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How Architects Can Save Time with the Latest Mobile Technology

A modern mobile device is an irreplaceable tool for busy architects. Architects spend so much of their time on the road, communicating with clients and contractors, accessing designs, doing site inspections, taking notes during meetings and more. Mobile devices can help accelerate all of these processes.

An architect’s site visit and the process of drafting site reports in Word or Excel afterward is a tedious and time-consuming process.

In the field, architects write down notes on paper, take photos and annotate printed floor plans. Then back at the office, they transfer the photos to the PC and start organizing them, spend time deciphering handwritten notes, and struggle with the layout in Word.

This task not only takes a significant amount of time, it can also lead to errors. Delays in sending accurate field reports or even skipping them, can result in costly misunderstandings, mistakes, discussions, and even lawsuits.

Enter Archisnapper, a tool that uses mobile technology to streamline site inspections, field reports, and construction collaboration. All in a fraction of the time it takes to do manually.

One Tool for All On-Site Information

ArchiSnapper is an app-based approach to creating architect’s field reports.

With an app on a smartphone or tablet, architects can access their projects and files on-site. Conditions are documented by identifying issues that need to be corrected, like a wall that needs to be painted or an incorrect fixture being installed. The item is entered into the ArchiSnapper app as an observation, and can be instantly supplemented with further details like written information for resolution, site photos that can be annotated,floor plan annotations and location pointers.

That information is captured immediately with a smartphone or tablet on-site versus spread over paper notes, markups on printed floor plans, and photos that are stored on a camera. When leaving the construction site, a professional field report will be instantly generated for further editing and distribution.

The time savings inherent in this method, which averages about two hours per site visit compared to organizing field reports manually, add up quickly, potentially saving hundreds of hours over the course of a project.

Interested in learning more and seeing the app in action? Check out this recent webinar.

“Deltek+ArchiSnapper reduces the amount of time for our site observation reports by about 50%. All of the administrative and busy work we used to do is now just handled automatically with ArchiSnapper. It lets us focus on the site visit – observing the site, documenting what’s going on – instead of worrying about managing images, organizing them in the right folders and inserting them into a reportDan Sigler, Business Technology Manager, Jordan & Skala Engineers

Professional and Branded Field Reports

Field reports generated by ArchiSnapper look clean and professional by default, and are easily adjusted with simple customization options, like setting the font type or adding your firm’s logo. Report aesthetics can be customized even further with header, titles, footer, default image size, labels, date fields, text blocks and more, allowing reports to reflect a firm’s branding guidelines.

The reports are accurate, clear, and they radiate professionalism.

Built For and With Architects

ArchiSnapper was developed in collaboration with architects, and its roots in the profession are visible in many ways.

By default, observations are grouped into categories that align with construction trades like HVAC, electrical, and mechanical, although these groups can be modified to fit any type of organization desired, such as CSI numbers.

Starting a new field report from a previous one, a hallmark practice during construction administration, is also a default feature, keeping individual observations in each new report until they’re resolved.

ArchiSnapper also lets architects easily insert the weather data into the site report as well as manage and share a Gantt planning so everyone involved gets an accurate and up to date view on the planning.

This tool also helps streamline collaboration, by assigning items to a contractor so they have a real-time view on their pending items andt updates. Contractors even have the ability to give feedback on assigned items using a free ArchiSnapper account. They can add notes and photos to assigned items, and send it for approval when resolved.

A powerful checklist functionality allows users to setup a checklist of items to review on-site, for example during punch list meetings.

Finally, Archisnapper is built to integrate easily with other software programs commonly used by architecture firms, such as Deltek Ajera and Deltek Vantagepoint, allowing contacts and other project information to be synced across multiple systems.

Ready to give Archisnapper a closer look? Click here to sign up for a 14-day free trial, and see for yourself why 10,000+ architects, engineers, and contractors are using cutting-edge technology to streamline construction administration.

