Architizer, the largest online platform for architecture, announces the official opening of the 11th Annual Architizer A+Awards, honoring the year’s best buildings and spaces.

The Architizer A+Awards is the world’s largest and most democratic architectural awards program, and celebrates the extraordinary work of designers in over 82 countries worldwide. Now in its 11th season, the program is doubling down on its original mission — to democratize great design, highlight the transformative power of architecture, and recognize the work of pioneering firms as they strive to improve the built environment for future generations. 

“These awards are an opportunity to share meaningful, change-making innovations so that we can continue to make even better projects for our planet and our community.”

-Michael Green, Founder and Principal, MGA | Michael Green Architecture

The design and construction industry accounts for almost 40% of carbon emissions worldwide, and the 11th A+Awards highlights the program’s renewed commitment to sustainable design. Architects play a pivotal role in building a more resilient world, so Architizer has collaborated with leading sustainability experts to recognize the diverse efforts of practitioners working at the forefront of green design. Dedicated new awards will highlight projects that act as a positive precedent for green building practices in specific regions, as well as in the wider world.

“We want to create a dialogue about where architecture is heading. We constantly ask ourselves ‘Is what we're doing in this lifetime part of the solution or part of the problem?’” -Michel Rojkind, Founder, Rojkind Arquitectos

The 11th A+Awards maintains its commitment to the democratic judging process, highlighting design’s impact on people’s everyday lives with an online vote by the public in each category. In collaboration with its official partners, v2com newswire, AIA New York, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, and Aesthetica, the 10th Annual A+Awards received over 400,000 public votes on 5,000+ entries from over 100 countries worldwide.

Returning this year are the Firm Awards, which celebrate studios’ complete body of work across different firm sizes and specializations, including emerging architect and interior design studio awards. This season also sees the addition of categories honoring forward-looking and aspirational design projects, including those incorporating new materials and experimental technologies and spaces in the Metaverse. See the full list of 119 categories here.

“In every typology, there are opportunities to create spaces that foster interaction and bring communities together. We need to create such spaces in all typologies of buildings.”

-Sanjay Puri, Principal, Sanjay Puri Architects

The 11th A+Awards are judged by Architizer’s 250+ jury academy, featuring prestigious members of the architecture and design community, as well as luminaries from the art, technology, fashion, media, business, and real estate industries. Notable current and past jurors include:

• Wandile Mthiyane (Ubuntu Design Group)

• Suchi Reddy (Reddymade) 

• Thomas Robinson (LEVER Architecture)

• Sara Kolata (Disrupt Symposium)

• Oana Stanescu (Oana Stanescu Studio)

• Lesley Lokko (African Futures Institute)

• Tao Liu + Chenyan Kai (Atelier Tao+c)

The 11th Annual A+Awards also sees the return of Architizer: The World's Best Architecture, an annual compendium of the world’s best spaces. The book, which has featured winners like Adjaye Associates, Studio Libeskind, MVRDV, Heatherwick Studio, Neri & Hu, and Kengo Kuma and Associates, is the year’s definitive architectural guide.