Annually, Architizer publishes our annual anthology of the World’s Finest Structure — an enduringly common hardbound guide that showcases the highest buildings and structure corporations. With the expansive geographic, technical and aesthetic breadth of A+Awards winners, the duty of selecting a single undertaking to characterize all the assortment certain throughout the guide’s cowl could seem daunting.
So, this yr, for the primary time ever, Architizer took its core mission of democratizing design one step additional: We invited our neighborhood to vote on the quilt undertaking of our beloved guide.
Since then, we’ve been onerous at work making ready the manuscript for print. And now, because the 2024 version hits the press, we are able to lastly announce the winner of the week-long public voting marketing campaign that determined this yr’s cowl design.
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For the vote, we narrowed down the choice to 4 wonderful works that we consider embody the overarching spirit of excellent design showcased all through the guide:
The shortlisted initiatives within the operating for this yr’s cowl had been as follows:
- The Valley by MVRDV, Jury Winner within the Structure +Façades; picture by Ossip van Duivenbode
- Lookout Tower by Robert Gutowski Architects, Jury Winner within the Structure +Pleasure; picture by Tamás Bujnovszky
- Cloudscape of Haikou by MAD Architects, In style Alternative Winner within the Structure +Concrete; picture by ArchExist
- Orange County Museum of Artwork by Morphosis, Jury Winner within the Museum Class; picture by Mike Kelley
And now, drumroll for the winner…
The 2024 version of Architizer: World’s Finest Structure shall be fronted by ArchExist’s picture of the MAD Architect-designed library, Cloudscape of Haikou.
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Along with the famend studios whose work was thought of for the quilt, this yr’s winners embody many extra signature corporations, akin to Zaha Hadid Architects and CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati. Many smaller corporations and up-and-coming studios, akin to BE_Design, additionally supplied award-winning initiatives that captivated the illustrious jury and public alike. Now their work is printed internationally amongst a few of the greatest names within the business, foreshadowing the following era of impactful design.
Right here’s a sneak peak at a few of the pages from this yr’s extremely anticipated guide…
BEEAH Headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates | In style Alternative Winner, eleventh Annual A+Awards, Workplace – Low Rise (1 – 4 Flooring)
The Greenary by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, Parma, Italy | Jury Winner, eleventh Annual A+Awards, Personal Home – Massive
Komera Management Middle by BE_Design, Rwanda | eleventh Annual A+Awards Jury Winner in Structure +Neighborhood and Structure +For Good; Jury and In style Alternative Winner in Structure +Low Value Design; and In style Alternative Winner in Structure +Neighborhood Facilities
This numerous vary of A+Award-winning initiatives are honored throughout the hardbound covers of this illustrated compendium. Excitingly, there shall be an all-new part within the guide devoted to the A+Sustainability Awards winners, a brand new suite of A+Award classes devoted to initiatives that act as optimistic precedent for inexperienced constructing practices in particular areas and the broader world.
All in all, every year our gorgeous hardbound compendium of The World’s Finest Structure really lives as much as its title: it’s an atlas of really revolutionary modern designs discovered on all continents. We design our covers maintaining in thoughts that these lovely books are collection to be collected, so side-by-side, the spines will complement one another in your bookshelf. In the event you haven’t already, snap up the most recent limited-edition (which simply began transport!) earlier than it sells out, and preorder your advance copy of this upcoming subject, that includes MAD Architect’s Cloudscape of Haikou on it’s cowl.
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