Best of Year Awards - 2021 Finalists
PROJECTS
| Final Category | Formal Project Name | Lead Firm Name |
| budget | Novotel Miami | BHDM Design |
| budget | Cast Iron House Playroom | Inaba Williams Architecture |
| budget | Guandong Affordable Housing | L&M Design Lab |
| budget | Gemdale Corporate Lobby | One Plus Partnership |
| budget office | Studio Runway | DKstudio Architects |
| budget office | Zwift Headquarters | IA Interior Architects |
| budget office | Adobe Times Square | M Moser Associates |
| budget office | Signify Health | Perkins&Will |
| higher education | University of Pennsylvania Meeting & Guesthouse | Deborah Berke Partners |
| higher education | The David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago | Diller Scofidio + Renfro |
| higher education | Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business, Clemson University | LMN Architects |
| higher education | Bergami Center for Science, Technology, & Innovation, University of New Haven | Svigals + Partners |
| early education | City Kids | Barker Associates Architecture Office |
| early education | Digital Media Library, Monte Sinai School | Mayer Hasbani |
| early education | Pinghe Bibliotheater | Open Architecture |
| early education | Meiyi Royal Kindergarten Education Center | Pal Design Group |
| kids' zone | Animal Adventure Island | Fenhom·Urodesign Studio |
| kids' zone | Fudi Changchun Karen Lake Forest Experience Center | Fun Connection Design |
| kids' zone | Bay Area Discovery Museum | Olson Kundig |
| kids' zone | Educatorium | Tinker Imagineers |
| exhibition | How It Was: Space and History, History Museum Graz | Innocad Architecture |
| exhibition | Open the Box, 2021 Venice Architectural Biennale | Louise Braverman Architect |
| exhibition | Four Dioramas, 2021 Venice Architectural Biennale | NemeStudio |
| exhibition | Beethoven Moves, Kunsthistorisches Museum | Tom Postma Design |
| installation | Binary Spectrum | Dubbeldam Architecture + Design |
| installation | Cerith Wyn Evans and Conrad Shawcross, Paul Hastings Office | LSM |
| installation | Fragrance with Lotus Flowers | Nakamura Kazunobu Design-Works |
| installation | Gemdale Tye Dye Pavilion | One Plus Partnership |
| installation | Duckt, 2021 London Design Biennale | Revery Architecture |
| large museum/art gallery | Dia Chelsea | Architecture Research Office |
| large museum/art gallery | Galleries & Graduate Studios, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Eastlake Studio |
| large museum/art gallery | Mingei International Museum | Luce et Studio |
| large museum/art gallery | Hauser & Wirth Menorca | Luis Laplace |
| large museum/art gallery | Bridgestone Innovation Gallery | Moment |
| small museum/art gallery | Kiuchi Construction History Gallery | Nomura Co. |
| small museum/art gallery | National Monument Kamp Amersfoort | Tinker Imagineers and Inbo |
| small museum/art gallery | Dong Fureng House Museum | WIT Design & Research |
| small museum/art gallery | Claudia and Nelson Peltz Social Lab, Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles | Yazdani Studio |
| entertainment | SoFi Stadium | HKS |
| entertainment | Luoyang Zhengda Opera House | One Plus Partnership |
| entertainment | Wan Fat Jinyi Cinema | One Plus Partnership |
| entertainment | Pingshan Theater | Open Architecture |
| library | Learnscape | Innocad architecture |
| library | Riverside Main Library | Johnson Favaro |
| library | Xi'an Fangsuo Commune | LSD Interior Design |
| library | Adams Street Branch, Boston Public Library | NADAAA |
| library | Learning Innovation Hub, International School of Prague | Studio Perspektiv |
| library | Roxbury Branch, Boston Public Library | Utile |
