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Along with 10 other award categories spanning healthcare, housing, education, and design excellence in sustainability, the American Institute of Architects announced this year’s winners of the all-encompassing Architecture Awards during the 2025 Conference on Architecture and Design in Boston. Recognizing the best contemporary architecture, the Architecture Awards span styles and typologies—a true mixed bag. The 2025 awardees reflect this wide-ranging eclecticism, all 10 of them showing “a range of outstanding work architects create and highlight the many ways buildings and spaces can improve our lives.”

Notably, Los Angeles and Fort Lauderdale–based Brooks + Scarpa Architects, led by 2022 AIA Gold Medalists Angela Brooks and Larry Scarpa, was recognized with two Architecture Awards; both projects are in the L.A. area, one an affordable apartment complex for young people transitioning out of foster care or juvenile facilities and the other a mixed-use development that combines affordable low-income housing and market-rate housing. The former project, the Rose Apartments in Venice, was published in RECORD in 2022.

Another awardee published by RECORD is Studio Gang’s expansion of Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, which appeared in the December 2023 issue. Two U.S. Consulates General designed by the Miller Hull Partnership and Richärd Kennedy Architects and located continents apart—in Guadalajara, Mexico, and Hyderabad, India, respectively—were also recognized. Transit projects also appeared twice among the list of honorees: one an elevated train station on Chicago’s West Side designed by Perkins&Will and the other a bustling new ferry terminal on the revitalized downtown Seattle waterfront by NBBJ.

The full list of 2025 Architecture Award recipients can be found below. More information for each, including full descriptions and project teams, is available on the AIA website. 

11 NOHO Mixed-Use Housing
Brooks + Scarpa | North Hollywood, California

11 NOHO Mixed-Use Housing. Photo © Brooks + Scarpa w/ Jeff Durkin

Damen Green Line Station
Perkins&Will | Chicago

Damen Green Line Station. Photo © James Steinkamp Photography

Kresge College Expansion at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Studio Gang w/ TEF Design (associate architect) | Santa Cruz

Kresge College Expansion at UC Santa Cruz. Photo © Jason O’Rear

RIDC Mill 19
MSR Design w/ R3A Architecture (associate architect) | Pittsburgh

RIDC Mill 19. Photo © Corey Gaffer

Seattle Ferry Terminal at Colman Dock
NBBJ | Seattle

Seattle Ferry Terminal at Colman Dock. Photo © Sean Airhart

Shanghai Astronomy Museum
Ennead Architects | New Nanhui Town, Shanghai

Shanghai Astronomy Museum. Photo © ArchExist

The Rose Apartments
Brooks + Scarpa | Venice, California

The Rose Apartments. Photo © Brooks + Scarpa w/ Jeff Durkin

The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture
MASS Design Group | Gashora, Rwanda

Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture. Photo © Iwan Baan

U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara
Miller Hull Partnership with Page Southerland Page, Inc. (architect of record) | Guadalajara, Mexico

U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara. Photo © Kevin Scott

U.S. Consulate General Hyderabad | U.S. Department of State
Richärd Kennedy Architects with HGA (associate architect), Inegrus (architect of record) | Hyderabad, India

U.S Consulate General Hyderabad. Photo by Gabe Border © Richärd Kennedy Architects

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