W Awards prize-giving ceremony at Palazzo Michiel, Venice

On Friday 9 May, the Architects’ Journal and The Architectural Review celebrated the winners of the W Awards 2025 in Venice at the European Cultural Centre. The event include presentations from the winners of the Jane Drew, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Research Prizes, and revealed the winners of the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture and MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice.

Sara Alissa and Nojoud Alsudairi, founders of Syn Architects based in Saudi Arabia, won the Moira Gemmill Prize 2025.

Rachel Elliott of Lynch Architects has won the MJ Long Prize for Excellence Prize 2025.

Read more about the winners and shortlisted practices here.

This was a public event and was followed by a lunch for all winners and finalists, hosted by John Jennifer Marx alongside the AR and AJ.

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