Who are the architects, designers, brands, schools and events that Dezeen’s audience most wanted to read about over the last year? We’ve spent weeks crunching the data to find out. The result is Dezeen Hot List, a comprehensive guide to the most newsworthy and searched-for players in the design world in 2016.

Based entirely on audience data, Dezeen Hot List is more than just a popularity contest: it shows who set the agenda and who made the news. There are category lists ranking architects, designers, brands, institutions, schools and events according to the

number of times our readers searched for them and the number of times they engaged with stories about them. There are also lists for fashion, personalities and artists, and an overall list showing the 400 hottest people, companies and organisations this year.

The following pages list all 400 entries in Dezeen Hot List, plus the top five in each category. For a fully interactive version of Dezeen Hot List plus profiles of the top 100 entries, visit www.dezeen.com/hotlist

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Zaha Hadid

Bjarke Ingels

Milan Design Week

Herzog & de Meuron

Kengo Kuma

IKEA

Peter Zumthor

SANAA

MVRDV

David Chipperfield

Apple

Rem Koolhaas/OMA

Norman Foster/ Foster + Partners

Alejandro Aravena/Elemental

Sou Fujimoto

Tadao Ando

Serpentine Galleries

Adidas

Google

Oki Sato/Nendo

Nike

Renzo Piano

Thomas Heatherwick

Royal College of Art

Aesop

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Muji

Lego

Vo Trong Nghia

Santiago Calatrava

Hay

Álvaro Siza

John Pawson

The Bartlett

Frank Gehry

Chanel

Toyo Ito

Snøhetta

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Tom Dixon

Jean Nouvel

David Adjaye

Corten steel

Dutch Design Week

Tate

COS

Daniel Libeskind

Maggie’s Centres

Vitra

Assemble

Shigeru Ban

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Le Corbusier

Steven Holl

Moooi

Jasper Morrison

Ben van Berkel/ UNStudio

Richard Rogers/Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Samsung

Caruso St John

Design Academy Eindhoven

Venice Biennale

Ma Yansong/MAD

Naoto Fukasawa

MINI

Maison&Objet

Benjamin Hubert/ Layer Rafael Viñoly

BMW

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Barber & Osgerby

Pritzker Prize

Neri&Hu

Aires Mateus

Kickstarter

Marc Newson

Lexus

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Patricia Urquiola

Penda

Dior

Airbnb

Moroso

Converse

Audi

Gensler

Issey Miyake

Pitsou Kedem

Li Edelkoort

H Arquitectes

Instagram

Grimshaw

Nook Architects

Jonathan Ive

RIBA

Haptic

Uber

Marcio Kogan/ Studio MK27

Richard Meier

MIT

Philippe Starck

Max Lamb

Konstantin Grcic

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Olson Kundig

Passivhaus

Tokujin Yoshioka

Eduardo Souto de Moura

Charles and Ray Eames

Mies van der Rohe

Marcel Wanders

David Bowie

Camper

SelgasCano

Studio Job

Duggan Morris Architects

Junya Ishigami

Design Miami

Anish Kapoor

Ai Weiwei

Olafur Eliasson

ÉCAL

Skidmore Owings & Merrill

Prada

Clerkenwell Design Week

Arup

COBE

Iris van Herpen

McDonalds

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Brexit

Mecanoo

Universal Design Studio

Selfridges

Tesla

Atelier Bow-Wow

Formafantasma

Alessi

Piet Hein Eek

SO-IL

Hella Jongerius

Scott & Scott Architects

World Architecture Festival

Musée du Louvre

Note Design Studio

Coffey Architects

Hem

Paul Smith

Studio Weave

Facebook

PLP Architecture

Ron Arad

Alvar Aalto

Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP

3XN

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Jo Nagasaka/Schemata Architects

