The AIA has announced 16 winners of the 2023 AIA Architecture Award, an annual prize that recognizes contemporary buildings of all uses, sizes, and budgets. Among the winning projects are the new Minneapolis Public Service Building (PSB) designed by Henning Larsen; the Marygrove Early Education Center by Marlon Blackwell Architects, a Project of the Year finalist in AN’s 2022 Best of Design Awards; and CO Architects’ renovation of architect Paul Revere Williams’ Pritzker Hall at University of California Los Angeles
According to the organization, the “Architecture program celebrates the best contemporary architecture and highlights the many ways buildings and spaces can improve lives.” Winning submissions “demonstrate design achievement, including a sense of place, purpose, history, and environmental sustainability.”
This year’s jury included Ashley Wilson, Ashley Wilson Architect (chair); Jose Leo Arango; Randall Deutsch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture; Gabriel Ignacio Dziekiewicz, DesignBridge; Teresa Jan, Multistudio; Luis Nieves-Ruiz, East Central Florida, Regional Planning Council; and Zakiya Wiggins, LS3P.

633 Folsom
Gensler
San Francisco

Center of Developing Entrepreneurs
Wolf Ackerman and EskewDumezRipple
Charlottesville, Virginia

GoSpotCheck Headquarters
Tryba Architects
Denver

John W. Olver Design Building, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Leers Weinzapfel Associates
Amherst, Massachusetts

Lubber Run Community Center
VMDO Architects
Arlington, Virginia

Marlboro Music Reich Hall
HGA
Marlboro, Vermont

Marygrove Early Education Center
Marlon Blackwell Architects
Detroit

Minneapolis Public Service Building
Henning Larsen and MSR Design
Minneapolis

Mukilteo Multimodal Ferry Terminal
LMN Architects
Mukilteo, Washington

The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s School
Diana Kellogg Architects
Rajasthan, India

The Rockefeller University Stavros Niarchos Foundation – David Rockefeller River Campus
Rafael Viñoly Architects
New York

Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School
LMN Architects
Seattle

TIDE Academy
LPA Design Studios
Menlo Park, California

UCLA Pritzker Hall Modernization
CO Architects
Los Angeles

University of Washington, Life Sciences Building
Perkins&Will
Seattle

Worcester Blackstone Visitor Center
designLABarchitects
Worcester, Massachusetts