Featured Award: AIA Top Twenty-Five Year Awards

This past January the American Institute of Architects (AIA) identified the Broadgate Exchange House in London, United Kingdom as the recipient of the 2015 AIA Twenty-Five Year award. Designed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM), the Exchange House is a recognizable presence in central London, noted for its use of Modernism with a simple structural unification of design and function.

Beginning in 1969, the American Institute of Architects annually recognizes an exceptional winner for the Twenty-five Year Award. This award is given to buildings that have “stood the test of time by embodying architectural excellence for 25 to 35 years.”

Awarded buildings can be located anywhere in the world but must have been designed by an architect licensed in the United States. Examples of previous winners include King Abdul Aziz International Airport -Hajj Terminal King in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, Spain, the Rockefeller Center in New York City and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.

For more information, including an archive of past winners, please visit the official American Institute of Architects Twenty-five Year award page or GBIG’s collection of AIA Twenty-five Year award winners.