# January 2022
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Perkins&Will Puts Environmental Initiatives at the Fore for This Office in Houston
2021 Best of Year winner for Large Corporate Office. Perkins&Will consolidates the headquarters of the Waste Management office in Houston.
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The UAE’s Permanent Mission to the UN Flagship by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Takes Home a Best of Year Award
In 2014, SOM won a competition to design a new flagship home for the UAE’s Permanent Mission to the UN. The brief called for an aspirational design requiring architectural diplomacy: elegance without ostentation and an
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Chain + Siman Designs a Meditative Weekend Retreat Near Mexico City
The concept of Casa Rancho Avándro, a weekend retreat approximately 90 miles west of Mexico City, is based on a traditional hacienda. The property’s three commanding volumes are crafted of locally sourced yellowstone
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Saguez & Partners Turn to Biophilic Design to Create a Welcoming Office for a Pharmaceutical Company
2021 Best of Year winner for Midsize Corporate Office. Though a world leader in the research and development of drugs and pharmaceuticals, Roche Laboratories and its long-time design firm Saguez & Partners embraced bioph
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IA Interior Architects Delivers an On-Brand, Budget-Friendly Office for a Fitness App Developer
2021 Best of Year winner for Budget Office. In the brick-and-mortar world, Swift, the fitness-app developer, found itself fragmented, with employees scattered across multiple buildings. To bring them under one roof, the
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Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura Earn a Best of Year Award for São Paulo Chocolate Shop
2021 Best of Year winner for Counter Service. Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura was environmentally conscientious in its design of Dengo’s first freestanding site, a 16,000-square-foot, four-story concept store t
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NC Design & Architecture Takes Home a Best of Year Award for This Residential Complex in Hong Kong
2021 Best of Year winner for International Lobby/Amenity. Hong Kong is about the last place you would expect to encounter a tree house. Yet there you’ll find a wood cabin with a simple gabled outline that a child might
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Gensler Takes a Transparent Approach to Designing its Raleigh, North Carolina Locale
2021 Best of Year winner for Firm's Own Domestic Office. Transparency in both the workplace and design is the governing precept Gensler took for its Raleigh-Durham office. The 6,400-square-foot, two-story studio, peppere
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Open Architecture Creates a Bibliotheater Reminiscent of a Blue Whale for the Qingpu Pinghe International School in Shanghai
When the Qingpu Pinghe International School approached founding partners Hu Li and Wenjing Huang to conceive a new campus for 2,000 students aged 3 to 18 years, the architects decided not to follow the city’s “school
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Bates Masi + Architects Conceives of a Beach House in Long Island That Pays Homage to its Surroundings
2021 Best of Year winner for Beach House. Talk about hyper-local: Stony Hill, a 6,300-square-foot family residence on Long Island, draws from the history of the land it stands on. The site was once Native American huntin
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Ministry of Design Earns a Best of Year Award for This Greenery-Filled Wealth Management Center
2021 Best of Year winner for Finance Office. The RFP for the 29,332-square-foot wealth-management center called for out-of-the-box thinking and a fresh, world-class experience. The firm won with its “banking conservato
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Muller2 Conceives a New Security Checkpoint at Chicago Midway International Airport in Line with Major Expansion
2021 Best of Year winner for Transportation - Large. For travelers, an airport is a gateway to a new place. That’s something Muller2 held in mind when conceiving a new security checkpoint at Chicago Midway Internationa
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Steven Harris Architects, Jessica Helgerson Interior Design, and Rees Roberts and Partners Transform a Lakefront Property in Florida
2021 Best of Year winner for Residential Transformation. As you approach this lakefront property by Steven Harris Architects, a simple white-stucco facade conceals the spatial complexity and nuanced sophistication lying
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Feldman Architecture and Thuilot Associates Earn a Best of Year Award for Residential Landscape
2021 Best of Year winner for Residential Landscape. Most recently, the owners of this Bay Area residence sought to maximize use of their backyard, dotted with redwoods and mature oaks, by commissioning a pair of freestan
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Olson Kundig Overhauls an Experiential Campus for Kids in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area
2021 Best of Year winner for Kids Zone. Steeped in museum design in general and children’s spaces in particular—Noah’s Ark at Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, and its counterpart, The Children’s World of th
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro Collaborate With Brininstool + Lynch on a LEED Gold-Certified Addition to the University of Chicago
2021 Best of Year winner for Education and Higher Learning. With its 97,000 square feet of spaces for symposia and workshops, this building is a significant addition to the University of Chicago. The forum required a hom
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Studio MK27 Brings Tropical Modernism to the Maldives
2021 Best of Year winner for Hospitality - Large Resort. Studio MK27 founder and architect Marcio Kogan’s lavish vision of tropical modernism has come to define the look of much residential design in his native Brazil.
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Fogarty Finger Takes Home a Best of Year Award for Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
2021 Best of Year winner for Corporate Cafeteria. The 16-story volume, with base building design by S9 Architecture, sits on a skinny pier sandwiched between two former dry docks and culminating in a new ferry terminal.
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Workshop/APD Envision an Outdoorsy, Inviting Hospitality Destination in Cape Cod
2021 Best of Year winner for Hospitality - Small Resort. “The Cape was an early laboratory for mid-century architecture,” says Kotchen, whose firm Workshop/APD oversaw the master plan of the 14-acre site, which hosts
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Gulla Jónsdóttir Takes Home a Best of Year Award for Esperanza
2021 Best of Year winner for Hospitality - Fine Dining. Los Angeles architectural designer Gulla Jónsdóttir has a thing for biomorphic shapes. In her latest hospitality project, the cresting stucco facade sparked by th
