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Oculus magazine, AIA New York’s quarterly print publication, is an important means of asserting the identity and advocacy of architects in New York.
Oculus Spring cover
Spring 2025: AIANY Design Awards

A Publication of AIA New York, Volume 87, Issue 2

On the Cover: Kaohsiung Port Terminal in Taiwan, designed by Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture DPC, is the 2025 Design Awards Best in Competition winner. Pictured is a waterside view of departure lobe A, containing restaurants and viewing deck, above the public esplanade. A sunken garden court adjoins the departure lobby below. Photo: Iwan Baan.

Table of Contents
Features
2025 Honor Awards
The four awardees are united by their mission to address the more urgent need for a more equitable, sustainable, connected, and resilient world.
Intro & Jury
The jurors were particularly drawn to projects that engaged community and blurred the boundaries between public and private space.
ARCHITECTURE
See the winners announcement.

BEST IN COMPETITION

Kaohsiung Port Terminal
Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture DPC

HONOR

Cast Iron House
Shigeru Ban Architects

Portland International Airport
ZGF Architects

Vesterheim Commons
Snøhetta

MERIT

The Church
SKOLNICK Architecture

Equatorial School of Architecture
Erik L’Heureux, FAIA; Campus Design Innovations Group, National University of Singapore

Kresge College Expansion at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Studio Gang

The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University
REX

Narrow House
Only If Architecture

Pink House
Roger Ferris + Partners

Qiaochengbei Park Visitor Center
Atelier XI

University of Toronto Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus
WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism

CITATION

Allen Apartments
asap/ adam sokol architecture practice

Casa Celina
Magnusson Architecture and Planning

Far Rockaway Library
Snøhetta

Palace Theatre
PBDW Architects

St. John’s Terminal
COOKFOX Architects
INTERIORS


MERIT

Manhattan Pet Adoption Center
Studio Joseph

Rockefeller Center Rink Level Public Concourse
INC Architecture & Design

CITATION

West Village Townhouse
JG Neukomm Architecture; SPAN Architecture
PROJECTS


HONOR

Biogenic House Sections
LTL Architects
URBAN DESIGN


HONOR

Blanton Museum of Art Grounds Redesign at the University of Texas at Austin
Snøhetta

Tom Lee Park
Studio Gang and SCAPE
Interior of Vesterheim Commons
Design Details: AIANY Design Award Honorees
A closer look at the winners that received Honors in the categories of Architecture, Projects, and Urban Design, highlighting one outstanding element from each project’s myriad attributes.
by Rita Catinella Orrell
Index of Collaborators
Departments
2025 AIANY President Benjamin Gilmartin, AIA. Photo: Geordie Wood.
Letter From the President
Community and Resilience
by AIANY President Benjamin Gilmartin, AIA
Headshot of Oculus Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Krichels
Letter From the Editor
Seeking Connections Amid Disparity
by Oculus Editor-In-Chief Jennifer Krichels
Three Oculus magazine covers
Call for Summer 2025 Op-Eds
Teamwork
by The Editors
On View
New Practices New York 2025: Voice; ICFF
Headshot of Jesse Lazar standing outside the Center for Architecture front doors
Last Word
Meeting New Challenges Together
by Jesse Lazar, Assoc. AIA, Executive Director, AIANY/Center For Architecture
Oculus at US Modernist Library
 
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