In her editorial for our newly released 2025 Special Issue, our editor in chief Floor Kuitert shares some of the key takeaways from last year’s FRAME Awards winners and jury deliberations.

In October last year, I travelled to Hong Kong for the FRAME Awards Grand Finale, which took place at the Herzog & de Meuron and Studio Farrells-designed M+ Museum in the city’s still-developing cultural quarter, West Kowloon. One of my first observations of the location was that this seems to be one of those institutional buildings that are truly accessible to the public, even if you’re not there to visit the exhibitions. During our first site visit in the afternoon, children on scooters enjoyed the shielded areas that are an integrated yet open part of the museum, while early the next morning, a group of women used the ‘grand stair plaza’ for a tai chi session.