An angular museum in a Canadian forest, buildings for New York's dump trucks and road salt, and a girl's school in Afghanistan are among the 17 winners in the American Institute of Architects' Honor Awards this year.
The 2018 AIA Institute Honor Awards recognises the best projects across three categories: architecture, interior architects and urban design. These can be completed either in America or internationally, but the architects must be licensed in the United States.
Announced earlier today, 12 January 2018, this year's 17 winners were selected from 500 submissions by a jury of architects and academics.
Among the winning designs in the architecture category is The Broad art museum completed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which is lauded for "urbanising downtown Los Angeles", and the Manhattan Districts 1/2/5 and Spring Street Salt Shed in New York City ? designed by Dattner Architects in collaboration with WXY Architecture + Urban Design. Patkau Architects' angular museum in a Canadian forest, Graham Baba Architects' headquarters for the Washington Fruit and Produce Company, and a girls school in Afghanistan built by Robert Hull and the University of Washington's architecture department are also honoured in this group.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill received two accolades ? one for its New United States Courthouse in Los Angeles in the architecture selection, and another Chinatown Branch Library in Chicago in the interior architecture category.

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