The Architecture MasterPrize has announced its 2025 winners, with entries spanning 72 countries and a shortlist that reads like a global snapshot of where design culture is heading right now. The program frames this year’s results around design excellence, innovation, and real-world relevance, from sustainability to social responsibility.
Officially released in Los Angeles on December 16, 2025, the announcement positions the awards as a broad cross-section of architecture, interiors, landscape, product design, and architectural photography, all under one umbrella of contemporary practice and craft.
What the 2025 edition signals
If there is a clear takeaway, it is that design quality is being judged alongside cultural impact. The press release stresses how projects are expected to engage with changing climates, shifting urban life, and the everyday experience of spaces, not just look impressive in a photograph.
That global reach is not just a statistic. When submissions come from dozens of contexts, the winners inevitably reflect different constraints, materials, budgets, and public expectations, which makes the final mix more useful as a reference point for anyone tracking international design directions.
Top honors across disciplines
The 2025 top honors highlight the award’s intentionally wide lens. From architectural design and interiors to urban work and photography, the category leaders underline how the built environment is shaped by many kinds of authorship, not only buildings.
At the headline level, the winners include an Architectural Design of the Year project in France, an Interior Design of the Year winner in Canada, and firm-level recognition across Asia-Pacific and Europe, plus photography awards that frame architecture as both place and image.
Notable winners and the “big names” effect
Alongside the category winners, AMP’s notable recipients include work associated with globally recognized practices and designers, from Alvaro Siza Vieira and Kengo Kuma to Zaha Hadid Architects and Shigeru Ban, plus firms such as Safdie Architects, Snohetta, Perkins&Will, and OKRA landscape architects.
It is tempting to treat these as predictable inclusions, but their presence also sets a baseline: when household-name studios appear beside emerging practices, it becomes easier to read the shared priorities, whether that is material restraint, stronger public value, or a cleaner relationship between architecture and landscape.
Why these awards still matter
Award lists can be noisy, but they are still useful when they compile work across many categories and geographies. Here, the winners show how built environment decisions and design thinking translate into real outcomes: civic programs, workplaces, museums, and urban interventions that shape daily routines.
Most importantly, the 2025 announcement keeps the focus on projects that aim to enrich everyday life while responding to contemporary pressures. That mix of ambition and practicality is exactly what the Architecture MasterPrizeis trying to celebrate in 2025.CategoryWinner / ProjectCountry / RegionArchitectural Design of the YearSports and Cultural Center Marie Jose Perec and Josephine Baker, Onze04 ArchitectesFranceInterior Design of the YearSymbolplus Office, Symbolplus Inc.CanadaUrban Design of the YearBamboo Villa, WEIMAR GROUPChinaArchitecture Firm of the YearEquator Works_Singapore / AustraliaInterior Design Firm of the Yearvia architecture limitedHong KongLandscape & Urban Firm of the YearOKRA landscape architectsUtrecht, NetherlandsExterior Architecture Photography of the YearShoayb KhattabUnited Arab EmiratesInterior Architecture Photography of the YearNg Chi Ho GaryHong Kong
Our Designers of the Year awards recognise the best emerging and established talent whose innovative work has made a notable impact on the industry across architecture, interiors and design.
This year, MAD took home the architect of the year award with Tamil Nadu-based Earthscape Studio named emerging architect of the year.
Interior designer of the year was awarded to Milan-based practice Dimore Studio, and Ukrainian studio Mirzoyan was crowned emerging interior designer of the year.
London-based practices Studio Toogood won designer of the year with Andu Masebo named emerging designer of the year.
Read more about all the Designers of the Year below:
Fenix Museum of Migration by MAD. Photo by Iwan Baan
Architecture practice MAD was founded in 2004 by principal partner Ma Yansong, and has studios in Beijing, Los Angeles and Rome working across architecture, interiors, design, product design and art.
The studio approaches architecture with an aim to balance humanity and the natural world, creating spaces that support wellbeing and prompt imagination.
“This already prolific studio has had an incredible 12 months, unveiling a major museum project that pushed the boundaries of adaptive reuse, along with a series of installations that explore how buildings of the future can be more climate-friendly,” said the judges.
“All eyes will be on the studio in 2026 as it unveils one of its biggest and most ambitious projects to date, elevating it to well-deserved superstar status.”
Founded in 2022 by Petchimuthu Kennedy, Tamil Nadu-based Earthscape Studio practices “earthen architecture” and aims to foster a connection between people and the natural world.
The practice designs nature-friendly spaces informed by experimental techniques and natural materials.
“This studio is going from strength to strength, following a series of residential projects that combine responsible material use with daring form-making,” the judges praised.
“As we look towards a future dominated by climate change, it shows how a sustainable design ethos can pave the way for an architecture that reconnects us with nature, finding exciting new applications for local materials and craft traditions,” they added.
Milan-based Dimore Studio, founded by Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci, works to transform interior spaces for the residential, retail and hospitality industries.
The studio’s ouvré is heavily informed by historical periods, using a blend of vintage and contemporary influences when creating their interiors.
“It has been impossible to overlook the rise of this design studio, as it straddles the fields of interior design, collectible design, exhibitions and products,” said the judges.
“The studio has established a recognisable identity, yet every project offers something different. Its strengths lie in the ability to celebrate the past while also looking to the future.”
Based in Kyiv, Ukraine, Nastia Mirzoyan’s eponymous studio seeks to create playful yet functional spaces, having designed homes, restaurants and sex shops across the residential, hospitality and retail spaces sectors respectively.
“In dark times, this Ukrainian designer has emerged as a leading light,” said the judges. “Her interiors demonstrate an acute awareness of context, but with a playfulness that challenges tradition.”
“From bespoke furniture to clever surface design, she has proven her talent for creating spaces that are both exciting and welcoming,” they continued.
British designer Faye Toogood works across a variety of disciplines to create unconventional designs, including furniture, interiors, homeware and clothing.
Originally trained as an artist, she worked as an editor and stylist before launching her studio in 2008.
Toogood has designed interiors for fashion brands including Mulberry, Carhartt and Selfridges, and created bespoke installations for Hermès and Tiina the Store.
The judges praised Toogood’s “incredible burst of energy over the past 18 months, producing some of the most influential work of her career to date”.
“After spending many years competing with her male peers, she has embraced her own identity as a woman and channelled that into an impressive series of projects,” they added.
“Underpinning her work is a clear dedication to the beauty of craft.”
Dezeen Awards is the ultimate accolade for architects and designers across the globe. The eighth edition of the annual awards programme is in partnership with Bentley as part of a wider collaboration to inspire, support and champion design excellence and showcase innovation that creates a better and more sustainable world. This ambition complements Bentley’s architecture and design business initiatives, including the Bentley Home range of furnishings and real estate projects around the world.
