Eight standout interior spaces earn 2025 AIA Interior Architecture Awards

The American Institute of Architects has unveiled the winners of its 2025 Interior Architecture Award. A total of eight projects were honored this year, with winners ranging from a prototype for 3D-printed concrete homes to an early learning center.

The awards come shortly after the AIA also honored the best in contemporary architecture at the 2025 AIA Architecture Awards and the best in small-scale architecture at the AIA Small Project Award. This week has also seen the best housing design honored at the AIA Housing Award, the best in sustainable architecture honored at the AIA COTE Top Ten Award, and the best in urban planning honored at the AIA Regional & Urban Design Award. You can follow our ongoing coverage of the series here.

The complete list of 2025 Interior Architecture Award winners can be viewed below:

House Zero, Austin, TX
Lake|Flato Architects

Excerpt: "House Zero is a radical field trial for new construction technology. It’s also an efficient and comfortable single-family home with an accessory dwelling unit, designed for permanence and resilience, rooted in its East Austin context. The design team collaborated with software developers, robotics engineers, and material scientists to create a new set of architectural innovations and strategies for printed concrete construction. The result is a welcoming, practical home that is desirable, livable, and that expands the performance capabilities of 3D printing technology. Natural wood, plentiful daylighting and views to nature provide a timeless and rooted-to-the-earth quality."

Intuit MTV-22 Bayshore Building Interiors, Mountain View, CA
Clive Wilkinson Architects (Interiors), WRNS Studios (Building)

Excerpt: "Intuit's Bayshore Building was initially designed pre-pandemic. Subsequently, the interiors were redesigned for a post-pandemic hybrid work model. The 161,000sf building accommodates 960 employees with flexible workspaces for collaboration and socialization. Its design includes a bright blue metal wall and seamless reception desk emerging from the entry’s polished concrete floor, a "Little House" hospitality area, and a grand wood-clad stair leading to a three-story atrium with natural light. The building features diverse work environments, including a reflection room and quiet libraries, reflecting Intuit's commitment to inclusivity and employee well-being, serving as a blueprint for future hybrid workplaces."

LinkedIn Omaha, Omaha, NE
Gensler

Excerpt: "LinkedIn Omaha ignites a sense of purpose and belonging, creating a distinct sense of place and transforming the workplace into a complete experience. The two-building project is a reimagination of the way people work, incorporating lofty sustainability goals and diverse supplier inclusion – from art to community engagement to kickstarting the tech industry in Omaha. Merging local culture and LinkedIn culture, this project represents a long-term investment in the city and employees. Themes of wellness, inclusivity, and resilience are evident in the Fitwel 2 Star and LEED Gold certified workplace, setting new standards for future LinkedIn builds."

Montage Health Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health, Monterey, CA
NBBJ

Excerpt: "An increasing number of children and teens, currently one in five in the US, experience a mental health disorder, which is further compounded by a lack of psychiatric beds, residential care facilities, and lower-than-average funding. Breaking away from the traditional notion of mental health facilities—prison-like, padded walls, windowless rooms and fences—the design of the Ohana campus heals rather than isolates. Nestled into a picturesque hillside of woodland chapparal and coast live oaks, Ohana creates an enveloping sense of calm. Its restorative spaces, inspired by neuroscience research, create inviting respite spaces for patients, caregivers and loved ones."

MuseumLab, Santa Monica, CA
Perfido Weiskopf Wagstaff + Goettel (Architect of Record), KoningEizenberg Architecture (Design Architect)

Excerpt: "MuseumLab reveals the bones of an abandoned Carnegie library to create an inspiring setting for youth programs focused on art, making, and technology. Opened in 1890, the library fell into disrepair and closed in 2006. Time, and a 1970s remodel, wreaked havoc on the interior ornament, making traditional restoration unaffordable. Stripping away alterations reconnects spaces, reintroduces daylight, and reveals historic bones. The emerging archeology, an exhibit in and of itself about discovery and how things are made, is well suited to the Museum’s agenda. The resulting 'beautiful ruin' sparks imagination and curiosity while challenging conventions for both preservation and education."

Sandi Simon Center for Dance at Chapman University, Orange, CA
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA]

Excerpt: "Originally built as a headquarters for the Santiago Orange Growers Association in 1918, the post and beam heavy timber frame building is representative of the industrial vernacular style of its time. LOHA’s adaptive-reuse strategy opens the structure with a calculated cut through the original floor, allowing a reorganization into three levels and forming a new circulation. The Sandi Simon Center for Dance houses studio spaces for one-on-one and small groups instruction, performance spaces, and a faculty studio and offices. The center addresses not only the studio and classroom needs of the dance program, providing spaces for students to socially engage."

The Blake School Early Learning Center, Hopkins, MN
HGA

Excerpt: "The Early Learning Center at The Blake School in Hopkins, MN is a 35,000 square-foot facility designed to inspire a sense of welcome, wonder and joy in its young students. Serving 165 students from pre-kindergarten through first grade, the ELC features three classrooms per grade, studios for movement, art and music, a library, children’s kitchen, and dining hall. Direct outdoor access from each classroom, combined with thoughtful daylighting, mass-timber construction, and natural finishes help strengthen children’s connections with the surrounding landscape. The ELC is the first all-electric, zero-emission non-collegiate educational building in Minnesota."

WM Headquarters, Houston, TX
Perkins&Will

Excerpt: "WM being a leader in sustainability, our design team needed to weave the company’s mission into every solution. The dramatic living wall consists entirely of green and yellow flora, referencing WM’s brand colors, and a diagonal fretwork of metal and acrylic panels recalling the company’s logo. An 8,000-square-foot gallery leads visitors through a showcase framed by sustainably harvested wood echoing WM’s logo. Inside, a full-size WM truck cab invites employees and guests to drive through a virtual simulation of multiple truck routes, complete with actual controls and effects. High scores are displayed on a leaderboard behind the vehicle."