Architecture MasterPrize Winners: The Definitive Hall of Fame, 2015 to Present
March 16, 2026A permanent record of the world’s most celebrated architectural work, spanning global powerhouses, rising icons, and the most recognized design leaders in the history of the Architecture MasterPrize.
What Is the Architecture MasterPrize?
The Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) is one of the world’s most respected international architecture awards, dedicated to advancing the appreciation of exceptional architectural, interior, and landscape design across the globe. The AMP is headquartered in Los Angeles, but it is a genuinely global competition: entries are welcomed from architects, designers, and studios anywhere in the world, and winners have come from more than 72 countries across every edition since the program’s founding in 2015 (originally operating as the AAP Architecture Prize).
Unlike many regionally focused accolades, the Architecture MasterPrize is judged entirely on merit. An independent international jury, composed of leading architects, curators, academics, journalists, and design critics, evaluates every entry across 41 categories. The result is a winners list that reads as a who’s who of the contemporary built world: from Pritzker laureates with decades of transformative work to rising studios redefining what architecture can mean in their regions.
This article is the definitive guide to Architecture MasterPrize winners across all editions, a comprehensive reference designed to answer one simple question: who has won the Architecture MasterPrize, and why does it matter?
How the Architecture MasterPrize Judging Works
Understanding the award structure is essential to appreciating why an AMP win carries real weight. The judging process operates across three distinct stages:
- Category Winners are selected in the main judging round. Jurors score each project on design excellence (including aesthetics, environmental sensitivity, cultural relevance, and contextual considerations), the originality of the concept, and whether the project fulfills its functional requirements.
- Best of Best (BOB) is the top distinction: a select group of projects that stand above the rest across the entire competition. It represents a higher recognition than a standard Winner, reserved for entries that excelled across the full field of submissions.
- Design of the Year is the highest and most esteemed title the AMP can confer. From among the Best of Best projects, the jury selects the Design of the Year in each main discipline (architectural design, interior design, landscape architecture). This is the singular most celebrated project of that edition and comes with the AMP trophy.
The AMP is judged by an international panel of architects, curators, academics, and design leaders. You can meet the current panel at the AMP Jury page.
The awards ceremony is held biennially, most recently at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, where both the 2023 and 2024 winner cohorts were celebrated on November 18, 2024.
Architecture MasterPrize Winners: The Complete Hall of Fame
The table below documents the firms and architects who have earned recognition in the AMP Hall of Fame, ordered by international standing and cumulative impact across editions.
| # | Firm / Architect | Country / Region | AMP Distinction |
| 1 | Zaha Hadid Architects | United Kingdom | 14+ BOB Awards |
| 2 | Renzo Piano Building Workshop | Italy | BOB, Design of Year (Istanbul Museum) |
| 3 | Tadao Ando | Japan | 2020 Architectural Design of Year |
| 4 | David Chipperfield Architects | UK / Germany | BOB, Multiple Editions |
| 5 | Steven Holl Architects | USA | Multiple Category Wins |
| 6 | Sou Fujimoto Architects | Japan | BOB Winner |
| 7 | Pei Cobb Freed & Partners | USA | BOB, Legacy Award |
| 8 | BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group | Denmark / USA | 2023 Architectural Design of Year |
| 9 | Snohetta | Norway / USA | Multiple BOB Wins |
| 10 | KPF (Kohn Pedersen Fox) | USA | 24+ BOB Awards |
| 11 | SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) | USA | Commercial + Civic Awards |
| 12 | SHoP Architects | USA | BOB Winner |
| 13 | Studio Libeskind | USA / Global | Cultural Architecture |
| 14 | Safdie Architects | USA / Israel | BOB, 2025 Edition |
| 15 | Ennead Architects | USA | BOB Green Architecture 2025 |
| 16 | Pelli Clarke Pelli | USA | High-Rise Excellence |
| 17 | Kengo Kuma | Japan | BOB, 2024 and 2025 Editions |
| 18 | Heatherwick Studio | United Kingdom | BOB Winner |
| 19 | Vo Trong Nghia (VTN Architects) | Vietnam | 2020 Interior Design of Year |
| 20 | Koichi Takada Architects | Australia | Multiple Category Wins |
| 21 | IBUKU | Indonesia | BOB, 2024 Edition |
Table 1: Architecture MasterPrize Hall of Fame, principal firms and architects. BOB = Best of Best.
