Dezeen's editorial team has picked their favorite building out of the more than 1,000 the publication has featured over the year.
University Children's Hospital Kinderspital in Zurich. by Herzog & de Meuron projects nature into the healthcare built environment.
Kunstsilo is a converted grain silo in Norway, renovated to house the world's largest private collection of modern art from the Nordic region.
Cross Cabin, in the US, is a sustainable home with a cork exterior and mass-timber structural elements.
The Brighton College performing arts centre in the UK embodies the phrase 'form follows function'.
Living in Lime is respectful of its surroundings, generous in layout and sparing in its use of concrete.
The Grand Palais in France was restored by French studio Chatillon Architectes ahead of the Paris Olympics.
Zaishui Art Museum in China by Junya Ishigami allows visitors to walk on water with reflection on how to bring people closer to nature and the built environment.
The Shepherd arts centre in the US is part of the wider Little Village project, which encompasses a host of creative spaces.
Plato Contemporary Art Gallery by KWK Promes in Ostrava adapts an existing heritage-protected 19th-century brick building.