AN Best of 2023 by The Architect's Newspaper

Editor’s Note

The Top of the Top What constitutes goo d architecture? Vitruvius had thoughts, as did every epoch of architects who followed. Today, the question is as relevant as ever, given the urgency of the many crises facing society at large. Knowing what we know now, perhaps good architecture, beyond widely accepted criteria of beauty or usefulness, ought to consider its participation within larger environmental flows. This could mean a concern for which products are used, how much energy the project consumes, or even the minimizing of how much construction is needed, in addition to its overall appearance or how it meets the needs of its users. The initial question can be rephrased: Where does goodness reside in architecture? In the experiences of its users or the intentions of its designers? In the forms themselves or their materials, realized or proposed? In the judgments aired via press coverage or in the longer historical record, in which buildings stand the test of time—or don’t? (Of course, this supposes that architectural labor results in buildings, which it often does. But at times the output remains as drawings, images, models, texts, and other types of media.) Frustratingly—and thankfully—there are many answers to this query; architectural meaning is a circle with many centers.

AN’s award programs seek answers to this tough but essential question through our three campaigns: Best of Practice evaluates the work of architects, landscape architects, and engineers to create firms that attempt excellence through their overall operations; Best of Products examines current offerings to see which items best fit the concerns and needs of contemporary practitioners; and Best of Design combs through projects of all sizes to seek the most encouraging and considered productions. This year, the selections by the respective juries were made after thoughtful deliberations and, taken together, capture much of what is captivating lately in the wide world of architecture. What follows are the winners, honorable mentions, and editors’ picks for each ef for t, plus a preface where AN editors summarize the design trends witnessed during this busy year. Want to see your work on these pages? Consider applying next year: 2024 is almost here. Jack Murphy

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Winners

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Honorable Mentions

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RESOURCES

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THANK YOU

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Increased interest in adaptive reuse/building renovation/preservation

Residential commissions remain central to the architectural imagination

Entries to the adaptive reuse, building renovation, restoration and preservation categories for this year’s Best of Design Awards grew by about 35 percent, demonstrating an expanded interest in reusing existing buildings. This aligns with wider discussions about material lifecycles and carbon accounting, which may explain the “ongoing increase in renovation, rehabilitation, additions, and historic preservation projects” as noted by the AIA in its latest Business of Architecture report.

By the numbers, AN saw the most entries to its single-family home category. Private home commissions remain a time-honored format for architects to experiment while delivering highly resolved buildings. As seen in AN Interior, homes in both urban and rural contexts are a site for organizational and material provocations. In the midst of ongoing rumbles about market instability, this sector will remain an essential one.

Clockwise from top: Aaron Leitz, Jeremy Bitterman, Robert Gomez

TR E N D A L E R T S

AN’s editors weigh in on the most encouraging directions in architecture and design as seen across AN’s awards programs.

Material sourcing and flows are central to the work of architects today

A concern for how industrial production can reduce its contributions to the climate crisis was a prominent part of AN’s Best of Products Awards, both in terms of the submissions and in how the jury selected the winning items. Many manufacturers now offer carbon-neutral innovations and specific environmental product declarations, as well as bio-based alternatives for components like insulation or paints.

Architects and designers will continue to learn more about supply chains, assemblies, and sourcing, both for carbon and labor awareness. As seen in AN’s editorial coverage and in-depth presentations at Facades+, industry leaders are pushing for increased consideration of these footprints as the drive to decarbonize buildings becomes more critical. Expect to see additional value placed on this aspect of construction in the years ahead.

TR E N D A L E R T S

Clockwise from top: Courtesy Design Workshop, Courtesy atelierjones, Courtesy Designtex, Courtesy Luum Textiles

The urgency for meaningful sustainability will only increase

Health should be centered at all scales of design consideration

As homes become WFH venues, offices become cozier, and hotels become further amenitized, a space’s ability to transform is critical. This is also seen in many new workplace product offerings, where meetings of varying sizes—onscreen or IRL—can be hosted, desks rearranged, or partitions adjusted. Thermal comfort is part of the equation too: If spaces (and occupants) can tolerate a wider range of conditions, then the energy used to heat or cool said spaces will decrease.

AN’s Best of Practice Award sought to recognize practices with office cultures and procedures that allow for mentorship, career growth, and employee satisfaction alongside the pursuit of design excellence. Relatedly, hygiene was a theme among the Best of Products winners, in addition to increased research about and interest in biophilia. In a wider civic sense, community health is central to architectural efforts that seek to repair neighborhoods and cities where prior development caused harm.

Clockwise from top: Michael Wells, Courtesy Vaask, Courtesy Marvel, Courtesy Allsteel

TR E N D A L E R T S 8

Prioritizing flexibility is here to stay

Cross-pollination and collaboration is the new name of the game

Architecture and design continues to make slow progress on diversifying its ranks. (According to NCARB, one out of every three new architects was a person of color, and two out of every five were women.) This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Lesley Lokko, was a step forward with its focus on African architects and contexts. In 2024, Kimberly Dowdell, who was interviewed in the previous Best of 2022 issue, will become the AIA’s first Black woman and millennial president.

Just as the latest issue of the Harvard Design Magazine focused on multihyphenate creatives, many practices are getting further away from rigid divisions and instead work as one collective. AN has also covered many projects which are equal collaborations—between architects; architects and landscape architects; and architects and interior designers—that suggest the dynamics among design team members are in flux. Today, more than ever, there is acknowledgement that it takes a group of experts in collaboration to deliver a successful building.

TR E N D A L E R T S

Clockwise from top: Matteo De Mayda, Fernando Guerra, Brian Griffin, Tom Harris

Diversity matters in both quantitative and qualitative metrics

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AN’s Best of Design Awards recognizes excellence in complete works of architecture. The jury’s deliberations cover myriad scales and categorizations, from the exciting work of emerging practitioners and students to mature works of international significance. Overall, the jury found that formal invention matters as much as the desire to do environmental and social good.

Project of the Year Winner

Interior—Residential

Project of the Year Finalists

Interior—Retail

Commercial Office

Interior—Workplace

Commercial—Hospitality

Libraries

Civic

Landscape

Adaptive Reuse

Residential—Mixed-use

Social Impact

Residential—Multi-unit

Architectural Lighting

Residential—Single-unit

Cultural

Student Work

Digital Fabrication

Temporary Installation

Healthcare

Restoration & Preservation

Building Renovation

Unbuilt—Commercial, Cultural, Civic, Education

Education—Kindergarten, Primary, High School

Unbuilt—Conceptual

Commercial—Sports & Entertainment

Unbuilt—Landscape, Urban Design, Master Plan

Facades

Unbuilt—Residential—Multi-Unit

Higher Education

Unbuilt—Residential—Single-Unit

Infrastructure

Urban Design & Master Plan

Exhibition Design

Young Architects Award

Commercial—Retail

Honorable Mentions

Interior—Hospitality

Editors’ Picks

Interior—Institutional

Meryati Johari Blackwell Principal + Interior Design Director Marlon Blackwell Architects

Chris Cooper Design Partner SOM

Michelle Arevalos Franco Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture The Ohio State University

Michael Hsu Founding Principal Michael Hsu Office of Architecture

E. B. Min Principal Min Design

Maria Nicanor Director Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Jack Murphy Executive Editor The Architect’s Newspaper

BEST OF DESIGN

Jury

BEST OF DESIGN

Project of the Year

BEST OF DESIGN

Winner

PROJECT International African American Museum DESIGNER Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Hood Design Studio

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Project of the Year

PROJECT Neil Campbell Rowing Centre

PROJECT East Flatbush Library

DESIGNER MJMA Architecture & Design

DESIGNER LEVENBETTS

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Previous spread: Fernando Guerra. Above: Scott Norsworthy, Below: Naho Kubota

BEST OF DESIGN

The following five projects were finalists for Project of the Year. These were elevated to be not only winners in their respective categories, but recognized for excellence throughout the Best of Design program. These works of architecture, built and unbuilt, pushed the boundaries of what the jury seeks in a complete work of architecture—be that design resolution, social and societal responsibility, or enagement with the process of building itself. You can learn more about what makes each project excel on their respective Winner pages.

PROJECT Pabellón de la Reserva

DESIGNER HEMAA

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DESIGNER Studio One Eleven

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BEST OF DESIGN

From top: Cesar Bejar Sutdio, Paul Vu, Mutuo + There There

Finalists

PROJECT Watts Works

PROJECT Otoch

DESIGNER Mutuo + There There

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“A high level of rigor and talent is needed to bring such a strong feeling of unity throughout an entire campus. Each building is slightly different yet they’re all connected, and floating above the reflecting pools.” — Meryati Johari Blackwell

PROJECT Ascentage Pharma

Shen Zhonghai

BEST OF DESIGN

Commercial Office

DESIGNER OLI Architecture

Ascentage Pharmaceutical Headquarters, a 147,000-squaremeter R&D and manufacturing complex in Suzhou, China, symbolizes the aspirations of a young Hong Kong-listed pharmaceutical company. Their cutting-edge biotechnology research focuses on promising new cancer treatments. The campus, a feat of digital design and fabrication, comprises seven modern buildings characterized by curvilinear shapes, elevated above a glass base. A reflecting pool, clad in black granite, faces the main Xinqing Road. The 80-meter tall R&D/Administration building, a new icon, stands at the bustling southwest corner near a mass transit station.

LOCATION Suzhou, China

Inspired by the benzene ring in chemical-molecular formulas, each building’s facade adopts hexagonal forms designed with BIM-adaptive families to parametrically bond around the varying program volumes. These facades, digitally fabricated from Ultra High-Strength Concrete panels and custom aluminum nodes, balance transparency and privacy. The distinctly programmed composition of the projects’ buildings fosters a unique identity for Ascentage’s promising future on the 60,870-square-meter site.

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BEST OF DESIGN

Commercial—Hospitality

“The connection between the exterior and the interior was very seamlessly accomplished. But I found the interior particularly welcoming—a spot where you would want to linger.” — Michael Hsu

PROJECT Sequitur Tasting Room

DESIGNER Linden, Brown Architecture

In the Willamette Valley outside Newberg, Oregon, Sequitur Winery sits between wetland meadows and forested hillsides that are perfect for winemaking in a region that has become a culinary destination. Originally a dairy farm, the barn at the heart of the historic property has been transformed into a cathedral for winemaking, surrounded by a series of new, complementary buildings that frame a campus with places for viniculture and culture alike. Particularly important at the new winery is the tasting room building, located adjacent to

LOCATION Newberg, Oregon

the historic barn, connecting visitors to varied landscapes and workspaces. The interior of the tasting room is a warm and intimate space finished in wood reclaimed from original farm buildings, a contrast to vibrant seasonal routines visible from numerous window seats. Together, the campus of buildings expands the legacy of a historic dairy farm, using its natural resources to create a sustainable future as a winery.

James Steinkamp Photography

BEST OF DESIGN

Civic

“The goals assigned here and the ambition are all things that we want to reward in civic design. Not only did they talk about all the right things, but they delivered.” — E. B. Min

PROJECT Princeton Municipal Center

DESIGNER Perkins&Will

For generations, the people of Princeton, Texas, have worked the land using what it receives from the sky. The design celebrates this elemental relationship with nature as well as materiality. Utilizing the site’s topography, the building collects rainwater into runoffs that drain back into the pond. Dark velour brick was chosen as the primary building cladding material and references the site’s Blackland Prairie soil. Princeton’s historic barn life is reflected in the interiors through weathered wood and exposed steel structural beams.

LOCATION Princeton, Texas

Respecting nature as a resource to promote community placemaking, the Municipal Center stretches outwards framing the site and its natural watering hole creating a gateway and a town center for the community. Emphasizing openness and transparency throughout the building, The City Hall, Municipal Court, Fire Department, and Police Department, now under one roof, the new Municipal Center strengthens the open-door relation between the city and its citizens.

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BEST OF DESIGN

Adaptive Reuse

“For such a complicated program and renovation, it is wonderful to see the historic mid-century building facade remain legible. The improvements are really clear, even through the interiors, along with the existing building.” — E. B. Min

PROJECT Harvard Law School Lewis International Law Center

DESIGNER TenBerke

Harvard Law School’s Lewis Law Center has been transformed into a 21st-century learning and work environment. Built as an extension to the law library’s stacks, the modernist structure became outmoded with the changing needs of libraries and law pedagogy. With a new entrance, increased teaching and office space, new circulation system, and high-performance glazing, the revamped Lewis Law Center has become a porous, open connector at the heart of the Law School campus.

LOCATION Cambridge, Massachusetts

The design reused the bones of the original structure—only demolishing 20 percent of the former building while transforming its identity resulting in a 40 percent reduction in embodied carbon emissions compared to a new construction building using standard industry materials. The reconceptualization of the Lewis Center has transformed faculty and student life, embracing HLS’s focus on mentorship and collaborative learning, and raises the bar for sustainable construction and design of research and learning environments for decades to come.

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“The modular construction and economy of means embedded in this project appeal to me. This is a unique construction concept that makes room to find some design within.” — Chris Cooper

PROJECT Watts Works

Paul Vu

BEST OF DESIGN

Social Impact

DESIGNER Studio One Eleven

Replacing a vacant single-family home on a 6,140-squarefoot lot, the project comprises a 25-unit affordable housing community in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood. An innovative building approach utilized 58 modular shipping containers to create micro-living studio apartments for unhoused individuals. The project features a community space, laundry room, secure bicycle storage and service provider offices that offer on-site counseling, healthcare, and employment training. The ground floor community room has street access and a landscaped patio. Boldly colored exterior stairways animate the facade and open-ended corridors connect

LOCATION Los Angeles

outdoor spaces and promote natural cross-ventilation for the apartments. Each microunit covers 320 square feet while optimizing efficiency and reducing waste by combining two standard eight by 20–foot containers. The financing includes Proposition HHH funds and Mayor Garcetti’s Housing Innovation Challenge. In 2022, the project gained global recognition as a circular building case study, presented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

Nicholas Venezia, Frank Oudeman

BEST OF DESIGN

Architectural Lighting

“It’s such a simple solution that showcases the power and importance of natural light in architecture.” — Meryati Johari Blackwell PROJECT Confidential Staircase

DESIGNER HLW International, Loisos + Ubbelohde

The staircase and Light Fall installation fosters connections between people, nature, and history. Created within a repurposed elevator shaft originally designed for large trucks, the high-capacity egress stairs transform the space into a distinctive feature in a global company’s East Coast headquarters. Light Fall, a 16-floor column of daylight that runs roof to ground, illuminates the staircase through a roof-mounted, rotating “light cannon,” reflecting light through a mirror assembly and fiber optic strands. It offers protection, stability,

LOCATION New York

and opportunities for pause, with transparent inner guardrails preventing visual interruption. Ambient lighting concealed within the stair’s folded metal handrail highlights the sculpture while graphics depicting various structures add to the sense of verticality and thoughtful acoustic treatments add softness and warmth. Visible on each floor through fire-rated glazing, it entices people to choose stairs over elevators, promoting physical activity.

