The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the over 150 winners of the International Architecture Awards. This event takes place every year to recognize the most significant and inspirational buildings and urban planning projects around the world. Founded in 2005 by The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre, the awards aim to set a global standard for architectural achievement worldwide.
This year’s winning projects focus on inclusive design, sustainable solutions, and finding a sensible response to the surroundings and local cultures. Restorations, renovations, and adaptive reuse solutions are also well represented among this year’s winners. projects range from significant cultural destinations such as Fuzhou Strait Culture and Art Centre China to new city infrastructure such as the Eleftheria Square in Nicosia, Cyprus; a UNESCO cultural building in Greenland to a Modularized COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention Hospital in Shanghai.
Read on to discover the winners of the 2022 edition.
AIRPORTS AND TRANSPORTATION CENTRES
- Incheon International Airport Passenger Terminal 2, Incheon, Korea by Gensler, Heerim Architects & Planners and Mooyoung Architects & Engineers
BRIDGES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
- Kakola Funicular Stations, Turku, Finland by Vapaavuori Architects
- L'Aiguille Rouge Walkway, Bourg-Saint-Maurice et Villaroger, France by SG Architecte
- Storm Water Facility, Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Architects: gh3*
- Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada by Architects: gh3*
- Gateway Arches, Al Wahda Junction, Doha, Qatar by AECOM
CIVIC AND COMMUNITY CENTERS
- Tangzhuang Village Community Center, Xinghua, Jiangsu, China by Free Studio/Archplus Institute of Shanghai Architectural Design & Research
- Cloud of Luster Chapel, Himeji, Japan by KTX archiLAB
- Gemdale Megacity, Fuzhou, China by Shanghai PTArchitects
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
- Jenga Box, Shanghai, China by KLID (Kris Lin Interior Design)
CORPORATE OFFICE BUILDINGS
- Ferrum 1, Saint Petersburg, Russia by Tchoban Voss Architects BDA
- GZ Campus Falkenberg, Falkenberg, Germany byJ . MAYER H. und Partner, Architekten
- Penrose Dock, Cork, Ireland by Wilson Architecture
- Gruppo Vergero Headquarters,Venaria Reale (TO), Italy by Offtec srl
- Gree Global Centre, Hengqin, China by Yunchao Xu/Atelier Apeiron/SZAD
- Zemelnyi Office Building, Moscow, Russia by UNK project
- Kuwait Investment Authority Headquarters, Kuwait City, Kuwait by International Consultants
- Folded Wings, Palo Alto, California, USA by Form4 Architecture
- The PolyCuboid, Himeji, Japan by KTX archiLAB
- Omega and Swatch Headquarters, Beil, Switzerland by Shigeru Ban Architects and Itten+Brechbühl AG
- Carlsberg Central Office, Copenhagen, Denmark by C.F. Møller Architects
- A2A Headquarters, Milan (MI), Italy by ACPV Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel
- The Docks, Frankfurt am Main, Germany by Meixner-Schüluter-Wendt Architekten
- Yale University Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking, New Haven, Connecticut, USA by Weiss/Manfredi
Architects
CULTURE AND MUSEUMS
- Fuzhou Strait Culture and Art Centre, Fu Jian, China by PES-Architects Ltd. and China Construction Engineering Design Group Co., Ltd.
- Dysis Church of Poly Shallow Sea, Hainan, China by Shanghai United Design Group Co., Ltd. and The Second Architectural Design Institute
- Andermatt Concet Hall, Andermatt, Switzerland by Studio Seilern Architects
- Luhu Cultural Center, Shenzhen, China by Studio Link-Arc, LLC. and CCDI (Shenzhen)
- Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. Center for Performing Arts, San Francisco, California, USA by Mark Cavagnero Associates
- Jiashan Museum and Library, Jiashan, Zhejiang, China by The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd.
