Awards – Royal Pineda

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.