2020 DESIGN AWARDS
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PRO BONO PROJECTS Glen Brook....................................... 42
2020 AIANYS DESIGN AWARDS
Atlantic........................................... 46
ADAPTIVE REUSE/ HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Fox Hall.......................................... 47
370 Jay Street, New York University...... 6
RESIDENTIAL | SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED, 2,500SF AND OVER
Antler House Restoration......................7 Fotografiska New York ........................ 8 New York Public Library Macomb’s Bridge Library ..................... 9 44 Union Square................................10 National Sawdust................................11 NYC Surrogate’s Courthouse Skylight & Atrium Renovation.............. 12 New Lab........................................... 13 TWA Hotel........................................14 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL LARGE PROJECT Rescue Company 2 ............................18 INSTITUTIONAL Conference House Park Pavilion.......... 22 Madison Square Boys and Girls Club Pinkerton Clubhouse ......................... 23
Link Farm House............................... 48 State Street Residence....................... 49 Pike & Pond..................................... 50 Sagg Farm........................................ 51 RESIDENTIAL | MULTI-FAMILY 1561 Walton Avenue......................... 52 Pier 4 ............................................. 53 The Essex at Essex Crossing ............... 54 SOLE PRACTITIONER
Blue Table Chocolates ....................... 58 UNBUILT
Farnum Community Recreation and Evacuation Center ...... 62 Make the Road New York Community Center .............. 63
University of Michigan Biological Sciences Building .............. 25
A School of Architecture on the Equator: A Net-Zero Super-Low Carbon Building for the Future .................................. 64
Theatre Squared ............................... 26
Cape Cod House ............................... 65
INTERIORS
URBAN PLANNING/DESIGN
Quirk Hotel ..................................... 30
Mulberry Commons ........................... 68
Coca-Cola Stage at the Alliance Theatre ...................... 31
Silo City ......................................... 69
Laurier Brantford YMCA...................... 24
Pace University Student Landscape ..... 32 Poster House ................................... 33 ASSET ............................................ 34 Mi Casita Preschool and Cultural Center ............ 35 Front, Inside & Back Cover and Above:
INTERNATIONAL
Project: 44 Union Square; New York, NY
Mount Sinai Ambulatory Surgical Facility............... 38
Photo Credit: ©Christopher Payne/ESTO, BKSK Architects
RESIDENTIAL | SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED, LESS THAN 2,500SF
ESIGN
CONTENTS
The Menokin Remembrance Structure .................... 43
A Simple Headquarters ...................... 39
The Great Bridge: Path to Equilibrium .......................... 70
Design Awards Jury............................ 71 AIANYS Officers, Board of Directors & Strategic Councilors...........................73
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DE PAGE | 4 Project: National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY | Photo Credit: ©Floto + Warner & Stella Lee
ESIGN ESIGN
ADAPTIVE REUSE & HISTORIC PRESERVATION
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CITATION
370 JAY STREET, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY BROOKLYN, NY MITCHELL GIURGOLA
“High marks for the degree of challenge. This building would have been demolished at another time.” Jury Comment
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This is the story of the transformation of an abandoned mid-century office building in downtown Brooklyn into NYU’s new hub for media, technology and the arts. 370 Jay Street involved groundbreaking sustainability initiatives that led to LEED Platinum certification, including façade renovation, fixed exterior shading devices, daylight harvesting, a microturbine, thermal storage, and practical strategies for future change that can bring abandoned structures back to life as a vibrant hub for innovation. 370 Jay Street was built in 1948 to serve as the headquarters for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. As part of New York City’s Applied Science Initiative, The Economic Development Corporation partnered with NYU to transform this significant but virtually abandoned City-owned building into a vital hub for Tech Innovation. By retaining as much of the existing building as possible, the impact on the environment was minimized – 91% of on-site construction waste was diverted from the landfill and the project is anticipated to achieve a 46% reduction in average annual en-
Photo Credit: ©Albert Vecerka/Esto
ergy costs. The 80-year-old façade was reimagined, re-engineered, and re-used to create an energy efficient solution. Extensive daylight analysis revealed that the highest amount of annual solar radiation occurs on the southern facade, while radiation on the northern end of the eastern facade is relatively low. To address these variances, the depth of each aluminum shade and window recess corresponds to the range of solar radiation working to provide an optimal amount of useful daylight, reduce the risk of glare discomfort, and minimize use of artificial lighting and electricity. 370 Jay Street proves that it is possible to achieve LEED Platinum by transforming an existing building into a high-performing contemporary structure that contributes to the revitalization of a neighborhood and helps nurture the community’s academic and technological ambitions for the future.
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ANTLER HOUSE RESTORATION EAST HAMPTON, NY
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ARCHITECTUREAF
“Brought back
a ‘funky gem’.” Jury Comment
The gradual development of the Hamptons as a vacation community began with modest homes. The Springs of East Hampton - where the Antler House is located - began as an artist’s community, with Jackson Pollock’s house a stone’s throw away. Andrew Geller built wildly creative homes throughout the area, few of which remain. The few that are lucky enough to remain are often relegated to a pool house on a larger estate. The Antler House, built in 1968, was perhaps his most whimsical. Over the years, new owners replaced original quirks with standard building features, and tacked on pragmatic additions. The clients fell in love with this “wooden spaceship in the forest” and commissioned a restoration to its former glory with a few modern comforts. Although much of the project is characterized more by additions removed and original materials replaced, contributions to the Antler House can be found in the addition of the raised deck. Placed on the more private east facade, a triangle
Photo Credit: ©Ashok Sinha & ArchitectureAF
was borrowed for the deck’s stair and an original handrail detail was extruded down to screen the vacation home toys. The restoration features meticulous recreations of Geller’s original “owl-eye” and replacement of all invasive gypsum board with cedar. An ill conceived bathroom addition was removed and replaced by reconfiguring the original first floor bathroom into two full baths. A conservationist at heart, Geller believed that no house should occupy more than 20% of the site, the 1,100 square foot Antler House sits on a one acre lot. In a neighborhood replete with trophy homes, the vision to restore this quirky mid-century gem that most buyers in the Hamptons would have razed regains a small piece of its history.
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CITATION
FOTOGRAFISKA NEW YORK NEW YORK, NY CETRARUDDY ARCHITECTURE
“New celebration of iconic apertures and allowing structure to read through make this impressive.” Jury Comment
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Photo Credit: ©ESTO/ David Sundberg & Adrian Gaut
Fotografiska New York is the outpost of the internationally renowned destination for photography based in Stockholm, Sweden. The museum’s new home is a historic 1894 landmark building, originally designed by Robert Williams Gibson and Edward Neville Stent. The adaptive reuse of 281 Park Avenue South, “The Church Missions House,” preserves the exterior while creating an interior experience that provides public access to this once-private space. Beneath the limestone and granite façade, a “structure within a structure” houses the museum and creates a space for New Yorkers to meet, eat, drink, and experience photography through an immersive series of rotating exhibitions, while simultaneously returning a historic landmark to the public. The museum serves as a container for culture, exposing visitors to the art of photography through a multi-sensory experience. The ground floor welcomes the community with a public café, wine bar, and bookstore featuring reading nooks and seating areas. The chapel space of the Calvary Church Annex, located next door, serves as an adjoining bar one of
four food or beverage locations within the building. The integration of food and drink into the museum experience is a key part of the Fotografiska DNA. The ground floor increases connectivity with the upper floors via a new elevator and a rerouted, expanded grand staircase. Lined with large wall graphics, the stairway serves as a preview and vertical extension of the exhibits. The sixth-floor space was repurposed and expanded to create a unique environment for public gatherings. The low ceiling was removed, exposing the iron structural columns and rafters supporting the roof, and revealing the terra-cotta wall and ceiling tile in the building’s attic. The alterations required substantial upgrades to the building’s original structural system. The addition of an inner set of walls surrounding the galleries creates a flexible viewing experience and a projection surface visible from the street, allowing the building’s iconic window apertures to serve as the frames for a new type of public art show.
CITATION
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY MACOMB’S BRIDGE LIBRARY NEW YORK, NY
Photo Credit: ©Alexander Severin
A new branch for the New York Public Library was created in a landmarked public housing complex located in an under-served neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. Constructed in 1936, the Harlem River Houses was the first federally funded housing project in New York City. Situated on the street level along the major thoroughfare of Adam Clayton Powell Junior Boulevard, the 3,500 square foot library is a combination of what was seven separate and demised storefronts. Adjacent to a public park, a new entrance and canopy were created to give the branch greater visibility in the community. The exterior was cleaned and restored, including storefront windows, which were replaced with bronze mullions and details to make them compatible with their original design while adding new insulated glass for energy efficiency. With no basement, the existing ceilings were low and obstructed with piping inherited from the four stories of apartments above. The architects took advantage of a setback
to lift the roof, raise the ceiling, and add clerestory windows to admit sunlight to the centrally located Children’s Room. The spaces were gut-renovated and the brick bearing walls supporting the perpendicular facades above were opened up with new large-scaled, wood-framed interior windows allowing views through and across the light-filled interior. In addition, an Adult Reading Room was included along with a new Community Room and various support spaces. Different floor heights were negotiated with a new book-lined, ADA-compliant ramp, and a wood floor was added to provide a welcoming and warm interior. A new accessible wood slat ceiling along the main walkway conceals HVAC units, and brightly colored corridors indicate public bathrooms. Bookshelves are mostly built into walls to conserve open space. The branch performs numerous services for the surrounding community, including English as Second Language Classes, job training, computer and technology classes and small business seminars. In addition, after school programs for children are provided. Currently, the Macomb’s Branch is hosting A People’s History of Harlem, a Harlem Neighborhood Oral History Project where residents are trained to interview longtime residents to tell their stories of this renowned New York neighborhood.
