Architecture Hunter Awards 2025: a global snapshot of design excellence

The Architecture Hunter Awards 2025 (AHA) spotlight a sweeping range of built work, concepts, interiors and products from around the world—projects that thread together beauty, purpose and cultural context. This year’s selection reads like a world tour of ideas: deeply local in character, ambitious in scope, and consistently attentive to how design can shape daily life.

Architecture: city-scale ambition to intimate craft

In Commercial & Offices, FGMF’s Ibira Work demonstrates how workplaces can feel porous and civic rather than closed-off. Casa Pupunha by Hana Eto Gall Landscape takes Garden Landscape honors with a tactile, plant-first approach that melds architecture and ecology. AGE360 by ARCHITECTS OFFICE + Triptyque Architecture wins High-Rise Buildings, a study in vertical living that resists the generic. Hospitality goes to NOT A HOTEL MINAKAMI TOJI by SUPPOSE DESIGN OFFICE, a calm retreat tuned to its Japanese setting.

Domestic life is represented by Residence SAB from Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects (Houses), while education and public mission come forward in Chandigarh University D-6 by Charged Voids (Institutional Facilities). Studio apaaar’s Museum of Humanity claims Mixed-use Buildings for a program that braids culture and public realm. In Renovations, Testi 223 by Botticini + Facchinelli ARW shows sensitivity to time, use, and fabric.

Architectural representation: seeing ideas clearly

Three distinct lenses on architecture take the Representation awards: György Palkó for Photographs (The Grand Ring Expo Osaka), Hristo Rizov for Renders (FabricA pavilion), and Sohaib Ilyas for Videos (House of Memories). Together, they underline how images and film don’t just document architecture—they interpret it.

Interiors and products: where people meet design

Interior Design splits between Estudiobola by Alan Chu (Commercial, Offices & Hospitality) and Riviera House by Studio Julliana Camargo (Residential), both notable for clarity of plan and material richness. Product accolades include Avesso by Cité Arquitetura (Bathroom & Wellness), J39.5 by AtMa inc. (Furniture), Kiri Table Lamp by Estúdio Ninho (Lighting), and Mucuri Cobogó by TCC Whitestone (Small Object), each balancing utility with character.

Urban thinking, social impact, and future visions

Public-minded work shines in Urban Design & Masterplans with Alluvial Decoder (City of Raleigh Storm Memorial) by A Gang of Three—a poetic response to climate and memory. The Social Projects winner, Brumadinho Memorial by Gustavo Penna Arquitetos Associados, honors community and remembrance.

Student Projects recognize emerging research with Regenerative Machines for Marine Food Production by Sebastián Carvajal Avilés (Universidad del Desarrollo). Meanwhile, Unbuilt & Concepts span continents and typologies—from Estúdio Módulo’s Rio-Africa Cultural Center to Studio Arthur Casas’ Allard Oscar Freire, NŌ Architects’ Breezes of Tenerife, Onus Architecture Studio’s Horizon House, Studio JVW’s Fynbos Residence, and Aranguren & Gallegos Architects’ ALFAMA 2.0—a reminder that the discipline constantly prototypes tomorrow.

Practices of the year

Among firms, HW Studio is named Best New Architecture Firm, while Spasm Design Architects earns Firm of the Year, underscoring both promising new voices and long-standing excellence.

Jury and partners

Winners were selected by an international jury featuring figures such as Deborah Berke (TenBerke), Juan Ignacio Aranguren (Zaha Hadid Architects), Maria Porro (Salone del Mobile Milano), Patrick Voigt (9sekunden), and Tatiana Bilbao & Team (Tatiana Bilbao Estudio). The program is presented by SKR, with premium sponsors Roca and Dellanno, and support from Marmomac Brazil and CentroRochas.