Mike Habat

BEST OF DESIGN

Cultural

“There’s so much more to this project than just the architecture. In fact, it seems they purposefully let the landscape and the site speak louder than the new building. The way the form floats above the ground shows respect and allows a place for people to engage with history in a tactile way.” — Michael Hsu

PROJECT International African American Museum

DESIGNER Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Sited at the port of arrival for nearly half of all enslaved Africans brought to North America, the design of the International African American Museum, realized with Moody Nolan as architect of record, grants primacy to the seascape on which it fronts, the landscapes that frame it, and the memorial for which it provides shelter. The 426-foot-long, one-story building volume, raised 13 feet above the ground on a double row of cylindrical columns, shelters a large open space that

LOCATION Charleston, South Carolina

is the heart of the site’s collective memory. Oriented to the ocean beyond, a shallow reflecting pool signifies the edge of Gadsden’s Wharf as it was at the peak of the slave trade. The materials reflect a careful contextual response to a highly charged historical site. The building is clad in a warm brick, with its glass-enclosed ends shaded by angled wooden louvers. Oyster Shell tabby clads the supporting columns and serves as paving in portions of the ground plane.

BEST OF DESIGN

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Digital Fabrication

“It’s encouraging to see functionality and storytelling coming together in the Drape Stair with its effortlessly cool simplicity, which is rooted in the inspiration derived from the natural processes and foldings of dough making.” — Maria Nicanor

PROJECT Drape Stair

DESIGNER Future Expansion

This stair was commissioned by a pastry chef for their family home in Manhattan. Inspired by the folding of bakers dough it was a test of material thinness using structural sheets of aluminum with a slumped geometry that turns back on itself to form three draped and perforated surfaces. The aluminum forms were modeled in Rhino with perforation patterns developed in Grasshopper such that they always end cleanly along

LOCATION New York

the flat edges within the tolerance of the computer controlled cutter. The drapes give the tall thin sheets rigidity and form handrails that meet at the corners, each sheet capping its neighbor to produce a puzzle piece-like continuity of the surfaces. The metal was fabricated off site, installed, and painted in situ.

“I love the materials. I love the simplicity. I love the proportions. The package brings great dignity to the project.” — Chris Cooper

PROJECT 17th Avenue Clinic

DESIGNER 5468796 Architecture

Deceptively simple in form, 17th Avenue Clinic derives its articulation around the modulation of light, privacy, and transparency. The building features three clinics—medical dermatology, aesthetic, and rheumatology—on the second floor, retail units at grade, and underground parking. Requiring a significant amount of soft natural light for patient assessment and treatment, the clinic adopted multiple solutions that would generate an abundance of diffused light to embody the healthy ethos that the center represents.

James Brittain Photography

BEST OF DESIGN

Healthcare

LOCATION Calgary, Canada

Prioritizing the patient experience, emphasis is put on views to the ceiling. Hundreds of micro-layers of laminated wood are stacked to form the beams that reach down from the ceiling and form a datum grid, supporting the convex arc of the roof undercroft, which bows upward to meet the roofline at its perimeter and draws in a wash of natural light. A multilevel courtyard also brings sunlight through the building core all the way into the underground parkade.

Kendall McCaugherty

BEST OF DESIGN

Building Renovation

“It seems this lobby went through an extensive renovation to modernize it. The insertions feel modest in scale but grand in impact and design. The quality is significant, the detailing is beautiful, and the work highly executed.” — E. B. Min

PROJECT Lobby with Amphitheater

DESIGNER Norman Kelley

The postmodern lobby, originally designed by John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson, was carefully altered with the addition of new security desks, turnstiles, seating areas, a café, and an amphitheater that comes to life through a permanent immersive audio experience. The semicircular amphitheater measures 12 feet in height, 27 feet in diameter. In contrast to Anthony Caro’s bronze sculpture, Chicago Fugue, located on the south apse of the lobby, the brass and marble amphitheater is a responsive

LOCATION Chicago

instrument that uses real time data inputs, like weather and time of day, to compose an ever-changing sonic environment. Once the amphitheater senses one’s presence, a musical score comprising 15 instruments, four tempos, and seven keys and scales play across eight of the nearest 91 speakers. Like an aural diptych, the lobby presents two musical sculptures: one figurative, the other literal, to welcome you back to work.

“The fact that it is Net Zero is significant: the exterior interiors are so porous and fitting for the climate. It seems like a considered environment that students would actually enjoy both learning within, while also learning about the environment. It feels appropriate, interesting, and nicely melded into its context.” — E. B. Min PROJECT American School Foundation of Guadalajara | High School

DESIGNER Flansburgh Architects

The American School Foundation of Guadalajara’s new High School is a bold and forward-looking approach to education and the environment. The LEED-Certified, seven-story, and open-air structure doubles academic space while maximizing green space and providing state-of-the-art facilities that support 21st century education. Bright colors, sculptural forms, natural materials, and crisp design are inspired by Guadalajara’s cultural heritage. Drawing from Mexico’s cortile buildings, courtyards, and public sculptures, the design embraces the city’s architectural history and fosters a strong

Robert Benson and American School Foundation of Guadalajara

BEST OF DESIGN

Education—Kindergarten, Primary, High School

LOCATION Guadalajara, Mexico

sense of community. The project connects classrooms to the outdoors, incorporating lush green space and utilizing Guadalajara’s climate in its design. Native plantings are deployed strategically, using water-intensive plants sparingly. Sustainability is integrated in all aspects of the building’s design and construction process, focusing on daylighting, solar control, passive cooling, thermal mass, shading, and natural ventilation. Ultimately the project is a distinctive, location-based, sustainable, learning environment that celebrates its place in a fast-growing city.

Scott Norsworthy

BEST OF DESIGN

Commercial—Sports & Entertainment

“Of the many projects we have reviewed, this was the one that brought me the most joy. It is simultaneously confident in its presence and its ephemeral absence.” — Chris Cooper

PROJECT Neil Campbell Rowing Centre

DESIGNER MJMA Architecture & Design + Raimondo + Associates Architects

The Neil Campbell Rowing Centre (NCRC) serves both as a venue for elite tournaments as well as a year-round training center for athletes, continuing the site’s legacy as a historic rowing course. With a biased and overhanging roof, extensive glazing, operable sliding doors, and located steps to the racecourse, the profile of the building is expansive and striking. This architectural language is a nod to the passive measures that help the facility meet both Zero-Carbon Emissions and

LOCATION St. Catharines, Canada

Net-Zero Energy Design benchmarks, with cross-ventilation and sun control built into its form. Complemented by a material palette that is simple and robust, with mass timber as a defining element, the pavilion carefully balances visual appeal with concerns for operations and maintenance. Housing an entry space, rowing ergometers, a weight-lifting gym, lounge, and universal change/washrooms, the NCRC is a vital amenity on Henley Island.

Iwan Baan

BEST OF DESIGN

Facades

“There’s a strong resolution in everything here. It’s a complete, mature work with a high level of technical execution.” — Meryati Johari Blackwell

PROJECT Houston Endowment Headquarters

DESIGNER kevin daly Architects + PRODUCTORA

The facade of the new Houston Endowment Headquarters is a high-performance aluminum rainscreen system, custom fabricated in Monterrey, Mexico by Kinetica. The scalloped geometry of the panels accentuates the shifting light and shadow filtered by the louvered canopy above, changing throughout each day and from season to season. Anchored on a custom aluminum clip system, and with a continuous layer of non-combustible exterior insulation behind, the rainscreen is attached to a CFMF wall, which acts as the

LOCATION Houston

primary weather barrier. The metal framed wall is connected directly to the primary steel structure of the building. The Headquarters enables Houston Endowment, one of the largest private foundations in Texas, to relocate from its current offices in the city’s business district and embed itself within the community. The purpose-built headquarters creates a more accessible, welcoming base of operations where their work can continue to evolve and transform into the future.

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BEST OF DESIGN

Higher Education

“It is grand yet humble at the same time, and I just love that kind of tension. Overall it’s a very warm, inviting place.” — Michelle Franco PROJECT Sandi Simon Center For Dance at Chapman University

DESIGNER Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

The Sandi Simon Center for Dance is an expansive new education and performing arts center at Chapman University that redefines a former orange packing house. Landmarked by the National Register of Historic Places, LOHA’s adaptive reuse strategy preserves the exterior identity while opening the interior structure with a calculated cut through the original floor that allows for a reorganization into three levels and forms a new circulation through the space. Originally built as a two-story headquarters for the Santiago Orange Growers Association in 1918, the post and beam

LOCATION Orange, California

heavy timber-frame building is representative of the industrial vernacular style of its time. Chapman University’s purchase of the building signifies a dedication to the preservation of this local historic landmark. LOHA’s adaptive reuse strategy required precise planning and innovative strategies to transform the former orange packing house, from a one-story warehouse space with an unused, uninhabitable basement, into a multilevel Center for Dance.

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BEST OF DESIGN

Infrastructure

“The MIT/Kendall Gateway is actually operating as functional infrastructure, not just a public landscape. It is a point of transportation, not just an element leading you to that critical public infrastructure.” — Michelle Franco

PROJECT Kendall/MIT Gateway

DESIGNER NADAAA

Over the past two decades, Kendall Square has transformed from an area of parking lots and industrial brownfields into an important urban center within the Boston/Cambridge metropolis. The Kendall/MIT Gateway project created an opportunity for MIT to redefine and reconstruct its eastern entry to campus, while at the same time allowing the MBTA to replace an aging subway headhouse and renovate the concourse below. To maintain the porosity of the urban site, a single civic canopy supported by very thin columns was imagined.

LOCATION Cambridge, Massachusetts

The canopy and the headhouses below direct pedestrians towards the new MIT Open Space, Welcome Center, and Museum, making a welcoming space for the public to enjoy with improved visibility, wayfinding, signage, and safety. Both a civic and infrastructural project, this new Gateway has shaped a critical public threshold into campus and provided a welcoming and accessible entrance to and from Kendall Square and MIT.

Yoshihiro Makino

BEST OF DESIGN

Exhibition Design

“It’s easy sometimes with exhibition design to overwhelm the ideas and objects on display, but this is an example that strikes a balance between creating surprise and excitement while refocusing the attention on the objects themselves.” — Maria Nicanor

PROJECT Scandinavian Design & the US, 1890–1980

DESIGNER Bestor Architecture

Bestor Architecture created the visual language and exhibition design for Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980, the first exhibition to examine the extensive design exchanges between the United States and the Nordic countries. The exhibition considers Scandinavian design’s enduring impact on American culture, as well as the United States’ influence on Scandinavian design, over nearly 100 years of cultural exchange. The exhibition design takes direct inspiration from the design concepts

LOCATION Los Angeles

and objects within the show, including Alvar Aalto’s organic modernist Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and the furnishings of immigrant Swedish designer Greta Magnusson Grossman. The exhibition design amplifies several themes of design exchange between the US and the Nordic countries including the Scandinavian emphasis on wood as an abundant and sustainable natural resource, bright colors, and imagistic textiles, along with louder American improvisational pop sensibility.

Commercial—Retail

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“Dior’s design approach here results in a truly ethereal and elegant, even airy spatial experience.”

PROJECT DIOR Femme

DESIGNER Aranda\Lasch + G4

The storefront of this retail space is an interpretation of couture techniques, fabric materiality, and movement synthesized in an architectural form. It is a 72-foot tall interior facade made from grooved, opaque, and translucent thermoformed solid surface—currently the world’s largest installation of this material. The uniformity of the fin’s materials is broken down by variation in depth, and textural oscillation. The grooved pattern etched on each fin diffuses light and softens its hard

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— Maria Nicanor

LOCATION Lusail, Qatar

materiality. The pleats organize around the openings at the base and sway upward allowing the bundles to produce moments of both turbulence and calm. From the side, the facade appears like a curtain letting subtle figures of light and shadow peer through. From the front it opens up and allows full view of the storefront, mezzanine, and entrances. The effects of the light, movement, and texture contribute to the idea of an architectural pleat in motion.

Adiran Ozimek and doublespace

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Interior—Hospitality

“The level of sophistication and attention to every detail makes the Prime Seafood Palace a standout here.” — Chris Cooper

PROJECT Prime Seafood Palace

DESIGNER Omar Gandhi Architects

Prime Seafood Palace was imagined as a light-filled wood cathedral, lining an otherwise inconspicuous existing brickclad building in Toronto. This was an exercise in carrying the refinement of Omar Gandhi Architects’s residential work through to this commercial project.

LOCATION Toronto

The principal goal was to create a timeless space with local, natural materials that develop a patina and continue to enrich the restaurant over time. Designing with wood and light was the starting point for the design. The neutral material palette creates a backdrop for the main act: the unpretentious but exceptional food of cherished Canadian chef Matty Matheson.

Samara Vise

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Interior—Institutional

“The MOCA project, though low budget, actually transformed a pocket of space into something with great dignity, which is what makes it both different and cozy. There is also high level use of graphic design and carefully considered choices throughout.” — Chris Cooper PROJECT MOCA Workshop

DESIGNER Atelier Cho Thompson

MOCA Workshop is an innovative neighborhood-integrated museum that bridges community participation and archival research to chronicle the Chinese American experience. The two-story space is made up of a storefront library event space, an oral history studio, workspace for staff, and, most importantly, archival storage for over 85,000 artifacts. Atelier Cho Thompson created naming and branding for the space as well as all architectural and interior design.

LOCATION New York

In 2020, MOCA’s Collections and Research Center was destroyed in a devastating fire; after extensive recovery and repair, MOCA’s collection of artifacts was relocated to the Workshop, where the materials are conserved, studied, and made accessible to visitors to explore and learn. The public-facing library invites visitors inside to share their family artifacts and stories; the collection grows each day as airmail letters, family photos, and objects are added to the collection.

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PROJECT Jackie XU Private Residence - A Love Letter to My Dogs

DESIGNER Office of Goldchild

Jackie XU Private Residence embodies a profound connection between its owner and her two beloved dogs—a four-yearold Schnauzer and a two-year-old Italian Greyhound. This enduring bond has become an indispensable facet of her life. The design approach revolves around celebrating this emotional connection, treating the residence as a symbol of love exchanged between her and her dog companions. Throughout the design journey, Office of Goldchild delved into the intriguing differences in canine and human vision cone cell regarding space and color perception.

Jian XU, Haoran Chen, Jing Deng

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Interior—Residential

LOCATION Shanghai

Humans perceive a broad spectrum of colors, whereas dogs primarily receive “blue and yellow” due to variations in light wavelengths. We meticulously selected architectural materials based on “yellow and blue” color spectrum, ensuring both humans and dogs can mentally and visually connect with the space. This intentional selection fosters a shared visual experience, bridging the gap between species and enabling a deep emotional connection within this unique living environment—”Home.”

Brian Ferry

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Interior—Retail

“The design is full of texture and materiality, and is effective as a retail space because it also takes into account the visitor experience of looking through the glasses on display in a comfortable way that isn’t overwhelming to the senses.” — Maria Nicanor

PROJECT GLCO New York

DESIGNER West of West

Garrett Leight California Optical New York is a utilitarian space inspired by the contrasting, multifaceted cultural and urban landscape of New York, built from a palette of raw, utilitarian materials including wood, glass, metal, and tile. The ongoing history of the store’s context connects the legacy of the surrounding neighborhood to GLCO. Located mid-block on a busy street, the space contains a series of different elements,

LOCATION New York

each unique and distinct, like a small city block. These elements functionally display products, provide atmosphere, and broadcast the GLCO brand. Their design takes core parts of the GLCO brand language and recasts them to reflect the time and place of the new location.

