Best of Year 2015: Project Winners
For the third year in a row, Best of Year was held at at Frank Gehry’s IAC Building in New York, where 975 designers, architects and manufacturers gathered to learn the winners and merit honorees. The program was hosted by Interior Design editor in chief Cindy Allen and publisher Carol Cisco, who revealed winners across 43 project categories, 61 product categories, and 11 materials. New this year were additional 24 “Best in 10” awards honoring the best projects and products of the past decade. Congratulations to all!
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Category (Winners in bold) |
Project Firm Name |
Project Name |
| BAR / LOUNGE | Godolphin | Wuhu Wine Bunker |
| BAR / LOUNGE | Aidlin Darling Design | Brecon Estate Winery |
| BAR / LOUNGE | Martin Lejarraga. Architecture Office | Canana LA Brew Pub |
| BAR / LOUNGE | Partisans | Bar Raval |
| BAR / LOUNGE | Slade Architecture | Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse at LAX |
| BEACH HOUSE | Bates Masi + Architects | Elizabeth II |
| BEACH HOUSE | CCS Architecture and Mode Interior Designs | Water Mill Residence |
| BEACH HOUSE | Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts + Pa | Croatian Tower |
| BEACH HOUSE | Bernheimer Architecture | Quonochontaug Residence |
| BEAUTY | Gensler | Hyundai Capital Street |
| BEAUTY | TongTong and Steven Fong Architect | Her Majesty’s Pleasure |
| BEAUTY | Superkül | Aesop Queen Street West |
| BEAUTY | Standard | Hourglass Cosmetics Debut Store |
| BUDGET | i29 Interior Architects | Room On The Roof |
| BUDGET | PAL Design Consultants | Working Blocks Hong Kong |
| BUDGET | Dubbeldam Architecture + Design | Travelzoo Office |
| BUDGET | PplusP Designers | Hong Kong Public Housing |
| CASUAL DINING | Bluarch Architecture + Interiors + Lighting | Times Square Diner |
| CASUAL DINING | Neri&Hu Design and Research Office | CORRECT NAME: Table No. 1 |
| CASUAL DINING | El Equipo Creativo | Disfrutar Restaurant |
| CASUAL DINING | Studio Arthur Casas | Toro Gastrobar |
| CASUAL DINING | Meyer Davis Studio | Beachcraft |
| COFFEE / TEA | Arch Studio | Hutong Tea House |
| COFFEE / TEA | Steven Fong Architect and Lorne Gertner | Tokyo Smoke Found |
| COFFEE / TEA | One Plus PartnershipLimited | Stop Motion Cafe |
| COFFEE / TEA | Osmose Design | Small Tea |
| COMMUNITY | Tsao & McKown Architects | Octave Living Room |
| COMMUNITY | Eskew+Dumez+Ripple | St. Pius Chapel & Prayer Garden |
| COMMUNITY | Chen Interior Design | KoKo by Cathay United Bank |
| COMMUNITY | Stantec | Canada House |
| COUNTER SERVICE | Moriyuki Ochiai Architects | MOMOM store |
| COUNTER SERVICE | ARTTA Concept Studio LImited | Noodle Stand |
| COUNTER SERVICE | Shimoda Design Group | Foundry Room |
| COUNTER SERVICE | Travis Walton Architecture | Laneway Greens |
| COUNTRY HOUSE | Studio Arthur Casas | MS House |
| COUNTRY HOUSE | StudioMK27 | Mororó house |
| COUNTRY HOUSE | Shang Yih Interior Design Co. | Spacious |
| COUNTRY HOUSE | Shelton, Mindel & Associates and Bohlin Cywin | Independence Pass Residence |
| DESIGNERS OWN OFFICE | Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott | Phoenix Financial Center, South Rotunda |
| DESIGNERS OWN OFFICE | Gensler | Gensler Oakland |
| DESIGNERS OWN OFFICE | PplusP Designers Limited | PplusP Studio 2 |
| DESIGNERS OWN OFFICE | EHE Interior Design Co. | EHE Design Office |
| EDUCATION | Perkins+Will and Michael Fieldman Architects | New York Police Academy |
| EDUCATION | LTL Architects | NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
