FTI Announces the 2025 Vitruvian Honorees

Project Awards

New Facade (low-rise)

Winner: Orange Valley County Museum of Art (Nominated by Boston Valley)
Architect: Morphosis Architects
Structural Engineer: John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.
Façade Engineer: Walter P. Moore

Honorable Mention: Shanghai Greenhouse Expo at the Shanghai Expo Cultural Park (Nominated by Kuraray)
Developer: Shanghai Real Estate (Group) Co., Ltd.
Architect: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design & Research Co. Ltd.-Zhao Chen, Cao Jieyong
Structural Engineer: Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieuere
Façade Contractor: North Glass

New Façade (mid-rise)

Winner: Viettel Headquarters Hanoi (Nominated by BM Windows)
Owner/Developer: Viettel Group
Architect: Gensler
Structural Engineer: VNCC (Vietnam National Construction Consultants Corp)
Façade Engineer: Van Aeist/Nguyen Partners
Façade Contractor: BM Windows

Honorable Mention: Torrey Heights by Breakthrough (Nominated by Flad Architects)
Owner/Developer: Breakthrough Properties
Architect: Flad Architects
Structural Engineer: Coffman Engineers
Façade Engineer: Heintges
Façade Contractor: Clark Pacific
Prime Contractor: Clark Construction

New Façade (high-rise)

Winner: VIVO Shenzhen Headquarters (Nominated by NBBJ)
Owner/Developer: VIVO smartphone
Architect: NBBJ
Structural Engineer: Tongii Architects-Local Design Institute
Façade Engineer: Inhabit

Honorable Mention: One River North (Nominated by Kuraray)
Architect: MAD Architects

Adaptive Reuse

Winner: PENN 2 (Nominated by MdeAS Architects)
Owner/Developer: Vornado Realty Trust
Architect: MdeAS Architects
Structural Engineer: Severud Associates
Façade Engineer: GMS Consulting Engineers
Façade Contractor: W&W Glass LLC
Prime Contractor: Turner Construction Co.

Honorable Mention: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center (Nominated by Heintges)
Architect: Ennead Architects
Structural Engineer: LERA Consulting Structural Engineers
Façade Engineer: Heintges
Façade Contractor: Tidewater Glazing Inc.
Prime Contractor: Clark Construction

Heritage Conservation

Winner: Refurbishment & Cable Net Façade for Channel 4 Headquarters (Nominated by Octatube)
Owner/Developer: Channel 4 Television
Architect: Richard Rogers & Partners
Structural Engineer: Octatube and Arup
Façade Engineer: Octatube and Arup
Façade Contractor: Octatube

Honorable Mention: Hotel Marcel (Nominated by Bruce Redman Becker, FAIA)
Owner/Developer: Becker + Becker
Architect: Becker + Becker
Structural Engineer: GNCB Consulting Engineers, P.C.
Façade Engineer: Steve Winter Associates

Façade Innovation

Winner: Le Visionnaire, Espace François Dalle (Nominated by Kuraray)
Owner/Developer: L’Oréal, S.A.
Architects: Ange-Jacques Gabriel and Alain D. Moatti
Structural Engineer: Bellapart Group
Façade Engineer RFR
Façade Contractor Bellapart Group

Honorable Mention: Resnick Sustainability Center at California Institute of Technology (Nominated by Enclos)
Owner Developer: California Institute of Technology
Architect: Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign
Structural Engineer: Saiful Bouquet Structural Engineers
Façade Engineer: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Façade Contractor: Enclos
Prime Contractor: Hensel Phelps

Façade Integration

Winner: University of Pennsylvania Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science & Technology (Nominated by Behnisch Architekten)
Owner/Developer: University of Pennsylvania
Architect: Behnisch Architekten
Structural Engineer: Knippers Helbig Engineering DPC
Façade Engineering: Knippers Helbig Engineering DPC
Façade Contractor: Lindner Fassaden GmbH
Prime Contractor: L.F. Driscoll

Honorable Mention: NYU John A. Paulson Center (Nominated by Heintges)
Owner/Developer: New York University
Architects: Kieran Timberlake, Davis Brody Bond, Page
Structural Engineer: Severud Associates
Façade Engineer: Heintges
Façade Contractor: Permasteelisa
Prime Contractor: Turner

Unbuilt Façade

Winner: Phoenix Low-Carbon Façade (Nominated by Autodesk)
Architect: MBH Architects & Autodesk Research

Honorable Mention: University of California San Diego Multidisciplinary Life Sciences Building (Nominated by Flad)
Owner/Developer: University of California San Diego
Architect: Flad Architects
Structural Engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers
Façade Engineer: Starq Design

Façade Research

Winner: Recent Adaptive Textile Façade Systems (Lucio Blandini)

Honorable Mention: ACAW 2024 (Team ARUP)

Student Project Competition

For the first time, a student project category was added to the Vitruvian Awards. We were pleased to receive over twenty submittals from students.

Winners

• Justin Lee, University of Southern California
• Vivila Leigh, UCLA
• Mohammed Ibrahim, Georgia Tech

Honorable Mentions

• Anran Long, University of Southern California
• Roxanne Natal, University of Southern California
• Jude Ryan Bell, Louisiana Tech University

Individual Award Honorees:

Collaborative Achievement

ACAW (Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop) and co-founders: Omar Khan – Carnegie Mellon University, John Krouse – Boston Valley Terra Cotta

Unsung Hero

Richard Green, Façade Design Engineer & Consultant, Green Facades LLC

Emerging Professional

Adrian Lowenstein, PE, MBA, Skyline Windows

Façade Educator

Liz McCormick, College of Arts + Architecture, UNC Charlotte

Julie Koerner Al-Rawi, Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA

We Thank Our Judges

Judges are thought leaders from a cross section of the global architectural industry. Led by Board member and jury captain, Peter Weismantle, the 2025 jury consisted of:

Angel Ayon – AYON Studio, New York

Karen Brandt – Heintges, San Francisco

Graham Dodd – Arup, London

Mitsu Edwards – EOC Engineers, Paris

Stacey Hooper– NBBJ, Los Angeles

Dan Shannon – MdeAS Architects, New York.