RECORD contributing editor Izzy Kornblatt is a Ph.D. candidate at the Yale School of Architecture. He is the editor of Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs (Lars Müller Publishers, 2025).
This year's honorees range from a public works building in Iowa City to the Louisiana Children's Museum in New Orleans to a new school and library complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Long objects of fascination for architects, cars blend engineering, art, and architecture—but have created or exacerbated a host of contemporary crises.