With over 100,000 votes cast during the last three weeks, we are happy to present the winners of the 2022 ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards. This peer-based, crowdsourced architecture award showcases projects chosen by ArchDaily readers who filtered thousands of projects down to the 15 best works featured on ArchDaily in 2021.
As in previous years, the winners showcase a wide spectrum of different types of building, giving an insight into how diverse the profession has become in recent decades. High-profile practices take their place as ever, with winners such as MVRDV's Housing project in Bordeaux and Kengo Kuma's Casa Batllo's installation, showing that establishment firms are still able to make their mark, as in more traditional award systems. Alongside these are previously unsung heroes, such as PALMA and HANGHAR with their project, Types of Spaces. Among the winners, we also find Ca'n Terra House by ENSAMBLE STUDIO and Plaza of Kanagawa Institute of Technology by Junya Ishigami + Associates, extremely creative projects that today challenge their typologies.
But for all their many beautiful differences, the winners share a crucial element in common: they represent the values of our mission, to bring inspiration, knowledge, and tools to architects everywhere. Neither ArchDaily nor the Building of the Year Awards would be possible without the continued generosity of the firms that choose to publish their projects with ArchDaily every year, or without the engaged readers who take part in the voting process.
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Best Applied Products
New Interior for Casa Batlló Stairs & Atrium / Kengo Kuma & Associates
Commercial Architecture
Bridge Gallery / Atelier Lai
Cultural Architecture
Chapel of Sound / OPEN Architecture
Educational Architecture
Plaza of Kanagawa Institute of Technology / junya ishigami + associates
Healthcare Architecture
Villa M / Triptyque Architecture
Hospitality Architecture
50% Cloud Artists Lounge Restaurant / Luo Xu + CCD
Houses
Ca'n Terra House / ENSAMBLE STUDIO
Housing
Ilot Queyries Apartment Building / MVRDV
Industrial Architecture
(Re)forming Duichuan Tea Yards / O-office Architects
Interior Architecture
Second Home Holland Park / Selgascano
Offices
Law Firm Headquarters / BLOCO Arquitetos + Renata Dutra Arquitetura
Public & Landscape Architecture
Palacio Pereira / Cecilia Puga + Paula Velasco + Alberto Moletto
Religious Architecture
Niijima Gakuen Junior College Hall & Chapel / Tezuka Architects
Small Scale & Installations
Types of Spaces Installation at CONCÉNTRICO Festival / Palma + HANGHAR
Sports Architecture
Camp del Ferro Sports Center / AIA + Barceló Balanzó Arquitectes + Gustau Gili Galfetti