ESIGN
MICHIELLI + WYETZNER ARCHITECTS “A strong project placed within a very difficult
space. Three-dimensionality added to storefront to create interest.” Jury Comment
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MERIT AWARD
44 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK, NY BKSK ARCHITECTS OWNER: READING INTERNATIONAL
“Bold historical insertion, Turtle shell inventive, total departure from the geometry of the original building to preserve it while creating additional space.” Jury Comment
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Photo Credit: ©Christopher Payne/ESTO, BKSK Architects
44 Union Square sits prominently at the corner of Union Square Park in Manhattan. A new 70,200 square foot commercial building with three floors of restored historic street facades and a glass steel dome addition, the design was approved by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The new building expands the historic building by 30,000 square feet and reimagines it as an iconic anchor to Union Square. Its former life as the headquarters for Tammany Hall, inspired a design that draws interest to its storied past. The origins of Tammany Hall include its namesake Chief Tamanend, leader of the Lenape People – who signed a treaty of peaceful coexistence with William Penn in 1680. Using symbolism from the Lenape’s origin story, a dome inspired by the form of a turtle shell rising from the water was added. The contemporary steel and glass dome symbolizes Tammany Hall’s forgotten background as a populist social club and alludes to the Indigenous leader from whom the building took their name. The restoration and expansion includes preserving two façades, new bronze storefronts in the likeness of the original design, and a three-story rooftop addition, composed of a self-supporting free form shell grid dome atop a recon-
structed hipped roof of steel-and-glass with dappled gray terra cotta sunshades. The hipped roof mitigates the profile of the dome which becomes less visible as the building is approached. The dome glass provides climate and light control while offering clear views from inside to the Park and beyond. Solar insulation, light infiltration, glare probability studies and investigation of glass dome precedents informed the glass mapping over the dome structure and the development of sunshades and other shading solutions. In 2013, Tammany Hall was designated a landmark. 44 Union Square is an anchor for the neighborhood as a home to new industry and high-quality retail space, and by its own historic existence rendered as the focus of its iconic presence.
MERIT AWARD
NATIONAL SAWDUST BROOKLYN, NY
Photo Credit: ©Floto + Warner & Stella Lee
An 18th century chamber hall was retooled as an incubator for new music by the insertion of a crystalline form into the brick envelope of a former sawdust factory in Brooklyn. The form is an innovative, acoustically transparent but visually translucent skin, allowing sound to travel through it freely. Creating a seamless, wrap-around enclosure for a wide repertoire of performances, the skin masks the variable sound. This, coupled with state-of-the-art performance, recording, broadcast, and box-in-box isolation systems supports new musicians, artists, and composers on their way to viable and sustainable careers. The interior includes twelve variable staging platforms that rise in and out of the floor and an open seating plan, conforming to the performance’s requirements. The exterior was preserved while the interior was gutted, underpinned, and three new levels were created. The project includes a lobby and bar, a restaurant, an isolated mixing and recording room, a
video editing room, offices, storage, and a commercial kitchen. The budget, higher than what was initially established, was needed in order to create a facility that was uncompromising in acoustics and performance. The construction was broken into two phases, allowing the first phase to proceed while fundraising efforts occurred to support the second phase. The team worked beyond the typical scope of work for an architect helping to find the project’s location; achieve the nonprofit’s capital fundraising goals; convince local organizations to partner with the fledgling institution; select key staff members; and eventually as a board member, helping to oversee the nonprofit’s mission and continued success. In its first two seasons alone, the project held 660 performances, welcomed 52,000 patrons from all 5 boroughs of New York City, as well as from 47 states and 53 countries. These performances have included 47 world premieres of new works, including 12 new operas, and garnered 50 New York Times reviews. The project has helped to launch the career of countless musicians and composers, giving them the much-needed support to bridge the gap between honing their talent and finding their audience.
ESIGN
BUREAU V ARCHITECTURE
“Focus on immersive
environment. Unassuming façade, striking response to a simple program, smart technically.” Jury Comment
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MERIT AWARD
NYC SURROGATE’S COURTHOUSE SKYLIGHT & ATRIUM RENOVATION NEW YORK, NY URBAHN ARCHITECTS PLLC JABLONSKI BUILDING CONSERVATION - HISTORIC RESOURCES AND MATERIALS CONSERVATION Photo Credit: ©Ola Wilk
“Landmark skylights caringly restored to former glory.” Jury Comment
The historic Surrogate’s Courthouse was built in 1907 and is a designated landmark with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, the National Registry of Historic Places and the National Historic Monument. Designed as New York City’s Hall of Records by John R. Thomas, the courthouse is considered a masterpiece of the City Beautiful Movement. The building holds archives for all five boroughs, going back to the Dutch founding of the city. The ground floor features a three-story atrium crowned by a barrel vaulted skylight, a double staircase and carved marble elements bookended by lunettes painted to emulate marble. The atrium is regularly used for public events, ceremonies and as a set for the film industry. The goals of the project included making the skylight and the space below watertight, preserving the historic fabric, minimizing operational disruption during construction, and utilizing cost effective approaches to minimize use of tax dollars. Critical interpretation of historic documents and physical conditions was the basis of all design decisions. To enable construction over an occupied space, the first phase involved the erection of a work platform under the skylight and a temporary roof structure over the skylight. The historic elements requiring restoration or replication, resulted in the
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employment of a wide range of artisanal subcontractors. The outer skylight monitor was completely replaced with a new anodized aluminum system that replicates the original copper frame. New copper elements were custom fabricated to replace deteriorated fabric. The hexagonal glass brick walkway was replaced within a new cast iron frame, supplemented with laminated glass and non-slip aluminum checker plate. All laylight lead caming was replaced, broken and missing glass was replaced, and the bronze framing cladding was refinished. Water damaged marble pieces were replaced or pinned. The restoration returned majesty to a significant and cherished public landmark. The architectural restoration returns to the city a cherished landmark that reminds its citizens of the importance of justice within our society, while also providing a striking space to hold public and civic events, as well as serving as a backdrop for the television, movie, and commercial film industries.
HONOR AWARD
NEW LAB BROOKLYN, NY
ESIGN
MARVEL ARCHITECTS
“Skillful execution of
scalar interior buildings
within the building, playful, New Lab operates with a unique program that synthesizes industrial prototyping, design and innovation workspace, and hosts industry events of all scales. Located at a National Register listed shipbuilding facility within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New Lab champions the world’s most forward-thinking entrepreneurs and partners with corporate and city stakeholders to catalyze innovation. New Lab serves a community working in technologies including robotics, artificial intelligence, connected devices, and life sciences. Building 128 was constructed by the US Navy in 1899 as a machine shop for producing marine engines and components. With the departure of The Navy in 1966, the building sat largely unused through the early 2000s. New Lab’s design incorporates facets of an advanced green research and manufacturing center, while preserving the structure of the historic industrial building that houses it. Light-filled, visually permeable office pods are positioned against the dramatic backdrop of an industrial armature that is visible throughout. Secluded spaces for individual or small group work are interspersed with communal work areas across two floors, emphasizing the intention to
Photo Credit: ©David Sundbeg/Esto & Macro Sea
strike a balance between the need for privacy and the benefits of collaboration. A second-story mezzanine was expanded to accommodate additional rooms for group work, connected by a cantilevered catwalk and large bridges suspended from the original gantries. These bridges facilitate a narrative of coordinated contrasts, allowing the building to maintain its historically vast openness while generating opportunities for micro-connections between its visiting and resident community. Members at New Lab develop ideas and test prototypes and products through research, testing and initiatives connecting with business and investment to build products for market, while scaled production occurs off-site. There are currently over 600 individuals that have access to the space. New Lab serves as a replicable model for establishing a one-of-a-kind center for new manufacturing that is completely independent – not linked to any one corporation, university, or research organization – and a space to cultivate a competitive 21st century workforce.
unexpected and fascinating play between interior and exterior.” Jury Comment
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HONOR AWARD & BEST OF THE BEST
TWA HOTEL NEW YORK, NY BEYER BLINDER BELLE
“Remarkably sensitive reinvisioning of the Saarinen masterpiece. Recalls the onset of the jet age. Theme is consistently respected.” Jury Comment
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Photo Credit: ©Beyer Blinder Belle, Eric Laignel, Kristin LaBruz & David Mitchell
The TWA Flight Center, designed by Eero Saarinen, is one of the most significant examples of mid-century modern architecture. Since its opening in 1962, the building’s expressive form is a metaphor for flight and has defined the modern airport terminal. The Flight Center has been adapted into the TWA Hotel, a 512room contemporary hotel, restaurant, and event center, adding three interconnected structures, expanding it by over 260,000 square feet. Performed in two phases, Phase I restored core interior spaces of the Flight Center. Phase II, by the hotel developer, completed the project. After being dark for almost two decades, the TWA Hotel opened to the public last year. Non-original portions of the Flight Center were removed to create open areas for two hotel wings. The historic Flight Center houses six restaurants, shops, a fitness center, and a 250-person ballroom in the former baggage hall. The original terminal uses are similar to the program for a contemporary hotel lobby. As JFK’s only on-airport hotel, the project serves travelers passing through every day. Capping the hotels are a co-generation plant and a pool deck and bar. The event space, with 44 meeting spaces including a ballroom, is set 28 feet underground. Above the event center sits a restored
1958 Lockheed Constellation L-1649A, now a cocktail lounge. The new hotel wings are positioned outboard of the passenger tubes, preserving the primary historic scene. The hotel’s triple-glazed curtain wall consists of seven lites of glass for acoustic isolation. The hotel structures provide a neutral backdrop to the sculptural Flight Center. Restoration of the Flight Center included the building’s exterior shell, curtain wall and entrances, interior finishes, MEP, and life safety systems. The curtain wall, composed of uniquely-shaped trapezoidal panels, had chronically failed, and was restored utilizing new neoprene zipper gaskets and tempered glass to match the original green-tinted polished plate glass assembly. Finishes and furnishings were painstakingly restored to preserve the landmark’s character-defining features. New design interventions are complementary but distinguishable from Saarinen’s original design.
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COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL
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MERIT AWARD
RESCUE COMPANY 2 BROOKLYN, NY STUDIO GANG
“Use of concrete and
Photo Credit: ©Matthew Lapiska & Tom Harris
dimension of frame
er windows and openings. These voids enable the team to practice a myriad of rescue scenarios that mimic conditions and emergency situations occurring in urban environments such as a high angle balcony rescue, construction-site collapse, or a smoke-filled manhole.
are strong.” Jury Comment
Established in 1925, FDNY’s Rescue Company two is an elite force made up of specialized rescue workers who are trained to respond to a wide range of emergency scenarios. Despite the Company’s pedigree, their old station was too small to meet their operational needs. Located in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood, the new facility is designed as a tool for training and enabling FDNY’s elite force to stage and simulate a wide range of emergency conditions in, on, and around the building. The rescue company is trained to respond to various emergency scenarios, from fire and building collapses to water rescues and scuba operations. During these emergencies, rescuers must often utilize voids in buildings, whether creating them to let heat and smoke out of a structure or locating them as a means of escape. The four-story building is organized around a large interior void and enclosed by concrete walls strategically punctured by smallPAGE | 18
The building also creates an environment that promotes the well-being of the rescue workers who respond to calls at unpredictable times and rely on the station to provide comfort during downtime. The design situates the communal kitchen, a main gathering space, near the truck back bay for easy access in the case of a sudden emergency. A back yard offers space for socializing and porches provides open space. On the exterior, red glazed terracotta panels surround a smaller-scale series of windows and doors with details animating these points of connection between the facility and the community it serves. A green roof, geothermal HVAC system, and solar water-heating system reduce energy use, lowering the building’s carbon footprint. With its adaptable spaces, environmental approach, and civic scale, the new Rescue 2 facility is both a neighborhood fixture and important piece of infrastructure, supporting a highly trained corps who safeguard those who call New York home.
