LEAF Awards 2016 Winners

John Hill

18. October 2016

THIS YEAR'S WINNING PROJECTS:

Mixed-Use Building of the Year
Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects, Pembury Circus, London, UK

Residential Building-Single Occupancy of the Year
First Winner:
Studio MK27, Ramp House, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Second Winner:
Faulkner Architects, Benvenuto House, Truckee, USA

Residential Building-Multiple Occupancy of the Year
David Chipperfield Architects, Xixi Wetland Estate, Hangzhou, China

International Interior Design Award
Claudio Silvestrin Architects, Cannon Lane House, London, UK

Commercial Building of the Year
5+1AA architectures with JPMorgan and Constructa Urban Systems, Marseilles Docks, Marseille, France

Hospitality Building of the Year
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Waldorf Astoria Beijing, Beijing, China

Refurbishment of the Year
Arch Studio, Tea House in Hutong, Beijing, China

Public Building of the Year
gpy arquitectos, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

Best Sustainable Development
Form4 Architecture, Hanover Page Mill, Palo Alto, USA

Future Building – Drawing Board of the Year
Gottlieb Paludan Architects, BIO4, Copenhagen, Denmark

Future Building – Under Construction of the Year
Henning Larsen Architects, Kiruna City Hall - The Crystal, Kiruna, Sweden

Urban Design of the Year
Perkins + Will, Qatar Research And Development Complex, Doha, Qatar

Best Façade Design and Engineering
Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd., Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL, London, UK

Developer and Development Project of the Year
Land Securities with Fletcher Priest Architects, One New Ludgate, London, UK

Lifetime Achievement Award 2016
Santiago Calatrava

Overall Winner
Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd.,
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL, London, UK

Best Facade and Overall Winner: Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd., Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL (All photos courtesy of LEAF Awards)

LEAF International has announced the winners of the 13th annual LEAF Awards, which "recognizes innovative architectural design projects and celebrates excellence in building design on an international basis."

At right is the list of winners, some of them highlighted with photographs below. Visit the LEAF Awards website for more information on the annual awards.

The jury for the 2015 awards was made up of Carlo Castelli (AECOM), Michael Clark (AEDAS RHWL), Alan Crawford (Crawford Partnership Architects), Afroditi Krassa (AfroditiKrassa), Firas Hnoosh (Perkins+Will), Lukasz Platkowski (Gensler), Michele Pasca di Magliano (Zaha Hadid Architects), Paolo Rossi (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), and Rysia Suchecka (NBBJ)