Prix des Amis du musée Albert-Kahn 2025
Image: © Aurélie Scouarnec. © Claude Iverné. Mnaïma Adjak / Peuple Shénabla / Clan Awasma / Dar-Jawama / Kordofan Nord / Août 2001.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Claude Iverné
Aurélie Scouarnec
Prix des Amis du musée Albert-Kahn
Claude Iverné and Aurélie Scouarnec have been awarded the Prix des Amis du musée Albert-Kahn 2025 as part of the Mondes en commun - poursuivre l'inventaire d'Albert Kahn festival, organised in partnership with the Musée Albert-Kahn. Claude Iverné received the award for her photographic work focusing on Sudan, which she has been carrying out since the late 1990s. Aurélie Scouarnec's winning series Gwiskañ [Revêtir], focuses on those for whom wearing the costumes of Brittany has an intimate meaning, particularly in Celtic circles.
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DAM Preis 2025
Image: AFF Architekten, Spore Haus, Berlin, Germany. © Hans-Christian Schink
ARCHITECTURE
Spore Haus by AFF Architekten
DAM Preis
The DAM Preis 2025, presented by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), has been awarded to AFF Architekten for their project, Spore Haus, in Berlin. As one of Germany's most recognized architecture awards, the DAM Preis highlights significant contributions to contemporary architectural practice. Spore Haus, was selected for its "thoughtful design and careful integration" into the urban context, as well as its contribution to public life.
Don’t Move, Improve! 2025
Image: Archmongers, Elemental House, Residential, London, UK, 2023.
© Jim Stephenson & French + Tye
ARCHITECTURE
Elemental House by Archmongers
Home of the Year
Materiality and Craftsmanship Prize
Elemental House by Archmongers has been named London's best new home renovation by Don't Move, Improve! 2025. Johan Hybschmann, director at Archmongers, and his wife, Anita Freeman, have remodelled their London home, a 1970s split-level house located in Hackney. The renovation has future-proofed the house for modern living, enhancing the home’s energy efficiency, whilst bringing natural light deep into the plan. The design scheme employs a simple palette of existing materials including brick, galvanised steel, cast concrete, and timber.
2025 Spotlight Award
Image: Material Cultures, Flat House, Residential, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2020. © Oskar Proctor
ARCHITECTURE
Material Cultures
Spotlight Award
The Rice School of Architecture has awarded Material Cultures the 2025 Spotlight Award, which recognizes emerging professionals in architecture and design. Material Cultures, a London-based design and research organization led by Summer Islam, Paloma Gormley, and George Massoud, works at the intersection of natural materials, low embodied carbon construction, and construction technology. The team champions the reintegration of architecture and agriculture, viewing buildings as inherently linked to landscapes of extraction. By focusing on bio-based materials they offer an alternative to the carbon-intensive, socially destructive materials commonly used in the industry.
Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2025
Image: Leo Robinson, DREAM BRIDGE OMNIGLYPH, 2024. © Marcus Leith. Kaye Song, The Wilding Hub, 2023. Tina Pasotra, But Where Are you From?, 2017. © Jon Poutney
ART | DESIGN
Tina Pasotra
Leo Robinson
Kaye Song
Arts Foundation Futures Awards
The Arts Foundation has announced the five recipients of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2025. Tina Pasotra, a filmmaker, director and artist based in Cardiff, Wales, received the Film Award. Leo Robinson was awarded the Visual Arts Award. Based in Glasgow, his work constructs speculative systems of knowledge and ritual through the lenses of religion, psychoanalysis and diasporic experience. Kaye Song won the Design Award. Kaye is a member of the art and architecture collective, Assemble, and the co-director of Flimsy Works, a design studio making spaces that connect communities to the natural environment, developing designs closely with end-users and self-builders.
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ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards 2025
Image: Faris Alosaimi, Camel Step Coffee Roasters Shop, Hail, Saudi Arabia, 2024. © Mansor Alsofi
ARCHITECTURE
Camel Step Coffee Roaster
by Faris Alosaimi
Interior Architecture Award
The 15 winners of the ArchDaily 2025 Building of the Year Awards have been unveiled. In the Interior Architecture category Faris Alosaimi won for the Camel Step Coffee Roaster in Hail, Saudi Arabia. Located in a historic building rich with the essence of the past, the roastery has been meticulously renovated to reflect a harmonious blend of heritage and modernity. The jury commented that "The indoor area, designed to resemble an outdoor space, adds a sense of openness and connection to nature, while the large stone fireplace adds warmth and intimacy."
