2026 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 |
| Building Facade | Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners | The Brook |
| Building Facade | Fogarty Finger | Union Channel |
| Building Facade | Handel Architects | 25 North Lex |
| Building Facade | SO-IL | 144 Vanderbilt |
| Exhibition/Installation | Büro Koray Duman | Future Schools, National Academy of Design, |
| Exhibition/Installation | Fitgi Saint-Louis and NYC DOT Art | Aunties, Lenox Avenue Median |
| Exhibition/Installation | Nivek Remas and Dream Hotels | Splash Pad, BDNY |
| Exhibition/Installation | SheltonMindel | All the World’s a Stage, Galerie56 |
| Graphics + Branding | brandx (HLW) | Confidential Consulting Client |
| Graphics + Branding | KPF | 1411 Broadway |
| Graphics + Branding | Paperwhite-Studio and Yakka Studio | Mister Cheeks |
| Graphics + Branding | Whitney Museum of of American Art Graphic Design Team | Amy Sherald Campaign |
| Graphics + Branding | Whitney Museum of of American Art Graphic Design Team | Sixties Surreal Campaign |
| Institutional | CannonDesign | Port Richmond Branch Library |
| Institutional | Adjaye Associates and Corgan | Studio Museum in Harlem |
| Institutional | Gensler | Science and User Support Center, Brookhaven National Lab |
| Institutional | ikon.5 architects | The Agora, Chamberlain Student Center, Rowan University |
| Institutional | Perkins Eastman | National Museum of Mathematics |
| Institutional | RKTB Architects and Lance Jay Brown, Architecture + Urban Design | Congregation Shaare Zedek |
| Greater Good | Magnusson Architecture and Planning | The Rise |
| Greater Good | Spectorgroup | The Program NYC |
| Greater Good | Street Lab and Equity Design | Riverdale Avenue Community School Schoolyard |
| Greater Good | The Urban Conga | Common Corner |
| Health + Wellness | Futurestudio | Othership |
| Health + Wellness | Gluck+ Architecture | Julian H. Robertson Jr. CitySquash Center |
| Health + Wellness | OOM Architecture | Biograph NY |
| Health + Wellness | Verona Carpenter Architects | Artistic Health and Wellness Center, School of American Ballet |
| Healthcare | CannonDesign | Open Door Family Medical Center |
| Healthcare | EwingCole | Deborah Heart & Lung Center, Olsen Family Patient Care Pavilion |
| Healthcare | Gensler | HSS Orthopedic Clinic |
| Bar/Lounge | Gensler | JetBlue BlueHouse, Terminal 5, John F Kennedy International Airport |
| Bar/Lounge | House Under Magic | Oddball |
| Bar/Lounge | Hyphen & Co. | Carberry |
| Restaurant | AvroKO | Lex Yard, Waldorf Astoria New York |
| Restaurant | Holland Harvey Architects | Farmer J Rockefeller |
| Restaurant | INC Architecture & Design | Papa San |
| Restaurant | Rockwell Group | Palladino's Steak & Seafood |
| Hotel Lobby and Public Space | Mazzarini & Co. and Nehmer | M Social New York Downtown |
| Hotel Lobby and Public Space | Suomi Design Works | Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson |
| Hotel Lobby and Public Space | The Gettys Group | Hilton New York Times Square |
| Small Corporate Office | Architecture Plus Information x Perkins&Will | Roivant Sciences |
| Small Corporate Office | Gabellini Sheppard Associates | International Development Company Headquarters |
| Small Corporate Office | Gensler | Circle 1WTC |
| Small Corporate Office | HuxHux Design | Smartflyer Headquarters |
| Small Corporate Office | Ted Moudis Associates | Confidential Financial Client |
| Medium Corporate Office | Gensler | Clifford Chance |
| Medium Corporate Office | LSM | Covington & Burling |
| Medium Corporate Office | Perkins&Will | Rokos Capital Management |
| Medium Corporate Office | Studios Architecture | Coinbase |
| Large Corporate Office | HOK | KPMG U.S. Headquarters |
| Large Corporate Office | M Moser Associates | Confidential Financial Headquarters |
| Large Corporate Office | Perkins&Will | Franklin Templeton |