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DE Project: Laurier Brantford YMCA, Brantford Ontario, Canada | Photo Credit: ©Adrien Williams
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ESIGN ESIGN
INSTITUTIONAL
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CITATION
CONFERENCE HOUSE PARK PAVILION STATEN ISLAND, NY SAGE AND COOMBE ARCHITECTS
“Approach presents an interesting gradation of porosity.” Jury Comment
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Photo Credit: ©Andrew Kao
Located at Ward’s Point, the “south pole” of New York City, the 4,500 square foot Conference House Park Pavilion complements the 17th century Conference House, a National Landmark, and provides a dramatic view of Raritan Bay. Replacing a deteriorated neo-Victorian-style pavilion that had been demolished, it salvages the existing pile structure while elevating the deck eight feet to achieve the new Design Flood Elevation following Superstorm Sandy. The new pavilion is a simple form, allowing a view of the Bay without overshadowing the historic setting. It is a space for public assemblies and events, with stone seating reminiscent of colonial field walls and weirs, segmenting a system of bioswales that improve site drainage. Composed of yellow cedar and heat-formed polycarbonate gutters, the roof features a limited palette inspired by the simple elegance of the historic house. Each beam has a common elevation but is rotated about that point to create a vault in the form of a sail. Curving the water facing edge and holding the landborne side as a straight line creates a
complex curved surface from the simple geometries of circle and line. The simplicity of the form is juxtaposed against a dynamic shape that reads differently as one moves through the space it defines. The structural beams ride above the roof surface—creating a light, airy feeling when viewed from below. To maximize natural light, the pockets between the rafters are roofed by a half round formed translucent gutter that sheds water to the harbor or rain garden on the shore. The deck is composed of composite plastic lumber in a herringbone pattern, evoking a grand room and the rippling water below. Lighting is distributed in an abstract constellation—a continuation of the stars in the night sky above. The new pavilion provides a fully accessible space, connecting to the park with a ramp inspired by the nautical forms of a gangplank. A space for all, Conference House Park Pavilion will be an amenity cherished by the public for years to come.
CITATION
MADISON SQUARE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB PINKERTON CLUBHOUSE NEW YORK, NY
ESIGN
ROGERS PARTNERS ARCHITECTS + URBAN DESIGNERS
“Section is dynamic and interesting.”
Jury Comment
Photo Credit: ©Albert Vecerka
Offering a much-needed neighborhood resource in an underserved area, the 45,000 square foot flagship Pinkerton Clubhouse provides young people from disadvantaged circumstances access to educational and recreational opportunities in a safe, nurturing environment. Conceived as an institutional icon, the Clubhouse speaks an architectural language that fits within the neighborhood. Durable materials clad the lower volume; translucent polycarbonate above becomes a beacon at night. Balancing the importance of visibility with the need for safety and security, the building is neither a fortress nor a glass box. Spatial and budgetary constraints became the drivers for the building. A cast-in-place first floor, with a second isolated slab in the gym, maximizes acoustic separation of the ground floor Executive Headquarters from the unfireproofed steel and concrete plank above. The building’s spaces are warm and generous, yet the design lets structural concrete and steel be expressed and unadorned. In the gym, perforated plywood panels provide acoustical insulation and provide an opportunity for graphics. While
most Boys & Girls Clubs are built on just one or two floors, this urban clubhouse is, by necessity, a vertical playscape. The building’s four stories are densely filled with state-of-the-art program spaces all tied together by a fluid open stair that connects all levels visually and socially. At each stair landing, color, graphics, and glazing bring light and views into the stair and spaces, becoming expressions of the activity within the Clubhouse to the community outside. The Clubhouse brings children and encourages teens to show up as they gain independence and face pressures in the outside world. The design gives pride of place to the Teen Lounge and Teen Skybox, two of the brightest and most prominent spaces inside the Clubhouse. A visual connection from the Juniors’ Study Room through the Gym to the Teen Skybox lets “tweens” see and aspire to their future. Teen membership at the Pinkerton Clubhouse already far exceeds that of the organization’s four other clubhouses.
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MERIT AWARD
LAURIER BRANTFORD YMCA BRANTFORD ONTARIO, CANADA CANNON DESIGN
“Dynamism and relation of bar to historic street, light/dark palette.” Jury Comment
Photo Credit: ©Adrien Williams
The result of a dynamic partnership between the regional YMCA and Wilfrid Laurier University, the Laurier Brantford YMCA revitalizes the City of Brantford as a hub for community recreation and wellness. Located at the dynamic city edge, the center offers a cohesive experience asserting a new identity to the block and city. The design focuses on three themes: Memory - Recalling the line of commercial fronts that previously characterized the site; Movement - Developing a new pedestrian route along the city’s escarpment; and Landscape - Opening vistas over the nearby river basin. The project pays homage to the heritage of Brantford as it replaces vacant row houses and integrates into a hillside. The “bar-building” façade draws upon buildings that previously filled the location. Four of the building levels connect the Water Street and Colborne Street community landscape. The lobby stair serves as a “central spine,” connecting the height differential and access points between the two streets while providing horizontal connections across the interior. Inside, the building welcomes abundant
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natural daylight through the ceramic frits pattern glazing. The 120,000 square foot facility includes an aquatics center; a childcare area; inclusive changing rooms; team changing rooms for Wilfrid Laurier athletics events; a youth zone for focused recreational, social and leadership development programs; a double gym for sports and competition with retractable stadium seating and an athletic therapy space; training areas; a gym for recreation, rooms for community-based health care programs, studios for group fitness classes; multi-purpose spaces for social, educational and cultural programming and a Wilfrid Laurier student lounge. The construction was delayed 18 months due to an extensive archaeological excavation that unearthed more than 400,000 artifacts dating from 500 BC to the 21st century. Other unique challenges included contaminated soil and a 35-foot drop sloped site encompassing a full city block. The Laurier Brantford YMCA activates the downtown city of Brantford and serves as a focal point as part of their community revitalization.
MERIT AWARD
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BUILDING ANN ARBOR, MI ENNEAD ARCHITECTS AND SMITHGROUP
ESIGN
Designed to support research across a broad spectrum of disciplines, the Biological Sciences Building at the University of Michigan creates new opportunities for collaboration and engagement. The BSB integrates state-of-the-art research and innovative science education spaces with the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History to engage the public and revolutionize life science research, discovery, and communication. Situated at the confluence of the historic central campus and the modern life sciences campus, the BSB serves as an architectural bridge and physical connector between the two campus neighborhoods. Transitioning between the two distinct architectural identities, the façade of the BSB is composed of terracotta and glass. The simply shaped terracotta tiles play with light and shadow throughout the day and reflect the rich variation in color of the historic central campus’ brick buildings. Meanwhile, the monumental and transparent glass atria provide material connection to the modern life sciences neighborhood to the north. Together, the terracotta and glass envelopes yield a high performing and sustainable facility that visually blends the old and the new. The building’s segmented massing reinforces campus movement with two transparent atria, which unify the building’s three volumes and serve as prominent campus circulation routes. Glazed on both sides, these atria drive natural light deep inside the building and provide the passerby views of the working laboratory facility inside. The building design makes science more accessible, encouraging visitors to directly view active research envi-
“Vertical filigree and terra cotta multi-tone façade are handled well. The entire building seems like a screen. Opens
viewsheds to campus.” Jury Comment
Photo Credit: ©Bruce Damonte
ronments. The BSB’s design celebrates the co-location of two distinct program types by intertwining public museum exhibit galleries through three research towers and across the two shared atria. Combining scientific research, undergraduate science education, and public science communication under one roof, the BSB makes science education accessible to a wide-ranging constituency. The BSB fosters community at a variety of scales, including that of the University of Michigan’s biological researchers, the University of Michigan student body, and the greater Ann Arbor population.
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HONOR AWARD
THEATRE SQUARED FAYETTEVILLE, AR MARVEL ARCHITECTS
“Experience of space is cohesive. Signage is awesome, part of the architecture. Exterior cladding flows continuously into exterior.” Jury Comment
Photo Credit: ©Dero Sanford, Stephen Ironside & Tim Hursley
Theatre Squared fills a vacuum in a state where much of the population lacked access to professional, locally created theatre and arts-in-education programs. The nationally recognized non-profit company staged more than 60 original productions, bringing theatre to students from high-poverty districts in Oklahoma to the underserved Arkansas Delta. Playwrights, directors, designers and actors found a champion in an industry that predominantly favors large, urban centers. The company’s thought-provoking fare including a world premiere examining the region’s history of racism or a gay coming-of-age musical cuts against what might typically “play” in Arkansas. Driven by its mission to be an agent of change, the theatre sought to “transcend differences and inspire us to do better as a people.” Rapid growth caused the company to seek out a new facility and since opening, Theatre Squared’s new home has become a wellspring of pride—driving a 50% increase in both attendance and charitable support in the opening season, despite an unexpected shutdown during the global pandemic. Theatre Squared’s
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new home brings together two intimate theatres; the company’s first dedicated rehearsal space; staff work and meeting areas; education and community space; on-site workshops and storage; eight self-sufficient guest artist apartments; outdoor gathering spaces; and the Commons Bar/Café on a newly reinvigorated downtown corner. Concrete wraps the two theatres designed for acoustic isolation which project from the façade; no matter where one stands, the main purpose of the building is clear. A third, glass-enclosed, flexible performance space blends into the public Commons, the site of free pop-up performances and community events throughout the year. Above, a prominent rehearsal space, also partly transparent, seems to lean into the street, making clear to passersby that art is created here. Completed on time and on a lean budget, the new Theatre Squared transforms access to art in Northwest Arkansas; has inspired a massive public investment in a nearby downtown parks-and-paths infrastructure project; and is significantly influencing designs for peer theatres nationwide.
