I think 2006 was really the year skyscrapers became the driving force of BIG (if not necessarily good) architecture, from Beijing to Edinburgh Skyscrapers are being proposed and realised in ever more iconic fashion, and I don’t see much changing this year either. AR has a nice awards page for emerging architecture in 2006, which includes the sea bath by White Arkitekter near Copenhagen (see photograph above by Ã…keson Lindman) . It also includes the mafoombey acoustic space which I saw at Habitaire2005. At Building Design they have compiled a list of last years biggest 100 architectural practices. The top ten are;
- Nikken Sekkei
- Gensler
- HOK
- Aedas
- SOM
- BDP International
- Perkins & Will
- Foster & Partners
- RTKL Associates
- HKS Inc.
Evata is ranked as the biggest in Finland and one to watch to perhaps get into the top 100 another year.