Shigeru Ban
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has made headlines twice in the last year for his designs for disaster-relief housing.
Duggan Morris Architects
David Adjaye
David Adjaye has had a lot to shout about in the last year. With a host of new projects, competition wins and building completions, the London-based architect emerged as a genuine global superstar.
Junya Ishigami
Jean Nouvel
French architect Jean Nouvel spent a lot of time in the news at the start of 2015, after he publicly disowned his Philharmonie de Paris. He seemed to be keeping a low profile after that, which could be the reason he ranked further down the Hot List than we might expect.
Mies van der Rohe
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
Henning Larsen
6a Architects
Ma Yansong/MAD
MAD Architects made headlines this year with its sinuous Harbin Opera House in China, which was captured in a dramatically snowy set of images by the photographer Iwaan Ban.
Budi Pradono
Oscar Niemeyer
Alvar Aalto
Steven Holl
Last year American Steven Holl was finally given planning permission for a pair of skyscrapers linked by a vertiginous cycle path in Copenhagen.
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
Ben van Berkel/UNStudio
Amsterdam firm UNStudio made news this year when it completed a two decade-long project to design a new station for the Dutch city Arnhem.
3XN
Bernard Tschumi
Lipton Plant Architects
Hopkins Architects
Vo Trong Nghia
Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia is fast establishing himself as one of the leading global players.
Tato Architects
Snøhetta
It was a busy year for Snøhetta, the Oslo and New York-based firm led by architects Craig Dykers and Kjetil Trædal Thorsen. They completed one of their most important projects to date, a major extension to the Mario Botta-designed San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), which more than tripled its