Magda Biernat

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Interior—Workplace

“Designers are aware of the changing priorities in work and workplace environments. This design is not only responsive to these trends, but it’s effective due to its simplicity.” — Michael Hsu

PROJECT Publicis Groupe, Le Truc

DESIGNER Architecture Plus Information (A+I)

A+I partnered with the French advertising giant Publicis Groupe to reimagine a full floor in their New York City flagship building. The resulting space is a “Clubhouse” for their newly formed creative collective, Le Truc, designed to fuel creative potential across the organization and serve as the center of gravity for the creative culture at Publicis. The project is a novel initiative that elevates the unique needs of the company’s professionals, breaking away from conventional structures often defined by agency, department, or client, and instead is designed for and around their creative process.

LOCATION New York

Rather than designing for universality, the project’s playground-like landscape offers diverse spaces for ideation. Each area boasts distinct colors, lighting, scales, and functions, encouraging individual creative agency. Whether seeking a tranquil corner or a buzzing auditorium, this project is anchored by choice. The result is an inspired collective that celebrates and nurtures the creative instinct.

Naho Kubota

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Libraries

“In a time when resources for community spaces are being threatened, the reinvestment in space and knowledge represented by the East Flatbush Library is encouraging and inspirational for all. The library is both welcoming and modern with an advanced facade system: a true investment in community.” — Emily Conklin PROJECT East Flatbush Library

DESIGNER LEVENBETTS

The East Flatbush Branch Library Renovation scope includes a full renovation of the entire exterior facade and roof as well as the 8,000-square-foot interior. The design approach was three-fold. First, to create a more open and inviting facade that would make a direct connection to the street and community. Second, to bring in as much natural light as possible. As a single-story library with low-rise neighboring buildings, the existing roof was transformed by cutting six large

LOCATION New York

north-facing skylights that provide natural light throughout the central reading room. Third, the plan is organized with all support spaces (meetings rooms, offices, etc.) orbiting around the central, naturally-lit reading room. All rooms have either direct or shared light from this central space providing for an equity of light throughout the library where all rooms, like people, are created equal and have a right to light and views.

Fernando Guerra

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Landscape

“The engagement with the history of the site, the nearby residential development, and the new architecture of the museum itself is resolved through a masterful landscape. Serving as the base for the entire project, narrative, and message, it’s a marriage of time, land and sea.” — Emily Conklin

PROJECT International African American Museum

DESIGNER Hood Design Studio

In 2016, Hood Design Studio began a collaborative journey for the African Ancestors Memorial Gardens in Charleston, bringing together a diverse group of artists, academics, historians, activists, architects, and civic leaders. Their discussions shaped the gardens, harmonizing voices while respecting the sacredness of Gadsden’s Wharf and supporting the emerging museum, realized with SeamonWhiteside as landscape architect of record. The site’s historical significance is honored with a stainless steel band symbolizing Gadsden’s Wharf and a brick-paved

LOCATION Charleston, South Carolina

strip tracing the former storehouse where enslaved individuals suffered. A boardwalk with kneeling figures connects the past and present through polished granite walls. At Gadsden’s Wharf’s edge, one’s gaze extends to Sullivan’s Island and beyond. A water feature pays tribute to the Atlantic Passage, revealing and concealing figures in its flow, encouraging reflection on history and dialogue for the present and future. These gardens draw inspiration from local and global African diaspora landscapes, providing serene spaces for meaningful discourse and contemplation.

Bruce Damonte, Matthew Millman

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Residential—Mixed-use

“I appreciate the scale at which this was executed. Street level interaction is encouraged, adding to the neighborly feeling, but the responsibly sourced materials and goals for sustainability bring this entire project together.” — Michael Hsu

PROJECT North Campus Housing

DESIGNER KieranTimberlake

The University of Washington’s LEED Gold-certified North Campus Housing neighborhood extends an historic campus fabric by weaving together four buildings and accompanying landscapes on a previously isolated and heavily sloped part of campus. The residences create a vibrant living-learning community for upwards of 2,000 students, fostering engagement and connection through dining, instruction, meeting, and recreation spaces. Facades feature Western red cedar rainscreen assemblies, promoting air circulation and ventilation, while echoing

LOCATION Seattle

the Pacific Northwest’s rich history of basketweaving and the surrounding mature landscape. The center of the North Campus Housing, known as the Town Square, is identifiable by the basket-woven brickwork, while other pathways are salt seeded concrete or stone. By drawing students out of their rooms and into a newly connected complex that integrates landscape and buildings, the North Campus Housing neighborhood fosters a campus-wide identity and forges relationships between the student community, campus, and the city of Seattle.

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“This project has done more than just take on the challenge of affordable senior housing. It’s modern, it’s connected, and the result is an accessible and walkable community.” — Michael Hsu

PROJECT Pacific Landing Affordable Housing

DESIGNER Patrick TIGHE Architecture

Pacific Landing is a mixed-use, 100 percent affordable housing project designed for people living with disabilities and those on limited incomes. The 4-story, 42,000-squarefoot building replaced a gas station that once occupied the 14,160-square-foot corner lot. Thirty-seven residences are provided for families in need. The forms of the building are reminiscent of iconic home imagery, now reinterpreted in a new composition that represents a new way of seeing affordable housing. The massing

Pavel Bendov Photography and Patrick TIGHE Arctehicture

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Residential—Multi-unit

LOCATION Santa Monica, California

is broken down into several smaller components. The volumes are separated by voids, each accentuated with greenspaces. A central courtyard provides a landscaped respite for the residents, which serves as shared space for the residents and includes a playground for children. Social services, a cafe, and other amenities are located at the ground level. The building makes use of both passive and active sustainable strategies, resulting in a LEED Platinum– designation. The all-electric building is Net Zero.

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Cesar Bejar Studio

Residential—Single-unit

“I’m always impressed when an architect starts with rectilinear forms but with iteration arrives at really interesting interior massing and spatial solutions. I am also very compelled by the connection to the water.” — Michael Hsu

PROJECT Pabellón de la Reserva

DESIGNER HEMAA

Nestled within Reserva Santa Fe, Pabellon de la Reserva emerges as a testament to a balanced way of life—an existence centered around the intimate embrace of nature, all conveniently situated just minutes away from the bustling metropolis of Mexico City. It represents an initial exploration, inviting users to embark on a transformative journey of experiential discovery—a testament to the possibilities

LOCATION Mexico City

and aspirations encapsulated within a living, regenerative building. It beckons individuals to immerse themselves in a realm where the boundaries between the built and natural environment blur, ultimately reshaping their understanding of what it truly means to inhabit and engage with the spaces we inhabit.

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Student Work

“It’s just exquisite. The relationship of building and landscape is quite rich. The images are clearly delineated and propose an exceptional project.” — Chris Cooper

PROJECT The Naumburg Center

DESIGNER Avery Seip (Savannah College of Art and Design)

The Naumburg Center explores the convergence of ecology and artistic expression to bolster the effects of therapeutic art programs by providing introverted and extroverted therapeutic spaces aimed at supplying physical and mental respite and cognitive stimulation for K-12 groups, veterans with PTSD, and those struggling with mental illnesses. The center investigates the transformative potential of the ever-changing salt marsh ecosystem to enhance the effects of art therapy while simultaneously addressing the multifaceted concerns of architectural resilience, the bolstering of

LOCATION TBD

communal assets, engagement opportunities, and environmentally conscious design strategies. Borrowing from values of photography and the study of human peripheral vision paired with its effect on cognitive intrigue, keyframes are established around the curation of live captures of the surrounding natural and artistic landscape within interior and exterior spaces. These vantage points guide, inform, and inspire visitors who traverse each facility to establish holistic relationships between people, place, and architecture.

Michelle Aarlaht

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Temporary Installation

“This installation is one form that is doing a lot of things. It’s an occupiable sculpture so it’s active, engaged and layered in its approach.” — Meryati Johari Blackwell

PROJECT Kwae

DESIGNER Adjaye Associates

Acting as an inverted sun dial with shadow patterns that track the position of the sun throughout the day, Kwae aims to cultivate and renew celestial, human, and cultural connections across time. The 13-meter-tall installation takes the form of a triangular prism, merging doorway, platform, assembly, and window into a single, unified entity, while the internal space emerges as a distorted ovoid with two oculi. Composed entirely of timber with a black-stained finish, the structure cultivates a

LOCATION Venice, Italy

forest of light and shadow and an immersive, cave-like atmosphere—taking on the qualities of its name which translates as “forest” in Twi. Erected for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, Kwae is a temporal device for gathering and recording—a viewing platform and venue for live lectures, performances, and auditory experiences. In the spirit of continued renewal, Kwaeε is a modular, prefabricated structure that can be reused and relocated.

Josh Partee

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Restoration & Preservation

“This effort sensitively maintains a historic judicial building while expertly upgrading it to be base isolated to protect the building during a seismic event. A thorough act of care for an important structure.” — Jack Murphy PROJECT Oregon Supreme Court Rehabilitation

DESIGNER Hennebery Eddy Architects

The 1914 Oregon Supreme Court Building (OSC) is the oldest government building on Salem’s capitol mall. The four-story, 50,000-square-foot building features marble and mahogany, abundant classical detailing, a grand staircase, and an historically significant Povey Brothers stained-glass laylight in the courtroom. Through selective demolition, sensitively

LOCATION Salem, Oregon

integrating structural upgrades and MEP replacements to preserve character-defining features, renovating first-floor office space, restoring historic interior finishes, and successfully nominating this landmark to the National Register of Historic Places, the OSC is protected for future generations.

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“This recreation center skillfully combines the need for improved civic space in Toronto with a compelling scheme that incorporates long-span mass timber elements. I appreciate the patterned facade and wood-lined interiors. — Jack Murphy

PROJECT John Innes Community Recreation Centre

DESIGNER MJMA Architecture & Design

After deindustrialization, the Moss Park neighborhood in Toronto’s Downtown East became marked by its substantial presence of social housing, shelters, and community health centers. Grappling with complex social issues like homelessness, addiction, and poverty, community resources in the neighborhood are strained. The new John Innes Community Recreation Centre (JICRC) replaces an aging, inaccessible building—one defined by its imposing piano nobile—with an inviting pavilion that acts as a gateway to historic Moss Park, the neighborhood’s namesake greenspace. Designed to be

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Unbuilt—Commercial, Cultural, Civic, Education

LOCATION Toronto

open, democratic and firmly sited in its natural surroundings, the new JICRC embraces its urban condition by buttressing the surrounding streetscape and putting its various, stacked community programs on display. Built to meet the City of Toronto’s aggressive sustainability standards and Zero Carbon Building Design certification, the building will also incorporate Indigenous art and placemaking—crucial for fostering cultural understanding, respecting traditions, and advancing reconciliation.

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Unbuilt—Conceptual

“This proposal thoughtfully proposes an academic building that is environmentally responsible, showcases forest products, and serves as a pedagogical tool for architecture students. The stepped, pleated form and the factory-like interior are particularly strong aspects of this design.” — Jack Murphy PROJECT Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation

DESIGNER WT/GO Architecture

The proposed Anthony Timberlands Center promotes a symbiotic relationship between education, industry and the environment by engaging Arkansas’s most valuable and abundant forms of natural capital: its workforce and its regional forest ecosystem. The Center will serve as home for an innovative curriculum, an example of environmental stewardship and high-performance design, a multi-functional pedagogical tool for students, faculty, and the visiting public, and an anchor to the emerging Art and Design District and Cultural Corridor.

LOCATION Fayetteville, Arkansas

The design team drew inspiration from Arkansas’s forested landscapes and its history of industrial and agricultural structures: its barns, mills, and factories. The building’s pleated roofscape channels rainwater into a system of constructed wetlands, reflecting the Ozark watersheds drain, the range’s rocky ridges, and forested piedmont.

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Unbuilt—Landscape, Urban Design, Master Plan

“This master plan finds opportunities to address urban equity: transforming a parking lot or parking structure into a program that can then be a park, a cooling area, and provide an oasis in places and neighborhoods that are otherwise urban deserts. It has ambitions to provide social impact.” — E. B. Min PROJECT Hard Core, Park Core

DESIGNER UltraBarrio

The project site is a circumstantial center where public and non-profit partners provide health and social services to the community, located within the most diverse and dense part of Houston. Each entity’s struggle for space hinders messaging of services within a fabric that struggles with spatial inequities, greenspace deficit, and a stressed natural environment. This project seeks to transform a “hard core” parking lot into a thermally optimal “park core”for Southwest Houston where existing organizations can thrive to support the community for

LOCATION Houston

a stronger, equitable, and resilient future. Following outreach efforts, the design of the outdoor spaces and architecture come together to create a campus for providing health, wellness, and education for individuals, families, and seniors. The quarter-mile track shapes space for a performance stage, a civic garage, building pavilions with community and health programs, and an informational kiosk/cafe for a community where over 50 languages are spoken.

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Unbuilt—Residential—Multi-Unit

“Sunset Steps is a blueprint for architecture that is beautiful while also accommodating urgent urban needs like density and resource sharing. Intentional design decisions foster communal living in tangible ways and intelligent massing doesn’t overwhelm the site or landscape.” — Emily Conklin PROJECT Sunset Steps

DESIGNER West of West

Sunset Steps is a collection of homes designed around the backyard as a place that brings communities together. The building’s open stepped terraces result in sixty five percent of the site returned to landscape, increasing density and affordability while maintaining neighborhood character. The building fosters collaborative living through two mechanisms: a generous circulation loop and a terraced massing. The circulation loop links each rooftop “yard” to a set of shared stairs with decks, balconies, and gardens. The terraced massing visually connects the communal areas to create a vertical neighborhood.

LOCATION San Francisco

The homes’ terraced form maximizes natural daylight. Corner windows introduce natural light on multiple sides, increasing natural ventilation, and biophilic connections. Materials including a terra-cotta facade, wood windows, and heavy timber structure bring warmth to each home. High-performance windows, continuous insulation, and ventilation paired heat recovery systems are optimized for air tightness, climate specificity, and thermal-bridge-free design.

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Unbuilt—Residential—Single-Unit

“It’s inspiring to see high-level thinking applied to the everyday structures that make up our lives. The Otoch home seeks to optimize an existing structure for new, exciting ways of living that don’t require demolition.” — Emily Conklin

PROJECT Otoch

DESIGNER Mutuo + There There

Otoch reveals the layered stories of a 19th century house in Merida, Mexico’s historic core. The old stone house was Carlos Germán’s life-project, and we come to Otoch to restore the existing building and continue to write a new episode in this enduring narrative. Our intervention is conceived as a distinct layer juxtaposed to the existing colonial-style building. The stepped arch—a reinterpretation of the Mayan arch—houses the new addition. The existing kitchen becomes the meeting point of old and new, with a new stepped roof that replaces the metal roof.

