School designs, museum interiors, and urban interventions are among the 2021 Architecture MasterPrize winners

The sixth edition of the Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) has been announced in Los Angeles. The winners were selected from an international pool of applicants by a 73-member jury panel which included Lipton Plant founder Jonathan Plant, Keith Williams, and Pusan National University professor Lawrence Kim. 

The prize celebrates firms, projects, photographers, and commercial products in both professional and student categories. This year’s winners include a diverse body of works that is both innovative and of extraordinarily high quality, according to the jury’s report. 

“We were blown away by the quality of AMP entries this year,” AMP’s head of communications David Tera said in a statement. “The AMP jurors were pleased to see how many of the projects emphasized sustainability, offering solutions to our ever-changing world and environmental challenges, proving that innovative design goes beyond aesthetics.”

In total, nine winners were named across the four main categories, in addition to twenty “Best of the Best” winners who will also be included in AMP’s annual Book of Architecture. 

Keep reading for a full list of this year’s winners. 

Designs of the Year

• Architectural Design of the Year: The Arc at Green School Bali by IBUKU
• Interior Design Of The Year: Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet by Atelier Brückner
• Urban Design Of The Year: Eleftheria Square by Zaha Hadid Architects

Firms of the Year

• Architecture Firm of the Year: Vo Trong Nghia Architects
• Interior Design Firm of the Year: Norm Architects
• Landscape Design Firm of the Year: TURF Design Studio

Architecture Photography MasterPrize 

• Exterior Photographer of the Year: Rafael Gamo
• Interior Photographer of the Year: Félix Michaud

Architectural Product of the Year

• Heavy Duty Solar Canopy by Pvilion

Best of Best 

• Smart Design Studio by William Smart
• Tom Patterson Theatre by Hariri Pontarini Architects
• Nancy and Rich Kinder Museum Building, Museum of Fine Arts Houston by Steven Holl Architects
• Amant Art Campus by SO – IL

• Future Art Lab of the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts by Pichler & Traupmann Architekten ZT
• Cohen Quad, Exeter College, Oxford by Alison Brooks Architects
• Kö-Bogen 2 by ingenhoven architects
• The Bryant by David Chipperfield Architects

• One Vanderbilt by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
• Aurora Lodge by Stinessen Arkitektur
• Îlot Balmoral by Provencher_Roy
• Social Housing Units In Cornellà By Peris+Toral Arquitectes

• NCaved Residence by Mold architects
• Hadaewon Housing by Kim Kiwon & Kelly Lwu 
• Apartamento Paulista by Ricardo Abreu Arquitetos
• Canal House Apartment at Herengracht, Amsterdam by Mokkō

• Future Art Lab of the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts by Pichler & Traupmann Architekten ZT
• Cohen Quad, Exeter College, Oxford by Alison Brooks Architects
• Kö-Bogen 2 by ingenhoven architects
• The Bryant by David Chipperfield Architects