| Large Corporate Office | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | JPMorganChase Headquarters Trading Floors |
| Commercial Lobby/Amenity Space | CookFox Architects and Terrain-NYC | Terminal Warehouse |
| Commercial Lobby/Amenity Space | Fogarty Finger | 6 Grand Central |
| Commercial Lobby/Amenity Space | Morris Adjmi Architects | 60 Broad |
| Commercial Lobby/Amenity Space | Spectorgroup | 535 Madison |
| Residential Lobby/Amenity Space | CetraRuddy | SoMA at 25 Water Street |
| Residential Lobby/Amenity Space | DXA Studio and Hill | West | Maison 78 |
| Residential Lobby/Amenity Space | Input | Westmark |
| Residential Lobby/Amenity Space | Span Architecture | Zeckendorf Towers |
| Multi-Unit Building | CetraRuddy | 200E20TH |
| Multi-Unit Building | Magnusson Architecture and Planning | YP Senior Residence |
| Multi-Unit Building | Perkins&Will | 74th Feil Family & Weill Family Residence Hall, Weill Cornell Medicine |
| Multi-Unit Building | Frida Escobedo Studio, Workstead, and DXA Studio | Bergen |
| Small Apartment | Aranda\Lasch | Garden Apartment |
| Small Apartment | Lang Architecture | East Village Apartment |
| Small Apartment | Nicholas Potts Studio and Studio Armando Aguirre | Rockefeller Apartments |
| Small Apartment | Workstead | Soho Residence |
| Large Apartment | Brent Buck Architects | SoHo Loft |
| Large Apartment | Crina Arghirescu Architecture | Central Park West |
| Large Apartment | Pembrooke & Ives | Upper East Side Apartment |
| Large Apartment | TM Architecture | Tribeca Residence |
| House | Brent Buck Architects | Millerton House |
| House | Büro Koray Duman | Multigenerational House |
| House | Desai Chia Architecture | Chatham Residence |
| House | Ghislaine Viñas and Stone Fox Architects | Copake Lake Home |
| House | Pliskin Architecture | Leonard Street Rowhouse |
| Residential Transformation | JG Neukomm Architecture and Studio Mellone | Trinity Townhouse |
| Residential Transformation | Leong Leong | Dutch Kills House |
| Residential Transformation | OAD Interiors | Brooklyn Townhouse |
| Residential Transformation | reBuild Workshop | Seashell House |
| Residential Transformation | Yun Architecture | Clinton Hill Townhouse |
| Kitchen + Bath | Bade Stageberg Cox Architecture | Lincoln Square Apartment |
| Kitchen + Bath | Elizabeth Steimberg Architects | Reservoir Views Apartment |
| Kitchen + Bath | Fuller/Overby Architecture | Irina Primary Bed & Bath Suite th |
| Kitchen + Bath | Office of Architecture | Quincy House |
| Staircase | Pliskin Architecture | Leonard Street Rowhouse |
| Staircase | SheltonMindel | Stairway to Heaven |
| Staircase | Yun Architecture | Clinton Hill Townhouse |
| Retail | GAMPworks | Trainer Court Flagship |
| Retail | Skylab Architecture | Arc'Teryx Fifth Avenue |
| Retail | Snøhetta | 113 Spring |
| Retail | Sugarhouse | Alice + Olivia Flagship Store |
| Showroom | Ann Bool Architecture + Design | Clé Townhouse |
| Showroom | Jader Almeida | JaderAlmeida |
| Showroom | Marmol Radziner | Nili Lotan |
| Showroom | Rockwell Group | Jono Pandolfi |
| Car Showroom | Marc Thorpe Design + Architecture | Shore Car Club |
| Car Showroom | Office of Tangible Space | Car Part Time |
| Car Showroom | Rivian Marketing & Brand Experiences Team | Rivian Concept Store |
| On the Boards | ODA | Malabar Residences |
| On the Boards | Schiller Projects | Roxbury Forest House |
| On the Boards | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | The New York Climate Exchange |
| On the Boards | Soluri Architecture | Infinity Early Childhood Development Center |
| NYC's Shining Moment | Architecture Research Office | The Green-House at Green-Wood, Green-Wood Cemetery |
| NYC's Shining Moment | Selldorf Architects and L'Observatoire International | The Frick Collection |
| NYC's Shining Moment | Susan T Rodriguez | Architecture • Design | Davis Center at the Harlem Meer |