LOCATION Merida, Mexico

A pool turns the garden into an outdoor living room, and a stepped chimney houses the mechanical room. To make each layer legible, our intervention uses a sole material—pink pigmented concrete— molded to generate distinct spatial conditions. The resulting home becomes a unique balance between past and present, traditional and original, that welcomes residents and visitors to experience this living narrative.

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Field Operations and the Reimagine Middle Branch Planning Team

Urban Design & Master Plan

“Reimagine Middle Branch is such a large, serious, and complex project. I really liked the way that they have organized it into these four agendas, or four goals. They have equity embedded in their categorization. I think that helps make it a lot more clear what they’re trying to achieve through that shoreline.”— E. B. Min PROJECT Reimagine Middle Branch Plan

DESIGNER Field Operations

Reimagine Middle Branch is a community-driven initiative to reconnect South Baltimore with a system of world-class parks, trails, programs, and economic development plans for a study area that includes 11 miles of shoreline on the Patapsco River, 598 acres of parkland, and 19 neighborhoods. Four equity frameworks, Restore the Shoreline, Transform Barriers into Connections, Create Active & Inclusive Parks, and Support Communities with Equitable Development, structure the Plan’s design vision and translate community input into recommendations to be implemented over the next two decades.

LOCATION Baltimore

While the Plan outlines a visionary physical transformation of the Middle Branch, it is also meant to catalyze the intangible transformation of place for one that is equitable and inclusive. The Plan recommends a series of capital improvements along with public programs, partnerships, policies, job opportunities, and equitable economic development initiatives. As a result, this Plan is fundamentally about environmental and social justice, resilience, and health.

Courtesy Studio Ames

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Young Architects Award

“Studio Ames, led by Daisy Ames, simultaneously investigates the spatial organizations of housing and its material construction. The practice translates research into designs that work in the tight urban conditions we know all too well in New York City.” — Jack Murphy

PROJECT Young Architects Award

DESIGNER Studio Ames

Studio Ames is an architectural design and research office based in New York City. We research housing policy to understand their social impacts, and we research sustainable construction techniques to understand their environmental benefits. The research is visually represented and used to inform the design of new housing projects that are healthy, safe, and affordable. These conditions are achieved using our unique architectural language that includes geometric alignments, symmetries, and tangents to support a variety of adaptable living configurations.

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BEST OF DESIGN

D.S. & Durga by Woods Bagot/Jenna Peffley

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Digital Fabrication

Facades

Morongo Ceiling M|R Walls

The Drake Hotel Modern Wing

Education—Higher Education

Interior—Healthcare

John A. Paulson Center KieranTimberlake Princeton University Residential Colleges TenBerke

Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Medical Education Building, University of Nevada, Las Vegas CO Architects

Education—Kindergarten, Primary, High School

Interior—Hospitality

The Stanley Manne Institute at the Bronx High School of Science Dattner Architects Nueva School Science and Environmental Center Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

Casa Paladar Tatiana

Exhibition Design

Another Seedbed: From Domesticity to Hospitality Ignacio G. Galan + Jesse McCormick + Future Projects

Knowledge Beings

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Diamond Schmitt

apda + Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos Modellus Novus

Interior—Residential

Interior—Retail D.S. & Durga Abbot Kinney

Woods Bagot

Interior—Workplace

Residential—Multi-unit

Confidential Client Studio Loutsis

Perkins&Will Future Projects

Duvall Decker Alexander Gorlin Architects

Landscape

Residential—Single-unit

Alluvial Decoder (City of Raleigh Storm Memorial) A Gang of Three University of Arizona Environment + Natural Resources II Colwell Shelor

Brooklyn Mass Timber House Schiller Projects Sylvan Lake House Actual Architecture Company

Libraries

Detweiler House

Roslindale Branch Library

Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Residential—Mixed-use PS1200

Cooperwood Senior Living El Borinquen Residence

Marlon Blackwell Architects

Restoration & Preservation Rick Kinsel

Social Impact Chicago Sukkah Design Festival Could Be Design The Brotherhood Sister Sol Community Center Urban Architectural Initiatives (UAI)

University of Arizona Environment + Natural Resources II by Colwell Shelor/Marion Brenner)

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Student Work Bemis LOW END Actual Architecture Company + FACT Indigenous Canoe Museum Wentao Guo (Harvard Graduate School of Design)

Temporary Installation Boardwalk

Office of Dillon Pranger (ODP)

West of West

Place des Montréalaises

Lemay

Central Park North

Woods Bagot

Unbuilt—Residential—Single-unit Hollywood Dell ADU

AAmp Studio

Urban Design & Master Plan

Unbuilt—Conceptual 1633 Broadway

Unbuilt—Landscape, Urban Design & Master Plan

Unbuilt—Residential—Multi-unit

Unbuilt—Commercial, Cultural, Civic, Education Office for Media Production

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Hollywood Dell ADU by AAmp Studio/Darcstudio

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STUDIOS Architecture

DELIVERING THE GOODS: NYC Urban Freight in the Age of E-Commerce

Stantec

Young Architects Award Future Projects

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Appliances & Plumbing: Kitchen Appliances 79

Appliances & Plumbing: Bathroom

Lighting & Electrical: Architectural & Commercial 88

Appliances & Plumbing: Kitchen Fixtures 80

Indoor Finishes & Surfaces

Building Materials: Composites

Building Materials: Timber

Lighting & Electrical: Outdoor

Hardware: Decorative Lighting & Electrical: Decorative

Finishes & Surfaces: Hygienic Surfaces Finishes & Surfaces: Interior Flooring

Openings: Doors 85

Furnishings: Outdoor Furnishings: Textiles

Building Materials: Weather, Air Barriers, & Insulation 84

Furnishings: Commercial Furnishings: Residential

Building Materials: Glass 83

Facades: Cladding Facades: Structural Systems

Outdoor Finishes & Surfaces 82

Hardware: Architectural

Finishes & Surfaces: Paint & Coating Furnishings: Accessories

Smart Building, Smart Home, & Automation Systems

Jett Butler Chief Creative Officer and Strategist FÖDA

Yishio Kuo Design Director and Senior Associate Gensler

Michael Leckie Principal and Cofounder Leckie Studio

Madelynn Ringo Founder Ringo Studio

Charles Sharpless Cofounder Somewhere Studio

J. Jih Principal and Lecturer Studio J. Jih

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Acoustics Plaid Turf turf.design

“I appreciate that Plaid feels more like an integrated system rather than simply a surface application. This product has its own structural integrity and creates a solution for acoustic control in interior spaces that feels quite architectural.” — Michael Leckie

Appliances & Plumbing: Kitchen Appliances “Series 11 24” Combination Steam Oven Fisher & Paykel fisherpaykel.com

The “Series 11 24” Combination Steam Oven expands on the brand’s existing steam and convection oven technology, featuring a total of 23 functions and one of the largest steam oven cooking capacities at three cubic feet. With the brand’s integrated technology panel, the Combination Steam Oven offers users the ability to cook by function, cook by food type, or cook by recipe. As one of the healthiest food preparation methods, steam cooking does not require any cooking agents like butter and oil and allows for the retention of up to 50 percent more nutrients across fish, poultry, starches, veggies, etc. Notably, this steam oven does not require a water line for installation; a 50 fluid ounce water-tank is located behind the touchscreen panel for easy refilling. The oven is available in minimal black glass or contemporary stainless steel finishes.

In addition to its sleek design, this appliance encourages users to consider a healthier approach to food preparation. A brand that develops products for a healthier lifestyle is a subtle but powerful act of innovation.” — Madelynn Ringo

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Plaid is a leading-edge ceiling acoustic solution that blends art and architecture to prioritize the aesthetics and acoustics of any commercial space. Plaid is a criss-cross sound container that seamlessly fits its environment with a custom-level of precision, thanks to its considerations of a standard tee-grid infrastructure in its design. Plaid’s gridlock connection to the tee-grid infrastructure allows companies to select from a myriad of options, including open-edge, border, or on-center grid spacing. The open-edge layout uses an end cap to create a finished look; the bordered layout helps to define the boundaries of a space using a border that matches the dimensions of the main battle profile; on-center grid spacing, based on tee-grid configurations, allows Plaid to be laid out according to existing framework. It is an affordable, acoustically performative solution that can easily cover a large-scale design project.

Appliances & Plumbing: Bathroom Zoom LACAVA lacava.com

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“From a hygienic standpoint, I appreciate not having escutcheon plates on the sink deck. I liked the ambition that everything could be in one spot and that the design still addresses aesthetics.” — Charles Sharpless

Appliances & Plumbing: Kitchen Fixtures Contour Kitchen Poggenpohl poggenpohl.com The exclusive Contour aluminum frame outlines the cabinet front profile with absolute precision, quality design, and craftsmanship—the perfect accent for your next modern kitchen design. It’s available in four anodized aluminum tones (Black, Bronze, Aluminum, and Stainless Steel) with real aluminum edging on over 30 cabinet front styles. This unique design and custom finish is handcrafted by cabinetry artisans. Anodized knobs in the same colors round out the design options. This product is innovative to the industry because it addresses the most precise and worthy interpretation of aluminum framed cabinet frontals on the market. Other manufacturers feature a bolder design. There were 33 options for the cabinet fronts: from plain and wood melamine finishes, to hard-wearing laminate and matte velvet lacquers.

Contour offers a well-engineered framework of aluminum cabinets that offer a wide range of customizable fronts and finishes. Because of the expressed edges, it gives kitchens a gridded look while remaining streamlined.” — Jack Murphy

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Zoom mirror features an innovative tech trio comprising a sensor-operated soap dispenser, water faucet, and hand dryer. The design is tailored to meet the public bathroom needs effortlessly. The cabinet behind the mirror houses the hardware for the fixtures that are concealed and installed behind the mirror frame. Distinct function decals are strategically placed directly in the front of each spout, offering clear instructions on usage and optimal placement of hands for the sensor operation. Three spouts are thoughtfully integrated behind a sleek frame, protruding subtly downward for maximum accessibility. Optional LED light and switch are available.

Indoor Finishes & Surfaces PIXL Fräsch frasch.com PIXL is a modern take on acoustic wall tiles. With its raised poofs, each sheet is as aesthetically pleasing as it is acoustically effective. Installation is a snap: glue, screw, or nail directly to any existing ceiling or wall, or cut to fit in standard T-Grid. PIXL comes in two shape variants: square or round. Choose white poof with light gray backer or light gray poof with dark gray backer, or if you prefer, select custom printing for a pixelated and modern look. Electrical trim plate and edge trim hardware are also available.

— Yishio Kuo

Outdoor Finishes & Surfaces Pioneer Millworks Accoya® Color—Grey Decking Pioneer Millworks pioneermillworks.com Pioneer Millworks Accoya® Color—Grey Decking is FSC®certified and Cradle to Cradle Gold certified making it a top choice for sustainability and material health. The rot and moisture resistance of this acetylated pine is due to the unique vinegar treatment it is given directly after harvest. This makes it extremely durable, rivaling tropical hardwoods for longevity, and it comes with a 25-year residential, above ground warranty. After the acetylation process these decking boards are then immersed in a dye that penetrates the wood to the core with pigment, meaning that any cut ends maintain their color without needing any additional stains or finishes, and the decking surface does not require refinishing throughout its lifecycle.

“I’m a big fan of Accoya. I haven’t seen it in this gray color before, but I love it.” — J. Jih

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Building Materials: Composites ACRE Shiplap Siding Modern Mill modern-mill.com

“The sustainability aspects of this product caught my attention: It is made from rice hulls and is 100 percent recyclable.” — Madelynn Ringo

Building Materials: Glass DermaAR™ Pulp Studio pulpstudio.com Pulp Studio expands its proprietary DermaGlass® collection with DermaARTM, a matte, acid etched, ultra-thin architectural material that is highly durable, lightweight, and resilient for both exterior facades and interior applications. DermaGlass fills a need in the decorative and technical architectural glass market with an ultra-thin, highly durable surface that can be designed, bent, and technically manipulated to meet aesthetic and performance requirements.

“Triple-glazed window assemblies are getting thicker, chunkier, and heavier, so anything that can be done to lighten up and optimize these assemblies—while maintaining energy performance and sustainability agendas—is a step in the right direction.” — Michael Leckie

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ACRE by Modern Mill is a sustainable alternative to wood that protects rainforests and old growth trees from deforestation. ACRE offers the warmth and beauty of wood with the convenience of composites. It’s specified by architects to replace hardwoods like ipe, teak, and cedar. ACRE is a circular product. We upcycle rice hulls from landfills to create our product. The rice hulls give ACRE its organic look and feel. ACRE is 100 percent recyclable, made in a zerowaste manufacturing facility. It’s 100 percent tree-free and free of phenol, formaldehyde, and adhesives. Modern Mill is committed to ending poverty and quality job creation in rural America. We’re based in Fernwood, Mississippi, a community where 48 percent of the population lives at the poverty level. We pay a living wage, offer comprehensive benefits, offer return to work programs (e.g. military, prison, and more), and support professional growth and wellbeing.

Building Materials: Timber Lunawood ThermoWood® Cladding Delta Millworks deltamillworks.com

“Beyond sustainability, I like its different profiles. They offer opportunities to create interesting textures while still using a functional and sustainable product.” —Madelynn Ringo

Building Materials: Weather, Air Barriers, & Insulation Wood Fiber Insulation TimberHP timberhp.com Homeowners want safe, healthy homes that are energy efficient. Builders and contractors want effective, easy-to-install building materials they can trust will perform and that don’t negatively impact the health of their workers and customers. Architects want environmentally-superior materials that improve the living experience of inhabitants, reduce the overall carbon footprint of the built environment, and provide meaningful, affordable solutions towards climate change. TimberHP delivers on all fronts. Our wood fiber insulations are made from abundant residual wood chips, providing high-performing, vapor open insulation with a stable R-Value that is cost competitive and carbon storing. Wood fiber insulation is free of toxins, resistant to moisture liabilities, mold, and fire, and offers superior properties to reduce heating and cooling loads. TimberHP is also the first wood fiber insulation made in the U.S.

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Lunawood Thermowood® was created out of necessity. With the wide range of toxic, human-made building products that pollute the earth and actively contribute to the global climate crisis, there is an urgency to celebrate and offer products that mitigate the damage brought forth from irresponsible materials. For more than 20 years, Lunawood, based in Finland, has created products from certified and renewable Nordic forests. Their innovative product Lunawood Thermowood® is a chemical free, durable product that was made as a direct reflection of the company’s mission: reconnect nature with urban people all around the world. In January 2023, Lunawood entered into a collaboration with US wood manufacturer and distributor, Austin-based Delta Millworks. The partnership allows Delta Millworks to utilize the non-invasive, sustainable, and chemical-free processes that Lunawood ThermoWood has perfected, combined with Delta’s expertise.

