Dezeen Awards 2025 sustainability shortlists announced

Dezeen has announced the sustainability shortlist for this year's Dezeen Awards, which includes projects by Hassell, Squire and Partners and Morrama.

The 30 shortlisted projects, which are in the running to be crowned winners across five different sustainability project categories, are by studios located in 16 different countries including Norway, Indonesia, Canada and India.

Shortlisted projects include a plant-filled "terminal in a garden" in Bengaluru, a "very special and rare" pair of mid-century modern office buildings in London and the world's first industrial aluminium made with 100 per cent post-consumer aluminium.

Finland's largest mass-timber building in Helsinki, structured using around 7,600 cubic metres of spruce and ash and composed of almost 2,500 pieces of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and laminated veneer lumber, is also shortlisted.

All Dezeen Awards 2025 shortlists revealed this week

Dezeen Awards 2025, in partnership with Bentley, will reveal all shortlisted projects this week. The architecture, interiors and design shortlists were announced earlier this week.

This year's nomination-based Designers of the Year and Bentley Lighthouse Award shortlists will be announced tomorrow and next Monday respectively.

"The sustainability shortlist demonstrates a vast breadth of creativity," said Ben Saltmer, Dezeen Awards judge and head of lifestyle design at Bentley.

"From new biomaterials to large-scale architectural renovations, these projects all grapple with the key issues of our age."

The shortlisted projects were scored by our sustainability jury which includes Johan Ejdemo, Caroline Till and Fernando Laposse.

All shortlisted sustainability projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the Dezeen Awards website, where you can find an image and more information about the project.

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Read on for the full sustainability shortlist:

Sustainable building

› First Building - Bradfield City Centre, Sydney, Australia, by Hassell
› Intaaya Retreat, Nusa Penida, Indonesia, by Pablo Luna Studio
› Katajanokan Laituri, Helsinki, Finland, by Anttinen Oiva Architects
› Living in Fläming, Brandenburg, Germany, by Praeger Richter Architekten
› təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre, Vancouver, Canada, by HCMA Architecture + Design
› Worker's Pavilion, Kollam, India, by No Architects

Browse all projects on the sustainable building shortlist page.

Sustainable renovation

› Gorlaeus Lecture Hall Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands, by Civic Architects
› Hedeskov Living Lab, Djursland, Denmark, by Djernes & Bell
› Palais Rameau, Lille, France, by Atelier 9.81 and Perrot & Richard
› Space House, London, UK, by Squire and Partners
› Stanley Center for Peace and Security, Iowa, USA, by Neumann Monson Architects
› Transformation of School Davos, Davos, Switzerland, by Cura Architekten

Browse all projects on the sustainable renovation shortlist page.

Sustainable interior

› CoLab, Madrid, Spain, by Sancal and Lucas Muñoz
› Symbolplus Office, Tokyo, Japan, by Symbolplus
› T2 Kempegowda International Airport Interior, Bengaluru, India, by Enter Projects Asia
› Terrain, Melbourne, Australia, by Terrain
› Veilance, Tokyo, Japan, by We+
› World Heritage Centre Wadden Sea (WEC), Lauwersoog, the Netherlands, by Spring Studio

Browse all projects on the sustainable interior shortlist page.

Sustainable design

› Biota by Richard Hutten
› Fatconomy – The Waste Fa(c)t Machine by Ficta Studio
› Kibu Children's Headphones by Morrama
› Rícino C Series by Estúdio Rain
› The Zero-Waste Disposable by Fotofoto
› Zero-Waste MTTR Jean by MTTR

Browse all projects on the sustainable design shortlist page.

Material innovation

› Carbon Cell by Carbon Cell
› EconitWood by Additive Tectonics
› Freitag Mono[PA6]: Circular Backpack by Freitag Lab
› Grow Your Own Home: Margent Farm's Hemp-Based Corrugated Panels by Margent Farm
› Hydro CIRCAL 100R by Hydro
› Other Matter Architectural Surfaces by Other Matter

Browse all projects on the material innovation shortlist page.

Dezeen Awards 2025 in partnership with Bentley

Dezeen Awards is the ultimate accolade for architects and designers across the globe. The eighth edition of the annual awards programme is in partnership with Bentley as part of a wider collaboration to inspire, support and champion design excellence and showcase innovation that creates a better and more sustainable world. This ambition complements Bentley's architecture and design business initiatives, including the Bentley Home range of furnishings and real estate projects around the world.

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