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Buildner is pleased to announce the results of the Buildner’s Unbuilt Award 2025, the second edition of its international competition celebrating the value of unrealized architectural ideas. With a total prize fund of €100,000, the award recognizes conceptual, speculative, and unbuilt projects that explore innovation, sustainability, and social relevance across all scales.
This year’s submissions demonstrated how unbuilt architecture can meaningfully contribute to architectural discourse, balancing visionary concepts with clarity of execution and strong visual storytelling. The jury highlighted projects that address future challenges through climate-adaptive strategies, sensitive landscape integration, and new housing typologies.
The Best Presentation Award was given to Xavier Arés, Koh Noguchi, and Juan Pablo Lopez Isabella from Spain for Tranquillizing the Void, a refined pavilion proposal for Kyoto’s residual urban spaces inspired by the Japanese concept of oku. The Small Scale Category Winner and Student Prize went to Yuanyuan Cao from Harvard Graduate School of Design (USA) for Nomadic Permanence, a modular, climate-adaptive framework for desertified landscapes. The Medium Scale Category Winner is Tigran Danielian from Armenia for The Wine Path, a landscape-integrated pavilion embedded within vineyards in Lunigiana, Italy. The Large Scale Category Winner and Student Prize was awarded to Emma Agnes Sheffer from Harvard Graduate School of Design (USA) for Theseus: A New Housing Typology, a modular housing system reusing decommissioned cargo ship structures to address urban resilience and housing shortages.
The next edition of the Buildner’s Unbuilt Award is now open, continuing to celebrate unbuilt architecture as a powerful driver of ideas that shape the future of the built environment. Visit the Buildner website to view all winners and shortlisted projects.
Best Presentation Award
Small scale category winner
Medium scale category winner
Large scale category winner