| EDUCATION | Ballinger | Science & Engineering Hall, George Washington University |
| EDUCATION | Perkins+Will and Bowie Gridley Architects | Ballou Senior High School |
| EDUCATION | AC Martin | The Cafe at Annenberg, University of Southern California |
| ENTERTAINMENT | One Plus Partnership | Exploded Cinema |
| ENTERTAINMENT | Gensler | Hyundai Card Music Library + Understage |
| ENTERTAINMENT | AlexChoi Design & Partners | The Grand Cinema |
| ENTERTAINMENT | One Plus Partnership | Starz Cinema |
| ENTERTAINMENT | One Plus Partnership | Stop Motion Cinema |
| EXHIBITION | Inspiration Group | ON OFF Plus |
| EXHIBITION | Kossmann.dejong | Micropia |
| EXHIBITION | Biber Architects | USA Pavilion Expo Milano 2015 |
| EXHIBITION | CL3 Architects Limited | Origin of Thoughts |
| FASHION RETAIL | Peter Marino Architect | Fendi |
| FASHION RETAIL | Peter Marino Architect | BOONTHESHOP |
| FASHION RETAIL | Yabu Pushelberg | Ports 1961 |
| FASHION RETAIL | AS Design Service Limited | UM Junior Top Kid’s Wear Multi-Brand Store |
| FINE DINING | Gabellini Sheppard Associates | Rainbow Room |
| FINE DINING | Neri&Hu Design and Research Office | Le Mei |
| FINE DINING | Millimeter Interior Design Limited | Castello 4 |
| FINE DINING | Supermaniac | NEN |
| FITNESS | Cadena + Asoc. Concept Design and Rojkind Arquitectos | Síclo |
| FITNESS | Gensler | SYMfit Fitness Center |
| FITNESS | PplusP Designers | Fight Hard Fitness |
| FITNESS | Champalimaud | The Island House |
| GREEN HOTEL | Meyer Davis Studio | 1 Hotel South Beach |
| GREEN HOTEL | AvroKO and Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman Archit | 1 Hotel Central Park |
| GREEN HOTEL | Aedas | Element Suzhou Science and Technology Town |
| HOTEL DINING | Jouin Manku | Le Louis XV |
| HOTEL DINING | Neri&Hu Design and Research Office | Akebono |
| HOTEL DINING | Yabu Pushelberg and ISC Design Studio | Matador Room |
| HOTEL DINING | Studio Munge | LAGO by Julian Serrano |
| HOTEL RESTORATION | Deborah Berke Partners | 21c Museum Hotel Durham |
| HOTEL RESTORATION | Rockwell Group Europe | Virgin Hotel Chicago |
| HOTEL RESTORATION | Gabellini Sheppard Associates and Peter Poon | The Knickerbocker Hotel |
| HOTEL RESTORATION | Yabu Pushelberg and ISC Design Studio | The Miami Beach Edition |
| HOTEL RESTORATION | Stonehill & Taylor and Archetype Architects | The Press Hotel |
| INSTALLATION | Cao Perrot | Swarovski Kristallwelten Expansion |
| INSTALLATION | Esrawe Studio and Cadena + Asoc. Concept D | Spinning Tops (Los Trompos) |
| INSTALLATION | StudioMK27 | Litta Beach Pavilion |
| INSTALLATION | StudioKCA | NASA Orbit Pavilion |
| KITCHEN & BATH | Desai Chia Architecture | Photographer’s Loft |
| KITCHEN & BATH | De Giulio Kitchen Design | Hammam |
| KITCHEN & BATH | Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts + Pa | Upper West Side Townhouse |
| KITCHEN & BATH | Linc Thelen Design | Church Residence |
| LARGE APARTMENT | Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts + Pa | 7 Harrison Street |
| LARGE APARTMENT | Yabu Pushelberg | One Shenzhen Bay |
| LARGE APARTMENT | Dufner Heighes | Meatpacking Penthouse |
| LARGE APARTMENT | ODA New York | Hubert Street Residence |
| LARGE HEALTHCARE | NBBJ | Palo Alto Medical Foundation San Carlos Center |
| LARGE HEALTHCARE | EwingCole | Ambulatory Cancer Center |
| LARGE HEALTHCARE | EwingCole | Upstate Cancer Center |
| LARGE HEALTHCARE | EwingCole | Ambulatory Care Center |
| LARGE HOUSE | Belzberg Architects and Curated | Tree Top Residence |
