Best of Year Awards 2021
December 13, 2021
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Best of Year Awards 2021
budget
- Photography: Adam Macchia
- Photography: Naho Kubota
- Photography: Zhu Qingyan
- Photography: Yingshang Creative Images
budget office
- Photography: Garrett Rowland and IA Interior Architects
- Photography: Arnal Photography
- Photography: Aaron Thompson
- Photography: Peter Molick
higher education
- Photography: Brett Beyer, Courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
- Photography: Chris Cooper
- Photography: Inspiro 8 Studios, Mark Herboth, and LS3P Associates LTD.
- Photography: Peter Aaron/OTTOHonoreeSvigals + Partners for Bergami Center for Science, Technology, & Innovation, University of New Haven
early education
- Photography: Jonathan Leijonhufvud
- Photography: Francis Dzikowski/OTTO
- Photography: Luis Gordoa
- Photography: P A L Design Group
kids’ zone
- Photography: Matthew Millman
- Photography: 404NF Studio
- Photography: Yang Mu & Haihua Wang
- Photography: DAC / Rasmus Hjortshoj
exhibition
- Photography: Mark Niedermann, Courtesy of Tom Postma Design
- Photography: Paul Ott
- Photography: Matteo Losurdo
- Photography: Courtesy of NemeStudio
installation
- Photography: Henry Woide
- Photography: Courtesy of Dubbeldam
- Photography: Masaki Komatsu
- Photography: Yingshang Creative Images
large museum/art gallery
- Photography: Courtesy of Architecture Research Office
- Photography: Steve Hall, Hall + Merrick Photographers
- Photography: Courtesy of Luce et Studio
- Photography: Daniel Schafer
small museum/art gallery
- Photography: Benny Chan
- Photography: Shinichi Sato
- Photography: Tinker imagineers / Mike Bink
- Photography: Simon Wu & Yonggang Zhong
entertainment
- Photography: Jonathan Leijonhufvud Architectural Photography
- Photography: Jonathan Leijonhufvud Architectural Photography
- Photography: Jonathan Leijonhufvud, ZENG Tianpei
library
- Photography: Paul Ott
- Photography: Steve Johnson
- Photography: Studio Flusser
government/institutional
- Photography: Dave Burk © SOMWinnerSkidmore, Owings & Merrill for Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations
- Photography: Gayle Babcock – Architectural Imageworks LLC
- Photography: Francis Dzikowski/OTTO
- Photography: Nic Lehoux
transportation
- Photography: Scott FrancesWinnerRockwell Group and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for TRANSPORTATION SMALL: Ticketed Waiting Room, Moynihan Train Hall
- Photography: Jiang Xin
- Photography: Benjamin Benschneider and Adam Hunter/LMN Architects
- Photography: HDP Photography
greater good: supportive housing
- Photography: Lehrer Architects LA
- Photography: Leonid Furmansky
- Photography: Courtesy of Benny Chan, FotoworksHonoreeJohn Friedman Alice Kimm Architects for Navig8, Council District 8 Homeless Navigation Center
- Photography: Eirik Johnson
- Photography: Evan Dion
environmental impact
- Photography: Tom Harris Photography
- Photography: Jeremy Bittermann
- Photography: Delphine Burtin
- Photography: Courtesy of Studio One Eleven
outdoor space
- Photography: Magda Biernat Photography, Courtesy of A+I
- Photography: Benjamin Benschneider Photography
- Photography: Oscar Caballero
- Photography: Courtesy of Studio One Eleven and RDC
healthcare
- Photography: Chris Cooper PhotographerWinnerPerkins Eastman for Center for Community Health, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
- Photography: CannonDesignHonoreeCannonDesign for Surgical and Innovation Training Lab, University of Illinois Chicago School of Medicine
- Photography: Chris Cooper Photographer, Courtesy of Perkins Eastman
- Photography: Tim Griffith Photography, Courtesy of SmithGroupHonoreeSmithGroup and Mark Cavagnero Associates for Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building, University of California San Francisco
