Studio Mumbai
Grimshaw
Competition wins and ambitious proposals helped cement a top-100 Hot List ranking for Nicholas Grimshaw's London firm.
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Álvaro Siza
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza is a cult favourite among architects, so comfortably made our Hot List without being in the news a whole lot over the past year.
Project Orange
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Peter Cook
Hassell
Tigg Coll Architects
Isay Weinfeld
West 8
Bjarke Ingels
This was the year that young Danish architect Bjarke Ingels became a critically acclaimed international superstar. Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people and published a citation by his former boss Rem Koolhaas, who described Ingels as "the embodiment of a fully fledged
Haptic
London- and Oslo-based Haptic has been slowly establishing its reputation since launching in 2009, but there was one project in particular that raised its profile last year – a proposal for contemporary properties in a conservation area in London's Chelsea. It was a huge hit with Dezeen readers, partly due to the
Alejandro Aravena/Elemental
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena was relatively unknown until this year, when he achieved the double whammy of winning the Pritzker Prize and curating the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Henry Goss
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Odile Decq
Populous
Neri&Hu
Richly textured interiors have become a staple product of Chinese-born, Harvard-educated couple Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, and last year was no different. Their Shanghai firm, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, completed a series of restaurant and shop fit-outs that readers couldn't get enough of.
Nieto Sobejano
CEBRA
Toyo Ito
Japanese architect Toyo Ito is one of the world's most revered architects but he rarely allows his buildings to be published online, hence his relatively modest showing on our Hot List.
