Products incorporating sensors and connected systems, as well as those that benefit from engineering breakthroughs and that are produced via digital technologies, dominated Architectural Record's Products of the Year competition. Foreseeing this trend, we have added a ninth category—Hardware, Software & Control Systems—to the annual contest. We also ensured that the jury of architects, lighting designers, and interiors experts had extensive knowledge of engineering and production methods. Each of the six jurors rated this year’s 425 entries according to usefulness, aesthetics, and degree of innovation. Click on the below links to see the winners and their flashes of genius.
Record Products 2016
Read about the results of this year's competition, and meet the jury of architects, lighting designers, and interiors experts who selected the winners.
Taylor Aikin, AIA
As senior project architect and associate at Murphy Burnham & Buttrick, Aikin leads the firm’s efforts in design, presentation graphics, and digital technologies. His many awards include Honors for Excellence in Design from his alma mater, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
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Meena Krenek, IIDA, LEED AP
Krenek is the interior design director of Perkins + Will’s New York office, where she specializes in using visual storytelling—including text, graphics, and experiential design—to strengthen a sense of place. She is also the winner of three ASID Annual Design Excellence Awards from the Georgia Chapter.
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Carrie Bobo
A project architect at Selldorf Architects, Bobo has served as an architectural designer and manager at A+I Design, Walsh and Purdy, and Eight, Inc. The Oklahoma native, who received an MFA from the New York Academy of Art, also is an accomplished figurative painter whose work has been exhibited around New York City.
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Enrique Peiniger, Assoc. AIA, CLD, IES
Peiniger is an engineer, architect, and founding principal of OVI (Office for Visual Interaction), a New York–based firm specializing in lighting design for architecture. Projects include Zaha Hadid’s 520 West 28th Street residential building in New York and the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
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Barry Richards
Richards is a principal and studio leader at Rockwell Group, where he focuses on products, productions, and playgrounds. A trained architect, he oversees the firm’s furniture, lighting, and textile collections. He also creates stage sets, including those for the 81st Annual Academy Awards and the Broadway version of Hairspray.
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Melissa Goren, PE, LC, LEED AP BD+C
A licensed professional engineer, Goren has over 15 years’ experience creating lighting designs for research, corporate, and health-care facilities including the NYU Langone Medical Center’s Emergency Department and Columbia University’s Butler Library. She serves as the studio manager for LightBox Studios.
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