Check out the work of the World Architecture Festival’s 40 Under 40 North America winners

Adam Wiese studied the material qualities of rammed earth. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Alex Pendersen worked on the design for Lawrence East Station in Toronto. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Andrew Linn of BLDUS designed a house in Adelaide Alley. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Andrew Weigand is behind this design for the new Art Omi Visitor Center. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Armida Fernandez designed a Mezcal Production Palenque. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Ben Wathen of TVS contributed to the design for an expansion to the Charlotte Convention Center. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Brandon Hall experimented with the typology of the workers cottage. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

For Gensler, Carolina Montilla worked on an office for EP + Co. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

The Fourth Wall, designed by Charles-Laurence Proulx activates public space. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Mooreland Home by ZITA is clad with wood. (Courtesy World Architecture Fesitval)

Daniel Feldman

ZITA

Bogotá, Columbia; New York

Erik Martinez worked on TEMIXCO, workspace for a visual artist. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Alongside a team of designers from WXY, Farida Abu-Bakare contributed to envisioning Packer Garden House & Facilities Plan. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Ignacio Cabrera Luque renovated a house in Mexico City into a small hotel with 10 suites. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

In this Mexico City home renovation from Inca Hernandez a staircase is a point of visual interest. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

An apartment building from Michan Architecture has a striking exterior presence. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Sanaa Center by Drummond Projects will complete in 2027. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Juan Rodriguez of MHS Architects is behind a 24-story, transit-oriented development in Jersey City. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Juan Sala worked on a spa facility in Paris. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

For Kilogram Studio, Kfir Gluzberg worked on Glimmer House. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

For this project, Khoa Vu converted a villa in Vietnam into a social dining space. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

The pavilion from Laura Salazar was on view at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in 2023. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Lilia Koleva was involved in the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), which stands as one of the largest healthcare construction projects in North America. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Black cladding makes a statement on A House by the Pond, a project from Lily Chishan Wong. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Monospace from MATTAFORMA and Lindsey Wikstrom is a concept venue in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Lisa Rammig from Eckersley O’Callaghan worked on the Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Marina Leboreiro designed a restaurant in Mexico City that combines Italian-Argentinian cuisine, aptly named Argentalia. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Mayur Patel worked on an office for IMC Trading in Chicago. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

The Branch School – Hightower Middle School my Michelle Old is a sustainable, wind- and water-integrated learning environment. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Miguel Campo’s design concept for the Rio Arts District in Medellín, Colombia includes five main buildings. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

NO OFFICE’s wood-centric house design situated in the Ganges Delta. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

NO OFFICE–designed single family residence in New York State (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

The Hacienda Wabi residential complex in Tulum, Mexico was designed by Pedro Ramírez de Aguilar. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Pedro Ramírez de Aguilar

Peter Logan of Wong Logan Architects is proposing a roof deck for the Potrero Technology Hub. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

The Mr. C Miami boutique hotel by Raymond Fort of Arquitectonica. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Sammy Shams explores the roadmap to net-zero buildings through HKS’s Emory Executive Park Musculoskeletal Institute. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Sebastián Canales’s design for Hamburgo 44 blends contemporary living with community and sustainability in Mexico City. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Field Operations and Taehyung Park designed the public realm for the Manhattan West development. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

The STEM Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, was completed in 2023 by Tim Williams and HDR. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Tura Cousins Wilson’s proposal reimagines Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)

Phase I of Xinyi Liu’s Cambridge Villa in Shanghai, China, was completed in February 2025. (Courtesy World Architecture Festival)