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Sunday, 9 March 2008 | Levent OZLER
2008 Winners of AIA New York Design Awards
The AIA New York Chapter announced today this year's recipients of the organization's coveted Design Awards. The winners represent exceptional work in three categories for architectural excellence: interiors, architecture, and projects (unbuilt). Given either "honors" or "merit" citations, each winner has been recognized as "unique and exemplary in its originality" by the distinguished jury including David Adjaye, Ada Karmi-Melamede, and Pamela Babey.
"The AIA New York Chapter's Design Awards program is intended to increase awareness of outstanding design by New York architects, as well as projects within the city," says James McCullar, FAIA, 2008 AIA New York Chapter President. "The awards also honor the architects, clients and design consultants who work together to improve New York's built environment."
Judged by this year's panel of eminent jurors (listed below), the award recipients were selected out of a record crop of 400 submissions from architects across the United States and 12 foreign countries. Winning projects are by well-known designers such as Steven Holl and Tod Williams Billie Tsien as well as emerging talents including WORK Architecture Company and Zakrzewski + Hyde Architects. "Collectively, these award-winning projects show that design excellence matters," said Rick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director of the AIA New York Chapter.
New Honors for Building Types
For the first time this year, AIA New York Chapter has established here in New York, an additional set of awards to recognize excellence and innovation in the specialized design fields of Educational Facility Design, Sustainable Design and Urban Design, collectively known as "The Building Type Awards."
Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects, the Building Type Awards recognize exemplary work done by both established and new practitioners from New York City and Massachusetts, regardless of project size, budget, or style. Separate teams of field experts will judge the contest, and winners will be announced in March.
"Our expansion of the Design Awards to include the different categories of Building Types reflects the wide breadth of projects that deserve attention," commented James McCullar, FAIA, 2008 AIA New York Chapter President. "There are wonderful advancements in each of these new award categories, and we are thrilled to have the ability to showcase them," he continued.
Winning projects from both the Design Awards and the Building Type Awards will be recognized at the Design Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, April 30th. All work will be exhibited at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place. The Design Awards Exhibition runs from Thursday, May 1st through July 2008.
AIA Chapter 2008 Design Awards:
Winners by Category
Architecture Honor Award Winner
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Project: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Location: Kansas City, MO
Architecture Merit Award Winners
Architect: Andrew Berman Architect
Project: Private Library and Writing Studio
Location: Long Island, New York
Architect: Thomas Phifer and Partners
Project: Salt Point House
Location: Salt Point, New York
Architect: Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects L.L.P.
Project: Skirkanich Hall
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Architect: FXFowle Architects, P.C.
Project: The New York Times Building
Location: New York, New York
Forrest City Ratner Companies & The New York Times Company
Architect: Polshek Partnership Architects
Project: Yale University Art Gallery, Kahn Building Renovation
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Interior Architecture Honor Award Winners
Architect: De-Spec Inc. / Vista Engineering
Project: Banchet Flowers
Location: New York, NY
Architect: Architecture Research Office
Project: Susan P. and Richard A. Friedman Study Center
Location: Providence, RI
Architect: Joel Sanders Architect
Project: Yale University Art Gallery Media Lounge
Location: New Haven, CT
Interior Architecture Merit Award Winners
Architect: WORK Architecture Company
Project: Anthropologie Store
Location: Dos Lagos, California
Architect: Bentel & Bentel Architects
Project: CRAFTSTEAK NY
Location: New York, New York
Architect: STUDIOS architecture
Project: IAC Headquarters
Location: New York, New York
Architect: Stephan Jaklitsch Architects
Project: Marc Jacobs Paris
Location: Paris, France
Architect: Workshop For Architecture
Project: Maritime Intelligence Group Office
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: Christoff:Finio architecture
Project: Museum as Hub at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
Location: New York, New York
Architect: Shelton, Mindel & Associates
Project: North Sea Poolhouse
Location: Southampton, New York
Project Honor Award Winners
Architect: OBRA Architects
Project: BEATFUSE!
Location: Long Island City, New York
Architect: David Yum Architects
Project: ELV Winery
Location: Santa Barbara County, California
Architect: Rogers Marvel / West 8 / Diller Scofido + Renfro / Quennell Rothschild/ SMWM
Project: Governors Island Park and Public Open Space
Location: Governors Island, New York, New York
Architect: Toshiko Mori Architect
Project: The Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems
Location: Syracuse, New York
Architect: Cook+Fox Architects
Project: Waterfront Tower
Location: New York, New York
Architect: Leeser Architecture
Project: World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum
Location: Republic of Sakha-Yakutia (Yakutsk), Siberia
Project Merit Award Winners
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Project: Al Rajhi Bank Headquarters
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Architect: Zakrzewski + Hyde Architects
Project: Hudson Square RISE
Location: New York, New York
Architect: WRT/ Marpillero Pollak Architects
Project: Queens Plaza Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Project
Location: Queens, New York
Architect: Himma Architecture
Project: Ridge House and Master Plan
Location: Aodi, Taiwan
Architect: Joel Sanders Architect with Haeahn Architecture
Project: Seongbukdong Residences
Location: Seoul, Korea
Architect: Leven Betts Architects
Project: Stockholm Public Library Addition
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Architect: AC Hocek Architecture/ OffSite
Project: The Tristes Tropiques Houses
Location: Nicaragua
Architect: GRO Architects
Project: Best Pedestrian Route
Location: New York, New York
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