Over 150 of the best buildings by American architects honored at the 2022 American Architecture Awards

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design has announced the overall winners of the American Architecture Awards 2022, with over 150 projects recognized. Described by its organizers as “the nation’s highest public award for new architecture and urban planning,” the list recognizes the best new architecture designed and constructed by American architects and by international architects with offices in the United States.

The winners, which range from SHoP’s Uber Headquarters in San Francisco to Multistudio’s Academic Excellence Center for Southeast Community College, were selected from a shortlist of over 400 projects.

“For 28 years, The American Architecture Awards have celebrated the best contemporary architecture and highlights the many ways buildings and spaces can improve lives,” noted Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, architecture critic and Museum President of The Chicago Athenaeum. “This year’s winning projects are also characterized as exuding urban generosity, a sense of dignity, and timelessness — the absolute paramount definition of Good Design.”

The winning projects are listed below, along with a selection of images. You can also compare this year’s winners to previous editions by following our ongoing coverage of the awards here.

COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS

• Ibanez Shaw Architecture LLC. - Chroma, Fort Worth, Texas

CORPORATE OFFICE BUILDINGS

• substance architecture - Treehuis, Marion County, Iowa 
• Pickard Chilton and Stantec with Sasaki - Akamai Technologies Global Headquarters, Cambridge, Massachusetts 
• SHoP Architects and Quezada Architecture - Uber Headquarters, San Francisco, California 
• Form4 Architecture - Corten Ribbon, Walnut Creek, California 
• LEVER Architecture and Studio O+A - Adidas North American Headquarters, Portland, Oregon 
• Tryba Architects - Tech Regional Headquarters Boulder, Colorado

CULTURE & MUSEUMS

• AUX Architecture - Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles, California 
• LMN Architects - Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington 
• Trahan Architects - The Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria – Arrival Garden and Moody Pavilions, Austin, Texas 
• Mark Cavagnero Associates - George and Judy Marcus Hall for the Creative Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 
• Studio Joseph - The Russel & Mary Wright Design Gallery, Garrison, New York 
• Diamond Schmitt Associates and Parkhill with MWM Architects, Inc. - Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, Lubbock, Texas 
• Centerbrook Architects and Planners and Murray Associates Architects - Gardner Theatre, Lancaster Country Day School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 
• archimania - Collage Dance, Memphis, Tennessee 
• DLR Group and Kasper Architects + Associates - Museum of Science and History (MOSH Genesis), Jacksonville, Florida 
• DLR Group and DWP - Vietnam Theatre of Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 
• Tres Birds - Art Preserve Sheboygan, Wisconsin

ENERGY/SUSTAINABILITY

• Leers Weinzapfel Associates - Harvard University District Energy Facility, Allston, Massachusetts 
• ZGF- California Air Resources Board, Southern California Headquarters Mary D. Nichols Campus, Riverside, California

GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS

• Richärd Kennedy Architects and HGA Architects & Engineers, Carte Arquitectos, and OLIN - Consulate General of the United States - Hermosillo, Mexico, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico 
• Snow Kreilich Architects and HGA Architects & Engineers with OLIN - Arthur J. Altmeyer Federal Modernization, Woodlawn, Maryland

HEALTHCARE/HOSPITALS

• Perkins Eastman Architects and Ennead Architects - The David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.

HIGH-RISES/SKYSCRAPERS

• Gensler - TK Elevator North America Complex, Atlanta, Georgia 
• Pickard Chilton and Kendall/Heaton Associates, Inc. - 600 Canal Place, Richmond, Virginia 
• Kohn Pedersen Fox PC. and Wong Tung Group of Companies (WT) and East China Architectural Design and Research Institute (ECADI) - Suzhou International Finance Square, Suzhou, China 
• Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) - 30 Van Ness, San Francisco, California 
• Goettsch Partners - Beijing Tongzhou Poly Metropolitan, Beijing, China 
• Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. - Heron, Tampa, Florida

HOTELS/HOSPITALITY

• BLUR Workshop - Soundwaves, Nashville, Tennessee 
• Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. and China Construction Design International - Park Hyatt Suzhou, Suzhou, China 
• Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (EYRC) and Cuningham and Martin Brudnizki Design Studio - Pendry West Hollywood Hotel and Residences, Los Angeles, California 
• 5G Studio Collaborative - Virgin Hotels Dallas, Dallas, Texas 
• Lake|Flato Architects - Hotel Magdalena, Austin, Texas 
• BLUR Workshop - Copper Basin, Atlanta, Georgia

INSTITUTIONAL

• ikon.5 architects - National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor, New York 
• Architecture Research Office - Dia Chelsea, New York, New York 
• El Dorado - Lone Oaks Farm Hunter Education Station, Middleton, Tennessee

LIBRARIES

• designLAB architects - Somerville West Branch Library, Somerville, Massachusetts 
• Adjaye Associates and HuntonBrady Architects - Winter Park Library & Events Center, Winter Park, Florida

MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING

• Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc. - Flor 401 Lofts, Los Angeles, California 
• SheltonMindel - Hudson River Think Tank, New York, New York 
• Studio E Architects - Washington Street Affordable Housing, La Quinta, California 
• Duvall Decker Architects - The Baddour Center Transitional Housing, Senatobia, Mississippi 
• Hutker Architects - Back River, Duxbury, Massachusetts 
• Smith Gee Studio - 83 Freight, Nashville, Tennessee 
• Griffin Enright Architects - Luxe Lake Villas, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

PRIVATE HOUSES

• Desai Chia Architecture PC. - Copake Lake House, Craryville, New York 
• Desai Chia Architecture PC. - Roxbury House, Roxbury, Connecticut 
• Desai Chia Architecture PC. and Flank Architecture - Spark Capital Mercer, New York, New York 
• Swatt | Miers Architects - Happy Valley House, Lafayette, California 
• Studio Dwell Inc. - House 1909, Chicago, Illinois 
• SheltonMindel - Flatiron Aerie, New York, New York 
• Edward Ogosta Architecture - Orbital House, Yucca Valley, California 
• Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect - Riggs, Washington, D.C. 
• Jonathan Levi Architect - River House, Westport, Massachusetts 
• Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect - Renovation 1662, Washington, D.C. 
• Woods + Dangaran - Desert Palisades, Palm Springs, California 
• XTEN Architecture - Strandhouse, Hermosa Beach, California 
• XTEN Architecture - aMahouse, Pacific Palisades, California 
• Lake|Flato Architects - Marfa Ranch, Marfa, Texas 
• Messana O’Rorke - Junegrass House, Jackson, Wyoming 
• Messana O’Rorke - Phoenix House, Phoenix, Arizona

PUBLIC SPACE

• Clayton Korte with Ten Eyck Landscape Architects and Mell Lawrence Architect - Kingsbury Commons at Pease Park, Austin, Texas 
• Surfacedesign Inc. and SHoP Architects - Pierpoint Lane, San Francisco, California

RESTAURANTS

• Olson Kundig and McKinney York Architects - Comedor, Austin, Texas

RESTORATION/RENOVATION

• Signal Architecture + Research - Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington
• Paul Murdoch Architects - Earvin Magic Johnson Park Event Center, Los Angeles, California 
• Shigeru Ban Architects - Cast Iron House New York, New York 
• Marvel - Battery Maritime Building - Casa Cipriani, New York, New York 
• BKSK Architects LLP. - 44 Union Square, New York, New York 
• Fentress Architects and Machado Silvetti - Denver Art Museum Martin Building Revitalization and Expansion, Denver, Colorado 
• Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (EYRC) - The Press Costa Mesa, California 
• Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. - 712 Fifth Avenue Lobby Renovation New York, New York 
• Woods + Dangaran - Clear Oak, Encino, California 
• Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture and Bauer Latoza Studio, Ltd. - Pullman National Monument Visitor Center, Chicago, Illinois 
• Elkus Manfredi Architects - Emerson College Little Building Reimaging, Boston, Massachusetts 
• Page & Turnbull - The Tioga Merced, California 
• BNIM Architects - Kirk Family YMCA, Kansas City, Missouri

SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES

• substance architecture with KieranTimberlake Associates LLP. - Student Innovation Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 
• Gould Evans (now Multistudio) and BVH Architecture - Academic Excellence Center Southeast Community College, Beatrice, Nebraska 
• ikon.5 architects and Liollio Architecture - School of Business | The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina 
• PBDW Architects - Cooke School and Institute, New York, New York 
• Behnisch Architekten - Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), Allston, Massachusetts 
• Jonathan Levi Architects - Dearborn STEM Middle/High School Boston, Massachusetts 
• Susan T Rodriguez | Architecture • Design PLLC. and Browning Day - Metz Bicentennial Carillon, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 
• Centerbrook Architects and Planners - 60 Main, Miss Porter’s School Farmington, Connecticut 
• Hastings Architecture, LLC. - Montgomery Bell Academy H. Frank Burkholder Wellness Center, Nashville, Tennessee 
• Centerbrook Architects - W2 House, New Haven, Connecticut 
• Lake|Flato Architects - Holdsworth Center, Austin, Texas 
• Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners with Tongji University Architectural Design and Research Institute (Group) Co. Ltd. and Zhongtian Group Design Institute (Group) Company Limited - Wenzhou Kean University Ge Hekai Hall Shanghai, China

SPORTS & LEISURE

• Gensler - Q2 Stadium, Austin, Texas 
• DLR Group and AISA Design - International Competition of Cultural & Sports Public Buildings Xiamen, Xiamen, China

TRANSPORTATION

• LMN Architects - Mukilteo Multimodal Ferry Terminal, Mukilteo, Washington

URBAN PLANNING/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

• Mikyoung Kim Design and Shepley Bulfinch Architects - Boston Children’s Hospital Healing Garden, Boston, Massachusetts 
• Surfacedesign Inc. - The Beach at Expedia Group, Seattle, Washington 
• W Architecture & Landscape Architecture and Hood Design Studio - The Riverline, Brooklyn, New York 
• Centerbrook Architects and Planners - Greenwich Waterfront Development Greenwich, Connecticut 
• Tryba Architects - Fox Park, Denver, Colorado 
• Gensler and Studio Outside - AT&T Discovery District, Dallas, Texas