The winners of The Architectural Review Future Project Awards 2021 have been announced with AIM Architecture being crowned the overall winner for their FX Mayr Wellness Eco Retreat project in Wenzhou, China. The firm also picked up the award for Hotels and Leisure with the project. 

Showcasing projects from around the world, this awards program celebrates excellence in unbuilt and incomplete projects. 

A slew of notable firms were awarded in the competition. The Jeu d’Esprit award was won by OPEN Architecture for their work on the Sun Tower in Yantai, China, and the Sustainability Prize was awarded to Zaha Hadid Architects for their Forest Green Rovers Eco Park Stadium in Stroud, UK.

Other award winners include Stantec in the Cultural Regeneration category for their work on Musée du Fleuve in Niamey, Niger; Condition_Lab in the Residential category for their Mutating House project in Hunan Province, China; Acton Ostry Architects Inc. in the Offices/office-led development award for their work on Industrial Long Wood in Vancouver, Canada. 

As said in The Architectural Review’s press release, “Combined, the winners and all the finalists in this year’s AR Future Project Awards showcase examples of innovative and outstanding architecture that successfully respond to the development brief and also take into consideration the full impact and contribution they will make on the communities around them.” 

This year’s jury included Christina Seilern, Roger Zogolovitch, Peter Stewart, Jeremy Melvin and Paul Finch.

The full list of winners is listed below or can be seen here, along with commended projects.

2021 Winners

Commercial Mixed-use – The JellyTower  – Social Condenser and Fun Palace, Berlin, Germany by CSMM – architecture matters

Community and Civic – Park of future generations SAKHA_Z, Yakutsk, Russia by Atrium Architecture

Cultural Regeneration – Musée du Fleuve, Niamey, Niger by Stantec

New and Old – British Oil Mill, Mersin, Turkey by ANB Architects + Stüdyo Nüve + Onur Yüncü Architects

Offices/Office-led Development – Industrial Long Wood, Vancouver, Canada by Acton Ostry Architects Inc.

Regeneration and Masterplanning – Morden Wharf, Greenwich Peninsula, UK by U+I

Residential – Mutating House, Hunan Province, China by Condition_Lab

Shopping and Retail-led Development – Jingumae Pilgrim's Passage Gates, Tokyo, Japan by Key Operation Inc./ Architects

Sport & Stadiums and Sustainability Prize – Forest Green Rovers Eco Park Stadium, Stroud, UK by Zaha Hadid Architects

Tall Buildings – Barclay, Vancouver, Canada by ACDF Architecture

Urban Infrastructure – Hot Heart, Helsinki, Finland by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati

Jeu d'Esprit Prize – Sun Tower, Yantai, China by OPEN Architecture

Overall Winner and Hotels and Leisure – FX Mayr Wellness Eco Retreat, Wenzhou, China by AIM Architecture