jury Winner, Gyms and Recreation Centers; right: La Pedrera by Taller Ezequiel Aguilar Martínez, Jury Winner, Architecture +Stone

For more than a decade, Architizer’s A+Awards have recognized the world’s best architecture, celebrating projects that propel design culture forward while responding to real-world challenges. Now in its 14th season, the program returns to one of architecture’s most fundamental values: craft.

As the pace of digital change accelerates, architects are asking urgent questions about their place in an increasingly automated world. This season, the A+Awards embraces this moment of reflection, celebrating a global resurgence in architectural craft.

This year’s theme highlights the architects who put human ingenuity at the center of their work, translating a rigorous attention to detail, a deep understanding of materials and processes, and a profound commitment to context into architecture that is not only technically exceptional but experientially rich.

In an age defined by abstraction and automation, a renewed focus on craft helps to bring architecture back to its tangible, real-world roots. It connects design to labor, material to place, and buildings to the people who make and use them.

We’ll be exploring architectural craft throughout the coming season, presenting extraordinary A+Award-winning projects as case studies that promise to inform and inspire this year’s entrants.

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Fresh Categories for a New Era: Context, Craft, Home and More

Select 13th A+Award honorees; left: Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) by Moriyama Teshima Architects, Popular Choice Winner, Low Rise Office; center: Yohoo Museum by Aedas, Finalist, Museums; right: Aruma Split Garden by RAD+ar, Jury Winner, Restaurants

Reflecting the return to craft, the 14th A+Awards invites firms to submit a range of timely new categories, emphasizing key design elements that distinguish architecture from pure shelter and structure. New and expanded categories include:

• Best in Craft Firm: For architecture and/or interior design firms demonstrating exceptional mastery of craft, materiality and architectural detailing. Projects should showcase the firm’s commitment to material innovation, construction excellence, and meticulous attention to detail.
• Architecture +Context: Architectural excellence is rooted in understanding and respecting the local context. This category celebrates projects that demonstrate a profound connection to their surroundings, designed in response with the cultural, historical and ecological landscape, and embodying a strong sense of place.
• Architecture +Craft: The beauty of architecture often lies in the details, where the precision of craftsmanship comes to the fore. From the elegant intersection of building elements to carefully crafted architectural ‘moments,’ this category honors projects that excel in the fine art of construction detailing.
• Architecture +Home: The concept of home can exist beyond residential boundaries. This category celebrates projects of any typology that cultivate intimacy, comfort and connection. Recognizing designs that foster relationships, embrace human scale, and craft spaces where people feel genuinely at home — whether in residential environments, workplaces, institutional, cultural or public spaces.

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Honoring Projects That Protect People (and the Planet)

Select 13th A+Award honorees; left: Hacienda Wabi by RA! Arquitectos, Popular Choice Winner, Low Rise Multi Unit Housing; right: Streaming Light Exhibition Hall by Daipu Architects, Popular Choice Winner, Architecture +Metal

There are also new categories to reflect today’s most pressing challenges pertaining to human health and wellness, as well as the continual pursuit of a more sustainable built environment. These categories include:

• Design for Wellbeing Project: For projects that emphasize the health and wellbeing of the occupants and communities they serve, while creating environments that foster human flourishing and community connection. Wellbeing-focused designs may include biophilic and natural elements, accessibility and inclusivity measures, ergonomic considerations that support physical comfort and health, and more.
• Sustainable Healthcare Building: For healthcare and wellness projects that incorporate sustainable systems and materials, and follow best practices pertaining to the ethical design, construction and operation.
• Sustainable Materials Project: For projects that highlight exceptional sustainable material selection and application with the explicit use of sustainable materials at the forefront of the design. Featured materials can include but are not limited to: bio-based materials; circular economy materials that embrace reuse, recycling, or regenerative principles; innovative new materials with reduced environmental impact; and materials sourced locally and ethically.

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Join a Global Celebration of Good Design in the 14th A+Awards

Select 13th A+Award honorees; left: New Bund 31 Performing Arts Center by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, Popular Choice Winner, Hall/Theater; center: Salma Tower by aflalo/gasperini arquitetos, Popular Choice Winner, High Rise Office; right: Buji Residences by Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM), Popular Choice Winner, Architecture +Color

As the A+Awards enters a new chapter, Architizer invites architects, designers, and makers everywhere to take part in this evolving story — one defined by material intelligence, local craft and bold imagination. Across continents, the 14th A+Awards celebrates those who are redefining what it means to design with care, intention, and vision. These projects reveal how the next era of architecture will be shaped not only by innovation, but by a renewed respect for the art of making.

The call goes out to every corner of the design world: share your ideas, your materials, your craft. Celebrate what connects us across geography and discipline. Join the global movement that is shaping the built environment for generations to come — and help craft the future of architecture, together.

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This year’s A+Awards program is supported by our partners Metropolis, v2com Newswire, AIANY, Aesthetica Magazine, ADF (Aoyama Design Forum) and Global Design Awards Lab. Learn more about every partner here.

Top image: Perth Museum by Mecanoo, Perth, Australia |  Jury Winner, Museum, 13th Architizer A+Awards