- Shanghai Astronomy Museum Shanghai, China by Ennead Architects and Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design and Research
- Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, Lubbock, Texas, USA by Diamond Schmitt Associates with MWM Architects, Inc. and Parkhill
- Dallara Academy, Varano de' Melegari, Italy by. Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia / AF517
DISPLAYS AND INSTALLATIONS
- The Russel & Mary Wright Design Gallery, Garrison, New York, USA by Studio Joseph Qaammat Pavilion, Sarfannguit, Greenland by Konstantin Arkitekter
ENERGY / SUSTAINABILITY
- Hot Heart, Helsinki, Finland by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati
ENTERTAINMENT
- White Mountain Club House, Nanjing, China by KLID (Kris Lin Interior Design)
- Venue Building Middelkerke’, Middelkerke, Belgium by ZJA with Bureau Bouwtechniek, OZ and DELVA
Landscape Architecture Urbanism - Ice Cubes Cultural Tourist Center, Xinxiang, China by Architects: Zone of Utopia, Mathieu Forest Architecte
- Puffing Billy Railway Visitor Centre, Emerald, Victoria, Australia by TERROIR
- Sky Pool, London, United Kingdom by HAL Architects
EXPOSITION
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates by Boris Micka Associates
- Russian Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 2021 Architects: Speech
- Expanded Cloud Experience Center, Kunming, China by Shanghai Urban Architecture Design Co., Ltd.
- Luxembourg Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates by Metaform Architects
- Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates by Grimshaw
- Century Pavilion of 10th China Flower Expo, Shanghai, China by Arcplus East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
- Amsterdam Courthouse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands by KAAN Architecten
- Reception Pavilion of Québec’s National Assembly, Québec City, Québec, Canada by Provencher_Roy and GLCRM Inc. Architectes
HEALTH CARE / HOSPITALS
- The Deformable Modularized COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention Hospital in Shanghai, Shanghai, China by Hanchenping Studio | CUMT
- Maggie's Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom by AL_A
- District Hospitals Ghana, Ghana by Adjaye Associates and Sutherland & Sutherland Architects
- Kálida Sant Pau Part of Maggie's Global Network of Centres, Barcelona, Spain by Benedetta Tagliabue –
EMBT Architects
HIGH RISES / SKYSCRAPERS
- Azrieli Town Tower, Tel Aviv, Israel by Moshe Zur Architects & Town Planners Ltd.
- Shanghai International Financial Center, Shanghai, China by FGP Atelier and JAHN
- Nansha Kingboard Plaza, Nansha, China by Aedas
- Shenzhen Houhai Building Decoration Industry Headquarters, Shenzhen, China by Aedas
- Heron, Tampa, Florida, USA by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.
- Suzhou International Finance Square, Suzhou, China by Kohn Pedersen Fox PC. with Wong Tung Group of Companies (WT) and East China Architectural Design and Research Institute
- Xian Tower, Xian, China by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
- 55 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Partisans and BDP Quadrangle
- Antares Tower, Barcelona, Spain by Studio Odile Decq
HOTELS / HOSPITALITY
- Vida Loca Boutique Hotel Annan, Nanchang, China by Shanghai PTArchitects
- Hotel Maestoso, Lipica, Slovenia by ENOTA
- Hotel Marina Gold, Tỉnh Bình Thuận, Vietnam by Nobuaki Miyashita/MR Studio Co., Ltd.
- Park Hyatt Suzhou, Suzhou, China by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. and China Construction Design International Co., Ltd
- Longosphere Glamping, İğneada, Kırklareli, Turkey by Yazgan Design Architecture Inc
INDUSTRIAL
- Beronia Winery in Ollauri, Ollauri, La Rioja, Spain by IDOM
- Rubrum Winery, Izmir, Turkey by Office Istanbul Architects
- Nanhai Waste-to-Power Plant Phase III, Foshan, China by Hayer Design
LIBRARIES
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, New York, New York, USA by Mecanoo Architecten and Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLC.
- Kirkkonummi Library, Kirkkonummi, Finland by JKMM Architects
MIXED-USE
- Haimen Shishan Square (Haimen City Sports Service Complex), Hangzhou, China by Zhejiang University Urban-Rural Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd.
- Opus, Dubai, United Arab Emirates by Zaha Hadid Architects and Arex Consultants and Brewer Smith Brewer Group (BSBG)
- The Crystal at Raffles City, Chongqing, China by Safdie Architects with P&T Group International Ltd. and CQADI (Chongqing Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd.)
