Architecture MasterPrize names its 2026 winners

Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) has announced the winners of its 2026 edition. Thousands of projects, firms, and products were entered from 92 countries—up from 72 in 2025—across the Architectural Design, Firm of the Year, Architectural Products, and Architectural Photography programs.

Now in its 11th edition, AMP recognizes design excellence in architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture across nearly 50 categories, judged by an international jury of practicing architects, designers, critics, and academics. Entries are judged on design excellence, originality, function, and sustainability, and the highest-ranked work in each category receives the Best of Best distinction.

From that group, the jury selects the year’s top titles and the Firm of the Year awards.

“This year’s top awards went to a presidential library that disappears into its landscape, a timber office for a wind-energy company, and a park that cleans Bangkok’s water,” said David Teravagimov, Managing Director of Architecture MasterPrize. “They are very different buildings with one thing in common: each gives something back to the place it stands in. That entries now arrive from more than 80 countries tells us the program has become a genuine point of reference for practices of every size.”

Architectural Design of the Year

The top honor goes to Snøhetta for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, N.D. Sited along a bluff edge in the Badlands, the building slopes to meet the land beneath a walkable, planted roof that opens toward Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Architects, landscape architects, and ecologists shaped the site and the building as a single work.

Interior Design of the Year

Montreal practice Atelier Carle challenges traditional medical clinic design with OAKV. One skylight, one tall hall, and a lot of walnut turn a dark Oakville office unit into the year’s most composed interior.

Landscape Design of the Year

Benjakitti Forest Park, a project by Arsomsilp Community and Environmental Architect with Turenscape, turned a former tobacco factory site in central Bangkok into an ecological park with wetlands that store monsoon rain, a new urban forest, and skywalks that open the whole site to the public.

Sustainable Design of the Year

Windkraft Simonsfeld AG’s Expansion Headquarter, by Juri Troy ZT GmbH, is a timber-framed office extension in Austria with a rammed-clay core.

Firms of the Year

• Architectural Firm of the Year: KPF (Kohn Pedersen Fox), United States
• Interior Design Firm of the Year: PMT Partners, China
• Landscape and Urban Design Firm of the Year: PLACE, United States

Best of Best highlights

• New Grand Palais, Paris, by Chatillon Architectes (France)
• Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation, University of Arkansas, by modus studio with Grafton Architects (United States)
• Techo International Airport, Phnom Penh, by Foster + Partners with China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute (China)
• Xi’an International Football Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects (China)
• Centro Direzionale Metro Station, Naples, and Parco del Mare, Rimini, by Miralles Tagliabue EMBT (Spain)
• Media library and music school in Sarlat-la-Canéda by Dominique Coulon & Associés (France)
• Nanchang Grand Theatre by PES-Architects (Finland)
• Robert Mondavi Winery, Napa Valley, by Aidlin Darling Design with BAR Architects (United States)
• Cantina Contramar, Las Vegas, by Frida Escobedo Studio (United States)
• Watertown Exploratory Labs by Elkus Manfredi Architects (United States)
• Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Terminal 3 by GDAD with Artelia Airports (China)
• TCC DAKA Renewable Resource Recycling Center, Taiwan, by KPF
• Data Center ETH Zurich by Penzel Valier (Switzerland)

Winners from leading practices

• Ateliers Jean Nouvel with Ribas & Ribas Arquitectos and Jordi Sala: La Querola d’Ordino, Andorra
• Aedas: Hong Kong International Airport Terminal 2 and Changsha Jinmao Tower
• Ennead Architects: ByteDance Houhai Center, Shenzhen
• ACPV Architects Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel: No. 8 Castle Road, Hong Kong
• Pickard Chilton with Nihon Sekkei and Takenaka: Tokyo Midtown Yaesu
• KPF: TP-Link LXD and Westlake 66
• HASSELL with iredale pedersen hook: Gibbon Crossing at Perth Zoo

Category winners also include Stantec, Benthem Crouwel, and Takenaka Corporation.

Architectural Photography

In the Architectural Photography Awards, Derry Ainsworth was named Exterior Architectural Photographer of the Year for “Hong Kong Modern Mosaics,” a series of tightly framed façades that turn the city’s towers into patterns. Tzu Chin Yu of TCY Studio, Taiwan, won Interior Architectural Photographer of the Year for his study of Coelacanth K&H Architects’ Kanazawa Umimirai Library. 

Best of Best honors also go to:

• Kelvin Yuen, for his storm-lit image of Hong Kong’s Tsing Ma Bridge
• SARAB, for “One Zaabeel in Dubai”
• Victor Romero, for “The Shape of Modern China”
• shum.stills, for “I. M. Pei’s Suzhou Museum”
• Alex Fradkin, for “Fogo Island Inn”
• Ingo Rasp, for his documentation of the Stuttgart 21 rail project

The complete list of 2026 winners and project galleries is at architectureprize.com/winners. For more information about architecture awards and the 2027 call for entries, click here.

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Architecture MasterPrize celebrates the finest achievements in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, product design, and architectural photography. The prize is dedicated to promoting global excellence while encouraging progress in sustainable practice. Each edition honors the talent and dedication that move the industry forward and shape the built environment with purpose and imagination.