Spanish Architects Select 22 Best Works of American Architecture

Summary: The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design presents the 22 projects selected by a jury of Spanish architects and architecture journalists as the best new American architecture today. The museum’s annual “American Architecture Awards” program draws “significant world attention to new buildings and urban planning projects being built and designed globally by the best and most prestigious international architecture offices and design firms.” The awards program was open to all international architecture offices and U.S. firms with projects outside the U.S., as well as international architecture firms building in the states.

The award recipients include corporate headquarters, skyscrapers, office buildings, art museums, health centers, libraries, landscaping projects, and residential buildings.

This year’s award recipients are:

7 World Trade Center, New York City, by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Al Rajhi Bank Headquarters, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, with Associate Architects Mohamed Harasani Architects

Architect/Painting Studio, Omaha, by arc-studio

Cira Centre, Philadelphia, by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, with Associate Architects Bower Lewis Thrower Architects

Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View, Calif., by Mark Cavagnero Associates

Cutler Montauk House, Montauk, N.Y., by Murdock Young Architects

The Daniel Arts Center, Simon's Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, Mass., by Ann Beha Architects, Inc.

De Young Museum, San Francisco, by Fong & Chan Architects, with Associate Architects Herzog & de Meuron

Eastern Market Rowhouse, Washington, D.C., by David Jameson Architect

Flint Riverquarium, Albany, Ga., by Antoine Predock Architect PC, with Associate Architects Robbins Bell Kreher Architects

Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, Calif., by Michael Maltzan Architecture

Keep off the Grass! Planar, Los Angeles, by Griffin Enright Architects

Gardner 1050 Project, West Hollywood, Calif., by Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects

Harvard University Science Center Expansion, Cambridge, Mass., by Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects

Hilal (Half Moon) Headquarters for the Organization of Islamic States, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by STRUERE

Houses of Five Dreams, Phoenix, by Jones Studio Inc.

Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge, by Eskew + Dumez + Ripple

Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections, Bronx, N.Y., by Mitchell | Giurgola Architects LLP, for the Department of Capital Projects

Streeter House, Deephaven, Minn., by Salmela Architect

State of California, Department of Health Services, Laboratory Expansion Phase III Office Building, Richmond, Calif., by STUDIOS Architecture

U.S. Courthouse, Fresno, Calif., by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects + Planners, with Executive Architects Gruen Associates.