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DE Project: Coca-Cola Stage at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA | Photo Credit: ©Leonid Furmansky
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ESIGN ESIGN
INTERIORS
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CITATION
QUIRK HOTEL CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA ARCHITECTUREFIRM
“Quite inventive, varied arches, use of framed perspectives” Jury Comment
Photo Credit: ©James Ewing
Expanding the Quirk brand to a second location, this is the hotels first new construction project—an 80-room hotel with three restaurants, banquet space, and a rooftop terrace with 360 degree views of the city. The brand called for the hotel to feel like a gallery, exhibiting local artists. The design called for the hotel to be updated while still tying back to the flagship hotel. The property also needed to fit into the historic Charlottesville community and fabric. The building acts as a quiet canvas for the art and guests. The all white brick hotel embraces two historic buildings, adding a richness to the program and diminishing the presence of the hotel complex on West Main Street. White plaster split arches frame an elegant and playful lobby space that connects Main Street with the historic Starr Hill neighborhood. The oversized lobby consists of the front desk, bar, multiple lounges, a retail shop, and the double height art gallery. The arches, referencing Quirk’s first hotel, serve as the wayfinding, directing guests to other spaces such as the main restau-
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rant, The Pink Grouse, ballrooms, and a barrel-vaulted elevator lobby that takes you to guestrooms and a rooftop bar. Abundant light allows the art, food, and hotel visitors to be the focus. Plaster arches and white walls sit upon a terrazzo floor of whites and light greys. Wood trim on the exterior windows give a warm texture to offset the casework from the white envelope. Touch points of brass and champagne metal allow for a luxurious feel. Signature pink accents flow through the entire building. The guestroom design uses a similar palette and the centerpiece of every room is a large, upholstered headboard, an adapted custom piece of art by a local Virginia artist. Since it’s grand opening, the hotel has become a venue for both guests and locals to engage with community, art, and culture.
MERIT AWARD
COCA-COLA STAGE AT THE ALLIANCE THEATRE ATLANTA, GA
ESIGN
TRAHAN ARCHITECTS
“Beautifully done,
remarkable work of
Photo Credit: ©Leonid Furmansky
Founded in 1968, the Tony Award-winning regional theatre is located within a celebrated Arts Center campus. The initial work focused on the chamber, its lobby, and support facilities including a green room, rehearsal rooms, and costume shop, which were gutted to the original concrete enclosing walls. The transformation pulled the 650-seat chamber 10 feet closer to stage, optimizing site lines and utilizing ramping and integrated stairs to provide access to all levels. Each surface was tuned acoustically. Considering the location and community history, the separation between balcony and orchestra was removed - challenging the historic notions of racial segregation in the Southeast, transforming the theatre into a venue for exchange and community. The project demonstrates innovation through collaboration between Artist, Architect, and Fabricator. The Artist created mockups that explored the behavior of steam-bent white oak and a host of experiments were tried before discover-
ing the “z” shaped profile. This unique profile could take the double curvature while also lapping in section to meet the acoustic requirements. The team needed a way to move the surfaces from solid to lattice. It was critical to experiment with a process that would allow the acoustical properties to shift across the surface. The overlapping profile was one concept to achieve this performance requirement. The balcony face integrates acoustic absorption and reflection, handrail profile, and curvature of laminated oak ribs, resulting in a series of steam-bent millwork guardrails and balconies that merge handcraft with mass production. The synthesis of acoustic performance, hand-driven artistry, and laser positioning were carefully choreographed to execute the complex steam-bent millwork without the need for wasteful CNC molds. Investing in a significant renovation within the historic 50 year footprint of the original institution, rather than new construction out of the urban core, the project contributes significantly to the preservation of one of the nation’s most important arts campuses while also saving significant carbon emissions.
construction and
fabrication, porous and opaque.” Jury Comment
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MERIT AWARD
PACE UNIVERSITY STUDENT LANDSCAPE NEW YORK, NY FXCOLLABORATIVE
“Dramatic improvement to the student and faculty experience.” Jury Comment
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Photo Credit: ©Chris Cooper & FXCollaborative
The transformation of Pace University’s Lower Manhattan campus emphasizes their identity, creates new student-centric spaces, and enhances connections. Following the 2016 campus master plan, renovations in One Pace Plaza, the university’s signature mid-century building, and 41 Park Row, a New York City landmark and former home of The New York Times began. Located across the street from City Hall Park and at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, the buildings face adjacent sides of the plaza. Improvements address the buildings’ unique structural conditions, improving efficiency with extensive modernization and technology upgrades. On the lower floors, student spaces create a connected campus. Renovating, repositioning, and reactivating the two buildings have improved the circulation, function, interaction, and identity for the university and its community. Within the buildings are new distinct spaces for the Lubin School of Business and the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. The redesign of the lower levels of One Pace Plaza transforms the front door overlooking City Hall, the courtyard entry overlooking Williams Street, and the vibrant student landscape in between. A new student
“living room” is an open and flexible student-centric space that reinforces campus community and encourages collaboration, while learning spaces accommodate both the collective and quiet learners. A grand staircase improves circulation to the lower level, which features a branded lobby for the Lubin School of Business. It also connects the building to the street with the stair leading out to the courtyard, new spaces that offer increased view corridors to the outdoors, and direct and secure access to the courtyard from the sidewalk. In 41 Park Row, built in 1889, renovations of the lower levels create a new home for the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, including a public art gallery for student work, student commons, offices, and faculty space that activate the building. The Student Landscape supports a diverse ecology of learning spaces and encourages each student to discover what learning modality works best for them, both within and outside the classroom.
MERIT AWARD
POSTER HOUSE NEW YORK, NY
ESIGN
LTL ARCHITECTS
“Materiality is strong. The split and the
Photo Credit: ©Michael Moran
The first museum in the United States dedicated to posters, Poster House responds to the unique qualities of the institution and the urban conditions of its site. The site comprises a through block street level space and cellar extending from 23rd to 24th Street. The design creates a vibrant public space that links the two streets, acting as an extension of the city and reflecting that the poster’s natural habitat is the urban realm itself. Museum quality galleries acknowledge the poster as a significant artifact. Exhibition areas are self-contained to provide for environmental control. The design is a negotiation between two contrasting types of space: an enclosed gallery volume and an open public promenade. The formal galleries are nested within the existing building shell, while the public zone takes advantage of the cast iron columns, barrel vaults and exposed brick walls. The design splits the space in two along a single graphic line: the galleries
to the east and the public passage to the west inflecting the division diagonally through the space. This maximizes space for the main gallery to the north and opens up the public zone to the south, optimizing interface with the street. The 185-foot long diagonal wall in tones of clay plaster articulated by blackened steel strips, divides the space programmatically while linking the 23rd and 24th street sides. Upon entry, the visitor experiences a continuous promenade activated by a single cabinetry element that accommodates the gift shop, reception and café as well as linking to the lower level programs. The gallery volume houses both the main exhibition space and a secondary space for temporary installations. A pivoting wall allows the main gallery to be joined to the smaller gallery to create a single space. The masonry light well is wrapped in a curtain of backlit glass becoming an illuminated beacon. Juxtaposing a dynamic urban passage with sophisticated gallery spaces, the design for Poster House seeks to combine the old and the new, the rustic and the refined, the playful and the somewhat serious into a layered but still unified architectural experience.
handling of the column capital is strong.” Jury Comment
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HONOR AWARD
ASSET NEW YORK, NY BATES MASI + ARCHITECTS ARCHITECT OF RECORD: SRAA+E
“Exquisite use of wood in a tough layout, the craft in thinking through every detail from the seating to the barrel vaults.” Jury Comment
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Photo Credit: ©Bates Masi + Architects
The architectural character of Manhattan is a palimpsest. As buildings are renovated and added to, traces of each iteration remain. In the renovation of 329 Columbus Avenue to create ASSET restaurant, the team excavated the existing space in search of textures and hints of the past that enrich the guest experience. In the process of scanning the building, vaults of expanded metal lath were discovered. The vaults were reintroduced as an element serving multiple functions. Formally, their rhythm breaks down the expansive space to a more intimate scale. Structurally, they conceal steel girders, below which are hung the stair, bar shelves, and light fixtures, allowing those elements to be more delicate than if they were self-supporting. Depending on the size of the openings, the material can be manipulated to adjust its transparency. The diamond pattern of the expanded metal becomes a unifying motif. The oak paneling on the walls was sandblasted to erode the soft earlywood that lies
between the harder latewood grain, enhancing its character and increasing its sound absorption. Areas of the paneling were masked off from the sandblasting, creating a sharp line of contrast between the eroded portions and smooth portions. The mezzanine, a remnant from a past iteration, provides a unique dining experience overlooking the bar below and the street beyond through the 2-story glass curtainwall facade. A grand stair is divided in two parts that merge in a gentle curve reminiscent of the ceiling vaults. Under the mezzanine, the more intimate space can be divided into private dining rooms. With a limited palette of materials, each reflecting a bit of the history of the space, the former retail store is transformed to create a variety of dining experiences: lively parties at the bar, special family occasions in a private dining room, and intimate banquette seating. The architecture of ASSET restaurant adds life and character to the neighborhood while creating a restaurant for all to enjoy.
