This Years Most Innovative And Inspiring Award-Winning Designs

Three winners have been chosen for the highly coveted American Architecture Prize (AAP) from a pool over 1,000 entries from 86 countries around the globe. Here are the winning designs….

The 36-member jury panel for this year’s American Architecture Prize (AAP) was beyond impressive, and included representatives from the world’s most esteemed organizations. The panel included Troy C. Therrien, Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives at the Guggenheim Foundation and Museum; Philip Stevens from Designboom; Peggy Deamer, Professor of Architecture at Yale University; Dezeen’s US editor Dan Howarth, and more. These elite design minds came together to choose winners for some of the most comprehensive awards in the world: the Architectural Design Of The Year Award, Interior Design Of The Year, and Landscape Design Of The Year (don’t worry, we’ll get to the winners in a bit).

In addition to the top three spots, AAP selected winners from 41 other categories, including Green Architecture, Social Housing, Urban Landscape Design, Small Architecture, Residential Interior Design, and more. Also, for the first time this year, AAP recognized the best architecture firms of the year, based on their entire body of work and achievements, rather than looking at recently realized projects (more on that in a bit, too).

AAP President Hossein Farmani commented on the awards in a recent press release: “It has been a privilege to receive such exceptional entries competing for the AAP this year. Every submission is outstanding in its own way. All these entries from accomplished architects and architecture firms give us the opportunity to not only promote amazing designs, but also to marvel together at the evolution of architecture, interior design and landscape architecture across the globe,” he says.

So what were the award-winning projects and this year’s best design firms? Here are this year’s most prestigious winners from AAP 2017:

Architectural Design Of The Year

Winner: Hengqin International Financial Center by Aedas

Interior Design Of The Year

The Attic—Flamingo Shanghai Office by Neri&hu Design and Research Office

Landscape Design of The Year

Barangaroo Reserve by PWP Landscape Architecture

AAP Firm of the Year Award Winners in three categories:

Architectural Firm of The Year 2017

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Interior Design Firm of The Year 2017

Kossmann.dejong

Landscape & Urban Design Firm of the Year 2017

PFS Studio

To check out all of this year’s award-winning designs, click here.

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About the author

Amber C. Snider

Home & Design Editor

Amber was born in Washington, D.C. and relocated to NYC in 2007. She received an M.A. degree in Liberal Studies: Women's Studies, Gender, and Sexuality from CUNY's Graduate Center and University, and an honors B.A. in English from The City College of New York. Before coming to Culture Trip, she was the executive editor for Metropolitan Magazine, a boutique luxury lifestyle and arts publication, as well as the editor for ResidencyNY Magazine. In 2015, she also started her own company, ACS Media Services, and has over 8+ years experience as a writer/editor in the NYC area. As one of the original employees in Culture Trip’s New York City office, Amber focuses on three verticals: Design, Architecture, and Home and Interiors, exploring how creativity and design influences our contemporary social landscape. She lives in Brooklyn with her typewriter.