Navy Federal Credit Union
ASD
The Navy Federal Credit Union’s (NFCU) new call center in Suitland, Maryland, is the greenest building on the winners list this year.

Photo: © Maguire Photographic

Young Centre for the Performing Arts
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
This year’s awards recognize an exceptional amount of first-rate architecture rising in Toronto. Of the many contributions to the city’s cultural fabric, the intimate, low-budget Young Centre for the Performing Arts stands out.

Photo: © Tom Arban

United States Census Bureau Headquarters
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
With the U.S. Census Bureau having outgrown its aging 1942-vintage home in Suitland, Maryland, the General Services Administration commissioned Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) to design a new, 2.5-million-square-foot headquarters on an adjacent, 80-acre wooded site.

Photo: © Eduard Hueber / Arch Photo

InterActiveCorp Headquarters
Gehry Partners/STUDIOS Architecture
Frank Gehry’s first New York building, the highly anticipated InterActiveCorp (IAC) Headquarters, has been likened to the flowing pleats of a skirt, or the billowing sails of a ship floating along the Hudson River.

Photo: © Albert Vecerka / Esto

The Gardiner Museum
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Canada’s only museum devoted entirely to ceramics, the Gardiner Museum reopened in June 2006 after a 30-month renovation and expansion.

Photo: © Shai Gill

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
Diamond + Schmitt Architects
The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the new home of the Canadian Opera Company (COC), is Canada’s first purpose-built opera house.

Photo: © Tom Arban

SJ Berwin
HOK
SJ Berwin is a large, growing law firm with its headquarters in London and nine offices throughout Europe. After 25 years in business, the company outgrew its London offices.

Photo: © Peter Cook

San Diego Padres Ballpark/Petco Park
Antoine Predock Architect PC
Home to the San Diego Padres since April 2004, Petco Park has as its mission to be more than a ballpark—to serve as a large-scale city planning project.

Photo: © Timothy Hursley

Hubbell Lighting Headquarters
McMillan Smith & Partners
Only one building in this year’s collection is home to a design company. For lighting designer and manufacturer Hubbell, the first thought in planning a new corporate headquarters was lighting.

Photo: © Brian Dressler Photography

Hearst Tower
Foster + Partners/Gensler
Foster + Partners’ design for a stainless-steel-clad, diagrid structure has given the Hearst Corporation an iconic presence on the New York City skyline.

Photo: © Nigel Young