A Year of Fascinating Architecture: Presenting the 2016 A+Award-Winners by Phaidon

Another successful awards season at Architizer has just ended, culminating in a festive celebration of the winners in all 113 categories — the night great architecture took the spotlight!

Partnering once again with Phaidon — the premier global publisher of the creative arts — Architizer has compiled all of the winning projects into a stunningly illustrated hardcover book. People all around the world have been preordering, and the compendium finally becomes available today! There is a limited number available, so we encourage you to order your copy fast.

Phaidon at the A+Awards gala; photo courtesy of Sam Deitch / BFA

High-quality images and detailed descriptions of the projects are carefully curated in this comprehensive volume, the second in the collection of A+ books produced by Phaidon. In the book, you will find a great range of projects spanning the many categories that exist within Architizer’s celebrated awards program, from the classic residential, commercial and institutional spaces to radical interpretations of concepts and details in architecture.

For example, the Biesbosch Museum Island by Studio Marco Vermeulenwas a jury winner in the Museum category, as well as a popular and jury winner in the Architecture + Landscape category:

Meanwhile, ZCB Bamboo Pavilion by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Architecture was both a popular winner in the Architecture + Engineering category and a jury winner in the Architecture + Wood category:

It is continuously fascinating to observe the artistic interpretations of material, construction techniques and style in projects of all sizes and by architecture firms of all backgrounds and experience levels. Phaidon’s 2016 A+Awards book is a selection of beautiful, smart and dedicated architecture handpicked by the A+Awards’ jury of over 300 experts and an incredible 400,000 public votes.