After a stacked day of programming at ANs Facades+ New York City, event attendees, architects, designers, and product manufacturers convened for a ceremony to honor the inaugural winners of The Faces of Our City, our New York City facades awards program. The Faces of Our City was created to inspire future professionals and projects that will continue to define New York Citys architectural landscape. The New York City facades award program honors and celebrates the facades community who shape our cities through their work. The awards recognize the ambition, innovation, craftsmanship, and dedication that bring New Yorks skyline to life.On stage at the Metropolitan Pavilion in front of an audience of facade-design enthusiasts, AN CEO/creative director Diana Darling and executive editor Jack Murphy recognized all the winners of the four awards categoriesProduct of the Year, Emerging Professional, Lifetime Achievement, and Project of the Year.The double reading of the title of the awards program is intentional: Its about facades, but it is also about people, Murphy said. Facades establish the public faces of our city. When we design, develop, and deliver buildings, we are shaping the city, one piece at a time. Building envelopes serve a dual purpose: providing comfort and health for interior occupants while also shaping the urban experience of millions of street occupants who experience the city and its skyline from the outside.The effort to create ANs facade awards and the wider Facades+ programming is one that seeks to create and uplift the community of specialists who design, detail, fabricate, and install innovative, resilient, and beautiful building envelopes across the continent. And the Winner isWhile the individuals receiving the Emerging Professional and Lifetime Achievement award were previously announcedalong with Product of the Year and the five nominees for Project of the Yearthe evening concluded with the crowning of Project of the Year: The Refinery at Domino.The award recognizes the full project team who delivered the building: PAU, Dencity Works Architecture, Two Trees Management, Silman (now TYLin), Focci Group, Field Operations, Ettinger Engineering Associates, and LObservatoire International. On stage, Vishaan Chakrabarti, founder and creative director of PAU, remarked that an additional team member who deserved credit is the Citys Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for its support of the adaptive reuse of a historic factory shell.Following the ceremony, Chakrabarti shared a statement: Speaking on behalf of the entire Domino Sugar Refinery team, we are thrilled to be the inaugural Project of the Year winner. Designing the Refinery was one of the great joys of my life, and it is wonderful that it is now acknowledged by Architects Newspaper and this esteemed jury as a face of our city. Our fellow nominees are among the best designers in the world, and we are deeply honored to work in this city among such phenomenal peers.Below is the full list of award recipients:Product of the Year:Hydro CircalEmerging Professional:Kateri Knapp, ArupLifetime Achievement:Robert Heintges, Heintges Consulting Architects & Engineers Project of the Year Nominees:El Borinquen Residence designed by Alexander Gorlin ArchitectsThe Refinery at Domino designed by PAU WINNERThe Gilder Center at American Museum of Natural History designed by Studio GangColumbia Business School: The Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall designed by Diller Scofidio + RenfroPerelman Performing Arts Center designed by REX