“Bio-based products are exciting, and it’s good to start thinking about insulation as something that doesn’t have to rely on petroleum. That’s an area where there’s a lot of room for expansion in the future.” —Charles Sharpless

Lighting & Electrical: Outdoor Inline Luminis luminis.com Inline is a discreet, sophisticated luminaire with outstanding performance and functionality. The family of columns and bollards makes an architectural statement, elevating exterior spaces to interior design standards. Clean, elegant, and contemporary, the inline family displays its own distinctly urban edge. The Inline bollards and columns provide impactful illumination for spaces such as parks, plazas, outdoor patios, landscaped gardens, and other urban environments. Independently adjustable light modules ensure designers have the freedom to capture what’s important in a given landscape arrangement.

Openings: Doors Radius Rimadesio rimadesio.it/en/ Designed by Giuseppe Bavuso, Radius is an innovative offering by the luxury Italian brand Rimadesio. The new bidirectional pivot-door system offers both aesthetics and functionality while creating a sense of continuity within the surroundings. Behind its apparent simplicity lies sophisticated solutions, such as the elimination of structural elements, like jambs or frames, to highlight superior design details like the chic aluminum structure. Always made to measure, Radius can be specified in large dimensions. The extruded aluminum structure is designed to provide maximum strength and stability in domestic as well as hospitality or retail contexts. Radius is not only available in a double-leaf version, but its panels are also available with a full-length mirror or with horizontal and vertical cross pieces. Like all Rimadesio products, Radius is manufactured with the environment and its resources in mind. Radius is made from 100 percent recyclable glass and aluminum through a solar-powered production process.

“It’s so clean. It’s small and mighty. I also like that it allows doors to open both ways as a directional pivot-door system.”

— Yishio Kuo

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“This is a sophisticated light. It is similar to other offerings, but, due to its cuts, it has a sculptural quality to it.” — Yishio Kuo

Hardware: Decorative

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Anthology, the first series from the reinvigorated return of Keeler Brass Company®, allows the ability to personalize and curate a space by mixing and matching an eclectic set of tailored, in-house designed pieces. Proudly and wholly designed in-house, the Keeler Brass Company brand launches at the center of a bold new partnership. Inspired by fine jewelry, the Monogram Designer Collection features two thought-provoking aesthetics for custom appliances. For owners looking for a bold design, the Brass Collection presents an elegant aesthetic based on the fundamentals of classical architecture, available in gold and polished hues. In contrast, the Titanium Collection presents a contemporary luxury aesthetic rooted in the art of reductionism with sleek lines and dark-charcoal muted tones. Both collections feature striking finishes wrapped with sustainably sourced, Greenguard Gold Certified, durable leather with state-of-the-art, decorative brass trim.

“This pull has over 34,000 combinations based on various finishes and options, but I was convinced by its solid construction and expressive restraint.” — Jack Murphy

Lighting & Electrical: Decorative T.O. pendant Pablo Designs pablodesigns.com T.O. celebrates the importance of light as a pillar in our daily life. T.O. features an elegant wand of light suspended by two decorative woven nylon belts finished with over-molded features that allow for full 360-degree rotation to direct light in all directions. T.O. pendant can transform from direct task-oriented light to indirect ambiance with minimal effort. Its suspension system allows for ultimate freedom and creativity to suspend in a wide variety of configurations from linear series, to multi-axis, and multi-level groupings to create stunning displays for residential and workplace environments alike.

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“This fixture is nicely detailed. It’s light and I like the strapping. It’s fun but tailored.” — Yishio Kuo

Hardware: Architectural System One FritsJurgens and Bridgeport Worldwide fritsjurgens.com

“I have installed this product myself, and I have nothing but praise.” — J. Jih

Lighting & Electrical: Architectural & Commercial FINCH Amerlux amerlux.com FINCH is a whole new family of 1-inch aperture surface mount cylinder light fixtures. FINCH is a spec-grade lighting collection that offers up to 1500 lumens of exceptional brightness, and it’s available in various lengths. The collection offers surface-mount fixed, adjustable (50-degree tilt), wall mount (up/ down), and exterior stake mount options. Specifiers can also choose from several two-tone body/bevel finishes for a drizzle of elegance. Not only the beams can be changed in the field, its inner core, the light engine is easily replaced with no tools, keeping the fixture intact, making FINCH truly a forever fixture. The FINCH cylinder family can be used both indoor and outdoor and soon the FINCH collection will add 1-inch aperture recessed downlights to enlarge the offering.

“This product is very architectural—the proportions are unique and evocative. I appreciated the detailing, particularly in the clean installations where no escutcheon plate is required.” — Michael Leckie

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The new System One pivot hinge boasts a slim and narrow profile and enables free swing to pivot doors. Flexible and adaptable, it can be used in either single or double–acting doors and incorporates all required pivot door components: the pivot system, floor plate, ceiling plate, and top pivot. Standing 18 millimeters high, System One measures less than half the size of its predecessor, fitting seamlessly into a one-inch profile. Compact, it can bear doors weighing up to 1,100 pounds, providing incredible strength with a minimal footprint. The hinge’s 32 millimeter width ensures compatibility with 1-¾-inch thick pivot doors of any size and material, all while keeping a small and concealable floor plate. System One offers designers flexibility, including a reduced 11 millimeter undercut and a 7 millimeter version that adapts to flush floor plates.

With this award-winning recognition, Parasoleil announces a new era of supporting commercial projects and public gathering areas under the direction of incoming CEO, Tanner Flynn.

TANNER FLYNN Incoming CEO Parasoleil

Parasoleil wins best structural façade system. ParaClad spans floor-to-floor for public art screening, directly to a solid wall, or over glazing to reduce solar heat gain.

Performance-rated out of the box options Customizable design Turnkey systems with engineering included

“Our founder’s vision and dedication to excellence have inspired our collaborative culture, and I have been honored to work with him. He set a high standard for future leaders to follow, and his legacy will continue to shape the quality in our design and engineering for years to come. I am honored to be given the opportunity to drive growth and success for the future of Parasoleil. To grow with a company is a marvelous thing.”

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Facades: Cladding CUPACLAD Cupa Pizarras cupapizarras.com

A thin stone rainscreen offering is a cool product that I don’t see a lot of in the southeastern U.S. where I practice and teach. I would be excited to see more of that.” — Charles Sharpless

Facades: Structural Systems ParaClad: Ventilated Façade Parasoleil parasoleil.com ParaClad is a turnkey structural support system that spans up to 12 feet over large fenestration elements and uneven architectural features. The 6000 series aluminum system is designed for seismic movement and supports a second skin facade made of a series of 5000 series aluminum. ParaClad is anodized in one of four high-performance colors that comes with a warranty as long as 20 years. Using tube extrusions and custom base plates and brackets, the large spans allow for fewer penetration points into the building, leaving the layout of panels to adapt to the required spans and engineering design pressures by customizing the 3D-panel geometry, the pattern cutout from the panels, and the material thickness. The standard system is engineered for a design pressure of 50 pounds per square foot, but can be customized to accommodate higher and lower pressures simply with different spans, tube thickness, or panel configurations.

“This is a fully resolved installation system. With the complexity of modern architectural assemblies, I appreciate the amount of work and consideration that has gone into this system.” — Michael Leckie

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CUPACLAD is a natural slate facade product which represents the perfect combination of beauty and durability. Unlike the artificial products, CUPACLAD is crafted from high-quality slate, offering unmatched strength and resistance to harsh weather conditions. Natural slate is a material with unmatchable technical properties and gives any facade a timeless, unchanging appearance. Its elegance and personality conquer a unique character. CUPACLAD natural slate rainscreen cladding system is widely regarded as the best possible facade. It offers exceptional thermal insulation, improving the energy efficiency of the building. Using different sizes and formats of natural slate, CUPACLAD creates exclusive systems: 101 Logic (simple and balanced); 101 Random (dynamic and creative); Parallel (uniform and regular); and Vanguard (modern and efficient).

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Furnishings: Commercial TOKO nienkamper nienkamper.com

“TOKO is part of furnishings, but it provides meaningful architecture, so maybe it encourages us to build fewer walls to define space. There’s merit there to get us to landscape our workplace. I like how it’s designed to accommodate ventilation and acoustics, but it still has intimacy.” — Yishio Kuo

Furnishings: Residential Dark and Stormy Table Rottet Collection rottetcollection.com Integrating clear and colored resins in stunning simplicity, the Dark and Stormy Table both captures and casts light in the surrounding space to create playful shadows. Designer Lauren Rottet explained that, “It is hand-cast, and each piece is one-of-a-kind, taking on different looks and colors. It is beautiful in the sunlight.” The Light and Space artists of the 1970s in Los Angeles, as well as how a blade of light and glass could completely transform the way a space was perceived, became the strongest influences in the design. At its core the designer’s work, which includes hotels, offices and residences around the world as well as product design, is minimalism, geometric abstraction, and a focus on perceptual phenomena such as light, reflection, volume, scale, and the use of materials like as glass, metal and resin/acrylic.

“This table reminds me of an art object, like Roni Horn’s big cast acrylic pieces. They elevated the side table to a place of contemporary art.” — Charles Sharpless

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TOKO is a collection of self-supporting structures designed to create unique acoustical spatial environments. Toko allows you to configure distinct acoustical environments for a variety of uses based on the needs and activities of the modern workplace, whether it’s a place to collaborate or concentrate, to meet or to eat. Available in a range of different combinations of materials, Toko’s wall structure provides excellent visual and acoustic separation. Wood and engineered wood are made flexible with a patented incision process developed by Switzerland-based Dukta. Complex incisions allow for textile-like properties and creates transparency, allowing light in and sound absorption unexpected from most wood products.

Furnishings: Outdoor Mobile Kiosks EL Studio elstudioarch.com

“I like that it’s not designed in service to a luxury market. It would make me happy to see this deployed in public spaces, and I imagine there’s a lot of small entrepreneurs who might come to appreciate or benefit from this design which gives them a more durable presence. The mission, the functionality, the mirror, and the shading all appealed to me.” — J. Jih

Furnishings: Textiles Outdoor Biobased Xorel Carnegie carnegiefabrics.com The outdoor textile industry strives to balance design, performance, and sustainability in products. The revolutionary Outdoor Biobased Xorel is the first fossil fuel-free indoor/outdoor textile, and is made from 90 percent biobased PE content sourced from rapidly renewable sugarcane. Outdoor Biobased Xorel is the first and only indoor/outdoor textile to achieve Cradle to Cradle Gold and Living Product Challenge certifications. It is carbon-positive, capturing and sequestering 2.5 tons of carbon for every ton of sugarcane used in production. It’s extremely durable, weather-resistant, and comes in various patterns and colorways, being free of chemicals like PVC, PFAS, chlorine, and heavy metals. Outdoor Biobased Xorel is breathable, non-absorbent, fast-drying, and weather-proof.

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The Prather’s alley activation extends a popular nearby farmer’s market into an underutilized urban space. The expansion allows a variety of new programs to take place, including demonstration cooking. The furnishings are comprised of four module types: Cook, Wash, Store, and Sell. Three of the module types work together to support food preparation and instruction. The Wash module has a kitchen sink with integrated filtration system and water heater. The Cook module has a power hookup for induction plate and a flip-up mirror for cooking demonstrations. The Sell module has a pull-out storage bench and display screen for the sale of locally-made goods. The modules unfold to add work surfaces and shading devices.

“This textile is biobased and can accommodate many uses. It used to have a sheen but now they can also do matte versions; it’s very versatile. I like that it’s indoor/outdoor and stain resistant. It’s a workhorse fabric done in an elegant way.” — Yishio Kuo

Finishes & Surfaces: Hygienic Surfaces Silicone Symphony Designtex designtex.com

“The range of colors and playfulness that it brings to the table for a healthcare product is nice. I’ve sourced a lot of silicone-based upholstery materials and it can be difficult to find options that are aesthetically pleasing, so I feel excited by this product line!” — Madelynn Ringo

Finishes & Surfaces: Interior Flooring ABPURE Infinity Carbon Neutral American Biltrite american-biltrite.com ABPURE® Infinity is a carbon neutral rubber sheet flooring collection featuring an elegant tone-on-tone visual in 20 earth-centric colors. Our research and development team investigated several ways to make this new product line carbon-neutral without purchasing carbon credits. The clear solution was to manufacture ABPURE® Infinity with renewable natural gas derived from organic waste. Using this, ABPURE® Infinity has an actual and direct impact in reducing greenhouse gasses at the source. It is a no-wax, easy-to-maintain flooring, featuring PURE colors that last and contributes to the reduction of the embodied and operational carbon footprint of buildings. It is also the only rubber floor to offer a 10-year colorfastness warranty on all its colors. The new chip dispersion creates an elegant and modern environment, ideal for acute care hospitals from hallways, to ORs, to pediatric units.

“Of all the sustainable products we’ve seen, this is one that truly achieves carbon neutrality. Quite often products have flowery language that skirts around the topic.”

— J. Jih

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Silicone Symphony is an ensemble of over 100-coated upholstery fabrics composed of a variety of colors and textures. Using our research-based approach, each design was thoughtfully crafted under the principles of biophilic design: organic, gestural motifs, light and shadow play, and complex shades. This exploration of color, texture, and materiality provide both useful and fun options as a vehicle for self-expression. It is the epitome of performance meets creativity with artfully patterned textiles that will enliven any hard working environment. The textiles in this collection are some of the safest on the market, without compromising on design or performance. They exceed the industry standard requirements for non-toxic fabrics, helping to make the built environment as risk-free as possible.

Architectural Solutions & Accessories for Today’s Workplace Needs Daybook™ Partitions Category: Interior Walls, Countertops & Surfaces Daybook is an amazingly versatile, light-scale partition that creates an array of neighborhood configurations that equip a high-performance, welcoming workplace. It enables you to create an atmosphere of creativity and collaboration and comfort. Explore Architectural Products at allsteeloffice.com/products/architectural

Capsule by Allsteel Category: Accessories A capsule wardrobe is a limited selection of quality, interchangeable clothing pieces that complement one another, with moments of delight added each season. Twice a year, Allsteel will introduce a Capsule collection to complement Allsteel’s core workplace solutions and offer authentic design and choice. Explore the Capsule Collection at allsteeloffice.com/products/accessories

Finishes & Surfaces: Paint & Coating Gendai™ Nakamoto Forestry nakamotoforestry.com

“Nakamoto has been quite innovative in the way that they’ve been able to streamline and standardize the Shou Sugi Ban process and offer a range of specific finishes. It’s a great product, and they’re doing something really wonderful.” — Michael Leckie

Furnishings: Accessories Vaask Vaask vaask.com The pandemic exposed the design failure of traditional hand sanitizer—constant drips, foul-smelling gels that dry out hands, a reliance on single-use plastics, and always empty automatic dispensers. With so many issues, it’s no surprise that many people avoid sanitizer, even though our hands transmit 80 percent of illnesses. Built to last, the Vaask touchless hand sanitizing fixture now features an app alerting staff when it’s time to refill, eliminating the time-consuming chore of checking individual dispensers and also ensuring dispensers always stay filled. This exclusive technology solves the most common problem with sanitizer, which, despite being more essential than ever before, is frequently ignored as studies have found nearly 80 percent of people report dispensers to be empty. Vaask also makes hand hygiene desirable, thanks to its minimalist design and elegant, cast aluminum construction that looks at home in the most sophisticated spaces.

