2025 AIA Chicago
Design Excellence Awards Finalists
About the Design Excellence Awards
AIA Chicago is proud to recognize the outstanding work of our members and their firms. All project finalists will receive either an Honor Award or a Citation of Merit at Designight 2025.
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Architecture Extra Small
HONOR AWARD
Wheeler Kearns Architects
Sawyer Retreat
Sawyer, Michigan
CITATION OF MERIT
von Weise Associates
Barlow Residence
Chicago, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
SmithGroup
Boyne Gatlinburg SkyLift Lower Building
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
CITATION OF MERIT
SEEK Design + Architecture
Dutchmoor Valley Guesthouse
LaPorte, Indiana
CITATION OF MERIT
Latent
Heart of the City | Discovery Walk
Rochester, Minnesota
CITATION OF MERIT
Kwong Von Glinow
Rice University Anderson Hall Renovation
Houston, Texas
Architecture Small
HONOR AWARD
Perkins&Will
Damen Green Line Station
Chicago, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
GFT
147th Street / Sibley Boulevard Metra Station
Chicago, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
Range Design & Architecture
Nothing Design Co. Headquarters
Chicago Illinois
Architecture Medium
HONOR AWARD - ADAPTIVE REUSE/SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Converge Architecture
1516 W Carroll
Chicago, Illinois
HONOR AWARD - NEW CONSTRUCTION
Studio Gang
California College of the Arts Campus Expansion
San Francisco, California
CITATION OF MERIT
LBBA Architects and Moody Nolan
Bronzeville ETOD: 43 Green Phase 1 & 2
Chicago, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
Perkins&Will
Element Labs, University Research Park
Madison, Wisconsin
CITATION OF MERIT
Perkins&Will
Helen Edwards Engineering Research Center
Batavia, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
CannonDesign
Western Michigan University - Student Center and Dining Facility
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Architecture Large
HONOR AWARD
Goettsch Partners
Conrad Shenzhen
Shenzhen, China
CITATION OF MERIT
Lamar Johnson Collaborative
Embry
Chicago, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
CannonDesign
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, Maryland
CITATION OF MERIT
Optima, Inc.
Verdana
Wilmette, Illinois
Architecture Extra Large
HONOR AWARD
Goettsch Partners
COFCO Qianhai Innovation Center
Shenzhen, China
CITATION OF MERIT
Goettsch Partners
320 South Canal
Chicago, Illinois
Interior Architecture Small
HONOR AWARD
Norman Kelley with Spencer McNeil
Buck Mason Oakbrook
Oakbrook, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
Kwong Von Glinow
162 N State Street Residential Lobby Renovation
Chicago, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
Jen Park, AIA, of IIT College of Architecture and ParkFowler Plus, with Students of IIT College of Architecture
Change in Plot
Chicago, Illinois
Interior Architecture Medium
HONOR AWARD
Wheeler Kearns Architects
Lookingglass Theatre Lobby
Chicago, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
Norman Kelley with Spencer McNeil
Architecture and Design Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
CannonDesign
Northwestern Medicine, Faculty Office Center
Chicago, Illinois
Interior Architecture Large
HONOR AWARD
Krueck Sexton Partners
The Square at International Square
Washington, D.C.
CITATION OF MERIT
Perkins&Will
Confidential Law Firm
Salt Lake City, Utah
CITATION OF MERIT
Perkins&Will
Heitman
Chicago, Illinois
Decarbonization
HONOR AWARD
TBDA
Phius Zero Historic Retrofit
Oak Park, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
SMNG A Ltd. and Farr Associates
Academy for Global Citizenship
Chicago, Illinois
Unbuilt
HONOR AWARD
Epstein
Silo Hotel
Chicago, Illinois
CITATION OF MERIT
Gensler
National University Hospital Singapore
Singapore
Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice
HONOR AWARD
Converge Architecture
African Heritage Hut
Chicago, Illinois
