Architecture Hunter Awards 2025: a global snapshot of design excellence
Celebrating architectural creativity worldwide, the Architecture Hunter Awards 2025 honor winners whose projects bridge innovation, cultural identity, and spatial meaning.
Once again, the Architecture Hunter Awards reveal how architecture and design transcend borders through ideas that connect culture, materiality, and human experience. The 2025 edition brings together a selection of projects that redefine typologies, explore new spatial languages, and demonstrate how thoughtful design can respond to the challenges of a changing world.
Launched as a global platform to promote architectural innovation, Architecture Hunter has built a community of over three million followers who seek inspiration and dialogue around the built environment. The awards are a direct extension of this mission — a celebration of creativity that values both aesthetics and purpose, merging design excellence with cultural relevance.
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Commercial and public spaces take center stage this year with FGMF’s Ibira Work, a workplace embedded in the urban landscape that opens itself to the city rather than retreating from it, and Studio Apaaar’s Museum of Humanity, an architectural narrative on coexistence that invites reflection on how we inhabit shared spaces. SUPPOSE DESIGN OFFICE reinterprets the Japanese inn with NOT A HOTEL MINAKAMI TOJI, a sensorial retreat rooted in tradition yet attuned to modernity, while ARCHITECTS OFFICE and Triptyque Architecture explore vertical living through fluid geometries and biophilic systems in AGE360.
Among residential projects, Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects’ Residence SAB stands out for its precision and restraint — a composition where proportion, light, and material silence speak louder than ornament. ARW Associates’ Testi 223 redefines renovation as a dialogue between time layers, balancing preservation and contemporary intervention. In landscape and urban design, Hana Eto Gall Landscape’s Casa Pupunha and A Gang of Three’s Alluvial Decoder exemplify how design can merge ecology, memory, and resilience, grounding architecture within natural and social systems.
The awards also acknowledge the importance of representation and experimentation. György Palkó’s The Grand Ring Expo Osaka and Hristo Rizov’s FabricA use photography and rendering as tools of imagination, while Sohaib Ilyas translates architecture into moving image with House of Memories. Conceptual projects such as Onus Architecture Studio’s Horizon House and Aranguren & Gallegos Architects’ ALFAMA 2.0 extend the conversation toward speculative and urban futures.
Furniture and product design reaffirm the cross-pollination between architecture and objects. Cité Arquitetura’s Avesso redefines bathroom design as spatial choreography, while Estúdio Ninho’s Kiri Table Lamp blends craft and technology in a piece where light becomes tactile. TCC Whitestone’s Mucuri Cobogó revisits a Brazilian classic with new material depth, merging vernacular identity with contemporary precision.
Among professional recognitions, HW Studio receives Best New Architecture Firm for its poetic simplicity and ability to create emotional resonance through minimal gestures. Spasm Design Architects, named Firm of the Year, continues to expand its distinctive vocabulary — architecture that breathes, built from material honesty and an intuitive connection to climate and place.
A jury of leading figures — including Deborah Berke, Juan Ignacio Aranguren, Maria Porro, Patrick Voigt, and Tatiana Bilbao & Team — selected the winners for their design quality and cultural resonance.
Presented by SKR, with premium sponsors Roca and Dellanno, and supported by Marmomac Brazil and CentroRochas, the Architecture Hunter Awards 2025 celebrate a shared commitment to creativity and innovation.
