"CHROMAtex.me," bridgegallery, NYC, Photo: Alan R. Tansey, Michael Szivos, SOFTlab

The results are in and the winners of the 31st annual Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers were announced on Friday. The recipients of the 2012 awards are: Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio del Rio, Emmanuel Ramirez, and Diego Ricalde, MMX Studio, Mexico City; Jimenez Lai, Bureau Spectacular, Chicago; Sean Lally, WEATHERS / Sean Lally, Chicago; Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim, STPMJ, Brooklyn; Michael Szivos, SOFTlab, New York; and Koji Tsutsui, Koji Tsutsui & Associates, San Francisco and Tokyo. Formerly the Young Architects Forum, the League Prize is considered one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects.

"Santa Catarina Residence," Mexico, Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio Del Rio, Emmanuel Ramirez, Diego Ricalde, MMX Studio

The renderings and images reflect the theme of this year’s prize, No Precedent. League committee members and competition jurors valued the competition entries based on a perception of the career of a young architect. According to the League’s announcement, jurors sought “ideas, works, and methodologies that are unfounded, ungrounded, and suspect…the things no one has done before, and that one has little experience with.” The winners reflected the notion of their burgeoning careers by displaying work that is, “suggestive, speculative, and on the brink.”

"Amplification," Sean Lally, WEATHERS / Sean Lally

Beginning June 21st, the winners will display their work at Parsons The New School for Design. Their work will also be featured in a new volume of the Young Architects series jointly published by Princeton Architectural Press and the League.