Announcing the winners of the 2019 AN Best of Design Awards – The Architect’s Newspaper

After expanding our categories to a whopping 47 and receiving over 800 submissions, the 2019 AN Best of Design Awards were our most successful yet. Of course, this made the judging more difficult than ever. Projects came from firms big and small across every corner of the North American continent. While we are always surprised by the breadth and quantity of submissions, we were not surprised by the quality of the design work put forth by these talented architects and designers.

There were some telling trends, however. First, our interior categories received more and better projects than ever before. This resurgence in architects doing interiors, both residential and commercial, seems to mirror what we see in the field: Simpler, less colorful interiors that put more emphasis on materiality than on playful shapes, as in the past. It was also a good year for exhibition design.

For the Building of the Year, our esteemed jury was fiercely divided between two exemplary but very different projects. The final debate came down to The TWA Hotel by Beyer Blinder Belle and Cooley Monato Studio, and the Anita Rose LGBT Center in Los Angeles by Leong Leong. In the end, the jury decided that the sensitive restoration and reactivation of Saarinens masterpiece merited the Building of the Year award. This selection well illustrates the attitude that this years jury had about the projects that were deliberated. Sensitivity and subtlety were at a premium. Winners were chosen for their contextual, tactical approaches rather than big, bombastic ideas. For example, MQ Architectures small wooden pavilion in Garrison, New York, and Signal Architecture + Researchs Cottonwood Canyon Experience Center are both examples of structures with simple profiles that were carefully cut to make residential-scale architecture that blends into its surroundings.

Perhaps this signals something larger about architecture in 2019, or even the end of the 2010s. Is U.S. architecture becoming more formally muted? Or is 2019 just a quiet year? Is this phenomenon an ongoing reaction to something in the media that has promoted design that is flashier and more figurally exuberant? Or is this just a one-year trend?

Our jury this year was a very savvy group that included old AN friends and some new faces as well. By provoking discussions and offering up new ideas, the jury is essential to the mission of AN. We hope you enjoy this selection of winners, honorable mentions, and editors picks, and we look forward to hearing from you again next year with new projects!

We will be updating this list over the next few days with winner and honorable mention profiles. To see the complete feature, dont miss our 2019 Best of Design Awards Annual issue, out now!

2019 AN Best of Design Awards

FinalistsCottonwood Canyon Experience CenterSignal Architecture + ResearchWasco, Oregon

Anita May Rosenstein Campus, Los Angeles LGBT CenterLeong LeongKillefer Flammang ArchitectsLos Angeles

PublicWinnerAnita May Rosenstein Campus, Los Angeles LGBT CenterLeong LeongKillefer Flammang ArchitectsLos Angeles

Honorable Mentions

Discovery Center, les-de-Boucherville National ParkSmith Vigeant Architectes

Hunters Point Community LibrarySteven Holl Architects

Editors Picks

Tsleil-Waututh Administration and Health CentreLubor Trubka Associates Architects

Louis Armstrong StadiumROSSETTI

Urban DesignWinnerBrooklyn Army Terminal Public RealmWXYBrooklyn, NY

Honorable Mention

City ThreadSPORTS

Honorable Mentions

Ruby CityAdjaye Associates

New York State Equal Rights Heritage CenternARCHITECTS

Editors Pick

The Evans Tree House at Garvan Woodland Gardensmodus studio

Saint Mary Mercy ChapelPLY+

Honorable Mentions

NatureCooper Hewitt Design TriennialStudio Joseph

VENTSTEMPO | Catty Dan Zhang

Editors Picks

Model ProjectionsAgencyAgency

Common Threadsikd

Honorable Mentions

Tree Pittsburgh HeadquartersGBBN

370 Jay Street, New York UniversityMitchell Giurgola

Editors Picks

Marvin Gaye Recreation CenterISTUDIO Architects

Greenport Passive HouseThe Turett Collaborative

Honorable Mentions

CME CenterKrueck + Sexton

277 Mott StreetToshiko Mori Architect

Editors Picks

University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience InstitutePerkins and Will

280 St MarksDXA studio

Young ArchitectsWinnerbld.us

Honorable Mentions

Richmond Water Transit Ferry TerminalMarcy Wong Donn Logan Architects

BART Market Street CanopiesVIA Architecture

Editors Picks

Frances Appleton Pedestrian BridgeRosales + Partners

Northeastern University Pedestrian CrossingPayette

Commercial HospitalityWinnerFurioso VineyardsWaechter ArchitectureDundee, Oregon

Honorable Mentions

McDonalds Chicago FlagshipRoss Barney Architects

The Carpenter HotelSpecht Architects

Editors Picks

HeritageSavvy Studio

Lumen at Beacon ParkTouloukian Touloukian

Commercial RetailWinnerApple Scottsdale Fashion SquareEnnead ArchitectsScottsdale, Arizona

Honorable Mentions

Sunshine and National Retail CenterDake Wells Architecture

Christian DiorMyefski Architects

Editors Pick

Grant GalleryTed Porter Architecture

The Culver StepsEhrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects

Commercial OfficeWinner1000 Maine AvenueKPFFOX ArchitectsWashington, D.C.

Honorable Mentions

901 East SixthThoughtbarnDelineate Studio

Solar CarveStudio Gang

Editors Pick

American Express Sunrise Corporate CenterPerkins and Will

Interior WorkplaceWinnerHUSH Office InteriorInaba WilliamsNew York City

Honorable Mentions

ShareCuseArchitecture Office

Vrbo HeadquartersRios Clementi Hale Studios

Editors Picks

McDonalds HQStudio O+A

Conga HeadquartersDLR Group

Interior InstitutionalWinnerSoutheast Raleigh Magnet High School Great Hall Renovationtonic designRaleigh, North Carolina

Honorable Mentions

The Center for FictionBKSK Architects

The Childrens Library at Concourse HouseMichael K Chen Architecture

Editors Picks

Countryside Community ChurchAlley Poyner Macchietto Architecture

Gordon Chapel Renovation, St. Hildas and St. Hughs SchoolMBB

Interior RetailWinnermaharishi TribecaAbruzzo Bodziak ArchitectsNew York City

Honorable Mentions

Malin+Goetz San FranciscoBernheimer Architecture

Claus Porto New Yorktacklebox architecture

Editors Picks

NotreNorman Kelley

R13 FlagshipLeong Leong

Interior HospitalityWinnerTamarindoStayner ArchitectsSan Clemente, California

Honorable Mentions

All SquareArchitecture Office

ROOST East MarketMorris Adjmi Architects

Editors Picks

Woodlark HotelOFFICEUNTITLED

The Fleur RoomRockwell Group

Honorable Mention

Mount Sinai Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care UnitPerkins Eastman

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