Throughout its 46-year history, architecture’s most prestigious prize has often been won by icon-builders: the apparent lone geniuses who imprint their visions, signature-like, on the world. It ...

Liu Jiakun is the winner of the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Above, Liu's West Village commercial complex, built in Chengdu in 2015, fills an entire block with buildings, bike paths ...

The Pritzker Architecture Prize was established in 1979 by the late entrepreneur Jay A. Pritzker and his wife, Cindy. Winners receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion.

The Chinese architect was recognized by the jury for his ability to draw on every site’s unique heritage and challenges. This year, the 2025 Pritzker Prize has been awarded to Chinese architect ...

Arch-Exist/The Pritzker Architecture Prize Symbiosis between nature and architecture plays out at Liu’s ambitious West Village, an inner-city Chengdu block transformed into a courtyard but at a ...

Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Chinese architect Liu Jiakun looks at an exhibition next to his office in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Chinese architect Liu Jaikun, winner of the 2025 Pritzker Prize. - Tom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation/The Pritzker Architecture Prize. Throughout its 46-year history, ...

Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Chinese architect Liu Jiakun interacts with a scale model of the West Village project at his office in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province on Sunday ...

The annual Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Liu Jiakun of China, who earned the field’s highest honor for “affirming architecture that celebrates the lives of ordinary citizens ...