Stunning architectural visualizations win in the Render of the Year Award 2020

Good design is important to good architecture. Pairing the vision with compelling visualization, however, will carry the message such a lot further. The annual Render of the Year Award seeks to spotlight the simplest practitioners and students in their craft.

The 2020 Award Jury was composed of industry veterans, including Anne-Marie Armstrong (Founder, AAmp Studio); Deborah Berke (Partner, Deborah Berke Partners); Alice Britton (Cofounder, Squint / Opera); Keely Colcleugh (Founder, Kilograph); Ivi Diamantopoulou (Cofounder, New Affiliates); Peter Guthrie (Founder, The Boundary); Alex Hogrefe (Partner, Visualizing Architecture Design Distill); Catherine Huang (Partner, Bjarke Ingels Group); Juan Rico (Cofounder, Methanoia); George Yabu + Glenn Pushelberg (Founders, Yabu Pushelberg).

Here are this year’s winners and honorable mentions.

OVERALL WINNER

Winner: Winery in Alentejo by Jacinto Monteiro (cover image)

OVERALL WINNER, Honorable Mention: Raft Island by Alaina Temple & Daniel Temple (Notion Workshop), also won another honorable mention in the EXTERIOR AWARD category

Further Honorable Mentions: Platform for Imagined Ruins by Albert Orozco (see below as winner of the Young Designer Award category and another honorable mention in the Interior Award bracket)

YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD

YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD, Honorable Mention: Flooding as Commons: A Symbiotic, Reactionary Masterplan forEstuarial Living by Yip Siu

YOUNG DESIGNER AWARD, Honorable Mention: The Hyperbolic Time Temple by Gianluca Sorteni & Giovanni Toselli

UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

UNDERGRADUATE AWARD, Honorable Mention: Heartbeat Gallery by Simone Andreatta

UNDERGRADUATE AWARD, Honorable Mention: Old Futurism by Giovanni Battista Croce

INTERIOR AWARD

INTERIOR AWARD, Honorable Mention: Renewed Palimpsest by Tae Hyung Lee & Ryan Henriksen

Further Honorable Mentions: Platform for Imagined Ruins by Albert Orozco (see above as winner of the Young Designer Award category and another honorable mention in the Overall Winner section)

EXTERIOR AWARD

Further Honorable Mentions:

Winery in Alentejo by Jacinto Monteiro, also the winner of the OVERALL WINNER category
Raft Island by Alaina Temple & Daniel Temple (Notion Workshop), also won another honorable mention in the OVERALL WINNER category

Check out the Director’s Choice picks in the image gallery below.

Which of the winning renderings is your personal favorite? Let us know in the comment section below.