| LARGE HOUSE | StudioMK27 | Fio house |
| LARGE HOUSE | Clodagh Design and Israel Peles Architects | West Village Townhouse |
| LARGE HOUSE | Vermilion Zhou Design Group | Casa Wang |
| LARGE OFFICE | Shelton, Mindel & Associates and A+I | Soros Fund Management Office |
| LARGE OFFICE | Ken Okuyama Design and Gensler and Associa | Yanmar Flying-Y Building |
| LARGE OFFICE | Gensler | Hyundai Motor America Headquarters |
| LARGE OFFICE | Gensler | Visa Innovation Center and Offices |
| LARGE OFFICE: MEDIA / TECH | A+I and Beneville Studios | iHeartMedia Executive Headquarters |
| LARGE OFFICE: MEDIA / TECH | Gensler | Conde Nast |
| LARGE OFFICE: MEDIA / TECH | Studio O+A | Acxiom |
| LARGE OFFICE: MEDIA / TECH | Gensler | IBM Korea Headquarters |
| LARGE OFFICE: MEDIA / TECH | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | UI Labs’ Digital Manufacturing & Design Innovation Institute |
| LOBBY | Gabellini Sheppard Associates | NBC Lobby & Guest Experience |
| LOBBY | Fogarty Finger | 437 Madison Avenue Lobby |
| LOBBY | NBBJ | 177 Huntington |
| MID-SIZE OFFICE | Rottet Studio and Bruce F Klein Architects | Paul Hastings Chicago |
| MID-SIZE OFFICE | Gensler | Hyundai Capital Europe Headquarters |
| MID-SIZE OFFICE | Gensler | Wired Magazine Editorial Offices |
| MID-SIZE OFFICE | Gensler | Samsung Marketing Center of Excellence |
| MID-SIZE OFFICE: TECH | ACDF Architecture | Lightspeed Headquarters |
| MID-SIZE OFFICE: TECH | Blitz | Microsoft San Francisco Office |
| MID-SIZE OFFICE: TECH | Valerio Dewalt Train Associates | VMware Regional Dallas Office |
| MID-SIZE OFFICE: TECH | Studio O+A | Uber 11 |
| MID-SIZE OFFICE: TECH | IwamotoScott Architecture | Bloomberg Tech Hub |
| MIXED RETAIL | Chu Chi-Kang Space Design Co. | Fangsuo Bookstore |
| OUTDOORS | Aidlin Darling Design | Windhover Contemplative Center |
| OUTDOORS | El Dorado | Main Street Bridge Redux |
| OUTDOORS | Buro Koray Duman | Bethune Garden |
| OUTDOORS | Luca Andrisani Architect | West 18th Street Residence |
| RESIDENTIAL LOBBY / AMENITY SPAC | Cai-In Interior Design | The Rhythm of Light |
| RESIDENTIAL LOBBY / AMENITY SPAC | Bortolotto | Merchandise Building |
| RESIDENTIAL LOBBY / AMENITY SPAC | Ark | Mount Parker Residences |
| RESIDENTIAL LOBBY / AMENITY SPAC | AlexChoi Design & Partners | Club Beaumount |
| RESIDENTIAL LOBBY / AMENITY SPAC | Elkus Manfredi Architects | Ink Block |
| RESORT HOTEL | Yuji Yamazaki Architecture and Meriem Hall De | Finolhu Villas |
| RESORT HOTEL | Rottet Studio | Viking Star |
| RESORT HOTEL | Clodagh | Six Sense Douro Valley Portugal |
| RESORT HOTEL | Champalimaud | The Island House |
| RETAIL: OTHER | Bortolotto | Finch Avenue Optometry |
| RETAIL: OTHER | Studio Arthur Casas | HStern |
| RETAIL: OTHER | One Plus Partnership Limited | Darry Ring Jewelry Shop |
| RETAIL: OTHER | Karim Rashid | Fun Factory Munich Flagship Store |
| SALES CENTER | Cream | The Visionary |
| SHINING MOMENT | Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts + Pa | House for a Porsche Collector |
| SHINING MOMENT | KLID (Kris Lin International Design) | Scarf in the Window |
| SHINING MOMENT | Gensler | Hyundai Capital Open Studio |
| SHINING MOMENT | Exclaim United | Walk into the World of Art |
| SHINING MOMENT | Elliott + Associates Architects | CHK Central Boathouse |
| SHOWROOM | Studio O+A | Kimball Showroom |
| SHOWROOM | Gensler | Totally Carpet Showroom & Salon |
| SHOWROOM | Shimoda Design Group and Steelcase Global | Worklife Center |
| SHOWROOM | Hollander Design Group | BKM Headquarters and Showroom |