Architecture MasterPrize Winners: Spotlight on the Defining Firms
The Hall of Fame is more than a list. Each entry represents a body of work that has shaped cities, reimagined materials, and expanded what architecture can accomplish for human life. Below are the firms whose AMP recognition is most emblematic of the prize’s global vision, with links to their awarded projects.
Zaha Hadid Architects
No firm has been more closely associated with the Architecture MasterPrize than Zaha Hadid Architects. With more than 14 Best of Best wins, ZHA has used the AMP to celebrate a practice that continues to define fluid, parametric form. Among the most celebrated AMP-recognized projects is the BEEAH Headquarters in Sharjah, UAE, a net-zero building whose dune-shaped form responds directly to its desert environment, and the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, inaugurated by hosting the World Science Fiction Convention. In 2025, ZHA received recognition for the Capital International Exhibition and Convention Centre (mixed-use architecture).
KPF (Kohn Pedersen Fox)
KPF holds one of the most impressive records in AMP history, with more than 24 documented Best of Best wins. The firm’s 2025 AMP-recognized project, the T. Rowe Price Headquarters, continues a tradition of jury recognition for commercial and civic architecture that elevates the surrounding cityscape. KPF’s global portfolio, from 55 Hudson Yards in New York to major towers across Asia, consistently earns the jury’s respect for its blend of design ambition and functional rigor.
Aedas
Hong Kong and global in reach, Aedas is among the AMP’s most decorated firms by total win count, with over 33 Best of Best awards across multiple editions. Among its most acclaimed AMP-recognized projects is the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, one of the largest below-grade rail terminuses in the world, which earned dual AMP Winner recognition in both the Transportation and Green Architecture categories for its vast sunken atrium and civic-scaled design that connects the station to the skyline and Victoria Peak. The firm also received recognition for the Founder International Financial Center in Wuhan, a 240-metre mixed-use tower whose twisting facade is inspired by the rising dragons associated with the ancient name of Pan Long City. Aedas exemplifies the prize’s embrace of Asia’s rapidly evolving architectural landscape, consistently delivering work that balances commercial scale with design intelligence across a genuinely global range of typologies.
Tadao Ando
The Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando is one of the AMP’s most enduring figures. He won the 2020 Architectural Design of the Year for the He Art Museum in Shunde, China, distinguished by the world’s first double-helix staircase in raw concrete. In 2024, Ando received a Best of Best award for MPavilion 10 in Melbourne, his first Australian project, a precise geometric intervention in nature that reflects his lifelong commitment to concrete as a medium of spiritual experience.
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)
BIG’s 2023 Architectural Design of the Year win, for Sluishuis in Amsterdam IJburg (co-designed with Barcode Architects), was a landmark moment for the prize: a floating residential building whose double cantilever over the water created a new urban gateway for the city. BIG’s philosophy of architecture that is simultaneously good for people and the planet aligns naturally with the AMP’s evolving judging criteria.
Snohetta
Snohetta brings a distinctly humanistic approach to its AMP wins. The firm’s most recent recognition is the Pirelli 35 Office Building in Milan (2025 edition, in partnership with Park Architects), a transformation of a 1960s office block into a sustainable urban landmark that redefines the relationship between architecture, landscape, and public space in central Milan.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Renzo Piano Building Workshop received Best of Best recognition in the 2024 edition for the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, a Bosphorus-front cultural building whose transparent, light-filled design evokes the shimmering reflections of the water it overlooks. Piano’s practice, refining every detail to the point where structure and material seem to dissolve into pure spatial experience, makes its projects among the most discussed at each year’s AMP jury review.
Kengo Kuma
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, a Pritzker laureate recognized in both the 2024 and 2025 AMP editions, has built his international reputation on the precise use of natural materials. His 2025 AMP-recognized project, CMP Inspiration in Taichung, Taiwan, repurposes a disused commercial area into a cultural hub integrating public art, green infrastructure, and community exchange. His conviction that architecture should dissolve into its landscape rather than impose upon it resonates deeply with the AMP jury.
Heatherwick Studio
London-based Heatherwick Studio occupies a singular place in contemporary design, operating at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and sculpture. Its AMP wins reflect a practice willing to ask fundamental questions about what a building can be. Heatherwick’s inclusion in the AMP Hall of Fame validates a design tradition that is wholly its own.
Rising International Stars: Architecture MasterPrize Winners from Emerging Markets
One of the AMP’s most important contributions to global architectural culture is its consistent recognition of firms working outside the traditional centres of Europe and North America. The following Architecture MasterPrize winners represent the next wave of global design leadership.