| government/institutional | Madaline Terrace | Dake Wells Architecture |
| government/institutional | Park Avenue Synagogue | MBB Architects |
| government/institutional | Arrupe Hall, Saint Joseph's University | Moto Designshop |
| government/institutional | Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| government/institutional | Grossweikersdorf Community Center | Smartvoll |
| transportation | Changsha Subway Digital Art Space | Li Shaobo Studio |
| transportation | Mukilteo Multimodal Ferry Terminal | LMN Architects |
| transportation | Security Checkpoint, Midway International Airport | Muller2 |
| transportation | E Carpark | Oft Interiors |
| transportation | Ticketed Waiting Room, Moynihan Train Hall | Rockwell Group and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| social impact | Understood, Inc | Float Design Studio |
| social impact | Aktion Mensch Headquarters | Ippolito Fleitz Group |
| social impact | Northside Center for Child Development | Matiz Architecture & Design |
| social impact | Hugo House | NBBJ |
| social impact | American Cancer Society Gene and Jerry Jones Family Hope Lodge | Perkins&Will |
| greater good: supportive housing | Tiny Victories | Chioco Design |
| greater good: supportive housing | Navig8, Council District 8 Homeless Navigation Center | John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects |
| greater good: supportive housing | Chandler Tiny Homes Village Bridge Housing for the Homeless | Lehrer Architects LA |
| greater good: supportive housing | Homebase | Olson Kundig |
| greater good: supportive housing | Friends of Ruby Home | Yabu Pushelberg |
| environmental impact | Meyer Memorial Trust Headquarters | Lever Architecture |
| environmental impact | Whitepod Eco-Chalets | Montalba Architects |
| environmental impact | Google Store New York | Reddymade |
| environmental impact | Santa Ana Arts Collective | Studio One Eleven |
| environmental impact | Ford Calumet Environmental Center | Valerio Dewalt Train and Media Objectives |
| outdoor space | 175 Pearl Street | Architecture + Information |
| outdoor space | Bamboo Bamboo Canopy and Pavilions | LLLab. |
| outdoor space | Facebook Spring District | NBBJ and FreeForm |
| outdoor space | Plaza Satélite Park | Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos |
| outdoor space | Rise Park | Studio One Eleven and RDC |
| healthcare | Surgical and Innovation Training Lab, University of Illinois Chicago School of Medicine | CannonDesign |
| healthcare | Center for Community Health, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital | Perkins Eastman |
| healthcare | Center for Advanced Medicine & Surgery, White Plains Hospital | Perkins Eastman |
| healthcare | Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building, University of California San Francisco | SmithGroup and Mark Cavagnero Associates |
| healthcare | Pediatrics Unit, UPMC Harrisburg | Stantec Architecture and Engineering and Metcalfe Architecture and Design |
| health clinic | HealthQuarters | Alda Ly Architecture |
| health clinic | The Most Cured Home in the World | Fun Connection Design |
| health clinic | Paris Dental Studio | JCPCDR Architecture |
| health clinic | Razzle Dazzlescape | MNOffice |
| health clinic | Taiwan Airlee Biomedical + Cosmetic Policlinic | WIT Design & Research |
| dispensary | Sweet Seven Cannabis | DKstudio Architect |
| dispensary | Hatch | DMAC Architecture |
| dispensary | Skymint | Patrick Thompson Design and Smith A+D |
| dispensary | Alchemy | Studio Paolo Ferrari |
| fitness | Proswim Club | DU Studio |
| fitness | Trail House, Enchantment Resort | Gluckman Tang Architects |
| fitness | Kendall Square Corporate Wellness Center | Merge Architects and Utile |
| fitness | Equinox Beale Street | RDC |