HONOR AWARD
MI CASITA PRESCHOOL AND CULTURAL CENTER BROOKLYN, NY BARKER ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTURE OFFICE
ESIGN
PROJECT DESIGNER: 4MATIV DESIGN STUDIO “Fresh color palette, plays,
Photo Credit: ©Lesley Unruh
The Mi Casita Bilingual Preschool and Cultural Center was to built using the Reggio Emilia philosophy, which believes that the environment is the third teacher. A double-height space in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn was selected and allowed for the inclusion of large windows, abundant light and proximity to green spaces within the surrounding neighborhood. The resulting facility functions as both preschool and community center with flexible spaces to nurture growth within the classroom, the community and supports the planned artist-in-residence program. Located in a new mixed-use development, the program called for three classrooms to occupy a large space with 15-foot ceilings on the ground floor with a lower level
for support programming. The space is organized around an L-shaped trough sink that becomes a social gathering spot and also functions as a bathroom sink. Divisions between rooms are made with furniture to provide flexibility so the space can be transformed for special events including performances organized by the school’s artist-in-residence. The school’s focus on being a “home away from home” and learning from different cultures that coexist in Brooklyn led to incorporation of graphic elements relating to home and city. A large house-shaped vitrine on the mezzanine will showcase seasonal displays that relate to the curriculum. House-shaped cutouts in the walls provide child-sized reading nooks and passages through the space. A graphic in shades of pale blue in the tile mosaic around the bathroom and trough sink references the city skyline and is echoed as a linear element in the window treatment. Color is used for dramatic effect throughout the space. Turquoise on the ceiling and light globes give the sense of being under a bright blue sky. Orange is used in cutouts in the walls and accent elements in the space. Orange-lined stairs lead down to the parent-co-working space.
twist and manipulates scale, great space for children,
sophisticated playscape.” Jury Comment
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ESIGN ESIGN
INTERNATIONAL
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CITATION
MOUNT SINAI AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY KYABIRWA, JINJA, UGANDA, AFRICA KLIMENT HALSBAND ARCHITECTS
“Sustainable project serving a remote town. Done with care and respect for people and land. Indoor out.” Jury Comment
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Photo Credit: ©Bob Ditty & Will Boase
This project is a prototype for an independent, self-sustaining ambulatory surgical facility in Kyabirwa, a rural village in Uganda integrated into the local healthcare community and linked to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. The facility provides ambulatory surgical procedures for a population that has no access to such care today. Simplified construction made it possible to deliver cost-effective health care in underserved areas. On site infrastructure provides solar energy, rainwater retention, and direct fiber optic connection to the hospital in New York, enabling real-time surgical consultation and training through telemedicine. Minimally invasive materials and systems allow for use of local labor. All materials and technical system components are available locally and can be maintained in place. Regionally sourced bricks form screens that let in light and air. The bricks and cladding tiles were made from red clay dug directly out of the ground near the building site and
fired in a local kiln. Brick was utilized because of its availability, its historical presence, and to support the local economy. The building is a replicable prototype facility for other resource poor areas, providing surgery in inexpensive uncomplicated facilities for the five billion people in the world who lack safe or affordable surgery. Banana plants on site were inspiration for the building form. Solar panels, like the leaves of banana plants gather sun and provide shade. Relating to the surrounding architecture while adding contemporary visual elements, the solar array shelters power the simple brick facility beneath. Red clay cladding tiles with wavy shapes reminiscent of the nearby White Nile were formed in handmade molds. In combination with the shade-providing solar roof, the brick structure tells the story of modern and vernacular technologies working together to improve lives. Designing a hospital in a place where there are none, bringing Twenty first century technology to a place where very little infrastructure exists, required engaging the local population in the process, listening to their viewpoints, and making sure that the finished building was not foreign or unwelcoming.
MERIT AWARD
A SIMPLE HEADQUARTERS SINGAPORE DESIGN ARCHITECT: PENCIL OFFICE
ESIGN
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: TEAM DESIGN ARCHITECTS
“Built-out Brand,
Photo Credit: ©Finbar Fallon, Khoo Guo Jie & Ong Chan Hao
A Simple Headquarters is for a one hundred-year-old automotive distributor transitioning from a petroleum-based car distributorship to an electric one. Located in an industrial neighborhood of Singapore, the design incorporates a low energy, passive design with spatial equity. Designed as a background building to a series of street side show rooms, the architecture is subtle, refined, and calibrated to the equatorial context. The multi-function building houses high-performance repair and automotive maintenance facilities spread across six levels, performing as laboratories for the advance repairs of electric vehicles. The building contains car storage and display areas. The three additional stories comprise social spaces, corporate offices and a roof-top recreation area for staff. Two performing veils screen the building. On the exterior veil, a gradient of angled fins provides a sun-breaker, minimizing the building’s solar heat gain, important in the hot and wet context of Singapore.
The envelope’s porosity allows for six of the nine floors to be naturally ventilated. High performance louvers minimize monsoon rain intrusion while reducing sound transmission. The corporate workspaces set adjacent to the atrium focus on workplace resilience, allowing the company to make its transition from a petroleum company into an electric mobility company. The workspaces are also planned with equality between the workshop staff and the executive staff. For the 21st century electric economy, car repair staff are electrical and software engineers, mending complex automobiles based on digital and electric platforms. Employees interact equally making the historical division of blue- and white-collar staff irrelevant. A second veil surrounds a three-story interior atrium that serves as the main common space. The porosity of the interior veil allows cool air from an automotive gallery into the atrium allowing for corporate events and electric car launches. Access to views and daylight, passive design, and generous scaled spaces set the foundation for the company’s future while adapting to a climate-conscious forward-looking enterprise.
Interesting façade.”
Jury Comment
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Project: The Menokin Remembrance Structure, Warsaw, VA | Photo Credit: ©Reid Freeman
ESIGN ESIGN
BONO PROJECTS
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CITATION
GLEN BROOK MARLBORO, NH O’NEILL ROSE ARCHITECTS
“Restrained and edit, ribbing, structure, intelligence in interiors.” Jury Comment
Photo Credit: ©Faith Rose
A working farm since 1776, Camp Glen Brook is a 250-acre biodynamic farm, summer camp, and year-round outdoor educational center whose mission is to nurture a sense of personal responsibility for the world through actively engaging in it. The project’s goals were to create a cabin prototype. Forced closure this past summer caused the need to maximize assets while safely expanding the growing Gap Year program. The 750 square foot cabin was to perform as a bunkhouse for ten children and a counselor during the summer, as a home for six college age students for fall and spring semesters, and as a rental cottage when unoccupied. While the latter two programs require a full kitchen, it could not be accessible during the summer camp season for safety reasons. The request to invoke the style of A-frames on site restricted the ability to accommodate bunk beds limiting the camp’s ability to operate at full capacity. The new cabin invokes the simplest form of the A-frame,
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while the asymmetrical kneewalls allow for a kitchen to be tucked behind a removable wall. An exterior alcove provides wood storage for the cabin’s furnace. Bunk beds line the interior of the removable wall. Flexibility was attained through the convertible reconfiguration of the cabin’s interior and through the creation of a reversible plan, so the prototype can be rotated and flipped to work with the site and create visual variety. Ecologically responsible goals were met by building with sustainable but readily available materials. The cabin is also sustainable to operate; the layout allows for natural ventilation, and the cabin boasts a high efficiency wood burning furnace, composting toilets, and an option for future solar panels. In addition, both the cabins and boardwalk sit lightly on the ground, allowing for the existing runoff to continue undisturbed.
HONOR AWARD
THE MENOKIN REMEMBRANCE STRUCTURE WARSAW, VA
ESIGN
REID ARCHITECTURE
“Don’t have to engage in
the space to appreciate it
Photo Credit: ©Reid Freeman
The Remembrance Structure is a pavilion on the grounds of the Menokin Foundation in the Tidewater region of Virginia. Menokin is a former tobacco plantation and the site of the 18th century house of Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of Virginia’s signers of the Declaration of Independence. The rural 500-acre site is in the Northern Neck region of Virginia, close to the Chesapeake Bay, in an area of early colonial settlement. The pavilion was erected above the archaeological footprint of an 18th-century field slave dwelling and does not have permanent foundations to allow for future research and minimal disturbance to the site. Its wood framing demonstrates the timber-building techniques used at the time the dwelling was constructed, and the structure is wrapped in a translucent agricultural fabric. With the aid of solar lighting, the pavilion glows at night in memorial of the enslaved residents of the former plantation. The pavilion serves as a platform to encourage open conversations about the role that slavery played in early colonial plantations and our nation’s past, as well as its legacy in our communities today. The structure was construct-
as a memorial.”
ed on site using local materials during a five-day timber building workshop by a team of craftsmen, students, and volunteers and embodies the Menokin Foundation’s goals of promoting education in the building arts. The Menokin Remembrance Structure provides an outdoor room for the foundation’s educational programming and activities in the rural landscape setting. The structure activates the adjacent open-space and creates opportunities for new events for the foundation in the landscape. The foundation is a valuable resource to members of the community and its’ 500 acre grounds are open for recreational use at no charge. The pavilion and the construction workshop has encouraged discussions on historic building techniques, preservation of vernacular structures, and land / building conservation within a community that is rich with historic and natural resources.
Jury Comment
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ESIGN ESIGN
RESIDENTIAL
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MERIT AWARD
RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY LESS THAN 2,500SF
ATLANTIC AMAGANSETT, NY BATES MASI + ARCHITECTS
“Amazing detailing, social stair was well suited to purpose.” Photo Credit: ©Bates Masi + Architects
Jury Comment
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Across the street in the dunes near the Atlantic Ocean, a historic Life Saving Station serves as a reminder of the maritime, military and architectural history of this coastal landscape. Built over a century ago, the station is part of a network used to provide rescue and relief for shipwrecked sailors, and it was from this station that a guard once discovered Nazi invaders coming ashore during World War II. Designed with lookout towers, cupolas and elevated decks, the station offered views to survey the horizon. Inside, large storage rooms featured boats, oars and other items hung from exposed beams. Taking cues from the practice of hanging boats and other items from the station’s wooden post and beam structure, the residence features an exposed steel structure which defines the main living spaces and forms a framework onto which other functions can hang: the main stair is strung from beams above and the rods used to support each tread serve as a guardrail; a wood burning stove sits on a suspended steel shelf; light fixtures are fastened to the flanges; a swinging chair hangs from the cantilevered living area.
On the exterior, a system of bronze bars was developed to hang the cedar siding boards, allowing them to expand and contract with changes of temperature and humidity. The appearance of the siding will record the cycles of rain, sun, freeze and thaw: cedar will lighten from the sun; bronze bars will patina to dark brown and eventually turn green; weathering steel will develop a deep rusted texture. The steel around the base of the building marks the height the home was raised above the flood plain. To minimize the impact on the environment, the living area is stacked above the bedrooms, and, like the towers of the station, a roof deck provides elevated views. By taking cues from the historic lifesaving station, the home responds to the environmental and historical context, honoring the local heritage and enriches the presentday experience.
HONOR AWARD
RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY LESS THAN 2,500SF
FOX HALL ANCRAM, NY
ESIGN
BARLISWEDLICK
“Comfortable interiors,
simple appropriate approach to introducing the pool,
beautifully done; simple
modern barn in the woods.”
