{"id":2703,"date":"2026-07-29T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandxdomains.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-alist-the-225-best-architecture-and-design-firms-in-the-world-right-now\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:00:26","slug":"the-alist-the-225-best-architecture-and-design-firms-in-the-world-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brandxdomains.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-alist-the-225-best-architecture-and-design-firms-in-the-world-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The A+List: The 225 Best Architecture and Design Firms in the World Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
Architizer is thrilled to announce the world\u2019s best architecture firms in 2026 \u2014 all winners of the 14th Annual A+Awards<\/span><\/a>! This year’s program honors a global resurgence in architectural craft \u2014 not as nostalgia, but as a response to the homogenizing pressures of an increasingly automated world. From vernacular materials deployed with contemporary rigor to precision-engineered timber systems designed for disassembly, the 14th A+Awards celebrates the architects who understand that the most radical thing a building can do today is mean something specific to the place it stands.<\/p>\n In addition to celebrating some of the most innovative, recently completed architectural projects around the globe, Architizer\u2019s A+Awards also serve as an incredible indicator of which designers will be at the forefront of innovation in the coming year. In recognition of this fact, Architizer is delighted to present the much-anticipated eighth edition of the coveted A+List<\/strong>, an annual rundown of every firm that scooped an A+Award and A+Firm Award in the previous season.<\/p>\n The A+List serves as a comprehensive guide to the world\u2019s best architecture firms and is updated annually based on the results of the annual A+Awards program. (You can see last season\u2019s A+List here.<\/a>) The following document is arranged alphabetically, with more information available by clicking on the link to each firm\u2019s profile. We\u2019ve also curated a selection of featured firms, providing additional background on their A+Award triumphs.<\/p>\n Every winner features in this definitive directory of high-quality firms and will also see their work published in a stunning, hardbound compendium, Architizer: The World\u2019s Best Architecture<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>as well as gaining continual publicity through our year-round global celebration of design. Without further ado, explore the work of each of these immensely talented firms below:<\/p>\n 314 architecture studio<\/a> 317studio<\/a><\/strong> 3XN GXN<\/a><\/strong> 85 Design<\/a><\/strong> a-fact architecture factory<\/a><\/strong> ACDF architecture<\/a><\/strong> Acton Ostry Architects Inc.<\/a><\/strong> Ahead of the Curve<\/a><\/strong> Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Bars & Wineries<\/p>\n Clemente Bar<\/a> by Allied Works<\/a>, New York City, New York | Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Bars & Wineries<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Allied Works is an integrated architecture and design practice founded in 1994 by Brad Cloepfil, operating from studios in New York and Portland, Oregon. Its portfolio spans major museum and cultural projects, innovative educational facilities, residences, and workplaces of varied scale, purpose, and character across the globe, held together by an ethic of exploration and an uncommon commitment to work that is beautiful, moving, and meaningful. From urban design and site response to finely tuned interior environments, graphic design, furniture, and applied arts, the firm engages every register of the built environment\u2014treating that intentional breadth as a source of new insight and innovation.<\/p>\n Anastassiadis Arquitetos<\/a><\/strong> Anttinen Oiva Architects<\/a><\/strong> Arcadis<\/a><\/strong> arches<\/a><\/strong> Architects’ Studio<\/a><\/strong> ARCHSTUDIO<\/a><\/strong> ARISTIDES DALLAS ARCHITECTS<\/a><\/strong> ARTS GROUP CO.<\/a><\/strong> ASPECT Studios<\/a><\/strong> Atelier Alter Architects<\/a><\/strong> ATELIER BR\u00dcCKNER<\/a><\/strong> Atelier Guo<\/a><\/strong> Atelier S\u00e9rgio Rebelo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Wood Quinta de Adorigo Winery<\/a> by Atelier S\u00e9rgio Rebelo<\/a>, Tabua\u00e7o, Portugal | Jury Vote Winner, Architecture +Wood and\u00a0 Jury Vote Winner, Bars & Wineries in , 14th Annual A+Awards<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Atelier S\u00e9rgio Rebelo is a Porto-based practice that develops architecture directed to the end-user experience and grounded in sustainable models of construction and production. Its process is dialogical with the client \u2014 weaving research, design, and architecture together in collaboration with a network of local and international consultants, and shaping projects that contribute to place-making while paying homage to memory and history. Through hands-on experimentation with materials, the atelier expresses a deep appreciation for heritage and craftsmanship, integrating tradition with innovation so that daily routines become sensorial ventures.<\/p>\n Atelier XI<\/a><\/strong> Ateliers Ma | AMA<\/a><\/strong> b720 Ferm\u00edn V\u00e1zquez Arquitecto<\/a><\/strong> Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.