| beauty/spa | Six Senses Spa and Studio Building | Jonathan Leitersdorf and Six Senses |
| beauty/spa | Haiyi Nail, Mixc World | MOC Design Office |
| beauty/spa | Dundas Square Barber | Nivek Remas |
| beauty/spa | Valle San Nicolás | Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos |
| beauty/spa | Green Massage Shanghai Lujiazui | Vermilion Zhou Design Group |
| bar/lounge/social club | Chief | AvroKO |
| bar/lounge/social club | Spice and Barley | Enter Projects Asia |
| bar/lounge/social club | MASSminors | One Fine Day Studio + Partners |
| bar/lounge/social club | The Panorama Room, Graduate Roosevelt Island | Parts and Labor Design |
| bar/lounge/social club | M+ Lounge | CL3 Architects |
| coffee/tea | Relic Shelter | Neri&Hu Design and Research Office |
| coffee/tea | CoCo TaiJian Lane | OYTT Design |
| coffee/tea | Nemesis Coffee | Perkins&Will |
| coffee/tea | HeyTea | UND Design Studio |
| coffee/tea | Dot Coffee Station | Yod Group |
| counter service | Guangqumen Community Convenience Store | L&M Design Lab |
| counter service | Dengo Chocolates | Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura |
| counter service | McDonald’s CUBE Flagship | Steve Leung Design Group |
| counter service | Pudu Pudu | Uxus |
| casual dining | Trois | NC Design & Architecture |
| casual dining | Papi | Neri&Hu Design and Research Office |
| casual dining | Lunar | Sò Studio |
| casual dining | Be:Side | Supermaniac |
| casual dining | Nautilus Pier Four | Workshop/APD |
| fine dining | Be.Stéak.Ă | Arcsine Architecture and Design |
| fine dining | Esperanza | Atelier Gulla Jonsdottir |
| fine dining | Iris | INC Architecture & Design |
| fine dining | Samna | Yod Group |
| hotel dining | Peacock Alley, Waldorf Astoria Xiamen | AB Concept |
| hotel dining | Feast, East Hong Kong | Conran and Partners |
| hotel dining | Primo, JW Marriott Ritz Resort | Dutch East Design and Baker Barrios Architects |
| hotel dining | Nearly Ninth, Arlo Midtown | MeyerDavis |
| outdoor dining | Galileo Terroir | Bentel and Bentel Architects |
| outdoor dining | Maiden Korea | Dash Marshall |
| outdoor dining | Design for Distancing | Gensler |
| outdoor dining | Block Party | Perkins&Will |
| resort | Sala Bang Pa-in | Department of Architecture Co. |
| resort | DongFengYun Hotel Mi'Le-MGallery | Cheng Chung Design |
| resort | Alila Marea Beach Resort | Markzeff and Joseph Wong Design Associates |
| resort | Patina Maldives Hotel | Studio MK27 |
| resort | Viceroy Kopaonik Serbia | WATG and Wimberly Interiors |
| resort | AutoCamp Cape Cod | Workshop/APD |
| chain hotel | W Osaka | Concrete |
| chain hotel | Hilton Changsha Riverside | Interscape Design Associates |
| chain hotel | Canopy by Hilton San Antonio Riverwalk | Markzeff, Gensler, and Lake Flato |
| chain hotel | Virgin Hotels Las Vegas | Rockwell Group |
| chain hotel | Graduate Roosevelt Island | Stonehill Taylor and Snøhetta |
| boutique hotel | Joseph Nashville | INC Architecture & Design and Arquitectonica |
| boutique hotel | Arlo Midtown | Meyer Davis and Marvel Designs |
| boutique hotel | Ace Hotel Brooklyn | Roman & Williams and Stonehill Taylor |
| boutique hotel | Icon Lab Hotel | Tomo Design |
| boutique hotel | The Londoner | Yabu Pushelberg |
| hotel transformation | Hyatt House Chicago | KOO and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| hotel transformation | Hotel Kansas City | KTGY Simeone Deary Design Group |
| hotel transformation | Parador De León | Merry Design Studio and Suinta |
| hotel transformation | Cheval Blanc Paris | Peter Marino Architect |
| hotel transformation | La Colombe d'Or Hotel | Rottet Studio and Munoz + Albin |
| hotel transformation | Blossom House Shanghai On The Bund | Vermilion Zhou Design Group |
