For ARCHITECT’s 2024 Architecture & Interiors Awards, the third year of our annual program, jurors spent hours reviewing nearly 200 submissions from firms around the world. The resulting class of 34 winners—11 Honor winners and 23 Merit winners—represents a diverse range of commercial architecture and interior design projects showcasing innovation and ingenuity in all its forms. From an office in Portland, Oregon, where our jurors imagined themselves working to an airport terminal in Bengaluru, India, that aims to make travel a joyful experience, see how our profession is beautifully reshaping our built environment.
Jury
Ben Crawford, principal and project leader at Omniplan, Dallas
John Frane, architect and design principal at HGA, Los Angeles
Brooke Horan, associate vice president and interior design director at HDR, New York
Moderated by Paul Makovsky
Architecture
HONOR
“There’s something sort of joyful and fantastical about it. I think it has an appeal to a lot of different people as you're passing through—it feels warm and welcoming and comfortable, bringing respite to the potentially stressful situation of travel.” –Juror Brooke Horan
Government and Civic Building
Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru – Terminal 2
Location: Bengaluru, India
Company/Firm: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
MERIT
“I thought it had a really nice kind of material story both in terms of the use of materials and texture and at some level also connecting the building via its site and the materiality of the site to place.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Government and Civic Building
US Consulate General | Hyderabad, India
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Company/Firm: Richard | Kennedy Architects
HONOR
“The restraint of the interventions allows for a welcome contrast between their individual geometric clarity and the rustic patina of the existing shell.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Adaptive Reuse/Historic Restoration
Arts & Letters Creative Co.
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Architect: ARCHITECTUREFIRM
MERIT
“Very LA that a great supporting actor like this oculus creates its own dramatic focus without upstaging the main attraction, Ed Stone’s iconic façade.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Adaptive Reuse/Historic Restoration
9720 Wilshire Blvd.
Location: Beverly Hills, California
Architect: Montalba Architects
HONOR
“I appreciate the way in which the roof is the oculus and then other areas where the roof is kind of pulling away and allowing a sliver of skylight in the edges.” –Juror Brooke Horan
Hospitality
Caymus-Suisun Winery
Location: Fairfield, California
Company/Firm: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
MERIT
“It operates in a kind of shed vernacular, a typology we've seen a lot, but it’s a nicely executed project.” –Juror John Frane
Hospitality (ie. hotels, resorts, and wineries)
Ghostline Kitchen
Location: Austin, Texas
Company/Firm: A Parallel Architecture
HONOR
“Simplicity and diagrammatic clarity are allied with a regimented yet formally rich approach to cladding.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Institutional
Health Sciences Education Building
Location: Seattle, Washington
Company/Firm: Miller Hull
MERIT
“I appreciate its subtle singularity, and the understanding of the site and relationships was nice.” –Juror John Frane
Institutional
York University's School of Continuing Studies
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Company/Firm: Perkins & Will
HONOR
“Rowing centers often rely on cliches around the movement of the boat or the movement of the oar or something like that, but I feel like this one is unabashedly about the site and the horizon of the water. And it’s that relationship and the precision and the detailing that's so critical in rowing that you see in the resolution of the building.” –Juror John Frane
Sports and Recreation
Neil Campbell Rowing Centre
Location: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Company/Firm: MJMA
MERIT
“Personally, I loved the execution and the beautiful details, and that they pushed through a really strong singular idea.” –Juror John Frane
Sports and Recreation
Centre de glaces Intact Assurance
Location: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Company/Firm: Lemay
MERIT
“I felt that the YMCA was a beautiful, elegant solution to an underserved neighborhood. And it’s almost elevated to a civic building like a library or a museum.” –Juror Brooke Horan
Sports and Recreation
Northeast Bronx YMCA
Location: Bronx, New York
Company/Firm: Marvel Architects, Landscape Architects, Urban Designers PLLC
MERIT
“The bucolic setting is deftly arranged to create a metaphorical stage for the theatrical architecture.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Cultural Building
Théâtre de Verdure
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Company/Firm: Lemay
MERIT
“I thought this was a smart little building. In some simple ways, they made a big statement.” –Juror John Frane
Cultural Building
Mattie Rhodes Cultural Center
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Company/firm: El Dorado
MERIT
“They’re doing their own thing here and creating something that’s singularly unique.” –Juror John Frane
Offices
Northstar Dermatology
Location: North Richland Hills, Texas US
Company/Firm: An-onymous
MERIT
“I liked the way it embraced context, and then to bring in the activity that’s going to invite the neighborhood into the interaction with the architecture. That was interesting.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Landscape Architecture
Hood Park Bike Pavilion
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Company/Firm: Elkus Manfredi Architects
MERIT
“What it's bringing to the urban environment … I was kind of like, wow, they’re getting away with this, and that’s pretty impressive. And the brick exterior skin, personally I loved it.” –Juror John Frane