- Ideareve Ikegami, Tokyo, Japan by Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture and Takayuki Yagi/Yagi Komuten
- Diamond Exchange, Capital C Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands by ZJA in collaboration with Heyligers design + project and Braaksma & Roos Architectenbureau
- Hall of the Sun, Shanghai, China by Arquitectonica and Wong Tung Group of Companies (WT)
- Xi'an Valley City, Xi'an, China by Aedas and Bowan Architecture
- UP! BERLIN, Berlin, Germany by Jasper Architects and Gewers & Pudewill GmbH
MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING
- Embassy–Living Alongside Koellnischer Park, Berlin, Germany by Tchoban Voss Architects BDA
- Villa Reden Apartments, Chorzów, Poland by Architekt Maciej Franta
- HOFT (House of the Flying Trees), Rīga, Latvia by Open AD
- The Camellias by DLF, Gurugram, India by Architect Hafeez Contractor with Rockwell Group and SWA Group
- ASG | marchfelderterrassen Social Housing in der Anton- Schall-Gasse, Vienna, Austria by trans_city TC ZT and Jakob Fina Landscape Architecture
- 5312 HELIX, Milan (MI), Italy by Michelangeli Design and Studio Carrera
PRIVATE HOUSES
- Three Gables, Napa Valley, California, USA by Aidlin Darling Design
- Permanent Camping 2, Berry, New South Wales, Australia by Casey Brown Architecture Pty Ltd
- The Chrysalis, Vouliagmeni, Greece by 314 Architecture Studio
- The Palm 313, Mozambique by MJZ Arquitectos
- House in Ota, Wakayama, Japan by Ido, Kenji Architectural Studio
- Kastelaz Hof, Tramin an der Weinstraße, Italy by Peter Pichler Architecture
- Aurora Lodge, Lyngen, Norway by Snorre Stinessen Arkitektur
- Liminal House, The Plains, Virginia, USA by David Jameson Architect
- Jatobá House, São Paulo, Brazil by Studio Guilherme Torres
- Kylie Residence, Heuchelheim, Germany by gronych + dollega architekten
- Phoenix House, Phoenix, Arizona, USA by Messana O'Rourk
- Junegrass House, Jackson, Wyoming, USA by Messana O'Rourk with Ankeny Architecture and Design
PUBLIC SPACE
- Zaozhuang Citizen Center, Shandong, China by Shanghai United Design Group Co., Ltd.
- Zhoushan Wanda Star Bay, Zhoushan, China by Shanghai United Design Group Co., Ltd.
- The Beach at Expedia Group, Seattle, Washington, USA by Surfacedesign Inc. with ZGF and Aidlin Darling Design
- Reconstruction of Mezaparks Open-Air Stage, Riga, Latvia by Mailitis Architects and Arhitekta J. Pogas Birojs Ltd.
- The Welcome Building RHS Garden Bridgewater, Worsley, Salford, United Kingdom by Hodder+Partners
- Piazza del Cinema, Island of Lido, Venice, Italy by C+S Architects Ltd.
RELIGIOUS
- Baoshan Temple, Shanghai, China by Yuangou Architects & Consultants Ltd.
- Santa Maria Goretti Church, Mormanno (CS), Italy by Mario Cucinella Architects
- Walk/House, Tambol Na Chalieng, Aumphoe Nhongpai, Petchabun, Thailand by EKAR Architects
RESTAURANTS
- Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove in Shanwan Villa, Suzhou, China by GOA (Group of Architects
RETAIL/SHOWROOMS
- Flow Sales Center, Chengdu, China by KLID (Kris Lin Interior Design)
- China Overseas Oriental Mansion Sales Center, Ningbo, China by Shanghai PTArchitects
- The Gaiety, Foshan, China by TWAD Design
- Greenland Hong Kong, If Alan Experience Center, Wuxi, China by Shanghai PTArchitects
- Cloud Commercial Complex, Shenzhen, China by Studio Link-Arc, LLC. and CAPOL Design
- Shell Palace, Tainan City, Taiwan by Cheng Sheng Interior Design
- Sanya Jinmao FarmLab, Sanya, Hainan, China by CLOU architects
- C&D • Jiang Shan Yue, Changsha, China by TWAD Design
- Humen Station Sales Gallery, Dongguan, China by Aedas
- Velaa Sindhorn Village, Khet Pathum Wan, Thailand by Architects 49 Limited
- Urban Living Room of Dahuangshan Silicon Town, Xuzhou City, China by JUNYUN Architecture Design Office Co., Ltd.