<\/a><\/strong> Bauart Architects and Planners<\/a><\/strong> Bautista Arquitectos<\/a><\/strong> Bernardes Arquitetura<\/a><\/strong> Bisson Fortin<\/a><\/strong> BKSK Architects<\/a><\/strong> Bonsar Architects<\/a><\/strong> Boxleaf Design<\/a><\/strong> Building Bureau<\/a><\/strong> Bureau de Change architects<\/a><\/strong> BVN<\/a><\/strong> CannonDesign<\/a><\/strong> Carazo Arquitectura<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L >10 Floors) LTR1<\/a> by CARAZO ARQUITECTURA<\/a>, Concept | Jury Vote Winner and Popular Vote Winner, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L >10 Floors), 14th Annual A+Awards<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Carazo Arquitectura is a Costa Rican architecture firm founded in 2005 by Rodrigo Carazo, based in the heart of San Jos\u00e9 and specializing in innovative mid- and high-rise projects informed by a design philosophy the studio calls Tropical Vertical Urbanism. Working from a native perspective on the country’s natural wealth \u2014 and treating that context as both an obligation and a design resource \u2014 Carazo has extended its practice from Costa Rica into Peru, Guatemala, and El Salvador, adapting each project to its specific site and climate. Every project is processed through five interlocking axes: specific design at the highest level of quality, environmentally sustainable design, economically sustainable design, socially sustainable design, and innovation in the methodologies and tools of the region.<\/p>\n Chen Yang, Liwei Guo<\/a><\/strong> China Architecture Design & Research Group (CADG)<\/a><\/strong> Christensen & Co Architects<\/a><\/strong> CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati<\/a><\/strong> CRB Arquitectos<\/a><\/strong> CrystalZoo<\/a><\/strong> CS&P Architects Inc.<\/a><\/strong> Daniel Joseph Chenin LTD<\/a><\/strong> Davood Boroojeni Office<\/a><\/strong> DEB ARCHITECTURE<\/a><\/strong> Department of ARCHITECTURE Co.<\/a><\/strong> Design Workshop<\/a><\/strong> DP Architects<\/a><\/strong> EKAR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Adaptive Reuse or Renovation Project<\/p>\n Mae On Art Forest<\/a> by EKAR<\/a>, Mae On District, Thailand | Popular Vote Winner, Sustainable Adaptive Reuse or Renovation Project, 14th Annual A+Awards<\/p>\n<\/div>\n EKAR is a Thai architecture practice founded in 2014 by Ekaphap Duangkaew, a Chiang Mai native, and operating from studios in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. Rather than pursuing a self-consciously “Thai style,” the firm treats culture as something to be continually reinterpreted rather than frozen in place \u2014 grounding each project in the specific conditions of its site through the coexistence of old and new materials, narratives that echo the past, and a direct response to nature, society, culture, behavior, and time. Every EKAR project reads as a piece of research combining science and art, calibrated to produce a sense of place that expands the boundaries of design across Thai society at large.<\/p>\n EL EQUIPO MAZZANTI<\/a><\/strong> Elkus Manfredi Architects<\/a><\/strong> Ennead Architects<\/a><\/strong> Enter Projects Asia<\/a><\/strong> ERRE<\/a><\/strong> ESTEYCO<\/a><\/strong> EVOKE Studio | Architecture<\/a><\/strong> FAAB<\/a><\/strong> Farshid Moussavi Architecture<\/a><\/strong> Feldman Architecture<\/a><\/strong> Fernanda Canales<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Public Projects Firm<\/p>\n Border Library and Public Park<\/a> by Fernanda Canales<\/a>, Agua Prieta, Mexico\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fernanda Canales is a Mexico City\u2013based architect, urbanist, and writer whose practice moves fluidly between built work, criticism, and research. Trained across the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Universidad Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya, and the Escuela T\u00e9cnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid \u2014 where she completed her PhD \u2014 she has authored four books on housing and modernity in Mexico and beyond, including My House, Your City: Privacy in a Shared World (2021) and Shared Structures, Private Spaces (2020), and exhibited at institutions from the Royal Academy of Arts and SFMOMA to four editions of the Venice Biennale. Recognized by The New York Times as one of ten women changing the landscape of leadership globally and by The Architectural League of New York with an Emerging Voices Award, Canales currently teaches at Columbia GSAPP and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the Architectural Association.<\/p>\n FGMF<\/a><\/strong> Field Operations<\/a><\/strong> Fogarty Finger<\/a><\/strong> Foster + Partners<\/a><\/strong> Found Projects<\/a><\/strong> GENETO Architect’s<\/a><\/strong> Gensler<\/a><\/strong> Geodesic Architects \/\u6d4b\u5730\u7ebf\u5efa\u7b51<\/a><\/strong> GI21 Arquitectura<\/a><\/strong> Giannone Petricone Associates Inc. Architects<\/a><\/strong>Get Your Firm On the Next A+List<\/h2>\n
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<\/strong>Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Multi-Unit Housing – Low Rise (1 – 4 Floors)
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (S <10 Floors)<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Educational Interiors<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – High Rise (16+ Floors)
