RIBA

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body that celebrates the best architecture in the UK and across the world. The London-based organisation presents a number of awards annually, including the prestigious Stirling Prize and RIBA's highest honour: the Royal Gold Medal for architecture.

Norman Foster/Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners, headed by Norman Foster, is one of the most prolific architecture offices that we write about, with readers visiting 178 stories about the firm over the past year. Among architects, only Zaha Hadid topped this, with 249.

Daniel Libeskind

Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind is particularly known for buildings that memorialise tragedies, including the haunting Jewish Museum in Berlin and recent commissions for holocaust museums in Ohio and Ottawa, and a museum of Kurdish culture in Iraq.

Assemble

Architecture collective Assemble made history last year when it became the first non-artist to win the Turner Prize. This led to a huge surge of interest in the previously somewhat obscure London-based group, which has made it into the top 50 of our inaugural Hot List.

Bernardo Bader

TDO Architecture

MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City. It is famed for its thought-provoking exhibitions, architecture and design galleries, and PS1 Young Architects Program – the US equivalent to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – which commissions a different architect to

Musée du Louvre

Paris's Musée du Louvre, home to the iconic Louvre Pyramid by Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei, is the world's largest art museum.

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Fondazione Prada

Fondazione Prada was established by the Italian fashion house Prada in 1993 as a cultural organisation dedicated to art, cinema and philosophy.

Ben van Berkel/UNStudio

Amsterdam firm UNStudio made news this year when it completed a two decade-long project to design a new station for the Dutch city Arnhem.

Caruso St John

The London-based studio made headlines this year when it designed a new gallery for the British YBA artist Damien Hirst, captured in a set of images by legendary architectural photographer Hélène Binet.

Shigeru Ban

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has made headlines twice in the last year for his designs for disaster-relief housing.

Steven Holl

Last year American Steven Holl was finally given planning permission for a pair of skyscrapers linked by a vertiginous cycle path in Copenhagen.

SelgasCano

Imogen Heap

In 2014 we shot a movie with musician Imogen Heap which went on to be our most popular video ever. So it's no surprise she's made it into our Hot List.

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Chemical Brothers

We've only ever written one story about The Chemical Brothers, but it's enough to have snuck them into our Hot List.

Passivhaus

Mies van der Rohe

Rafael Viñoly

This year Rafael Viñoly Architects was primarily in spotlight for building-related debacles.

Naoto Fukasawa

This year Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa teamed up with Muji to create a range of hugely popular minimal kitchen appliances and homeware products. He also ventured into architecture to design a prefabricated cabin for the Japanese brand, alongside designers Konstantin Grcic and Jasper Morrison.

Charles and Ray Eames

Marcel Wanders

Maggie’s Centres

Maggie's is a charity that provides support to people with cancer and their families. The organisation has worked with some of the world's most famous names in architecture, including Norman Foster, Snøhetta and OMA to establish Maggie's Centres throughout the UK.