INSPIRELI AWARDS Celebrates Its 10th Edition: Architecture Students from Around the World Share Their Visions

photo 10/10/2025

The 10th anniversary of the prestigious international student competition INSPIRELI AWARDS demonstrated the strength of a new generation of architects and designers.

This year, 1,506 students from 77 countries submitted 1,511 projects, reaffirming INSPIRELI AWARDS as the world’s largest student architecture competition.
The winners were announced at a gala ceremony held on October 6th at Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, where among 450 guests attended renowned architects such as Francois Valentiny, Budi Pradono, Giacomo Garciano or Daminth Premathilake, and many other distinguished figures from around the globe.

The mission of INSPIRELI AWARDS is to support young talent worldwide free of charge, regardless of their social, economic, or geographical circumstances.
Winners receive not only prestigious recognition with 1500 EUR and an Archicad license, but also the opportunity to realize their architectural dreams and connect with professional mentors.

Winners of the Main Categories – INSPIRELI AWARDS 2025

INSPIRELI AWARDS has no fixed theme, allowing each student to showcase what matters most in their country. The best projects are selected in three categories:

ARCHITECTURE
From 1,150 projects across 73 countries, the winner is Jakub Miśniakiewicz (Poland) from the Cracow University of Technology with the project “What Happened to the Vikings – Viking Burial Mound.”
His work is a poetic reflection on cultural memory, connecting history with a contemporary architectural language.

INTERIOR DESIGN
Among 201 participants from 29 countries, Mateusz Pludowski from the Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, won with project “CareWork – Community Center with Coworking Space in Sopot.”
The project combines the social value of shared spaces with sensitive interior design.

URBAN DESIGN
A team from Argentina – Belisario Terán, Valentina Rios Jaimes, Scott Wilde, and Lucas Saavedra (Tucumán National University, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism) – won with the project “Astronomical Observation Center Ñawi.”
Their design merges science, architecture, and the region’s cultural heritage into a unique urban concept.

Thematic INSPIRELI Competitions

Every year, INSPIRELI also organizes theme-based challenges – from development projects like the Beirut Port Reconstruction (2022) and Schindler’s Ark (2024) to the commercial as Czech Embassy in Ethiopia, or this year’s projects: the Zahrádky Castle Reconstruction and the Zambia Secondary School Design.

In the Zahrádky Castle Competition, an extremely challenging topic of reconstruction of a medieval castle to serve the needs of 21st century, 58 students from 14 countries participated.
The winning team from Poland – Damian Gębarski, Weronika Ławniczak, Aleksandra Bugajska, Michał Cegliński, and Zuzanna Czesna – presented their excellent Zahrádky Castle Conservation Project.

Second themed topic was a Design & Build specialty. The Kashitu School Competition challenged students to design a buildable project using local materials also offer the change to fly to Zambia and help building it with their own hands. The competition attracted 180 students from 25 countries submitting over 100 projects.
The winning design came from a Danish team made by Anna Wilczewska, Antje Heyselberghs, and Zin Sadik.

The INSPIRELI Archicad Prize is a special award that meansures the best use of the architectural software tools. Graphisoft grants INSPIRELI Winners‘ the Archicad Pro licence for last 5 years and was this time also the main partner of the gala ceremony. 477 projects competed at the Prize, and the first place went to Dang Duy Khoa and Nguyen Tran Manh Dan from Vietnam for their exceptionally innovative project CompOnion.

About the Competition

INSPIRELI AWARDS is not only a competition but also a global community connecting young architects with professionals worldwide.
Over the past ten years, it has become a platform for sharing creativity, ideas, and cultural perspectives, helping shape a more inclusive and high-quality built environment.

The competition was founded a decade ago in the Czech Republic, inspired by the ideas of former president Václav Havel, architect Bořek Šípek, and Karel Smejkal, and has since grown into a truly global platform.

The new year has already started and the new topic takes the students into Argentinian city of Tucuman – The Arsenal, where they can work on both urban design and architectural scale of a town development. Competition ends June 15, 2026.