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.
Corten steel
Corten steel is the only trademarked material to make it into the top 100 of our Hot List. A perennial favourite thanks to its rusty patina, Corten is a form of weathering steel.
Olafur Eliasson
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's large-scale installations that explore light, perception and environmental issues are always firm favourites with Dezeen readers.
Tate
London's Tate Modern – one of the city's most important cultural attractions – is Britain's national gallery of international modern art. The institution forms part of the Tate group, which itself is made up of three other galleries across the UK.
Venice Biennale
This year's Venice Architecture Biennale opened in June, just before the cut-off point for Hot List data. The fact that it still makes it to number three in our events category shows just how popular it is.
It seems Instagram's ability to show the world sneak-peaks of high-profile buildings under construction has earned it a place in our Hot List.
Royal College of Art
London's Royal College of Art is our highest-ranking education establishment.
Oki Sato/Nendo
It's a surprise to find only one designer in the top 20 of our Hot List. We always knew that architecture was more popular with readers than design, but we didn't realise by quite how much. It's less of a surprise to find Nendo, the Japanese studio headed by
Omnipresent Google pops up all over Dezeen in a variety of guises: as a pioneer of self-driving cars; as a creator of virtual-reality painting software; as a rebranded company with a new logo.
Tigg Coll Architects
CEBRA
Design Academy Eindhoven
Design Academy Eindhoven comes in at number three in our schools list, largely due to the popularity of projects presented at Milan Design Week and Dutch Design Week, which is held each year in Eindhoven to coincide with the school's graduation show.
Audi
Number 82 in our Hot List is Audi – the German car brand that has fended off competition from upstarts like Tesla and Apple, created a 3D-printed fashion collection and marked itself as one of the megabrands that stole the spotlight at this year's Milan design week.
Peter Cook
Project Orange
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Christo
Dezeen readers were full of praise for Bulgarian artist Christo's saffron-coloured floating pathways completed earlier this year, which connected the shore of Italy's Lake Iseo to islands at its centre.
Nike
Sportswear brand Nike fails to qualify for our Dezeen Hot List top 20 by a whisker. With this being an Olympic year, the brand was particularly active, unveiling a raft of new high-performance products at a lavish ceremony in New York in the spring and following this up
Hassell
Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst – whose best-known artworks include pickled animals and jewelled skulls – is the final artist on this year's Hot List, thanks to the completion of his Newport Street Gallery in late 2015.
Nieto Sobejano
Konstantin Grcic
German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic completes our overall top 100 and comes in at 14 in our design list. A total of 48 different stories about the Munich-based designer were visited by our readers over the year, but the most popular by far was the one featuring the minimal
Uber
After launching in 2009 as a black car service for 100 friends in San Francisco, Uber has transformed the taxi industry and is 94 in our Hot List. It hit the headlines this year after announcing that it is testing driverless car technology and prompting a wider debate about the future of transportation in cities.