Mixed Use
Die Macherei
Location: Munich, Germany
Company/Firm: HWKN Architecture
MERIT
“I looked at the canopies in the front and the way they were kind of enlivening that façade. I thought there was a bravery in the whole team, from the owner to the architect, to try to elevate what could have been a pretty uneventful.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Mixed Use
Promenade
Location: Houston, Texas
Company/Firm: MODU
MERIT
“It’s a really nice office interior, and it feels like a good neighbor in the neighborhood. I also liked that they preserved the continuity of the streetscape and the existing building, and the contrast of all the exposed concrete with some of the more refined woodwork elements.” –Juror Brooke Horan
Office Building
311 Third Transformation
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Company/Firm: Lake|Flato Architects
Interiors
HONOR
“It honored the original design and showed a lot of restraint. Looking at the original building, this vastly improves it in terms of lighting, visibility, openness, and navigation.” –Juror Brooke Horan
Civic and Cultural Interior
Weldon Library Revitalization Phase One
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Company/Firm: Perkins & Will
MERIT
“A visually stimulating assemblage of forms in furnishings and materials challenge the conventional workplace expectations.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Office
Galaxy Digital
Location: New York, New York
Company/Firm: Young Projects
HONOR
“It’s five distinct yet interrelated companies that they're bringing in one roof, and I think it's somewhat of a feat that the resulting office has such a singular and cohesive vision.” –Juror Brooke Horan
Large Office Interior
Gateway22
Project Name:Gateway22
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Company/Firm: Snow Kreilich Architects
MERIT
“This was more about finding some new vocabularies. It’s definitely brave in terms of the way it's kind of stepping out from maybe some safer tropes.” –Juror John Frane
Large Office Interior (25,000 sq ft or more)
Huge @ Dock 72
Location: New York, New York
Company/Firm: Gensler
HONOR
“What I remember about this one is the involvement of the local architecture school in the design and fabrication of this, which I really appreciated—engaging the community. It was a strong submission.” –Juror Brooke Horan
Retail and Showroom
Blue Table Chocolates
Location: Buffalo, New York
Company/Firm: Arch&type
HONOR
“I wrote down that I want to work here. It’s an architecture firm, and we’re all very artifact heavy, and I thought they beautifully contained all of that in a really nice kit of parts. –Juror Brooke Horan
Small Office Interior
Studio@Volta
Location: Portland, Oregon
Company/Firm: Bora Architecture + Interiors
MERIT
“I liked the way they set it up, the clarity.” –Juror John Freen
Small Office Interior (less than 25,000 sq ft)
Design Studio Adaptive Reuse + Interior Buildout
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Company/Firm: DELV Design
MERIT
"I like the materials, the moves in terms of the integration of color, the bar. The fit and finish of this feels exquisite without feeling overly opulent." –Juror Ben Crawford
Hospitality Interior
Point Seven Restaurant
Location: New York, New York
Company/Firm: Studio Valerius
MERIT
“I couldn’t find a thing I did not like about it. It’s just a little coffee shop, but I thought everything was simple and restrained yet well detailed.” –Juror Brooke Horan
Hospitality Interior
Jubala
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Company/Firm: in situ studio
MERIT
“The project makes good use of limited means to enhance the clinical environment with a warm material palette and impactful detailing.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Leisure, Health and Wellness Interior
Community of Hope Family Health & Birth Center
Location: Washington, D.C., US
Company/Firm: Gensler
MERIT
“We applaud this transformation of an aging retail center to a light filled modernist vision of a modern healthcare environment.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Leisure, Health and Wellness Interior
UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird
Location: Dallas, Texas
Company/Firm: Perkins & WIll
MERIT
“It’s an elegantly designed lobby, and a lot of what is nice about it is the view into this garden kind of courtyard.” –Juror Brooke Horan
Lobby and Amenity Space
225 Wyman
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts
Company/Firm: Gensler
MERIT
“It had a consistency between the spaces, that kind of through line. And I liked the stairway—a little moment of whimsy in the project.” –Juror John Frane
Lobby and Amenity Space
The Landon
Location: New York, New York
Company/Firm: JG Neukomm Architecture
Special Entry
HONOR
Frank Oudeman
“A celebration of tectonics that introduces daylight to humanize the experience in what would otherwise have been a mundane stairwell.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Specialty Entry: FIXTURE Award for Lighting Within Staircase
HLW Confidential Staircase Project
Location: New York, New York
Company/Firm: HLW and Loisos + Ubbelohde
HONOR FOR DESIGN FOR IMPACT
“We applaud this project’s mission to help improve healthcare outcomes by providing a thoughtfully designed setting.” –Juror Ben Crawford
Community of Hope Family Health & Birth Center
Location: Washington, D.C., US
Company/Firm: Gensler
MERIT - DESIGN FOR IMPACT
“I was really struck by the intentionality of how they sourced and fabricated the materials, which is interesting in terms of its sustainability model.” –Juror John Frane
Isooko Community Development Center
Location: Masoro Sector, Rulindo District, Rwanda
Company/Firm: General Architecture Collaborative
Read more: Interested in seeing more excellence in commercial architecture and interior design? Take a peek at our 2023 Winners.
