15th Design Awards Gallery
Jury comments:
“Existing house interiors were strategically and successfully well planned, reprogrammed and reorganized to accommodate the current lifestyles.”
“Interiors show restraint while leaning towards contemporary aesthetic, still incorporate materials, finishes, color, furnishings and lighting that respect the shell.“
Jury comments:
“The Audubon Village Shopping Center fulfilled its designed responsibility of transforming individual tenant shops into a power center of organized, coherent, consistent inline storefront presentation.”
“Controlled brand signage graphics and its lighting, application of straightforward materials and color and village-like aesthetics for the anchors result in a “good neighbor” facility.”
Jury comments:
“Planning and organization, procession to and through the home is delightfully disciplined. The hierarchical organized elements indicate a clear understanding of the occupants lifestyle and needs.”
“Exterior materials are well selected and refreshingly executed with craftsmanship. The interior materials, finishes, lighting and accessories, while a bit eclectic, are presumed a meaningful expression of value to the owners of a home.”
Jury comments:
“The building’s unique form and exposed, raw materials gave the designers a good start. Nice use of a tempered hand in applying a fresh, straightforward skin of color; a disciplined hand at interior plan design, organization, fixturing, lighting and color.”
“Care in retaining existing “tags” of industrial columns and their capitals, as well as, the massive industrial window sashes, all representing to new generations of occupants the richness and value of industrial architectural history still relevant in the 21st century.”
Jury comments:
“Good sense of references. Organization, massing, fenestration representing the 5 principles of Corbusian architecture; mid-century modernism of exposed structural expression, industrial materials and minimalist detailing and references to 19th century barn structures and materials through the horizontal screens/brise-soleils.”
“Siting the house to optimize views to the landscape and farmland is masterful.”
Jury comments:
“The harmony of this building’s scale, massing, materials and embeddedness successfully achieves the goals of framing and energizing the outdoor activity hub.”
“The curved facade is pleasantly scaled to the other campus facilities and brilliantly invented to organize and successfully frame the outdoor space. Glass, bricks, stone and metal materials are judiciously applied and refreshingly tempered in the fenestration of an attractive work-a-day building which harmonizes well with its neighbors.”
“The featured glass learning walls organize the learning activities, mediate between classrooms and circulation spaces; The transparency of the walls seems to send a subtle, reinforcing message of opening the teaching machine to the community of scholars in the college.”
“This forward-thinking site plan embraces sustainable initiatives of solar gain, living wall and science-inspired systems and materials.”
Jury comments:
“A well repurposed warehouse with embedded, neighborhood atmosphere that embraces the new paradigm of a social gathering place, while simultaneously maintaining its great history and architecture.”
“The ramp and procession to the tasting room successfully connects the street with the elevated level; The salvaged brick, wood, iron and exposed concrete materials set the stage for a vibrant atmosphere created for beer making and populated by all ages of customers.”
Jury comments:
“The simplicity of the floor plan and organization, which permits flexibility, is very accomplished.”
“Featuring the bed “room” as a stand-alone element within the apartment, and raising it to a gold standard loft sleeping chamber through materiality is simply brilliant! In a city where constant street noise, and nighttime urban light encroaches on privacy and intimacy; the “building within a building.”
“The room provides a sense of security, intimacy and privacy seldom achieved in lofts.”