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The votes are in! These are the best buildings in the world

February 10, 2017
The Leixoes Cruise Terminal in Matosinhos, Portugal, designed by Luiis Pedro Silva Arquitecto, won the Public Building of the Year Award. Photo: Fernando Guerra

From a simple coffee shop in Thailand to a glittering opera house in Hamburg and the Palace of Versailles in France, these are the winners in the annual ArchDaily Building of the Year awards.

More than 75,000 readers voted in the awards, filtering more than 3000 projects down to just 16 category winners.

The winners are a diverse range of projects from across the world, but what they all have in common is an especially innovative design response.

Winners of the ArchDaily Best Building of the Year Award include the Stealth Building in New York, by WORKac, which won the Refurbishment Award.

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Photo: Bruce Damonte

Industrial Architecture: Tangshan Organic Farm / ARCHSTUDIO, Tangshan, Hebei, China

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Photo: Jin Wei-q

Interior Architecture: Hubba-to / Supermachine Studio, Thailand

Open homes:

Photo: Wison Tungthunya

Commercial Architecture: Crystal Houses / MVRDV, Amsterdam

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Photo: MVRDV

Cultural Architecture: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg / Herzog & de Meuron, Hamburg, Germany

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Photo: Iwan Baan

Small Scale Architecture: ICD-ITKE Research Pavilion 2015-16 / ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart, Germany

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Photo: ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart
Best Applied Products: Refurbishment of the Pavilion Dufour Château De Versailles (Palace of Versailles), France / Dominique Perrault Architecte
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Healthcare Architecture: Maggie’s Cancer Centre Manchester / Foster + Partners, Manchester, England

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Photo: Nigel Young/ Foster + Partners

Educational Architecture: Frederiksvej Kindergarten / COBE, Frederiksberg, Denmark

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Photo: Rasmus Hjortshøj, Adam Mørk

Hospitality: Yellow Submarine Coffee Tank / Secondfloor Architects, Thailand

Open homes:

Photo: Ketsiree Wongwan

Houses: Casa Cabo de Vila / spaceworkers, Bitaraes, Portugal

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Photo: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

This story originally appeared on stuff.co.nz

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