Architizer A+Awards

Architizer announced its 14th annual A+Awards results in June 2026 after receiving thousands of submissions. Expert jurors evaluate finalists and choose Jury Winners, while a public vote determines Popular Choice Winners. The official results span many project types, including private, public, built, unbuilt, interior, landscape, sustainability, firm categories. Pearl does not reproduce that entire awards database; it builds clearly labeled subsets for projects that correspond to places users can visit or discover.

This source hub connects Architizer A+Awards architecture results to Pearl's venue catalog. Each collection explains the additional matching or filtering used to turn project-level results into public-place profiles.

Architizer is a global architecture platform, its A+Awards program recognizes projects, firms, design achievements across an extensive category system. The 2026 cycle was the 14th annual edition and included thousands of submissions across more than 100 categories. Results identify Jury Winners, Popular Choice Winners, finalists, special mentions. Because the awards cover the full breadth of architecture, only a fraction of projects represent public-facing hospitality or cultural venues that fit Pearl's catalog.

For project categories, Architizer publishes a judging framework centered on form, function, impact, including aesthetic and functional qualities, innovation, context, lasting potential. An expert jury narrows and evaluates entries for Jury recognition. A separate public voting process selects Popular Choice Winners, so the two labels should not be conflated. Pearl adds a downstream verification layer for its own collections: the project must appear in official results and resolve to a public-facing canonical venue profile.

The A+Awards combine an international submission pool, a large architecture and design jury, a public-choice track, extensive category coverage. Recognition can therefore signal either expert-jury assessment or broad public support within a specific category. The category and award path carry more meaning than an invented overall rank. Pearl preserves that context and does not imply that its venue subsets are separate prizes conferred by Architizer.