2024 AIANY Design Awards 

 

AIA New York Announces 2024 Design Awards Recipients

22 winning projects in the categories of Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design survey the state of architecture today and celebrate exceptional work by architects practicing in New York City 

 

New York City, January 8, 2024 – On Monday, January 8, 2024, a jury of independent architects, educators, and planners from outside New York City convened to select the winners of the 2024 AIA New York Design Awards. Later that evening, the jurors publicly announced the 22 winning projects at a symposium, free and open to the public, hosted at the Center for Architecture and on Zoom.

 

The selected projects and the architecture firms that designed them represent the exceptional work by AIA New York members and architects practicing in New York City. Awards were conferred in four categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. Each winning project, granted either an “Honor”, “Merit”, or “Citation”, was chosen for its design quality, response to its context and community, program resolution, innovation, thoughtfulness, and

technique. Submitted projects had to be completed by AIANY members or architects/designers practicing in New York, or be New York projects designed by architects/designers based elsewhere.

 

Selected from among nearly 200 project entries, the winners range from temporary installations and exhibitions to large-scale urban interventions. 13 of the 22 winners are projects located in New York State. One single winning project is outside the US in Quebec, Canada, while the remaining domestic awardees span Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. 

 

Collectively, the jury seemed to stress the importance of details at the human scale, as well as each project’s ability to improve our experience of the built environment, regardless of size. 

 

Pointing to some of the smaller scale projects, juror Fuensanta Nieto, Founder, Nieto Sobejano Architectos, said, “We loved projects like The Refreshing Waters and the benches at Newark as you have to see them for what they are. Rather than assessing them in relation to larger projects, you must think of them as making people’s lives better. We think that is the way that architecture and interior design should go.”

 

“The Refreshing Water projection in particular,” added juror David Darling, FAIA, Founder, Aidlin Darling Design, “is not about eye candy, but rather the idea. We’re judging the concept and how it improves the human condition.”

 

Of course, many large-scale projects are celebrated as winners, including Perelman Performing Arts Center, affordable housing at Bedford Green House I, the International African American Museum, and the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History. Of the latter, juror Andrew Thompson, AIA, NOMAC, LEED AP BD+C, County Architect, Passaic County of New Jersey, said, “This is an accessible entrance.

 

People come in and they get some sense of how the museum is organized. How many buildings do you come into that suggest right away how they are organized? I in particular thought this was a blessing... I’m pleased we found a way to give this extraordinary accomplishment an award.”

 

We invite you to browse all winners on our website. The spring issue of Oculus magazine will include further quotes from the jurors and a review of their discussion. 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS LUNCHEON

Winning projects will be recognized at the Honors and Awards Luncheon, scheduled for Thursday, April 12, at Cipriani Wall Street.

 

EXHIBITION

The Center for Architecture will host an exhibition of the winning projects, opening Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 6:00 pm, and on view through September 3, 2024.

 

2024 AIANY DESIGN AWARDS JURY

Sofía Aspe, Founder, Sofía Aspe Interiorismo

David Darling, FAIA, Founder, Aidlin Darling Design

Frank Harmon, FAIA, Founder, Frank Harmon Architect

Brian Johnsen, AIA, Founder, Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Mark Lee, Founder, Johnston Marklee

Fuensanta Nieto, Founder, Nieto Sobejano Architectos

Andrew Thompson, AIA, NOMAC, LEED AP BD+C, County Architect, Passaic County of New Jersey 

 

AWARD RECIPIENTS

Design Awards 2024 Statistics:

22 awards conferred

ARCHITECTURE – 14 total (4 honors; 7 merits; 3 citations)

INTERIORS – 3 total (1 honor; 2 merits)

PROJECTS – 4 total (2 honors; 2 citations)

URBAN DESIGN – 1 total (1 merit)

ARCHITECTURE

 

Honors

 

#Saint Sarkis Church and Community Center

Design Architect: David Hotson Architect

Architect of Record: Calvert & Co./Architects, Inc.

Associate Architect: Terzyan Design

Landscape Architect: Garden Transformations

Location: Carrollton, TX

 

(Honor in Preservation)

#Trinity Church Wall Street

Architect: MBB Architects

Restoration Architect: Building Conservation Associates

Landscape Architect: MNLA

Location: New York, NY

 

 

#Perelman Performing Arts Center

Architect: REX

Executive Architect: Davis Brody Bond

Interior Design (Lobby, Restaurant): Rockwell Group

Location: New York, NY

 

#MIT Kendall Square Site 5

Architect: Weiss/Manfredi

Architect of Record: Perkins+Will

Location: Cambridge, MA

 

Merits

#Lasting Joy Brewery

Architect: Auver Architecture

Location: Tivoli, NY

 

#NXTHVN

Architect: TenBerke

Location: New Haven, CT

 

#Bedford Green House I

Architect: ESKW/Architects

Landscape Architect: Billie Cohen, Ltd.

Location: Bronx, NY

 

 

#m.o.r.e CLT Cabin

Architect: Kariouk Architects

Location: Wakefield, Quebec, Canada

 

#Brooklyn Public Library East Flatbush Branch

Architect: LEVENBETTS

Location: Brooklyn, NY

 

#Powerhouse Arts

Architect: PBDW Architects

Design Architect: Herzog & de Meuron

Landscape Architect: Ken Smith Workshop

Location: Brooklyn, NY

 

 

#International African American Museum

Architect: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Associate Architect: Moody Nolan

Landscape Architect: Hood Design Studio

Location: Charleston, SC

 

Citation for Placement and Section

#Robert Olnick Pavilion

Architects: Alberto Campo Baeza and MQ Architecture

Location: Cold Spring, NY

 

Citation for Reimagining of Traditional Trellis Construction

 

#Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park

Architect: Thomas Phifer and Partners

Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

Location: Austin, TX

 

Citation for a Comprehensive Reorganization of Interior Space

 

#Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History

Architect: Studio Gang

Architect of Record: Davis Brody Bond

Landscape Architect: Reed Hilderbrand

Location: New York, NY

 

INTERIORS

Honors


#Galerie56

Architect: SheltonMindel

Location: New York, NY

 

Merits

#Arts & Letters Creative Co.

Architect: ARCHITECTUREFIRM

Location: Richmond, VA

 

#Schiff House Daycare Center at CCNY

Architect: Michielli + Wyetzner Architects

Location: New York, NY

 

PROJECTS

Honors

#Newark Liberty International Airport, Terminal C, Recomposure Benches

Architect: HNTB

Location: Newark, NJ

 

#The Refreshing Waters

Architect: Interboro

Location: Bronx, NY

 

Citation for Intention to Resolve an Urban Problem

#NYCHA Waste Yard Redevelopment

Landscape Architect: Grain Collective

Architect of Record: NDNY PLLC

Waste Management: Center for Zero Waste Design

Urban Design: architectureRED

Location: New York, NY

 

Citation for Innovation in Microarchitecture and Urban Planning

#Mini Tower One

Architect: MODU

Location: Brooklyn, NY

 

URBAN DESIGN

Merit

#After School Detroit: Detroit Vacant Historic Schools Disposition Strategy

Architect: Interboro

Location: Detroit, MI

 

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