2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Image: Liu Jiakun, West Village, 2015, Chengdu, People's Republic of China. Photo courtesy of Arch-Exist
ARCHITECTURE
Liu Jiakun
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Liu Jiakun, of Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, is the 2025 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Intertwining seeming antipodes such as utopia versus everyday existence, history versus modernity, and collectivism versus individuality, Liu offers affirming architecture that celebrates the lives of ordinary citizens. "Architecture should reveal something—it should abstract, distill and make visible the inherent qualities of local people. It has the power to shape human behavior and create atmospheres, offering a sense of serenity and poetry, evoking compassion and mercy, and cultivating a sense of shared community," expresses Liu.
About the Pritzker Architecture Prize
Prix AWARE 2025
Image: Tsuneko Taniuchi, Micro-événement n° 14 / Future épouse aime faire la peinture, for Art & Vitrine, Rougier & Plé, Paris, 2002. Photo: Tiina Ketara, © ADAGP, Paris
ART
Tsuneko Taniuchi
Prix d’honneur
AWARE : Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions held its ninth annual contemporary art prize ceremony. Tsuneko Taniuchi has been awarded the Prix d’honneur, granted to an artist with a career spanning over 40 years. Born in 1946 in Hyogo, Japan, Tsuneko Taniuchi has lived and worked in Paris since 1987. In 1995, she developed the concept of ‘Micro-events’ a concept that redefines the relationship between the artist, the artwork and the audience. These participatory works encourage individual engagement, blurring the boundaries between art and reality while questioning social and gender norms. By creating intimate experiences, she subverts codes to disrupt traditions and question the multiplicity of identities.
Image: Gabrielle Manglou, BAGATELLES, Astèr Atèrla, 2023-2024. Détail. Leather, paper, fabric, cardboard... Produced by FRAC Réunion + CCCOD Tours + La Friche de La Belle de Mai / La Friche de La Belle de Mai Marseille. © jcLett
ART
Gabrielle Manglou
Prix Nouveau Regard
Gabrielle Manglou has been awarded the Prix Nouveau Regard, granted to a mid-career artist. Gabrielle Manglou is a multidisciplinary artist, primarily working in the field of installation. Originally from La Réunion, she currently lives in Locmiquélic, Brittany. Her work explores themes such as human relationships, collective histories and material remnants. In her installations of all shapes and colours, Gabrielle Manglou traces paths based on what she has encountered along the way. They are paved with clues that tell us as much about where she comes from as where she wants to go, to take us and perhaps lose us.
2025 Jane Drew Prize for Architecture
Image: Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot, Christophe Hutin architecture, Transformation of 530 Dwellings, Bordeaux, France, 2016. © Laurian Ghinitoiu
ARCHITECTURE
Anne Lacaton
Jane Drew Prize for Architecture
Architect Anne Lacaton has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2025, an award recognising an architectural designer who, through their work and commitment, has raised the profile of women in architecture. Co-founder, with Jean-Philippe Vassal, of French firm Lacaton & Vassal, Lacaton has been instrumental in defining what it means to build responsibly in the 21st century. Often upending convention, Lacaton and Vassal are famed for their bare-bones renovation of Paris’s Palais de Tokyo and for wrapping existing housing stock in winter gardens – a move which improves the thermal performance of homes while subtly extending them.
About the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture
Prix de Dessin Pierre David-Weill
Académie des beaux-arts
Image: Amélie Royer, Passage, charcoal and Conté crayons on paper Moulin du Verger, 58 x 42 cm, 2023.
© ADAGP, Paris, 2025
ART
Amélie Royer
1er Prix
Born in 1998, Amélie Royer's work revolves around the sensation of being immersed in an environment to the point of forgetting oneself. Her work is based on an observation: the malaise of a melancholy and alienated youth, which leads her to seek refuge in the interstices: caves, ruins, wastelands... There, important entropic witnesses unfold and a sense of deep time settles in, where a hypnotising, almost palpable silence echoes. Absorbed in the space of the image under construction, the artist reclaims her own time. Her works invite us to pause and contemplate the void.
About the Prix de Dessin Pierre David-Weill
Hyundai Commission
Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Image: Máret Ánne Sara, Gutted – Gávogálši, 2022, and Ale suova sielu sáiget, 2022. Exhibition view, The Sámi Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Michael Miller / OCA.
ART
Máret Ánne Sara
Hyundai Commission
Tate and Hyundai Motor announced that Máret Ánne Sara will create the next site-specific work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Máret Ánne Sara was born in 1983 to a Sámi reindeer herding family in Guovdageaidnu in the Norwegian part of Sápmi, the traditional territory of the Sámi people which is today divided between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Sara highlights the impact of Nordic colonialism on Sámi ways of life, exploring the importance of preserving Sámi ancestral knowledge and values to protect the environment for future generations. Often using materials and methodologies derived from reindeer herding, Sara creates powerful sculptures and installations which uphold the reciprocal relationship between animals, lands, waters and humans.
FRAME Awards 2025
Image: STAR strategies + architecture, BOARD, The Cabanon, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024.
Photo: Ossip van Duivenbode
DESIGN
The Cabanon
Winner of the month for February
At just under 7-sq-m, The Cabanon is a fully equipped living space on the top floor of a 1950s-era building in Rotterdam (Small Apartment, 8.09). The apartment, designed by Star Strategies + architecture and BOARD, secured the title as the first monthly winner of the FRAME Awards 2025. Despite its minuscule footprint, the space incorporates all essential living spaces – and even has two infrared saunas and a whirlpool bath. It is organized into four main spaces, delineated through different materials: a living room, bedroom, toilet, spa and concealed kitchenette. A clever loft floor plan ensures that every square metre is maximized to the requirements of its occupants.
2024 Female in Focus x Nikon
Image: © Margarita Galandina, from Ovoo series. © Alice Poyzer, from Other Joys series.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Margarita Galandina
Alice Poyzer
Series winner
Margarita Galandina and Alice Poyzer are the series winners of the British Journal of Photography’s 2024 Female in Focus x Nikon. Poyzer’s series Other Joys taps into her lived experience of autism, drawing on her intensely-felt special interests through self-portraits, documentary shots and constructed images. Galandina's project is called Ovoo, after the sacred totems used by the Buryat to mark spiritually significant lands. The Buryat are an indigenous group from south-east Siberia, where Galandina was born and from which her maternal heritage descends. Using self-portraits, archival documents and family photographs, she seeks to challenge conventional accounts of the Buryat.
