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The sense of what constitutes good business has evolved in the
first five years of the Business Week/Architectural Record Awards
program. In that time, in the United States in particular, we've
seen the arrival and abrupt rightsizing of the New Economy. The
lasting result of the go-go economy with its irrational exuberance
has been a transformed American workplace: The influx of new dot-com
companies in the late 1990s ushered in a more democratic office
environment designed to foster creativity.
But good business is no longer relegated to the workplace. Today,
the art of economic enterprise can be expressed in many forms, including
a funky, transformable office, a pedestrian bridge, a chilled-water
plant, or even a Buddhist temple ossuary. Those diverse building
types were all winners in the fifth annual Business Week/Architectural
Record Awards program, showcasing the best examples of how good
design is good business.
—John E. Czarnecki,
Assoc. AIA
Below are introductions to this year's 11 winners and eight finalists.
More coverage can be found in the October 2001 issue of RECORD. The
coverage below includes expanded stories and key players listings
for the finalists, as well as links to people and products relating
to the winners. | 
