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Left side image: abstract sketch; right side image: sketch of the Indian Institute of Management- IIM Ahmedabad in India

Announcing the 2025 Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest Winners

RECORD Editors
December 23, 2025
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See the top entries in our 15th annual Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest, which honors the legacy of hand drawing in architectural design.
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Announcing the Jurors for The Architectural Record Awards Competition

RECORD Editors
July 16, 2025
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Submissions are accepted through July 25. The winners, determined by the jury, will be featured in the November 2025 issue of RECORD.
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Announcing the 2024 Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest Winners

November 8, 2024
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Meet the winners of our 14th annual Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest, which honors the legacy of hand drawing in architectural design.
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Kyoko Iwasaka and Razan Hadidi's Cocktain Napkin Sketches

2023 Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest Winners

December 14, 2023
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Meet the winners of our 12th annual Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest, which honors the legacy of hand drawing in architectural design.
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Call for Entries

Submit to Record Interiors 2026

Extended deadline: January 23, 2026
December 11, 2023
The editors of Architectural Record are now accepting submissions for Record Interiors. For decades, this annual issue has celebrated noteworthy contributions to building interiors, where clever solutions and material choices take center stage.
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Survivor and Perfect Point by Phil Pokorny of Pokorny Architecture.

2020 Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest Winners

November 6, 2020
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Architectural Record announces the winners and the runners up.


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April Guess the Architect

Guess the Architect Contest April 2016

A landmark modernist house was famous for its retractable living room windows, where alternating glass panels could sink into the basement to give the living room a sense of being outdoors. The residence, long in disrepair, has recently been renovated.
April 1, 2016
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The answer to the March issue's Guess the Architect is ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES. After the Packard Automotive Plant opened in 1903 in Detroit, Kahn came up with a reinforced-concrete structural system for Building No. 10 that proved to be a pioneering technique for U.S. factories. The Packard Plant hasn't been operational since the late 1990's, but the same firm is working with developer Fernando Palazuelo to convert the former factory to mixed uses.


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March 2016 Guess the Architect

Guess the Architect Contest March 2016

A large automotive plant with a concrete-frame structure paved the way for a number of such factories designed by its architect. While this complex has been closed for decades, a developer now plans to renovate the industrial ruin for new uses.
March 1, 2016
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The answer to the February issue’s Guess the Architect is GAE AULENTI. In 1986, her Milan-based firm, working with the French office of A.C.T. Architecture, transformed the palatial Quai d’Orsay train station in Paris, designed by Victor Laloux in 1900, into the Musée d’Orsay, which exhibits art from 1848 to 1915.


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Guess the Architect Contest February 2016

An architect achieved international renown with the conversion of a former railway station to a museum of art. The Beaux Arts building had been threatened with demolition but was saved, thanks to the growing enthusiasm for adapting historic structures to new uses.
February 1, 2016
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The answer to the January issue’s Guess the Architect is ELIEL AND EERO SAARINEN, along with PERKINS, WHEELER & WILL (now Perkins + Will). The two offices teamed up to design the influential, modernist Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1940–41.


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Guess the Architect Contest

Guess the Architect Contest January 2016

Two architectural firms collaborated on the design of this modernist school known for its intimately scaled classroom and their relationship to the outdoors. Only those who guess both firms correctly are eligible for the prize.
January 1, 2016
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The answer to the December issue’s Guess the Architect is SHREVE, LAMB & HARMON, with William F. Lamb as the lead designer for the Empire State Building in New York City.


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