Vo Trong Nghia / VTN Architects (Vietnam)
Vo Trong Nghia’s practice is one of the most discussed in contemporary tropical architecture. His AMP wins include the Nocenco Cafe, which received the 2020 Interior Design of the Year title, celebrating a space built entirely in bamboo with an understanding of Southeast Asia’s climate and social life. VTN Architects continue to receive AMP recognition for projects built around living walls, natural ventilation, and a deep connection between built form and local ecology.
Koichi Takada Architects (Australia)
Sydney-based Koichi Takada Architects explores the relationship between nature and the built environment through organic, biophilic design. Among the firm’s AMP-recognized projects is Arc in Sydney, a pair of 26-storey towers with an arched roofscape and 300,000 handcrafted bricks that blend with the surrounding heritage fabric. Takada’s work, including the Urban Forest tower in Brisbane with its cascading green balconies, has made the studio a leading voice in architecture that treats sustainability as a source of beauty rather than constraint.
IBUKU (Indonesia)
IBUKU, the Bali-based bamboo architecture practice led by Elora Hardy, is one of architecture’s most genuinely singular studios. The firm’s AMP-recognized work includes the Lumi Shala at Alchemy Yoga Center in Bali (2024 edition Best of Best), a wellness space with bamboo arches and five gridshell roof petals that control the flow of natural light. IBUKU’s recognition at the AMP reflects the prize’s commitment to celebrating work that expands the very definition of architectural excellence.
Full Architecture MasterPrize Winners List: Extended Hall of Fame
Beyond the headline names, the Architecture MasterPrize has recognized a remarkably diverse range of firms across more than a decade of editions. The table below documents the extended list of AMP award winners, representing architecture, interior design, and landscape practices from across the globe.
| Firm | Country | Firm | Country |
| Rockwell Group | USA | Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill | USA |
| Aedas | Hong Kong / Global | AECOM | USA / Global |
| Henning Larsen | Denmark | C.F. Moller Architects | Denmark |
| Perkins&Will | USA | Nikken Sekkei | Japan |
| Takenaka Corporation | Japan | HOK | USA / Global |
| Arup | UK / Global | WOHA | Singapore |
| Mario Cucinella Architects | Italy | Omar Gandhi Architects | Canada |
| Alison Brooks Architects | UK | KieranTimberlake | USA |
| Stanton Williams | UK | Turenscape | China |
| Peter Pichler Architecture | Italy | Wutopia Lab | China |
| Atelier Deshaus | China | Fernanda Canales | Mexico |
| Field Operations / James Corner | USA | PWP Landscape Architecture | USA |
| Diamond Schmitt | Canada | Hariri Pontarini Architects | Canada |
| Ralph Appelbaum Associates | USA | Bernardes Arquitetura | Brazil |
| Dominique Coulon & Associes | France | Baumschlager Eberle | Austria |
| Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors | Australia | White Arkitekter | Sweden |
| Montalba Architects | USA | Morphogenesis | India |
| Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos | Mexico | Hopkins Architects | UK |
| ENOTA | Slovenia | John Wardle Architects | Australia |
| MGA / Michael Green Architecture | Canada | PARTISANS | Canada |
| Mork Ulnes Architects | USA / Norway | Arthur Casas | Brazil |
| Jouin Manku | France | Kokaistudios | China / Italy |
| Ian Ritchie Architects | UK | Valode & Pistre | France |
| PCA-STREAM | France | LOHA | USA |
| Ezequiel Farca Studio | Mexico | Casson Mann | UK |
| Holzer Kobler Architekturen | Switzerland | Mino Caggiula Architects | Switzerland |
| Mitsubishi Jisho Design | Japan | Davide Macullo Architects | Switzerland |
| Fearon Hay Architects | New Zealand | Belzberg Architects | USA |
| OHLAB | Spain |
Table 2: Extended Architecture MasterPrize winners list across all editions.
Why Architecture MasterPrize Recognition Matters in 2026 and Beyond
The built environment is changing faster than at any point in modern history. Climate urgency, rapid urbanization, and a global reckoning with social equity are reshaping the criteria by which architecture is judged. The Architecture MasterPrize has evolved alongside these shifts, and the 2024 edition marked a historic first with the introduction of the Social Impact Project of the Year.
The inaugural Social Impact Project of the Year was awarded to 54 Social Housing Units in Inca, Mallorca by F-AM Arquitectes (Spain), praised by the jury for its transformative impact on the local community as an exemplary model for sustainable, low-cost housing. This new award category signals the AMP’s expanding definition of what architectural excellence means in the context of global social challenges.