clinic
- Photography: Dream of Decora Tion, Ruihua Zhang
- Photography: Nicole Franzen
- Photography: David Foessel
- Photography: One Thousand Degrees Image
dispensary
- Photography: Joel Esposito
- Photography: Deena Kamel
- Photography: Anthony Tahlier Photography
fitness
- Photography: Matt Winquist
- Photography: Chuck Choi Architectural Photography
beauty/spa
- Photography: Rafael Gamo
- Photography: Assaf Pinchuk Photography
- Photography: Yunpu Cai
- Photography: Nie Xiaocong
- Photography: Courtesy of Nivek Remas
coffee/tea
- Photography: Courtesy of Perkins&Will
- Photography: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
- Photography: Ming Chen, Yiwen Xu
- Photography: Sunway Vision
counter service
- Photography: Zhu Qingyan
- Photography: Mr. Sun Jun
casual dining
- Photography: HDP Photography
- Photography: Pedro Pegenaute, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
- Photography: Daisuke Shima
- Photography: Amanda James, DD Reps
fine dining
- Photography: Art Gray
- Photography: Patricia Chang
- Photography: Joshua Mchugh
hotel dining
- Photography: Chase Daniel Photography
- Photography: Owen Raggett
- Photography: Amanda Kho
outdoor dining
- Photography: Eduard Hueber
- Photography: Mark Wickens
- Photography: Courtesy of Perkins&Will
resort
- Photography: Fernando Guerra
- Photography: Read McKendree
- Photography: W WorkspaceHonoreeDepartment of Architecture Co. for Sala Bang Pa-in
- Photography: Mike Schwartz Photography, Courtesy of Wimberly Interiors
chain hotel
- Photography: Eric Laignel
- Photography: En Xiao
- Photography: Nikolas Koenig
- Photography: Steve Freihon
boutique hotel
- Photography: Henry Bourne
- Photography: Chase Daniel Photography
- Photography: Stephen Kent Johnson
- Photography: TOMO Design
hotel transformation
- Photography: Alexandre Tabaste, Courtesy of Cheval Blanc Paris
- Photography: Mike Schwartz
- Photography: Photos by RW2 Productions
- Photography: Luzestudio
- Photography: Eric Laignel
- Photography: Suisicong
large corporate office
- Photography: Peter Molick Photography
- Photography: Tom Harris
medium corporate office
- Photography: Frederic Baron-Morin
- Photography: Evan Joseph
- Photography: Studio Flusser
small corporate office
- Photography: Onnis Luque
- Photography: Jonathan Leijonhufvud
- Photography: Philip Kottlorz
- Photography: Garrett Rowland
finance office
- Photography: KHOOGJ
- Photography: Eric Laignel
- Photography: David Mitchell
creative office
- Photography: Zhu Qingyan
- Photography: Courtesy of Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
- Photography: MMC DESIGN
- Photography: Eric Laignel
tech office
- Photography: Garrett Rowland Photography, Courtesy of Revel Architecture & Design
coworking office
- Photography: Kelly Marshall
- Photography: Tom Harris Architectural Photography
- Photography: Yushe Design
firm’s own office
- Photography: Wenzheng Li
- Photography: Dave Burk | SOM
office transformation
- Photography: Jean-Phillipe Mesguen
- Photography: Christopher Barrett PhotographyHonoreeAECOM for Confidential Client
- Photography: Matthew McNultyHonoreeCorgan and Kuchar for Fintech Office
- Photography: Garrett Rowland, Courtesy of GenslerHonoreeGensler for Boston Consulting Group
- Photography: Nacsa & Partners Inc.HonoreeKokuyo Co. for The Campus
corporate cafeteria
- Photography: Connie Zhou
- Photography: Steve Hall (c) Hall Merrick Photographers
commercial lobby + amenity space
- Photography: David Yeow Photography
- Photography: Connie Zhou
- Photography: Kendall McCaugherty / Hall + Merrick Photographers
- Photography: Colin Miller Photography
building facade
- Photography: Robin Hill
- Photography: PIG DESIGN
- Photography: Liky
