Moira Gemmill and MJ Long prize winners round out 2025 W Awards honorees

The 2025 W Awards have concluded with the announcement of the Moira Gemmill and MJ Long prize winners. They join the other W Awards honorees for this year (Anne Lacaton, Suad Amiry, and Designing Motherhood).

Rachel Elliott of Lynch Architects was named the winner of the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice. Her work on the firm’s Westminster Coroner’s Court extension in London received praise as evidence of her "incredible competence" and "deep understanding of the structural, environmental and social integration needed to create powerful architecture."

This year’s Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture winner was Shamalat Cultural Centre by the Saudi practice Syn Architects (Sara Alissa & Nojoud Alsudairi). Their 2023 transformation of a grouping of traditional mud houses into an art space in Diriyah (just outside Riyadh) was highlighted as "evidence of a highly refined vision."