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The A+List: 161 Architecture and Design Firms to Watch

Architizer’s global architectural awards program, the 10th Annual A+Awards, is now accepting submissions, with a Main Entry Deadline of December 17th this year. As well as celebrating some of the most innovative, recently-completed projects around the globe, the A+Awards also serves as an incredible indicator for which designers will be at the forefront of innovation in the coming year.

In recognition of this fact, Architizer is delighted to present the third edition of the coveted A+List, an annual run-down of every firm that scooped an A+Award and A+Firm Award in the previous season. The A+List forms a comprehensive guide to the world’s best architecture firms, and is refreshed each year based on the results of the annual A+Awards program. You can see last season’s A+List here.

The A+List is arranged alphabetically, with more information available by clicking on the link to each firm’s profile. We’ve also picked out a selection of featured firms, providing some extra background on their A+Award triumphs.

Get Your Firm On the Next A+List

To secure your position on next year’s A+List, make sure to enter the 10th Annual A+Awards before the Main Entry Deadline on December 17th. As well as featuring within this definitive directory of high quality firms, winning firms will also have their work published in Monacelli’s stunning, hardbound compendium on the World’s Best Architecture, and gain amazing publicity through our year-round global celebration of design.

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Without further ado, explore the work of each of these immensely talented firms below, and good luck with your submissions to this year’s program!

The 3rd Annual A+List

ahylo

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Ceilings

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Hall / Theater

Albertin Architekten

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Health

Alexander &CO.

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Workspace

Amir Hossein Afzali Architects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt – Private House (L >3000 sq ft)

ANGOSTO E IBAÑEZ ARQUITECTOS

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Preservation

anonimous

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Concrete

AQUIDOS ARCHITECTURE

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Low Cost Design

Arch-Age-Design (AAD)

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Showrooms

Archermit

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Cultural & Expo Centers

Architects 49

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Retail

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Residential Interiors (ArchSD

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Gallery & Exhibition Spaces

ArquitectonicaGEO (ArqGEO)

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Urban and Masterplan

Atelier Lina Bellovicova

Project of the Year, 2021 A+Awards

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +New Materials

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (XS

Featured Firm: Atelier Scale


The Wave by Atelier Scale, Shenzhen, China | Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Landscape

Atelier Scale

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Landscape

Atelier Scale is a Los Angeles-based landscape studio that has perfected the delicate balance between macro and micro architectural and urban scales. Regardless of the project size, from large to small, their designs are realized as interactive articulations of the relationships between the whole and parts, groups and individuals. Take for instance their Restroom in the Mountains or The Wave: Both projects are organized around module systems that allow a high degree of flexibility, allowing them to be adapted to the topography of their respective sites without sacrificing the aesthetic appeal or overshadowing the surrounding context.

Atelier Sergio Rebelo

Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Hospitality

Aytac Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Institutional

B² Architecture

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Branding

Ballistic Architecture Machine

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Urban Transformation

Ballman Khapalova

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Masterplan

BDP Quadrangle

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Shopping Center

Behin Ha Design Studio

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Art

Beijing Puri Lighting Design Co.,LTD.

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Light

Bergmeyer

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Workspace

BKSK Architects

Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Collaboration

bo.M designstudio

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Transportation

Bond Society

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Primary & High Schools

BORD Architectural Studio

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Engineering

Featured Firm: Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk Arkitektkontor


Vøringsfossen Waterfall Area by Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk AS ARKITEKTKONTOR, Eidfjord, Norway | Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Stairs | Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Prefab

Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk Arkitektkontor

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Prefab

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Stairs

Norwegian architect Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk founded his eponymous studio in 1990. Since then, the Oslo-based office has maintained its small size and high, independent professional standards. With a team of around just six full-time architects, their projects range from small design and interior assignments to medium-sized architecture and large-scale planning services. On top of his decorated private practice, Hølmebakk has taught at the Oslo School of Architecture and at the Rhode Island School of Design, and lectured at other schools of architecture.

