Announcing the winners of our 2023 Best of Practice Awards

“I’m drawn to WRNS Studio due to the number of the portfolio. The workplace expresses its values. Like this concept of open-source structure: Who talks about that? Structure is so protecting of information, so the truth that they’re addressing that is fascinating; it could be an instigation for one thing else.”—Paola Aguirre

“Architects are inclined to take themselves for policymakers, however we’re extra like items of the coverage puzzle. Utile’s work showcases an understanding of how architects, designers, and planners can affect coverage.”—Andrew Bernheimer

“Working for a spread of purchasers, Valerio Dewalt Practice infuses its work with a way of restrained exploration. From its 4 places of work, the agency begins with analysis to generate designs that succeed for its purchasers even beneath tight circumstances”—Jack Murphy

“EskewDumezRipple is a well-established workplace that reinvented itself after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Charged with a duty to serve most people, the follow works towards equitable futures. The fabric outcomes of those good intentions are good-looking, well-done buildings.”—Jack Murphy

“EHDD Structure is compelling partially due to the agency’s longevity and energy of the work. They’ve weathered lots of ups and downs and adjustments over time and have maintained constant venture outcomes.”—Robert Hale

“MJMA focuses on neighborhood and campus leisure and leisure buildings and invigorates them with a way of civic satisfaction. The buildings are simple and are animated by their lively use. I additionally admire MJMA’s interdisciplinary method.”—Jack Murphy

“AW-ARCH’s work is very artistic throughout many scales. The follow began out doing small-scale work, and as companies get greater and do bigger work, it’s generally exhausting to maintain that type of consideration to element. AW-ARCH definitely has.”—Tom S. Chung

“I admire a powerful agency in Mississippi, because it’s not a simple place to do public structure. The eye to the way in which that these public initiatives are rendered—and the dedication to being in Mississippi—is necessary. Generally there’s a means of exhibiting under-resourced communities that feels a bit predatory, however I by no means felt that means from these photos. It actually seems like a celebration of those areas.”—Jess Myers

“Dake Wells’s work is outstanding. Seeing the sort of work can be nice anyplace, however to witness it within the space round Springfield, Missouri—the place it may be tough to understand good work and there are few friends that push one another—is exclusive.”—Tom S. Chung

“Koning Eizenberg Structure has been in follow for over 40 years and have grown their agency in a very constant means. They use structure as a means of bringing neighborhood collectively, and that has been constant all through their entire follow. Plus, the work is gorgeous.”—Robert Hale

“I like their work and the way they span each academia and follow. As their follow grows greater, and greater, the standard of the work and investigations that they’re doing are, once more, admirable. Even with a small measurement, it’s good to see them successful huge initiatives and being rigorous and investigative.”—Tom S. Chung

“In situ studio’s constructed work is engaging, however I used to be excited to be taught in regards to the agency’s mentorship program, instructional efforts, and programming which brings dialogue about structure to Raleigh, North Carolina.”—Jack Murphy

“The workplace has an angle that seems to worth engagement with the realities of follow, from correct fee of staff to shopper satisfaction. It helps that their work backs up the thought, because it transforms what might be mundane locales into thought-about websites for Midwestern life.”—Jack Murphy

“Dialogue of Indigenous points has been foregrounded just lately. Quite a lot of initiatives I’ve labored on within the Northeast, like universities and civic initiatives, are going again and taking a look at land possession. This agency’s work feels very current. It’s admirable to begin a follow with an moral perspective.”—Mikyoung Kim

“Susan Jones’s management surrounding mass timber in Seattle is outstanding. Her work to introduce the know-how into the ICC constructing code set the stage for the rising recognition of this structural system at present. It is a main accomplishment!”—Jack Murphy

“The workplace focuses on “adaptive reuse” however advances the time period in artistic methods, setting the stage for conversations in constructed type that happen in time; buildings which can be financially accessible and have an “everydayness” to them; and shared notions of authorship.”—Jack Murphy

“Reed Hilderbrand Panorama Architects has constructed a physique of labor that’s spectacular and numerous. They do work outdoors the area, however they’ve an actual heritage in New England. They work at totally different scales, and their work has an actual magnificence to it.”—Mikyoung Kim

“Houston is a difficult panorama as it’s so liable to flooding, and infrequently public areas are flanked by business pursuits. It’s good to see how Design Workshop realized an expansive area right here.”—Jess Myers

“Walter Hood has had an ethos to his follow from the very starting. From the start he was on the bottom doing work in Oakland, California, and he’s continued to do this as his work of main a cultural follow has expanded.”—Mikyoung Kim

“You see L’Observatoire Worldwide’s work on a regular basis with out realizing it. The workplace, led by Hervé Descottes, joins main architects all over the world to assist high-profile design efforts. The spectacular outcomes communicate for themselves.”—Jack Murphy

“Vibe is every part. For over 25 years, Sean O’Connor Lighting’s work has illuminated (or darkened) memorable environments all over the world. The workplace is numerous in its employees and experience and is a frontrunner within the lighting neighborhood”—Jack Murphy

“DeSimone’s work shines in Eagle + West as a result of the construction isn’t hidden there. It takes structural engineer to make that upside-down pyramid construction work. I like to acknowledge construction engineers who’ve a powerful design sensibility to be expressive in a means that’s congruent with the architectural idea, and I believe this workplace is a profitable instance.”—Tom S. Chung

“Studio NYL has offered their experience to many recognizable initiatives, together with Studio Gang’s Populus lodge in Denver and NADAAA’s Website 4 tower for MIT. It really works with sustainability in thoughts however not on the expense of design excellence.”—Jack Murphy