Launched in 2010, the AR House awards recognise originality and excellence in the design of dwellings. The house is a key rite of passage for architects, critical to the ferment and crystallisation of new ideas, offering the potential for innovation. The awards recognise projects built in the last five years that demonstrate creativity, originality and ideas that push the house forward – whatever the scale or construction cost. The judges’ chosen projects will all be visited by an independent critic and photographer before a decision is made on the winner.

Past winners and finalists include Manuel Cervantes Estudio, Kochi Architect’s Studio, Ekar Architects, Atelier Tho.A, Chat Architects, Fernanda Canales Arquitectura, Brillhart Architecture, Nomos, Shota Nakanishi Architects, Manthey Kula, Studio Bua, AREA (Architecture Research Athens), Simon Pendal Architect, Davidson Rafailidis , HNNA and Peter Besley, Kentaro Ishida Architects Studio, dmvA Architects, ADO and many more.

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'Our team are avid readers of The Architectural Review, so it’s a significant moment for us for our project to be held in such high esteem with them.'

Tuckey Design Studio, AR House 2025 highly commended

‘[This recognition] celebrates not only the project itself, but also the opportunity to continue exploring architecture as a way of inhabiting spaces more consciously and sensitively, and as an active framework for living with climate, light, and landscape.’

Fernanda Canales Arquitectura , AR House 2025 highly commended

‘We are delighted to have the opportunity to be seen by a global audience. We hope this recognition will encourage both the public and architects to become more aware of sustainable forestry and the new possibilities of timber architecture’.

ICADA / Masaaki Iwamoto + Nariaki Chigusa , AR House 2025 shortlistee

‘We are honoured by the recognition of the AR House awards. The opportunity to present our local context and approach on an international platform is both meaningful and greatly appreciated’

Parin + Supawut Studio , AR House 2025 shortlistee