- Photography: Courtesy of Related Companies
- Photography: Chris Cooper
- Photography: Courtesy of Shimoda Design Group
domestic residential lobby + amenity space
- Photography: Eric Laignel
- Photography: Robert Granoff
- Photography: Mark D. Stumer
international residential lobby + amenity space
- Photography: Courtesy of NC Design & Architecture
- Photography: Xiangyu Sun
- Photography: Karv One Design
multiunit housing
- Photography: Pernille & Thomas Loof
- Photography: Scott Frances/OTTO
- Photography: Courtesy of O’Herlihy Architects
- Photography: Scott Hargis
senior living
- Photography: Evan Joseph Photography
- Photography: Sunrise Senior Living
- Photography: Michael Lowry Photography
- Photography: One Thousand Degrees Image
large apartment
- Photography: Courtesy of SheltonMindel
- Photography: Phillip Durrant
- Photography: Haha Lu
- Photography: Kris Tamburello Photography
- Photography: Fran Parente
small apartment
- Photography: Enze Architects
- Photography: Stephen Kent Johnson
- Photography: Courtesy of NC Design & Architecture
- Photography: Ilya Ivanov
city house
- Photography: Courtesy of Aidlin Darling Design
- Photography: Joe Fletcher
- Photography: Paul Warchol
- Photography: Halkin Mason
- Photography: Jianquan Wu/PONE Architecture
country house
- Photography: Rafael Gamo
- Photography: Paul WarcholHonoreeDavid Jameson Architect for Liminal House
- Photography: Doublespace Photography
- Photography: Rob Karosis
beach house
- Photography: Bates Masi + Architects
- Photography: Magda Biernat Photography, Courtesy of A+I
- Photography: Marco Petrini ©Petrinistudio
- Photography: Read McKednree /JBSA
small house
- Photography: Michael Moran/OTTO
- Photography: Zhuqingyan
- Photography: Costas Picadas
- Photography: Kevin Scott
- Photography: Joe Fletcher
residential transformation
- Photography: Courtesy of Steven Harris Architects, Rees Roberts and Partners, and Jessica Helgerson Interior Design
- Photography: Christopher Barrett
- Photography: Steve Hall & Kendall McCaugherty © Hall + Merrick Photographers
residential landscape
- Photography: Zhang Xuetao; Hu Chao; Lin Lv
- Photography: Durston Saylor
- Photography: Millicent Harvey
kitchen + bath
- Photography: Esther Choi
- Photography: Snorre Stinessen
- Photography: Michael Muraz
- Photography: Mauricio Fuertes
- Photography: Joe Fletcher
residential sales center
- Photography: Xiangyu SunWinnerBeijing Fenghemuchen Space Design for Jinan Bocuiminghu Textile Culture and Arts Exhibition Hall
- Photography: C&C Design Co
- Photography: One Thousand Degrees Image
- Photography: A Guang
- Photography: KLID
- Photography: Jianquan WU/Golden Ho/En Xiao/Yi Shi
showroom
- Photography: Fran Parente
- Photography: Ouyang Yun
- Photography: Leaping Creative
- Photography: Adrianna Glaviano for Zanotta
large retail
- Photography: Jerome Galland
- Photography: Dirk Weiblen
- Photography: BloomDesign
- Photography: Daici Ano, Courtesy of Louis Vuitton
small retail
- Photography: Paul Warchol
- Photography: Peninsula
- Photography: Leaping Creative
- Photography: Lin Yongchen
- Photography: Tomshi & Associates
bookstore
- Photography: Wang Ting
- Photography: LUO studio
- Photography: Popo Vision
- Photography: One Thousand Degrees Image
- Photography: Wutopia Lab
staircase
- Photography: Courtesy of 2pirdesign
- Photography: CetraRuddy
- Photography: WU Qingshan
- Photography: Brent Winstone Photography
- Photography: Nic Lehoux
environmental branding + graphics
- Photography: Eric Laignel
- Photography: Oracle; Tre Dunham
- Photography: The Raws
- Photography: Peter Molick Photography
marketing + branding collateral
- Photography: Garrett Rowland
- Photography: Rapt Studio
on the boards: commercial
- Photography: Hariri & Hariri Architecture D.P.C.
