For the 2007 International Architecture Awards presented by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, there was received hundreds of submissions from design firms in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. The submissions ranged from the latest new corporate high-tech headquarters to smaller planning projects, bridges, memorials, sacred spaces, and private residences. All submitted projects were designed by architects in their countries of origin or abroad for both built and unbuilt projects alike, as of January 1, 2003. Amongst the five award winners in the UK were the JKS Workshops in Glasgow by gm + ad.

This year's jury for awards took place in Moscow and was organized by the Union of Architects of Russia at the end of February and included some of the most important young and established Russian architectural practitioners employed today:

• Yury Gnedowskiy, President, Union of Architects of Russia, People's Architect of the Russian Federation and Chair of the Jury
• Vladimir Yudintsev, Architect, Moscow
• Georgiy Solopov, Architect, Moscow
• Alexander Larin, Architect, Moscow
• Andrey Kaftanov, Architect, Council Member, Union of International Architects (UIA)
• Dimitriy Serebryakov, Architect, Moscow
• Andrey Osokin, Architect, Moscow
• Maria Kiernan, Architect, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland 

Out of the fifty-seven project selected for awards, Japan received the highest number of nine awards with Germany and Italy at six awards followed by the United Kingdom with five awards and Spain with four awards. The United States, Mexico, and Austria had three awarded buildings with Switzerland, China, and Saudi Arabia for a total of two awards. Ireland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Australia, India, Denmark, South Korea, Egypt, South Africa, Singapore, Sweden, and Israel/Jordan each had one awarded project. The total number of countries with awarded projects was twenty-four.

One of the boldest and largest projects awarded in 2007 is the new Madrid Barajas Airport by Richard Rogers Partnership in Madrid, Spain, which is a poetic marvel of form and function married to state-of-the-art technology. Staggering and expressive are the words for the Berlin Central Station by gmp-von Gerkan, Marg und Partner Architects in Berlin and for the high-art exposition facility, Nuovo Polo Fiera Milano, by Massimilano Fuksas Architect in Rho-Pero, Italy.

"The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. have organized this annual Museum program, The International Architecture Awards, as a way in which to draw significant world attention to new buildings and urban planning projects being built and designed globally by the best and most prestigious international architecture offices and design firms," states Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine. "The wide geographic distribution of these awards attests to the importance of the progra. There is no one, single architecture program in existence today that brings together the latest cutting-edge international architecture today as one cohesive universal representation or platform for world design. The Museum is honored to provide a focus that allows an exploration and analysis for current stylistic directions and philosophical thinking that is apparent in contemporary design today."

The awarded projects for 2007 and other selected works will form an exhibition, "New World Architecture" to open as an exhibition in 2007. (Location to be announced.) Also shown will be the winning projects selected from the Museum's annual "American Architecture Awards" for 2007, which recognizes the best new building design in the United States. The 2008 deadline for submissions for "The International Architecture Awards" is DECEMBER 1, 2007 for buildings designed and/or built between 2004-2007.