2025 NYCxDESIGN Awards: Project Finalists
Congratulations to the project finalists for this year's NYCxDESIGN Awards!
*Please note, categories may have been expanded, consolidated, changed or removed per editorial discretion.
| Category | Firm Name | Project Name |
| Bar/Lounge | Gensler | Delta One Lounge, Terminal 4, John F. Kennedy International Airport |
| Bar/Lounge | Goodrich NYC | So & So's |
| Bar/Lounge | K.A. Murphy Interiors | Gentleman's Lounge |
| Bar/Lounge | Ken Fulk and BarlisWedlick Architects | Klocke Estate |
| Bar/Lounge | Allied Works Architects and L'Observatoire International | Clemente Bar |
| Building Facade | Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners | 200 Montague Street |
| Building Facade | DXA Studio and Morali Architects | Hendrix House |
| Building Facade | Kohn Pedersen Fox | 64 University Place |
| Building Facade | Marvel | 29 Jay Street |
| Casual Dining | 44LLC | Kid |
| Casual Dining | Design Next Agency and QWA Studio | The Duo |
| Casual Dining | Office of Tangible Space | Brooklyn Museum Café |
| Casual Dining | Sarah Carpenter & Studio | WatchHouse |
| Civic/Institutional | Andrea Steele Architecture | L10 Arts and Cultural Center |
| Civic/Institutional | Fogarty Finger and Andrew Berman Architect | Rosenblatt Building, Inwood Library |
| Civic/Institutional | MBB Architects | New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Offices |
| Civic/Institutional | Studio Empathy and PRAXES | Korean Cultural Center New York Library |
| Commercial Lobby/Amenity Space | FXCollaborative | 3 Times Square |
| Commercial Lobby/Amenity Space | Marmol Radziner and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | Lever Club, Lever House |
| Commercial Lobby/Amenity Space | Rockwell Group | Le Jardin sur Madison |
| Commercial Lobby/Amenity Space | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | 9 West 57 Street |
| Commercial Lobby/Amenity Space | Studios Architecture | The Meeting Galleries, 10 Grand Central |
| Creative Office | Gensler and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | The Walt Disney Company New York City Headquarters |
| Creative Office | Kohn Pedersen Fox | KPF 7th Floor Studio |
| Creative Office | Spectorgroup | Fulwell Entertainment Headquarters |
| Creative Office | Ted Moudis Associates | Ted Moudis Associates |
| Creative Office | vonDalwig Architecture | DNA Model Management |
| Early Education | Architecture Research Office | Khalil Gibran International Academy and Elizabeth Jennings School for Bold Explorers, P.S. 456 |
| Early Education | GLUCK+ Architecture | WHIN Music Community Charter School |
| Early Education | Lea Architecture | Maker Space, Saint Ann's School |
| Exhibition/Installation | Black Artists + Designers Guild and Shaw Contract | "Going Home," Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial |
| Exhibition/Installation | Gluckman Tang Architects | Infinite Harmony: Year of the Snake, Oculus |
| Exhibition/Installation | SheltonMindel and Southern Guild | "No Bats, No Chocolate," Galerie56 |
| Exhibition/Installation | Studio Annabelle Schneider | Breathe with Me, Consulate General of Switzerland |
| Fine Dining | Islyn Studio | Brass |
| Fine Dining | Rockwell Group | La Tête d’Or |
| Fine Dining | Sarah Carpenter & Studio | Massara |
| Fine Dining | YODEZEEN | Cabaret Restaurant |
| Graphics + Branding | Gensler | DIFFA Brand Design |
| Graphics + Branding | Tamara McCarthy and 44LLC | Kid Pizza |
| Graphics + Branding | Whitney Museum of American Art | Whitney Biennial 2024 Campaign |
| Graphics + Branding | Whitney Museum of American Art | Edges of Ailey Campaign |
| Greater Good | Matiz Architecture & Design | Forest Hills Center, Queens Community House |
| Greater Good | Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio and Billion Oyster Project | Love Ever After |
| Greater Good | Street Lab | Oasis NYC |
| Greater Good | The Urban Conga | Sprout |
| Health + Wellness | Matiz Architecture & Design | Physical Therapy and Wellness Suite, New York City Ballet |
| Health + Wellness | Rockwell Group and Gruskin Group | Atria Institute |
| Health + Wellness | CannonDesign | Petrocelli Surgical Pavilion, North Shore University Hospital |
| Health + Wellness | NK Architects | Mount Sinai Doctors, 262 West 53rd Street |
| Health + Wellness | Perkins&Will and SLAM | Ambulatory Orthopedics Campus, University of Rochester Medical Center |
| Higher Education | CannonDesign | St. Vincent Health Sciences Center, St. John's University |
| Higher Education | HLW | McShane Campus Center, Fordham University |
| Higher Education | Verona Carpenter Architects | Prospect House, Princeton University |
| Hotel | Creme/Jun Aizaki Architecture & Design | Kimpton Hotel Theta |
| Hotel | Lubrano Ciavarra Architects and Hannes Peer Architecture | The Manner |
| Hotel | Post Company | The Rounds, Scribner's Lodge |
| Hotel | Rockwell Group | W New York, Union Square |
| Iconic Project | Peter Marino | The Lobster Club |
| Iconic Project | Slade Architecture | Flight Club |
| Iconic Project | Woods Bagot | Under/Over Kiosks |
