Architects Hot List

Beijing- and Vienna-based firm Penda has earned plenty of Dezeen column inches since launching in 2013, thanks to inventive concepts that encompass everything from modular structures to landscaped gardens.

HOK

Make

Pitsou Kedem

The highest ranking Israeli architect on the Hot List is Tel Aviv-based Pitsou Kedem, whose Modernist-inspired homes and apartments are perennial favourites of Dezeen readers.

Rafael Moneo

Philip Johnson

Tatiana Bilbao

Aedas

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Hawkins\Brown Architects

Lund Hagem

Carmody Groarke

Moon Hoon

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Gensler

Gensler is the world's largest architectural firm, with projects on every continent, although its biggest news of the last year came from Asia and North America.

MIMA Housing

Vector Architects

OBBA

Ström Architects

David Kohn

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

The last 12 months have been especially fruitful for architectural powerhouse Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The New York City firm unveiled one of its highest-profile projects to date – the highly photogenic Broad Museum, which heralded the start of an architecture boom in Los Angeles.