Ettore Sottsass

Red Bull

Tato Architects

MoMA

Acne Studios

Louis Vuitton

NASA

Jaime Hayón

Yves Behar/Fuseproject

Ole Scheeren

Sam Jacob

Karim Rashid

Peter Cook

Henning Larsen

Don’t Move Improve

6a Architects

Budi Pradono

Valerio Olgiati

OFIS

Morphosis

Star Wars

Dror Benshetrit/ Studio Dror

Beyoncé

Hermès

Name

Haworth

i29

Lee Broom

Amanda Levete

Kvadrat

Ilse Crawford

Starbucks

Hawkins\Brown Architects

Hussein Chalayan

Burning Man

Herman Miller

Paul Archer

Christian Kerez

Kate Moss

Odile Decq

Thonet

Joris Laarman

Fondazione Prada

Frank Lloyd Wright

Studio Mumbai

Antoni Gaudí

Coop Himmelb(l)au

Design Museum

Central Saint Martins

Architectural Association

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Louis Kahn

Snarkitecture

TU Delft

Microsoft

Isay Weinfeld

Lacaton & Vassal

Populous

Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Henry Goss

Henn

Christo

IMM Cologne

Jonathan Tuckey

Swarovski

Woods Bagot

Valentino

Studio Gang

Science Museum

EFFEKT

HOK

Allies and Morrison

Tigg Coll Architects

Hassell

Cassina

Mutina

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London Design Festival

Lund Hagem

Knoll

Ross Lovegrove

Mercedes

Fendi

Nils Holger Moormann

Flos

David Kohn

Punkt

Tatiana Bilbao

Kartell

Wes Anderson

Porsche

OBBA

Vector Architects

United Nude

Rafael Moneo

Dyson

Glas Italia

Joyce Wang

Whitney Museum of American Art

MIMA Housing

RCR Arquitectes

Paul Cocksedge

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Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas

Faye Toogood

Volvo

Adobe

Dualchas Architects

Kanye West

Damien Hirst

Form Us With Love

ACME

SHoP Architects

Carl Turner

a21studio

Eric Parry

Make

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Moon Hoon

Wang Shu

Brinkworth

Pantone

Atkins

Archmongers

Muuto

Project Orange

Carmody Groarke

Aldo Rossi

Name

Neri Oxman

SFMOMA

Aedas

Ström Architects

Eurostar

Philip Johnson

Andra Matin

WOHA

West 8

TAKA Architects

Max Dudler

Wilkinson Eyre

Reiulf Ramstad

CEBRA

Nieto Sobejano

DSDHA

Studio Swine

Moshe Safdie

Peter Barber

Vincent Van Duysen

Voga

Saunders Architecture

WeWork

REX Architecture

Nikken Sekkei

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Alberto Campo Baeza

Instrmnt

Arduino

Northmodern

Níall McLaughlin

Asif Khan

Kerry Hill

GKMP Architects

Autodesk

Volkswagen

Tham & Videgård Arkitekter

MOS Architects

Patrik Schumacher

Grafton Architects

Artek

Caesarstone

Haworth Tompkins

ODA

Rolex

BDP

Formwerkz Architects

Alison Brooks

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Septembre Architecture

MAXXI

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Uniform Wares

Aldi

Conran and Partners

Maarten Baas

Peter Marino

Stirling Prize

DRDH

FAT

What Design Can Do

NBBJ

Magis

March Studio

Squire and Partners

Barkow Leibinger

Amazon

London School of Economics

Ferrari

Dieter Rams

Torafu Architects

Boffi

Platform 5

Alexander Wang

Fraher Architects

Centre Pompidou

Carpenters Workshop Gallery

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Ciguë

TDO Architecture

Humberto and Fernando Campana

Lina Bo Bardi

Michael Young

Habitat

Hall McKnight

Tezuka Architects

Matali Crasset

Zanderroth Architekten

Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter

Adolf Loos

Kinfolk

Alessandro Mendini

Forpeople

Wiel Arets

Hopkins Architects

Burberry

Bulthaup

Braun

Hyundai

Alexander McQueen

Aecom

John Wardle

JDS Architects

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ICFF

Droog

Coca-Cola

Soho House

Jean Prouvé

Lasvit

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Imogen Heap

Martha Schwartz

vPPR Architects

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

Enzo Mari

White Arkitekter

Chemical Brothers

Pedrali

Oscar Niemeyer

dRMM

Vipp

Hayo Gebauer

Michael Graves

Bocci

Greg Lynn

Lipton Plant Architects

Bernardo Bader

Bernard Tschumi

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Zaha Hadid

Bjarke Ingels

Herzog & de Meuron

Kengo Kuma

Peter Zumthor

Chanel

COS

Dior

Issey Mikaye

Li Edelkoort

Anish Kapoor

Ai Weiwei

Olafur Eliasson

Christo

Damien Hirst

Oki Sato/Nendo

Thomas Heatherwick

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Tom Dixon

Jasper Morrison

Serpentine Galleries

Tate

Maggie’s Centres

RIBA

MoMA

Royal College of Art

The Bartlett

Design Academy Eindhoven

MIT

ÉCAL

IKEA

Apple

Adidas

Google

Nike

Milan Design Week

Dutch Design Week

Venice Biennale

Maison&Objet

Pritzker Prize

David Bowie

Beyoncé

Kate Moss

Wes Anderson

Kanye West

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