2004

Golden Lion for best installation presented by a Country

Belgium Pavilion for the installation “Kinshasa, The Imaginary City”

Golden Lion for most remarkable work in the exhibition Metamorph

Japanese architecture firm SANAA for the projects “Twenty-First-Century Museum of Contemporary Art” in Kanazawa in Japan

Special award for most accomplished work in the section Concert Halls

Danish /Belgian architecture firm Plot by Julien De Smedt and Bjarke Ingels for the project Concert Hall Stavanger in Norway

Special award for most accomplished work in the section Episodes

German photographer Armin Linke and Italian architect Piero Zanini for the installation Alpi

Special award for most accomplished work in the section Transformations

Austrian architect Günther Domenig for the Documentation Centre at the Party Rally Grounds , Nuremberg, Germany

Special award for most accomplished work in the section Topography

Foreign Office Architects Ltd for the Novartis Car Park in Basle, Switzerland

Special award for most accomplished work in the section Surfaces

Japanese architect Shuhei Endo for the project “Springtecture”

Special award for most accomplished work in the section  Atmosphere

Australian architecture firm PTW Architects pty Ltd and the Chinese partners CSCEC + Design for the project National Swimming Centre , Beijing Olympic Green in China

Special award for most accomplished work in the section Hyper-Projects

Martinez Lapeña –Torres Arquitectos for the Esplanada Fòrum of Barcelona

Special award for most accomplished work in the section Morphing Lights, Floating Shadows (photography)

images of Mars taken by the NASA-project in cooperation with JPL and Cornell University

2002

Golden Lion for best project

the Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre (Brazil) designed by Alvaro Siza Vieira

Golden Lion for Best National Participation

Dutch Pavilion

Special Prize to a patron of architectural works

Zhang Xin

Special Prize for governmental patronage

City of Barcelona

Special Mention given to Next Mexico City

the Lakes Project

2000

Golden Lion for best interpretation of the Exhibition theme

Jean Nouvel

Special Prize for best National Participation

Spanish Pavilion

Special Prize "Bruno Zevi" to an academic of Architecture

Joseph Rykwert

Special Prize to a patron of architectural works

Thomas Krens

Special Prize to a publisher of Architecture

Eduardo Luis Rodriguez, publisher of the magazine "Arquitectura Cuba"

Special Prize to a photographer in the field of Architecture

Ilya Utkin