| large corporate office | Keurig Dr Pepper Headquarters | Corgan |
| large corporate office | Shiseido Global Vision Center | Gensler |
| large corporate office | Horizon Therapeutics | Lamar Johnson Collaborative |
| large corporate office | Waste Management Headquarters | Perkins&Will |
| medium corporate office | AEW | Elkus Manfredi Architects |
| medium corporate office | Confidential Science Client | Gensler |
| medium corporate office | Bacardi Paris | IA Interior Architects and Holmes Architecture |
| medium corporate office | Roche Laboratories Headquarters | Saguez & Partners |
| medium corporate office | Fortuna Entertainment Group | Studio Perspektiv |
| small corporate office | 203 Masaryk Penthouse Office | Álvaro H. Félix Studio |
| small corporate office | Zhen Fund | Adam Sokol Architecture Practice |
| small corporate office | Schöller SI | Ippolito Fleitz Group |
| small corporate office | Early Childhood Authority | Roar |
| small corporate office | Artis Ventures | Studio O+A |
| finance office | Cboe Global Markets Headquarters | CannonDesign |
| finance office | BentallGreenOak | Fogarty Finger |
| finance office | Ninety One | HLW |
| finance office | Thompson Street Capital Partners | HOK |
| finance office | Citi Wealth Hub | Ministry of Design |
| creative office | Accent Decor | Gensler |
| creative office | Hangzhou Qingmo | L&M Design Lab |
| creative office | Nike Icon Studios | Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects |
| creative office | Springair Office + Exhibition Space | MMC Design |
| creative office | VF Headquarters | Rapt Studio |
| tech office | Hudson River Trading | Gensler |
| tech office | Nuestar | HKS |
| tech office | Uber Mission Bay Headquarters | Huntsman Architectural Group, RMW, Pfau Long, and SHoP Architects |
| tech office | LendingTree Headquarters | Redline Design Group and Kelley Vieregg Interior Design |
| tech office | Alternative Technology Client | Revel Architecture & Design |
| coworking office | Headway Coworking | Da Bureau |
| coworking office | The Shop | EskewDumezRipple |
| coworking office | Convene | Partners by Design |
| coworking office | Kearny Point Building 78 Annex | Studios Architecture and WXY Architecture + Urban Design |
| coworking office | Duo Yun Xuan Art Center | Yushe Design |
| firm's own office | Gensler Raleigh Office | Gensler |
| firm's own office | Goodo Design Office | GOODO Design and Plancut Design |
| firm's own office | M-Design Office | M-Design |
| firm's own office | Nine Do Office | Nine Do |
| firm's own office | SOM Chicago Office | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| office transformation | Confidential Client | AECOM |
| office transformation | Fintech Office | Corgan and Kuchar |
| office transformation | Boston Consulting Group | Gensler |
| office transformation | The Campus | Kokuyo Co. |
| office transformation | 175 Haussmann | PCA-Stream and RF Studio |
| corporate cafeteria | Dock 72 | Fogarty Finger |
| corporate cafeteria | NFL Headquarters Commissary | Gensler |
| corporate cafeteria | Shiseido Zebra Café | Gensler |
| corporate cafeteria | Shure | Perkins&Will |
| commercial lobby + amenity space | Dock 72 | Fogarty Finger |
| commercial lobby + amenity space | 88 Kearny Lobby | Gensler |
| commercial lobby + amenity space | 444 North Michigan Avenue | Huntsman Architectural Group |
| commercial lobby + amenity space | YTL Headquarters | Ministry of Design |
| commercial lobby + amenity space | 55 M Street | The Switzer Group |
| building facade | Lantern Art Space | ADARC International Studio |
| building facade | Miami Beach Convention Center | Fentress Architects and Arquitectonica |