Carlos Zwick Architekten BDA

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (XL >6000 sq ft)

Carvalho Araújo

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (S 1000-2000 sq ft)

Caspar Schols

Project of the Year, 2021 A+Awards

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Living Small

CCL Architects & Planners

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Kindergartens

CCY Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Façades

CHINA ARCHITECTURE DESIGN&RESEARCH GROUP

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Stadium & Arena

Christ & Gantenbein

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Mixed Use

Clayton Korte

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Bars & Wineries

CLOU architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Shopping Center

Colorado Building Workshop

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Community

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Stone

Colwell Shelor Landscape Architecture

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Private Garden

Crossboundaries

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Learning

Featured Firm: Cumulus Studio


Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre by Cumulus Studio, TAS, Australia | Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Transportation Infrastructure | Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Cultural & Expo Centers

Cumulus Studio

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Transportation Infrastructure

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Cultural & Expo Centers

Though Cumulus Studio is spread across four Australian offices — in Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne and Adelaide — the twenty-one designers that make up their team work as a unified practice. This distribution allows the firm to take on work that ranges in size and scope, with the flexibility to bring local, external specialist consultants into the fold when specific expertise is required. This cohesive and collaborative approach truly sets their work apart from the rest; sharing and workshopping ideas results in highly unique and effect solutions to each brief.

David Hertz Architects, Studio of Environmental Architecture

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (XL >6000 sq ft)

Davide Macullo Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Spa & Wellness

Diana Kellogg Architects

Project of the Year, 2021 A+Awards

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +For Good

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Primary & High Schools

ECG International Landscape Consultants

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Public Park

Einwiller Kuehl Inc.

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Urban Transformation

Enia architectes

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Art

Ennead Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Sustainability

ENZO EUSEBI+PARTNERS

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Factories & Warehouses

EwingCole

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Learning

FDomes

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Living Small

Featured Firm: Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners


‘Typhoon-Proof’ Shenzhen’s East Coast by Felixx Landscape, Shenzhen, China | Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Water

Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Water

Founded in 2014, Felixx specializes in designing and engineering landscapes that maximize environmental impact. Their locally-embedded design solutions are aimed at addressing urgent global challenges. Taking on projects within a broad international scope, their clients include governments, NGOs and private developers, and their output varies from spatial research, landscape transformation strategies and developing masterplans, to public space and product design. Across the spectrum, their solutions seek to diversity environmental landscapes by transforming them from mono-functional places into complex hybrids that integrate vital systems with scenic experiences.

fjmtstudio

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Higher Education & Research Facilities

Fogarty Finger

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Coworking Space

Form4 Architecture

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Metal

General Architecture Collaborative

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +For Good

GOA (Group of Architects)

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Cultural

HDR

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Institutional

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Health

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Models & Rendering

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Commercial

Heatherwick Studio

Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Hospitals & Healthcare Center

Henriquez Partners Architects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – High Rise (16+ Floors)

HES Architects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt – Private House (S HLW

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Office Interiors (>25,000 sq ft.)

HWCD

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Office – Low Rise (1-4 Floors)

Featured Firm: Irving Smith Architects


SCION Innovation Hub – Te Whare Nui o Tuteata by RTA Studio and Irving Smith Architects, Rotorua, New Zealand | Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Wood

Irving Smith Architects

Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Wood

Lead by Andrew Irving and Jeremy Smith, this innovative firm is making waves for their iconic, sustainable and researched-based design practice. At present, their research is aimed at exploring the possibilities of structural timber design solutions. This is exemplified in their collaboration with RTA Studio, which resulted in the decorated SCION Innovation Hub – Te Whare Nui o Tuteata. The growing firm’s current work ranges from cultural, urban, civic and residential projects spread throughout New Zealand and, more recently, in the USA and France.