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Architecture is first and foremost a collaborative endeavor that begins with studio culture, values, and intentional action. Going beyond the success of individual projects, AN’s Best of Practice program seeks to define an expansive meaning of excellence— one which takes into account inclusivity, social impact, sustainability, regionality, and technological innovation, in addition to formal and structural considerations.

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Paola Aguirre Founder Borderless

Andrew Bernheimer Principal Bernheimer Architecture

Tom S. Chung Principal Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Robert Hale Creative Director RIOS

Mikyoung Kim Principal Mikyoung Kim Design

Jess Myers Assistant Professor Syracuse University

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Architect (XL Firm)—Northeast

“Jonathan Marvel and his practice have a long history in New York City. I respect the practice because they work at multiple scales and across multiple project types. They do cultural and civic work, public work, and fine affordable housing. The design quality combined with the variety of civic-minded work for people who benefit from having better architecture around them were the strongest ideas that led me to select the practice.” — Andrew Bernheimer

OFFICE Marvel

LOCATION Various Locations

Marvel, a 160-person minority-owned firm, passionately believes that effective collaboration is the cornerstone of a successful project. Our portfolio spans affordable housing, cultural institutions, higher education, civic and public works, hospitality, luxury residential, recreational spaces, workspaces, and public spaces—showcasing an exhaustive body of work that focuses on human-scaled design principles. Resiliency and sustainability are at the forefront of the practice, as the effects of climate change continue to define humanity’s collective future. The Bronx Point esplanade, which

expands Marvel’s previously designed Mill Pond Park, was recently recognized as the first and only affordable housing project to achieve WEDG certification. The Acacia Resilient Home prototypes in Caguas, PR, withstood 2022’s Hurricane Fiona, showcasing the benefits and scalability of these offgrid affordable housing units. Whether in the heart of Manhattan, small municipalities in Puerto Rico, or rural Arkansas, we believe that design excellence should be accessible to everyone, everywhere.

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“Studio Gang models a lot of very positive things, including the types of projects it engages with. The office has been carving a space for environmental stewardship and leadership in architecture and design, and that’s a compelling goal to develop through design practice.” — Paola Aguirre

OFFICE Studio Gang

LOCATION Various Locations

Founded and led by MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang is an architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago. Working as a collective of more than 140 architects, designers, and planners, we create places that bring measurable positive change. We apply a core design to an ever-widening array of projects. We call this “starting with what’s there:” a belief that the best ideas emerge when you look at what already exists. We apply this ethos across our projects—including significant

projects that opened this year: a landmark art museum in Little Rock, Arkansas; an expansion of the American Museum of Natural History in New York; and a transformed riverfront park in Memphis, Tennessee. We have been a leader in gender pay equity for the profession through our Race/Equity Roadmap and the work of our employee-led Equity Action Task Force, which in 2023 developed a progressive parental leave policy.

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Architect (XL Firm)—Midwest

“Their work is compelling. The office, which has long been known for residential projects, is good at translating high-end solutions for architecture and thinking of them for public work. The office has a commitment to sustainability, which means that its environmental leadership is applied to design.” — Paola Aguirre

OFFICE Lake|Flato Architects

LOCATION San Antonio & Austin

When Lake|Flato was founded in 1984, David Lake and Ted Flato believed that architecture should be rooted in place, responding in a meaningful way to the natural or built environment. Nearly 40 years later, these beliefs still inform the architecture of the firm. Often known for rural residential work, the firm strives to take the wisdom and timeless qualities of climate-responsive traditions to the next level, applying new technology to advance both building and human performance. The design

of the 3D-printed House Zero pushes the boundaries of traditional home building methods. Perhaps a project that best expresses Lake|Flato’s ethos in motion is the firm’s renovation of its San Antonio office. For a firm with a focus on sustainability, expansion was accomplished through prioritizing human health via outdoor communal spaces. In creating an inclusive work environment, Lake|Flato is putting its money where its mouth is—expressing the goals the firm aspires to in their design and culture.

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Architect (XL Firm)—Southwest

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“I’m drawn to WRNS Studio because of the variety of the portfolio. The office expresses its values. Like this idea of opensource architecture: Who talks about that? Architecture is so protective of knowledge, so the fact that they’re addressing this is interesting; it might be an instigation for something else.” — Paola Aguirre

OFFICE WRNS Studio

LOCATION Various Locations

WRNS Studio, a group of nimble and innovative professionals, has achieved a remarkable 20 percent year-over-year growth since its inception in 2005. To steer the firm through this growth, its founding partners established three guiding principles for WRNS Studio: beauty, sustainability, and a positive contribution to the public realm. WRNS elevates and empowers the voices of architects, clients, builders, consultants, and stakeholders to realize each project’s highest outcome. For example, WRNS led the

first project in the United States to be awarded both Zero Carbon and Petal Certification by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). The firm also delivered one of the largest mass timber projects in North America to date. A core tenet of WRNS is transparency. The firm shares lessons learned and best practices across a variety of platforms. The aim is to inspire anyone to think of design as a tool for addressing social and environmental health.

Jeremy Bitterman, Tim Griffith, Bruce Damonte

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Architect (XL Firm)—West

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“Architects tend to take themselves for policymakers, but we’re more like pieces of the policy puzzle. Utile’s work showcases an understanding of how architects, designers, and planners can influence policy.” — Andrew Bernheimer

OFFICE Utile

LOCATION Boston & Providence, Rhode Island

Utile is a design firm built like a think tank. From theoretical issues that frame policy to the practical implementation of architectural commissions, Utile develops a rigorous, research-based approach for finding solutions. Productive overlaps between Utile’s architecture, urban design, and planning disciplines—designed not as distinct studios but as conversant practices—has created a body of work that specializes in the relationship between the city and public architecture. The firm’s focus on New England

yields productive and translatable lessons applicable to cities across the world. Utile’s process embeds engagement and equity. This is complemented by the firm’s robust and all-encompassing Justice, Equity, and Diversity, and Inclusion (J.E.D.I) and sustainability initiatives. Utile’s architectural work seeks to understand and translate the region’s vernacular architecture and urban spaces that give form to its culture by updating them to meet 21st century goals and challenges.

Randy Crandon, Jane Messinger

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Architect (Large Firm)—Northeast

“Working for a range of clients, Valerio Dewalt Train infuses its work with a sense of restrained exploration. From its four offices, the firm begins with research to generate designs that succeed for its clients even under tight circumstances” — Jack Murphy

OFFICE Valerio Dewalt Train

LOCATION Various Locations

Valerio Dewalt Train is a 60+ person national architectural and design practice. Since 1994, the firm has based its practice on the simple idea that whatever the question, design is the answer. We take a research-based approach to the design process. This process allows us to explore the client’s DNA, research best practices, and discover what strategies should be integrated. Through environmentally conscious approaches and technology, ideas become intertwined with the design, creating a building that performs as a sustainable facility.

We work with a wide range of clients: institutional, educational, corporate, retail, entertainment, hospitality, and residential. The result of our energetic approach is a series of remarkable projects often produced on very tight budgets and schedules for many notable organizations like the University of Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Glassdoor, the John G. Shedd Aquarium, and the Chicago Park District.

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Steve Hall, Barbara Karant, Tom Harris

Architect (Large Firm)—Midwest

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“EskewDumezRipple is a well-established office that reinvented itself after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Charged with a responsibility to serve the general public, the practice works toward equitable futures. The material results of these good intentions are handsome, well-done buildings.” — Jack Murphy

OFFICE EskewDumezRipple

LOCATION New Orleans & Washington, D.C.

EskewDumezRipple was founded in 1989. Since then, we’ve managed to deliver high-design quality and environmental performance under constraints of time and budget—moments of abundance with an economy of means. The resulting body of work ranges from intimate interiors to large scale urban planning projects. It reflects the firm’s focus on civic life regardless of scale, budget, scope, or complexity. Architects play an indispensable role in realizing a more equitable future. Our work strives to create places where

people can see their identities reflected in their everyday surroundings. The work we do is communal, inclusive, and born of many hands and multiple voices. Solutions are not imported but extracted—in listening, responding to, and drawing from culture. A notion of “urban acupuncture”—how small inflections can transform the health of a neighborhood—is vital to our design ethos. We are accountable to our clients but responsible to many.

Timothy Hursley

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Architect (Large Firm)—Southwest

“EHDD Architecture is compelling in part because of the firm’s longevity and strength of the work. They’ve weathered a lot of ups and downs and changes over the years and have maintained consistent project outcomes.” — Robert Hale

OFFICE EHDD Architecture

LOCATION San Francisco & Seattle, Washington

For over 75 years, EHDD has designed buildings that celebrate a connection to place and strive to have a lighter impact on the earth. Today, EHDD is leading the industry in addressing climate change, exemplified by our 16 LEED® Platinum projects, 17 LEED® Gold projects, and three LEED® Silver projects. EHDD pioneered the Net Zero Energy concept over 15 years ago and designed both the first and some of the largest Net Zero Energy Certified projects. We’ve developed the

EPIC tool, which stands for “Early Phase Integrated Carbon assessment,” the industry standard for early-stage whole-life carbon assessment. EHDD strives to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our practices. We run a successful HBCU internship program, two of the five partners are women, and four of our eight principals are women. In 2022, Jennifer DevlinHerbert became the firm’s first female CEO.

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Scott Norsworthy, Shai Gil, Ema Peter

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Architect (Large Firm)—Canada

“MJMA focuses on community and campus leisure and recreational buildings and invigorates them with a sense of civic pride. The buildings are straightforward and are animated by their active use. I also appreciate MJMA’s interdisciplinary approach.” — Jack Murphy

OFFICE MJMA Architecture & Design

LOCATION Toronto

MJMA is an interdisciplinary firm. Our work is focused on community, campus leisure, and recreational buildings—and evolving these typologies. Our projects maximize inclusivity and advance personal and collective wellbeing. These include: aquatics, arena, academics, gymnasia, youth hubs, multi-purpose spaces, wellness programs, libraries, sports fields, and more. Our hands-on public engagement has set new standards for consultation. We have become pioneers in advancing all-gender inclusive aquatic and recreation spaces.

We’re dedicated to elevating the civic experience. Our work is characterized by abundant use of natural light, rich materiality, and universal accessibility. We strive to create projects that contribute to community building as infrastructure. We are pursuing ten zero carbon projects, eight mass timber projects, and one net positive energy aquatic center (a world first). Our landscape, stormwater, and site approaches pursue social and ecological regeneration with a focus on biophilic exchange. We look to maximize social interaction and overlaps with nature.

“AW-ARCH’s work is highly creative across many scales. The practice started out doing small-scale work, and as firms get bigger and do larger work, it’s sometimes hard to sustain that kind of attention to detail. AW-ARCH certainly has.” — Tom S. Chung

OFFICE AW-ARCH

LOCATION Cambridge, Massachusetts

AW-ARCH’s exploration of architecture is a journey of inquiry, innovation, and joy. We embrace a simple principle: meaningful design belongs to everyone and fosters a sense of wellbeing and connection. We believe in the power of design to create a sense of community. Since its founding, our studio’s design approach has merged research and analysis, laying a foundation to explore architecture’s agency in the context of community. From those

beginnings, we’ve focused on compelling projects that shape the experience of individuals, institutions, and the public realm. From Boston’s waterfront to an office tower in Turkey, we’ve stimulated a culture of design-forward development. The cultivation of our team is as essential as our guiding principles. As we’ve grown, we’ve developed a tight knit studio of collaborative colleagues and interns. All employees are involved in the entire arc of a project’s development: It’s an environment of inclusion and shared creativity.

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Pygmalion Karatzas, Florian Holzherr

Architect (Medium Firm)—Northeast

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“I appreciate a strong firm in Mississippi, as it’s not an easy place to do public architecture. The attention to the way that these public projects are rendered—and the commitment to being in Mississippi—is important. Sometimes there’s a way of showing under-resourced communities that feels a bit predatory, but I never felt that way from these images. It really feels like a celebration of these spaces.” — Jess Myers

OFFICE Duvall Decker

LOCATION Jackson, Mississippi

In 1998, Anne Marie Duvall Decker and Roy T. Decker formed the studio on the premise that all architecture is public work. Twenty-five years later, this continues. Duvall Decker is a diverse and expanded practice, employing community planning, real estate development, architectural design, and facility management to foster public good and deliver design excellence. We believe that architecture can be therapeutic and didactic.

In an inner-city Jackson neighborhood, we completed a grassroots planning effort that empowered community organizing. At Tougaloo College, we completed a new academic facility that gave voice to the college’s civil rights mission. In civic projects like the Mississippi Library Commission, we work to create space that shifts authority from institutions. We strive to make a difference through an architectural practice that searches for public good by designing interventions that are healthy, equitable, and durable in material and memory.

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Architect (Medium Firm)—Southeast

“Dake Wells’s work is exceptional. Seeing this type of work would be great anywhere, but to witness it in the area around Springfield, Missouri—where it can be difficult to realize good work and there are few peers that push each other—is unique.” — Tom S. Chung

OFFICE Dake Wells Architecture

LOCATION Kansas City & Springfield, Missouri

Growing up in rural Missouri, the common way of life is to find ways to make do with what you have. For us—a group of 30+ designers united by rural America—the result is a practice called Dake Wells Architecture, born in 2004. A strong sense of curiosity fuels our approach to design, urging us to get out of our own way, listen to voices that are often overlooked, and propose unconventional solutions. Our curiosity-forward culture creates an open, osmotic environment.

Our practice is defined by ingenuity, channeling our rural roots and agrarian ancestors. As we recognize that our natural world is changing, we endeavor to do more with less in ways that are sustainable. Love might be a surprising word to find in a firm profile, but it belongs. We love what we do, the people we work with, and the communities we serve. Curiosity, ingenuity, and love: These are the head, hands, and heart of Dake Wells Architecture.

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Gayle Babcock

Architect (Medium Firm)—Midwest

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Architect (Medium Firm)—West

“Koning Eizenberg Architecture has been in practice for over 40 years and have grown their firm in a really consistent way. They use architecture as a way of bringing community together, and that has been consistent throughout their whole practice. Plus, the work is beautiful.” — Robert Hale

OFFICE Koning Eizenberg Architecture

LOCATION Santa Monica, California

Established in 1981 by Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg, the practice embraces affordable housing and community projects. Principals Brian Lane and Nathan Bishop joined the effort to expand the firm’s ambition for environmentally and socially sustainable design. Today, they lead a cohort of around twenty. The firm’s groundbreaking work in multi-unit housing has generated transformative paradigms, including the early affordable and mixed-income projects like Hancock Housing

in West Hollywood. More recent projects have been reassessing the rules of the conventional midrise typology. At the University of Melbourne, the design of the Student Pavilion was driven by student input on diversity, gender equity, well-being, and sustainability. This neighborhood hangout is an example of how the firm uses informality to engage and welcome. At a time when income disparity is escalating and climate responsibility is urgent, our area of investigation feels more critical now than when the practice started 40 years ago.

