As Archinect reported this morning, Chengdu architect Liu Jiakun has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Pritzker Prize, one of the architecture world's most prestigious awards.Liu has built a career spanning over four decades, developing projects that blend modernity with traditional Chinese architectural elements. Rooted in cultural, historical, and social considerations, the architect's work often seeks to create spaces that serve and uplift communities."I always aspire to be like waterto permeate through a place without carrying a fixed form of my own and to seep into the local environment and the site itself," Liu said in a statement with the award's announcement. "Over time, the water gradually solidifies, transforming into architecture, and perhaps even into the highest form of human spiritual creation. Yet, it still retains all the qualities of that place, both good and bad."Following the announcement, Archinect has rounded up 11 projects that have defined Jiakun's...