irwin kritioti architecture

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Transport Interiors

Itten+Brechbühl AG

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Office – Mid Rise (5-15 Floors)

J.C. Architecture

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Government & Civic Buildings

Jiang & Associates Creative Design

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Transport Interiors

Johnston Architects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (XS K-Thengono Design Studio

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Bars & Wineries

Kaleidoscope Nordic AS

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Models & Rendering

Kennedy & Violich Architecture

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +New Technology

KIENTRUC O

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Kindergartens

Killa Design

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Engineering

Kim Kiwon & Kelly Lwu / KKKL

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Public Housing

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Office – High Rise (16+ Floors)

Kokaistudios

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Gallery & Exhibition Spaces

Featured Firm: Koning Eizenberg Architecture


Flor 401 Lofts by Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Los Angeles, CA | Popular Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Multi Unit House Mid Rise (5-15 Floors)

Koning Eizenberg Architecture

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – Mid Rise (5-15 Floors)

From adaptive reuse to social housing, this office places social interaction at the heart of their designs — a conviction underlies their rethinking of housing, community and educational settings. Collaborative design processes are baked into their practice, which draws on the active participation of Principals Hank Koning, Julie Eizenberg, Brian Lane and Nathan Bishop to create architecture that promotes sustainable neighborhoods. Indeed, their unique approach to myriad programatic types can equally be attributed to a design and technical team who are similarly invested in humanist values and environmental agenda.

Kris Lin International Design

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Showrooms

Lagranja Design, S.L

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Office Interiors (Lamar Johnson Collaborative LLC

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Public Park

LEMAYMICHAUD Architecture Design

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L >10 Floors)

LEVER Architecture

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Public Housing

LIN architecture

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Pop-Ups & Temporary

line+

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Spa & Wellness

llLab.

Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Pavilions

MAD Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – Mid Rise (5-15 Floors)

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Concrete

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Hall / Theater

Featured Firm: Mário Martins – Atelier de Arquitectura


Casa das Freiras by Mário Martins – Atelier de Arquitectura Lda., Lagos, Portugal | Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (L 4,000 – 6,000 sq ft)

Mário Martins – Atelier de Arquitectura

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (L 4000-6000 sq ft)

Mário Martins creates unforgettable residential design. Born in Lagos, Algarve and trained in Lisbon, this Portuguese architect draws on the vernacular of his birthplace to produce a contemporary and distinct residential aesthetic. From renovation work to research interests in photography and audiovisual media, his engagement with architecture is layered and multifaceted. His practice ranges in its output, from public facilities and private developments, to family homes, collective housing, tourist developments, public facilities, urban regeneration, urban planning and more.

MARS Studio

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Cultural

Marty Chou Architecture

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Apartment

MdeAS Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Office – High Rise (16+ Floors)

Mensulae | Architecture & Heritage

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Preservation

META-Project

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Metal

MIA Design Studio

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (L 4000-6000 sq ft)

Moguang Studio

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Renovation

Montalba Architects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Prefab

Morphogenesis Lab

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +New Technology

Morris Adjmi Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Adaptive Reuse

nARCHITECTS

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Environment

NL Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Libraries

Featured Firm: odd+architects


A House in the Andes by odd+architects, Ecuador | Popular Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Brick | Popular Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Stairs

odd+architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Brick

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Stairs

The designs of this Ecuador-based design studio are found at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and culture. Though a process akin to ecological anthropology, they study the relationships that emerge through cultural adaptation within various geographies. In this way, they strive to create architecture that is not only highly contextual, but that is also integrated with its natural surroundings. This relationship between landscape and built form is on full display at A House in the Andes, where carving access areas through the mounds exposes rammed earth walls, mimicking the ancestral ‘Chaquiñán’ – a system of trails used by the ancient Andeans.

