Architecture Drawing Prize 2025 winners bridge the gap between handcraft and AI

The annual Architecture Drawing Prize just revealed the winners of its eighth edition. This year saw a record 229 entries from around the world, with judges assessing all submissions together rather than by category, reflecting the expanding role of new tools and techniques, including AI, in contemporary drawing.

Fifteen submissions were selected as 2025 winners, with a special hand-drawing prize awarded to Jason Wang for Dockyard X. 

The winning works will soon be exhibited at the World Architecture Festival in Miami (November 12–14), ahead of a special showcase at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London next January, where the overall winner will be revealed.

Take a look at the recognized drawings below. Got a favorite? Recognizing new or resurging trends? Let us know in the comments.

Hand-drawing Prize Winner:   Dockyard X by Jason Wang

"This project reimagines decommissioned naval components into an experimental hydrofoil hub that fuses maritime heritage with innovation, exploring how humans can reclaim presence and purpose amid machine-dominated environments."

Architecture in Translation by Oscar Ssu Kuo Lo

"This project examines the tension between top-down and bottom-up design by using typological and diagrammatic reasoning to explore how adaptive architectural systems can quietly yet dynamically shape and respond to evolving urban conditions."

The Lost Boys: It's OK to Cry - Composite Drawing (Plan, Section, Perspective, and Axonometric) by Erhang Wang

"This project proposes an architectural response to the 2004 Morecambe Bay tragedy—a memorial, RNLI station, and survival training pool in Blackpool—that educates coastal communities, commemorates lost lives, and explores resilience through emotionally and temporally driven design."

Almost Forgotten by Yixuan Liu and Yilin Zhang

"Almost Forgotten is an architectural exploration that transforms fragmented materials and intuitive making into a suspended, fractured structure, using space, light, and material to evoke memory, loss, and belonging."

Spatialization and Memory Mapping: an Urban Redesign through the Lens of Savannah Train Station by Xinyi Liu and in cooperation with Christine Wacta

"This drawing presents the Savannah Train Station as a spatial narrative that decodes ecological, historical, and infrastructural systems, using design to reveal the city’s evolving social, environmental, and economic dynamics while proposing adaptive, resilient urban infrastructure."

The Tales of Liminality by Anna Pang

"The Tales of Liminality reinterprets Venice through a 12-panel screen that weaves the city’s silk heritage with transnational histories, challenging Eurocentric urban narratives and highlighting the fluid, intersecting cultural influences along the Silk Roads."

Gossips: Phantoms of Deconstructivism and Postmodernism by CJ Lim

"This diptych critiques architecture’s entanglement with social media, AI, and ideological posturing, using contrasting methods to expose how critical theories and stylistic rivalries can become self-serving myths rather than rigorous discourse."

Living Soil by Inside Outside

"Living Soil is a design research project that creates a visually engaging representation of soil biodiversity, capturing the complex interactions of an ecosystem to inspire awareness, imagination, and appreciation for an often-invisible and endangered environment."

A Working Monument by Tom Wood

"The reimagined Swan Hunter fabrication shed transforms a historic dry dock into a collaborative, educational space that fosters innovation in manufacturing, builds on the region’s industrial heritage, and promotes community engagement through hands-on learning and systemic problem-solving."

Hackney Power Plant Sectional Isometric by Holly McLean

"Hackney Power Plant repurposes a former coal-fired power station into an educational and research hub for sustainable, carbon-sequestering materials and products, embodying a circular economy to address past environmental damage and the climate emergency."

Two views by Marie-Louise Raue

"This axonometric diptych of Mary Miss's 'Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys' shows the project from two vantage points, the centre of the sun and the centre of the earth, serving as an analytical tool, a means to survey and test what it means to perceive diametrically opposing positions simultaneously."

São Paulo State Art Gallery by Danilo Zamboni

"The exploded perspective of the São Paulo State Art Gallery illustrates both the historic and modern interventions, highlighting the museum’s spatial relationships, public activities, and interactions with art and the city, using a playful approach to engage viewers of all ages."

Super-Mega-Ruralistic by Mark Smout

"Super-Mega-Ruralistic is a speculative design project that transforms industrial landscapes into elevated, adaptive agricultural systems integrating ecological restoration, climate resilience, and energy-responsive crop modulation, visualized through a hybrid triptych that conveys both structure and atmospheric light."

Himalayas Frontline: A Waterscape against Climate Change by Yichen Li

"This project envisions a resilient, inhabitable landscape in Bhutan that addresses climate-induced water crises by securing water, food, energy, and cultural resources while protecting downstream ecosystems, depicted through floating villages and a weaving promenade."

Shilpogram: A Crafter's Village by Sanjidah Chowdhury

"The Shilpogram Village proposal reimagines a flood-prone Bangladeshi community through socially informed, culturally sensitive, and environmentally sustainable interventions that elevate traditional livelihoods, craftsmanship, and everyday practices to foster resilience, equity, and adaptive living."