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“I admire their work and how they span both academia and practice. As their practice grows bigger, and bigger, the quality of the work and investigations that they’re doing are, again, admirable. Even with a small size, it’s good to see them winning big projects and being rigorous and investigative.” — Tom S. Chung

OFFICE LTL Architects

LOCATION New York

LTL Architects is committed to the enhancement of collective life through architecture with an emphasis on the spatial qualities of materials and tectonics. Marking 50 years, LTL has recalibrated its practice to engage the potentials of carbon-sequestering materials. This coincides with their release of Manual of Biogenic House Sections, which articulates how plant-based materials influence what we should build. It’s also emblematic of the dual nature of LTL’s practice— built work and research. This research often takes the form

of collective manuals. For example, the Manual of Physical Distancing, generated in response to COVID-19, leveraged architectural drawings to render the spatial transmission of the virus in buildings and cities. LTL Architects has engaged the creative reuse of existing structures in built projects across the United States. Much of this work has been focused in the cultural and institutional realm, exploiting architecture’s ability to generate collectivity.

Michael Moran, Leonid Furmansky

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Architect (Small Firm)—Northeast

“In situ studio’s built work is attractive, but I was excited to learn about the firm’s mentorship program, educational efforts, and programming which brings dialogue about architecture to Raleigh, North Carolina.” — Jack Murphy

OFFICE in situ studio

LOCATION Raleigh, North Carolina

Our practice started with modest projects in and around Raleigh: shelters, renovations, small up-fits, and houses. Our current work includes other programs and larger projects: urban housing, hospitality, recreation, collaborative educational spaces, and more. We aim to be an “incubator studio” for North Carolina. In the past decade, we have taught 12 of the 15 architecture studios at the NCSU School of Architecture. The strongest students in these studios join our office for internships upon graduation, and 100 percent of these interns have earned their licenses while working with us.

We advocate for design in our community through lectures, academic juries, and organizing an annual workshop, REAL MATTER, which engages advanced architecture students and young professionals. Architecture provides a platform for engaging today’s most challenging community issues, especially those facing the rapidly urbanizing southeastern United States. We are doing what we can to seize that opportunity and punch above our weight to demonstrate a more thoughtful environment.

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Architect (Small Firm)—Southeast

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“The office has an attitude that appears to value engagement with the realities of practice, from proper payment of workers to client satisfaction. It helps that their work backs up the idea, as it transforms what could be mundane locales into considered sites for midwestern life.” — Jack Murphy

OFFICE M1DTW Architects

LOCATION Detroit

We are inspired by the legacy and practices of Michigan’s midcentury designers, including Alexander Girard, Florence Knoll, and Charles and Ray Eames. Their cross-disciplinary approach and the resulting fluidity across their small, incremental work left a lasting impact on how we use our resources to shape our world. We are a design-driven multidisciplinary architecture studio that produces thoughtful environments for people to do their best work.

Our clients range from emerging entrepreneurs to established cultural and educational institutions, and our projects range from environments and adaptive reuse to business strategy and branding. Since its founding in 2000, the studio has completed over 100 commissioned works. Select clients include Floyd, Bloomscape, Mills Pharmacy, 6 Salon, The Platform, Cranbrook Art Museum, and Samsung.

Jeffrey Kilmer, Diana Paulson

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Architect (Small Firm)—Midwest

“Discussion of Indigenous issues has been foregrounded recently. A lot of projects I’ve worked on in the northeast, like universities and civic projects, are going back and looking at land ownership. This firm’s work feels very present. It’s admirable to start a practice with an ethical point of view.” — Mikyoung Kim

OFFICE studio:indigenous

LOCATION Milwaukee, Wisconsin

This firm creates architecture and artifacts that dismantle stereotypes surrounding Indigenous design, offering a distinct vision of contemporary Indigenous culture. The founding principal creates architecture that is rooted in Indigenous thinking but manifests in contemporary and unexpected ways. Their search for a new architectural language absorbs, embeds, and ultimately obscures direct references to Indigenous forms. The founding principal was raised on t he Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin. Their distinct and personal approach leverages the cultural underpinnings and thinking of Indigenous culture with a Western architectural education.

The resulting work has established the practice not only as the leading voice in Indigenous architecture, but as a critical, poetic voice in all of architecture. The significance of their work is evident in their exhibitions and extensive lectures and through increasing national and international recognition. They were one of four architects from the United States included in the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, featuring the work of 17 Indigenous architects.

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Architect (Small Firm)—Southwest

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“Susan Jones’s leadership surrounding mass timber in Seattle is remarkable. Her work to introduce the technology into the ICC building code set the stage for the growing popularity of this structural system today. This is a major accomplishment!” — Jack Murphy

OFFICE atelierjones

LOCATION Seattle, Washington

Some ten years ago, the founder of this woman-owned firm set out to build a small home for her family. Noting the privilege that entailed, she decided to design an experimental house that would help demonstrate a new sustainable strategy. Enter: the CLTHouse. The AIA National and International Code Council invited the founder to rewrite and change the ICC building codes to allow Tall Mass Timber buildings from eight to 18 stories. She reluctantly accepted, knowing that the pro-bono work would take her away from her practice. She and her fellow committee

members created over 200 pages of new code language and three new code types. The codes passed by wide margins. Today, we work on exclusively mass timber projects using low-carbon strategies wherever possible. Through over a decade of design and research, this small firm has forged pathways, bringing mass timber into architectural, engineering, and construction communities.

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Architect (Small Firm)—West

“The office focuses on adaptive reuse but advances the term in creative ways, setting the stage for conversations in built form that take place in time; buildings that are financially accessible and have an ‘everydayness’ to them; and shared notions of authorship.” — Jack Murphy

OFFICE Davidson Rafailidis

LOCATION Ontario, Canada

Because most of our work involves adaptive reuse, we see our built interventions as just one episode in a building’s life. Because the turnover of uses and users is much shorter than the potential life span of a building, our interventions are not program-specific. Instead, we make interpretive, idiosyncratic spatial gestures that spur different uses and varied interpretations: what we call Space for Something. To increase architecture’s financial accessibility, we look to the Greek polykathoikia typology. With its phased

construction and inhabitation, this approach to building limits the financial burden on the owner/builder by spreading expenses out over time. We call this approach Continual Construction which reduces the dependence on financial institutions. We rely on the passing of time, the agency of users/inhabitants, and the building itself to continue the narrative. We hope the messiness and complexity of life continues to shape the spaces.

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“Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architects has built a body of work that is impressive and diverse. They do work outside the region, but they have a real heritage in New England. They work at different scales, and their work has a real beauty to it.” — Mikyoung Kim

OFFICE Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture

LOCATION Cambridge, Massachusetts & New Haven, Connecticut

Reed Hilderbrand is conceived as a collective investigation into the power of design and the landscape. If American landscape architecture coalesced in part around urgent social and technological reforms, it also arose to preserve places of significant cultural and ecological value from erasure. This is the legacy that Reed Hilderbrand takes into the 21st century. We value teaching within the office and outside to advance the discipline of landscape architecture and disseminate our own acquired expertise across disciplines. Getting to know

the places where we work, the people who value them, and the purposes of landscapes refreshes our ways of designing. A landscape is inclusive when folks see themselves there comfortably—a place where they sense belonging and believe themselves to have a stake in its future. We are interested in scale, texture, color, and human comfort. Through landscape architecture, we seek to celebrate and honor our many differences.

Ngoc Minh Ngo, James Ewing, Sahar Coston Hardy

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Landscape Architect—Northeast

“Houston is a tricky landscape as it is so prone to flooding, and often public spaces are flanked by commercial interests. It’s nice to see how Design Workshop realized an expansive space here.” — Jess Myers

OFFICE Design Workshop

LOCATION Various Locations

Design Workshop was named to embody the spirit of collaboration. Dating back to their founding in 1969, Design Workshop sought to take the “workshop” culture of discovery in the classroom and apply that same culture to the design profession. They have evolved into a global practice, employing a methodology they term DW Legacy Design® that ensures every project has environmental sensitivity, community connection, artistry, and economic viability. Design Workshop’s collective of people are drawn to solving the most complex, critical issues of our time. From

combating sea level rise, increased droughts, and air quality to equitable access to space, they approach these challenges with project-based research and performance measurement. Foundational to developing their next generation of leaders is the importance of understanding the lexicons for these diverse communities, stakeholders, policymakers, and homeowners. The unifying thread of their work lies in their commitment to a higher standard of design for future generations.

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Brandon Huttenlocher

Landscape Architect—Southwest

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Landscape Architect—West

“Walter Hood has had an ethos to his practice from the very beginning. From the start he was on the ground doing work in Oakland, California, and he’s continued to do that as his cultural practice has expanded.” — Mikyoung Kim

OFFICE Hood Design Studio

LOCATION Oakland, California

Hood Design Studio is a landscape architecture and social art practice. The studio’s cultural practice is tripartite: Everyday, Lifeways, and Commemoration. Through this practice the studio strengthens endemic patterns and practices both ecological and cultural, contemporary and historic. The Everyday takes overlooked elements of landscape, everyday places, and in-betweens, and rethinks our relationships with these spaces. Lifeways studies the social patterns and practices of a place and introduces provocations to enhance civic life. At

the Skowhegan School of Art and Sculpture, a series of five performance spaces are designed to respond to various characteristics of the landscape. Each space inspires participants to see the landscape in a new way and inspires new ways of performing. Commemoration seeks to remember, embrace and, celebrate. In Charleston, South Carolina, the International African American Museum features a set of allegoric gardens of African diaspora and a reflecting fountain commemorating the Atlantic Passage.

“You see L’Observatoire International’s work all the time without realizing it. The office, led by Hervé Descottes, joins leading architects around the world to support high-profile design efforts. The impressive results speak for themselves.” — Jack Murphy

OFFICE L’Observatoire International

LOCATION Various Locations

Founded by Hervé Descottes in 1993, L’Observatoire International is an award-winning global lighting design firm that collaborates with renowned architects and design firms. Emphasizing innovation, thought leadership, and partnership, the pioneering firm has led the lighting design and art direction for dynamic projects, revealing the aesthetic qualities for interior and exterior spaces that range from museum and cultural institutions to performing arts centers, and private residences. Concerned with the ever-changing challenges of today and the future, L’Observatoire International consists of a

comprehensive team of dedicated designers with varying backgrounds. As an architectural design firm, L’Observatoire International leverages light as a medium to heighten and transform architectural intentions. The firm has mastered its unique ability to utilize light to create an unparalleled immersive atmosphere. L’Observatoire International has collaborated and built long-lasting relationships with leading architects and designers like Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Jean Nouvel, KPF, SHoP Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and more.

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Iwan Baan, Eric Laignel

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“Vibe is everything. For over 25 years, Sean O’Connor Lighting’s work has illuminated (or darkened) memorable environments around the world. The office is diverse in its staff and expertise and is a leader in the lighting community.” — Jack Murphy

OFFICE Sean O’Connor Lighting

LOCATION Los Angeles

Founded in 1997, Sean O’Connor Lighting is a renowned architectural lighting design firm with a commitment to design excellence. Led by Sean O’Connor, the practice is dedicated to the design of environments which are a synthesis of light and space. Our growing studio supports 17 individuals with a diversity of ethnic, cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds. Our multidisciplinary team, including architects, interior designers, theatrical designers, and fashion designers, have completed over 1,000 projects around the world, including numerous sustainable and award-winning designs.

Our work is distinguished by light and its absence, and by an understanding that light is an integral part of the architectural experience. Our studio is structured into three collaborative teams ensuring support, growth, and mentorship where designers engage in a wide range of challenging projects around the globe. Information is cross-pollinated across teams through monthly roundtable discussions, social gatherings in the studio’s courtyard, and educational outings.

Kevin Scott, Benoit Linero,Eric Staudenmaier, Jason O’Rear

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Lighting Designer—West

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Structural Engineer—Northeast

“DeSimone’s work shines in Eagle + West because the structure isn’t hidden there. It takes a good structural engineer to make that upside-down pyramid structure work. I like to recognize structural engineers who have a strong design sensibility to be expressive in a way that’s congruent with the architectural concept, and I think this office is a successful example.” — Tom S. Chung

OFFICE DeSimone Consulting Engineering

LOCATION Various Locations

Founded in New York City in 1969, DeSimone Consulting Engineering provides leading structural engineering, facade consulting, integrated design and detailing, forensic, and construction consulting services for all types of buildings. To date, our teams have designed over 10,000 projects in 55 countries. DeSimone is known for producing extremely efficient designs and synthesizing architectural ideas with structural realities. Since our founding, DeSimone has worked on some of the most notable, innovative structures, including the first

net-zero energy school in the northeastern United States and BIG’s “twisting” tower. The innovation and creativity propelling these projects is fueled by a process-driven, collaborative design environment. DeSimone nurtures our creative staff. We pride ourselves in promoting from within, and have a leadership roster filled with teammates who have been with our firm for decades. Our Belonging Initiative reallocates a portion of company spending to targeting wealth gap inequities among Blackowned small businesses.

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Facade Consultant—Southwest

“Studio NYL has provided their expertise to many recognizable projects, including Studio Gang’s Populus hotel in Denver and NADAAA’s Site 4 tower for MIT. It works with sustainability in mind but not at the expense of design excellence.” — Jack Murphy

OFFICE Studio NYL

LOCATION Various Locations

Studio NYL was built with the goal of sharing our talent, ideas, and radical thinking with our visionary partners to change the world through design. Studio NYL’s approach and process is unlike many consulting firms. It closely resembles an architectural methodology using diagrams, precedent studies, and investigations to supplement analyses and construction. Our team often uses traditional systems in unique ways to craft deliverables. We are proud of pushing the limits of many materials such as terra-cotta, mass timber, fiber-reinforced polymers, as well as methodologies like full-scale 3D-printed enclosures.

Our team believes in serving the industry. Studio NYL team members have been board members of critical forums to advance the design of facades including serving as the Building Enclosure Council National Chair, and on the ASHRAE 90.1 Building Envelope Subcommittee, ASTM E06 Committee on Building Performance, and more. At Studio NYL we believe that aspirational design and high performance are not mutually exclusive.