| SHOWROOM: SALES CENTER | Huawude Design Consulting Co. | Changle Jingangcheng Sales Center |
| SHOWROOM: SALES CENTER | PAL Design Consultants Limited | Kowloon Bay Sales Centre |
| SHOWROOM: SALES CENTER | Via Architecture Limited | The Parkside Sales Gallery |
| SMALL APARTMENT | Nous Studio | The Diamond |
| SMALL APARTMENT | Shamir Shah Design | Stawski Residence |
| SMALL APARTMENT | Studio Arthur Casas | OM Apartment |
| SMALL APARTMENT | Messana O’Rorke | Flat Iron Apartment |
| SMALL HEALTHCARE | EwingCole | Center for the Urban Child at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children |
| SMALL HEALTHCARE | ZGF Architects | St. Charles Bend Cancer Center |
| SMALL HEALTHCARE | Perkins+Will | Whitman-Walker Health |
| SMALL HEALTHCARE | De-Spec with Samir Farhoumand | Avanti Dentistry |
| SMALL HOUSE | Patrick Tighe Architecture | Garrison Residence |
| SMALL HOUSE | +TongTong | Zn House |
| SMALL HOUSE | Janson Goldstein | Mid Century Residence |
| SMALL HOUSE | Messana O’Rorke | Jones Residence |
| SMALL HOUSE | Dubbeldam Architecture + Design | Skygarden House |
| SMALL OFFICE | Travis Walton Architecture | Vicland |
| SMALL OFFICE | OHLAB / Paloma Hernaiz y Jaime Oliver | Palma de Mallorca Office |
| SMALL OFFICE | Lin Kaixin Design Co. | Fuzhou Yimeijia Building Materials Co. |
| SMALL OFFICE | MaRS, Mayfield and Ragni Studio | Dancie Perugini Ware Public Relations |
| SMALL OFFICE: TECH | Elliott + Associates Architects | ImageNet Carrollton Remodel |
| SMALL OFFICE: TECH | Gensler | LogMeIn |
| SMALL OFFICE: TECH | Studio O+A | Alibaba Group |
| SMALL OFFICE: TECH | Desai Chia Architecture | Betaworks |
| SMALL OFFICE: TECH | Shimoda Design Group | Tech Media Office |
| SPA | Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos | Grand Hyatt Playa del Carmen |
| SPA | Champalimaud | The Gainsborough Bath Spa |
| SPA | Yabu Pushelberg | Spa Nalai at the Park Hyatt New York |
| SPA | Chains Interior | Original Dots |
| SPA | AB Concept | W Beijing – Chang’An |
| URBAN HOTEL | Design Systems Limited | Tuve |
| URBAN HOTEL | Ali Tayar | Hotel Ambassador |
| URBAN HOTEL | CL3 Architects Limited | Millennium Mitsui Garden Hotel |
| URBAN HOTEL | Rockwell Group | New York Edition |
| Best in 10 Winners | ||
| Best in 10: Apartment | Ghislaine Vinas Interior Design; David Hotson Architect | Skyhouse |
| Best in 10: Bar/Lounge | Belzberg Architects | Conga Room |
| Best in 10: Beauty/Spa | Partisans | Grotto Sauna |
| Best in 10: Cafeteria | Ippolito Fleitz Group | Der Spiegel Canteen |
| Best in 10: Casual Dining | Elliott + Associates Architects | POPS |
| Best in 10: Communal Space | One Plus Partnership | Nanchang Insun International Cinema |
| Best in 10: Education | ZGF Architects and Firm 151 | University of Oregon, Hatfield-Dowlin Complex |
| Best in 10: Exhibition/Installation | Patrick Tighe Architecture | Out of Memory |
| Best in 10: Fine Dining | Yabu Pushelberg | Pump Room |
| Best in 10: Hotel | Jouin Manku | Fontevraud L’Hotel |
| Best in 10: House | Shelton, Mindel & Associates | Compound |
| Best in 10: Institutional | Belzberg Architects | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust |
| Best in 10: Kitchen & Bath | Superkül | Royal Ontario Museum Bathroom |
| Best in 10: Office | Clive Wilkinson Architects | Macquarie Group Headquarters |
| Best in 10: Retail | Peter Marino Architect | Guerlain |
| Best in 10: Showroom/Manufacturer’s Headquarters | Shimoda design Group and Steelcase Global Design | Worklife Center |
