AR Future Projects Awards 2025 winners aim to elevate communities through health and education

UK-based outlet The Architectural Review has named its list of winners for the 2025 edition of the AR Future Projects awards. 

The group was led by the overall winner, Gort Scott's for Girton College design for the University of Cambridge, which was hailed as "the most significant addition" to the country's first full-time institution for the higher education of women. The slightly more than 100,000-square-foot project will add 160 beds for students and was announced last fall as the largest single building project on the College's main site since its foundation in 1869. Jury member Indy Johar commented, "This is architecture for 200 years rather than 25, and that is the way we need to go."

Joining it were two Highly Commended projects designed by AP Valletta and David Kojo Derban in Accra, Ghana, and Guillaume Othenin-Girard and the University of Hong Kong in Armenia. In the end, 14 projects were chosen in separate categories. 

Here is our roundup of each winner for the 2025 edition.

Overall Winner + 'Education' Winner (cover image)

New Court at the University of Cambridge in the UK by Gort Scott

Highly Commended + 'Cultural regeneration' Winner 

Glkhatun archaeological field laboratory in Armenia by Guillaume Othenin-Girard and the University of Hong Kong

Highly Commended + 'New and old' Winner 

Osu Salem Presbyterian School in Ghana by AP Valletta and David Kojo Derban

'Competition entry prize' Winner 

Museum of History and the Future in Finland by Atelier of Spatial Matters

'Student prize' Winner

Ashpit Retreat by Connor Curley from the University of Sheffield

'Sustainable research and design prize' Winner

Material Circulation in Zhoushan Village in China by Zhoushan Community Architecture Team

'Tall buildings' Winner 

PACE Building in Brazil by Architects Office

'Regeneration and masterplanning' Winner

Hatay Masterplan in Turkey by Foster + Partners, DB Architects, KEYM Urban Renewal Centre and BuroHappold

'Offices' Winner

4th & Hewitt in U.S.A. by OFFICEUNTITLED

'Hotels and leisure' Winner

KIKLIO in Greece by K-Studio

'Housing' Winner

Sea Mirror Residences in the UAE by Studio MK27

'Health' Winner 

Tatamá Hospital in Colombia by aRE Arquitectura en Estudio, OPUS and Abalark 

'Civic and community' Winner

The Island youth centre in the UK by Vincent & Partners

'Commercial mixed use' Winner

The Yard Dalian development in China by Neri & Hu