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Winners of the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture announced
16th Cycle, 2023-2025

The independent Master Jury in the 16th Cycle (2023-2025) has selected seven recipients of the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The jury considered on-site reviews of the 19 shortlisted projects announced in June, ultimately choosing those that best exemplified architecture’s capacity to serve as a catalyst for pluralism, community resilience, social transformation, cultural dialogue, and climate-responsive design. They will share the $1 million prize, one of the largest in architecture. Below you will find the video presentation of the winners as well as links to the record for each project. Quotations are from the report and citations of the Master Jury.

Recipients of the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture are:
  • Video Presentation of the Recipient Projects
    "The Aga Khan Award for Architecture's process is a challenge to our imagination, inviting us to conceive of architecture as more than a response to crisis, but as a creator of a future world in which we wish to live..."
  • Khudi Bari in Bangladesh
    "The Khudi Bari project has been granted the Award for developing a flexible system that addresses global challenges with vernacular solutions, reframed through a contemporary lens to evolve and scale up so as to deliver a wider, regional impact..."
  • West Wusutu Village Community Centre in Hohhot, China
    “The West Wusutu Village Community Centre shifts the paradigm of contemporary architectural design beyond object-based and aesthetic end-results, orienting it towards translating users’ daily community needs into a well-conceived architectural vehicle..."
  • Revitalisation of Historic Esna in Egypt
    “The initiative to revitalise historic Esna goes beyond the usual limits of an urban conservation project that is formally framed in advance and instead presents a bottom-up strategy through an inclusive, socially structured programme to gradually improve the heritage environment...."
  • Majara Residence and Community Redevelopment in Hormuz Island, Iran
    “Set within a breathtaking geological context that dates back millions of years, these projects on Hormuz Island, Iran, are framed in relation to a vast mountain range typified by colourful mineral and salt deposits. So..."
  • Jahad Metro Plaza in Tehran, Iran
    The redevelopment of the station entrance transformed a once conventional and modest access point into an open public space: a plaza that encourages passage, encounters and events..."
  • Vision Pakistan in Islamabad, Pakistan
    “Two people – one an experienced educator, the other a young practising architect – work together and invent a new wellspring of respect, a new skills training centre, a place where young people feel that they matter, where not-yet-discovered talents will be trained and encouraged..."
  • Wonder Cabinet in Bethlehem, Palestine
    “Initiated by the architects to fill a gap in the cultural offerings for youth in the city, this project expands the agency of architects to the roles of client, designer, cultural practitioner, and activist..."
  • The Aga Khan Award for Architecture Collection on Archnet
    Explore the projects of previous cycles, dive more deeply into the themes explore by the AKAA, read the proceedings of events, and much more.

Winners of the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture announced
16th Cycle, 2023-2025

The independent Master Jury in the 16th Cycle (2023-2025) has selected seven recipients of the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The jury considered on-site reviews of the 19 shortlisted projects announced in June, ultimately choosing those that best exemplified architecture’s capacity to serve as a catalyst for pluralism, community resilience, social transformation, cultural dialogue, and climate-responsive design. They will share the $1 million prize, one of the largest in architecture. Below you will find the video presentation of the winners as well as links to the record for each project. Quotations are from the report and citations of the Master Jury.

Recipients of the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture are:
  • Video Presentation of the Recipient Projects
    "The Aga Khan Award for Architecture's process is a challenge to our imagination, inviting us to conceive of architecture as more than a response to crisis, but as a creator of a future world in which we wish to live..."
  • Khudi Bari in Bangladesh
    "The Khudi Bari project has been granted the Award for developing a flexible system that addresses global challenges with vernacular solutions, reframed through a contemporary lens to evolve and scale up so as to deliver a wider, regional impact..."
  • West Wusutu Village Community Centre in Hohhot, China
    “The West Wusutu Village Community Centre shifts the paradigm of contemporary architectural design beyond object-based and aesthetic end-results, orienting it towards translating users’ daily community needs into a well-conceived architectural vehicle..."
  • Revitalisation of Historic Esna in Egypt
    “The initiative to revitalise historic Esna goes beyond the usual limits of an urban conservation project that is formally framed in advance and instead presents a bottom-up strategy through an inclusive, socially structured programme to gradually improve the heritage environment...."
  • Majara Residence and Community Redevelopment in Hormuz Island, Iran
    “Set within a breathtaking geological context that dates back millions of years, these projects on Hormuz Island, Iran, are framed in relation to a vast mountain range typified by colourful mineral and salt deposits. So..."
  • Jahad Metro Plaza in Tehran, Iran
    The redevelopment of the station entrance transformed a once conventional and modest access point into an open public space: a plaza that encourages passage, encounters and events..."
  • Vision Pakistan in Islamabad, Pakistan
    “Two people – one an experienced educator, the other a young practising architect – work together and invent a new wellspring of respect, a new skills training centre, a place where young people feel that they matter, where not-yet-discovered talents will be trained and encouraged..."
  • Wonder Cabinet in Bethlehem, Palestine
    “Initiated by the architects to fill a gap in the cultural offerings for youth in the city, this project expands the agency of architects to the roles of client, designer, cultural practitioner, and activist..."
  • The Aga Khan Award for Architecture Collection on Archnet
    Explore the projects of previous cycles, dive more deeply into the themes explore by the AKAA, read the proceedings of events, and much more.