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Altmeyer Federal Building by Snow Kreilich Architects/Kendall McCaugherty

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Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center by GWWO Architects/Nic Lehoux

Honorable Mentions

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Architect (Medium Firm)—Southeast

Elkus Manfredi Architects

Marlon Blackwell Architects

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Architect (Medium Firm)—Midwest

Olson Kundig

Snow Kreilich Architects

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GWWO Architects

CCY Architects

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Furioso Vineyards by Waechter Architecture/Lara Swimmer

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Para Project

SALT Landscape Architects

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Lighting Designer—West

LOC Architects

Graypants

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Resources Adaptive Reuse

Building Renovation

Commercial—Office

Harvard Law School Lewis International Law Center, page 22

Lobby with Amphitheater, page 29

Ascentage Pharma, page 18

Architect: Norman Kelley Client: Beacon Capital Partners General Contractor: Power Construction Company Developer: Beacon Capital Partners Fabricator: Huber Structural Engineer: Klein & Hoffman MEP: Kent Consulting Engineers Acoustics Consultant/Engineer: iart, Idee und Klang, Walters-Storyk Design Group Photographers: Kendall McCaugherty

Architect: OLI Architecture Client: Ascentage Pharma Landscape Architect: AEPA&TSC Architects Engineers General Contractor: Nantong Wujian Construction Engineering Developer: Ascentage Pharma Structural Engineer: Foshan Shunde Architectural Design Institute MEP: AEPA&TSC Architects Engineers Sustainability Consultant: QNP Building Engineering Consultancy Firm Interior Design: AEPA&TSC Architects Engineers Facade Consultant: Talweg Engineering Studio D.P.C. and Shenzhen Qianhai OEC Facade Consultant Lighting Designer: AEPA&TSC Architects Engineers Photographer: Shen Zhonghai Glass: Xinyi Glass Concrete: Anhui DiHao Science and Technology Environmental Materials

Architect: TenBerke Client: Harvard Law School Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Structural Engineer: Simpson and Gumpertz & Heger MEP: Altieri Sebor Wieber Rendering & Visualization: TenBerke Sustainability Consultant: Atelier Ten Interior Design: TenBerke Facade Consultant: Front Graphic Design & Wayfinding: AFreeman Design Lighting Designer: One Lux Acoustics Consultant/ Engineer: Cerami Photographer: Chris Cooper Facade Fabricator: Sunrise Erectors Facade Manufacturers: ES and Alucobond ACM Roofing: Sika Sarnafil Interior Paint: Benjamin Moore Interior Flooring: Depaoli Mosaic, Nora Systems, Bentley, Ardex, Sika Scofield Interior Wall Coverings: Maharam, Designtex, Conwed Waterproofing: GCP, Stego Fire Protection: Isolatek, Hilti, Victaulic, Viking

Architectural Lighting Confidential Staircase Project, page 25 Architect: HLW International and Loisos + Ubbelohde General Contractor: Talisen Construction Company Fabricator: Optical Mechanics, Displays and Optical Technologies Structural Engineer: Mars Structural Design, GMS MEP: Robert Derector Associates Graphic Design & Wayfinding: GHD Partners Lighting Designer: Lumen Architecture Acoustics Consultant/ Engineer: Cerami Associates Photographer: Nicholas Venezia, Frank Oudeman

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Civic Princeton Municipal Center, page 20 Architect: Perkins&Will Client: City of Princeton, Texas Landscape Architect: Kimley Horn General Contractor: Crossland Construction Company Structural Engineer: Click Engineering MEP: MEP Consulting Engineers Rendering & Visualization: Perkins&Will Sustainability Consultant: Perkins&Will Interior Design: Perkins&Will Facade Consultant: Perkins&Will Graphic Design & Wayfinding: Perkins&Will Lighting Designer: Essential Light Design Studio Photography: James Steinkamp Photography Glass: Guardian Glass Roofing: Carlisle SynTec TPO Roofing Ceiling: Certainteed Acoustic Ceilings

Commercial—Hospitality Sequitur Tasting Room, page 19 Architect: Linden, Brown Architecture Client: Sequitur Wines Landscape Architect: Reed Hilderbrand and Wesley Younie General Contractor: AD Construction Structural Engineer: Grummel Engineering MEP: Glumac Lighting Designer: Keylight + Shadow and Studio-Zia Photography: Bittermann Photography

Commercial—Retail DIOR Femme, page 38 Architect: Aranda\Lasch (design) and G4 (Executive Architect) Client: Christian Dior Couture General Contractor: Seele and Blueprint Fabricator: Seele Inc. and Rosskopf + Partners AG Structural Engineer: Schuler Ingenieurbüro Facade Consultant: Front Lighting Designer: Molly McKnight Lighting Design Photographer: Gerry O’Leary, Aranda\ Lasch Solid Surface: LG HI_MACS Solid Surface Glass: Seele

Resources Education—Higher Education

Neil Campbell Rowing Centre, page 31

Sandi Simon Center For Dance at Chapman University, page 34

Architect: MJMA Architecture & Design and Raimondo + Associates Architects Client: 2021 Niagara Canada Summer Games Landscape Architect: MJMA Architecture & Design General Contractor: Aquicon Construction Structural Engineer: Blackwell MEP: Smith + Andersen Photographer: Scott Norsworthy

Cultural & Landscape International African American Museum, pages 26 and 46

Architect: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects Client: Chapman University General Contractor: R. D. Olson Structural Engineer: Structural Focus MEP: Buro Happold Graphic & Wayfinding: IN-FO.CO Lighting Designer: Auerbach Glasow and HLB Acoustics Consultant/ Engineer: Auerbach Pollock Photographer: Eric Staudenmaier Paint: Dunn Edward Interior Finishes: Arktura, Capri, Tarkett, Westcoat, Extech, SMI Architectural Millwork

Architect: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Moody Nolan Client: International African American Museum, Charleston Landscape: Hood Design Studio and Seamon Whiteside General Contractor: Turner Construction Fabricator: Ignition Arts, QCP Structural Engineer: Guy Nordenson and Associates and Collins Engineering MEP: ARUP Interior Exhibition Design: Ralph Appelbaum Associates Lighting Designer: Arup Group Graphic Design & Wayfinding: Sahar Coston-Hardy of Esto and Michael Habat Photographer: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Sahar Coston-Hardy, Esto, Mike Habat

Education—Kindergarten, Primary, High School

Digital Fabrication

Architect: Bestor Architecture Client: LACMA General Contractor: LACMA Photographer: Yoshihiro Makino

Drape Stair, page 27 Architect: Future Expansion Client: Bob Spiegel & Mary Conway-Spiegel General Contractor: Eze Bongo Fabricator: The New Motor Photographer: Hanna Grankvist

American School Foundation of Guadalajara | High School, page 30 Architect: Flansburgh Architects and GVA Arquitectos Client: American School Foundation of Guadalajara Structural Engineer: BEST MEP: Profinel LEED Engineer: Eosis Interior Design: LAB [3.2] Architecture Construction Manager: Cushman & Wakefield Photographer: Robert Benson and American School Foundation of Guadalajara

Exhibition Design Scandinavian Design & the US, 18901980, page 37

Facades Houston Endowment Headquarters, page 32 Architect: kevin daly Architects Client: Houston Endowment Landscape Architect: TLS Landscape Architecture General Contractor: WS Bellows Fabricator: Kinetica Structural Engineer: Arup MEP: CMTA Sustainability Consultant: Transsolar

Healthcare 17th Avenue Clinic, page 28 Architect: 5468796 Architecture Client: RNDSQR Structural Engineer: Wolsey Structural Engineering Photographer: James Brittain

Infrastructure Kendall/MIT Gateway, page 36 Architect: NADAAA and Perkins&Will Client: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITIMCo) Landscape Architect: Hargreaves Jones General Contractor: Turner Construction Company Developer: MITIMCo Canopy: Lyman-Morse Canopy Composites Engineering: Al Horsmon and Naval Architect Canopy Finite Element Analysis & Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis: Doyle CFD Structural Engineer: SGH and McNamara Salvia MEP/FP: AHA Consulting Engineers Rendering & Visualization: NADAAA Building Performance Analysis: RWDI Interior Design: NADAAA and Perkins&Will Facade Fabrication and Design Assist: Linel and Ipswich Bay Glass Waterproofing: SOCOTEC Graphic Design & Wayfinding: Pentagram Lighting Designer: SoSo Limited and Lam Partners Urban Planner: NADAAA Photographer: John Horner

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Resources Interior—Hospitality

Interior—Retail

Residential—Mixed-use

Prime Seafood Palace, page 39

GLCO New York, page 43

North Campus Housing, page 48

Architect: Omar Gandhi Architects Client: Matty Matheson, Gary Quinto, Coulson Armstrong, Our House Hospitality Company General Contractor: Mazenga Building Group, Bootstrap Design/Build Fabricator: Canara Woodworking Inc., CNC Cutting Inc., Brandon Gore, Concord Custom Lighting, Filo Timo Structural Engineer: Diomis Engineering MEP: Spline Group Lighting Design: OneLX Photographer: Adrian Ozimek and doublespace Flooring: Moncer Cladding: KOL

Architect: West of West Client: Garrett Leight California Optical Fabricator: Cactus Fabrication Photographer: Brian Ferry

Architect: KieranTimberlake Client: University of Washington Landscape: OLIN General Contractor: WG Clark and Absher Construction Structural Engineer: Coughlin Porter Lundeen MEP: Rushing and Tres West Sustainability Consultant: O’Brien360 Dining Interior: Graham Baba Facade Consultant: RDH Graphic Design & Wayfinding: Studio SC Lighting Designer: Fisher Marantz Stone Acoustics Consultant/Engineer: A3 Acoustics Photographer: Bruce Damonte, Matthew Millman

Interior—Institutional MOCA Workshop, page 40 Architect: Atelier Cho Thompson Client: Museum of Chinese in America Fabricator: Hugo and Hoby Graphic Design & Wayfinding: Atelier Cho Thompson Photography: Samara Vise Furniture: Blu Dot Fabric: Maharam Lighting: Rejuvenation

Interior—Residential Jackie XU Private Residence A Love Letter to My Dogs, page 42 Architect: Office of Goldchild Client: Jackie XU Family General Contractor: Hongjun Pan Construction Structural Engineer: Hongjun Pan Construction MEP: DaXing HVAC Interior Design: Office of Goldchild Lighting Design: Office of Goldchild Photographer: Jian XU, Haoran Chen, Jing Deng Flooring: STP Flooring Wood: Yixing Dihao Wood Industry

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Interior—Workplace Publicis Groupe, Le Truc, page 44 Architect: Architecture Plus Information (A+I) Client: Publicis Groupe Landscape Architect: John Mini Distinctive Landscapes MEP: Robert Derector Associates Interior Design: Architecture Plus Information (A+I) Graphic Design & Wayfinding: Architecture Plus Information (A+I) Lighting Designer: Lighting Workshop Acoustics Consultant/Engineer: LSTN Consultants Photographer: Magda Biernat Acoustics: DFB, Polysorb Drywalls: Techno Drywall Subcontractor

Libraries East Flatbush Library, page 45 Architect: LEVENBETTS Client: Brooklyn Public Library and NYC Department of Design and Construction General Contractor: XBR, Inc Structural Engineer: Silman MEP: Plus Group Consulting Engineering LEED: Plus Group Consulting Engineering Interior Design: LEVENBETTS Lighting Design: Lumen Architecture Acoustics Consultant/Engineer: Lally Acoustical Consulting Photographer: Naho Kubota Exterior Facade Panels: UAP Interior Acoustic Ceiling: GypSorb Strata Interior Translucent Panels: Polygol Standard Doors and Windows: Kawneer Perimeter Room Acoustic Ceiling: Attar Perforated Acoustic Panels Resilient Flooring: Forbo Marmoleum

Residential—Multi-unit Pacific Landing Affordable Housing, page 50 Architect: Patrick TIGHE Architecture Client: Community Corp of Santa Monica Landscape Architect: Yael Lir Landscape General Contractor: Walton Construction Structural Engineer: Nous Engineering MEP: IDIAZ Design Rendering & Visualization: Patrick TIGHE Architecture Sustainability Consultant: Partner Energy and Raimi + Associates Interior Design: Patrick TIGHE Architecture Lighting Designer: eSquared Lighting Acoustics Consultant/Engineer: dBF Associates Photographer: Pavel Bendov Photography and Patrick TIGHE Architecture Flooring: PolyStar PatchKit Metal Facade: Rheinzink

Resources Social Impact

Pabellón de la Reserva, page 57

Watts Works, page 24

Architecture: HEMAA Client: Reserva Santa Fe Landscape Architect: Hugo Sánchez Paisaje General Contractor: HEMAA Developer: Reserva Santa Fe Structural Engineer: Grupo BVG MEP: Grupo BVG Rendering & Visualization: HEMAA Sustainability Consultant: Martín Gutiérrez Interior Design: Dirección Mx and HEMAA Lighting Design: HEMAA Photographer: César Béjar Studio Flooring: Grato Maderas

Restoration & Preservation

Architect: Studio One Eleven Client: Daylight Community Housing Landscape Architect: Studio One Eleven General Contractor: Howard CDM Developer: Daylight Community Housing Structural Engineer: R + S Tavares Electrical: Atlas Engineering Plumbing & Mechanical: Value Engineering Rendering & Visualization: Studio One Eleven Sustainability Consultant: ARUP Interior Design: Studio One Eleven Photographer: Paul Vu Paint: Dunn Edwards Flooring: Shaw Contract

Oregon Supreme Court Rehabilitation, page 54

Student Work

Architect: Hennebery Eddy Architects Client: State of Oregon Judicial Department Landscape Architect: Knot Studio General Construction: Hoffman Construction Plaster: The Harver Company Wood: JS Perrot & Co. Concrete: Pence/Kelley Concrete, LLC Structural Engineer: Forell-Elsesser Engineers, Inc, kpff MEP: Interface Engineering, Inc. Sustainability: Brightworks Interior Design: Hennebery Eddy Architects Lighting Designer: Interface Engineering, Inc. Acoustics Consultant/ Engineer: Acoustic Design Studio, Inc. Photography: Josh Partee Interior Paint: Sherwin-Williams Glass: McGrory Glass, Inc

The Naumburg Center, page 52 Designer: Avery Seip (Savannah College of Art and Design)

Temporary Installation Kwae , page 53 Architect: Adjaye Associates Client: La Biennale di Venezia Fabricator: Xylotek Structural Engineer: Format Engineers Photographer: Michelle Äärlaht

Unbuilt—Commercial, Cultural, Civic, Education John Innes Community Recreation Centre, page 56 Architect: MJMA Architecture & Design Client: City of Toronto

Unbuilt—Conceptual

Unbuilt—Landscape, Urban Design, Master Plan Hard Core, Park Core, page 58 Architect: Associates UltraBarrio Client: Connect Community and Southwest Houston Redevelopment Authority Civil Engineer: The Goodman Corporation

Unbuilt—Residential—Multiunit Sunset Steps, page 59 Architect: West of West

Unbuilt—Residential— Single-unit Otoch, page 60 Designer: Mutuo and There There Landscape Architect: Puente Alameda General Contractor: Duplex Structural Engineer: Nina Casas Guzik Rendering & Visualization: Mutuo and There There Photographer: Mutuo and There There

Urban Design & Master Plan Reimagine Middle Branch Plan, page 61 Architect: Waldon Studio Client: South Baltimore Gateway Partnership and the City of Baltimore Landscape Architect: Field Operations, Mahan Rykiel Associates Civil, Coastal, Structural & Marine Engineering: Moffatt & Nichol Environmental Engineering & Ecology Consultant: Biohabitats Graphic Design: Public Mechanics Urban Planner: Field Operations and Waldon Studio Photographer: Field Operations and the Reimagine Middle Branch Planning Team

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Residential—Single-unit

Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation, page 57 Architect: WT/GO Architecture Client: University of Arkansas Landscape Architect: Ground Control Structural Engineer: Entuitive MEP: Bernhard Rendering & Visualization: Brick Visual

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Thank you to everyone who submitted entries to AN’s Best of Design, Products, and Practice Awards in 2023.

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