miCo. is a Tokyo-based architectural collective of independent designers, established in 2008. The practice works across houses, apartments, interiors and furniture, creating architecture intended to live together with its environment and the wider world.

JAK Architecture is a Victorian architecture practice led by architect Jackson Wylie, with studios in Clifton Hill, Melbourne, and Point Lonsdale on the Bellarine Peninsula. The practice works across Melbourne, the Bellarine Peninsula, the Surf Coast and the Otway Ranges, focusing on new homes, additions and thoughtful renovations of existing buildings.

Founded in 2008 in Prague, Stempel & Tesar Architects is led by principals Ján Stempel and Jan Jakub Tesař. The studio has built a portfolio of over one hundred completed projects, principally in the residential typology, recognised for contextual sensitivity, material honesty, and spatial clarity.

Nati Minas & Studio is a São Paulo-based architecture, interior design, and scenography practice whose work is grounded in a singular design philosophy: that every project should be an accurate portrait of the people who inhabit it. Founded by Natalia Minas, an architect with over a decade of professional experience and more than eighty completed projects to her name, the studio operates across residential and commercial sectors, delivering a fully integrated service that encompasses spatial design, technical documentation, construction supervision, and furniture curation.

Scott & Scott Architects is a Vancouver-based architecture and interior design practice founded in 2012 by Susan and David Scott, following twelve years of combined experience at leading west coast architectural firms. Both graduates of Dalhousie University’s School of Architecture, the founding principals established the studio with a commitment to technically rigorous design practice across residential, commercial, and adaptive reuse typologies. The firm operates an in-house workshop dedicated to industrial design, material research, and prototyping, enabling direct involvement across all stages of design and construction. Lead architect Andrea Zittlau works alongside the founding principals on the studio’s current project portfolio.

HK Associates Inc is a Tucson, Arizona-based architecture practice founded in the mid-2000s by principals Kathy Hancox, AIA, and Michael Kothke, AIA, NCARB, ASID. Both principals carry a professional lineage rooted in internationally recognised firms across Vancouver, British Columbia, and San Francisco, California. Their arrival in Arizona in 2003 to collaborate with celebrated desert architect Rick Joy proved formative, cultivating a sustained commitment to site-responsive design and the spatial qualities particular to the Sonoran desert. The practice holds active architectural licensure in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, with NCARB certification enabling reciprocal licensure across North America.

Mesnil Architectures was founded in 2022 by Antonin Bohl, Mathias Lefebvre, and Arthur Schmitt, operating from two offices located in Paris (10 rue de la Mare, 75020) and Chatellerault (10 rue de la Bastille, 86100). The three founding principals are united by a shared attentiveness to the built environment and a sustained curiosity toward existing structures, forming the foundation of the practice's distinctive methodological approach.

Founded in Quebec, Nathalie Thibodeau Architecte (NTA) is a practice whose work is rooted in a fundamental question: how do people truly inhabit space? Concentrating its expertise on residential and workplace architecture, the firm operates at the intersection of contextual responsiveness, spatial sensitivity, and constructive rigor.

Founded in San Jose, Costa Rica in 2004 by Benjamin Garcia Saxe, Studio Saxe has established itself as one of Latin America's most internationally recognised architecture practices. Over more than two decades, the studio has evolved from a singular vision into a multidisciplinary atelier whose award-winning portfolio spans residential, hospitality, and wellness typologies across multiple continents. The practice is distinguished by its ability to synthesise technological precision with artisanal craftsmanship, producing built environments that are simultaneously ecologically responsive and spatially compelling.

Founded in 2003 by Adam Białobrzeski and Adam Figurski, following five years of professional experience at practices both in Poland and abroad, FAAB has grown into one of Warsaw’s most rigorous and methodologically driven architectural studios. Operating across architecture, landscape and urban design, interior design, and graphic design, and supported by cutting-edge engineering and consultancy, the practice approaches each commission through exhaustive research and precise design development, consistently producing built work of formal and functional distinction.

Founded in Amsterdam in 2011, Studioninedots has established itself as a distinctive voice in contemporary architecture and urban design. Led by founding partners Albert Herder, Vincent van der Klei, and Metin van Zijl, alongside associates Ike Gronheid, Jurjen van der Horst, Stijn de Jongh, and Wouter Hermanns, the 25-strong multidisciplinary practice operates across architecture, interior design, and urban planning.

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Burleigh Heads on Australia's Gold Coast, Habitat Studio Architects is a boutique, multi-disciplinary practice operating at the intersection of rigorous design thinking and environmental responsibility. Under the leadership of Principal Architect and Director Wayne Greenland, the studio has cultivated a design philosophy centred on site specificity, climatic sensitivity, and material authenticity, ensuring that each project articulates a distinct sense of place rooted in its physical and cultural context. Environmental sustainability is embedded structurally within the practice's design process from the earliest stages of conception, treated not as an option but as a fundamental design parameter.

Founded in Helsinki in 2006 by Väinö Nikkilä, Jussi Palva, Riina Palva and Ilkka Salminen, Verstas Architects has established itself as one of Finland's most distinguished architectural practices. The practice's name, Verstas, meaning "workshop" in Finnish, reflects its core ethos: a close, iterative dialogue between client and design team that yields architecture both contextually responsive and enduring. The Helsinki-based firm brings together architects, urban designers, and interior and landscape architects capable of working across scales from strategic masterplanning to the resolution of precise material detail.

Founded in Stockholm in 1995 by architects Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune, Claesson Koivisto Rune has evolved from a Swedish architectural practice into one of the most consistently rigorous multi-disciplinary design offices operating internationally today. All three founding principals hold the designation of Architect SAR SIR/MSA, and each trained across multiple leading institutions spanning Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen, New York and London, a trans-European academic grounding that is legible in the firm's precise yet culturally nuanced built work.

Founded in Montreal in 1994 by architects Marie-Claude Hamelin and Loukas Yiacouvakis, YH2 Architecture has established itself as one of Quebec's most distinguished design practices over the course of three decades. Operating under the conviction that architecture is fundamentally the art of place-making, the studio approaches each commission as both a creative and transformative act, one that seeks to reinvent reality through disciplined spatial thinking.

Founded in 2025 and based in Gakuenmae, Nara, Kichi Archi is led by principal architect Shiro Kameoka. The practice takes its name from its original 25-square-metre studio, a deliberate starting point that continues to inform the firm's ethos of extracting spatial richness from constraint.

Founded in April 2015 by directors Aaron Neighbour and Ton Vu, Atlas Architects is a Melbourne-based practice operating across studios in Footscray and the Surf Coast. Underpinned by a shared commitment to raising living standards through sustainable, innovative, and contextually responsive design, the studio has established a focused body of work within the low-rise residential sector that consistently prioritises spatial quality, environmental performance, and long-term habitability.

Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Kuwait, Alhumaidhi Architects is a full-service architectural design practice that has built a distinguished and diverse portfolio across residential and commercial typologies, both locally and across the Gulf region. The firm is led by Principal Architect Abdulaziz AlHumaidhi, a dual graduate in Architecture and Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), who brings over 21 years of accumulated expertise to redefining Kuwait's architectural landscape through a design approach that reconciles contemporary thinking with the country's rich cultural heritage and demanding environmental context.