2021 Best of Year winner for Hospitality - Fine Dining. Los Angeles architectural designer Gulla Jónsdóttir has a thing for biomorphic shapes. In her latest hospitality project, the cresting stucco facade sparked by the white sand dunes of Los Cabos, Mexico, at Esperanza, a hip new Sonoran-style restaurant in Manhattan Beach that Jónsdóttir worked on via FaceTime from her native Iceland during the pandemic.