52 buildings make RIBA’s 2026 shortlist for architectural excellence

The RIBA Worldwide Awards 2026 shortlist has landed, unveiling a really world celebration of architectural excellence. The biennial award’s checklist incorporates 52 tasks, hailing from a whopping 18 nations and 5 continents.

Who made the RIBA Worldwide Awards 2026 shortlist?

The award candidates symbolize a broad vary of architectural typologies, from cultural and public areas to training work, housing and infrastructure. The tasks vary from a grain silo-turned-art museum in Norway, Kunstsilo, to a mosque in Bangladesh and from a post-hurricane infill housing mannequin in Mexico – Kon-tigo – to Paris’ largest timber-framed construction, Wooden Up.

In the meantime, lots of the world’s most well-known up to date structure practices characteristic within the checklist, together with David Chipperfield Architects (UK/Germany), Foster + Companions (UK), Snøhetta (Norway/USA), Hassell (Australia), WOHA (Singapore) and Studio Mumbai (India).

Neil Gillespie, Awards Group Chair, mentioned: ‘The RIBA Worldwide Awards for Excellence have a good time unbelievable variety and creativity internationally. These tasks present how architects can reply to complicated social, cultural, and environmental challenges, from revitalising communities and preserving heritage to pioneering sustainable and technologically revolutionary options. They exhibit the ability of structure to attach folks, strengthen identification, and create inclusive, resilient locations for future generations.’

The winners will likely be introduced on 11 June 2026.

The RIBA Worldwide Awards 2026 shortlist

• Architects’ Studio, O’Donnell + Tuomey, Dublin, Eire
• Beijing Library, Snøhetta, East China Architectural Design & Analysis Institute, Beijing, China
• Beijing Performing Arts Heart, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, and Perkins & Will, Beijing, China
• Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre, Hassell, Yumbe District, Uganda
• BRAC College, WOHA, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Burnt Earth Seashore Home, Wardle, Anglesea, Australia
• Chapel of Music, Vector Architects, Qinghuangdao, China
• Château de Beaucastel, Studio Mumbai & Studio Méditerranée, Courthézon, France
• Church of the Residing God, Angelo Candalepas and Associates, Hurstville NSW, Australia
• Darlington Public College, fjcstudio, Sydney, Australia
• Dokebi Platform, Plot Architects, Seoul, Korea
• DY Patil Centre of Excellence, Foster + Companions, Maharashtra, India
• International Language College Affiliated to Longhua Academy of Academic Sciences, Unitinno Architectural Expertise Growth Firm Restricted, Shenzhen, China
• Gold Creek, Brian Steendijk, Glenn Murcutt in collaboration, Brookfield, Brisbane, Australia
• Inexperienced Hill (remodeling closed technological industrial stays into an open and shared ecological complicated), Tongii Architectural Design (Group) Co, Ltd, Shanghai, China
• Home of Recollections, Studio Gravitas in collaboration with Eleemente & Bodh Design Group, Tumkur, India
• Jingyang Camphor Court docket, Vector Architects, Jingdewzhen, China
• KinderKunstLabor, Schenker Salvi Weber, St. Pölten, Austria
• Kon-Tigo, Manuel Cervantes Estudio, Guerrero, México
• Kunstsilo, Mestres Wåge, BAX, Mendoza Partida, Kristiansand, Norway
• Mezcal Manufacturing Palenque, Estudio ALA I Armida Fernández and Luis Enrique Flores, Jiquilpan de Juárez, Michoacán, México
• Monospinal, Makoto Yamaguchi Design, Taito-ku, Japan
• Multi-Catastrophe Discount Engineering Complicated, Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co, Ltd Jiading District, Shanghai, China
• Nedarag Guesthouse, Subsequent Workplace [Studio of Architectural Research & Design], Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran
• Oh Ho Residence, Play Structure, Bangalore, India
• Parikrama, Spasm Design Architects, Nandgaon, India
• Ras Homes, Sanjay Puri Architects, Ras, Rajasthan, India
• Revitalization of Village Heritage in Yong’an Village, Faculty of Structure and City Planning, Tongji College, Dali Metropolis, China
• Rockbund Shanghai, David Chipperfield Architects (Historic Buildings), Arquitectonica (New Buildings), Shanghai, China
• Royale Belge, Caruso St John Architects and Bovenbouw and Architectuur with DDS+, Watermael-Boitsfort, Brussels, Belgium
• College at Joram, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Studio Advaita, Joram village, Arunachal Pradesh, India
• Service Station Underneath Wuning Highway Bridge, Suzhou Creek, Atelier Z+, Shanghai, China
• Shanghai Library East, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Shanghai, China
• Shenzhen Vitality Ring, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Gottlieb Paludan Architects, Shenzhen, China
• Sondara Gurukulam, Studio Advaita, Domri, Dist Beed, India
• Štvanice Footbridge in Prague, Petr Tej, Marek Clean and Jan Mourek, Atelier Bridge Constructions, Prague, Czech Republic
• Taoxichuan Ceramic Tradition Industrial Park, Jie Zhang, Beijing An-Design Architects, THUPDI, Jingdezhen Metropolis, China
• Tenjincho place, Hiroyuki Ito Architects, Tokyo, Japan
• Terra Cotta Workshop, Tropical House, Quang Nam, Viet Nam
• The GEAR, KAJIMA DESIGN, Singapore, Singapore
• The Plus, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Magnor, Norway
• The Porter Home Lodge, Angelo Candalepas and Associates, Sydney, Australia
• The White Renovation, Olgoo Architects, Tehran, Iran
• Transformation Warmbächli, BHSF Architektur & Städtebau, Zurich / Munich, Berne, Switzerland
• City Farming Workplace, VTN Architects, Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, Viet Nam
• West Wusutu Village Group Heart in Hohhot, Interior Mongolian Grand Structure Design Co., Ltd., Hohhot, China
• Wooden Up – 132 housing items, a climbing gymnasium and a neighbourhood café in Paris thirteenth, LAN – Native Structure Community, Paris, France
• WVDM Residing Lab, Maker architecten, Brussels, Belgium
• Yaoli Village Courier station, SuiPingYiLi Structure Studio, Nanping, China
• YIMBY (Sure In My BackYard) – social and concrete infill venture, MAKER architecten, Kortrijk, Belgium
• Z33, Francesca Torzo Architetto, Hasselt, Belgium
• Zebun Nessa Mosque: A Religious-Social House between Land and Water, Saiqa Iqbal Meghna / Studio Morphogenesis Ltd., Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh