Final day to put your work forward to be recognised at this year’s ceremony

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Today is the final day to enter the Architect of the Year Awards 2025.

The AYAs are Building Design’s annual celebration of the very best work being produced by practices today. Uniquely, a majority of the trophies are awarded for a body of work, not just for an individual building.

There is a new category in 2025, One-off Major Project of the Year, meaning there is a total of 20 awards to be won this year (view all categories below).

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All the 2024 Architect of the Year Awards winners at the ceremony last year

The categories include the Gold Award for “the best of the best” which is chosen from the winners of the project focussed categories. 

>> Explore stadout projects from the 2024 shortlist in our “What made this project…” series

Last year’s winners included, architectural legend Sir Donald Insall, who was handed the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award, while Brisco Loran won the prestigious Young Architect of the Year Award, which recognises practices where the majority of principals have been practising for 12 years or less. 

Feilden Clegg Bradley took home the Gold Award last year after winning the Public Building and Retail & Leisure of the Year categories.

This year’s winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony on 15 October at the London Marriott Hotel - Grosvenor Square.

For full details of the awards and how to enter click here.

Please contact our team at aya@assemblemediagroup.co.uk with any questions.

2025 categories

  • Best Architect Employer of the Year
  • Creative Conservation Architect of the Year
  • Education Architect of the Year (nursery - 6th) - Sponsored by Swisspearl
  • Higher Education Architect of the Year
  • Housing Architect of the Year
  • Individual House Architect of the Year
  • Industry/Manufacturing Partner of the Year
  • Interior Architect of the Year
  • Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Net Zero Architect of the Year - In partnership with UKGBC
  • Office Architect of the Year
  • One Off Small Project of the Year – open to one off individual projects
  • One Off Major Project of the Year – open to one off individual projects
  • Public Building Architect of the Year - Sponsored by Sutton Projects
  • Refurbishment and Reinvention Architect of the Year
  • Retail and Leisure Architect of the Year
  • Social Value Award
  • WA100 International Architect of the Year
  • Young Architect of the Year
  • The Gold Award

With thanks to benx for sponsoring the Architect of the Year Awards drinks reception

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