| building facade | Lantern House | Heatherwick Studio |
| building facade | Ya Space！ | Pig Design |
| building facade | 111 Varick | S9 Architecture & Engineering |
| building facade | Jardine Apartments | Shimoda Design Group |
| domestic residential lobby + amenity space | The Alyx at EchelonSeaport | Jeffrey Beers International and Kohn Pedersen Fox |
| domestic residential lobby + amenity space | 90 Morton | Leroy Street Studio |
| domestic residential lobby + amenity space | Park Grove Residences | Meyer Davis and OMA |
| domestic residential lobby + amenity space | 5Pointz LIC | Mojo Stumer Associates |
| international residential lobby + amenity space | Yango Hygge Art and Lifestyle Center | Beijing Fenghemuchen Space Design |
| international residential lobby + amenity space | Foshan Poly Yunxi Life Experience Hall | Karv One Design |
| international residential lobby + amenity space | Timber House | NC Design & Architecture |
| international residential lobby + amenity space | Atrium House | Via. |
| multiunit housing | 75 Kenmare | Andre Kikoski Architect |
| multiunit housing | The Smile | BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group |
| multiunit housing | Granville1500 | Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects |
| multiunit housing | MIT Site 4 | NADAAA |
| multiunit housing | 2177 3rd Street | Woods Bagot |
| senior living | Sunrise at East 56th | Champalimaud Design and SLCE Architects |
| senior living | Inspir Carnegie Hill | Handel Architects |
| senior living | Watermark at Brooklyn Heights | Lemay + Escobar Architecture and Montroy Demarco Architecture |
| senior living | Ridge Pinehurst | StudioSix5 |
| senior living | Puwan CCRC Community Center | WIT Design & Research |
| large apartment | Dusk Penthouse | Conran and Partners |
| large apartment | Vanke Hushanyuanzhu Villa | Maudea Design Studio |
| large apartment | Perez Residence, Park Grove | Meyer Davis |
| large apartment | Downtown Developer Loft Reimagined | SheltonMIndel |
| large apartment | MW Apartment | Studio Arthur Casas |
| small apartment | TriBeCa Apartment | Enze Architects |
| small apartment | 76th Street Apartment | Messana O'Rorke |
| small apartment | Candy Cube Residence | NC Design & Architecture |
| small apartment | Bauman loft | NefaArchitects |
| city house | Art House | Aidlin Darling Design |
| city house | West Hollywood Residence | Clive Wilkinson Architects |
| city house | 3131 CBR | David Jameson Architect |
| city house | Cummings Estate | Ghislaine Viñas and Chet Architecture |
| city house | Filigree House | Moto Designshop |
| city house | Home for Martial Arts | Pone Architecture |
| country house | Casa Rancho Avándaro | Chain + Siman |
| country house | Liminal House | David Jameson Architect |
| country house | Ballantrae Country House | Drew Mandel Architects |
| country house | August Moon | Span Architecture |
| beach house | Bridge House | Architecture Plus Information and Unionworks |
| beach house | Stony Hill | Bates Masi + Architects |
| beach house | Lathhouse | Birdseye |
| beach house | Amagansett Residence | West Chin Architects & Interior Designers |
| beach house | Salfish Point Residence | Workshop/APD |
| small house | Peach Blossom Garden | L&M Design Lab |
| small house | Jackson Avenue | Messana O'Rorke |
| small house | Root Trail Bungalow | SheltonMindel |
| small house | Portage Bay Float Home | Studio DIAA |
| small house | Moore House | Woods + Dangaran |
| residential transformation | Mariposa House | Brininstool + Lynch |
| residential transformation | Deer Park House | Odami |
| residential transformation | House on Lake Maitland | Steven Harris Architects, Rees Roberts and Partners, and Jessica Helgerson Interior Design |
