Here are the winners of the 14th Annual San Francisco Design Festival Awards

The highly-anticipated San Francisco Design week has attracted architects, designers, and visitors from all over to celebrate design and design innovation. For the first time, the 14th edition of the festival was held virtually due to the pandemic. However, despite the change in venue, this allowed for more visitors from all over the world to experience the event. 

With this year's theme, "Intentional Distortions," architects, designers, and student participants submitted their best work to address the theme's brief. With 14 design categories ranging from Architecture to Urban Mobility, see this year's award recipients below.

Award Winners

• Architecture - Altruistic/Non-profit: The Gun Violence Memorial Project (Mass Design Group)
• Architecture - Commercial: House of Flowers (Walker Warner Architects)
• Architecture - Residential: Kua Bay Residence (Walker Warner Architects)
• Civic Design: Middle Ground ( Exploratorium)
• Communication Design: Cut and Paste - Preventing Visual Plagiarism (Nanyang Technological University)
• Communication Design (Student): Yuqiao Zheng (University of the Arts London)
• Audio/Voice: Human Headphones (Nonfiction)

• Interior Design - Restaurant/Hospitality: The Candler Hotel (Nicole Hollis)
• Interior Design - Residential: Presidio Heights (ECHE)
• Interior Design - Office/Commercial Space:  8VC (FENNIE+MEHL Architects)
• Travel and Hospitality: The Band by Virgin Voyages (Fjord and Mindtribe)

• Internet of Things: Drought Resilience Impact Platform - DRIP (University of Colorado Boulder)
• Future of Foods: Cuzen Matcha (World Matcha Inc)
• Audio/Voice: Human Headphones (Nonfiction)
• Urban Mobility: Canoo (Canoo)
• FinTech: Edelman Financial Engines - Rethinking traditional financial planning for a digital world (Blink UX)
• FashTech: Unspun's Infinite Garment Lifecycle (unspun)

• Virtual Tech: REAL Immersive System (Delve)
• Virtual Tech: Dan Marino Foundation - Virtual Interactive Training Agent (Very Big Things)
• Wild Card: Planet ZÜLO (Planet ZÜLO)

To learn more about the winning projects and honorable mentions click here.