The advancement of urban development has made it possible to improve the quality of infrastructure and the organization of urban territories, affecting cities’ competitiveness and investment attractiveness. The study aims to apply multi-criteria evaluation methods to create urban development opportunities in the sustainable architecture of buildings and urban areas. The primary data collection methods include document analysis and an expert survey. Through document analysis, the authors identify the basic methods of evaluating buildings and architectural objects to establish compliance with the requirements of sustainable architecture. The expert survey results highlight the most dynamically developing and globally recognized methods: LEED and BREEAM. Further analysis sheds light on the specific features of criteria-based evaluation of buildings under LEED and BREEAM certification, compares the lists of building evaluation criteria in BREEAM and LEED, and considers the practical implementation of LEED and BREEAM building certification while highlighting and describing architectural objects. The authors conclude that the standards defined in the BREEAM and LEED multi-criteria methods exhaustively conform to the principles of sustainable architecture, encompassing environmental, economic, and social conditions. BREEAM and LEED can be applied to new and modernized residential and public buildings.