Lacaton & Vassal
MVRDV
Dutch studio MVRDV would have been placed highly in our Hot List under any circumstances – but its high ranking this year is due to the extraordinary popularity of its recent Chanel store facade in Amsterdam, which is made of glass bricks.
Bjarke Ingels
This was the year that young Danish architect Bjarke Ingels became a critically acclaimed international superstar. Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people and published a citation by his former boss Rem Koolhaas, who described Ingels as "the embodiment of a fully fledged
West 8
TAKA Architects
Antoni Gaudí
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Henry Goss
Peter Cook
Odile Decq
Hassell
Nieto Sobejano
Zaha Hadid
Our first ever Dezeen Hot List is headed by an architect we lost this year. But the sad passing of Zaha Hadid was the most talked-about topic in architecture and design over the past 12 months and places the late architect at the top of our list.
Louis Kahn
The late, great Zaha Hadid heads our Architects Hot List
There were two huge stories in architecture this year: the death of Zaha Hadid (number one) and the rise of Bjarke Ingels (number two). The untimely passing of Hadid dominated architectural discourse but Ingels, who has only just turned 42, looks set to inherit her mantle as most talked-about architect
Studio Gang
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.
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Project Orange
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Populous
Neri&Hu
Richly textured interiors have become a staple product of Chinese-born, Harvard-educated couple Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, and last year was no different. Their Shanghai firm, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, completed a series of restaurant and shop fit-outs that readers couldn't get enough of.