Photo Credit: ©Jonny Valiant
Finding his sanctuary and a place for respite with a focus on sustainable practices, the client’s need for peace and quiet started off with the relocation of a historical barn to his picturesque 75-acre property. The barn was restored and placed atop a 700 square foot Passive House certified studio apartment. By tackling the barn and apartment first, the client was able to enjoy the property while the construction of the main house began. The 2100 square foot main house, also Passive House certified, was designed to mirror the barn’s aesthetic and bring the property together cohesively. Sun studies were conducted for the correct overhang at the large living room curtain wall. On the short end of the building, nearly half of that Western wall is actually a wooden screen that slides in front of the western portion of that curtain wall, protecting from harsh-low angle sun. Additional projects include a spa, a natural pool filtered with plants instead of traditional
pool chemicals, extensive landscape work and interior design. For the main house, the wall and roof were constructed using 12-1/4” thick SIPs and the exterior cladding is Western Red Cedar charred in Shou Sugi Ban style and sealed. The Timber Frame is eastern white pine, finished with Lifetime Non-Toxic Wood Treatment. Interior wood masses are shiplap pine and the wood floor is white oak. For the interior, the client was drawn to Scandinavian pieces and in support of the sustainable nature of the project, many of the interior pieces are vintage.
Jury Comment
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CITATION
RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY 2,500SF AND OVER
LINK FARM HOUSE AMENIA, NY SLADE ARCHITECTURE
“Fits very well into the site, terrace with green roof and then aperture.” Photo Credit: ©Tom Sibley
Jury Comment Set on a 220-acre farm in Dutchess County New York, this private home manifests the desire for transparency and engagement with the landscape versus the desire for privacy. The public-facing areas of the house are contained within a glass volume that floats across the landscape. The private-facing areas of the house are protected by a volume of locally-sourced stone embedded in the landscape. The perpendicular orientation of the two volumes differentiates these two conditions, minimizing their overlap and emphasizing the landscape quality of the lower volume as an extension of the outdoor “landscape” for the glass volume. While the upper volume is defined by the horizontal planes of the floor and roof that extend past the vertical planes of glass, the lower volume is defined by the vertical walls which rise above the roof surface, providing for a planted landscape and terrace area set into the stone parapet. The siting of the house leverages the topography of the surrounding area to conceal the lower volume and reveal the upper volume. The entry sequence extends this PAGE | 48
unfolding revelation, essentially delaying the view of the lower volume until you arrive at the building. The building uses the site and the characteristics of the two volumes maximizing the passive benefits as well as the active potential of the site for energy conservation. The triple insulated glass walls and roof overhang of the upper volume, leverage summer and winter sun angles to shade the interior in summer and maximize solar penetration and heat gain in winter. The lower volume uses super-insulated walls and windows to create a thermal barrier. The stone flooring throughout the lower volume creates a thermal flywheel, stabilizing the temperature. On the active side, the house uses geothermal wells for heating and cooling. Radiant floors throughout are supplemented by a geothermal heatpump-driven forced-air system. In the long-term, remote solar cells will provide electricity for the building, decoupling the house from the energy grid.
CITATION
RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY 2,500SF AND OVER
STATE STREET RESIDENCE SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY
ESIGN
BALZER & TUCK ARCHITECTURE
“Deftly combined the expected elements of a house with careful
Photo Credit: ©Scott Bergmann Photography
The State Street Residence, a custom home in downtown Saratoga Springs, was built on a site that presented some challenges - namely, its location within a dense residential neighborhood and bedrock located only four feet below grade. The home needed to respect the traditional, historic fabric of the existing neighborhood, while incorporating a more contemporary aesthetic. Embracing these challenges resulted in a “gable and bar” massing whose form and material choices bridge the gap between traditional architecture and modern aesthetic. The main ‘gable’ form holds the majority of the living spaces, while the ‘bar’ houses the circulation and utility spaces. Boardformed concrete walls and exposed steel structure, along with lap siding and wood soffits, bring balance to the exterior. On the interior, the use of concrete was repeated with a board-formed concrete fireplace and polished concrete floors. The strength and aesthetic of steel was
also employed again, with exposed steel structure on the first floor allowing for a 12-foot tall open living space. A stained wood ceiling adds a traditional warmth. Wood and steel mix again in the design of the main stair, which seems to float in the space. A landing half-way up the stairs is suspended from the ceiling by steel cables. Large windows and doors on the First Floor bring in natural light and connect the main living space with the side yard. Implementation of landscape design, including a pool, greenspace, hardscape, and plantings, will occur in the future. On the second floor, the master bedroom incorporates both traditional and contemporary with a wood ceiling, exposed timber rafters, and steel tie rods. Two wood and steel stairs on this level lead to finished space under the main gable, complete with exposed rafters and skylights. This space is the perfect example of how a design challenge – in this case, the existence of bedrock making the creation of a basement space infeasible – can lead to an even more beautiful solution.
expressions that recognized the client’s modernist
sensibilities and outdoor lifestyle while fitting
comfortably into the
existing neighborhood.” Jury Comment
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MERIT AWARD
RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY 2,500SF AND OVER
PIKE & POND SAG HARBOR, NY OZA SABBETH ARCHITECTS
“Art Project - masterful singularity, turns its back on the street, clarity of figures is strong, references barns and fences.” Jury Comment
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Photo Credit: ©Kay Media
An arriving vehicle cuts past a hedge of ten-foot-tall Junipers to park, unseen from the road, in a front yard designed for vehicular mobility. Upon getting out, one encounters a wall, which is a dense Bulwark of concrete and wood. After descending a few steps past the wall, the entry culminates in an intimate Forecourt. One is now within the confines of the house. The entrance foyer and mudroom provide a further means to shed the world outside and the house begins opening up to the Pond. The Pond acts as the main focal point of the house with views from most every room. Before the build, the site was an undesirable gully, a path for storm water to find its way from the road down to the Pond. The front yard and retaining wall are essential elements designed to guide storm water along the sides of the property. The retaining wall also allowed the main floor to be set six feet below the street level. This crucial siting decision allowed for a very private
front with a backyard now made accessible down a landscaped flank to the rear. The swimming pool is enclosed by vegetation, and covered decks create multi-seasonal outdoor spaces on the lowest level. The roof and walls are designed as a rain screen assembly of exposed rubber and mahogany decking material. The EPDM substrate is revealed in instances and slips behind the Mahogany shell where needed. The Flooring is self-leveling concrete, typically used as a substrate for tile. For the millwork and wall panels, a baltic birch platform was used and is the base where more expensive finish veneers get applied.
HONOR AWARD
RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY 2,500SF AND OVER
SAGG FARM SAGAPONACK, NY
ESIGN
BATES MASI + ARCHITECTS
“Control of hand is
good, uncanny and
Photo Credit: ©Bates Masi + Architects
Sagaponack has historically been a farming community set within the resort enclaves on the East End of Long Island. The expanse of potato fields sat in contrast to the surrounding forests and gardens. Fueled by its proximity to the ocean, development in Sagaponack has been steady. This project honors the area by applying the fundamental principles of agriculture to architecture: placing order on nature and maximizing access to light and air. Many crops in Sagaponack were row crops, spaced apart in ordered lines to maximize each plants’ exposure to sunlight. Rows were oriented north/south so as not to shade one another and to align with the prevailing southerly wind, improving pollination and reducing erosion. Acres of rows gave the community a grain and orientation. These principles are applied to the house, which is separated into parallel bars spaced equidistant apart to admit sunlight and fresh air. Breezeways of operable glazing connect the sol-
id bar forms while allowing the passage of light and wind. The plantings, trees, and paving, organized into parallel rows, extend between the bars of the house into the courtyards, intertwining the house and the land. Breaking the home into multiple volumes reduces its mass and enhances privacy between spaces. The dimensions of the house are broken down into a 4-foot module. The 3-dimensional grid governs the placement of everything. Rainscreen siding of thin cedar strips was installed green and fastened with only 2 screws at the center. The unfastened ends are free to warp creating an organic pattern within the rigid framework. The pattern will change over time depending on the exposure to the sun and rain. Inside, stone with prominent veining contrast the otherwise crisp lines. At the stair, rows of wood balusters are free to rotate around their supports. Felt louvers on each baluster serve as acoustic absorbers and catch the wind or a passing hand to rotate the balusters, continually changing the pattern. By applying the principles of farming to architecture, the house is made more comfortable and beautiful.
fascinating exterior, achieves softness, ingenuity.”
Jury Comment
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MULTI-FAMILY, MULTIPLE DWELLINGS
1561 WALTON AVENUE BRONX, NY ESKW/ARCHITECTS
“Very well detail, massive broken up with subtle move, side window and slight can on sidewalk create a nice space for the street.” Jury Comment
Photo Credit: ©David Sundberg/Esto
The client’s deep commitment to providing quality affordable housing in this neighborhood resulted in the new construction of 60 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartment units for low-income families. The articulation of the façade into four towers corresponds to the layout of the two-bedroom units along the street. The 11-story building was developed as quality housing and benefits from natural lighting in corridors and a generous rooftop terrace. It also features a semi-public open plaza at the building’s main entry which is inviting to residents and contributes to the neighborhood’s sense of confidence. The not-for-profit developers and lead funding agent were intent that the new building be a positive addition to the neighborhood, which is in one of the country’s highest areas of poverty, where quality affordable housing is critical. The challenge for the project was to meet zoning requirements on an irregular shaped site, maximize buildable square footage, and to meet housing minimum standards all while providing highquality housing.
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To address sustainability goals, the project was developed under the Enterprise Green Communities Guidelines and is participating in the NYSERDA Multifamily Performance Program which emphasizes energy savings and efficiency. The team implemented a block and plank construction system which is among the industry’s most efficient for housing. The complex triangular site geometry created zoning and construction challenges which were resolved through geometrical studies and specific locations of masonry openings to ensure proper setbacks for light and air. The site is steeply graded from south to north, therefore, the architects lowered the first floor to allow for an additional floor of units without exceeding the maximum allowable building height. Balancing design and economy in a thoughtfully articulated façade, the result is a building that adds significantly to the neighborhood and quality affordable housing in a neighborhood that was in dire need of it. Residents are proud to call this building home.
