Twenty-five Year Award

The Twenty -five Year Award is annually by the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ) at its Annual General Meeting conferred Architecture Prize, which is aligned to the resistance of the building and its concept. Current price support is the John Hancock Tower in Boston.

Selection criteria

Excellent are building, whose completion over 25 years - maximum 35 years - ago and whose design has been shown to be good, so is a good example of resistant architecture. The country in which the building stands is irrelevant, even if all the buildings are in the United States with two exceptions. A further requirement is that the designing architect was admitted to completion in the United States, where you can get the price by foreign architects. The building must have remained completely intact in terms of design and have a good condition. Changes in the function are partly allowed.

Each AIA member may propose a building fits the criteria. Even repeated proposals of the same construction are permitted so long as the requirements are met. The jury will evaluate the proposals in the light of current standards in terms of its function, design and creativity. The assessment covers both the building and its location.

"The project must have excellence in function, in the distinguished execution of its original program and in the creative aspects of its statement by today 's standards. "

Excellent building

The architect Louis I. Kahn, Frank Lloyd Wright, IM Pei, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill won the award more than once.

Besides each one prize winners in Spain and Saudi Arabia, are all buildings in the United States. New York, Illinois, Connecticut, California, New England and Washington DC each have more than a building with the award.