| residential transformation | Lincoln Park Residence | Suzanne Lovell |
| residential transformation | Twin Bridges | Workstead |
| residential landscape | Atherton Pavilions | Feldman Architecture and Thuilot Associates |
| residential landscape | Coli Jinxi Mansion | H&S Concept |
| residential landscape | Private Eden | Janice Parker Landscape Architects |
| residential landscape | Casa De Las Ardillas | Surfacedesign |
| kitchen + bath | Tambour Loft | Dash Marshall |
| kitchen + bath | Gallery House | DKstudio Architects |
| kitchen + bath | Aurora Private Lodge | Snorre Stinessen Architecture |
| kitchen + bath | Pau Alcover House | Room Studio |
| kitchen + bath | Moore House | Woods + Dangaran |
| 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 | Anbong Home | AD Architecture |
| showroom | Midea Smart Home Retail Lab | Leaping Creative |
| showroom | +55design Store | Studio Arthur Casas |
| showroom | Zanotta House New York | Tihany Design and Zanotta |
| large retail | Yatai New Dynamic | Arizon Design |
| large retail | X11 Global Flagship Store | BloomDesign |
| large retail | Louis Vuitton Namiki Ginza | Peter Marino Architect |
| large retail | La Samaritaine | Yabu Pushelberg |
| small retail | Peninsula Boutique + Café | Conran and Partners |
| small retail | David Yurman 57th Street | Gabellini Sheppard Associates |
| small retail | H.E.A.T Experiential Store | Leaping Creative |
| small retail | Basto | MOC Design Office |
| small retail | Haydon | Tomshi & Associates |
| bookstore | Mumokuteki | Luo Studio |
| bookstore | KidsWinshare Plus | Panorama Design Group |
| bookstore | Jetlag | WIT Design & Research |
| bookstore | Tianya Books | Wutopia Lab |
| bookstore | Dujiangyan Zhongshuge | X+Living |
| staircase | One Pearl Bay | 2pirdesign |
| staircase | ARO | CetraRuddy |
| staircase | Cummings Estate | Chet Architecture and Ghislaine Viñas |
| staircase | Jiangnan Zan | LYCS Architecture |
| staircase | Crown Sydney | Meyer Davis and Foster + Partners |
| staircase | Arrupe Hall, Saint Joseph's University | Moto Designshop |
| environmental branding + graphics | Oracle Austin Waterfront Campus | Asterisk and STG Design |
| environmental branding + graphics | Bambo Beauty | Cadena Concept Design |
| environmental branding + graphics | Toll Brothers Headquarters | D2 Groups |
| environmental branding + graphics | Waste Management Headquarters | Perkins&Will |
| environmental branding + graphics | Drinks&Co | Saguez & Partners |
| marketing + branding collateral | Clayton Members Club & Hotel | Brand Bureau |
| marketing + branding collateral | Bel-Fries | Crème |
| marketing + branding collateral | Reseat | Rapt Studio |
| on the boards: commercial | Armitaj Art-Hotel | Hariri & Hariri Architecture |
| on the boards: commercial | ARC 2021 CMA|SIMA Virtual Conference | HKS |
| on the boards: commercial | Hana Bank Headquarters | NBBJ |
| on the boards: commercial | Timber + Stone | Schiller Projects |
| on the boards: commercial | Morgan North | Shimoda Design Group |
| on the boards: residential | Pembroke House | De-Spec |
| on the boards: residential | Gaxiola House | Ezequiel Farca |
| on the boards: residential | Napa Valley Winery House | Ezequiel Farca |
| on the boards: residential | Upper West Side Condos | II By IV Design |
| on the boards: residential | House of Many Houses | Innocad Architecture and Superunique |
| shining moment | Peacock Cellar | August Green |
| shining moment | Choreography | Karv One Design |
| shining moment | One Vanderbilt | Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates |
| shining moment | Audrey Irmas Pavilion | L'Observatoire International and OMA |
| shining moment | Sinan Books | Wutopia Lab |