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We asked an expert jury and our audience to choose the best projects of the year. Visit Dwell.com to see all the winners.
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Barbara Bestor
Chris Cornelius
Tosin Oshinowo
Bestor Architecture
Studio:Indigenous
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Kulapat Yantrasast
Jared Blake and Ed Be
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WINNER CASA TER Using regional building techniques and local materials, Mesura created a sustainable retreat that blends with the Catalonian countryside.
WINNER CATERPILLAR Undecorated and Studio Detroit sliced up a prefab Quonset hut to create a series of light-filled dwellings in Detroit.
RUNNER-UP UC HOUSE Designed by Daniela Bucio Sistos, this brick-and-concrete residence on the outskirts of Morelia, Mexico, is anchored by a central open-air foyer that frames a library displaying the owners’ collection of more than 15,000 books.
RUNNER-UP CASA MIRADOR Rama Estudio used a prefab glass-and-steel box to extend a home outside Quito, Ecuador, into the surrounding landscape.
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ILLUSTRATIONS: SAM KERR (PORTRAITS); JENNIFER TAPIAS DERCH (ICONS THROUGHOUT). PHOTOS: SALVA LÓPEZ (CASA TER); DANE ALONSO (UC HOUSE); JASON KEEN (CATERPILLAR); JAG STUDIO (CASA MIRADOR)
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