14-06-2022
The winners of the Architizer A+Awards 2022
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Adjaye Associates, Zaha Hadid Architects, Neri&Hu,

For its tenth edition, the Architizer A+Awards received over 5,000 entries from more than 100 countries, confirming it as one of the most popular award programmes on the international architecture scene. The projects nominated for the awards were voted on by an international general public, as well as judged by a panel of experts including architects Julie Eizenberg FAIA, FRAIA (director and founder of Koning Eizenberg Architecture), Jasmit Singh Rangr (president and founder of Rangr Studio), Germane Barnes (director of Studio Barnes), Suchi Reddy (director of Reddymade), Yoko Choy (China editor of the Wallpaper* magazine) and many others.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Architizer A+Awards, new awards were introduced and presented: the "Firm of the Year" A+Awards. These new prizes are aimed not at a specific project, but in general at the architectural practice and thus at the whole of its activities. In particular, the jury awarded the "Best Large Architecture Firm" to Zaha Hadid Architects, the "Best Public Projects Architecture Firm" to NADAAA and the "Best Young Architecture Firm" to Jonathan Burlow Architects, while Studio Toggle won the "Best Architecture Firm in Africa and the Middle East" as selected by the jury, as well as "Best Young Architecture Firm" as selected by the public. The public also selected Montalba Architects as the "Best Architecture Firm in North America" and the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) studio as the "Best Sustainable Architecture Firm". Turning our attention to the award-winning projects in each of the 117 categories, one winner was selected by the jury and one by popular vote, with over 400,000 votes cast. The winning projects include:
The Winter Park Library & Events Centre in Florida, United States designed by Adjaye Associates; The Relic Shelter - Fuzhou Teahouse in Fuzhou, China, designed by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office; a sports and training centre for the Masoro Village, in Rwanda designed by the General Architecture Collaborative; the Botanical Pavilion in Melbourne, Australia designed by the Kengo Kuma & Associates + Geoffrey Nees, the Yunzhai Community Centre in Yunzhai Village, China designed by SUP Atelier; and the Pendrell skyscraper in Vancouver, Canada, designed by the Henriquez Partners Architects studio.
All the winning projects of the 2022 edition will be collected and featured in the "Architizer: The World's Best Architecture" volume, set to be published in autumn 2022 and to become a guide to the best architecture of the year.
(Agnese Bifulco)
Images courtesy of Architizer A+Awards and architects, thank you for V2com
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01 Ice cubes by Zone of Utopia + Mathieu Forest Architecte, Xinxiang, China, A+Awards Jury and Popular Choice Winner in the Architecture + Glass category, Popular Choice Winner in Cultural & Expo Centers category
Crédit photo : ArchExist
02 Learning & Sports Center by General Architecture Collaborative, Rwanda, A+Awards Jury Winner in the Architecture + Community category
Crédit photo : Katie Garner
03 Fyrgani by AKA Architects, Sifnos island, Greece, A+Awards Jury Winner in the Architecture +Color category
Crédit photo : Cathy Cunliffe
04 Little Island by Heatherwick Studio, New York, A+Awards Jury Winner in the Public Parks and Green Spaces category
Crédit photo : Timothy Schenck
05 P house by Studio MK27, Awarded Best Architecture Firm in Central and South America (Jury Winner)
Crédit photo : Fernando Guerra
06 Striatus 3D Printed Bridge, Venice, Italy, developed by the Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich and Zaha Hadid Architects Computation & Design Research Group (ZHA CODE), in collaboration with Incremental 3D (in3D) and made possible by Holcim, A+Awards Jury Winner in the Architecture +Concrete category
Crédit photo : Naaro
07 Wild Mile by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Awarded Best Sustainable Architecture Firm (Popular Choice Winner)
Crédit photo : Dave Burk
08 Winter Park Library & Events Center, Winter Park, Florida, U.S., by Adjaye Associates, A+Awards Jury Winner in the Libraries category
Crédit photo : Dror Baldinger, FAIA
09 Winter Park Library & Events Center, Winter Park, Florida, U.S., by Adjaye Associates, A+Awards Jury Winner in the Libraries category
Crédit photo : Dror Baldinger, FAIA
10 The Relic Shelter - Fuzhou Teahouse, Fuzhou, China by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, A+Award Jury Winner in the Architecture +Preservation category
Crédit photo : Hao Chen
11 LR2 House by Montalba Architects, Awarded Best Architecture Firm in North America (Popular Choice Award)
Crédit photo : Kevin Scott, @k7scott
12 The Mushroom - a wood house in the forest by ZJJZ Atelier, China, A+Awards Jury Winner in the Architecture +Joy category
Crédit photo : ZJJZ Atelier
13 Yunzhai Community Center, Yunzhai Village, Changyuan, China by SUP Atelier of THAD, A+Awards Jury Winner in the Architecture +Brick category
Crédit photo : Yingnan Chu
14 Khat by Studio Toggle, Awarded Best Architecture Firm in Africa and the Middle East (Jury Winner), and Best Young Architecture Firm (Popular Choice Winner)
Crédit photo : Studio Toggle
15 Nil Dos House, Barcelona, Spain by Valenti Albareda Studio, A+Awards Jury Winner in the Small Residential Interiors category
Crédit photo : José Hevia