Office of Takumi Iwasawa / AUFTAKT + Tetsuya Sekimoto Architecture

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – Low Rise (1-4 Floors)

Orange Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (L >10 Floors)

Orms

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Hotels & Resorts

Overland Partners

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Renovation

Palmyra PLLC

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Color

PARA Project

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt – Private House (L >3000 sq ft)

Parnagian Architects LLC

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt – Private House (S PBDW Architects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Sustainability

petrjanda / brainwork

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Sports & Recreation

Pitsou Kedem Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Apartment

Plan Architect

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Office – Mid Rise (5-15 Floors)

Plasma Studio

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Restaurants (S

Featured Firm: Populous


Carolina Panthers Rock Hill Development by Populous, Rock Hill, SC | Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Sports & Recreation

Populous

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Sports & Recreation

From stadiums and arenas to airports, Populous specializes in designing spectacular venues for memorable, shared experiences. With roots going back four decades — back to the 1980s when they were HOK Sport Venue Event and LOBB Partnership — the global design firm has continuously innovated and inspired, marking their maturation when they officially became Populous back in 2009. Since then, they have continued fusing their technical expertise with visionary design right up to the present day.

Post Company

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Restaurants (S RDH Architects (RDHA)

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Community

Redland-scape.Ltd.

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Private Garden

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – Low Rise (1-4 Floors)

RIOS

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Office Interiors (>25,000 sq ft.)

Ronald Lu & Partners

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Factories & Warehouses

Rooi Design and Research

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Pop-Ups & Temporary

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Adaptive Reuse

RSP Architects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Masterplan

RTA Studio

Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Wood

Featured Firm: Rvad Studio


Tagh Behesht by Rvad Studio, Mashhad, Iran | Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Commercial

Rvad Studio

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Commercial

This emerging design studio was co-founded in Tehran in 2020 by two young Iranian architects, Ms. Hannaneh Misaghi and Mr. Hasan Dehghanpour. Placing history and culture at the forefront of their designs, their office foregrounds the relationship between architecture and humanity. In this way, they seek to provide architectural solutions that not only anticipate the needs of future generations, but also ingeniously propose socially-focused ways for culture to evolve. Their projects range from single-family houses to residential, commercial and mixed-use large-scale complexes, to urban master plans.

Safdie Architects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Mixed Use

Sanzpont [arquitectura]

Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt – Multi-Unit Housing (S Shanghai PTArchitects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Landscape

Shanghai United Design Group Co., Ltd.

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Religious Buildings & Memorials

SHAPE Architecture

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Light

Sharon Tzarfati Photography

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Photography & Video

Shoayb Khattab

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Photography & Video

Sinas Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Stone

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Transportation Infrastructure

Smart Design Studio

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Office Interiors (smartvoll

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Government & Civic Buildings

Steyn Studio

Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Restaurants (L >1000 sq ft)

Stinessen Arkitektur

Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Glass

Studio 10

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Religious Buildings & Memorials

Studio Egret West

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Coworking Space

Featured Firm: Studio Gang


One Hundred by Studio Gang, St. Louis, Missouri | Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – High Rise (16+ Floors)

Studio Gang

Jury Winner & Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Gyms & Recreation Centers

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Multi Unit Housing – High Rise (16+ Floors)

Studio Gang has produced some of the most striking architecture in America over the past decade. When it comes to innovative textural façades that add movement — even rhythm —to the urban environment, Studio Gang truly is a leader in the field. Projects such as One Hundred, Solar Carve and Aqua Tower have pushed the bounds of the skyscraper typology by rethinking the role of sunlight in façade design, tower siting and massing. Ever the versatile firm, the adaptive reuse of a former coal plant for Beloit College Powerhouse and and the geological massing of the Richard Gilder Center at New York’s Museum of Natural History further underline the eminence of this Chicago-headquartered practice.

Studio Link-Arc

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Ceilings

Studio Zhu Pei

Project of the Year, 2021 A+Awards

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Museum

Suh Architects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Branding

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Façades

SUP Atelier of THAD

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +New Materials

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Low Cost Design

Tadao Ando Architect and Associates

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Museum

Takeru Shoji Architects.Co.,Ltd.