MERIT AWARD
MULTI-FAMILY, MULTIPLE DWELLINGS
PIER 4 BOSTON, MA
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SHoP ARCHITECTS
“Balconies are
handled nicely.” Jury Comment
Photo Credit: ©Gunnar Glueck/flaunt boston
PIER 4 is a waterfront residential building in Boston’s Seaport District. A drastic departure from the neighborhood’s traditional architectural profile, PIER 4 is the only residential building in the neighborhood surrounded by water on three sides. Comprised of 106 condominium homes that all feature private outdoor space and waterfront views, PIER 4 offers retail and dining destinations on its ground floor and a new one-acre public waterfront park at the tip of the site. The building’s curved design was inspired by the New England pastime of sailing and is meant to evoke an image of a ship meandering through the Boston Harbor. Its white brick facade, alternating windows and staggered private terraces are intended to pick up and reflect light off the water, giving the impression of movement as though they are dancing along the side of the building. The brief called for 9 above-grade floors, rising to a height of 100 feet abovegrade. Retail, entry lobbys, loading dock, and public passage amenities occupy the first floor with 106 condominium residen-
tial homes on floors 2 through 9, with a planned total zoning square footage of approximately 217,000 square feet. The brief specified that the PIER 4 condominiums would provide unmatched views of the Boston skyline and Harbor on 3 full sides, maximizing those views as well as outdoor space with multiple balconies serving every unit, with potential outdoor space on the roof decks. The north end of the pier houses a 50,000 square foot waterfront park, and the western side of the project houses a waterfront plaza, linking PIER 4 to the already-existing public areas and Harborwalk adjacent to the Institute of Contemporary Art. The project is certified LEED Gold.
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MERIT AWARD
MULTI-FAMILY, MULTIPLE DWELLINGS
THE ESSEX AT ESSEX CROSSING NEW YORK, NY HANDEL ARCHITECTS
“Massing great, articulation
Photo Credit: ©Collin Miller, Jonathan Morefield, Lester Ali, QuallsBenson & Handel Architects
of tower, shift where tower meets base, slightly articulated metal panels, engagement of community and incorporation of the market, scaleless in a magical way.” Jury Comment
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Spanning eight city blocks in Lower Manhattan, Essex Crossing is among the largest redevelopment projects in New York City. The largest of nine buildings, the Essex anchors the masterplan at the corner of Delancey and Essex Streets, between the small-scale Lower East Side tenement buildings and the tall residential towers along the East River. The Essex incorporates a 50/50 model for integrating affordable and market rate housing at equitable levels to foster socioeconomic diversity. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding neighborhood, these formal aspects were reinterpreted with modern materials and fabrication techniques. Like the exterior of the older buildings, the façade of The Essex is asymmetrical, with folded-bronze panels reflecting the sunlight and creating a varied pattern that captures light. The panels add texture and highlight the elements that are referential to the surrounding streetscape. They are deployed at various scales to create a unified façade across multiple interior spaces. The Essex consists of a 20-story residential tower above a 5-story commercial podium. The building provides 195 apartments at the tower floors with 50%
of the units designated as permanently affordable. The podium includes a new and expanded Essex Market, a cinema, and a multi-story retail concourse known as the Market Line. The podium roof is home to the largest urban farm in Manhattan and provides an elevated green space at the base of the tower. This required an innovative structural solution to accommodate the vertical stacking of dissimilar spaces. The combination of steel and concrete framing systems enabled the small scale private residential portions to coexist with the large public commercial spaces. The building façade is composed of a premanufactured mega-panel system designed to comply with the enhanced energy performance requirements of Enterprise Green Communities. The one-story high facade panels were assembled in a controlled factory environment to increase quality control. They were installed as a unitized curtain wall system, concurrent with the building superstructure, to decrease construction time. Designed in accordance with the guidelines for the LEED Neighborhood Development Program, this diverse mix of commercial and residential programming facilitates the creation of a 24-hour neighborhood where residents can live, work and socialize all within their immediate surroundings.
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MERIT AWARD
BLUE TABLE CHOCOLATES BUFFALO, NY ARCH&TYPE
“Beautifully executed jewel box, not overdone, monochromatic palette provides a backdrop for showcase of product , a lot simple planes forming a canvas for the product with Rich Gray and wood.” Jury Comment
Photo Credit: ©Kim Smith
Blue Table Chocolates is an artisanal chocolatier with a talent for blending unique flavors within an artful chocolate exterior. Departing from their small co-op style workspace spread over multiple shared rooms, the owner needed to centralize his chocolate workshop and establish a dedicated storefront. The building was a bare cinder block structure, which lent itself to a total transformation. Spatially, a front of house and back of house area was identified to address the flexibility and exhibit quality. The need to increase yet hide the storage and operation space was paramount within an “elegant but casual” interior. The new, uniquely adaptable space allows for easy reconfiguration depending on the time of day, season, and activity. Designed with an array of door types, the compact 500 square feet can operate entirely as production space, allowing the back to spill into the showroom. Alternatively, the custom doors can close for refined, intimate customer experiences
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either at the vestibule display case or by circulating around the large marble table. Highly coveted storage was wrapped around the perimeter of the two primary rooms, taking advantage of the high ceilings, or below counter built-in millwork. The exterior was kept minimal to focus a passerby’s attention on the large sidewalk-facing picture window. The interior is wrapped in a minimal palette of stainless steel, oak, and Carrara marble, creating a rich, yet neutral canvas for the chocolate. In the center of the showroom, the large marble table under the lightbox allows for chocolate making and doubles as an expanded sales space. Every square foot was optimized to store, promote sales, maximize production, and expand the Blue-Table-Chocolate brand in a new mixed-use neighborhood of Buffalo, New York. The large street-facing window frames the interior from the outside, exposing the craft of chocolate making while outwardly adding vibrancy to the street.
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Project: Make the Road New York Community Center, Queens, NY | Renderings: ©TEN Arquitectos/Enrique Norten with Andrea Stee
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ele Architecture/Andrea Steele
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UNBUILT
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FARNUM COMMUNITY RECREATION AND EVACUATION CENTER CITY OF PORT JERVIS, NY ANDERSON DESIGN GROUP ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS
“Outstanding execution of the stated goals, sensitive, effectively conceals the scale of the gymnasium.” Jury Comment
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Photo Credit: ©Jason T. Anderson
Built in 1850, the Farnum House has historical significance with its featured widow’s walk and architectural design. Samuel Farnum built the home, and his business involvement in the community helped to shape and define the City of Port Jervis. After it was gifted to the City, the property has always been enjoyed, and the proposed redevelopment and addition will allow it to expand its reach. The existing 7,000 square foot residence is currently used as a makeshift community activity center on the first floor with partial municipal offices on the second floor. While maintaining the historic character of the structure, the first floor was redesigned to serve as an accessible public community space and includes a commercial kitchen and municipal offices. The second and third floors accommodate smaller event spaces and additional offices. In addition to designing an elevator addition allowing accessibility to all floors, a glass connecting corridor was designed to join the existing building to a new Emergency Evacuation Shelter and Recreation Center. The new 11,600 square foot Shelter and Recreation Center addition will serve as an emergency center in times of disaster and features a commer-
cial kitchen, accessible toilet and bathing facilities, emergency management offices, a sub-dividable cot-style group sleeping area, and ancillary spaces. Centrally located within the City, it will be connected to the public water and sewer system, and the entire facility will be powered by a redundant whole-building generator. As a secondary use, the facility will serve as an active multi-use community space and will include a youth recreation lounge, multi-use sports court, accessible park restrooms, and offices. The sports court features clerestory windows and large glass curtain wall elements to allow for natural light. The director’s offices are centrally located and housed within the ‘glass box’ structure, providing direct views of all control access points within the new portion. Exterior vertical aluminum/wood fins provide sun shading at the glass box, while still maintaining transparency. The large addition is separated from the historic structure with a low-profile glass corridor with internal ramp, which allows the contrasting designs to breathe and complement each other, while remaining connected and accommodating the grade changes on the site.
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MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK COMMUNITY CENTER QUEENS, NY
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TEN ARQUITECTOS/ENRIQUE NORTEN WITH ANDREA STEELE ARCHITECTURE/ANDREA STEELE
“Attempt to use
Renderings: ©TEN Arquitectos/Enrique Norten with Andrea Steele Architecture/Andrea Steele
Make the Road is a New York based non-profit group dedicated to fighting for the dignity and justice of immigrants, working class people of color and LGBTQ+ communities. This new center will be a permanent symbol to their members and city at large that Make the Road is here to stay, which is so critical given the ongoing threat of deportation. The design creates a connection with the neighborhood by conceptually extending the public streetscape into the building providing the community with a civic landscape for change, exchange, and an inviting connection to much needed resources. This main terraced space will act as the heart, the ‘town hall’ – hosting staff meetings, large member gatherings, community dinners, job fairs and other activities supporting Make the Road’s mission. Upon entry, the members will have direct access to health and legal assistance and will be able to use the kitchen and dining facilities, informal meeting spaces, and exterior patio. For these members, it will provide a safe and nurturing ‘second home.’ The classrooms on the entry level, can be combined to create a larger venue for staff workshops. Above the main hall are open and private offices, conference
rooms, meeting areas, a pantry and restrooms. Staff and members will have an abundance of natural light and views. Within the basement, a large pantry will support MRNY’s community initiatives and the staff and members benefit from another classroom and flexible work room to prep for events. While the project utilizes numerous sustainable strategies including rainwater collection for green roof irrigation and daylighting and natural ventilation to minimize energy usage - the sustainability goes beyond the preservation of natural resources – the project seeks to create a social, cultural and economic resilience. Make the Road’s new center establishes a permanent, visible and accessible space which will facilitate their efforts. The design provides the community an intuitive landscape offering a wide variety of experiences, support and resources, recognizing that the only way to build community is by empowering the individual.
architecture to engage the community is
important, celebrates
dignity, very impressive
economy of means, will
improve Roosevelt Ave.” Jury Comment
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MERIT AWARD A SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ON THE EQUATOR: A NET-ZERO SUPER-LOW CARBON BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE SINGAPORE DESIGN: ERIK L’HEUREUX, FAIA DESIGN FIRM: SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENT, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE ARCHITECT: CPG CONSULTANTS PTD, SINGAPORE
“Screen is elegant,
Photo/Rendering Credit: ©Erik L’Heureux, Ong Chan Ho © National University of Singapore
adaptive reuse of 1970’s building, delicate hand at play to soften the heaviness.” Jury Comment
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The adaptive re-use project reinvents a 1970s institutional building to accommodate a net-zero energy, high-comfort academic environment of the future for the School of Architecture. In reusing its carbon form, the project minimizes new carbon expenditures through visual subtractions and removals. Located on a terraneous site, the project interfaces a large academic campus and wider urban context to support the School’s ambitions in inspiring public appreciation for design and performance. The design capitalizes on two conjoined blocks and enwraps them with a deep envelope. The aluminum facade creates a volume of air encasing the west elevation. The champagne-gold filigree emulates the diffused quality of the equatorial sun. The northblock originally housed large studio spaces on four tiers. The renovation rethinks this by inserting a vertical social core with large student commons surrounded by public review spaces with flexible partitions leading into design studios. The combination of design education, peer learning and public debates becomes central to this renovation. The social core improves spatial volume asserting the importance of enhanced air movement and
daylight in the equatorial context. The original service ducts and deep false-ceilings are replaced by cutting-edge environmental and building intelligence systems. Coupled with hybrid cooling systems, it reduces energy demand by combining tempered air with natural air movement. The reductive visual palette of exposed ducts, grey soffit and timber accents balances the new within the old. The south block renovation involved internal re-organization of faculty office spaces and de-concretising the central courtyard by removing a large, service core. A framed jungle of spontaneous landscape is designed to occupy this space with numerous ecological, hydrological and social benefits. Between the blocks, an upgraded Grand Staircase highlights the public thoroughfare deeper into the campus. Situated within a proposed net-zero energy, low-carbon precinct, the 22,000 square meter renovation will host building-integrated photovoltaics to meet energy demands, with surplus transfer to the campus microgrid. The renovated School of Architecture will showcase new prototypes of sustainable design that infuse the campus with a new sense of architectural quality and environmental stewardship on the Equator.
