FTI Announces the 2025 Vitruvian Honorees
The Facade Tectonics Institute is excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions in the third biennial Vitruvian Honors & Awards Program. Chaired by Peter Arbour, CEO and Founder of Liquid-Wall, the 2025 Vitruvian Honors & Awards program seeks to recognize outstanding innovation and achievements in the field of facade design and delivery.
2025 FTI Forum: NYC! + Vitruvian Honors & Awards Ceremony
The honorees will be formally presented at the live FTI Forum at the Center for Architecture in New York City on September 18. Join us!
PROJECT AWARDS:
Outstanding New Facade (low-rise)
Winner: Orange Valley County Museum of Art; nominated by Boston Valley Terra Cotta
Honorable Mention: Shanghai Greenhouse Expo at the Shanghai Expo Cultural Park; nominated by Kuraray
Outstanding New Façade (mid-rise)
Winner: Viettel Headquarters Hanoi; nominated by BM Windows
Honorable Mention: Torrey Heights by Breakthrough; nominated by Flad Architects
Outstanding New Façade (high-rise)
Winner: VIVO Shenzhen Headquarters; nominated by NBBJ
Honorable Mention: One River North; nominated by Kuraray
Outstanding Adaptive Reuse
Winner: PENN 2; nominated by MdeAS Architects
Honorable Mention: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center; nominated by Heintges
Outstanding Heritage Conservation
Winner: Refurbishment & Cable Net Façade for Channel 4 Headquarters; nominated by Octatube
Honorable Mention: Hotel Marcel; nominated by Becker + Becker
Outstanding Façade Innovation
Winner: Le Visionnaire, Espace François Dalle; nominated by Kuraray
Honorable Mention: Resnick Sustainability Center at California Institute of Technology; nominated by Enclos
Outstanding Façade Integration
Winner: University of Pennsylvania Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science & Technology; nominated by Behnisch Architekten
Honorable Mention: NYU John A. Paulson Center; nominated by Heintges
Unbuilt Façade
Winner: Phoenix Low-Carbon Façade; nominated by Autodesk
Honorable Mention: University of California, San Diego Multidisciplinary Life Sciences Building; nominated by Flad Architects
Façade Research
Winner: Recent Adaptive Textile Façade Systems – Lucio Blandini; nominated by Valerie Block Consultancy
Honorable Mention: ACAW 2024 - Team ARUP; nominated by Boston Valley Terra Cotta
See full project credits and details HERE.
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), co-founders: Omar Khan – Carnegie Mellon University, John Krouse – Boston Valley Terra Cotta, and the full ACAW TeamUnsung Hero
Richard Green, Façade Design Engineer & Consultant, Green Facades LLCEmerging Professional
Adrian Lowenstein, PE, MBA, Skyline WindowsFaçade Educator (two honorees)
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 Yorkitects, New York
Karen Brandt – Heintges, San Francisco
Graham Dodd – Arup, London
Mitsu Edwards – EOC Engineers, Paris
Stacey Hooper– NBBJ, Los Angeles
Dan Shannon – MdeAS Arch
About the Vitruvian Honors & Awards Program
The Facade Tectonics Institute’s Vitruvian Honors & Awards program celebrates excellence and innovation in the design and delivery of building facades. The program recognizes outstanding projects, project teams, and individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the design, engineering, fabrication, installation, and lifecycle performance of buildings and their façade systems. These achievements reflect FTI's mission to advance the art, science, and technology of high-performance facades for the benefit of the planet and people.
FTI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit member organization for the AECO industry and a research and education institution focused on healthy buildings and livable urban habitat. The Institute’s mission is to accelerate transformative change in the built environment toward common goals of resilience and sustainability. FTI members share recognition of the building facade as the lynchpin of this endeavor.
About Facade Tectonics Institute
The Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI) is the premier member organization for building industry and professionals as well as academic, government, and nonprofit organizations and institutions focused on healthy and livable communities. The Institute’s primary objective is to fuel discussion and collaborative research that bridges fragmented market segments of the building industry, pairing government, academia, ownership, and industry professionals. Integral to this mission is the dissemination of historical, theoretical, and practical information derived from this research to the building marketplace, thereby acting as a conduit and facilitator for both learning and further collaborative research pursuits.