Winner: Architect of the year 2024. Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA).

Founded in 2005, the studio's primary aim is to root architecture to place, informed by people, climate and geography. Their work is environmentally conscious, socially responsible and historically and culturally informed.

In addition to building design, MTA researches the impact of climate change in Bangladesh, working closely with geographers, landscape architects and planners among other allied professionals. The studios also focuses on the low-income population of the country with an aim to raise living conditions for these populations.

Marina Tabassum was named on the on the list of the 100 most influential people of 2024 by Time magazine and her studio recently completed a bamboo demountable house at the Vitra Campus in Germany.

Judges comments: "One of global architecture’s undoubted heavyweights, Marina Tabassum aims to create buildings that are aligned with their environments", said the judges.

"Her locally focused work is gaining increasing attention and admiration since winning the Aga Khan Award for Bait Ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. She recently won the Soane Medal and was named on Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2024 list. It would be no surprise to see her win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in the next couple of years."