The Arc Circle Collective 2026 ARC Icon Awards

The Arc Circle Collective ARC Icon Awards recognize architectural works that shape the evolving landscape of Philippine design. Established in 2023, the initiative highlights projects that demonstrate vision, cultural relevance, and impact—celebrating architecture that bridges heritage, innovation, and community. Selected works are curated into the ARC Icon 100 publication and presented in forums that foster dialogue and exchange within the profession.

We extend our gratitude to Arc Circle Collective for this recognition, which affirms architectural contributions that reflect the aspirations of the Modern Filipino.

This year, we are fortunate to have three projects selected: the New Clark City Sports Hub, through its Athletics Stadium and Aquatics Center, and Bangkota. Each project embodies the collaborative effort of builders, partners, and communities, shaping spaces that carry the spirit, purpose, and ongoing story of the Filipino built environment.

Global Filipino Architect Award

UAP Dubai Design Awards 2025*

This distinction honors a life’s work dedicated to expressing the Modern Filipino through architecture. It recognizes a voice that asserts identity without excess, reclaims heritage through modernity, and builds presence with quiet strength. More than an award, it affirms a vision one that continues to shape a dignified, sovereign Filipino sensibility on the global stage.

Clark International Airport – Prix Versailles Laureate

2023 World Architecture & Design Award, Airports

Honored as one of the world’s most beautiful airports, Clark International Airport’s new terminal was bestowed the Prix Versailles Laureate for embodying innovation, ecological sensitivity, and cultural resonance. With interiors shaped by Filipino heritage and environments that ease and elevate the travel experience, it stands as architecture in fluid dialogue with place where design meets identity and purpose with equal grace.

New Clark City Aquatics Center

UAP Dubai Design Awards 2023 – Civic & Cultural Project of the Year

Rooted in tradition yet shaped for the present, the Aquatics Stadium honors the spirit of the Filipino through structure and scale. Its woven skin and shell-like form elevate function into national pride earning recognition for transforming a civic space into a symbol of identity.

Pandemic House

UAP Dubai Design Awards 2023 – Residential Project of the Year

Born from necessity, the Pandemic House offers a calm, deliberate response to changing patterns of life. Its architecture frames resilience with restraint earning distinction for creating a home that listens, shelters, and adapts.

Athletics Stadium – WAF

World Architecture Festival 2019 – Completed Buildings: Sport

Cited among the world’s best, the Athletics Stadium was Highly Commended at the World Architecture Festival for its restrained monumentality and rooted sense of place. Carved from the terrain and shaped by purpose, it reflects a sovereign architectural presence one that carries the Modern Filipino onto the global field with quiet resolve.