| Kitchen + Bath | Altra Studio | Ceppo Powder Room |
| Kitchen + Bath | Ammor Architecture | Gramercy Park Kitchen |
| Kitchen + Bath | Shapeless Studio Architecture & Interiors | Cobble Hill Townhouse |
| Kitchen + Bath | Studio KC Interiors | Candlewood Lake House Primary Bath |
| Large Corporate Office | Architecture Plus Information | Macquarie Group Americas Headquarters |
| Large Corporate Office | Gensler | Morgan Stanley Westchester Campus |
| Large Corporate Office | HLW | Lord, Abbett & Co Headquarters |
| Large Corporate Office | M Moser Associates | HSBC Headquarters |
| Large Urban Living | David Frazier | Bank Street Apartment |
| Large Urban Living | Hendricks Churchill | Carnegie Hill Renovation |
| Large Urban Living | Lea Architecture | Greenpoint Townhouse |
| Medium Corporate Office | Gensler | AllianceBernstein |
| Medium Corporate Office | Gensler | Investment Firm |
| Medium Corporate Office | Studio Alliance | Robinson + Cole Hartford Headquarters |
| Medium Corporate Office | Studios Architecture | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan |
| Model Apartment | BHDM Design | The Maybury |
| Model Apartment | Interior Marketing Group | Billionaires' Row Home |
| Model Apartment | Interior Marketing Group | 130 William Penthouse |
| Multi-Unit Housing | Bjarke Ingels Group, Gabellini Sheppard, and Gilles & Boissier | One High Line |
| Multi-Unit Housing | Brent Buck Architects | Frame 122 |
| Multi-Unit Housing | Combined Architecture and Paris Forino | 85 Worth |
| Multi-Unit Housing | Morris Adjmi Architects and SCAPE Landscape Architecture | The Huron |
| Multi-Unit Housing | Think! Architecture and Design | Bridge Rockaway |
| NYC's Shining Moment | L'Observatoire International and Samoo Architects | Korean Cultural Center New York |
| NYC's Shining Moment | Rockwell Group | Grand Brasserie, Vanderbilt Hall |
| NYC's Shining Moment | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Gensler | The Walt Disney Company New York City Headquarters, Robert A. Iger Building |
| On The Boards | DXA Studio | 10 W 17th Street |
| On The Boards | Kohn Pedersen Fox | 520 Fifth Avenue |
| On The Boards | Krueck Sexton Partners | Silvio J. Mollo Federal Building |
| On The Boards | Meshberg Group | 290 Coles Street |
| On The Boards | The Up Studio | Concealed Cottage |
| Outdoor Space | 1100 Architect | Modular Comfort Station, NYC Parks Lopez Playground |
| Outdoor Space | AECOM LAUD NYC and Handel Architects | Sendero Verde |
| Outdoor Space | Field Operations and Studio Cadena | Domino Square |
| Outdoor Space | Rosales+ and Stantec | East Midtown Greenway and 54th Street Bridge |
| Residential Lobby/Amenity Space | BHDM Design | The Maybury |
| Residential Lobby/Amenity Space | Durukan Design | The Lightwell |
| Residential Lobby/Amenity Space | FXCollaborative | 3ELEVEN |
| Residential Lobby/Amenity Space | Gensler and BHDM Design | Pearl House |
| Retail | BHDM Design | Faherty Sun & Waves |
| Retail | Chipman Design Architecture | HOKA Midtown |
| Retail | JG Neukomm Architecture | Dyson Flagship SoHo |
| Retail | RDK Architect and Shed Design London | Commodity Fragrances Flagship |
| Showroom | Hachi Collections | Omakase Noodle Bar Shuya and Hachi Collections Furniture Showroom |
| Showroom | O'Neil Langan Architects | Hunter Douglas x Skyline Showroom, D&D Building |
| Showroom | West Chin Architects & Interior Designers | Porro x West Out East New York Flagship |
| Small Corporate Office | M Moser Associates | TIAA Headquarters |
| Small Corporate Office | MBB Architects | Success Academy Offices |
| Small Corporate Office | Studio Modh Architecture | Princeton University Facilities Finance and Administrative Services |
| Small Corporate Office | Unispace | Tikehau Capital |
| Small Urban Living | 1100 Architect | Central Park Pied-a-Terre |
| Small Urban Living | BOND Architecture | Valley Apartment |
| Small Urban Living | Elmo Studios | West Village Playhouse |
| Small Urban Living | Studio Melrose | Bespoke Pied-a-Terre |
| Suburban Living | BOND Architecture | Pines Beach Cabin |
| Suburban Living | Crina Architecture | Upstate Art House |
| Suburban Living | Noa Blake Design | Watchung Fork |
| Suburban Living Transformation | Ammor Architecture | Hamptons Residence |
| Suburban Living Transformation | Ghislaine Viñas | Lasher Cottage |
| Suburban Living Transformation | Neumann & Rudy Architecture | Modern Roots Farmhouse |
| Suburban Living Transformation | OAD Interiors | Woodstock House |
| Suburban Living Transformation | Smith Home Studios | A-Frame |
| Tech Office | Elmo Studios | Furniture.com NYC Headquarters |
| Tech Office | Gensler | IBM Flagship, One Madison Ave |
| Tech Office | Model Practice, Once Future, and TAD | TAD Staging Ground |
| Tech Office | Rapt Studio | Duolingo |
| Urban Living Transformation | BOND Architecture | Tribeca Loft |
| Urban Living Transformation | Pembrooke & Ives | Gold Coast Townhouse |
| Urban Living Transformation | SheltonMindel | Central Park Apartment |
| Urban Living Transformation | Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design | Carroll Street Townhouse |