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (S 1000-2000 sq ft)

Teeple Architects Inc.

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Higher Education & Research Facilities

The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Stadium & Arena

The Design Institute Of Landscape & Architecture China Academy Of Art CO.,LTD

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Libraries

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Residential Interiors (>3000 sq ft)

The Miller Hull Partnership

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (M 2000-4000 sq ft)

TROP: terrains + open space

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Urban and Masterplan

Tsimailo Lyashenko and Partners

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Unbuilt Transportation

Valentí Albareda Tiana

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Residential Interiors (Virkkunen & Co Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Brick

Featured Firm: VTN Architects (Vo Trong Nghia Architects)


Stepping Park House by Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | Project of the Year, 2021 A+Awards | Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Environment

VTN Architects (Vo Trong Nghia Architects)

Project of the Year, 2021 A+Awards

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Environment

With offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, VTN Architects (Vo Trong Nghia Architects) is a leading architectural practice that is based in Vietnam and known across the globe. Indeed, their team of more than 60 international architects, engineers and staff work together on cultural, residential and commercial projects worldwide. Founded in 2006, VTN first gained international recognition for their innovative bamboo designs. Their more recent work evolves this approach by fusing a contemporary design vocabulary with a uniquely local sensibility — grounded in an urban-oriented mentality — to explore green and sustainable possibilities for the 21st century.

Weber Thompson

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Water

Will Gamble Architects

Popular Choice, 2021 A+Awards, Private House (M 2000-4000 sq ft)

Woods + Dangaran

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Residential Interiors (>3000 sq ft)

X+LIVING

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Retail

Zaha Hadid Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Hotels & Resorts

ZAV Architects

Jury Winner, 2021 A+Awards, Architecture +Color

To secure your position on next year’s A+List, make sure to enter the 10th Annual A+Awards before the Main Entry Deadline on December 17th, 2021:

Enter the 10th Annual A+Awards

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Qionghai Lake 17° General Hall Hotel // Beijing Puri Lighting Design Co.,LTD.


Project Status: BuiltYear: 2020Size: 1,000,000 +

Text description provided by the architects.

The original site was the former residence of Liu Xiangzhi, an official in the Qing Dynasty. It’s wooden and adopts column and tie construction, featured in tranquility and ancient charm. After a hundred years, it tells the history of the past in the halo and precipitation of time.The lighting design strives to create a subtle and restrained, yet prominent light environment.

© Beijing Puri Lighting Design Co.,LTD.

The lighting method of brightening the cavity in ​​the ancient house highlights the unique cavity decoration design in the building structure. The color temperature is colored by warm white light, which not only restores the color texture of the building itself, but also strengthens the modeling arc of the gable part of traditional Chinese architecture.At night, you can dream of the past and present, feeling the unique Chinese architectural charm of the cornices and white walls and deva.The lighting of the extension area continues the design of the overall light environment, focusing on the facade lighting.

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The combination of various lighting methods such as dots, lines and planes will show the architectural form vividly.The promenade part is different from the traditional one, and the linear lighting of the facade is mostly used to provide functional lighting for the moving lines, so that the traditional and elegant architecture also contains a bright modern temperament.Lying late at night I heard the storm, I dreamed of the armored horse and the ice-cold river.It was late at night, and there was gurgling rain outside the window.

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Lying on the bed, I heard wind and rain outside the window and began dreaming.In my dreams, I was the general-in-chief in the armor, striding across the frozen river to fight in the battlefield.When I woke up again, the light is soft and warm, I could not help but sigh the universe, and cherish the plain warmth.The extraordinariness is showed in the ordinary thing, and ancient rhyme and modernity are combined perfectly.

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Headquarters of the general-in-chief allows you to have a dreamlike experience..

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