- TOD City Mansion Demonstration Area, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China by Shanghai PTArchitects
RESTORATION / RENOVATION
- Julu Place 758, Shanghai, China by Yuangou Architects & Consultants Ltd.
- Urban Bloom-Galleria Timeworld, Daejeon, South Korea by CA Plan Co., Ltd.
- Theatre Royal Drury Lane Restoration, London, United Kingdom by Haworth Tompkins
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), Antwerp, Belgium by KAAN Architecten
- Palazzo Senza Tempo Peccio, Peccioli (PI), Italy by Mario Cucinella Architects
- Latitude Renovation-Extension, La Défense, Paris, France by STUDIOS Architecture
- The Cathedral of the Holy Cross Renovation, Boston, Massachusetts, USA by Elkus Manfredi Architects
- Kumamoto Castle Reconstruction Observation Path, Kumamoto City, Japan by NIHON SEKKEI, Inc.
SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES
- Hangzhou Yuhang Second Senior Middle School Expansion, Hangzhou, China. by Zhejiang University UrbanRural Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd.
- Kindergarten of Museum Forest, Shenzhen, China by Yunchao Xu/Atelier Apeiron/SZAD
- Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas, Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia by Tzannes and H&E Architects
- Entry Building to Sberbank Campus, Moscow, Russia by Evolution Design Ltd.
- Mori Hosseini Student Union at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA by ikon.5 architects
- L. Gale Lemerand Student Center at Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA by ikon.5 architects
- College of Life Sciences, Sabah Al Salim Al Sabah University City, Kuwait by CambridgeSeven and Gulf Consult
- UTS Central, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia by fjmtstudio
- Ge Hekai Hall at Wenzhou-Kean University, Shanghai, China by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners and Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd.
- The Dewey Schools, Hanoi, Vietnam by 1+1>2 Architects
- Kindergarten at Henninger Park, Frankfurt am Main, Germany by Meixner-Schüluter-Wendt Architekten
- Global Leadership Centre, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom by McAslan + Partners
- Yale University Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking, New Haven, Connecticut, USA by Weiss/Manfredi Architects
- Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), Allston, Massachusetts, USA by Behnisch Architekten
- San Francisco State University Liberal and Creative Arts Building, San Francisco, California, USA by Mark Cavagnero Associates
SPORTS AND LEISURE
- Europa-Park Stadium, Freiburg, Germany by HPP Architekten GmbH
TRANSPORTATION
- Underground Station Rotes Rathaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany by Collignon Architektur und Design GmbH
URBAN PLANNING/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
- Shenzhen Civil Code Park, Shenzhen, China by.PMA (PolyMorphArchitects)
- Eleftheria Square, Nicosia, Cyprus by Zaha Hadid Architects
- Experience Chute, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada by Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker
- "Taohuayuan" from Painting Scroll: Wufang Village, HangZhou, China by The Design Institute of Landscape & Architecture, China Academy of Art Co., Ltd.
- Horizon Manila: Manileño, Manila, Philippines by WTA Architecture and Design Studio
- Chengdu Hyperlane, Chengdu, China by Aedas with ASPECT Studios, Landscape Architecture and BPI
- Weihai Port Complex Park Urban Transformation and Renewel, Weihai, China by Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University Co., Ltd.
- Minsheng Wharf Block E15-3, Shanghai, China by Atelier Ping Jiang / EID Architecture with Shanghai Tianhua Architecture Planning & Engineering Ltd. and H & A Landscape / LAN·G.
- Lighter City • Central Park Urban Life Experience Center, Shanghai, China by Shanghai PTArchitects
- Pendik Public Garden, Istanbul, Turkey by DS Architecture
- The Pier Approach, St Petersburg, Florida, USA by Landscape Architects: W Architecture and Landscape Architect LLC.
- The Orbit, Innisfil, Ontario, Canada by Partisans and BDP Quadrangle
