Designing for Impact: Celebrating the 2025 AIA Hong Kong Honors & Awards Recipients
We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 AIA Hong Kong Honors & Awards, a program that continues to set the benchmark for architectural excellence across the Asia Pacific region. This year, we continue a nearly three-decade tradition of recognizing projects that work harder for our communities and our planet.
Of the 13 winning projects, 11 also received Sustainable Design Awards. This is a powerful signal that our profession has shifted. Design excellence and environmental performance are no longer separate goals; they are one and the same.
Honor Awards: Stories of Innovation
Our Honor recognition is awarded to projects that go beyond the brief to deliver transformative results. This year’s top honors illustrate how thoughtful design can reshape workplaces, revitalize villages, and create new community hubs.
A New Standard for Work
In the Interiors category, M Moser Associates took top honors for the Diageo Gurgaon Workplace in India. They moved away from the traditional corporate office, designing a space with the warmth of hospitality. The project anchors itself with “The Bar,” a social heart for its 300 employees, and uses local materials—over 70% sourced within 500km—to reduce its carbon footprint while celebrating local heritage.
Revitalizing Heritage
In the Urban Design category, the Centre for Chinese Architecture and Urbanism (HKU) was recognized for the Kuk Po Vision. Unlike a typical master plan, the Kuk Po Vision introduced a framework, the “point-line-network acupuncture strategy”, to renew a Hakka village in Hong Kong through a series of small interventions that combine for disproportionate impact. By restoring the Kai Choi School as a community space and turning ruins into gardens, the project revitalizes the village’s cultural identity while introducing sustainable infrastructure.
Connecting Communities
In the Open International category, COLLECTIVE studio took top honors for 83 King Lam Street in Cheung Sha Wan. By integrating the ground plane, basement, and podiums of the towers in this industrial redevelopment project, Collective created a shared vertical space that invites the public in and offers a green respite in a dense industrial neighborhood.
Merit Awards
We also celebrate excellence across a diverse range of projects that are shaping our cities.
Architecture
- Wang Weijen Architecture: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) Phase II Campus
- Ronald Lu & Partners: Food Angel Jockey Club Food Production Centre, Hong Kong
- Studio 10: Yangbei Village CCP Elderly Day-Care Center, Shaoguan, China
- Index Architecture: Christian Zheng Sheng Ha Keng Centre, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
- Leehong Kim Architects: Superbin IM_Factory, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea
Interiors
- Atelier Glow: Echoes of Waterways: Shunde MixC, Foshan, China
Urban Design
- NBBJ: Two Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Open International
- Snøhetta: Beijing Library, Beijing, China
- Kajima Design: The GEAR, Singapore
- Rocco Design Architects: East Kowloon Cultural Centre, Ngau Tau Kok, Hong Kong
A Commitment to Sustainability
The prominence of the Sustainable Design Awards this year reflects our ongoing effort to align with the AIA Framework for Design Excellence. We assess projects not just on aesthetics and program response, but on how they address a range of sustainable development factors including energy, well-being, community, and resilience.
This year, nearly every winning project, from the Food Angel Jockey Club Food Production Centre to the Beijing Library, demonstrated that sustainable design has become integral to excellence in architecture.
World-Class Adjudication
The credibility of these awards rests on the expertise of our jury. We were honored to have a five-person panel of industry leaders, including Professor Donald Choi, Susannah Drake, Mark Lee, J Lee Rofkind, and Shirley Surya. Their diverse backgrounds—ranging from urban renewal and museum curation to resilient design—ensured that every entry was evaluated with a deep understanding of both global trends and local context.
Great architecture does more than provide shelter; it solves problems and builds community. We congratulate all our 2025 recipients for showing us what is possible when we design with purpose.
View The Work
Dates: December 4-13, 2025
Location: The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Central
Admission: Free
or year-round in the Online Gallery: https://honors.awardsplatform.com/gallery/RnXYzqdb
Thank you to our sponsors American Hardwood Export Council, DOWSIL, Kadoorie Estates, Sherwin-Williams, Autodesk, AECOM, Cosentino, and Orientop, and everyone who submitted work. Your participation strengthens our professional community and raises standards across the region.