- Photography: Omega Render
- Photography: Courtesy of Shimoda Design Group
on the boards: residential
- Photography: Ezequiel Farca
- Photography: Ezequiel Farca
- Photography: Norm Li and Pureblink.
shining moment
- Photography: Wutopia Lab
- Photography: Dirk Weiblen Photography
- Photography: Karv One Branding
- Photography: Raimund Koch
- Photography: Jason O’Rear
iconic project
- Photography: Raimund Koch
- Photography: Courtesy of SheltonMindel
accessories
- Photography: Courtesy of Poltrona Frau
tabletop
architectural products
acoustical applications
bath cabinetry
bath fittings
bath fixtures
residential rugs + carpets
broadloom carpet
modular carpet
hard flooring
tile + stone flooring
educational furniture
healthcare furniture
contract case goods
contract desking
- HonoreeBuzziHug by BuzziSpace
contract furniture systems
contract tables
contract conference table
contract partitions + wall systems
contract partitions + wall systems: partitions
contract partitions + wall systems: pods
residential storage
residential desks
residential dining tables
residential occasional tables
- HonoreeTosca by Cliff Young
kitchen appliances
- HonoreeOpen Suite by Elica
- HonoreeMonogram Statement Professional Range by GE Appliances
kitchen cabinetry
kitchen fittings + fixtures
architectural lighting
architectural lighting: architectural products
chandelier
pendant fixture
sconce
- HonoreeSkybell Plus A/01 by Bover Barcelona
- HonoreeWillow by Hollis+Morris
floor lamp
table lamp
materials
solid surfaces
outdoor products
outdoor furniture collection
outdoor seating
contract seating
contract task seating
contract bench + stool
- HonoreeBuzziCee by BuzziSpace
contract lounge seating
contract sofa
contract highback seating
residential seating
- WinnerIntersection Collection by La Manufacture
residential lounge seating
residential sofa
healthcare textiles
- HonoreeCrypton Structures Collection by Mayer Fabrics
hospitality textiles
outdoor textiles
contract textiles
residential textiles
fabric wall covering
paper wall covering
contract wall covering
tile + stone wall covering
window treatments
environmental impact: reissue
environmental impact
technology
marketing + branding materials
- HonoreeImagine a Place Journal and Podcast by OFS
- HonoreeTalk Carpet Magazine by Talk Carpet
reissue
student design presented by Pottery Barn
- WinnerLightWeight by Robert Adams, Savannah College of Art and Design
- WinnerEntanglement by Jonathan Bocca, Fabrica Research Center
- WinnerThe Tide of Glass by Shenghan Chen, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
- WinnerGratitude Table by Susannah Feiler, Royal College of Art
- WinnerFala by Zuzanna Kapron, Academy of Fine Art Gda_sk
- WinnerWFH Desk by Marvin Kasper, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, University of Hanover
- WinnerMushroom Series by Sashi Malik, National Institute of Design
- WinnerAL 13 Dresser by Varun Maniar, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
- WinnerComfort by Hossein Moattali, University of Tabriz
- WinnerDistant Love Lamp by Ioana Paliuc, University of Southern Denmark
- WinnerKomorebi Console by Lucia Sakakibara, New York School of Interior Design
- WinnerFaces, Clubkidz, and Headlight by JH Yang, Cornell University
architect
- WinnerErla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir and Tryggvi Thorsteinsson, Minarc
firm leader
- WinnerNelson Chow,