Best of Year Awards - 2021 Project Winners
PROJECTS
| Final Category | Formal Project Name | Lead Firm Name |
| budget | Novotel Miami | BHDM Design |
| budget office | Zwift Headquarters | IA Interior Architects |
| higher education | The David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago | Diller Scofidio + Renfro |
| early education | Pinghe Bibliotheater | Open Architecture |
| kids' zone | Bay Area Discovery Museum | Olson Kundig |
| exhibition | Beethoven Moves, Kunsthistorisches Museum | Tom Postma Design |
| installation | Duckt, 2021 London Design Biennale | Revery Architecture |
| large museum/art gallery | Dia Chelsea | Architecture Research Office |
| small museum/art gallery | Claudia and Nelson Peltz Social Lab, Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles | Yazdani Studio |
| entertainment | Wan Fat Jinyi Cinema | One Plus Partnership |
| library | Adams Street Branch, Boston Public Library | NADAAA |
| government/institutional | Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| transportation: large | Security Checkpoint, Midway International Airport | Muller2 |
| transportation: small | Ticketed Waiting Room, Moynihan Train Hall | Rockwell Group and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| social impact | Aktion Mensch Headquarters | Ippolito Fleitz Group |
| greater good: supportive housing | Chandler Tiny Homes Village Bridge Housing for the Homeless | Lehrer Architects LA |
| environmental impact | Ford Calumet Environmental Center | Valerio Dewalt Train and Media Objectives |
| outdoor space | Bamboo Canopy and Pavilions | LLLab. |
| healthcare | Center for Community Health, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital | Perkins Eastman |
| clinic | Heal Planet | Fun Connection Design |
| dispensary | Alchemy | Studio Paolo Ferrari |
| fitness | Equinox Beale Street | RDC |
| beauty/spa | Valle San Nicolás | Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos |
| bar/lounge/social club | Spice and Barley | Enter Projects Asia |
| coffee/tea | Nemesis Coffee | Perkins&Will |
| counter service | Dengo Chocolates | Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura |
| casual dining | Lunar | Sò Studio |
| fine dining | Esperanza | Atelier Gulla Jonsdottir |
| hotel dining | Nearly Ninth, Arlo Midtown | MeyerDavis |
| outdoor dining | Design for Distancing | Gensler |
| resort: large | Patina Maldives Hotel | Studio MK27 |
| resort: small | AutoCamp Cape Cod | Workshop/APD |
| chain hotel | Canopy by Hilton San Antonio Riverwalk | Markzeff, Gensler, and Lake Flato |
| boutique hotel | The Londoner | Yabu Pushelberg |
| hotel transformation | Cheval Blanc Paris | Peter Marino Architect |
| large corporate office | Waste Management Headquarters | Perkins&Will |
| medium corporate office | Roche Laboratories Headquarters | Saguez & Partners |
| small corporate office | Early Childhood Authority | Roar |
| finance office | Citi Wealth Hub | Ministry of Design |
| creative office | Hangzhou Qingmo | L&M Design Lab |
| tech office | Uber Mission Bay Headquarters | Huntsman Architectural Group, RMW, Pfau Long, and SHoP Architects |
| coworking office | Kearny Point Building 78 Annex | Studios Architecture and WXY Architecture + Urban Design |
| firm's own office: domestic | Gensler Raleigh Office | Gensler |
| firm's own office: international | Nine Do Office | Nine Do |
| office transformation | 175 Haussmann | PCA-Stream and RF Studio |
| corporate cafeteria | Dock 72 | Fogarty Finger |
| commercial lobby + amenity space | YTL Headquarters | Ministry of Design |
| building facade: domestic | Miami Beach Convention Center | Fentress Architects and Arquitectonica |
| building facade: international | Ya Spaceļ¼ | Pig Design |
| domestic residential lobby + amenity space | Park Grove Residences | Meyer Davis and OMA |
| international residential lobby + amenity space | Timber House | NC Design & Architecture |
| multiunit housing | The Smile | BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group |
| senior living | Inspir Carnegie Hill | Handel Architects |
| large apartment | Downtown Developer Loft Reimagined | SheltonMIndel |
| small apartment | TriBeCa Apartment | Enze Architects |
| city house | Cummings Estate | Ghislaine Viñas and Chet Architecture |
| country house | Casa Rancho Avándaro | Chain + Siman |
| beach house | Stony Hill | Bates Masi + Architects |
| small house | Root Trail Bungalow | SheltonMindel |
| residential transformation | House on Lake Maitland | Steven Harris Architects, Rees Roberts and Partners, and Jessica Helgerson Interior Design |
| residential landscape | Atherton Pavilions | Feldman Architecture and Thuilot Associates |
| kitchen | Tambour Loft | Dash Marshall |
| bath | Aurora Private Lodge | Snorre Stinessen Architecture |
| residential sales center | Jinan Bocuiminghu Textile Culture and Arts Exhibition Hall | Beijing Fenghemuchen Space Design |
| residential sales center | Times China Icar Town Center | C&C Design Co. |
| residential sales center | Time River Experience Center | CLV.Design |
| residential sales center | Gemdale Urban Nest | Dome & Associates |
| residential sales center | White Mountain Club House | Kris Lin International Design |
| residential sales center | A Geometric Answer to the Poetic Wildness | Pone Architecture |
| showroom | +55design Store | Studio Arthur Casas |
| large retail | La Samaritaine | Yabu Pushelberg |
| small retail | David Yurman 57th Street | Gabellini Sheppard Associates |
| bookstore | Dujiangyan Zhongshuge | X+Living |
| staircase | Cummings Estate | Chet Architecture and Ghislaine Viñas |
| environmental branding + graphics | Drinks&Co | Saguez & Partners |
| marketing + branding collateral | Bel-Fries | Crème |
| on the boards: commercial | Hana Bank Headquarters | NBBJ |
| on the boards: residential | House of Many Houses | Innocad Architecture and Superunique |
| shining moment | Sinan Books | Wutopia Lab |
| iconic project | One Vanderbilt | Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates |
| iconic project | SheltonMindel New York Family Office | SheltonMindel |