HONOR AWARD
CAPE COD HOUSE WELLFEET, MA
ESIGN
MESSANA O’RORKE
“Simplicity in and out, articulation of cedar screen, plank with
screen and structure is
Renderings: ©Messana O’Rorke
opaque, porous.”
Jury Comment
Located on the leeward side of Cape Cod, the Indian Neck spit is the location of this Modernist inspired beach house designed as a weekend retreat from the city with minimal up keep and a casual atmosphere. Nestled in a pine forest and sand dunes looking out to the open water, the house is designed to experience seasonal vitality of the location. A simple square of protected habitation, combining indoor and outdoor space under a canopy of lattice Cedar; existing Pitch Pines grow up through the structure providing additional shade. Raised up off the sand, the platform of the house includes two bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and a kitchen, dining and living space with a porch—the principle spaces focus across the broad veranda to Cape Cod Bay. A separate bunkhouse with a partially enclosed outdoor shower protects the
entrance from the rigors of wind and rain. On the sides of the house, angled cedar boards are providing privacy and shade from the rising and setting sun. Wanting to disconnect from work and the city, the house provides the owner with a bedroom, an additional guest bedroom in the main house and on the rare occasion, the office/den can be converted into a guest bedroom. The grand room provides a social gathering space which includes the kitchen, dining and living space. The grand room divides the two bedroom, one on either side providing each with privacy. Wood floor, walls and ceiling provide a simple yet affective material which is both robust and easily maintained.
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MULBERRY COMMONS NEWARK, NJ SAGE AND COOMBE ARCHITECTS
“Important catalyst project, important urban gesture in replacing the surface parking.” Jury Comment
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Photo Credit: ©Paul Warchol
Mulberry Commons is a transformational urban destination in the center of Newark, New Jersey. Commissioned by the City, the project is the result of a remarkable public-private partnership. The fiveacre contaminated site of former parking lots atop rail yards is now a generous and inspirational oasis in a sea of asphalt. It has provided Newark with a desperately needed green space and pedestrian access to reconnect a historically divided city. The first phase of a new landmark addition to Newark Penn Station, Mulberry Commons Park, was completed in 2019. Balancing landscape and hardscape, the Park is emblematic of Newark’s vision for the future—a dynamic and welcoming civic space featuring areas of active and passive recreation, a flexible event lawn, intimate seating terraces, a play area, an illuminated interactive fountain, and a rain garden. Most important, the Park creates a setting to bring the City togeth-
er. Phase two will extend the Park with an elevated plaza that traverses McCarter Highway and the Northeast Corridor, two physical barriers that have long divided the City. This extension will create an accessible pedestrian pathway between the Downtown, Newark Penn Station, the Ironbound District, and the planned Passaic River Waterfront Park beyond. By spurring local redevelopment and mitigating the harm of earlier planning decisions that isolated the City’s neighborhoods, the project will transform the revival of Newark. To paraphrase Mayor Ras J. Baraka, Mulberry Commons is a “go-to” destination for the people of Newark’s five wards, commuters and visitors — a bold statement of the City’s resurgence and pride.
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SILO CITY BUFFALO, NY
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STUDIO V ARCHITECTURE
“Important and creative
Renderings: ©Studio V Architecture
SILO CITY is a design to transform the largest collection of grain elevators into an innovative arts and cultural facility. Adjacent to downtown Buffalo and nestled within industrial ruins and a resurgent habitat, Silo City tells the story of the grain elevators and their role in history, industry, arts, and architecture. The design proposes the adaptive reuse of the individual complex structures while suggesting a greater vision for creative reuse of industrial artifacts, habitat restoration, and dramatic public spaces to reconnect surrounding neglected communities into the fabric of the city. The program combines renowned arts and cultural institutions and artists, supported by sustainable development that grow out of the themes, architecture, and history of the site. This innovative and flexible master plan will develop the site over time for a diverse range of uses. The design concept for Silo City adapts the revolutionary structures into laboratories for experimentation, artistic expression, and community engagement. The site comprises massive concrete grain elevators interspersed with gridded masonry warehouses and mills. The design seeks
to preserve and reveal the silos’ unique structure by carving out the tall concrete cylinders to create interior chambers that manipulate space and light. The windowless but sky-lit silos will be used as galleries and pools and invite people to engage with their character. The mills, featuring extensive fenestration modified over time, will be converted into residential, maker spaces, and hospitality to support the cultural program. The project envisions four phases: Silo Ruins, encouraging greater public awareness; Silo Gardens including improvements to infrastructure and landscape; Silo Passage to dramatically expand the sustainable development opportunities for greater public access; and Silo City, the vision for the fully developed campus with complete and complimentary uses including artist and market rate housing, commercial and maker spaces, educational and artistic uses, and hospitality. The re-development will transform the industrial site into a vision for a sustainable, resilient, live, work, play and learn environment.
adaptive re-use to teach the
public about architecture and link to the region’s industrial history.”
Jury Comment
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MERIT AWARD
THE GREAT BRIDGE: PATH TO EQUILIBRIUM BROOKLYN, NY DXA STUDIO & PATRICK CULLINA HORTICULTURE DESIGN + CONSULTING
“Interesting play on the vocabulary of the Renderings: ©DXA studio
suspension bridge. Proposed a comprehensive planning and architecture solution.” Jury Comment
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The Great Bridge envisions a future that elevates people over automobiles and reclaims land entangled by roads and ramps making the bridge more accessible to adjacent communities. The upper deck expansion becomes a planted promenade, while the lower deck features dedicated bike lanes and traffic lanes for public use, trolleys, and emergency vehicles yielding an experience that is more accessible, safe and enjoyable. Brooklyn Bridge was conceived as a civic gesture, a connection to Manhattan and opportunity, and joined streets that functioned as thoroughfares, markets, promenades and playgrounds before it was largely overtaken by the automobile. This concept will disentangle the infrastructural knots, restoring the grandeur of its original design. Removal of the ramps will open land, providing greater access to the bridge, engagement with the forgotten vaulted spaces beneath it, and development of vital civic spaces around it. These transformations revive the aspirations of the bridge’s creators by providing opportunity to future generations of New Yorkers. To mitigate
threats and increase safety, integrated operational, electronic and physical security systems are introduced. Overcrowding will be minimized by locating ticketing booths for the light rail in areas with sufficient space and well-defined egress routes. The inclusion of hardening measures such as bollards, planters or street architecture and structural strengthening of key elements will mitigate extreme loading events. Trolleys, elevators and shallow ramps between levels, and lanes wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs and pedestrians, enhance accessibility and mobility. The focus on health and well-being of the citizens of New York City was lost seven decades ago when significant alterations were made to the bridge. The legacy of this restoration and re-conception of the Brooklyn Bridge will be a commitment to undoing the automobile-centric purpose of the bridge allowing for a more pleasant public experience.
Annually since 1968, the AIANYS Design Awards celebrate, honor and promote excellence in architectural design and planning by New York State architects. Categories include Residential, Institutional, Commercial/Industrial, Urban Planning/ Design, Adaptive Reuse/Historic Preservation, Interiors, Unbuilt, International, Pro Bono Projects, and Sole Practitioner.
The esteemed jury included Jury Chair Dan Kirby, FAIA, Principal and Client Services Leader for People and Places Solutions at Jacobs (top left); Marilia Rodrigues, AIA, a Principal at Kieran Timberlake (top right); David Burney, FAIA, Co-Founder and Director of the Urban Placemaking and Management program at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture (bottom left); and Elizabeth Whittaker, AIA, Founder and Principal at MERGE architects (bottom right). The Jury spent many hours reviewing submissions and had the challenge of choosing award recipients out of 274 submissions. A record 42 projects were recognized for Citation, Merit and Honor Awards in the following categories: Adaptive Reuse/Historic Preservation, Commercial/Industrial, Institutional, Interiors, International, Pro Bono Projects, Residential, Sole Practitioner, Unbuilt and Urban Planning/Design. The jury members stated, “We know that this is a long list, but these are deserving recipients from a strong class of submittals that survived considerable scrutiny. This represents the strength and talent of AIA New York State members.�
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Project: Poster House, New York, NY Photo Credit: ©Michael Moran
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AIA NEW YORK STATE 2020 Officers, Board of Directors & Strategic Councilors President Joseph J. Aliotta, FAIA
Bronx Ofé Clarke, AIA
President-Elect Illya Azaroff, AIA
Brooklyn Jordan Parnass, AIA
Vice President Government Advocacy Michael Spinelli, JD, AIA
Buffalo/Western New York Michael Anderson, AIA
Vice President Communications & Public Awareness Pasquale Marchese, AIA
Eastern New York Baani Singh, AIA Long Island Martin Hero, AIA
Vice President | Emerging Professionals Jeff Pawlowski, AIA
New York Tonja Adair, AIA Jane Smith, FAIA Danei Cesario, AIA
Secretary Peter Wehner, AIA
Peconic Gregory Thorpe, AIA
Treasurer Manuel Andrade, AIA
Queens Adedosu Joshua, AIA
Immediate Past President Mark Vincent Kruse, AIA
Rochester Nate Rozzi, AIA
AIA Strategic Council Brynnemarie T. Lanciotti, AIA Kirk Narburgh, FAIA Willy Zambrano, AIA
Southern New York Andrew Harding, AIA
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Project: Fotografiska New York New York, NY Photo Credit: ©ESTO/David Sundberg & Adrian Gaut
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