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Landscape<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Private House<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Cultural<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Library<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Institutional Building<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Environment<\/p>\n
\nFeatured Firm: Allied Works<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Interior Design Firm<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Mixed Use (L >25,000 sq ft.)<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Transport Interiors<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Design for Wellbeing Project<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Kindergarten<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Adaptive Reuse and Renovation Firm<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Hospitality<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Office – High Rise (16+ Floors)<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Landscape<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Adaptive Reuse<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Cultural & Expo Centers<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Art<\/p>\n
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Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Bars & Wineries<\/p>\n
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Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Art
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Small Projects<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Cultural & Expo Centers<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Transportation<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Home<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Residential Adaptive Reuse Project<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Religious Buildings & Memorials<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private House (XL >6000 sq ft)<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Transport Interiors<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Commercial Adaptive Reuse Project<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Renovation<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Landscape Design Firm
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Private Garden<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Hospitality Building<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Small Firm (6 – 15 employees)<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Landscape<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Showroom<\/p>\n
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Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L >10 Floors)<\/p>\n
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Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Institutional<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Cultural Building<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Learning<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Pavilion<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – Mid Rise (5 – 15 Floors)<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Public Projects Firm<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Sports & Recreation<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Sustainable Residential Project<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Factories & Warehouses<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Urban & Masterplans<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Retail<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best Landscape Design Firm<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Government & Civic Buildings<\/p>\n
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Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Urban & Masterplans<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Renewal<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Halls & Theaters<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Sustainable Materials Project<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Stadiums & Arenas<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Transportation<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Primary & High Schools
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Primary & High Schools<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Hospitals & Healthcare Centers<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Community Center<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Stone<\/p>\n
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Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Office – Low Rise (1 – 4 Floors)<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Urban & Masterplans<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Commercial Interiors (<25,000 sq ft.)<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Office – High Rise (16+ Floors)
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Transportation Infrastructure
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Museum<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Best X-Small Firm (1 – 5 employees)<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Residential Renovations & Additions<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Retail<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Unbuilt Cultural<\/p>\n
Popular Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Transportation Infrastructure<\/p>\n
Jury Vote Winner, 14th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Glass<\/p>\n