It was a busy year for Snøhetta, the Oslo and New York-based firm led by architects Craig Dykers and Kjetil Trædal Thorsen. They completed one of their most important projects to date, a major extension to the Mario Botta-designed San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), which more than tripled its gallery space. More
French architect Jean Nouvel spent a lot of time in the news at the start of 2015, after he publicly disowned his Philharmonie de Paris. He seemed to be keeping a low profile after that, which could be the reason he ranked further down the Hot List than we might expect. More
David Adjaye has had a lot to shout about in the last year. With a host of new projects, competition wins and building completions, the London-based architect emerged as a genuine global superstar. More
Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind is particularly known for buildings that memorialise tragedies, including the haunting Jewish Museum in Berlin and recent commissions for holocaust museums in Ohio and Ottawa, and a museum of Kurdish culture in Iraq. More
Architecture collective Assemble made history last year when it became the first non-artist to win the Turner Prize. This led to a huge surge of interest in the previously somewhat obscure London-based group, which has made it into the top 50 of our inaugural Hot List. More
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has made headlines twice in the last year for his designs for disaster-relief housing. More
It's over half a century since Modernist icon Le Corbusier passed away, yet he is the 27th most popular architect on Dezeen. More
Last year American Steven Holl was finally given planning permission for a pair of skyscrapers linked by a vertiginous cycle path in Copenhagen. More
Amsterdam firm UNStudio made news this year when it completed a two decade-long project to design a new station for the Dutch city Arnhem. More
Richard Rogers is one of the living giants of architecture and, at 83, he shows few signs of slowing down, either in terms of the output of his studio or his willingness to speak up for a cause he believes in. More
The London-based studio made headlines this year when it designed a new gallery for the British YBA artist Damien Hirst, captured in a set of images by legendary architectural photographer Hélène Binet. More
MAD Architects made headlines this year with its sinuous Harbin Opera House in China, which was captured in a dramatically snowy set of images by the photographer Iwaan Ban. More
This year Rafael Viñoly Architects was primarily in spotlight for building-related debacles. More
The last 12 months have been especially fruitful for architectural powerhouse Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The New York City firm unveiled one of its highest-profile projects to date – the highly photogenic Broad Museum, which heralded the start of an architecture boom in Los Angeles. More
Richly textured interiors have become a staple product of Chinese-born, Harvard-educated couple Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, and last year was no different. Their Shanghai firm, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, completed a series of restaurant and shop fit-outs that readers couldn't get enough of. More
Portuguese firm Aires Mateus made it into the Hot List despite having just one project published on Dezeen in the last year – an impressive rework of an 18th-century townhouse in Lisbon. More
Beijing- and Vienna-based firm Penda has earned plenty of Dezeen column inches since launching in 2013, thanks to inventive concepts that encompass everything from modular structures to landscaped gardens. More
Gensler is the world's largest architectural firm, with projects on every continent, although its biggest news of the last year came from Asia and North America. More
The highest ranking Israeli architect on the Hot List is Tel Aviv-based Pitsou Kedem, whose Modernist-inspired homes and apartments are perennial favourites of Dezeen readers. More
It might be a surprise to find H Arquitectes in the top 100, but the Spanish office has had a couple of big hits in recent months. More