For architects and design practices, an AMP win in 2026 signals the ability to operate at the intersection of design excellence and real-world responsibility. For clients and developers, the AMP Hall of Fame has become a key reference document: a curated shortlist of the world’s most consistently celebrated practices, validated by an independent international jury.
The Architecture MasterPrize Hall of Fame is the definitive, continuously updated record of which firms have earned the international jury’s recognition since 2015. It is the reference point for anyone seeking to understand the global landscape of award-winning design.
Frequently Asked Questions: Architecture MasterPrize Winners
Q: What is the Architecture MasterPrize (AMP)?
A: The Architecture MasterPrize is an annual international architecture award, headquartered in Los Angeles and global in scope: entries are accepted from architects and designers from around the world. The AMP recognizes excellence in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, product design, and architectural photography across 41 categories, drawing entries from over 72 countries per edition. It has been running since 2015. For full details, visit the Architecture MasterPrize homepage.
Q: Who has won the most Architecture MasterPrize awards?
A: Among firms with the highest recorded Best of Best win counts, Aedas (Hong Kong / Global) leads with 33+ BOB awards, followed by KPF (Kohn Pedersen Fox, USA) with 24+ BOB awards, and Zaha Hadid Architects (UK) with 14+ BOB awards. Cumulative totals vary across editions.
Q: What is the Best of Best (BOB) award at AMP?
A: Best of Best is the top-scoring distinction at the AMP, awarded to a select group of projects that stand above the rest across the entire competition field. It represents a higher recognition than a standard Winner designation. From among all Best of Best projects, the jury then selects the Design of the Year in each main discipline, which is the highest and most esteemed title the AMP can confer.
Q: Who judges the Architecture MasterPrize?
A: The AMP is judged by an international panel of architects, interior designers, curators, journalists, architecture photographers, and academics. The jury is led by Head of Jury Valerie Schweitzer (Valerie Schweitzer Architects) and refreshed regularly, with members drawn from institutions such as the University of Maryland School of Architecture and the Wentworth Institute of Technology, alongside prominent practitioners and design critics from around the world. Meet the current panel at architectureprize.com/jury.
Q: Where is the Architecture MasterPrize ceremony held?
A: The AMP awards ceremony is held biennially. The most recent ceremony, on November 18, 2024, took place at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, celebrating both the 2023 and 2024 winners. The Guggenheim Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, is itself one of the defining architectural landmarks of the late 20th century.
Q: Can firms outside the US enter the Architecture MasterPrize?
A: Absolutely. The AMP is a global award, fully open to architects and design firms from anywhere in the world. The Los Angeles address is an organizational headquarters, not a geographic restriction. Entries have been received from over 72 countries, and the Hall of Fame reflects that global scope, with winners from Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Norway, Brazil, India, Mexico, Switzerland, New Zealand, Singapore, and dozens of other countries.
Q: What is the Architecture MasterPrize Hall of Fame?
A: The AMP Hall of Fame is a permanent, curated record of the world’s most consistently celebrated architectural practices, as recognized by the AMP jury since 2015. It is the authoritative reference for understanding which firms have demonstrated sustained excellence across multiple editions of the award.
Q: What is the Social Impact Project of the Year?
A: Introduced in 2024 for the first time in AMP history, the Social Impact Project of the Year recognizes architecture that demonstrates exceptional social value. The inaugural winner was 54 Social Housing Units in Inca, Mallorca by F-AM Arquitectes (Spain), awarded for its transformative impact as an exemplary model for sustainable, low-cost housing.
Q: Is the Architecture MasterPrize the same as the Pritzker Prize?
A: No. The Pritzker Architecture Prize is a lifetime achievement award given to a single architect or practice annually, widely regarded as the field’s highest individual honour. The Architecture MasterPrize is a project-based and firm-based award open to submission, recognizing specific buildings, interiors, landscapes, and products. Several Pritzker laureates, including Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma, Alvaro Siza Vieira, and Shigeru Ban, have also received AMP recognition, demonstrating the natural overlap between the two programs.
Q: How do I find the full Architecture MasterPrize winners list?
A: The complete winners archive, organized by year and category, is available at architectureprize.com/winners. Individual project profiles link directly from the winners list and include project descriptions, images, and jury citations.
Explore the Full Architecture MasterPrize Winners Archive
For the most current and complete list of Architecture MasterPrize winners across all editions, visit the official AMP Winners Archive. This Hall of Fame page is updated following each annual edition.
The Architecture MasterPrize is open to submissions from architects and designers from around the world. The 2026 edition is currently accepting entries. Submit your work here.