Explore 594 illustrated award cases: actual buildings and architectural honours, with the programme, year and official evidence stated separately.
Built-project awards and career honours recognise different subjects. Award year, building completion and photography date are distinct; a personal honour does not transfer to every building by its recipient. Photographs open at a larger size with creator and licence references.
Hibiya Den-Den Building received the 1962 BCS Prize. The Japan Federation of Construction Contractors records its designer as Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Co..
Project completed 1961 · Awarded 1962
Photograph of the named building. The award recognises the project documented in the linked official archive.
Hibiya Mitsui Building received the 1962 BCS Prize. The Japan Federation of Construction Contractors records its designer as Matsuda Hirata, Yokogawa Komu.
Project completed 1960 · Awarded 1962
Photograph of the named building. The award recognises the project documented in the linked official archive.
Niigata Gymnasium Building Public Welfare Pension received the 1962 BCS Prize. The Japan Federation of Construction Contractors records its designer as Miyakawa.
Project completed 1960 · Awarded 1962
Photograph of the named building. The award recognises the project documented in the linked official archive.
Nihon T.V. Tower (Tokyo Tower) received the 1960 BCS Prize. The Japan Federation of Construction Contractors records its designer as Tachu Naito, Nikken Sekkei Komu.
Project completed 1958 · Awarded 1960
Photograph of the named building. The award recognises the project documented in the linked official archive.
Silk Center International Trading & Sightseeing Hall
Built-project award
Junzo Itakura
神奈川県 · Japan
Silk Center International Trading & Sightseeing Hall received the 1960 BCS Prize. The Japan Federation of Construction Contractors records its designer as Junzo Itakura.
Project completed 1959 · Awarded 1960
Photograph of the named building. The award recognises the project documented in the linked official archive.
Yahata City Hall received the 1960 BCS Prize. The Japan Federation of Construction Contractors records its designer as Murano and Mori, Associates Architects.
Project completed 1958 · Awarded 1960
Photograph of the named building. The award recognises the project documented in the linked official archive.
SANAA — Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa received the 2025 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. The honour recognises sustained influence on architecture across a body of work. This entry records a career distinction; its photograph identifies a recipient rather than an award-winning building.
Portrait of Kazuyo Sejima, one of the joint recipients. The other joint recipient is not pictured.
The 2024 AIA Gold Medal recipient record names David Lake, FAIA, and Ted Flato, FAIA. David Lake works in partnership with Ted Flato at Lake|Flato Architects. Their joint 2024 AIA Gold Medal profile connects the practice's origins in Texas ranch houses with later civic, environmental and adaptive-reuse projects. It discusses Confluence Park, the Pearl redevelopment, Austin Central Library and the Marine Education Center.
David Lake, one of the joint recipients of 2024 AIA Gold Medal. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
The 2023 AIA Gold Medal recipient record names Carol Ross Barney, FAIA. Carol Ross Barney's architectural work focuses on improving everyday civic life. Her 2023 AIA Gold Medal profile discusses the Chicago Riverwalk and the Oklahoma City Federal Building, connecting reuse of infrastructure and public space with architecture's role in society. It also describes work concerned with material education and environmental performance.
Carol Ross Barney, recipient of 2023 AIA Gold Medal. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
The 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient record names Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH. Chipperfield founded his London practice in 1985 after working with Douglas Stephen, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. Museum projects, renovations and new civic buildings developed alongside a wider concern for the quality of the public realm.
David Chipperfield, recipient of 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
The 2022 AIA Gold Medal recipient record names Angela Brooks, FAIA, and Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA. AIA describes the Gold Medal as its highest annual honour for lasting influence on architectural theory and practice. This recipient record concerns an individual or collaborative body of work, not a single building or its completion year.
Angela Brooks, one of the joint recipients of 2022 AIA Gold Medal. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
The 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient record names Diébédo Francis Kéré. Diébédo Francis Kéré grew up in Gando, where shared community life and the experience of enclosed gathering spaces shaped his first understanding of architecture. Leaving home to attend school exposed him to a crowded classroom with poor light and ventilation. His official biography describes how that experience motivated an ambition to make better schools.
Diébédo Francis Kéré, recipient of 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
Balkrishna Doshi received the 2022 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. The honour recognises sustained influence on architecture across a body of work. This entry records a career distinction; its photograph identifies a recipient rather than an award-winning building.
Portrait photograph of B. V. Doshi; this image does not depict an award-winning building or establish the date of the award ceremony.
The 2021 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Gold Medal recipient record names Julie Stout. Julie Stout's career combines architecture with teaching, advocacy and civic activism. Her early work questioned conventional housing and explored ways to connect living spaces with the outdoors. After experience with Marshall Cook and work on a women's community centre in Fiji, she collaborated with David Mitchell in Mitchell & Stout.
Julie Stout, recipient of 2021 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Gold Medal. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
The 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient record names Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. Jean-Philippe Vassal studied architecture in Bordeaux and then worked in urban planning in Niger, where Anne Lacaton often visited him. The official biography connects those experiences with an appreciation of ingenuity under limited resources. Their early hut project in Niamey preceded a shared commitment to improving what already exists.
Anne Lacaton, one of the joint recipients of 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
The 2019 AIA Gold Medal recipient record names Lord Richard Rogers, Hon. FAIA. Rogers (1933–2021) developed an influential body of work across successive partnerships. His collaboration with Renzo Piano on the Centre Pompidou made structure and services part of a new public image for a cultural institution. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2007.
Richard Rogers, recipient of 2019 AIA Gold Medal. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
The 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient record names Arata Isozaki. Arata Isozaki studied architecture at the University of Tokyo and worked under Kenzo Tange before establishing his own practice in 1963. His early projects included the Ōita Prefectural Library and the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma. The devastation he witnessed in wartime shaped his interest in how cities could be rebuilt.
Arata Isozaki, recipient of 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
The 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient record names Balkrishna Doshi. Balkrishna Doshi studied architecture in Mumbai, worked with Le Corbusier in Paris, and returned to India to oversee projects in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad. He later collaborated with Louis Kahn on the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Doshi founded his own practice in 1956.
B. V. Doshi, recipient of 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
The 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient record names Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem & Ramon Vilalta. Rafael Aranda completed his architectural studies at ETSAV in 1987 and founded RCR Arquitectes in Olot the following year with Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta. A competition-winning lighthouse proposal helped the studio establish an approach attentive to the essence of a building type.
Rafael Aranda, one of the joint recipients of 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
Robert Venturi, FAIA, and Denise Scott Brown, Hon. FAIA
Architect honour
The 2016 AIA Gold Medal recipient record names Robert Venturi, FAIA, and Denise Scott Brown, Hon. FAIA. Robert Venturi studied at Princeton and continued his education as a Rome Prize Fellow before teaching architectural theory. His 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture argued for richness and ambiguity in the built environment rather than a narrow pursuit of unity.
Robert Venturi, one of the joint recipients of 2016 AIA Gold Medal. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.